Magica

Magica started in February 2002 as a project of Bogdan Costea, directly with the recordings for the 1st album “The Scroll of Stone” (having more of a demo purpose). After 2 months of intense work, the material was ready! 12 power melodic heavy metal songs, in the vein of Rhapsody, Nightwish, and Helloween, which show the high potential of the band. After the songs were ready Bogdan recruited the members of the band.
The second album, “Lightseeker”, has been launched in October 2004 in France through Underclass Music .
Magica’s first video, “Bittersweet Nightshade”, was ready on February 10, 2005. Magica has been featured in the famous “Metallian” and “Rock Hard Magazine”.
In 2006 the band had the pleasure of touring Europe opening for After Forever and Nightmare, Apocalyptica and Leaves Eyes .

The third album is called Hereafter and was recorded in the autumn of 2006 but due to label change, it was released at 19 October 2007 via AFM Records Germany. 2 videos were shot for this album, ” All waters have the colour of drowning” and “Entangled”.
In November 2007 Ana was invited to take part in the huge Hellish Rock tour alongside Helloween, Gamma Ray and Axxis for 3 months of intense touring . It was a unforgetable experience. Check out the tourreport.

2008 was the year of the “Wolves and witches” album.
2010 brings a brand new studio work, intitled “Dark Diary” . A lot more production efforts are thrown into this release and the band can’t wait to go on the road and play the songs live.


today Magica is :

Ana Mladinovici - vocals,
Bogdan Costea - guitar,
Hertz - drums,
Sorin Vlad - bass,
6fingers - keys

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Lightseeker : Click Here

Whyzdom

The Whyzdom project started in early 2007. Vynce Leff, more known in the progressive area, for producing several albums signed on the british label CYCLOPS RECORDS (bands : Saens, Sensitive To Light), decided to start a new metal band with symphonic elements. After auditioning many singers to fit the particular sound of the first compositions, he meets Telya, a young singer/actress, fond of metal and symphonic music as well as theater. Finding the rest of the band happens very quickly, since Vynce has many contacts among other bands he collaborated with : Regis Morin and Tristan Demurger join WHYZDOM in February, then Nico Chaumeaux (a talented drumming teacher) and Marc Ruhlmann. Anthony Lopez takes care of the sound engineering.

Many contacts are then enthusiasted by the first demo. Among them, VULTUS Creations, FLORENT CUAZ (alias CORTEZ77) and GHISLAINE PUJOL, come to our help, working for the visual aspect of the project. That’s why, thanks to VULTUS and the CHATEAU DE CULAN, it is decided to shoot a first video clip with a great and fantastic crew.

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From The Brink Of Infinity (2009) : Click Here

Mandrake

There are several bands bearing the name Mandrake;

1) Mandrake, Gothic Metal band from Germany:

The German Band Mandrake was brought to life by Lutz de Putter in the wastelands of northern germany (“Ostfriesland”) in the late 90`s. In 1998, the self-produced album Forever was recorded, presenting the band as a mixture of slow death-metal and elements of the gothic-scene. Female vocals were rare and sung by a guest-vocalist. In 1999, Birgit Lau joined the band and her part became bigger and bigger. After several demos, in 2003, Mandrake signed a contract with the label Greyfall/Prophecy Productions.

The label-debut Calm the Seas was released at the end of 2003. For the first time, this record presents the current line-up with Garvin Bösch on Bass-guitar and Jörg Uken on drums. Live-keyboarder Julius Martinek also became a full member, but soon prefered electric guitars.

The music of Mandrake is voluptuous, sometimes epic, sometimes fragile, supported by “real” strings, low guitars and powered by pounding drums. Above all, the significant voice of Birgit. Lyrics and music often deal with the forces of nature, especially water, and the desire to reach distant shores and galaxies.

The term mandrake (mandragora) is taken from a poisonous plant which is a symbol for spiritual and supernatural powers.

2) Mandrake was an obscure progressive rock band from Japan. The band was formed in the mid-seventies by Susumu Hirasawa as one of the pioneers of native original progressive rock music in Japan.

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MANDRAKE – The Balance Of Blue (2005) : Click Here 
Bonus CD :
01.: A Poet’s Serenade
02.: Who’s That Girl
03.: Pictures Of You
04.: Stay
05.: Fade To Black (Metallica Cover)
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Denia

Biography

DENIA is a side project to the band "NO LIFE AFTER LOVE" originally formed by Joey Denia (Songwritter) Maria Jose Erena (vocals) and Mario Infantes (Massakre Zombie, God Bless Us) in early 2009. In mid 2009 the band released their first LP called "No Life After Love" composed of 18 tracks and almost 80 minutes of music. The album was produced by Joey Denia and Jacky Roads in Hardleywood Records. . The fact that our first cd this consists of 18 tracks is the result of a compulsive need to create songs to express in a more visceral, our environment, our difficulties ... In fact, this project was born out of a traumatic experience. Soon you will know the new members of Denia. Currently, and while everything flows, the band doesn..t compose and are in full recording of their new album whose release date is scheduled for early / mid 2010. Denia.

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Beseech

Borås, Sweden (1992 – 2006)

A Swedish gothic metal/rock band, Beseech started out in Borås (near Gothenburg) in 1992, and after creating a demo, they became involved with the underground scene. In 1995, they recorded their first album, …From a Bleeding Heart, but due to the label having financial problems, it was not released until 1998, under the label of Metal Blade. In mid-2000, they released their second album, Black Emotions, and from that point, their career took off. The next albums, Souls Highway (2002) and Drama (2004) showed that the line-up changes affected the music in a way that many liked and others criticized. In 2005, they released Sunless Days, probably their most mature album.

In autumn of 2006, the band announced that Beseech would be put to rest for good: “We have grown apart from each other as persons and we have different views of how we want Beseech to work as a band.”

In 2007, Beseech’s Web site announced that their members had formed two new bands: The Mary Major, which contains 6 out of the 7 band members, and Those We Don’t Speak Of, with the remaining band member.

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Souls Highway (2002) : Click Here

Draconian

There are multiple artists with this name:

1) Draconian is a Swedish gothic doom metal band, formed in Säffle, Sweden in 1994. The band consists of Anders Jacobsson (vocals, writing), Lisa Johansson (vocals), Johan Ericson (guitars, writing), Jerry Torstensson (drums, percussion), Daniel Arvidsson (guitars), Fredrik Johansson (bass), and Andreas Karlsson (keyboards, programming). They produce songs with atmospheric, melodic, and emotive characteristics.

In May of 1994, drummer and vocalist Johan Ericson, bassist and vocalist Jesper Stolpe and guitarist Andy Hindenäs assembled the band Kerberos, initially playing melodic death metal with black metal influences. Seven months later, lead vocalist and lyrics composer Anders Jacobsson joined the band, and its name changed to Draconian.

Their first demo — Shades of a Lost Moon — was recorded in October 1995, a week subsequent to their first live concert. The demo counted with flutist and vocalist Jessica Eriksson, keyboardist and vocalist Susanne Arvidsson and with a special participation of Andreas Haag on the introductory section of “My Nemesis”. The album was released in February, 1996. The band was then joined by guitatist Magnus Bergström.

No recording contract was obtained with Shades of a Lost Moon, so in early 1997 the band proceeded to record their second demo, entitled In Glorious Victory. The band, however, became discontent with the quality of the recording and discontinued the release.

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Where Lovers Mourn (2003) : Click Here

Mortal Love

Biography

Mortal Love is a Norwegian metal band which is currently signed to Massacre Records. Their sound makes combined use of soprano and tenor vocals, whilst placing emphasis on a consistent rhythm section with heavy guitars, piano and synthesizer melodies. Their first three releases, which lyrically dealt with love and failed relationships, were composed as a trilogy, as can be observed from combining the titles of the albums (All the Beauty, I Have Lost and Forever Will Be Gone). The band released the final album of the trilogy on 22 September 2006. On their website, they have announced the band is currently writing songs for a new album which might be released in 2010.

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Forever Will Be Gone : Click Here 
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