MAGICA

                        MAGICA




Genre: Melodic / Heavy / Power Metal

City: Constanţa

Country: Romania

Year of creation: 2002

Lyrical themes: Dark fantasy, Mythology, Individuality

Current label : N/A

LINKS :       Facebook  Youtube  

MEMBERS :

 

Ana Mladinovici - vocals

Bogdan Costea - guitar

Cristian Popescu - bass

Theo Scriosteanu - drums

Radu Mihai - keyboard

SCARLETH

               

                        SCARLETH



Genre: Melodic / Modern Metal

City: Kiev

Country: Ukraine

Year of creation: 2005

Lyrical themes: N/A

Current label : N/A

LINKS :    Facebook    Website

MEMBERS :

Victor Morozov - Guitar

Yana Kovalskaya - Keyboards 

Ekaterina Kapshuk - Vocals 

Igor Chumak - Bass 

Philipp Kharouk - Drums

BIO :

Scarleth is remarkable and experienced Ukrainian metal band

playing music on joint of modern heaviness and diverse melodism. For the time being the band has played several hundreds of live shows, released two full-length albums worldwide and took part in many festivals where Blind Guardian, Rage, Ensiferum, Rotting Christ, Leaves’ Eyes, Kalmah, Cemetery Of Scream, Atrocity and other famous bands performed. Band’s style is expanding constantly and represents mind-blowing mixture of many melodic genres – from power, folk, doom and gothic metal to modern/progressive metal. The band completely deserves to be called one of the most outstanding young musical representatives of its style.

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.

DEATHTINY

 

                                 DEATHTINY 

                                         


Genre: Melodic / Dark Metal

City:  Sulz am Neckar, Baden-Württemberg

Country: Germany

Year of creation: 2003

Lyrical themes:  N/A

Current label :Unsigned / Independent

LINKS :    Facebook    Website

 

 

MEMBERS :

 

  

Julia Mann - Vocals

Dennis Buffing - Guitars, Vocals

Anselm Wolf - Keyboards

Andreas Herzfeld - Bass

Tobias Brezler - Drums


BIO : 


Deathtiny- ein Wortspiel aus "destiny" (Schicksal) und "death" (Tod)- wurden schon im Jahre 2003 von Gitarrist Dennis Buffing ins Leben gerufen. Doch erst 2009, nach diversen Besetzungswechseln, fand die Band mit dem Einstieg von Sängerin Julia Mann ihre Konstanz. Mit ihrer ausdrucksstarken Stimme prägt sie den genreübergreifend als Melodic Dark Metal bezeichneten Stil.
Deathtiny steht für stark riff-orientierte Songs mit tragenden Melodien, rockigem bis klassischem Gesang, gepaart mit aggressiven Shouts. Neben den dynamischen Songs und tiefgründigen Texten besticht die Band mit ihrer energiegeladenen Live-Show.
Mit ihrem bald erscheinenden Longplayer "In Creeps Clothing" stehen für die Band die Zeichen nun auf Sturm.

Deathtiny, a play on words originating from the words destiny and death, was breathed to life by guitarist Dennis Buffing in 2003. After many formation changes Deathtiny found its final formation, with the singer Julia Mann, in 2009. With her expressive voice she put them in the Melodic Dark Metal genre.

Deathtiny stands for strong riff-oriented songs with a carrying melody, rock and classic singing paired with aggressive shouts. The band stands out with their dynamic songs and deep lyrics, pinnacling with their high energy live shows.

With their upcoming LP “In Creeps Clothing” the band is ready to blow you off!

INHERITOR

                                                 INHERITOR
                                         



Genre: Melodic / Progressive Metal

City: Los Angeles

Country: Colombia / USA

Year of creation: 2009

Lyrical themes:  N/A

Current label : Unsigned / Independent

LINKS :    Facebook    Myspace 

 

 

MEMBERS :

 

 

	Current members: Aliyah Davis – Vocals Alejandro Cardenas - Guitar/vocals Jared Behrens – Guitar Arron Suljay-Bass Additional recording credits: Diego Duque – (Bass) Juan Felipe Morales (Drums)

BIO :

Inheritor is a Colombian-American melodic metal band that was formed in Bogota D.C. on 2009. The project has always been a five-pieced female fronted group of musicians with strong neo-classical influences, combined with a touch of death, heavy and progressive metal.

In 2009 the band began to play live, and worked with Stormblaze Entertainment for a year; during this time the band was able to do a small tour where they shared the stage with big acts from the local Colombian metal scene like Gaias Pendulum, Soulburner, Loathsome Faith etc.

In 2010 the band released its debut album “From dust n Passion”; it had good local radio airplay and positive reviews in many countries like Finland, Peru, Spain etc. The album was recorded and produced by guitarist and founder of the project Alejandro Cardenas; and mastered by Carlos Silva at C1 Mastering in Bogota D.C. Some of the recording musicians that were part of the project from the beginning were Diego Duque (bass), Ivan Montenegro (guitar), Victoria Mejia (vocals) and Leonel Rojas (drums).

In 2011 the band launched its first video clip “A Fading Caress” and after going through some line up changes they finished working with “Stormblaze Entertainment” and signed with “Independent” for the rest of that year.

In 2012 Inheritor began the production of a new album and moved to Los Angeles, CA.

Now, after regrouping with some local musicians, Inheritor is about to finish the production of that second studio album; which will be coming out with a new lead singer, and a touch of “folk” Colombian roots added to the original sound!

MARTYRIUM

                                              MARTYRIUM
                                        



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).

DISDAINED

DISDAINED

Genre:  Melodic / Progressive Metal

City:  Järfälla, Stockholms län

Country: Sweden

Year of creation: 2005

Lyrical themes: Various

 
Current label : DISDAINED ENTERTAINMENT/ RAMBO MUSIC

 

 LINKS :     Facebook      Website    Reverbnation

                               
               

MEMBERS :



Therese Thomsson -Vocals

Niklas Dahlin - Lead guitar, backing vocals, programming

Johan Hartman - Guitars

Tomas Stolt - Bass, Backing vocals

Johan Persson - Drums




BIO :



Disdained is one of the hottest fresh bands in the female fronted melodic metal genre. Since the start-up in 2005 the band has evolved and the music has made tremendous leaps forward.

 Well laid sceneries together with fire eater performances by the female singer contribute to a solid live act which has proven to be a success at the Nordic music festivals. In 2008 Disdained opened up for Mustasch (
Swedish Grammy winner) at Vadstuck festivat. During 2010 the band performed at Sweden rock festival,receiving great credit and recognition from the audience, stood proud as the Stockholm winner, as well as awarded for "best guitarists" at the Stockholm/Sweden/Nordic final in the world's biggest music competition, Emergenza! Disdained is currently in the process of making their debutalbum "Kill my only enemy" which will hit the markets worldwide during 2011.


 My Space with over 140.000 visitors since 2008 and receiving attention from record labels and music magazines has meant a lot to boost gigs, development and confidence. Niklas and Tomas have previously released four studio albums with the power metal band Insania (Stockholm), a band that among other things played at Sweden Rock festival, been a supporting act to Saxon and during 2007 went on an extensive tour in Europe with the Finnish band Ensiferum.

Therése has previously been an theatre actress and has great experiences with several well known Swedish musicians. Johan has played drums in various constellations mainly in south-eastern parts of Sweden with members from Satanic Surfers and others. Guitar player Johan Hartman has prior to Disdained mainly been on the non-mainstream scene focusing on progressive self-indulgence.

TOTHEM

TOTHEM

Genre:  Melodic  Metal

City:   Roma

Country: Italy

Year of creation: 2010

Lyrical themes: N/A

 
Current label : Unsigned/independent

 

 LINKS :     Facebook      Myspace    Reverbnation

                 Soundawesome       Youtube



MEMBERS :


Roslen: Vocals

Black Cyril: Electric Guitar and Backing Vocals

Marco: Piano, Keyboards and Synth

Leo: Bass Guitar

Andrea The Joker: Drums and Percussions



BIO :

Tothem is considered one of the most talented and promising bands of the Italian melodic metal panorama. After the release of an Ep (Tothem), in 2003 the band breaks up and only in 2010 Black Cyril, the guitar player, and Roslen, the vocalist, decide to reform Tothem with the entry of three new elements: Leo, on the bass guitar, the Joker, on drums, and Marco, on keyboards. During the years they have played at the best clubs of Rome such as the Qube, Alpheus, Ex-Magazzini, Coetus, Black Out, Jailbreak and so on. Then they took part in the Emergenza Rock competitions, reaching the final, and in the Live Magic Contest, been set at Alpheus, reaching the semifinals. They were lately placed second at the “We a.r.e. the festival” contest among more than 100 bands, while Roslen was awarded as the best female singer. Up to now they have recorded two demos (Automatisma and Pray) and two Eps (Tothem in 2003 and Osaka Bed & Breakfast released in 2010 in limited edition).

 This latest Ep got a great critical success and audience approval (300 copies gone sold out, enhanced by the chance of the free download of the songs), especially among foreign listeners and the band’s popularity is constantly growing. Rescue, second track from the Osaka B&B album, became part of the “World of Glass” and “You can’t shake me – A little help for Japan” compilations. Cross the line entered in the “Metal around the world” compilation and Light of Soul in "Aiutiamo l'Emilia".


At the moment the band is working on their debut album that will be released in October 2012. The band played in Bucharest (RO) and Gravesend (UK) as the firsts dates of the promotional tour.

SACRED GROOVE

SACRED GROOVE

Genre:  Melodic / Gothic Metal

City:    Kleve

Country: Germany

Year of creation: 2006

Lyrical themes: N/A

 
Current label : Unsigned/independent

 

 LINKS :     Facebook      Myspace   Web    Reverbnation




MEMBERS :


Stefan Deiners - Drums

Dennis Meivogel - Guitars

Chris Schlotfeldt - Bass

Jüppi Püllen - Keyboards

Isabel Willenberg - Vocals



BIO :

SACRED GROOVE stands for energetic and ear catching songs with fat groove. The musical style is based anywhere between heavy rock and melodic metal. Lead singer Isabel´s exceptionally vibrant voice guarantees uniqueness. SACRED GROOVE.´s trademarks are bombastic guitar riffs, a grooving rhythm & bass section, symphonic key and piano-parts and multifarious, emotional vocals.

Stefan Deiners (drums) and Dennis Meivogel (guitars) founded the band in the nineties but in 2006 SACRED GROOVE was resurrected with the idea of a powerful female fronted melodic metal band. In the following 3 years Chris Schlotfeldt (bass) and F.J. Püllen (keys) were recruited to the band. New material was released in 2009 on the self titled debut record SACRED GROOVE. The new album received fantastic reviews. Finally in 2010 Isabel Willenberg joined the band as lead singer and the new album “Needful Things” was released in fall 2011.

SACRED GROOVE was nominated for the german Rock and Pop Awards in 2010 and performed live in the finals in Wiesbaden. In 2011 SACRED GROOVE was finalist in the worldwide Emergenza Festival Competition and performed a groundbreaking show at the Cologne Live Music Hall.

Mit viel Energie und eingängigen Songs bewegen sich SACRED GROOVE im Spannungsfeld zwischen gitarrenlastigem Rock, Melodic Metal und einem Hauch von Gothic.

In den frühen neunziger Jahren von Stefan Deiners (Drums) und Dennis Meivogel (Guitar) gegründet und im Jahr 2006 musikalisch wiedererweckt, fand SACRED GROOVE 2008 die erste komplette Besetzung. Mit Chris Schlotfeldt (Bass) und Jüppi Püllen (Keys) waren die richtigen Musiker gefunden, um SACRED GROOVE neues Leben einzuhauchen. Im Jahr 2009 wurde umfangreich neues Material geschrieben, welches auf dem Debutalbum "SACRED GROOVE" Ende 2009/Anfang 2010 veröffentlicht wurde. Anfang 2010 stieß die Sängerin Isabel Willenberg zu SACRED GROOVE.

Nach positiver Resonanz erscheint in Kürze mit "Needful Things" eine komplett überarbeitete CD, die neben vielen Songs vom 2009/2010er Debut vier brandneue Tracks enthält und mit ihren symphonisch anmutenden Kompositionen, gefühlvollen Balladen und energetischen Rocksongs die enorme Bandbreite und Spielfreude von SACRED GROOVE belegt.

SINMATTIC

                                     SINMATTIC
                                                             



Genre:  Melodic / Gothic Metal

City: Sintra

Country: Portugal

Year of creation: 2011

Lyrical themes: N/A

 
Current label : Unsigned/independent

 

 LINKS :         Facebook      Myspace   Youtube    Reverbnation








MEMBERS :


Carina Leitão - Vocals

Ivo Durães - Guitars

Mário Lopes - Guitars

Nelson Saavedra - Drums

Pedro Antunes -Keyboards

Pedro Silva - Bass







BIO :

SINMATTIC began when Pedro Antunes and Mário Lopes had the idea to create a new Melodic Metal project . Its goal was to bring out something different and musically appealing at the same time, exploring various influences and mixing them to create music that, although different, would sound fresh and familiar. Some time later, Ivo Duraes, a creative guitar player already familiar with original composition, joined the project. Once some songs were composed by these three musicians, it was necessary to find the right vocals to interpret each of them with the different vibes required. 

After working with various vocalists, the band decided to invite Carina Leitão, a singer with experience in many different styles, from Fado to Musical Theater, who brought the interpretations that were needed for the project. With the members found and the songs composed, it was now time to enter the studio to record an EP that could bring the project to an audience. The band recorded 4 tracks in the Fingerprint Music Studio and the Attic Studio, finding then Pedro Cardoso who recorded the drums needed, and André Abrantes, who gave his own touch to the songs with the bass recordings. In the summer of 2012, the band's first EP saw the light of day.

It is with great pride that SINMATTIC have now over 12 songs composed (even though only 4 have been recorded so far) and others in the composing process. We are now counting on our fans' support, whose feedback has been so very positive since day one, to achieve the conditions and have the opportunity to take our project as far as possible, and releasing more of our work. We assure you we have so much more to give you, and we look forward to it!

Arch Enemy

ARCH ENEMY


Genre: Melodic death metal / Thrash metal

City: Halmstad

Country: Sweden 

Year of creation: 1995

Lyrical themes:   Anti-religion, Rebellion, Society

 

 

 

 

 

 Current label   :Century Media Records

 

 LINKS :   Reverbnation     Twitter   Myspace     Website       Facebook


 LINE UP:
 
Angela Gossow - Vocals                                                    
 
Michael Amott - Guitar
 
Christopher Amott - Guitar
 
Sharlee D'Angelo - Bass
 
Daniel Erlandsson - Drums


BIO :
 




“I think we took a ‘more is more’ approach to this record.”

So says ARCH ENEMY guitarist Michael Amott when referring the band’s new platter of mayhem, Khaos Legions. Not that they’ve ever tackled any aspects of their career with a half-baked attitude, but the approach was particularly important after four years of creative silence.

The band has been far from quiet since the 2007 release of Rise... Of The Tyrant, of course. During the extensive tour cycle for the album, ARCH ENEMY saw fit to preserve their trademark sonic violence on the live 2008 record, Tyrants Of The Rising Sun, returning to the studio a year later to re-record some of their early work and live fan favourites for The Root Of All Evil. Amott will be the first to tell you, however, that he and his bandmates have been waiting a long time to create something brand new from the ground up.

“Root Of All Evil was cool to do,” Amott insists, “but it wasn’t really creative at all. None of that material was new to us. We were itching to get into the studio and record all the things we’ve been talking about backstage for the last few years. We knew we had to come back with something really good because it’s been four years since the Rise Of The Tyrant album. We’ve kept the fans waiting long enough.”

Khaos Legions was well worth the wait. A solid 14 tracks – 11 songs and three instrumental passages – it’s an album that immediately recalls Anthems Of Rebellion (2003) and Doomsday Machine (2005), considered up to this point to be ARCH ENEMY’s two strongest outings to date. Loaded with the Amott brothers’ trademark guitar shred, spearheaded by vocalist Angela Gossow’s instantly recognizable hell-hath-no-fury delivery, all backed by the Sharlee D’Angelo / Daniel Erlandsson bass / drum high energy stomp, Khaos Legions features the band’s trademark extreme metal execution coupled with some eyebrow-raising surprises along the way.

Eight studio albums and 15 years into their career, Khaos Legions is ARCH ENEMY’s iron “You are here!” stamp that hits like a ton of bricks.

“This album is kind of nuts,” says Amott. “It’s a very exciting record for me because it encapsulates everything that Arch Enemy is about. It was written over a four year period, so I think that’s why it’s got a lot of depth and girth to it”

Simply put, no diehard ARCH ENEMY fan should go away dissatisfied. The tracks ‘Yesterday Is Dead And Gone’, ‘Under Black Flags We March’, ‘Thorns In My Flesh’ and ‘City Of The Dead’ are examples of the five piece wrecking crew people have come to expect. On the other side of the coin, ‘Bloodstained Cross’ features Michael and Chris Amott exploring new shred-head territory, while ‘Cruelty Without Beauty’, ‘Cult Of Chaos’ and the scathing ‘Vengeance Is Mine’ feature some of the most aggressive work from the band to date.

In addition, ‘Through The Eyes Of A Raven’ is easily the band’s most adventurous song in years; progressive and dark, what Amott feels “has a Scandinavian feel to it, with a melancholic Nordic thing going on in the chorus.” Certainly a different side of the band, yet they retain every ounce of trademark aggression.

The biggest surprise of all, however, is the bordering-on-death-rock ‘No Gods, No Masters’, a definite echo of ARCH ENEMY’s anthem ‘We Will Rise’ that is guaranteed to raise the ire of some fans even as it is embraced by others.

Gossow sums Khaos Legions up in one sentence, unapologetic as always: “We went all over the place with this album. Take it or leave it.”