ShadowIcon

The ShadowIcon story has begun back in 2006 when a few friends, Tomaž, Bojan, Damir and Kristjan, had an idea to form a band. Each member was influenced by different musical styles so eventually we decided to play metal. It soon became evident that their style of metal isn't for just everyone.

Onatra

Iryna Vitiv - vocals

Sergiy Vladarsky - guitars

Dmytro Dvugroshev - bass

Marta Medler - drums

ONATRA is a modern symphonic metal band founded in July 2009 in Lviv, Ukraine. At that time the band consisted of Iryna Vitiv (vocals), Khrystyna Solyha (keys), Vasyl Turchyn (guitars), Victor Shpyrka (guitars), Sergiy Vladarsky (bass), Marta Medler (drums).

The band was formed to play on tribute to In Flames, which was put off and cancelled. After that they decided to play their own music, composed by Sergiy.

In september 2009 Khrystyna left ONATRA, because of studies and the band decided to use playback instead of looking for a new keyboard of the same level. The musicians worked hard for their techniques.

In March 2010 ONATRA had their first performance as a contestant in competition among young Lviv bands called Level Up! Their songs (Chaos Theory, Fate Symphony and For Your Soul) and roses show had a great success. The band collected the largest number of audience votes and took sixth place from twenty five.

In April 2010 ONATRA gave their second performance in underground club Pogulyanka for a small number of people.

In May 2010 ONATRA was disbanded.
During a longtime search for new musicians Marta studies the details of orchestral music composing. She tries to compose heavy orchestrals and in summer 2010 ONATRA records their new demo songs Dance With The Wind and Touch Of Emptiness.
ONATRA is reactivated with a change in sound and works upon the new material for their debut album Last Hope.

Epica | Requiem for the Indifferent

On 3 February 2012, the band released on iTunes the single "Storm the Sorrow", characterized by melodic vocal lines and electronic influences. The video, shot in the middle of the same month in Amsterdam, will be released on 24 April.

Graspop 2012 | 23 bands announced

After the announcement of Black Sabbath last friday, GMM announces another 22 Bands for their event in 2012.
Here they are:

Iron Mask | Black As Death

Iron Mask was formed by Dushan Petrossi, Belgium’s number 1 guitar hero.

Dushan got his first guitar when he was 9 (1982) and never stopped playing for 20 years.
Very early, he played in several cover bands till the day he wanted to compose his own music.

Juvaliant

Juvaliant - Inhuman Nature

The creativity displayed by the Austrian band JUVALIANT is suggested by the unusual band name. JUVALIANT is a word that they made up themselves and yet there is more behind it than just a bunch of letters. JUVALIANT is the combination of two words: The first part comes from the Latin name of Salzburg, Juvavum and the second part from the English word valiant. Which is very suitable for the Austrian lads' debut album, "Inhuman Nature": prepossessing, progressive, heavy, catchy and often bombastic. 

Sonata Arctica | Live In Finland

SONATA ARCTICA will release a live DVD in november. The main show was recorded at Teatria in Oulu, Finland on April 15th, 2011.

Nightwish | Pre-order Storytime

Symphonic metalband NIGHTWISH will release their new single STORYTIME on Friday, November 11th.
The upcoming album IMAGINAERUM will be released in Europe on december 2nd, 2011.

Pukkelpop 2011 | A black day in history

The music festival PUKKELPOP in Kiewit - Hasselt in Belgium has been hit by a very heavy weather storm on thursday evening august 18, 2011. It was the first day of the festival.
The roof of a tent and some other constructions collapsed and trees were uprooted. 5 festivalgoers were killed, and the 3-day festival, which would have run until sunday, has been completely cancelled.

Our thoughts are with all victims.

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Dotma

Johanna Lesonen - vocals
Harri Koskela - Keyboards
Leo Saarnisalo - Guitars
Niko Kalliojärvi - Guitars
Jonaas Pykälä-Aho - Drums
Aapo Lindberg - Bass

Dotma is a female-fronted symphonic power metal band from Hyvinkää, Finland.

It was year 2005 when a group of friends decided to form a band that was to be THE power metal band of all time. The idea to the lyrics lay deep within the mysteries of The Middle Ages, you know, in the time when the wild era of mighty dragons still prevailed. The aim was likewise to create pompous and captivating harmonies in the melodies from one to another. The band started to gain its form slowly but still certainly (well, not always that certainly) and in the autumn 2006 the member set-up was finally stable. Rehearsal place became their second home and the setlist kept on increasing.