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The Prophecy Artist & Bookings Agency
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Bio Bands 2 The bands from The Prophecy Agency from H -T
Houwitser, the well-known dutch death-metal horde, is back on track! Original members Michel (guitars) and Stan (vocals), joined forces with Ramon (bass), Richard (guitars) and Marco (drums; ex-Altar/ex-Ordo Draconis). The music of Houwitser is still a combination of thrash, grind and death metal. Absolutely no trendy shit here, just brutal, aggressive and fast music. Ready to blow your ears off! Houwitser originally started in 1997. Michel (ex-Sinister) and Aad (Sinister) first wrote a bunch of songs together, before completing the line-up with singer Mike (ex~Sinister) and bass-player Theo (Hail of Bullets). After a couple of rehearsal sessions with the complete line-up they decided to record some promo songs. Houwitser recorded 6 songs on only 4 tracks in one night. The debut CD 'Death but not buried' was released by Displeased Records in the spring of 1999 and got great reviews and good sales till now. After some extensive touring through the Benelux, Houwitser parted with their singer Mike and found an excellent replacement in Arjaan "Djortz" Kampman. Soon they recorded the second album "Embrace Damnation" and did even more gigs in the Benelux and Germany. Then Arjaan decided to leave the band, but again Houwitser found another great singer in Stan Blonk. Houwitser entered the famous Excess Studio’s in Rotterdam in the summer of 2001 to record the third album "Rage inside the womb". The album also got terrific reviews in magazines worldwide and Houwitser toured through the entire European continent during the summer of 2002. In 2004, after the release of Houwitsers last cd "Damage assessement" the band split up. Displeased Records re-released the debut album "Death but not buried" with 7 bonus tracks and new artwork. But the split up left a bad vibe with Michel and Stan. They decided Houwitser had to rise up from the ashes. Soon they found a second guitarist, Richard Gielen. Unfortunately Theo (Hail of Bullets) didn't have the time to join Houwitser again but another bassplayer was found quickly in Ramon Ploeg. The difficult part was finding the right drummer, but they did find the perfect Houwitser drummer, Marco de Groot, who played in other well-known Dutch metalbands like Altar, Ordo Draconis and Blind Justice. Now, in 2009, Houwitser is back with their new promo-cd ‘Sledgehammer Redemption’. The mighty Terror Legion is back to strike again! They march the stages again to ripp off your ears with their thundering deathmetal. So watch out for Houwitser! The Terror Legion is heavier and more brutal than ever! Stay tuned for the Trip of Fire!
I Chaos I CHAOS is a new deathmetal band from the Netherlands, featuring (ex-)members of Creepmime, Epica, Blo.torch and Cypher. www.myspace.com/ichaoscommunity
KhaoZ The uprising of KhaoZ started at the end of 2008.Members from several bands joined forces and went back to the roots of Death Metal. On their path to reach the essence they picked up some other victims from the Dutch underground scene.At the beginning of 2009 the band crawled through the archives of old school Death Metal and within a month they wrote 5 songs for their upcoming mcd ....Shattered Light Insanity.... Musickly they all grew up in a time where bands like Bolt Thrower, Entombed, Death, Morbid Angel etc. reigned the upcoming Death Metal scene. So the songs, written in the veign of those masters, have the original vibe of the 90..s but the band didn..t forget to translate them to the nowadays standard.Playing in bands like Houwitser, Pleurisy, The Embodiment, Sinister and Dead Head the members of KhaoZ know how to reach their goal.At this very moment the band started the recordings at the Drum Time and Wings of Death studio..s. For the mixing and mastering KhaoZ decided to choose Harris Johns ( Kreator, Pestilence, Immolation etc.).Their first video clip will be made for the song ....Only to the Worm.... and will be produced by Funeral Productions. Xtreme Old School Metal to the Max! Line up:
Kudra Mata “The songs pound merciless and deafening like there’s no tomorrow.” The long-awaited new release is here..."Legacy Of Persistence" Kudra Mata is rising fast. After forming a solid line-up in early 2006 and releasing a strong-as-iron 3 track CD “This Is My Pledge” that same year the time had come to blow away the scene in Holland. And successfully so! The band played numerous shows throughout the country with tours like “Het Noorden Is Gestoord” and “Spit Your Rage”, opened for bands such as Walls Of Jericho, Caliban, Born From Pain and Sworn Enemy, was nominated for the SENA PopNL Award in 2008 and rocked the ‘Melkweg’ in Amsterdam to it’s core. Also that year at the bevrijdingsfestival (“Freedom-Festival”) in Zwolle one could witness this well oiled metal machine and Germany and Poland got to suffer the ferocity of their raw and brutal music as well. All this resulting in gaining a household name in the The Netherlands, a fast growing fanbase and their notorious live reputation With the new record on hand, which was mixed by Michiel Toenink (Sick Of It All, Napalm Death) and mastered by Göran Finnberg (In Flames, The Haunted), this energetic foursome proves they definitely established themselves within the top of the Dutch metal scene. Keeping the band's ambitions in mind, Europe can ready itself for Dutch Premium Metal, right in your face! Nothing more, but they certainly won’t do it for less. Period Kudra Mata played with :
Mortal Form Mortal Form is melodic thrash death five piece from Holland. Since 1999 Mortal Form released two demo`s (“Xplore” & “The End of Times”) and once recorded 10 songs for their debut “Evil Reborn” which was due to come out somewehere around 2003/2004. The only thing that actually came out was a 3-track promo for "Evil Reborn". Due to several line up changes, and the fact that songwriting deliverd Mortal Form better songs and a more authentic sound, Mortal Form decided not to release "Evil Reborn". Mortal Form continued the songwriting and took some time to search for a good and steady line up. After having found a renewed synthesis between the band members and completed writing 10 great melodic thrash death songs it was time for Mortal Form to hit the studio. Now it`s actually 2008 and the result of their hard work lies in front of you! FACTS: 2005: Bass player Oscar and vocalist Rogier joined the band and Mortal Form started on studying songs with the new recruits. Mortal Form also spent time on writing new material. We also played a few live gigs at the end of 2005. 2006: This was a busy year for Mortal Form. They played a lot of shows this year. Mortal Form also spent lots of time in making the new songs better, more intense and fucking thrashy of course. Mortal Form started noticing that songwrtiting works best if they work on the songs as a band. Amazing things have evolved in the rehearsel room. 2007: Mortal Form worked their asses of to get 10 songs good enough for a new album. We decided to record them. But only under our circumstances. This ment two different studio`s, two different locations and two different producers and engineers. We recorded the drums for “Taste the Blood” at the Marmer Studio`s @ Didam (hol) engineerd by Martin Memelink. The guitars and the bass were recorded at the Snowstar Studio`s @ Panningen (Hol) produced by Nico van Montfoort (XPZ Sound, known from Tenement Kids, Antillectual and many others). The vocals also were recoreded ath the Marmer Studio`s. Mixing and mastering was done by Nico van Montfoort again. 2008: MORTAL FORM IS SEARCHING FOR A RECORD LABEL!!
In the past ten years of MORTAL FORM`s excistence the band has played truck loads of gigs in and outside of Holland with bands as Warhammer, Pentcale, Callenish Circle (RIP), Pungent Stench (RIP), Detonation, Tankard, Guerilla, Jack Slater and many many others. www.myspace.com/whendeathmeetsthrash
DUTCH DEATH THRASHERS "Mental Surgery" leaves you feeling like you've been left in a concrete
Oceans Of Sadness (BE) Oceans of Sadness from Belgium, started back in 1995 and at first drew inspiration from bands such as Type O Negative, Amorphis and Paradise Lost. Within five months of starting the band the first demo "Forgotten Symphony I" got released and this tape immediately became the "demo of the month" in Aardschok – the professional music journal of the Netherlands. At the time, the main ambition was to create slow atmospheric and ultra deep songs – much like those of the bands that inspired Oceans of Sadness. But the songs already had a face of their own and a recognizable sound that you still can identify in the more recent works. In 1999 the young act surprised everyone by winning the Metal Bash Award – a talent competition for Belgian and Dutch bands, organized by Aardschok – which very much helped the band to a larger audience with performances on Dynamo Open Air, "Aardschokdag" and on Biebob Metalfest amongst others. Two years and some demo’s later Oceans Of Sadness signed a two-album-deal with Belgian LSP records and soon after that the debut album "For We Are" was released. Graspop Metal Meeting noticed the intense live presentation of the band, and invited Oceans Of Sadness for the first time on their esteemed festival. www.oceansofsadness.com
Pandemia (CZ) The band Pandemia originated from Czech Republic, playing since 1995. After recording a few demo casettes and playing plenty of gigs the band release first full length album „Spreading The Message“ by Lost Disciple Rec (U.S.A.) with worldwide distribution !Pandemia plays at Summer Clash tour all over Europe (France, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Poland, Belarus, Slovak Rep, Austria, Croatia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Spain) together with Vader, Vital Remains, Fleshcrawl and Rebaelliun. www.pandemia.cz
History Persistense, fusion of the words ‘to persist’ and ‘intense’ was founded in the year Stefan (vocals), Patrick (guitars), Conrad (guitars), Frank (bass) and Paul (drums) decided to start a band and write their own songs. Their music was firmly rooted in thrash metal with a lot of groove and later on they called it ‘swingthrash’. Working hard resulted in playing a lot of shows as well as the release of their first EP. Six explosive songs were the result with lots of positive reviews in the press. Due to continuing line-up struggles Persistense falls apart at the end of 2005. New beginning Determined to keep Persistense alive Stefan began his search for some new musicians. Almost two years and a lot of auditions and line-up changes later he finally brought together some musicians who share the same passion for making metal and willing to take Persistense to the next level. With the new line-up the musical direction changed from ‘swingthrash’ to a more powerful, dynamic and diverse kind of metal. Influences come from different styles of metal and one of the main goals is to see a song as a song; A decent structure, meaningful lyrics and most of all, a song has to be recognizable. With this in mind Persistense started writing new songs which resulted in the recording of the 2008 Promo. With the new promo Persistense is ready again to climb and wreck stages all over the Netherlands. Live In the past six years Stefan managed to arrange more than 50 gigs for Persistense. Persistense played with Devious, Dead by Dawn, Xystus, Demia and many others. Recently they played with Pleurisy, The Dying and Mythlorian. They also did a small tour together with Dimension Future Continuing playing live and writing new material Persistense is ready for the next step. With the new promo they’ll try to get some label interest for the recording of their first full length. Main goal however, is to keep the band together, play a lot of shows and have as much fun as in the past year. At this point, the future is looking bright for Persistense !!! Line-up: Stefan -vocals Ralf -guitar Jacques -guitar Mark -bass Bram -drums www.persistense.nl can also be booked in The Trinity Of Death-package with Ceremony Of Opposites & Fenris www.myspace.com/trinityofdeath
Seven Ends Seven Ends Presents: Leden: SEVEN ENDS WILL PLAY AT WACKEN OPEN AIR 2010
Supreme Pain Supreme Pain started in summer 2006 when Erwin, Aad ( vocalist of Sinister and Infinite Hate) and Robi ( from Slovenian deathmetallers Scaffold) joined forces to create death metal with the sick, fast blasting brutality of today combined with the old school feeling.After a couple of rehearsals we decided to record a promo CD titled LIFELESS SKIN AND BONES. This resulted in a deal with U.S Comatose Music owned by Steve Green ( Lust Of Decay and Atrocious Abnormality).Supreme Pain started to work on songs for the full length CD entitled CADAVER PLEASURES.During this we were joined by guitarist Bas Brussaard ( Fondlecorpse).It was the intention that he would only play a couple of solo's but it worked out so great that he became permanent member of the Supreme Pain family.The drums were recorded in Negligence Sound Studios in Slovenia and all guitars and vocals were recorded at the Garden Shed Of Horror Studio in The Netherlands.Mixing took place at the Excess Studio in The Netherlands and the mastering was done at Sound Lab Studios in the U.S.The result is crushing and mindblowing!!!! This death metal piece of brutality was released on 15th of April 2008.Pure brutal death metal sickness is unleashed.A few months after the release drummer Robert Kovacic was replaced by Toep Duin ( Putrefied,Blastcorps and many more),Robi did not commit himself to the supreme brutality so replacement was the only option.And Tadej Cholewa ( Scaffold) became the bass player. Recently Supreme Pain signed a contract with Metal Age Productions from Slovakia to release the second full length CD.We have just finished recordings at The Soundlodge Studio in Germany with producer Jorg Uken ( Sinister, Dew-Scented, God Dethroned) for the second full length CD : NEMESIS ENFORCER, Expect brutal sick blasting death metal with the old school groove!!!!
The Darkest Red The Darkest Red is a 5-piece metal band.Hailing from the South of The Netherlands, Europe.Combining heavy-metal with hardcore in the veins of Dead To Fall, Heaven Shall Burn, The Faceless, Darkest Hour & Parkway Drive. Check out the brand new song called " The Reaping", and come check The Darkest Red out somewhere !!! www.thedarkestred.nl
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