Benn Down (born Jan 27, 1982) is a British singer, songwriter, musician, record producer and composer. He is the founder, lead vocalist and principle songwriter in various bands including; Benn, Portraits, Two Down, Pressure Fashions Diamonds and Diplomat. His first release was the album ‘Origins?’ under the band Two Down, which he founded in 2007 with long time-collaborator Callum Richardson. He has since released a vast number of albums, EPs and singles. Benn Down was an independent recording artist until signing with Hurt Records in 2014. In previous years Down was involved with iTunes, Sony, Universal Music Group, Vevo and Tunecore and came to the conclusion that not only did these companies tie up their artists in uncompromising contracts, but their percentage share of the artist’s revenue was appalling. Benn decided to step down from these companies and invest his time in creating a ‘contract-less’ Record Label that focused purely on the integrity of the sound recordings and bringing the artist’s visions to life.

At the beginning of 2017 Down embarked on a ten-year-long ambition to release his anticipated ‘Z’ story in audio form. The story being widely received as cryptic, intriguing and dark. Down is recognised for making his listeners work to understand the form that the story takes. Down maintains that the Z series of albums isn’t made for everyone, instead limiting its comprehendible exposure to a few thousand listeners.

Down is the owner of Hurt Records, a UK based independent record label. Hurt Records’ primary focus is to create extremely high quality music for it’s listenership. Hurt Records is unique in the fact that all of the releases on the label pass through a single studio complex; ‘Hurt Studios’. Down maintains that “the purpose of the ‘single studio’ mindset is that complete control over the entire process of an album’s creation is attained and artistic integrity is maintained at a high standard.”

Down’s music is currently licensed through both Hurt Records, UK and Create Music Group, US.

Cryptic Matter is an American alternative metal band from Baltimore, MD, created in 2011. The band was founded by Justin Bidinger (Drums), Devin Greenburg (vocals, guitar), Steve Hung (guitar), and Adam Bidinger (bass). Adam parted ways with the band and shortly thereafter came the additions of John Perry (bass) and Andrea Lauzon (keys).

Cryptic Matter generates its sound from alternative, funk, metal, and international music. Tragedy Guide and Asphexia were inspired by Asian sitars while upcoming Land of Kush in the traditional sounds of flamenco. With band members having roots in various parts of the world (Europe, South America, and Asia) the integration of the culture was pivotal in defining the direction of the band. This blend of influences of music and culture has created the exotic, groovy, and hard hitting music you will hear from Cryptic Matter.

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Categories are part of the business, but now and then they can be just time-consuming. You can claim that ANY GIVEN DAY from Gelsenkirchen, Germany can be related to the sub-genres new age metal, metalcore and deathcore. It's also save to say that their sound unites low tuned, energy loaded, hard-lined heaviness with enthralling melodic parts and an impressing vocal performance. But what you also can do is to describe their style as down-to-earth as the band does and "just leave it with metal." ANY GIVEN DAY set the very normal, daily madness to music. Rough and unadorned! Straight in your face! Just metal.

James Woodward was always a Metal fan. Starting from Pantera as the first metal band he truly loved and so on to heavier bands such as Lamb of God, Scar Symmetry, SOiL and many others.
His true passion is creating music, and currently sings in Moses Christ which is a Thrash/Heavy Metal Band. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Moses-Christ/52774387501
The Metal-Covers Songs project (Which by the way, is still nameless) started in 2008 with Poker Face by Lady Gaga. Due to unexpected success, and many requests for more, he continued to create more and more Metal Covers of many other songs and artists.
Today, with both Moses Christ and Between Falls, he's working on 2 new albums, which expect to be released this year in 2013.

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