SERPENTYNE

                   SERPENTYNE

Genre: Symphonic Rock / Folk / Celtic

City: London

Country: England

Year of creation: 2010

Lyrical themes: N/A

Current label :  Serpentyne Music

LINKS :    Facebook    Website

MEMBERS :

Maggiebeth Sand (founder member)
(Lead voice + keyboards)

Mark Powell (founder member)
(Hurdy-gurdy + guitar)

Mathew Damian - electric guitar

Mark Jenkins - keyboards

Nigel Middletone - bass & backing voice

John Haitheway - drums & backing voice



BIO :

Serpentyne was created in London in 2010 by founder members

Maggie-Beth Sand and Mark Powell, inspired by a combination of early music, folk, Celtic, world and rock.

They recorded their first album, "Stella Splendens" that year, basing it on traditional mediaeval texts and tunes from England, Spain and France, arranged in their own style and blending instruments such as cittole, hurdy-gurdy, harmonium, portative organ, medieval drums, crumhorns, recorders, and Maggie's voice.

Serpentyne released their second album, "Myths & Muses" which is based on mediaeval, traditional and mythic themes, this album has a stronger rock element.

A third album "The Serpent' Kiss" is now following the same mythic & medieval themes as it's previous one, but heading into a heavier rock sound.

You can buy all albums from Amazon.co.uk or iTunes

You can email us here:
serpentynemusic@ (antispam) gmail.com, or write to: Serpentyne, Box 777, London, WC1N 3XX, U.K.

For detailed information of Serpentyne's 2016 concerts, please visit:
www.serpentyne.com

To join Serpentyne's Facebook page please "Like" this link:
www.facebook.com/serpentynemusic

For videos:
www. youtube.com/serpentynemusic

Thanks for reading our biography, we hope to see you at one of our concerts.

AMETHYST

           

                     AMETHYST

Genre: Symphonic Rock / Progressive Metal

City: San Vicente

Country: Costa Rica

Year of creation: 2015

Lyrical themes: N/A

Current label :  N/A

LINKS :    Facebook    Website

MEMBERS :

Fabiola Salas - Vocals

Geovanny Leitón - Guitars

Elias Vega - Bass

Kendall Rodríguez - Keyboards

Juan Carlos Soto - Drums 



BIO : 


La banda nace a mediados del año 2015 y fue fundada por

Geovanny Leitón, guitarrista y compositor de la banda y Elías Vega, bajista y compositor. Amethyst nace como producto de la experiencia en anteriores bandas de ambos músicos con las agrupaciones Nebula (2003) y Cántiga (2012).

A inicios del año 2016 y luego de múltiples audiciones sin éxito, Geovanny Leitón contacta con la entonces compañera de grupo en Vintage Band, Fabiola Salas, a quien le propone incorporarse a Amethyst como vocalista principal, ella aceptó ser la vocalista principal y con su voz y melodías aportó un sello distintivo a la banda.

Finalmente en el año 2016 y luego de trabajar con varios bateristas, se completa la alineación actual de la banda con JC Soto, baterista de sesión para artistas internacionales y baterista de bandas nacionales de rock y metal como Zensorial, Seres y Fractured Souls entre otras.

Influencias CANDLEMASS, FATES WARNING, HELSTAR, DREAM THEATER, DALI´S DILEMA y más..

El nombre de la banda refleja la música la agrupación. El amatista (en inglés amethyst) es una piedra preciosa y una de las variedades de cuarzo más apreciadas y junto con el diamante es uno de los minerales más duros, ha sido utilizado en joyería desde la antigüedad por la realeza Egipcia, y en ritos mágicos desde la Edad Media. Así, la música de Amethyst refleja estas características en cada composición, el misticismo y belleza junto a la dureza de su arte.

Los miembros de la banda son originarios de San José, Costa Rica y la sede de la banda está en Moravia (The Amethyst Cave), en donde cuentan con su propia sala de ensayo y equipo, aunque ocasionalmente trabajan en Vintage Studio (Curidabat).

El género de la banda es difícil de definir ya que se mueve entre géneros por la diversidad de influencias de los miembros de la banda los cuales pasan por heavy metal, metal progresivo, metal sinfónico, power metal, punk, jazz, world music y muchos otros, creando una mezcla única que produce el sonido de Amethyst.

HOLLYWOOD GROUPIES

 

             HOLLYWOOD GROUPIES

Genre: Hard´n Heavy Metal

City: La Spezia

Country: Italy

Year of creation: 2010

Lyrical themes: N/A

Current label :  Art Gates Records

LINKS :    Facebook    Youtube

MEMBERS :

Kelly - Lead Guitar

Ace - Vocals, Rhytm Guitar

Condor - Bass

Mirko - Drums 



BIO : 


Hollywood Groupies is a hard'n'heavy band, these guys mature live experience joinin' various musical events, sharing stages with established artists . In January 2010 they publish their debut album "Punched By Millions Hit By None", a twist of hard rock, punk and metal; this unique cocktail of music is the distinguish sign of the band, this album garnered the band very good reviews worldwide and a place on the stage of Free Wheels Festival in France facing the main stage with bands like Twisted Sister, Motorhead, Crucified Barbara and Popa Chubby. 

In 2011 they played at the world famous Whisky à Go Go and in 2012 in London
In 2013 they change line up, Ace moves from drums to rhythm guitar and Mirko enter the band as official drummer.

In 2014 the band works a lot in the studio and develops a new sound that takes them in a new and fresh direction, a much heavier but still melodic way. In December they give birth to " Bitchcraft ".
After a strong live activity in 2015 all over Europe including a 30+ shows tour as direct support for Lordi the band recorded "From Ashes to ligh" full lenght at New Sin Studio in Loria (Italy) , engineered, mixed and mastered by the world renowned producer Luigi Stefanini.
"From Ashes to light" will be out in fall 2016.

MISTHAVEN

                   MISTHAVEN

Genre: Alternative Rock / Metal

City: Campobasso

Country: Italy

Year of creation: 2014

Lyrical themes: N/A

Current label :  From The Depths Entertainment,Nehalennia,Valkyrie Rising

LINKS :    Facebook    Youtube

MEMBERS :

Francesca - Vocals

Alessandro - Bass

Tito - Guitar

Eleonora - Keyboards

Antonio - Drums 



BIO : 

Misthaven is a five members band made up in Campobasso, a little town in the south of Italy.
Their journey started early in 2014 when Eleonora (piano) and Tito

(guitar) were talking around music preferences and they wondered why not to start writing music together. Afterwards, Francesca (vocals) joined the group, on Eleonora's call. Friends since childhood, they've already worked together, performing on local events covering Evanescence's songs.
Finally, Alessandro A. (bass) and Alessandro I. (drums) joined the band, though the drummer left before everything became official, soon to be replaced by Antonio in 2016.

Out of many different musical backgrounds, “Born Among The Ashes” is Misthaven four tracks self produced demo cd, come as result of this first year of hard work, come out on March 4th 2015.

On July 1st the band was ready to give birth to a second four tracks little record. “Bleed” is Misthaven acoustic demo, full of classical and gothic influences.

The band call itself critical to the local music scene and at least the Italian one, still too close to new different sounds and experiences, which brought them to open their eyes to the overseas music style, counting among their main influences many groups such as Evanescence, Alter Bridge, Halestorm...

After a few radios and magazines appeareances, in December 2015 the band joined the From The Depths Entertainment roaster, ready to start a new adventure.

On September 30, 2016 the band released "Bleed EP" with the German label Nehalennia, followed by first single "Newborn" by Valkyrie Rising on October 21, 2016.