ASTRALNAUT

STONER / DOOM METAL
Armagh

Current Line-Up ;
Vocals - Thomas Mallon
Lead Guitar - Gaz Treanor
Bass - Damo Harvest
Drums - Stephen Todd
Rhythm Guitar & Backing Vocals - Pearse Donnelly


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Biography from facebook... 

ASTRALNAUT - Rising from the ashes of OCEANFALL, THIRD HARVEST and STONED MESSIAH. Intertwined with an unspoken bond of sheer riffage and groove they constituted themselves as ASTRALNAUT !! Raining down as a result of the convention came stomping audible rapture in the vein of Stoner Rock / Doom Metal! An homage to earthly deities of worship and inspiration such as rocking tunes, whiskey, weed and beer! With the imminent release of their debut EP, 'Back To The Bog' it will set the paramount precedent of what the band represents, the dominance of hard rocking Stoner Blues! Prepare yourselves for ASTRALNAUT !!

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Well! This certainly is a nice surprise. Doom Metal / Stoner Rock with enough individual flourishes to prick your ears and make you take notice. Everything from TROUBLE to KYUSS... You get the picture! And best of all the lads are already in the process of recording it's follow-up.

Click here to check out my review of 'Back To The Bog' for Drop-d.ie...!!!

DEAD LABEL

MODERN/MELODIC/DEATH METAL
Celbridge, Kildare

Current Line-Up ;
Bass/Vocals  - Dan O' Grady (VX)
Guitars - Danny Hall (VX, Ashen, Between Two Minds, The Fallen, Negative Direction)
Drums - Claire Percival (VX, Ashen, Between Two Minds, The Fallen, Halo Effect)


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Celbridge band DEAD LABEL have landed the coveted roll as opening support act for MACHINE HEAD for the upcoming Dublin and Belfast dates at the end of May 2012, and have arranged some warm-up shows which will be taking place around the country. The timing for all these shows couldn't be better as they have just released their debut full length 'Sense Of Slaughter', out now on Rising Records. I can't comment on the album yet, as I still need to hear it but there is also a video for the track 'Self Immolation' to coincide with the albums release.

3rd May - The Blind Pig, Limerick
4th May - The Purple Room, Drogheda, Louth
18th May - An Cruiscin Lan, Cork

Opening for MACHINE HEAD

28th May -  Ulster Hall, Belfast
30th May -  The Olympia Theatre, Dublin

The band don't have tracks up on Soundcloud, Bandcamp or the like. But select tracks are available to stream from their Facebook and Myspace pages. Just follow the links.

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'Sense Of Slaughter'  -  (2012)

Track Listing ; 

1. Dead And Gone
2. Sense Of Slaughter
3. Reign
4. Catchecism
5. Dawn Of A New Age
6. Self Immolation
7. Assume Nothing
8. Death
9. Enslavement
10. Rest In Pieces
11. Raising The Veil
12. Thrown To The Wolves

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FLAVIA

INDIE / GRUNGE
Antrim

Last Known Line-Up ;
Guitars/Vocals - Ryan Darragh (Apathy)
Drums - Niall Smyth (Apathy)
Bass/B.Vocals - Greer Milligan

Thanks a million to Brian 'EDDIE' Reynolds for passing this one on to me.

Totally new one for me, so I'll let Eddie himself take the lead on this one...

Adopting the name FLAVIA, the nickname of a former school teacher of FLAVIA's frontman Ryan Darragh, this 3-piece styled themselves on FUDGE TUNNEL and Irish counterparts THERAPY?. As well as these influences, the band had influences of another kind as was reflected in song titles like 'L.S.melloD' making FLAVIA a hit at college parties in the area.

Formed by 3 Performing Arts students at Ballymoney Technical College, County Antrim in early / mid 1994, FLAVIA was borne out of musical differences in the APATHY ranks.

Post APATHY’s 'Lack of Emotion EP', the Reynolds/Coulter half of the APATHY line-up had opted for a more technical playing style for what would become the 'Inertia' album. APATHY founder / frontman Ryan Darragh and drummer Niall Smyth, who played on APATHY's 'Traditional Values', decided they wanted a more stripped back, no-nonsense type vibe. Darragh and Smyth left APATHY in early 1994, recruited college friend Greer Milligan and in November 1994, FLAVIA hit the studio to record their 1994 demo 'Tobacco Related Mailings'.  This was to be the band’s only recorded output and the band split in 1995 when Smyth went to university in Scotland.

Looking back on the Flavia experience, Ryan Darragh recalls, "My only memory of FLAVIA is at college, on acid and wanting to be THERAPY?. 

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'Tobacco Related Mailings'  -  Demo (1994)

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