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Lyriel – Leverage

Rowena L — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:00:06 +0000

24^th February sees the release of Lyriel’s fourth album, Leverage. It could be said that this album is more powerful in many ways than their previous ones, but don’t go expecting anything heavy, because that’s not what Lyriel are about. Simply put, this is not heavy metal. So what is it? To define them at all is not an easy task as there are so many elements to their music that on paper it may not make sense. Listen to any of their songs and you will hear Celtic, rock, folk, metal and classical influences mixed together, and this album has all of these in abundance. A good example is Aus der Tiefe which clearly shows the Celtic influences. Also, look out for Wenn Die Engel Fallen which has Thomas Lindner (Schandmaul) as guest vocals.

If you can’t wait for the album to be released, go to their website (www.lyriel.net) and watch the video from the title track on the album, which is very likely to be their first single from the album. Hopefully this will be followed by White Lilly which I think is one of the best tracks on the album; it holds the aforementioned influences as well as sounding not unlike Lacuna Coil (with perhaps a little bow to Alice Cooper’s Poison?). If you want a heavier sound listen to Voices In My Head. If you are in the mood for a more ballad-type song choose The Road Not Taken which shows yet another side to singer Jessica Thierjung´s voice, in a song that could easily be described as haunting.

It is hard to categorise this album because of the variety and richness of influences that fill each song. It is not heavy, that is clear….but it definitely not weak. In my opinion it is the unique combination and unashamed declaration of influences that make this album and mark it out as clearly Lyriel.

I would highly recommend this album.

Track Listing

01. When it’s coming to an end…

02. Leverage

03. Parting

04. Voices In My Head

05. The Road Not Taken

06. White Lily

07. Aus Der Tiefe

08. Wenn Die Engel Fallen

09. Side By Side

10. Repentance

DIABULUS IN MUSICA – Sceneries of Hope

lee — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:39:33 +0000

Symphonic Metal with charming female vocals for all Fans of EPICA.

With their latest album, the Spanish quintet proves that impressive Symphonic Metal need not hail from Scandinavia. The musicians revolving around vocalist Zuberoa Aznárez have refined the trademark sound first heard on their debut album “Secrets”, and brought their latest work, “The Wanderer”, to a whole new level.

Diabulus in Musica unites heavy riffs with sensual melodies and appealing refrains – “The Wanderer” is not a mere collection of songs, but rather a passionate and sweeping Symphonic Metal album that will mesmerize from beginning to end.

For more information please check out http://www.napalmrecords.com/product_info.php?products_id=14387

and follow DIABULUS IN MUSICA on Facebook

XANDRIA – Valentine (Trailer)

lee — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:22:07 +0000

The first trailer for the new Xandria video “Valentine” taken from the upcoming album “Neverworld’s End”.

The video will premiere @EMP online and on iMusic TV on TV on the 14th of February 2012!

For more information please check out http://www.napalmrecords.com/hp_aom.php?products_id=14416

and follow Xandria on Facebook

Falloch announce Spring UK Tour dates

Sheila — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:16:54 +0000

Falloch was formed in Glasgow, Scotland in 2010 by Andy Marshall and Scott McLean. Their sound draws inspiration from a variety of musical styles such as Atmospheric Rock, Post-Black Metal, Post-Rock and Scottish Folk as well as well as minimalist composers such as Arvo Pärt and Yann Tiersen.
Having a deep connection with the Scottish landscape the band is named after the Falls of Falloch waterfall in Crianlarich. They started recording their debut album ‘Where Distant Spirits Remain’ in 2010.
Upon completion they managed to secure legendary producer Ronan Chris Murphy (Ulver, King Crimson etc.) to master the album in early 2011, with the chance to sign to the revered Candlelight Records following shortly after.

Their album was released on 26th September 2011 to a great critical reception.

In light of ‘Where Distant Spirits Remain’ success Falloch has announced a string of UK Tour dates in support of the album hitting the following cities:

February

20th – Stereo, Glasgow (w/ Alcest)

March

08th – Scruffy Murphys, Birmingham (HEADLINE)

09th – Gasworks, Bradford (HEADLINE)

10th – Old Bell, Derby (w/ Wodensthrone)

11th – Nice N Sleazy, Glasgow (HEADLINE)

April

22nd – Dexters, Dundee (HEADLINE)

23rd – Ivory Blacks, Glsgow (w/ Junius)

24th – Star & Garter, Manchester (w/ Junius)

25th – Borderline, London (w/ Junius)

‘Where Distant Spirits Remain’ available now from all good record stores including

Band Links

www.facebook.com/falloch

Dio’s ‘Holy Diver / Last In Line / Sacred Heart’ Deluxe Editions coming 12th March 2012

Ant May — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:02:31 +0000

In May 2010 the world of Hard Rock and Heavy Metal lost one of its most gifted and fervent ambassadors, with the passing of Ronnie James Dio. In his position as lead vocalist for Rock giants such as Rainbow and Black Sabbath, as well as fronting his own eponymous band for nearly three decades, Dio created some of the genres most defining and respected works. Albums such as ‘Holy Diver’, ‘Sacred Heart’ and ‘Last in Line’ all stand as towering monuments of sheer class and brilliance in the Rock pantheon. Dio was also to pave the way in regards to performing live, as few equaled him. With his incredible vocal range, Dio was to preside over countless memorable rock shows, enthralling his millions of fans worldwide. As well as the original CD being re-mastered, these reissues each feature a bonus CD containing an expanded booklet with notes from Malcolm Dome and has been endorsed by Ronnie’s widow Wendy Dio.

‘Holy Diver’ was the debut album from Dio, released 25^th May, 1983. It was hailed by critics as some of his best work and in January 1986 it was awarded Silver certification. The upbeat sounding ‘Rainbow in the Dark’ was to catch MTV’s attention, with the title track also standing out.

‘The Last in Line’ was the second Dio studio album. It was released on 13^th July, 1984 and was the first album from Dio to reach Platinum status as well as number 4 in the UK charts. This new album showcased the anthemic tracks ‘We Rock’ and ‘I Speed at Night’ as well as the seven-minute epic, ‘Egypt ( The Chains are On)’.

Released in October 1985 ‘Sacred Heart’ was released as the third studio album from Dio. The album reached number 4 in the UK charts and was to go on to be certified Gold. This was to become Dio’s most well known album and contained the tracks ‘Rock N’ Roll Children’ and ‘Hungry for Heaven’. The stage show that was to accompany this album was hailed as a spectacle, involving a mechanised dragon as well as laser’s. Ronnie and his band were to refer to the dragon as Denzil. This was the last studio album to be released by Dio that included guitarist Vivian Campbell.

Holy Diver

Disc one

Stand Up And Shout
Holy Diver
Gypsy
Caught In The Middle
Don’t Talk To Strangers
Straight Through The Heart
Invisible
Rainbow In The Dark
Shame On The Night

Disc two

Evil Eyes
Stand Up And Shout
Straight Through The Heart
Stand Up And Shout
Shame On The Night
Children Of The Sea
Holy Diver
Rainbow In The Dark
Man On The Silver Mountain

Last In Line

Disc one

We Rock
The Last In Line
Breathless
I Speed at Night
One Night In The City
Evil Eyes
Mystery
Eat Your Heart Out
Egypt (The Chains Are On)

Disc two

Stand Up And Shout – Live – B-Side Last In Line
Straight Through The Heart – Live – B-Side Last In Line
Eat Your Heart Out – Live – Mystery
Don’t Talk To Strangers – Live – Mystery
Holy Diver - Live – B-Side We Rock
Rainbow In The Dark - Live – B-Side We Rock
One Night In The City – Pinkpop Festival, Geleen
We Rock – Pinkpop Festival, Geleen
Holy Diver – Pinkpop Festival, Geleen
Stargazer – Pinkpop Festival, Geleen
Heaven And Hell – Pinkpop Festival, Geleen
Rainbow In The Dark – Pinkpop Festival, Geleen
Man On The Silver Mountain – Pinkpop Festival, Geleen
Don’t Talk To Strangers – Pinkpop Festival, Geleen

Sacred Heart

Disc one

King Of Rock N Roll
Sacred Heart
Another Lie
Rock N Roll Children
Hungry For Heaven
Like the Beat Of A Heart
Just Another Day
Fallen Angels
Shoot Shoot

Disc two

Hide In The Rainbow – Dio EP
We Rock – Live – B-Side Rock N Roll Children
Last In Line – Live – B-Side Rock N Roll Children
Like the Beat Of A Heart – Live – B-Side Hungry For Heaven
King Of Rock N Roll – Intermission
Rainbow In The Dark – Intermission
Sacred Heart – Intermission
Time To Burn – Intermission
Rock N Roll Children – Intermission
Long Live Rock N Roll – Intermission
Man On The Silver Mountain – Intermission
We Rock – Intermission

A World Defined to release Welcome In This Feeling EP on Monday 6th February

Saxon Mosh — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:36:44 +0000

Midlands 5 piece A World Defined announced today that they will be releasing their debut EP “Welcome In This Feeling” for free on Monday 6^th February. Guitarist Alex Sumner said “We are really excited for people to hear this record, there are a lot of different moods and dynamics within the 4 songs. We are very proud of the EP and releasing it for free was an easy choice, we just want as many people as possible to hear it!”

The EP will be available for free digital download from the bands official website from 6pm Monday 6^th February.

download will be going live at 6pm GMT tonight via http://aworlddefined.com/

Tracklisting:

1. Welcome To Barrow (Top Of The World)
2. Sophomore
3. Internecine
4. Welcome In This Feeling

In the meantime check out the bands facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/aworlddefined

source: Kings Agency

The Union release new double A side single in March

Sheila — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:49:55 +0000

To coincide with a full UK tour with The Answer, see tour details below, The Union return with double a sided single on 12^th March 2012. The single will include the tracks “Make Up Your Mind” (2012 revised radio version), “Obsession” (radio edit) and live tracks “Cut The Line” and “Obsession”. The singles are taken from The Union’s acclaimed second album “Siren’s Song”.

Formed by guitarist Luke Morley and ex Winterville vocalist/guitarist Peter Shoulder, The Union produce a very modern take on classic styles. Merging modern and classic rock, blues and country, the bands impeccable songwriting is pulled together by the uniquely powerful and emotive vocals of Peter Shoulder – one of only three British artists (the other two being Eric Clapton and Peter Green) to win a W.C. Handy Blues Foundation award, presented in Memphis in 2006 for co-writing the American Blues Song of the year 2006

“Siren’s Song” picks up where “The Union” left off. From the gospel hints of opening track “Siren’s Song” to the driving blues riffs of “The Remedy”, from jazz piano of ballad “If I Could Make You Mine” to the truly infectious melodies of the rolling “Obsession”, “Siren’s Song” features impeccable songwriting and stunning musicianship that flies the flag for British rock.

The album was recorded at Rockfield Studios, Monmouth, Wales, the oldest residential studios in the world (Queen, Oasis), and was produced by Luke Morley and Peter Shoulder and mixed by Nick Brine (currently producing The Darkness’ comeback album).

The Union will be embarking on a tour with The Answer

March 2012

Tue 6^th – Leeds, The Cockpit

Wed 7^th - Glasgow, The Garage

Thu 8^th – Aberdeen, The Lemmon Tree

Sat 10^th – Wolverhampton, Wulfrun Hall

Sun 11^th – Nottingham, Rock City

Mon 12^th – Newcastle, 02 Academy

Tue 13^th – Manchester, Academy

Thu 15^th – London Electric, Ballroom

Fri 16^th- Bristol, 02 Academy

Sat17^th – Brighton, Concorde 2

Tickets cost £16 except London £16.50 (subject to booking fee). Purchase tickets at www.ents24.com

www.theuniononline.com

METALBUS announces bus trip to SUMMER BREEZE

Saxon Mosh — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:16:07 +0000

METALBUS organizes a bus trip to SUMMERBREEZE in Dinkelsbühl, Germany. More information about this bus trip,

ticket prices and pick-up locations can be found on www.metalbus.nl

The annual SUMMERBREEZE festival takes place on 16 -17 and 18th of August 2012. Confirmed acts for the fifteenth edition include: Paradise Lost, Lacuna Coil, Desaster, Amon Amarth, Toxic Holocaust, Municipal Waste, Deicide and more. Information about the festival and the line-up can be found on the official festival website at www.summer-breeze.de

In 2012 METALBUS also organizes bus trips to Graspop Metal Meeting (Be) and Wacken Open Air (De) and Hellfest (Fr). More news and information on these bus trips can be found on www.metalbus.nl

For questions and information on travel schedules, pick-up locations, routes and prices you can contact METALBUS directly via info@metalbus.nl or take a look at the official website www.metalbus.nl

METALBUS

info@metalbus.nl

www.metalbus.nl

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Hellfest final announcement

Metallikid — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:56:35 +0000

The D day has come, all the soldiers are now gathered for the final assault that will at last able us to conquer the new territory in which Hellfest will take place for several years to come. Victory is a foregone conclusion with over 60 new bands backing us up, who should quickly be joined by legions of troopers from the Metal Nation! The last 56 bands are:

GUNS N ROSES, MEGADETH, MOTLEY CRUE,

REFUSED, DROPKICK MURPHYS, BIOHAZARD, TURBONEGRO, WITHIN TEMPTATION

ABYSSE, ALL SHALL PERISH, ARSON ANTHEM, ASCENSION, BEHEMOTH, BELENOS, BENIGHTED, BIG BUSINESS, BLACK BOMB A, BUKOWSKI, CANCER BATS, CELESTE, D-A-D, DISCHARGE, DOOMRIDERS, EDGUY, ENTOMBED, GOTTHARD, HANK III, HAMLET, HEAVEN SHALL BURN, IHSAHN, INSOMNIUM, JESUS CROST, KORITNI, LASTING VALUES, LITURGY, LOCK UP, MOONSORROW, NECROPHAGIA, OBITUARY, OCTOBER FILE, SATYRICON, SEBASTIAN BACH, SHINING, SUBLIME CADAVERIC DECOMPOSITION, SUFFOCATION, SUNNO))), THE ATOMIC BITCHWAX, THE BRONX, THE OBSESSED, THE RODEO IDIOT ENGINE, TRAGEDY, TREPALIUM, UNEARTH, UNSANE, URIAH HEEP, VITAMIN X

+ 10 other bands

ALL PIG MUST DIE & WHITECHAPEL cancel

Once the final phase of the plan is done and that more than 30,000 troopers will have gathered on the morning of June 15, 2012, the 160 bands will deploy over 6 different zones of the new area which is twice as big as the last battlefield from 2006 to 2011. The bands will be dispatched on these 6 areas according to their musical style and importance. 17 bands per day including headliners will play on the two main external stages “Mainstage 1″ and “Mainstage 2.” A double tent will host two other stages with 18 bands per day. One of them is called “The Altar” and will offer the best Death Metal and Grindcore acts. The other one is called “The Temple” and it is on this stage that Pagan and Black Metal bands will play. Under “The Valley” tent you will find the 5th stage, where you can enjoy 9 bands every day playing Stoner, Doom, Sludge, Psychedelic and other Metal Alternative… Finally 9 bands per day will also perform at “The Warzone” which will be dedicated to Punk, Hardcore, and D-beat. At the entrance of the festival you will find the Metal Corner, where the hostilities will begin at 5pm on the Thursday with 8 bands as well as DJs who will play their evil playlists every night from Thursday to Sunday.

We invite all troopers who want to join us and discover more information about this year’s line-up and the new festival layout mention above to go to the the new Hellfest 2012 website

With the new website open you can now purchase your 1-day ticket for €66 (without booking fees).

3-day passes are still available at the price of €149 (without booking fees) but be fast because sales are really good and for sure, Hellfest 2012 will once again be a success!

How to get your tickets? Click here:

HELLFEST 2012 TICKETS

For those of you all around Europe who would like to come by bus, check out our official “Trip” page:

HELLFEST 2012 BUS-TRIPS

Thank you everyone for all of your support, the victory will be beautiful and overwhelming and it will be because of you!

Sanctorum Interview

Lara — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:44:46 +0000

So backstage with Sanctorum we have Aaron Sly on Vocals and Guitar, Matt Alston on Drums, AlexCommonson Lead Guitar and Vocals. We had no bass player Adam Paterson as he unfortunately could not make the tour because of personal matters. As I stepped into the backstage area of Moho Live I have never actually seen it this way before, the room was full of cameras and lights with different set up points for photo shoots, felt like I had walked into a magazine photo shoot.
Aaron has played bass throughout the tour and managed to pull it off rather nicely!

Lara – So who is Sanctorum…what makes Sanctorum?

Aaron- Hmmm….

Alex- I think it’s changed a lot over the years as now we have two new people.

Aaron- I think now we are very much Sanctourm…it is us four. When we are writing the real sound comes from all of us being in the room together, there’s no real idea I suppose behind it or we are trying to be anything that’s out there…

Alex- We write the music we like… there’s no kind of political or bullshit meaning, its just kind of what we do.

Aaron- Sanctorum just feeds our soul.

Alex- It’s about the live performance and having a good time.

Lara- So who are your music influences?

Aaron- erm…how long you got…

Alex- All the four members pull in different directions but that’s kind of what helps us to create our sound…

Aaron- We all have really wide influences, we are more a band of music rather than a metal band or rock band…we all like bits of everything, we all kind of have our own little like….

Alex- There’s a lot on Matt’s iPod that I don’t like haha.

Lara- Mention your idols… who do you look up to… who inspires you?

Alex- Maiden…

Aaron- Metallica, Sabbath

Alex- The greats really… Led Zeppelin…Judas Priest…

Lara- Have you heard that Priest have just announced a new tour.

Alex- Really wow I thought the Epitaph tour was their last…

Aaron- Yeah this our last tour but we will be back next year hahaha!

Alex- Haha…Well I like a lot of metal bands like Sylosis and stuff like that.

Aaron- Mastodon… yeah we are not a fan of trend metal, if that’s the right way to put it.

Alex- We don’t have time for crappy metal bands… music that is written to adhere to a trend just doesn’t really interest us. It’s not that we hate it or anything, they might be good tunes but it’s just a bit contrived and we aren’t up for that.

Aaron- Just got to be honest really.

Lara- So you have the albums out ‘Ashes of Redemption’ , ‘Heaven shall Burn’ and the latest one ‘Semper Fidelis’ so what can you tell us about those albums and how have you progressed through those albums?

Aaron- Well we wrote ‘Heaven shall Burn’ when we were fifteen so we were very young, we were still in school. It’s a very young sound record.

Lara- You are a very young band and accomplished so much in your work.

Aaron- Yeah and now we are only 23.

Matt- Yeah we started touring when we were 16. That album was just about getting our music out there and getting established as a band. Our firstUKtour was in 2006.

Aaron- So from there and all the shows we have been doing and the serious member changes as well like…

Alex- Yes with ‘Ashes’ we had a different bass player.

Aaron- We liked to make sure with each record it matures and it changes, so we are not writing the same old stuff. I think also with our life experience and playing and knowing what you doing the more you get ideas. Like with this latest record….
Alex- It was released two years after ‘Ashes’.

Aaron- Well we had a bit time to work on it. With how it was going with the other guys in the band previously, they were trying to pull it in different directions or they didn’t really know what they wanted to do but with this record we all know what we want to do. We all kind of bounced off each other. The amount of time you spend with each other is important as you know you really get to know each other…

Alex- It’s like a second family…

Matt- Or you could just get really tired of people haha

Alex- Haha… like when you spend that much time as you do in a band with people and you get to know each other and you’re still getting on and then you know its right and you know we all love each other…

Aaron- That all reflects in the music as well.

Matt- Especially with the new album we are writing at the moment….

Aaron- That’s really what we have taken from our first album is the experience of our musical career so far, you know? We always want to work on it and evolve it and top what we have done. We don’t want to be one of those bands that go we have just written the best song ever…

Alex- We do not want to settle, we want to test ourselves as musicians.

Lara- Sanctorum is about pushing the dynamics, textures and arrangements so what challenges have you faced and how have you over come them?

Matt- Challenges are more about people I think. Well we have a line up now that feels comfortable.
Aaron- We can explore a lot more but a challenge for me is listening to a song around 10 times and you think well it’s alright, its being critical to make sure you’re putting out good material. There are the difficult bits, where you are stuck on a song and if we get stuck we move on to something else and keep the flow going. We can always come back to it later and maybe after we have heard it in a different light, something might pop out. We also try to, I suppose… not sound too much like anything else that’s going on. We like to write what we like and be conscious about what it is we are playing and how it sounds.

Matt- We don’t want to sound like any one else.

Alex- We want a unique selling point, we don’t want to sound like a bad version of another band because then they are going to listen to the other band.

Aaron- Its part of the whole process to write something that is ours. We want to create something that is original. We take on the history of music and what has been out there and we put our own take on it.

Lara- What would you say your unique selling point is compared to all the other metal bands?

Aaron- A lot of modern metal records… you will hear one song and you would of heard their entire album. A lot of it is very safe as well. Certainly for our sound there’s a lot of stuff going on, you have thrash tracks and then you got some more groovier based ones.
Alex- I would be really surprised if someone listened to our last album from start to finish and liked everything on there, as there is much and we are totally aware of that. Our album is like a mixing platter, there’s some thrash tracks that people like then there’s some melodic stuff and then some slow stuff as well… I think our unique selling point is honesty.

Aaron- If we are not 100% we will not put it out. Whatever the style is of the tack I think that is the big risk you know not putting out metal for money sake really, which is a shame.

Lara- So what inspires you to write your music?

Aaron- I think it’s creating something new really….

Alex- I think on this album we have a few tracks down and we haven’t started on the lyrics yet but that’s something that will come.

Aaron- We will sit down and we will jam together and then start piecing the bones together so we have something to take and start structuring. We may take four hours on the same section but it’s so we get everything right.

Alex- It all depends on what mood we are in when we come to rehearsals, sometimes we can be like lets write some really groovy stuff or it can be what we have been listening to before hand like something aggressive or thrash kind of stuff. It is a reflection of how we are feeling at the time…

Aaron- Then I will go on write the lyrics in.

Lara- So you guys have been in the band the longest how would you describe your seven year journey with Sanctorum?

Aaron – Haha…We have had a lot of really good stuff like… the reviews we get for the albums and the tours. We have been lucky enough to do but at this level but we have also seen the real dark side of music industry, I suppose it’s been difficult but you do it because you love it not because you’re necessarily going to get respectively paid a lot for it. We would be lying if we said there wasn’t a point where we thought “what the fuck we doing this for?”, but like when you have a really good show or a really good review or someone comes up to you and gives you a great comment, it really means a lot…

Alex- Yeah the comments off the show really means a lot, like if you get an excited comment from someone it really goes a long way.

Aaron- It’s been a long hard ride… well we aren’t over …well I hope not haha…but we have hung in there, haven’t we?

Matt- Well we are trying too haha…

Aaron- Haha trying to core an existence in this music business

Alex- If your wanting to be rich don’t join a metal band, if we were in it for the money we wouldn’t be here, its about having fun and playing shows that gives you a rush up there.

Lara- So what are your expectation’s of the tour?

Matt- I think it’s about getting back on the road…

Alex- Yeah the last tour was in March last year, we have been off for quite a while.

Aaron- We got the album out… so it’s about getting back out there, get our name out and come to the places we haven’t in a while like Manchester…Newcastle

Matt- We has quite a while off before ‘Semper’ came out we lost out guitar player and then just before we recorded ‘Semper Fidelis’ our bass player went so we came across a lot of obstacles. It kept getting pushed back 3-6 months.

Alex- Just about making everyone aware of us and that we are still going around! We are still going strong.

Aaron- We still have quite a few people that come around and see us at our shows. They can see the new version of us, as we are quite a different band from when they last saw us. We have a good time and the other bands on this tour are great guys so…

Lara- Great…Right well I know you did this a while a go but you’re a new band to me and a few others, so what can you tell us about the new centre art project you did? When reading about it I found it extremely interesting.

Aaron- It was…it was for a new art centre that was opening up in Colchesterwhere we are from, it was basically an art gallery. This guy, Simon Brenham just approached a group of people…. He kind of approached us with the idea of taking us, a heavy metal band, Garrison Marching Brass band and a medieval shawm band and a gospel choir. We basically all had to pick a track from our own repertoire and we all exchanged it and did our own interpretation of it, which was really difficult, it was quite a challenge… I think with the gospel track it was some South African song and praise. We were a bit like “how is this going to work?”…

Alex- It was like “how are we going to take a group of people singing and make it into bass and guitar?”

Aaron- It was really good though because it pushed us in a different way that we are not usually used to. It really opened up some new doors, we got an audio from it, which went out as a free CD and got two shows from it. It was really interesting and really fun.

Alex- Was a great promotion too.

Aaron- It was nice that we got asked to do it and we wanted to do it because it’s not the average thing a metal band does. You’re not playing in your usual dirty sticky venue and your playing with everything from art bands to strict old classic bands.

Alex- People were coming up saying there were “Borjack” references in your music

Aaron- And we were like who haha!

Alex- Haha yeah and that’s something we haven’t actually intentionally done, we were expanding the fan base as they were four different rooms and a different artist in each room…you know it was an experience and we will never play a gig like that again. Being a musician is about pushing yourself… it was a total challenge.

Matt- They were all those judging eyes haha!

Alex- Playing in front of a metal crowd that can be pretty hostile if its not going so well haha… but playing to people that have never heard metal before it was like “what is this?” it was scary, it was a fun, it was different, it was cool!

Matt- Yep good fun!

Lara- So what can we expect from tonight’s show?

Aaron- Erm a lot of noise!

Alex- A lot of music!

Aaron- A lot of hair!

Alex- A lot of heads moving backwards and forwards haha!

Matt- We are still getting use to not having Adam here, we are not quite as fluent…

Aaron- We played a couple of nights a go and we got all things sorted out…

Alex- We got one show under our belts now so… tonight will go better… I prefer the venue.

Aaron- Just a good old rock show you know drinking… swearing!

Matt- Expect a lot of broken limbs haha.

Aaron- Haha! We had this one guy once at one of our shows and he was completely drunk and he was standing there with his pint in his hands head banging and he just went!

Alex- Haha yeah! He glassed himself!

Aaron- Yeah! He glassed himself, he just went…. They was blood everywhere and they got a stretcher and everything…he also had a broken collarbone.

Lara- Haha I have never heard that one before glassing yourself what next haha! Well thank you guys for your time with Planetmosh and all the best for tonight’s show.