ELFERYA

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Genre: Symphonic Metal

City: Lausanne

Country: Switzerland

Year of creation: 2008

Lyrical themes:  N/A

Current label : Unsigned / Independent

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MEMBERS :

 

 

Claire-Lyse von Dach: voice, lyrics

Valery Veings: guitars

Lionel Blanc: claviers - violon

Thibaut Jehanno: bass

Greg Turini: drums

 

 

BIO :

 

 

Elferya is a symphonic metal band, formed in 2008, in suisse romande. above all, it is a band of five friends, all talented musicians, coming from different backgrounds and formations, gathered around the same passion.

after a year, the band records « afterlife », an eP with 4 tracks recorded with small means. the eP is a great success, being sold both in switzerland and abroad, making the world discover the lyrical voice of the lead vocalist, claire-lyse von dach. the reactions arrived soon to the net with rave reviews. in july 2012, one of the band’s videos has been viewed more than 80,000 times on youtube.

but it is on concert that the band’s potential is finally confirmed with a stage presence allowing to rub big headliners and play in several countries. the band is formed by a drummer, a guitarist, a bassist, a keyboardist and a singer.

Many classical musicians appear as guests for some concerts. in 2011, the band began recording their debut album which will be released in late 2012. this very ambitious album will include new versions of the songs of « afterlife », and new compositions recorded with may additionnal musi- cians playing instruments such as violin, the flute, and even choirs.

 

MARTYRIUM

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Genre: Melodic Black/ Death Metal

City: Luqa

Country: Malta

Year of creation: 1999

Lyrical themes:  Acient magic, Mytology, Satanic Philosophy

Current label : American Line Productions / Witchcraft Records

 LINKS :    Facebook     Website 

 

 

 

MEMBERS :

 

 

Obscure - Vocals 

Count Mortem - Guitars  

Sherath - Guitars  

Úmarth - Synths & Programming 

 

 

BIO :

 

 Martyrium was formed by Count Mortem in 1999 who conveyed his ideas into a mix of black/death metal riffs. Alongside Úmarth who contributed a deluge of sinister orchestrations focused on bringing the much desired dark atmospheric tone.
With Sherat's shredding and Obscure's diabolical growls Martyrium breeds a particular sound that makes the crowd conceive disquieting notions. Portraying the image of the traditional black metal Subculture, they appear on stage behind corpsepaint as a female fronted band infusing an ominous mood.
In the year 2000 Martyrium bestowed an arsenal of authentic tracks at a local venue, introducing the black metal genre to the Maltese metal scene, summoning a captivating response for it's controversiality. The pursuing year the first album was recorded in Temple Studios, entitled 'Withering In Voluptuous Embrace'. The release consisted of highly dense and multilayered symphonic black metal, moving from morbid ambiences to vitriolic, violent elements.
Aspired to get recognition abroad, the band approached foreign promoters presenting their material witch attracted the South American label 'American Line Productions'. Within a concise time extent, they developed and sold a sufficient number of Martyrium CDs amongst their batch of followers. Thus American Line Productions decided to open a new label 'Witchcraft records' pioneered by Martyrium, that concentrated more on black metal bands. Manifesting their presence to magazines such as 'Displeased' , 'Nuclear Blast' and others.
Amid the year 2004, a French promoter set up the bands first tour, ranging from 'Negasonic Music Club' in Belgium, Luxemburg and ending their odyssey in Northern France, sharing the stage with Morrigu, Earaction and other supporting bands. The positive feedback from the throng of fiends concluded the first tour a success.
The exceeding gigs included the Greek legends 'Rotting Christ' as well as the brutal German death metal band 'Purgatory'.
By summer's end of the year 2005 Martyrium experienced another tour in central Europe, welcomed with even more enthusiasm than the previous year, they celebrated the second assault entitled 'Carnage Lit By Darkness'. This time approaching a more redolent, belligerent barrage of sound. The Martyrium legion commenced from Germany, re-infesting France, followed by Italy and ending the carnage in 'Club Dynamo' in Switzerland alongside 'Eluveitie' , 'Black Messiah' , 'Daargesin' , 'Cruachan' and 'Ivenberg'.
2006 endured the unleash of Martyrium's third opus ' Awakening The Ancient' which continued to emblaze their trail of desecrated conventions into the orifice of society. The track 'Temple Of The Unknown Knowledge' was featured on the Valletta 2018 video, commissioned by the Valletta 2018 Foundation, representing the Maltese metal scene in the European Capital of Culture(ECoC).

ACERO INTOXICABLE

                                  ACERO INTOXICABLE
                                        



Genre: Rock / Heavy  Metal

City: Girona

Country: Spain

Year of creation: 2008

Lyrical themes:   Personal experiences, Social themes

Current label : Unsigned

 LINKS :    Facebook     Myspace  

 

 

 

MEMBERS :

 

Juan Martinez - Vocals

Carles Dalmau - Guitars

Gerard Requena - Bass

Jaume Sureda - Guitars

Angel del Moral -Drums

 

 

 

BIO :

 

Acero Intoxicable nace un martes 13 del 2008, en el corazón de la costa brava. Después de mucho tiempo y esfuerzo, estos humildes músicos crean esta maqueta con sus propias manos y pocos recursos para retumbar las paredes con la mayor explosión de Metal/rock del lugar. 

AEVUM

 

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Genre: Symphonic / Gothic / Neoclassical / Theatrical  Metal

City: Torino

Country: Italy

Year of creation: 2007

Lyrical themes:   Arts, Old literature, Theatre, Opera, 

Poetry

Current label : Wall records

 LINKS :     Website     Facebook     Myspace  

 

 

 

MEMBERS :

 

 

EVELYN MOON:  main female voice, opera/clean/spoken voice;

 
HYDRA:  main male, opera voice and scream; 

RICHARD: pianist and backing clean/growl vocal;

IAN: synth music, keyboard and effects; 

LORD OF DESTRUCTION: rhythmic/solo guitar; 

VIOLET: bass and backing clean vocal and spoken voice; 

FLAVUS: drums

featuring

MIKI: live chorist 

 

 

 

BIO :

 

The name AEVUM summarizes the meaning of music, the research, and the evolving of the band.

AEVUM translated from Latin, is the Angel of Judgment, the greek aeon, that marks the end of a known order of things and the coming of a great change, of a new system.
Their music is a costantly moving towards the union between the human and the divine, between opposites, between male and female, between positive and negative, in a genre that is the union between classical music and gothic-metal.

The project shapes in the late 2007 and the early 2008 from the encounter between the singer Evelyn Moonl and the pianist Richard. Over the years, the line-up has seen the alternation of new singers, guitarists and drummers, but since two years the line-up is complete and consists of 7 young musicians. The peculiarity of the group is the uses of texts sung in different languages with lyrical voice, clean, growl and scream, and researched music.

Currently, AEVUM have two EPs, Celestial Angels, released in 2008, and Nova Vita in 2012, both self-produced.
At times melancholic, at time powerful, their concerts are an unforgettable experience for the great stage presence and the emotional charge contained in their songs.

ALEXEY SOLOVIEV

                                            ALEXEY SOLOVIEV
                                        



Genre: Symphonic Power Metal

City: Krasnoyarsk

Country: Russia

Year of creation: 2005

Lyrical themes: N/A

Current label : Unsigned

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MEMBERS :
 

Alexey Soloviev  : Guitarist, composer, songwritter,
arranger.

 

VORTIGYN

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Genre: Gothic  Metal

City: Turnhout

Country:Belgium

Year of creation: 2011

Lyrical themes: N/A

Current label : Unsigned

 LINKS :        Facebook     Youtube         Web

               



MEMBERS :
 

Ester Bortels - Vocals

Joris Jacobien - Lead Guitar & grunts

Wannes Van Herck - Bass Guitar & Clean Vocals

Cisse Wagemans - Rhytm Guitar

Günther tahon - Drums




BIO :

Having risen out of different bands and backgrounds around Turnhout, Belgium, Vortigyn leaps forward by the end of 2011. At that time, Ester (vocals), Joris (grunts and guitar), Wannes (bass guitar), and Günther (drums) welcome Cisse (guitar) into their band.
Song writing is blossoming in early 2012, and, as a result, they try to define and re-define their sound. While definitely female fronted and surely metal, they incorporate some influences that are not immediately 
 associated with most female fronted metal bands. That is, Vortigyn is less of a gothic metal band, and tries to mix different ingredients, such as: power riffs, heavy sound, grooves, experimental and rock influences, while still using classical high female vocals and deep male grunts. It's more Lacuna Coil or even Evanescence than Nightwish, so to speak. Mostly, Vortigyn is a band that is interested in melody and songs as a whole. 



Finally, having played their newest songs for several audiences in the late summer of 2012, Vortigyn decides the time is right for a debut EP. In October 2012, the band travels to the north of the Netherlands, where they spend a week in the double impact productions studio. The result is this self-titled first EP: Vortigyn. 

LACHAISE

   

                                             LACHAISE
                                        



Genre: Gothic Rock / Metal

City: Venice

Country: Italy

Year of creation: 2007

Lyrical themes: Melancholy, Inner Struggles

Current label : Revalve Records

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MEMBERS :
 

Xenya Nyx: Vocals

Niklas 'Suspiria' Goottilainen: Piano, Keyboards and Orchestral Arrangements.


Gezwind P. Vingerstaal: Guitars and Bass

Paul Ongars: Drums 


BIO :
 
The first thing that springs to mind is, “Lachaise...how the hell do you pronounce that?”. At least it’s not yet another English word, recalling as it does the famous Parisian Père Lachaise cemetery.
Established in 2007 following the combination of various projects, the band published its first album “Silent cries for help” in June 2008, produced by the record label MP&Records. That same year, the
band was selected to open the Italian tour of Christian Death, a legendary US gothic rock band.
Despite various line-up changes, keyboard player and leading composer Niklas “Suspiria” Goottilainen has always stayed on. For him, “you can overlap any type of sound , perform any type of virtuoso feat, but melody must reign supreme, with no half-measures”.
One of the characteristics of the band’s live performances is the absence of a bass guitar. When asked “how come?”, the guitarist Gezwind P. Vingerstaal answers: “We’ve never felt the bass guitar to be essential to our genre. We use 7- and 8-strings guitars and 88 keys keyboards, and we just don’t feel it’s necessary for now”.
In its current and by now well established line-up, Lachaise is about to publish its second album “A state of Oblivion” with the Revalve Records label, established by former member and founder of the Theatres Des Vampires, Rob Cufaro. The album is to be released in September 2012. Ranging from rock to metal, gothic to dark, when asked the classical question “How would you define your genre?”, this is how they reply: “We just make music…you decide!”

DARKYRA

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Genre: Symphonic/Gothic Metal

City: Fremantle

Country:Australia

Year of creation: 2011

Lyrical themes: Various 

Current label : Unsigned / Independent

 

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MEMBERS :

various musicians have been involved in this project for either live shows or recording:

Darkyra Black- vocals

Dave Lyon - Guitar

Mario Schmack - bass

Dion Italiano - Drums

Kim Siragusa - Keyboard

backup vocals & violin - Chrissie Mavrofridis

Garry King-Drums

Betovani - Guitar

Fab Jablonski - Keyboards

Additional musicians:

George Boussounis - Keyboard/samples/arrangment

Michael Porfyris -Cello

Ilias Sdoukos -Viola

Laertis Kokolanis - Violin

BIO :

The Story - Darkyra Black - Something special, something you have never heard before!

"Upon first listen you may liken it to industry greats such as Within Temptation or even Tarja (ex-Nightwish) but in doing so you wouldn’t even come close. Very few women in the industry are able to weave music in such as way as Darkyra and make music her own muse."

- EvilG, Metal Rules (Sep 15, 2013)

Scene 1 – Dragon Tears

It was through the company ‘Online Recording Masters’ based in Athens Greece that vocalist and songwriter, Darkyra found new counterparts for what was to become her very first self-titled record ‘Dragon Tears’.

Owner/musical arranger George Boussounis formed an introduction with drummer/producer Garry King (Jeff Beck, Joe Lynn Turner, Achillea) and ideas and the Darkyra concept started to evolve between the three.

After the bond had been set three additional close friends where bought in to join the ranks of the Darkyra Black team for the 2013 recordings, guitarist’s Paul Jupe, Betovani Dinelli, and keyboard player Fab Jablonski. The first Darkyra Black track prior to the full album release came out on an official video for the single ‘Tears by Candlelight’ in 2013 generating much interest in the full record. "Dragon Tears" a concept album based on a Gothic interpretation of a geisha like tale that ends in tragedy, love, loss, lust, betrayal and revenge, was released in February 2014, and built instant critical acclaim internationally as a fine blend of symphonic/gothic metal with powerful vocal performances and progressive/classic rock elements of traditional pentatonic music with an overall ‘Cinematic’ sound and feel.

“All eleven numbers here are different but are very fluent and offer up musical highlights galore, too numerous to mention, ensure you keep the CD in the player to the VERY end. To summarize, Darkyra is Dark, Passionate and Edgy and demonstrating fine vocal prowess”

Ravenheartmusic Review (6th February 2014)

Scene 2 – Of Fools and Gold

Now with the first record under her belt and amazing reviews it was time to set the scene and start the next stage of creating songs and music for a second follow up album and plan ahead for live shows and touring.

In January 2014 even before Dragon Tears was officially released Darkyra had already started work on 15 new track ideas ready for an April studio sessions deadline in the historic city of Athens. With George and Garry being based in Europe plans where laid for the three with guitarist Betovani and Keyboard player Fab Jablonski to start work recording drums, guitars, guide keys and main vocal parts for what should be the most amazing and powerful follow up record in the Darkyra story.

Again with a very strong story line, searing string sections and memorable melodies, vocal performances and songs the yet to be titled record will surely prove that Darkyra Black has set a standard very hard to beat and certainly hard to ignore both lyrically and musically.

Scene 3 – Yet to be written .......

ENKELINATION

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Genre: Melodic Hard Rock / Metal

City: London

Country: England

Year of creation: 2008

Lyrical themes: Various 

Current label : Unsigned / Independent

 

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MEMBERS :


Elina - Vocals

Shadow - Guitars

Alasdair - Bass

Ben - Drums



BIO :

Enkelination (enkeli - meaning Angel in finnish) was formed in November 2011. Founded by classically trained former opera singer Elina Siirala. She moved to London in 2008 and fell in love with the power and performance of rock and metal. Now she is using her classical roots to help create her own mark in the world of alternative music.
She’s a talented and powerful singer/composer creating Melodi
c Hard Rock from a multitude of influences. Surrounded by heavy guitar sounds and metal drums, Elina's voice cuts through the darkness with an ethereal angelic quality. With each live performance enkElination prove time and time again that they are a band to watch with a unique and haunting sound of their own.

TEODASIA

                                      
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Genre:  Symphonic Metal

City: Venice

Country: Italy

Year of creation: 2007

Lyrical themes: Various

Current label : Unsigned / Independent

 

 LINKS :     Facebook      Twitter    Myspace       Youtube      Web
               



MEMBERS :




Priscilla Fiazza - Vocals

Fabio Compagno - Guitars

Nicola Falsone - Bass

Michele Munari - Keyboards

Francesco Gozzo - Drums



BIO :


Teodasia is a group from the Venice area, Italy.
Teodasia has been playing symphonic rock/metal since 2006, its foundation year at the hands of the band composer and drummer Francesco Gozzo. The band's first demo "Crossing the Light" dates to 2009 and has brought to the band a producer from Padua , Andrea Bezzon, who has guided the production of Teodasia's first full album, 'Upwards', to be released on the 30th of March 2012.. The album builds on the sonority of the demo, enriching its passionate and evocative melodies (ballad tracks), and toughening up its heavy sonority (metal tracks).