Piranha-Nashville,TN Stupidity
Ion Prophecy-Chattanooga–Reflection
Sideburn-Switzerland-Ghost of 1980
Circle Of Thieves-Pasco,Florida-Vaporizer
Mudvayne-Dullboy
Feral Children-Seattle-Zyghost
12 Stones-Louisiana
Worth Dying For-Modesto,California-Let It out
Blacktop HARRISON IPSWITCH,ENGLAND-Polarvoid
Twilight Dementia-Virginia-Deliverance
The Heys-UK-Friday Night
Mindsight-Steal This Moment
BIOS:
Piranah is a veteran band from Nashville, TN, that was founded in 1993 by guitarist Matt Seckinger. Soon after, Darren Andrews became the lead vocalist for the band and has remained the band’s front man ever since. After having many lineup changes over the years, drummer Chris Higgins and bassist Thorin Milliken completed this revitalized version of the band in late 2006.
Piranah writes great metal songs that fall into no particular metal genre, but incorporate all of them. Piranah is unclassifiable and have a sound that is completely their own. With expert songwriting in hand and a solid line up established, they will continue to make all the noise possible as they forge ahead in the years to come.
Setting out to make a career of writing good songs, delivering energetic live shows, and with their national and international street teams behind them, Piranah has been broadcast in 41 countries to date. With three albums already to their credit, and their fourth release, “Orchestrated Noise” now available, Piranah are set to make 2008 their biggest year yet!
Piranah has 4 albums released and if you have any questions/feedback or would like to purchase a cd, email Piranah at piranah_2000@yahoo.com Thank you all for your support and THRASH TIL YA FUCKING PUKE!
About Ion Prophecy
Ion Prophecy has been in and out of order for 4 years now. The first lineup being a group of friends with the ideal of taking over the world, didn’t work out. The songs were short, to the point and sometimes adlibbed. Not a jamband at all, Ion Prophecy persued a progressive rock sound, mixing influences of rock, metal, blues, and folk styles. The band took time off for a few months to regather after the departure of frontman Eric (E.T.) Turner. Since then, Drummer Jeremy Matthews has moved up to Guitar/Vocals while Guitarist Jay Morcombe took up the position of drums. Ion Prophecy has built a strong foundation and a very communicative style of creating and playing the songs.
About SIDEBURN
THE BAND’S MEMBERS FIRST START JAMMIN’ TOGETHER IN THE EARLY EIGHTIES, BUT IT ISN’T UNTIL 1989 WHEN THINGS SERIOUSLY START ROLLIN’. THE FIVE MUSICIANS FROM GENOCIDE (FORMER NAME) GET TOGETHER IN A STUDIO IN HAMBURG TO CREATE THEIR FIRST MINI LP ‘ROOTS IN ROCK
. ‘SELL YOUR SOUL FOR ROCK ‘N ROLL’ GAVE TO THE MUSICIANS THE OPPORTUNITY TO OPEN FOR KISS IN THE PACKED OUT HALLENSTADION IN ZURICH.
SLADE, DIO & THIN LIZZY + SOME HEADLINER’S GIGS IN SOME BIKERS CONVENTIONS AND SEVERAL CLUBS.
LIKE MOTORHEAD, DEF LEPPARD, TED NUGENT & THEIR GOOD FRIENDS KROKUS. 2007 WAS TOTALLY DEVOTED TO THE COMPOSITION OF THEIR NEW ALBUM .. CDBABY LINK for SIDEBURN: Archives –>
About Circle Of Thieves
Circle of Thieves began the way every great band originates…for the love of music. Each member of the circle has individually written, performed and recorded with a variety of other acts over the years, and it wasn’t until early 2007 that the Circle was complete.
Combining years of experience, originality and style into a premier collaboration, C.O.T. is becoming one of the newest original bands to emerge from the Tampa Bay area music scene. Their approach combines the heart of yesterday’s rock with a unique twist of modern rock. With many diverse influences, the band feeds off of its own members unique style as well as today’s modern rock and old school sounds. Stay tuned for live performances across the Tampa Bay Area!
About 12 Stones
THE BACKSTORY – After selling 500,000 copies of their first two albums (their self-titled debut and Potter’s Field) and touring relentlessly, 12 Stones decided it was time for a break from the road. The band packed up their gear and headed back to Mississippi and Louisiana. And what did these guys do on their time off? Well, as singer Paul McCoy put it, they “grew up a lot.”
Worth Dying For
Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Oct 9 2008 7:00P
Creation Tour @ Landmark Church Cincinnati, Ohio
Oct 10 2008 8:00P
Creation Tour @ Charleston Municipal Auditorium Charleston, West Virginia
Oct 11 2008 8:00P
Creation Tour Cullman, Alabama
Oct 12 2008 8:00P
Creation Tour Ozark, Alabama
Oct 14 2008 5:00P
Creation Tour Louiville, Kentucky
Oct 16 2008 8:00P
Creation Tour Kalamazoo, Michigan
Oct 17 2008 8:00P
Creation Tour Hoffman Estates, Illinois
Oct 18 2008 8:00P
Creation Tour Green Bay, Wisconsin
Oct 19 2008 8:00P
Creation Tour Spencer, Iowa
Oct 20 2008 8:00P
Creation Tour Rochester, Minnesota
Oct 22 2008 8:00P
Creation Tour Duluth, Minnesota
Oct 23 2008 8:00P
Creation Tour Minneapolis, Minnesota
Oct 24 2008 8:00P
Creation Tour Fargo, North Dakota
Oct 25 2008 8:00P
Creation Tour Des Moines, Iowa
Oct 26 2008 8:00P
Creation Tour Bloomington, Illinois
Oct 27 2008 8:00P
Creation Tour Toledo, Ohio
Oct 28 2008 8:00P
Creation Tour Flint/Saginaw, Michigan
Oct 30 2008 8:00P
Creation Tour Grove City, Ohio
Oct 31 2008 8:00P
Creation Tour Rochester, New York
Nov 1 2008 8:00P
Creation Tour Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Nov 2 2008 8:00P
Creation Tour Elmira, New York
Nov 3 2008 8:00P
Youth Specialties Portland, Maine
Nov 4 2008 8:00P
Creation Tour New York, New York
Nov 6 2008 8:00P
Creation Tour Fayeteville, North Carolina
Nov 7 2008 8:00P
Creation Tour Knoxville, Tennessee
Nov 8 2008 8:00P
Creation Tour Chatanooga, Tennessee
Nov 9 2008 8:00P
Creation Tour Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Nov 11 2008 8:00P
Creation Tour Little Rock, Arkansas
Nov 13 2008 8:00P
Creation Tour McAlester, Oklahoma
Nov 15 2008 8:00P
Creation Tour Alburquerque, New Mexico
Nov 16 2008 8:00P
Creation Tour Denver, Colorado
Nov 17 2008 8:00P
Creation Tour Concil Bluffs, Iowa
Nov 21 2008 8:00P
Creation Tour Austin, Texas
Nov 22 2008 8:00P
Creation Tour Corpus Christi, Texas
Nov 23 2008 8:00P
Creation Tour Tyler, Texas
May 22 2009 6:00P
The Embassy Oshawa, Ontario
Jun 18 2009 1:00P
Southern Hills Marriott Tulsa, Oklahoma
Jul 28 2009 7:00P
YMCA of the Rockeis – Student Life Camp Estees Park, Colorado
Jul 29 2009 7:00P
YMCA of the Rockeis – Student Life Camp Estees Park, Colorado
Jul 30 2009 7:00P
YMCA of the Rockeis – Student Life Camp Estees Park, Colorado
Jul 31 2009 7:00P
YMCA of the Rockeis – Student Life Camp Estees Park, Colorado
Jul 31 2009 7:00P
YMCA of the Rockeis – Student Life Camp Estees Park, Colorado
Nov 13 2009 7:00P
Phoenix First Assembly of God – AG District Convention Phoenix, Arizona
Nov 14 2009 12:00P
Phoenix First Assembly of God – AG District Convention Phoenix, Arizona
About Twilight Dementia
Atmospheric, indulgent rock that fuses sounds reminiscent of ’70s rock with ethereal audioscapes …
Twilight Dementia’s music is a testament to the strength of partnership and that the whole is often much more than the sum of its parts. Their debut, self-titled album, Twilight Dementia, is a bold and daring statement of purpose that demonstrates the group’s unwillingness to play anyone’s game other than their own. The Washington D.C. based duo’s engrossingly atmospheric and ethereal rock is the product of a duo that seemed destined to find each other.
Formed in 2006, Twilight Dementia is comprised of Jennifer Mendiola on vocals and John Krauss on guitars, bass, keyboards and programming. “When we first met at the studio, we hit it off immediately,” recalls Jennifer. “Although our musical influences were not identical, our philosophy of music was the same.” Those wide-ranging influences include Lunascape, Evanescence, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Portishead, and Pink Floyd, among others. Jennifer adds, “Besides, when I first heard John play guitar, I remember thinking, I need to be in a band with this guy.” Conversely, John also relates that after working on their first song together, and hearing Jennifer’s vocal approach, he too, knew he wanted to keep writing songs with her. Seeing the possibilities in the immediacy of their chemistry, the two began meeting several times a week to write and experiment, always at twilight. Thus, Twilight Dementia was born.
From their initial songwriting session, both Jennifer and John spoke of the magic that was present. Says John, “While writing our first song, Twelve Oceans, we realized we had stumbled upon something special. When you are writing songs with someone it can either be a labor of love, or just be functional – this immediately felt like the former.” Twelve Oceans, a lush and dreamy soundscape, is fueled by John’s sensual, swirling guitars, and Jennifer’s lilting, siren-like vocals. The combined elements help to lure the listener into an almost-melancholic state of tranquility. The chemistry felt by the duo on this first song, would set the tone, but not a template, for the songs which followed.
John sums up recording thusly, “Making the album took about a year. We met several times a week to do it. We were consciously making sure that we never made the same song twice, and that we were not chasing trends – we were setting out to make an album that would be both original and interesting, while reaching as many people as possible.” Jennifer adds, “Every piece of music that John composes, speaks to me immediately, so I never have difficulty finding the words and the melodies.”
Twilight Dementia is an audacious debut that backs up the claims of its makers. Besides Twelve Oceans, another noteworthy track on the album is Lullaby, a song which deals with denial, and explores the thin line between sanity and insanity. Jennifer adds, “The song is about a woman who has recently suffered a miscarriage, yet refuses to accept that reality, and creates her own. In her delusion, she believes her baby is only asleep, and eerily finds comfort in her mistaken reality.”
The album also features many other eclectic sound experiments, including Deliverance, Midnight Charade, and Aftermath. The closing track, Matter of Time, with its sinister piano and mangled guitars, along with Jennifer’s eerie vocals, conjures a psychotic world of unrelenting, yet alluring gloominess. The song juxtaposes beauty with madness, as it descends into its final discordant strains.
But perhaps, the riskiest moments in the album are the duo’s renditions of the Rolling Stones’ Gimme Shelter, and Bob Dylan’s A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall. John explains, “I’m a huge Stones fan, and Gimme Shelter really resonated with me while making this album. I wanted to give the song an apocalyptic treatment, as if it were a soundtrack to George Orwell’s ‘1984’, a favorite novel of mine. Given the times we’re living in, I thought it would be appropriate now, more than ever.” And Dylan? “While recording the basic tracks for what would become Twelve Oceans,” John recalls, “I was listening to The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan and A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall, which had the line, ‘I’ve been out in front of a dozen dead oceans.’ Meanwhile, Jennifer (who had never heard ‘Hard Rain’) told me that she wanted to title our song Twelve Oceans. It was one of those crazy coincidences that have been a regular part of our partnership and I knew then and there, we had to cover the Dylan classic.”
Currently, John and Jennifer are performing a series of shows that they refer to as their “half-plugged” sets, which feature vocals and electric guitar only. Jennifer adds, “We definitely will have a full electric band in the near future, but right now this ‘half-plugged’ approach allows us to present a more intimate side of the record.” Meanwhile, they’re also in the studio working on tracks for the follow-up album, as well as adding the final touches to their short film, Obsession. The film features the song Obsession, which did not appear on the first album.
With one supremely ambitious and successful album behind them, Twilight Dementia sees a future of limitless possibilities ahead. John concludes, “We’ve found and created the ideal partnership. We’re not exactly typical pop fare. But for music fans who really want something compelling and original, I think they will find it with us.”
All songs written and published by Jennifer Mendiola and John Krauss, except “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” (Dylan/Special Rider Music) and “Gimme Shelter” (Jagger/Richards/ABKCO Music Inc).
Produced by John Krauss
The Heys
Born from a love of The Kinks, the Stones, The Who and The Jam, this British 4-piece wear their influences on their sleeves; Mod, Motown, Northern Soul, Rhythm & Blues, Punk attitude. The Heys have everything that a great guitar-pop band should have, three minutes of fuzzy major chords, full, rich bass, shouty, ominpresent backing vocals and an impossibly addictive chorus.
Singer songwriter Tom feeds off the tradition and passion of British 60’s beat music and combines it with incisive comment on modern life. Their debut album Young, Bored & Broke screams the frustrations and the simple joys of living day-to-day, hand to mouth. Bad jobs-good friends. A working-class band through and through.
The self-produced album was recorded underground in their basement studio in the UK. “This way it’s all about the music” says Tom. “We wanted an honest direct sound and we wanted to be in control so we did it ourselves”. The first Radio 1 play by Alan McGee came after he received the demo from a kid in Reading. Winning XFM unsigned led to a headline appearance at the Budrising festival at The Waterats in London. June 07 saw the white label promo release of Pressure, through promotions company Upshot on 7″ green vinyl to massive DJ acclaim. Comparisons have been made with Elvis Costello, Ray Davis, The Who and The Enemy.
Blacktop Harrison
Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Aug 23 2008 8:00P
The Railway Ipswich, Suffolk, London and South East
Aug 29 2008 8:00P
The Twist Colchester, London and South East
Sep 18 2008 8:00P
The Marquee Norwich Norfolk
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