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The Prophecy Artist & Bookings Agency
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Bio Bands 1 The bands from The Prophecy Agency from B -I
Archaic Averno Archaic Averno's music is firmly rooted in the old school thrash death-metal. However, the band is not afraid to add different styles and influences into their music. Archaic Averno do make use of different “gears”. An astonishing sense for catchy and melodic songs is a trademark of Archaic Averno's music. Twin guitar melodies, unexpected breaks and technical hooks, however, do not serve as a cover up for lack of inspiration, but are used as a tool to make songs more interesting and stronger. Add abundant variation in vocal styles and lyrics for a complete picture. Combined, this makes the distinctive and intense kind of monster metal Archaic Averno plays.
History
August 2007 marks the birth of a new band. Archaic Averno might be a relative new name in the world of metal, most of the band members themselves have been around for a long time in the scene. With (ex)members from Iscariot, Inquisition, Am Tuat, Graven Image, Victimizer, Goden and Fuelblooded; who shared stages with The Defaced, Darkane, Arch Enemy, The Haunted, Within Temptation, After Forever, Destruction and Entombed, this band brings experience from an unknown value to the existing metal scene.
Performance
Having Archaic Averno live on your stage means a real professional show. Head banging guitarists with flashing solo's, a real frontman who claims the stage and interacts with the audience... An outstanding drummer who keeps the rhythm tightly together and a steady, beautiful female bass-guitarist, a lust for the eye !! This band also stands for a guaranteed monster sound, by using their own sound engineer. Archaic Averno is definitely a must to see, for all melodic death-/thrash fans.
Members
The Archaic Averno line-up is currently as follows:
Vital Welten - Vocals
Future
A late summer 2009 release is expected for the upcoming promo-Cd “One Hell Of A Monster” . In anticipation of the release, the band will hit the stage as much as possible to convince everyone of the power of Archaic Averno.
Prepare yourself for one hell of a monster ride !!! www.myspace.com/archaic-averno
Braincasket Braincasket is a deathmetal band from the Netherlands, formerly known as Temple Of Eternity (1998-2005). Since 2006, the name Braincasket was chosen because the name Temple Of Eternity sounds too much Gothic while the music sounds more and more brutal. www.braincasket.nl
Chainsaw Chainsaw was formed in the summer of 1996. Numerous disasters plagued the band in the beginning: a schizophrenic drummer who suddenly disappeared, electrocution of the former bass- player who was in a car crash the same day, smashed hands, near fatal diseases and more of these delightful misadventures. In 2008 Chainsaw signed with the Dutch metal label Meat Rackords and in 2009 they unleashed their brand new album Metal Missionary.
www.myspace.com/chainsawhellyeah
Dutch metal band CiLiCe has been formed by members of well known bands N3UK!, ORPANAGE and SMOGUS after these bands split up. The combination of both experienced and very driven musicians with different backgrounds in heavy music has already made many people requesting for the debut album, which is already finished and waiting for its release.The release date only depends on negotiations with several record labels. As from April 2007 the band has started to play in Holland and abroad with a total of about 60 shows. Highlights have been tours that brought them to Germany,England,Switzerland and Brazil. In May 2008 the band will tour through Europe with the Brazilian band ' Torture Squad', furthermore a tour with the British band ' Tesseract ' is planned and later this year, according to plan, they will be facing Canada. line-up: vocals: Daniel de Jongh drums: Philipp Moser
Crimson Falls (BE) The oldest traces of the Crimson Falls date back to 2002 when the band was originally formed by Kristof (guitars), Ringo (guitars) & Sigi (drums). The line-up was completed in spring 2004 when Wim (vocals) joined the band. Together with original bass player Maarten this line-up started playing shows in August 2004. Crimson Falls released its debut mcd 'Ruins 2K5' in May 2005. This first effort put the band on the map in the metal & hardcore scene and got praised by an impressive series of national and international reviews. The release was followed by a huge amount of shows. Meanwhile the band got ready for the recordings of their first full-length label release.
"Metal should be about aggression, a torrential influx of naked hate, not about love, hippieshit and all current popculture crap.” Following the release of “Darkday Carnival”, Cypher played a multitude of shows, both at home and abroad, supporting acts like Marduk, Gorefest, Sinister, Unleashed, Sodom, Severe Torture, Death Angel and Leng T’Che to name but a few. Joost van der Graaf (bass, ex-Creepmime) is added to the ranks in 2007 and in december of the same year drummer Frank and the band part ways. Koen Herfst (Baggabownz, ex-Epica, ex-After Forever) quickly stepped in, making Cypher’s current live performance unmatched in their career, bringing crowd crippling aggression, brutality and fury to the stage.
In 1994 five guys got together to play some tunes in the drummers basement and soon Rimmshot was born.Starting out with some own written material and some metal/hardcore covers they started doing some shows in Holland.Not so long after they developed their own distinguished sound. Due to their gigs the band got picked up by Theo Coumans ( The Noizz & Gangstyle records). He made sure their first demo was recorded in 1996 called "Get Out Of My Way".After selling quite a few of these ripping demo's Theo thought it was time to record their debute CD in 1997 called " Denial Of Truth".Throughout the years Rimmshot wrecked some stages with bands like Blood For Blood, Cold As Life, 25 Tha Life, Biohazard, Crowbar, All Out Of War, Kickback, Warzone, Tech 9, Discipline, Right Direction, Backfire and more,the band got an offer from the belgian " I Scream Records" to record 5 songs for a compilation CD with five other bands in 1999.It was called " The New League Of Hardcore Volume 1".A few thousand copies were sold in Europe and a tour through Holland, Belgium and a small part of Germany was done together with Born From Pain (NL) and Cold As Life (USA). In 2000 it got a bit quiet around the band due to the lead guitarist/vocalist Ramon's work abroad.After coming back in 2002 the band picked up their gear again to start working on new material.After being away for 2 years the band realized it was hard to gain the trust of their fans again.But not wanting to give up on music they rehearsed like hell and played gigs where ever possible to let themselves be heard. Not being under Theo's management anymore they decided to record the next album self financed.This album was called "The Darkness In Me" and was released in 2003.The band got positive reactions on the album from everywhere.The musical style has always been leaning more towards metal then hardcore,but on this album you could hear the mature growth of the band throughout the years.Sounding more technical and groovier then ever.Because Rimmshot always played with hardcore bands they were 'pushed' into a hardcore cubicle.It was hard for the band to get gigs with other metal bands. Seen this last fact Ramon thought it was time for a new name for the band in 2005.A name that would be compatible with hardcore,metal and even death metal.A name so easy to remember.This name would be : DEATHFALL. 2006 was the year Deathfall signed a record deal with Burning Stars Records from Greece.The crown on their work so far is baptized in blood called "Reborn" and will be officialy released in 2007. Because Roel (drummer) is on tour with Born from Pain,Deathfall found trust in the mighty fast blasts of Sylvy Notermans.She is the helping hand when Roel is gone. So still alive and breathing DEATHFALL hopes they can bring the hardcore and the metal crowd closer together and to spread their music around the world. So keep your eyes and ears open for the offical release!
With the oncoming release of the album " Domain ", Devious proves itself to be a first class act in the extreme metal genre. On this album Devious combines modern death metal with its original trash roots in a unique way, with an emphasis on groove and variation. After its establishment in 2000 by Frank ( drums) and Guido ( guitar),the band gave a lot of crushing performances in The Netherlands and beyond. March 2006, Devious did a European tour with the Brazilian death metal pioneers Krisiun. Devious' first full-length album " Acts Of Rage" was released on July 7th 2003 by Spitzenburg records." Acts Of Rage" recieved praising reviews and was recieved well by press and public. Devious recently recorded its second album " Domain".This new masterpiece will not only feature 11 brutal tracks of grooving terror, but also a music video for the track " Room 302". " Domain " will be released on February 1st 2007 through Deity Down Records. line-up: Frank- drums Guido- guitar Arnold- vocals Wouter- guitar Sven- bass guitar EP Devious Self Published 2002 CD Acts Of Rage Spitzenburg records 2003 CD Domain Deity Down Records Feb 1st 2007
Engine Of Pain ENGINE OF PAIN is a metal band from the South of the Netherlands. The band is founded in May 2003 by Maurice Brouwers and Patrick Waltmans. Few weeks later Patrick and Maurice decided to ask the best Dutch grunter Nick Hameury (ex-Form), to join the new band. The foundation was established... Several months after Engine of Pain was founded, Nick encountered Ruud Bänziger (ex-Defcon One). Ruud was the right person to complete the band and his inventive soloing and riffs pulled the band up to a higher level. Their great debut album, called I Am Your Enemy, is released worldwide by Finnish label Lion Music Ltd on 26th of January 2007 and still gets raving reviews. Beginning of December 2006 the band enlisted guitarist Bastiaan Kuiper (Stormrider) who replaced Ruud Bänziger. Due to his immigration to Spain, vocalist Nick Hameury left the band in July 2007. As of August 2007, Rogier Stockbroecks a.k.a. Stocky reinforced Engine of Pain. Stocky’s previous band Powervice released a demo “Behold the hand of Glory” what was demo of the month in Rock Hard Germany nr. 224. Nowadays, the style of music could be defined as a perfect mixture between modern heavy metal, pounding thrash metal and a powerful sauce of catchy melodic metal vocals. ENGINE OF PAIN line-up
Stocky – vocals www.engineofpain.com
Escadron The story of Escadron started in the summer of 2003, when drummer Adriaan and guitarplayer Wouter started another project together again.After a few months,singer Jasper and bass player Ype were added to the project,which quickly grew into a real band.After six months,the band chose to label themselves ' Escadron '. Not long after that, Anibal hooked up with the band to be the second guitarist.Speaking of today, the sound of Escadron is mainly based on modern, fast and technical trash metal.Furthermore,you can expect some death metal riffs,blastbeats and very melodic parts, all in dedication to the power of the riff and the song.Good references are bands like Hatesphere, At The Gates, Municipal Waste, Defleshed and Death. The first Escadron-demo was released in 2005.The metal press reactions on this release were quite overwhelming,and after the release the band played a lot of shows.In January 2006, Escadron won the InHolland Popprijs at the legandery venue Melkweg,Amsterdam.This victory was followed by interviews and articles in different newspapers. Together with the new guitarplayer Mendel, Escadron continues playing shows and finishing their first album.The band has already shared bills with trash metal acts like Hatesphere, Municipal Waste, Onslaught,Sadus,Darkane,and Toxic Holocaust.The band also played on death metal shows with bands as Deicide,Severe Torture,Visceral Bleeding and Gorefest and even appeared in front of a hardcore crowd with Madball,Sworn Enemy,No Turning Back and Rise & Fall. In the first months of 2008, Escadron recorded their first album,entitled ' Tide of the Fallen ',which will be released June 6, 2008 !
FENRIS Originally formed in 1997, Fenris has a 10 year history of combining thunderous viking metal with scorching black metal. At times blindingly fast, sometimes atmospheric, but always melodic and dynamic. With strong roots in Nordic mythology, and some of the lyrics in their mother tongue, the mood set is that of ancient peoples, their hopes and beliefs and their wars and hardships. To date, two albums have been released: 'Offerings to the Hunger' (2001) and 'Ordeal' (2005), the last of which was an unsigned release. Fenris is currently looking to sign with a record label. Fenris was founded in the first winter of 1997 by Bas Westdorp and Vasco. Shortly after that, Gilbert de Rooy joined the guys as a lead-singer. The band's main objective was to make dark and atmospherical black/viking metal with a deep musical approach. In May 1997 Paul van der Zouwen took his place on the drum seat and for the first time, the four guys formed a steady and complete band. Musically, Fenris combines originality, aggression and power to create a broad black-metal repertoire. The lyrics are, among other topics, about pre-Christian beliefs, spirituality, human suffering and a sense of connection with nature and the elements. The lyrics form an important aspect within the creative cycle of the band. For its stronger cultural effect, some of the lyrics are sung in Dutch, the band's native language. Late '97 the band recorded their first demo tape, 'Words of the Ascended'. The tape was received well by various metal zines such as Aardschok Metal Magazine that heard much potential in the music and held big expectations for the future. In November 1998 the band engaged keyboard player Walter Romberg, giving the sound of Fenris an even deeper and melodic effect. Despite a period of successful gigging, drummer Paul left the band in May 1999. Shortly after that the guys found a talented new drummer, Arjan Griffioen, who previously played in the death-metal band Concrete Earth. Thanks to Arjan's ferocious and attacking drum style and the maturing process of the band in general, Fenris started to work on a more aggressive repertoire with an even higher musical quality. Over the next two years, this new repertoire formed the basis for their debut CD. Early 2001 their full-length debut album 'Offerings To The Hunger' saw the break of dawn. The small record label Teutonic Existence / Firebreath signed the guys due to the grown popularity of Fenris in the extreme-metal underground scene. In Russia and eastern Europe 'Offerings...' is distributed by CD-Maximum. As with 'Words Of The Ascended', 'Offerings To The Hunger' was reviewed very well by metal press all over the world. A period of successful gigs soon followed the release of 'Offerings...'. However, the gods put the band's existence to the test during the year 2002. Various problems caused the departure of drummer Arjan and keyboard player Walter. The rest decided to move on however and started looking for a new drummer. After a 7 months breakdown they finally found one in Rick Lieffering, a young and talented percussionist from their local area. Together with Rick, the remaining members of Fenris feverishly started working on new material to form the next chapter in the creative history of the band. Problems with rehearsal rooms, a wrist injury of Rick and a lack of proper gigs put Fenris to the test however. This slowed the writing of new material. In november 2004 the band finally went into the studio to record their new album, 'Ordeal', wich was released a couple of months later. The music on the album is dark, epic and aggressive and forms Fenris' most creative work of art to date. Then, after 9 years of loyal service, Vasco decided to leave the band. Fortunately, quickly a new bass player was found in Joris van den Heuvel, who was again replaced by Brian. For the first time since its inception, Fenris now has 2 guitar players. With Jan-Willem as a 2nd guitarist the live sound gained a lot of gut. Fenris is: www.fenris.nl can also be booked in The Trinity Of Death-package with Ceremony Of Opposites & Persistense
Heavy Lord Heavy Lord is a loud Doom/Sludge band from HELLevoetsluis Holland.Driven by the endless power of the RIFF and influenced by bands like Black Sabbath, Eyehategod, Crowbar, Electric wizard, Goatsnake and many more we came together to create some of the most heavy, insane and intense music we could possibly come up with. So far we managed to create 3 albums namely "The holy grail", "From cosmos to chaos" and our latest effort "Chained to the world". We like to tear shit up live playing as intense as we can to make it worthwile everytime we play...Dooom!. Second album – From Cosmos to Chaos has been released by Solitude Productions and pressed in amount of 1000 copies. Chained to the World has also been released by Solitude Productions in amount of 3000 copies.
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