Ascension: The Common Ground / Ascension 2: The Second Round

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Bands to look out for!

OBSCURE PHIONIX

http://myspace.com/obscurephionix

Formed by musicians of different backgrounds March 2005. The core members - Sha, Man, Qhai, Fiz and Yazid. Having performed at a few gigs, they have their fair share of experience. Also, the band faced many hardships that almost led them to the verge of disbandment. With the leaving of Yazid, due to disagreement of musical influence, the four core members searched for a new drummer. Taking the place of Yazid, Shah came into the picture. Obscure Phionix regained their energy and proceeded what they intended to do. ROCK INTO THE SCENE. Obscure Phionix now, a five-piece Singaporean band, concentrates mostly on metal / metalcore / progressive metal.
Their attitude and behaviour towards music borders on their insanity!

INFLUENCES:
Arch Enemy, Atreyu, Trivium, Caliban, The Black Dahlia Murder, Behemoth, Bleeding Through, Poison The Well, Underoath, Heaven Shall Burn - just to name a few

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Another band to look out for!

SHADOWS EMBRACE

http://myspace.com/shadowsembracesg

Formed in the mid of 2002, Shadows Embrace was a five piece LionCity Metalcore band. They have been performing at several gigs. To name a few they performed in The First Step Gig and Unity Of Aggression 2004. In early of 2005 came a new female guitarist named Sid. And thus, Shadows Embrace has become a six-piece metalcore band. Consisting of Zul on vocals, E.J. and Sid on guitars, Hanafi on bass, Zac as the drummer and Didil on clean vocals. But sadly on early November of 2005, two of the members are no longer part of the band. For Hanafi, due to personal reasons he decided that he wanted to quit and no longer be part of Shadows Embrace. And for Didil, due to the lack of musical interest she somehow just faded away. But not long Shadows Embrace decided to take their long time friend Joe as the permanent replacement bassist. As of now Shadows Embrace is 5 piece Lioncity Metalcore band.And currently now they are working out on their EP title 'The Aftermath Of Mother Nature's Wrath EP' .

INFLUENCES:
Caliban, The Agony Scene, All Shall Perish, Bleeding Through, Cannibal Corpse, Lamb Of God, Job For A Cowboy, Through The Eyes Of The Dead, The Black Dahlia Murder, All Shall Fade, Behemoth, Between The Buried and Me, Arch Enemy, Dying Fetus, and more to come....etc.

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Another

RHETORICAL THEORY

http://www.myspace.com/rhetoricaltheory

About rhetoricaltheory

Tracing to 3 years back, the band, started off with Azri on the drums, Naaz on the bass, Yusman on the lead guitars & Areyz being the vocalist/rhythem guitarist. The band name was Fuzion. Our genre was heavy metal & we cover mostly Metallica's songs. But due to unconditional terms with our temporary manager, the band broke up a few months later.

They managed to gather enough strengh to restart a new. Areyz practiced hard and was moved up to the official lead guitarist with the resignation of Man. Isa replaced the rhythms after a few months of auditions. It didn't last long due to arguements over the band's genre & choice of songs.

Naaz joined a band named Ritual Mizery but the band disbanded after their first gig. Isa was still looking for a band but was unsuccessfull. Areyz & Azri started a band named Straightcut Innocence. They play mostly metal, rock & emocore songs. All of their bandmates were Azri's ex-primary schoolmates except for their bassist/2nd vocalist which is Syuhrah. Syuhrah & Azri are are schoolmates. The band silently broke up.

Azri, Syuhrah & Areyz wanted to jam as they miss the experience. So they call up Naaz to join them. As there's no 2nd guitarist, Naaz called up Isa to join them as well. From there, Rhetorical Theory was born again. Syuhrah become the vocalist for RT with Naaz backing up for her. And their music genre is changed to metalcore.

After a year plus of being together, Areyz quit the band(due to personal reasons). Zart(guitarist for Secret Agent) replaced Areyz with the guitar duties. Recently, another addition to the band was made. Naaz wanted to concerntrate on the vocal duties so he recruited Dayne(bassist for Someone Murdered Cupid) to join the band to become RT's new bassist.

Quite a long history....but we'll always be looking forward to the future...keep music evil...

INFLUENCES:
Avenged Sevenfold, Bullet For My Valentine, Trivium, As I Lay Dying, Caliban, Hatebreed, Silent Civilian, God Forbid, Machinemade God, Lamb Of God, Summer's End, Through The Eyes Of The Dead, Job For A Cowboy, Heaven Shall Burn, Bleeding Through & more!

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And another

DYING PORTRAIT

http://www.myspace.com/dyingportrait

About dyingportrait

Dying Portrait was formed on late August 2005 with both Uli and Hidhir on guitars, Hariz on bass and Wan on drums. The band influences basically on Metalcore/Deathcore type of genre. Sufran joins in on September to do the band's vocals duties. But after 1 jamming session with the complete line-up, Wan decided to quit the band. The band broke up on 24th Nov 2005. After a long absence from the music scene, Wan decided to give it another try. This time with a new line-up. . Both Uli and Hariz on guitars, Awal on bass, Wan on drums and finally Sufran on vocals.

INFLUENCES:
Lamb Of God, Through The Eyes Of The Dead, As I Lay Dying, Conducting From The Grave, Hatebreed, As Blood Runs Black, Job For A Cowboy, Trivium, Behemoth, Therion, Between The Buried And Me, The Number 12 Looks Like You, A Traitor Like Judas, Caliban etc. . .

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[Gayson]

HI! did anyone took pictures for last sunday gig?? did anyone ttook picture when the psalms played??? FIRSTLY, we would like to thank roy for the slot he gave to my band... A thousand thanks to wreckage for letting us play on their slots as our drummer need to book in at teh point of time(thanks guys!) and we would like to thank those who bother to stand up and watched us played during our set... A million thanks to everyone

 

[ObscurePhionix]

hello guys, the day of the gig is coming, so come down and lets have fun together aight!!=)

 

[XTREME-BOY]

Yeah and please spread the news to all your frens ok

Hope to see as many of u guys this sunday ok.

The bands need your support!

 

[Dgor]

Murder she Wrote

Started with wanting it to be a sissy-post-pop-core band.. :lol: , it end up with this. Murder she Wrote was form early this year with members from individual R.I.P bands. With different music backgrounds, Murder she Wrote is a blend of metalcore with melodic riffs and a pinch of emotional.


Influences:
Poison the Well, Unearth, Lamb of God, Isis, Pelican, HopesFall, Envy (Japan), Tragedy, Old Man Gloom, Meltgsnow (Sg), Cassandra (Kl), Converge, Comeback Kid, The Black Dahlia Murder. - errr, and the list goes on and on and on and on....etc

 

[XTREME-BOY]

Hi guys, don't forget to be at Gas Haus this Sunday.

All the bands are great!

Hope to see u guys there.

DON'T MISS THE ACTIONS !!!

 

[XTREME-BOY]

The gig will start at 3pm.

So do come down early to give your fullest support to the first few bands ok.

Really looking forward to your support!

 

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For those of U who r not familiar with Gas Haus, here is the map.

'GAS HAUS is along THIS FASHION shop which is opposite Bugis Junction's FISH & CO restaurant' - Simple enough to understand?

Thanks to Mr Koyuki for the map!