Ahoora, was formed in 2002, in Tehran, the capital of an extreme Islamic country called Iran. The influences were shown in the early covers: Iced Earth, Iron Maiden, Metallica, and Black Sabbath …etc. The band recorded its first demo tape back in 2004, due to gain permission from the culture ministry of Islamic Iran: breaking the broken! Meanwhile the sound developed to a more progressive & modern dark sound. In May 2005 Ahoora played its first official gig, the first metal performance ever with vocals parts in Iran. The band played two sets, First: Iced Earth songs & the 2nd set included four Ahoora songs that later were heard on the debut album.
Archive for March, 2007
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Scent of Death (Interview // Spain)
Scent of Death started in September of 1998, when Jorge Taboada (ex-Suffer Age), and Carlos Carballo (ex-Osmosis), decided to hire a local where they improve their concept of Death Metal. December 1998, Bernardo Estévez and Nuno (ex-Osmosis) joined Scent of Death. With Jorge and Bernardo on guitars, Carlos on bass and Nuno on drums, Scent of Death was born. In the beginning, conception of the first themes and many hours of training it's all. On summer, 1999, David joined the band as vocalist. On March 2000, Scent of Death performed live concert at Anoeta, Vigo city together with Regnum Irae. Three months later, the band loss their vocalist, David, because of musical concept differences, what means several inconveniences on future concerts. It was in September 2001 when the band began to record at Taller de Música, Ourense, Spain. As a result, they released their first MCD, entitled "Entangled in Hate", which was produced and edited by the band. This MCD contains a total of 6 tracks, 4 brutal and fast Death Metal in the vein of Morbid Angel, Dying Fetus, Cannibal Corpse, and 2 pure instrumental tracks, 20 minutes of pure fucking Death Metal. Vocals were performed by Bernardo, assisted on high vocals by Jorge. -
Inner Beauty (Indonesia)
INNER BEAUTY was formed by 'Irvan Nursick and 'Viola Santi" on October 17th 1999 in Jakarta, Indonesia. At the beginning their music concept is about "Beauty Gothic Doom" influenced by bands like 'Trail of tears' and 'Within Temptation'. For First time since its formation, Innerbeauty recruited additional musicians namely Thethen (Vocal), Demonaz stuart (Guitar), Tommy cronos (Bass), Febrianos (Keyboard), and Achmadious (Drum).
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Barbalans (Malaysia)
3 of Hell's True warrior, formed BARBALANS which play Fast Black Metal in 1993. A promo tape has been released last 1996 CINDAKU. After the release, they were invited to play their first gig at Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia organised by Twin Towering Inferno Production which held by Mr Jorn of Desperate Contraceive. After that first perfomance, they've stopped playing gigs. They were invited to play in a several places like Sandakan, Lahad Datu and Kota Kinabalu. And the respond from the crowd were good as Hell. In 2001, Barbalans enter the studio to record their first demo "THE SHYTAN". It has 4 Hellish tracks, which is mostly written in 1996 after they've released a promo tape "CINDAKU". The third track "THY FALSE DEVINE" was taken from CINDAKU promo tape. -
Ironfist (Singapore)
The band was originally formed back in early '98 with members aging from 16-17. They have use the moniker MIRAGE, the band delved and experimented influences of old GODS by the likes of LED ZEPPELIN, KINGDOM COME, SABBAT (UK), ANGELWITCH, old JUDAS PRIEST, BLACK SABBATH and formed a Stoner Classic Heavy Metal act. Consisting of five members, they recorded a 4-tracked unreleased rehearsal demo entitled INVASION HALLUCINATION. Due to internal problems, time commitment and musical differences, the band was unable to continue further with the lineup and thus disbanded in middle 2001, leaving behimd three members who later formed IRONFIST.