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Left In Ruins

Ossining, New York USA

Thrash/Death Metal

Luigi,19,Lead/Rythmn Guitar+Lead Vocals
Jorge,21,Lead Guitar
Jaymz,27,Guitar+Backing Vocals
Mike,21,Bass
Ben,21,Drums

www.myspace.com/leftinruinsmetal

our influences include: Iron Maiden,Slayer, Pantera, Megadeth, Black Sabbath, Children Of Bodom, In Flames, Lamb of God, Mastodon, Black Label Society, Amon Amarth, Arch Enemy, Opeth, and many, many others, if it's Metal, it's an influence on us!

Our lyrical themes deal with Death, Life, Reality, some Viking lore, and some fantasy, we dont like to give too much away, we like the listener to figure out what we're going for and what we're about.

We want to enter this battle of the bands because we feel we are a valid Metal band with great songs that will not only stand the test of time and relevance, but stand the test of heaviness as well. We play Metal music because we are Metalheads and we live and breathe it! We work very hard for the following we have and we always give 100% at every show we play and every song we write. We are on a mission to rid the world of crappy music, and we've done a good job so far. We've seen the rise of trendy Hardcore and Emo in our community, but through these shitty trends and Scene Kids we stand tall and fly the flag of Metal proudly! Left In Ruins is here to crush trends, and we're gonna be here a long time!

Served Dead

Hämeenlinna, Finland

Black metal

Satanism, darkness, ancient, people present day issues

TrollKung: Guitar, keyboard
Rontt: Guitar, drum programming
Oldblood: Vocals
Sarcasm: Vocals
Quashnyrgh: Bass

We enter this battle because Served Dead is found in the year 2008 and it's unknown for many people. We have just released our first promo and a next release is already under the hammer. Hope people like our creations!

www.myspace.com/serveddead

Nothing original really, but pretty solid I guess.

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Agreed, though I'm guessing Oldblood and Sarcasm are the names of his pet cats; I really didn't like the vocals, otherwise it was okay.

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Darkside of Innocence

Portugal

Classic/Black/Gothic Metal

A Dark Fantasy Tale/Gothic Romance/Medievalism/apocalypse

Pedro Bruno (vocals)
André Reis (Guitar)
Paulo Roque (guitar),
JoãoArcanjo (Bass)
Pedro Bandeira (Drums)
Cátia Marques (Vocals)

Just spreading the word!

www.myspace,com/darksideofinnocence

Cheers!

Gales of Avalon

Alberta,Canada

Blackened death metal

Celtic folklore/ Religion /Nature

Mark Dillon /29- Vocals and Guitar
James Neill/23 - Bass and Vocals
Dylan Hansen/22 - Guitar and Keys
Jamie Gallo/23 - Drums

Reason for entering:
just to get the word out and maybe get some feed back

www.myspace.com/galesofavalon

The music is good and there is a nice flow from song to song. The musical concept of the album is acceptable. I personally like your idea of having full reverb with a dark atmosphere and it seems that you could blend it well in order to have a clear sound for almost all the instruments.

NOw, the drums and the percussions are not doing it for me. Sometimes they get out of tempo and they don't give a nice bass sound, its wayyyy too acute. Try to work more on the sound of the drums cuz It will give your music a more strong shape.

Keep on the good work guys.

I won't discus originality, but damn that was boring.

Another epic black Melodic/Classical metal act. Nice songs.