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The Demonstealer to cook a meal for fans!

Demonstealer Records has announced a new and innovative contest for fans who support and buy original music called “The Demon’s Dinner Party”. All fans who purchase music and merchandise through the month of Feb from the DSR OFFER section of the online retail store CDRack.in or the “Monday Specials” on the DSR Facebook page stand a chance to win an invite to the party.
What makes the party different is that the Demonstealer will cook dinner for the winners of the contest who will get to pick a member of their favourite DSR band (Demonic Resurrection, Albatross, Devoid & Workshop) to join them for dinner. Winners will also get to select what dish they want to eat from the Demonstealer’s cooking blog on Facebook.
“I’ve been posting recipes and photos of my food online for almost 2 years now and I’ve always had fans saying ‘open a restaurant’ or ‘let us taste your food’. So I figured this would be a great chance for fans to not only get to eat some of the food they’ve been seeing but also interact with their fav metal musicians. “ says Demonstealer.
Details on the entire contest can be found here.

Announcing the Resonate Music Award 2010

Resonate awardFollowing the success of the Resonate Music Award 2009, the launch of the 2010 award has been announced with some significant changes and new partnerships.

In line with the theme announced last year, the award aims to be a significant contribution towards an artist or band’s dream of releasing an album of international quality by opening the doors to recognition in the national and international music scene. With the help of many established music gurus covering many genres across India, the award will contribute not only towards the relieving some of the financial stress, but also towards guiding the artists to a successful music career.

In a change from last year’s conditions, the 2010 award pledges to award INR 50,000 to the winner to be spent on something tangible that helps the artist and eventually results in the release of professionally recorded material. The judging panel will pay special scrutiny to the artist’s proposal and select the winner based on a combination of the quality of demo and the artist’s vision for their careers and proposal for the award’s funds.

Deepak, the founder of The Resonate Music Award, and former frontman of Bangalore act Shrapnel says “We were blown away with the response and quality of the entries we received from all over India last year. We are proud to say that Gowri as well as Guillotine and Dark Horizon have recorded some quality music in the studio and we are proud to be associated with them. This year we are opening up the prize to be used for almost anything provided it is an intelligent stepping-stone to the release of the artist’s music. We’ve made struck some important partnerships and we will continue making announcements throughout the course of the award – at the end of the day we are constantly seeking avenues to help the Indian independent artist”

Joining the judging panel this year will be Bruce Lee Mani from Thermal and A Quarter. Continuing on from last year are also Nolan Lewis (Kryptos), Sahil Makhija (Demonic Resurrection), and Chris Avinash (Angeldust). Prasad Bhat (Extinct Reflections, Inviktus) of Graphicurry has agreed to sit down with the winning artist and assist forming/improving the artist’s brand and online identity.

Myopusradio.com joins as a media partner, and associations continue with Rolling Stone Magazine, Furtados, RadioVerve and Netbramha Studios.

Entries for the 2010 Resonate Award are now open and close on the 20th of December 2010 with the winner being announced shortly after. For more information about how to apply and who can partake, please visit www.resonate.in.

DR launches ‘The Unrelenting Guitar Cover Contest’

DR-New logoIndian Metallers Demonic Resurrection have announced ‘The Unrelenting Guitar Cover Contest’  inviting their fans to upload a guitar cover of the song ‘The Unrelenting Surge Of Vengeance’ from the latest album ‘The Return To Darkness’. Fans can upload their videos on youtube and email the links to the band at demonic.resurrection.online@gmail.com or even post the link on
their facebook page.
The band has even uploaded guitar tabs for the song as well as a minus 1 track for fans to play over. The winning fan becomes ‘Fan of the month’ of their monthly fan programs and wins an ESP Guitar T-Shirt along with lots of DR merch like plectrums, wristbands and caps and also a signed copy of the new album.
All the details for the contest are posted here.
The Unrelenting Surge Of Vengeance music video was released in January by the band and their new album ‘The Return To Darkness’ released on Candlelight Records in UK & Europe on July 16th and is scheduled for a January released in the USA via Candlelight Records.

Demonstealer Records to release Dimmu Borgir’s latest album ‘Abrahadabra’ in India

DimmuDemonstealer Records is all set to release the kings of black metal Dimmu Borgir’s latest album Abrahadabra in India on October 15th 2010. The album will be released in jewel case format and will come with a special poster and sticker. DSR will also be releasing an official Dimmu Borgir t-shirt in India as well.

Abrahadabra is the band’s ninth studio album and features an ensemble orchestra (the Norwegian Radio Orchestra), as well as the Schola Cantorum choir. ‘Abrahadabra’, loosely translated as “I will create as I speak”, was created by author Aleister Crowley in his work, Liber AL vel Legis, or The Book of the Law. This album is the second in the band’s repertoire to deviate from the traditional three-word title. The album cover artwork was designed by Joachim Luetke who previously worked on the bands two albums ‘Death Cult Armageddon’ and ‘In Sorte Diaboli’.

The band released their 1st single from the album titled ‘Gateways’ on their Myspace page (www.myspace.com/dimmuborgir)

Dimmu Borgir recently revealed the tracklist & cover art for the album.

Tracklist:

1. Xibir (2:50)

2. Born Treacherous (5:02)

3. Gateways (5:10)

4. Chess With The Abyss (4:08)

5. Dimmu Borgir (5:35)

6. Ritualist (5:13)

7. The Demiurge Molecule (5:29)

8. A Jewel Traced Through Coal (5:16)

9. Renewal (4:11)

10. Endings And Continuations (5:58)

The album and t-shirt can be pre-ordered from the Demonstealer Records webstore located at www.demonstealerrecords.com/shop

Demonstealer Records had previously released Behemoth’s Evangelion in 2009 in a special black box edition.

Demonic Resurrection signed by Candlelight Records UK!!

Demonic ResurrectionFronted by Sahil “The Demonstealer” Makhija, Demonic Resurrection has been one of India’s most prominent metal acts for some time, having toured throughout India in the Resurrection Tour sometime back and playing their own mix of symphonic black metal and death metal in the gr1m forests of the tr00 and kvlt black metal nation, Norway.

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