Metal Blade Records signs Winter Solstice![views:13221][posts:6]______________________________________ [Jul 28,2004 7:55pm - the_reverend ""] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Metal Blade Records signs Winter Solstice! Metal Blade Records is very happy to announce that we have just signed the Virginia based metalcore act Winter Solstice. Starting in 2001 Winter Solstice has secured an underground following by playing with bands such as Norma Jean, As I Lay Dying, The Black Dahlia Murder, Between the Buried and Me, Living Sacrifice, Silverstein, and Bury Your Dead just to name a few. The bands most recent EP was recorded at Cloud City Studios (The Black Dahlia Murder, Walls if Jericho) by Mike Hasty of Wall of Jericho in January 2004. The band will head back to Cloud City Studios in Detroit, MI in October to start recording their debut full-length release that will be out on Metal Blade Records in the winter of 2005. "We are very excited to be with Metal Blade. It's exactly where we wanted to be. We are glad to be a part of a label with such great bands on their roster." - Duke - drummer of Winter Solstice "It's great to have the Winter Solstice guys as part of the Metal Blade family. They are a very hard working and talented group that have an amazing live performance and work ethic that can take them all the way." Brian Slagel - Owner and CEO of Metal Blade Records Inc. w/ Shockwave, Seventh Star July 26 - Lake Havisu, AZ - Havisu Underground July 27 - Amarillo, TX - The Refuge July 28, Lubbock, TX - Jake's Backroom July 29, San Antonio, TX - Sin 13 July 30, Corpus Christi, TX - The Underground July 31, Dallas, TX - The Door Aug 1 - Little Rock, AR - Vino's Aug 4 - Jacksonville, Fl - Murray Hill Theater Aug 5 - Jupiter, Fl - The End Aug 7 - Orlando, Fl - Amer. Legion Post Matt Tarpey - Vocals Duke Cuneo - Drums JT Turner - Guitar Roger Turner - Guitar Nathan Smith - Bass http://www.wintersolstice.net/ |
| ______________________________ [Jul 28,2004 7:58pm - hey ""] holy shit |
| ________________________________________ [Jul 28,2004 7:58pm - Dissector NLI ""] Score one for metalcore! |
| ____________________________________ [Jul 29,2004 4:03am - musclecity ""] Remember when they played in Norway Maine with The Black Dahlia Murder, and they were telling us how we should all love jesus and go to church on sunday? Either way, they are a good band. |
| _______________________________________ [Jul 29,2004 9:44am - Joe/NotCommon ""] First earache signs Adema, and now this! What the hell are these labels doing?! I am going to cry and cut myself! Wait, see how all these bullshit bands have effected my thinking? |
| ____________________________________ [Jul 29,2004 10:13am - dreadkill ""] this is the perfect time for joe to sign all the good bands these labels are ignoring. do it joe! sign opeth. they need a new deal. |
| ____________________________________ [Jul 29,2004 10:14am - dreadkill ""] actually, i think they only need a new european deal. sign them for europe |