Monday, October 11, 2010

A bit about NMP Vol II Artists

We are back with the second volume and this time it boasts of the very popular international acts like Tesseract (UK), Madsic (USA), My Fair Lady (Brazil) and Antagonist AD (NZ) alongside popular Indian bands like IIIrd Sovereign, Infected, Flashflood and popular heavy metal Bengali act Kripa.

Tesseract (UK) boasts of appearances at Bloodstock, Hammerfest, Caos Emergente in Portugal and the recent Hellfire 2 festival at the Birmingham NEC arena. They have two songs in the album – ‘Deception Concealing Fate’ and ‘Lament’. The track ‘Lament’ was featured on Metal Hammer’s November 2009 issue cover CD. It is a sneak peak to their much awaited album which gets released in 2011.

Madsic (Florida, USA) features in the album with their widely appreciated track ‘Distance of Hate’. In 2006, their song Distance of Hate appeared on the Sonic Onslaught Vol. 2 Compilation CD along with bands such as Soil, Mushroomhead, Powerman 5000, Vanilla Ice, and Sworn Enemy. Also in 2006, they received endorsement through Switch music out of Los Angeles.

In 2007, they began getting radio station recognition with airplay and an interview on Metalkast Radio out of Minnesota and Raven’s Eggs and Kegs show out of Colorado. They were also interviewed online through Hollywood Music TV in Canada.

In 2008, an online contest called Metal Cage Fight 2008 done by MetalEvolution.net, decided by fan votes, was won by Madsic and they were dubbed by the station “Masters of Metal 2008”.

2008 also found Madsic on the main stage on the first year of the Kryptonite Metalfest at Tobacco Road in Miami, one of America’s oldest and most historic venues.

In 2009, Madsic performed at Lollapalooza’s Locofest South 2009 with such great bands as Mudvayne, Nonpoint, and Hed PE

Recently, the video for Distance Of Hate, which has been 1 on MySpace Charts for all Unsigned Metal bands in the world for three months now, is climbing the charts on the listing for ALL METAL BANDS (SIGNED INCLUDED) topping out at 18 so far.

Antagonist A.D (NZ) is a very popular act from New Zealand who has played in many prestigious concerts in Australia, USA, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. They have shared the main stage with Rage Against The Machine in Auckland’s Bid Day Out ’08.

The album was launched at The Basement on 10th October by Mr. Vikramjit Banerjee of Krosswindz.

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