Thirteen Degrees To Chaos were formed in 2005, being some of the band members the remains from an early project. After a few line up changes, in 2006 the core of Thirteen Degrees To Chaos was formed, and subsequently their music style changed. In the beginning of 2007 they gave their first show and have been playing since then. They recorded their first Demo in the middle of 2008, which has already been released on-line.
Solid Spectrum, originally formed as a band of grunge in the middle 2007. Counted ed originally with Ricardo Silva (ex. Hellish) - Bass, João Ribeiro (Mordred Project, ex. Hellbolt,) and Jose Lima - Guitars, later Liliana - Drums. After some rehearsals playing covers, it was well-known that Grunge was not the intended one. Late of October the band was reborn. Ricardo Silva leads the drums and João Ribeiro changes from 6 to 4 strings. Roberto Pereira is then invited for being the soloist guitarman, getting since soon into the main composer of the band. Solid Spectrum changes now into a band of Thrash. November of the same year, with some written wook already, enters Márcio Pinto, becomes the vocalist and frontaman,. Emanuel Machado (ex-Hellish), that in a earlier time supported the band as producer, is choosed as backing vocals, but after two months of rehearsals the band unanimously decided that only a single vocalist would make sense for kind of music, therefore Márcio Pinto Became the only and lead singer. After months of work, at the 11th May 2008, The very first show was done at Junta de Freguesia de Tabuaças (Vieira do Minho), and it had a family enviornment. The 17th of the same month, happens the second and first gig with real show label, realized at Improviso Bar, in Espinho. More gigs were taking place, in particular Vieira Rock 08 phase levels, where they had gotten full house, with about 200 people, in a little place but with warm atmosphere, ending with very positive feedback from the crowd and other inner bands. Solid Spectrum had the chance to share stage with bands like Assassinner, Mind Effect, Shamans of Rock, Fairy Dreams, Studio Hunters among others. Currently they are recording their EP, with the producer Sergio Ferreira (Hunted Scriptum – Guitarist). The realease date is foreseen for early November.
BAND MEMBERS:
Marcio Pinto - Vocals Roberto Pereira - Guitar José Lima - Guitar João Ribeiro - Bass Ricardo Silva - Drums
Skypho is a Portuguese metal band which is mostly influenced by modern metal and tribal beats combining and mixing these styles in a unique and characteristic way.
Last year Skypho released a 5 tracks E.P., entitled “Nowhere Neverland”, recorded at IM Studios, in Oporto.
The band try to include in their music elements from different styles as the use of percussions suggests, but listening to the E.P. will definitely give you a much better overall idea of our sound.
Skypho as played with several important portuguese bands over the last years such as Moonspell, Primitive Reason, Blasted Mechanism, Anger, Eternal Tango, and many others from the portuguese metal scene and non metal scene, along over 100 concerts through Portugal and a couple of shows at Dublin, Ireland.
Skypho has participated in a lot of band contests and win some.
At this time Skypho are workind on their debut album.
EAK (Extraterrestrial Alternative Knowledge) was formed back in October 2001, but the lack of a proper rehearsal place saw the band members quickly putting the project on hold. After five years they got together again just for old times’ sake, but the chemistry spreading out of that gathering lead to a musical evolution that needed exposure to the outside world. After constant rehearsals and gigs, they finally found a solid line-up – Jorge and Carlos on guitars, Helder on bass, Ricardo on drums and Paulo on vocals – and managed to record two EPs. «3 Steps To Nothing» (2003) and «Musclecore» (2006), which got a huge reaction from both the audience and the press. RYIL: Converge, Iron Monkey, Architects.
BAND MEMBERS:
Carlos - guitar Hélder - bass Paulo - vocals Jorge - guitar Ricardo - drums
Lisbon's SIMBIOSE first steps go back to 1991, when - influenced by the sounds of Discharge, Extreme Noise Terror and Doom - a small bunch of friends started writing their own songs. The debut show finally takes place two years later and leads to the recording of their first demo, «Até Quando».
In the following years, facing countless line-up changes and economical struggles, SIMBIOSE manages to establish it's name internationally through an impressive amount of DIY releases - among others a split with Croustibat, the first portuguese punk/hardcore/crust 10" ever - and a ton of live shows. At the turn of the century the band finally starts working on their debut full-length album.
«Mental Naked Violence» is released in 2002, quickly followed by a split EP with Barcelona's Disface - both records are fully embraced by the punk/hardcore/metal/crust crowd. Another year goes by and a new CD, «Bounded in Adversity», is recorded and followed by a mini-tour in Holland and Belgium. In 2005 the group plays more than 200 shows, records a cover of «Ghouls Night Out» for a Misfits tribute record and releases a split CD with brazilian band Taiko. Another split CD - this time with swedish crust kings Driller Killer - follows, as well as a mini-tour through Spain, Holland and Belgium.
2007 sees the group establishing a new line-up - vocalists Hugo and João, guitarist Nuno and drummer Luís are now joined by Dr. Bifes and Paulo, on bass and guitar, respectively - and the assembling of a new record. Recorded by João Pedro Sarrufo at the Crossover Studios - with guest appearances by Dean Jones (Extreme Noise Terror) and João "Gordo" (Ratos De Porão) - the 10 songs on «Evolution?» show the band's growth through their 15+ career, fusing their d-beat roots with a new-found love for thrashy rhythms and even more dynamic structures. Call it what you will, but SIMBIOSE stands for uncompromising extreme music with a strong socio-political conscience.
BAND MEMBERS:
Hugo - Vocals João - Vocals Nuno - Guitar Paulo - Guitar Bifes - Bass Luis - Drums
The roots of [Before The Rain] go back to 1997, when vocalist Carlos D'Água and guitar player Valter Cunha started sharing musical ideas that eventually ended up as acoustic songs. As time went by, those simple and organic sounds weren't enough to express the emotions and feelings unleashed by the duo and, in 1998, both decided to seek musicians to complete the band.
In December 2001, after solidifying their first real line-up, their first two songs - «Be Mine» and «You... My Ruin» - were recorded. Entitled «...And With The Day Dying Light» this demo-CD was only released to a strict sum of close friends and never properly distributed. In August 2003 the recording of a new song, called «The Swansong», showed another sign of life. Unfortunately around that session the group also went through a ton of changes.
A year later - with the help of Pedro Daniel on bass, Hugo Santos on guitar and Gonçalo Correia on drums - [Before The Rain] establishes their strongest line-up to date. Following a mini-tour with Irish doomsters Mourning Beloveth in their home country of Portugal, the five musicians finally find the spark needed to pick up the composition process again and the debut full-length album finally starts taking shape. Recorded by João Bacelar and mastered at the Cutting Room Studios, in Sweden, by Thomas Eberger (famous for his work with bands like Katatonia, Opeth, Daylight Dies and label mates Process Of Guilt), this collection of six songs promise, not only to embrace the listener gently with evocative melodies, but also to punish with monolithic riffs and mesmerizing feedbacks. Both crushing and incredibly emotional, «One Day Less» is an amazing sonic journey through highs and lows - combining the beautiful acoustic textures of their beginnings with a heavy sensibility firmly rooted in the doom/death metal realm.
BAND MEMBERS:
Carlos d'Água - Vocals Valter Cunha - Guitars Pedro Daniel - Bass Carlos Monteiro - Guitars Miguel Ledo - Drums
Process of Guilt started their existence as a band throughout the «Portraits of Regret» recordings in early 2002, having their foundations firmly based in doom/death metal music. In late 2003, the quartet enters the studio in order to record «Demising Grace», their 2nd release. This new work shows a new level in the development of their music, incorporating a more organic feel to their own vision, giving a stronger and more concise production to their sound.
Between 2003 and 2005, the considerable list of live appearances can thus be crowned with performances alongside Morgion and Mourning Beloveth.
Besides the intense live activity there was also an effort to create a new set of songs that were in line with the enduring expansion of Process of Guilt. In late December of 2005, the recordings for the full-length album «RENOUNCE» begin. The basis for the composition process behind the new songs was to build and explore themes that reflect the attitude characterizing the band's sound.
Mastered at the Cutting Room Studios, in Sweden, by Thomas Eberger (who previously worked with bands like Katatonia, Opeth and Daylight Dies), «RENOUNCE» holds seven new soundscapes that reflect the band's need of expression throughout music as a form of art.
BAND MEMBERS:
Hugo Santos - Guitars/Vocals Nuno David - Guitars/Vocals Gonçalo Correia - Drums/Vocals Custódio Rato - Bass
CRUSHING SUN was formed in late 2003 when a group of friends – Bruno Silva on vocals, Paulo Lopes on guitar, Rui Pinto on bass and Marco Silva on drums – first started writing some songs together. During the next five years the band managed to play more than 60 shows both in Portugal and Spain, sharing the stage with bands like Mnemic and Ophiolatry and developing their own take on modern metal brutality. In that period, they have recorded two demos and established themselves as one of the most solid and vicious live acts in the current portuguese underground scene.RIYL: Gojira, Decapitated, Lamb Of God.
BAND MEMBERS:
Bruno - Vocals Paulo - Guitar Marco - Drums Rui - Bass
POSÍDOM, has a special meaning, and ally that special meaning, joins up the fact of being a band formed by ex-members of LOST (drummer, bassist and guitarist) and the extinct band Dorgsenn. The world of POSIDOM started at 2003, later we recorded one single called John Doe and already in the year 2004 we started the concerts and preparation of the demo. For reasons of force majeure, we manage to have our tracks completed only in 2006 since then POSIDOM began its musical world. Slowly we achieve the first step in these difficult paths of national bands; we participate in Lusitanian Compilation Volume II through Metal Legions, then we join the memorial for 15 years of career to the German band Purgatory by invitation of Mr. Mihail Savochkin (who is the music publisher from Animate Recordsin). Our participation was made with the cover “Tormented Flesh”. Already during the year 2008, we record a demo CD entitled 'A deeper kind of hate”.
In 2007, five friends from Viseu (Portugal), got together to form a Hardcore/Screamo band called PROMETHEVS. Each member of the band has different musical influences, such as: metal, punk, hardcore, emocore e mathcore. This is a band with road experience, because in the past its members made part of bands like: Set It Off, Inside These Veins, Inside Out and also And Then Finally.
The name “PROMETHEVS” was inspired on Greek mythology: “Prometheus” was the Greek hero that stole the fire (synonym of knowledge) from the Gods. Thus came the ideal name to the band’s goal: to conquer something new.
In April 2008 the band released its very expected first CD/EP entitled “From Our Hearts”: ‘We gave everything we had to this EP. Since it gave us a lot of work and effort to achieve, we decided to give this name to the song´, says Bala.
We can find five songs in it with accurate melodies in the right places, heavy sounds and vitiating rhythmic changes… And “Intro” as the first song, opens the album with a lot of mystery and “suspense”.
During this period these boys had the pleasure to share the stage with some of the best bands of this musical scene: Devil In Me (Portugal), Undeclinables (Holand), All Against The World (Portugal), Fonzie (Portugal), The Band Apart (Spain), A Breach On Heaven (Italy), My Cubic Emotion (Portugal), TNT (Portugal), Resposta Simples (Portugal), among many others.
Currently, Promethevs are working in new sounds a bit different from Ep - From Our Hearts, being these ones more technical and with more innovator melodies. They’re also working on the EP promotion, with the help of Estação Diária 96.8 (www.96.8.fm) – a local radio station – and, of course, they are on the road to promote the album.
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