NULLIFY are a 5-piece Metal band based in Townsville, Queensland, Australia.

Formed in July 2010, NULLIFY started off as an idea being thrown around between Ben Vandenburg and Michael Forte, to quickly becoming a reality when long time friend Wes Bennet agreed to join them in the new project. Things really started to move forward when Luke Green and David Kneipp completed the line-up, forming a new force of Townsville Heavy Metal.

With a large range of influences consisting of Karnivool, Testament, Lamb of God, Slipknot, The Absence, Decapitated, Metallica, Killswitch Engage, Arch Enemy, Limp Bizkit, Kreator, Slayer, Sevendust and Mnemic, this has given NULLIFY a broad spectrum to derive their sound from. While combining elements of simplicity and complexity, NULLIFY hope to create something that has been unheard of until now.

Driven by Michael’s solid and dynamic drumming and the low end rumble of Ben’s bass, NULLIFY’s sound is made even heavier with Luke’s speed and intensity combined with Wes’s calculated precision and brutal shredding. All of that is completed with David’s dynamic aggressive and melodic vocals and his charismatic stage presence.

NULLIFY aim to help resurrect the Heavy Metal scene in Townsville and to add yet another dimension for all of the regular gig goers out there


Composer, drummer, producer of music for media @ BLUEWHALE AUDIO

“Before The Fall” was founded in 2005 by Rudolf Obermann and Michael Kronstorfer. Yet in the same year they signed at the Austrian Record Company “Noisehead Records” and released their first album “From Mutism to Riddance” which caused a phenomenal response not only in the local Metal/Hardcore scene but also in the international media.

In 2007 “Before The Fall” joined europes biggest Newcomer Band Award “ILA – International Live Award” with more than 1000 participants and reached the striking 2nd place which was the beginning of an international career. So “Before The Fall” signed at the german record company “Twilight Zone Records” and re-released their Debutalbum worldwide.

In October 2007 “Before The Fall” supported the legendary Death Metal Band “Gorefest” on a great european tour and played 25 shows in Netherland, Spain, Italy, Austria, Germany, Hungary, Slovenia and Czech Republic.

Further the band shared the stages with acts like Sepultura, Obituary, Heaven Shall Burn, Hatesphere, Maroon, Aborted etc. and could prove that “Before The Fall” is a warrantor for a kick ass live performance!

The quality of the band also caused an appearance in the trailers for the “Red Bull X-Fighters” and the “Red Bull Air Race”.

In 2010 “Before The Fall” recorded their upcoming album “Antibody” which was mixed and mastered by one of the best producers in the metal scene, Tue Madsen (The Haunted, Sick Of It All, Heaven Shall Burn, Mnemic, Born From Pain…)


The project LOGICAL TERROR aims to communicate clear and meaningful messages through various musical and textual forms. All that may seem trivial, hides behind concepts and art forms far more complex than what you can experience at first listen. There is a total detachment between man as we have always known and the current one; there is no more focus on reality . The songs praise the progress of technology, even when adverse effects are reflected on our lives, and convey the awareness that we can no longer recognize ourselves. To describe these feelings the Italian group has chosen rhythmics,nu-metal steps and industrial prevailing fragments. The melodic appeal is superb, electronic inserts multiply the effect of the dynamics and the alternation of voices is cleverly structured.

After an intense and accurate process of songwriting, and pre-production in detail, the band entered the studio in the first half of 2010, complemented by Dualized and Eddy Cavazza, aka Dysfunction Production, as an artistic production, to create their first album titled "Almost Human". Thanks to the excellent feeling reached between the parties, the final mix is a modern and sophisticated mix of metal, with strong industrial / symphonic influences . The final master was assigned to Forward Studios in Rome, edited by Ray Parenti.
After being well received by international critics, and reported as one of the best revelations of the year on major national magazines such as Rock Hard, Metal Hammer and Metal Maniac, "Almost Human" gets the attention of insiders, and on top of them the American label Reality Entertainment (Sybreed, Godhead, WASP), which signed the band for a worldwide distribution agreement.

In May 2011 "Almost Human" is published in U.S.A. and around the world on major online stores like iTunes, Amazon, Napster and many others. The band begins a long series of promotional concerts, sharing the stage with international artists such as Sepultura, Mnemic, Raunchy, Neosis, Empyrios & more.


Vita Imana, reciente fichaje de la filial de Roadrunner en España, Kaiowas Records, ha realizado hasta 2010 más de 80 conciertos a lo largo de todo el estado Español y parte del extranjero, compartiendo cartel con grupos de la talla de Iron Maiden, Fear Factory, Soulfly, Gojira, Caliban, Alice Cooper, Motley Crue, Linkin Park, Mnemic, Sybreed, Hacride,O´Funkillo, XXL, Rage, etc…tocando en salas y festivales de renombre (Sala Caracol, Sala Heineken, Sala Mephisto, Festimad Sur, Festival Arteficial, Festival Granito Rock, MetalHell Festival, Grooverial Metal Fest, Metal Lorca, WACKEN OPEN AIR…).

La mezcla de sonidos del Hardcore y el Groove Metal americano junto a otros de raíces tribales africanas y asiáticas.., han logrado que VITA IMANA sea, a día de hoy, una de las bandas más importantes del panorama, con letras en castellano y una puesta en escena única y arrolladora.

Su primer album "En Otro Lugar" ya ha recibido los halagos de los medios más importantes y de grupos como Gojira, una de las bandas, junto a otras como Devil Driver, Machine Head, Slipknot, Sepultura, Chimaira o Hacride, que más han influido en la banda desde sus comienzos, allá por 2005. 

Ahora, bajo el sello de Kaiowas Records, VITA IMANA grabarán su nuevo álbum en otoño de 2011, con el que emprenderán una importante gira por territorio español y europeo.


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Vita Imana is a powerful metal group, whose music is characterized mainly by the overwhelming rythmical base created by a battery that unfolds, as much accelerated and frenetic rates as other dense and heavy... this one are complemented perfectly with a line of additional percussion (darbuka, djembe, surdo, berimbao...), inserting this way the tribal character that the group makes feel in its music, doing echoes of ethnic rates of different countries like Morocco, Egypt, Turkey, Australia, Senegal... 

The guitars, with ultraserious refining, offer riffs demolishing connected with extreme coherence one after another one, followed by a line of low that provides the heavy weight to the sound of Vita Imana. As far as the voice, a this one manifest extreme degree of aggressiveness that arrives until the limits of the paranoia, transmitting in the messages ambiguous, but constant sensations: madness, hysteria, rage..., but mainly, force to emerge in the realities that asphyxiate to us. It is this mixture of the more forceful modern metal and the tribal rates of percussion which makes the sound so peculiar of the group. 

The style and the form to compose the songs are born like necessity to express the creativity that takes inside, fed by an enormous amount of influences of all type. All these influences put in common give like fruit more or less original subjects, but that they do not leave indifferent that listens to them.

The Oslo-based metal band Benea Reach is widely considered to become the future leader of Norwegian metal. The band made an early career statement by receiving a Norwegian Grammy nomination for their 2006 debut album, Monument Bineothan. Mixing dark melodies and heavy grooves with hardcore attitude, they soon gathered fans from all corners of hard and heavy music.
	
With their 2008 release, Alleviat, they returned even stronger. With a heavier yet more accessible sound they stated their position as one of the main nationwide metal acts and received yet another Grammy nomination. Danish studio-wizard Tue Madsen (The Haunted, Mnemic, Sick Of It All) was the man to mix down the monumental masterpiece. The song "Awakening" appeared on the big screen in 2009 as one of the main songs on the Dead Snow (Død Snø) soundtrack.
	
After several tours in Scandinavia, Europe and a headlining tour in India, they have become an experienced and highly rated live-act. They have shared the stage with bands like Dillinger Escape Plan, Cult Of Luna, Slipknot, Underoath, Insense, All That Remains, Bhayanak Maut, Zao, Enslaved, Dropkick Murphys and The Chariot to name a few. Having co-produced both albums and produced all three of their music videos themselves, with drummer Marco Storm doing direction, digital effects and post production, the band shows talent beyond just songwriting and performing.
	
Benea Reach have recently recorded a new album (Possession), which will be released by Spinefarm Records / Universal Music, a label that can match their ambitions to reach international acknowledgement. The new material contains more melodic elements, both musically and vocally, without compromising their trademark heavy sound. The current lineup consists of Ilkka Viitasalo (vocals), Marco Storm (drums, programming), Martin Sivertsen (guitar), Mikael Wildén (bass), Andreas Berglihn (guitar, synthesizer) and Thomas Wang (guitar, synthesizer).

Discography:
“Monument Bineothan”, 2006, Tabu Recordings.
“Alleviat”, 2008, Tabu Recordings.
"Possession", 2012, Spinefarm Records.

Awards & nominations:
–	Norwegian Grammy Nomination 2006. Category: “Best Metal Album” for the release “Monument Bineothan” (Tabu Recordings)
–	Norwegian Grammy Nomination 2008. Category: “Best Metal Album” for the release “Alleviat” (Tabu Recordings)
Soundtrack:
Dead Snow (Død Snø) Soundtrack, 2009, with the song “Awakening” from“Alleviat”, 2008, Tabu Recordings.

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