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FATE

FATE recently released a brand new album, ”Ghosts From The Past”. Does the name sound

familiar? FATE was iconic in the 80's but took a knock in the mid 90's when grunge and R&B

became the people's favorite choice of music. FATE is back, with a new line-up, but nothing has

changed. Following their recent release party in Copenhagen, we wanted you to know a little more

about them.

Tell us how your band came to be:

Formed back in 1984 when guitarist Hank Sherman left Mercyful Fate. Hank wanted to do

something different and hooked up with fellow Copenhagen musicians, bass player Pete Steiner

(a.k.a. Peter Steincke), drummer Bob Lance (a.k.a. Bjarne Holm) and singer and entertainer Jeff

"Lox" Limbo. The first record deal came instant and after that things took off.

Are your albums based on a particular theme, or is it the songs as individuals?

Our albums are songs as individuals, not themes, but maybe we will do a theme album one day!

Who influence you?

Van Halen, Journey among others. As time has gone by we, of course, have other bands as well.

Where do you see yourself genre-wise?

Melodic Hard Rock! It’s the same as always!

The highlight of your career so far?

To many to pick just one, but in later years Deep Impact Festival, the gig in Madrid Spain and our

gigs in Sweden

Any plans on touring?

Yes but we are keeping that to ourselves for the moment but we will be hitting the road in 2012 for

sure

Any words for the world?

Be sure to check out the new album and we hope to see you on the road somewhere. Cheers!

FATE is:

Dagfinn Joenson – Vocals

Jens Berglid – Drums

Torben Enevoldsen – Guitar

Mikkel Henderson – Keys

Peter Steincke - Bass

FATE releases over the years:

FATE – 1985

A Matter Of Attitude – 1986

Cruisin' For A Bruisin – 1988

Scratch 'N 'Sniff – 1990

V – 2004

Ghosts From The Past – 2011

Puppets above, known as Ravenscry, released their first full-length album, ”One Way Out”, April

15th 2011. We wanted to know more about them and lead singer Giulia Stefani, was kind enough to

answer our questionnaire.


The band formed officially in 28th August 2008 near Milano, with Paul Raimondi and Mauro

Paganelli on guitars, Fagio on bass guitar and Simon Carminati at the drums. They put an

announcement on a website to find a singer, I was impressed by the project so I contacted them

proposing my version of “Nostalgia” from Stream Of Passion…

They contacted me back to set up an audition during which a strong feeling was immediately

created, both in terms of human and artistic. So I became the singer of Ravenscry.


Each song was born separated from the others but, at a careful reading, the entire album can show

a mutual theme working its way through all our songs: a strong wish to exist, to express oneself

and get one’s independence, to compete with anyone without class distinction, according to one’s

merits.

Who influence you?

The sound of Ravenscry has several main components: the metal riffing, inspired by bands like

Fear Factory and Meshuggah, the melodic female voice, similar to Within Temptation or

Evanescence; atmospheres, sometimes electronic and sometimes classical, which can be found,

for example, in the Lucassen’s and Einaudi’s projects, much appreciated by us all. Along with this

we also bring out the influences and the expressiveness of each of us, trying to create a style as

personal and original as possible.


We feel part of each genre our fans think we belong to...we are not fanatics of a particular genre,

how I've just said: we like to let talk the different influences of each member. In my opinion, this is

the only way to make music expressing oneself, this is the only way to make the music your life! I

think this will be even more evident in the next album...


No doubts: the Scandinavian tour! We got warmth we have never felt before. I'm talking about both

the crowd and the professionals we had to cooperate with! We have noticed a great respect for our

job and we have been glad to put out music in the service of people like that.


After the Scandinavian experience, we'll try to set everything up as soon as we can, especially in

relation to Germany, USA and Japan, because we are getting a good feedback from these

countries. We are very happy about it, 'cause we think that this audience is well open and prepared

regarding rock and metal music. At the meantime we'll continue to promote our album at the best

that we can in many countries and writing new music, trying to add something new but still

sounding Ravenscry!


Are you disappointed? Don't pray, believe in yourself only!

”One Way Out” is available on iTunes

SUMMONED TIDE

Summoned Tide from Sweden, ready to claim the world. We asked them our basic questions of

how's and why's.


Rickard and Jimi met in high school and started a band that didn't really work out. Rickard then told

Mikael, his brother, to start play guitar. Mikael's best friend Nicklas knew the art of drums and got

introduced to the band. As we progressed we were still missing a bass. Jennifer, Rickards ex-

girlfriend, who knew nothing about bass bought one and joined in as our fifth member. We live in a

small community and good musicians with great personality are really hard to find. We all know

each other and we have grown into a family now thanks to careful choice of members, great

people with great ambitions and personalities. The band came to be Summoned Tide.


Simple to say it's about feelings, kind of a theme but not written in a straight storyline, but the

thread is there.

Who influence you?

We all have different influences. From Iron Maiden, Hammerfall, Black Sabbath, Rush, to Dream

Theater, Symphony X, Edguy and many more.


Hard to say. We have such a wide genre. we'd say Progressive Heavy Metal or as we call it new

season epic metal, but as we said it's hard to say. We play what we like and write the songs after

the right feeling not the right pattern.


Sweden Rock Festival, House of Metal, venturing abroad to Russia and Poland, having our music

on radio world-wide and great response from existing and new fans.


Yes! Though we can't tell time and place.


We are coming to get you! Support us as we claim to the top!

Summoned Tide consists of:

Rickard Thelin - Guitar / Vocal

Jennifer Sikström - Bass / Vocal

Nicklas Åström - Drums

Mikael Thelin - Guitar

Jimi Toivanen - Synth

DEATHSTARS

Some of the best metal comes from Sweden and Deathstars are no exception. Since the

formation in the year 2000, their industrial tunes have become a cult phenomenon throughout the

world. We learned that they were visiting Denmark, performing close to our base, so we decided

that the band should be our main feature for this issue. What better, than to send their biggest fan

to a little meet and greet, ask a few questions to answers you might want yourself. Follow these

next pages and learn more about Deathstars.

Deathstars, backstage in venue, Kansas City, in Odense Denmark. Odense is the 3rd largest city in

Denmark, located on the island, Fyn.

Setting things in motion

As I was sitting here, planning this issue, I really didn’t have a hard time picking a new main

feature. There were enough bands to choose from. What I didn’t expect was the phone call from

RAMM’s booker, Majbritt:

“What do you think about an interview with Deathstars, for the magazine?”

I told her, that I didn’t have time to go to Odense that day, so she offered to it herself. Well, if she

could make it happen, I wouldn’t object. Since this is Majbritt’s favorite band, who better than her to

meet them? So she set off, hooked up with photographer Kasper Fladmose, the RAMM

questionnaire in hand, and this is how it went down:


Me and Öhman started out in a black metal band called Swordmaster, and we got tired of doing

that after, like, three albums. Then we started writing songs, initially, on piano and using

synthesizers, using other vocals and so on. We started to elaborate on that and we started to

experiment and then Deathstars came to be.

Are your albums based on a theme or is it the songs as individuals?

Individuals, there is no concept, it’s about different aspects, things in our everyday life. It’s about

conflicts, always with dark aspects and stuff. The song Blitzkrieg, is about a conflict inside, it’s all

about nailing down a certain kind of mood, every song needs a mood, I think it’s more important

than telling stories to us. They live in symbioses, that’s very important, that you get the right vibe

from it. The vibe is always in center so…

Who influence you?

Darkness.

Just darkness?

No, a lot of stuff, it could be a word – I can’t speak for the guys writing the music, but lyric-wise it

can be just a word or a feeling, what you experience, everything that you deal with all the time.

Where do you see yourselves genre-wise?

Rock, distorted, like a dark rock band.


For us, as a band, I think it was the release of Termination Bliss, we toured all the time. Something

happened in the band. Show-wise it could be Russia, cause you didn’t know what to expect or

South America. You get new impressions that can a highlight for a certain period.

And how was Russia?

Crazy, it’s always super fun. Another highlight was last summer when KISS came to our show and

they were at the VIP tables hanging out with us.

Tell us about your Rammstein support and how you came into consideration:

We’ve been talking back and forth with them for a couple of years, but it never added up schedule-

wise. I wrote them a text message, I wrote Till and he was like “yeah, alright, of course”

That was easy, yeah?

Yeah, but they really love Deathstars so…

Deathstars and a happy fan, or did the find their new member, Super Furry Animal?

How will this affect Deathstars in the future?

I don’t think we care that much actually, it’s wrong to have expectations on how things happen, as

long as we work hard. As long as we do great music, it’s not like one single event will change that.

Now we’ve been having a break for over a year and the band seems more relaxed, it’s not like this

tour is “oh it has to generate something really big”, it’s more like a great experience, having a good

time and not thinking too much about what this can result in. We are not careerists; it’s more like

here and now and get the best of it. Of course, it’s fun playing for big crowds.

Your names, is there a story behind them?

Well they come from back when we started playing metal. Whiplasher, comes from Love It Out

Loud by KISS “Whiplash, heavy metal accident, bla bla I wanna be the president”, Bernadotte is

the name of the royal Swedish family, so it’s really sarcastic and I really hate the royal family

so…Skinny is very skinny and likes disco, see, it’s not that hard.

What about Nightmare Industries?

Nightmare is just a name that’s been following him, he was actually just called Night in the very

beginning. Cat is just young, he is just like….a kitty, and now we have Oscar Leander on drums,

his name is Vice. He didn’t agree on being called, Little Furry Super Animal, so that’s why.

Any words for the world, perhaps on the new release?

Well, it’s a compilation, a celebration on the past 10 years. Something from the past, present and

the future.

Deathstars released Greatest Hits On Earth, November 4th, 2011.

They went on tour with Rammstein, November 2nd, 2011

For a fully detailed bio, visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deathstars.

Thanks to Majbritt Kesseldorf for doing the interview and Kasper Fladmose of Fladmose

Photography for shooting the band.

Deathstars live, Kansas City, Odense, Denmark, November 3rd, 2011

Deathstars consists of:

Whiplasher Bernadotte - Vocals

Nightmare Industries - Lead Guitar & Keys

Skinny Disco - Bass

Cat Casino - Guitar

Vice - Drums

Deathstars releases:

Synthetic Generation – 2002

Termination Bliss – 2006

Night Electric Night – 2009

Deathstars live, Kansas City, Odense, Denmark, November 3rd, 2011

R.A.M.?

What is R.A.M.M.? What turned out to be a cancelled festival, became so much more. Founder,

Claus Kikkenborg, gives his view on what was, what is and what is coming.

We are still small fishes in a pond full of sharks. In our minds we are huge, but on paper we do not

strike as very impressive. Not yet. But recent technology and online opportunities will get us there

eventually, through networking, hard work and a cool demeanor.

R.A.M.M. originates from at festival we tried to create a few years back, RamFest (short for rock

and metal festival, ed.), which was cancelled due to lack of funds. I spent a year, clearing my head,

and slowly I started to build a concept. When I was contacted by an old friend I just couldn’t resist

in the end.

R.A.M.M. came to be, as management at first. One evening I started to joke around what the short

term could be used for. Rock And Metal Models came first; why not use our own modeling agency

to promote our bands? One of the projects we will use when we enter 2012.

Rock And Metal Magazine (hey, that’s us! ed.) was the first spin-off we used. The idea was to

create a free magazine that could promote our bands, bringing news and hopefully interest towards

our roster.

The latest addition to our franchise is Rock And Metal Media, our very own label. We will be able to

publish digitally through Distrophonix to more than 400 stores worldwide, a project, we expect a lot

from in the future.

All this is made possible through the world wide web and we’re dying to get out there and make a

name for ourselves. Based on trust, hard work and believing in our bands and artists we strive to

set our mark on music worldwide.

The whole idea is to help upcoming, as well as established, bands and artists make a name for

themselves. As a general rule, we start by helping upcoming artists for free. We want to help as

many people as possible, which is hard with only two people at the helm. We’re recruiting in the

new year though, hoping to bring in local as well as some foreign power, to strengthen our team.

So there you have it. Don’t hesitate to contact us, we might be able to help you.

R.A.M.M. – it’s not a goat

REVIEWS

Ravenscry

Italy

One Way Out

Melodic Metal

One Way Out gives a great progressive approach. The electronic

touch is giving the album an interesting sound and the heavy riffs

gives a great contrast to Giulias Stefanis voice.

8/10

Apostate

Ukraine

Trapped In A Sleep

Doom Metal

Trapped In A Sleep, is doom when it’s best. It’s not overdone, has

a fair production and not too overwhelming. It may sound as

something you heard before and yet it doesn’t seem to fade in with

the rest. 7/10

Summoned Tide

Sweden

If We Fall We Will Rise

Power Metal

If We Fall We Will Rise, takes on an interesting journey with this

upcoming band. This is a solid debut from a very determined band

and If We Fall We Will Rise, could easily be the solid foundation for

a great career. 8/10

That’s all folks! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. See you in 2012!

R.A.M.M. would like to thank:

Majbritt Kesseldorf

Deathstars and their management

Giulia Stefani from Ravenscry

Summoned Tide

Jens Berglid from FATE

Harboe Cola

Apostate

The hackers that thought it was fun slipping us a virus

Black Succubi

Michelle Karlsson

Chainfist

Urquell and various other brands of beer

Veronica Freeman from Benedictum

Morten Schriver

Kasper Fladmose

Eddie Law

BETA

P.H. Caféen

Pitchblack

Frederick Thunder

Henning Nielsen

Martin Steene from Iron Fire

And all the other metalheads out there!

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