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In Error 404 with Pro-Drums


Poets of the Fall - Lift

website: http://www.poetsofthefall.com
Preview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZErM7vAU2KY

Poets of the Fall (POTF) are an independent rock band from Helsinki consisting of Marko Saaresto (lead vocals), Olli Tukiainen (lead guitar) and Markus "Captain" Kaarlonen (keyboards, production). On tour they are supported by Jani Snellman (bass guitar), Jaska Mäkinen (rhythm guitar, backing vocals) and Jari Salminen (drums, percussion).


Among others, Poets of the Fall has received the following awards:


Best Finnish Act at MTV Europe Music Awards 2006
Best Finnish Music Video of all time in TV2's Musiikki-TV and Best Music Video of 2006 at The Voice (video Carnival of Rust)
Two Emma Awards (the Finnish Grammys) in 2005 - the best debut album and the best new act
The Bronze Muuvi and People's Choice Muuvi 2006 Awards (video Carnival of Rust)
Best Finnish band at the NRJ Radio Awards 2006
Commercial Radio Stations' Newcomer of the Year Award in 2005

[SeymourDuncan17]

Is that what the guitar chart will look like when it's purchased? That main riff looks like it could use a teency bit more work.

[ASPRon]

Version 1 Preview.

[ASPRon]

New artist we are super stoked about here at ASP that we will be bringing to the game.

Snovonne

Its Sno Baby not Sugar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IwTZGfNttk

|Snovonne|
Singer and songwriter living by turns in London, USA and Slovakia, currently residing in Hannover, Germany. She represents the temperament and unpredictability of Kate Bush, orchestral and theatrical monumentality of Meat Loaf and the playful bitterness of language used by Marilyn Manson.

|Snovonne’s Music|
A brave mix of temper and heavy riffs with fragile and heart-breaking melodies. Pure elegance in all the dark shades full of expression and emotion. Every word she writes and each note she sings is lived through to the bone. This authenticity makes the Sno-fans personally relate to her – they even translate the lyrics into different languages and present them on their profiles as something that defines their personality.
Rock and metal is where Sno feels at home but she usually mixes in elements from different genres. As she says: “it’s depending on what the song needs”.

|It’s Sno, Baby - Not Sugar|
Was recorded by Sno at her home studio in London. She spent the last days of 2009 in Hannover, Germany with Jan Nemec (Magic Minds Music, worked with Celtic Frost, Grave Digger, Kreyson) producing the album, mixing and mastering

[ASPRon]

Some more songs out from ASPro!

Deadlock - The Brave/Agony Applause Double Bass version.

Deadlock is a German melodic death metal band from Schwarzenfeld, Bavaria, Germany.



Nova - California

Website - http://www.thelastnova.com/NOVA_OFFI...d_website.html

Preview - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfVK1Dnhoeg

The sound of NOVA is exactly as you would imagine from the name. Big, bright and powerful. Its a heavy, anthemic, atmospheric and ever-shifting juggernaut that draws on the best of classic and contemporary hard rock, bringing to mind such touchstone bands as Soundgarden, Deftones and U2. Essentially it is a sound that can knock you off your feet one minute, then pick you up and soothe you the next.

Technically in existence since 2005, NOVA took shape when Rob Bujak, living on the east coast, got his hands on some demos front man Gabriel McGahee had been working on. “After I heard the songs I called Gabriel right away, and literally the next day, I shipped my drums out to California, bought a one-way ticket and joined the project.”

The line up soon rounded out with guitarists Aaron Goforth and Nick Young, and bassist Scott Proctor. Though the other members were separately involved with a variety of Bay Area-based rock projects, they realized quickly that none of these other bands matched the chemistry and intensity NOVA was achieving. The guys soon decided to drop what they were doing individually and make NOVA the top priority.

An early gig at the House of Blues in Los Angeles immediately grabbed the interest of major labels, including Universal Records. Encouraged by this early buzz, NOVA took their songs into Sonic Room Studios with prolific producer Tim Narducci, resulting in their debut album Nepenthe.


Relapse Records debut from


Cephalic Carnage - Abraxas of Filth


Cephalic Carnage is an American grindcore band formed in 1992 in Denver, Colorado. The band comprises vocalist Lenzig Leal, guitarists Steve Goldberg and Brian Hopp, drummer John Merryman and bassist Nick Schendzielos. Cephalic Carnage has released six studio albums and toured in North America, Europe and Japan.

Cephalic Carnage plays a technically proficient deathgrind style, experiments with other genres and incorporates songs of joke nature into their albums, such as parodies of black metal or metalcore. They refer themselves as "rocky mountain hydro grind".

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New Act we will be bringing to the Network!


Some Groove Metal from Brazil !


Eminence


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLvw-MB8sWA


Since they were founded in Belo Horizonte/Brazil by the guitarist Alan Wallace in January 1995, the members of Eminence have been riding high in the local Underground scene.

Through a large national following as well as their overseas fanbase, Eminence were asked to participate in the top countrywide music contest, SKOL ROCK. Representatives from major labels and other music media outlets including MTV, Warner Music and many more voted the band winners in the state competition and third overall in the national event. This was a major achievement for a Heavy Metal band facing competition from the more mainstream genre’s such as Pop, Blues and Rock ’n’ Roll that always get the major attention from the mass media in Brazil.

Working on independent production and promotion the band toured Holland and Belgium between September and December of ’98 getting a lot of very positive reviews for their performances.

On their return to Brazil they completed the album Chaotic System which was released and distributed independently.

Playing festivals and supporting overseas bands they were starting to see all the hard promotion work pay off. They were beginning to get noticed on the international stage and a license agreement with Diamond Records to distribute Chaotic System in more than 15 European countries was soon to follow.

In 2004 the band signed a Deal with Timeless Production from Switzerland to release the Album Humanology produced by Neil Kernon( Cannibal Corpse, Nevermore, Judas Priest). The band line up and performances have drawn the positive attention of audiences as well as the media in all the countries they have played.

The new album The God of all Mistakes( 2008) is produced by Tue Madsen (Halford, Mnemic, Dark Tranquility)

[LiveHomeVideo]

Hey, any news on "Nemesis" by Arch Enemy? That and "Black Widow" are the reasons I want GH:WoR, and with this being added I'll be saving a few bucks.

[ASPRon]

It will be after RBN 2 but it is on its way!

[ASPRon]

Dying Fetus(plus a Double Bass) , We are the Illusion(Double Bass), Dirge Within (Double Bass) and Kataklysm - At the Edge of the World Double Bass are all out enjoy!

[ASPRon]

Preview

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqX2raAJQZk