Shadowside
Formed: 2001
From:
Santos,
Brazil
Last Known Status: Active
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Dendura Joins Flight Of The Valkyries Festival
Dendura (USA), the Egyptian-inspired, female-fronted progressive band with belly dancers, will join co-headliners Unexpect (Canada) and Shadowside (Brazil) for the second-annual Flight of the Valkyries festival at Station 4 in St. Paul, MN, on Saturday June 28. Flight of the Valkyries is the only festival in the USA to feature a complete lineup of female-fronted metal bands.
“I am really pumped about the festival,” says Dendura drummer Justin Lee Dixon. “Exposing your sound and style to a whole new group of people is always exciting and, being that all the bands are female fronted, we are all happy to be a part of an event that is bringing together this ever-growing genre of music. But what I anticipate the most is sharing the stage with many talented musicians.”
Belly dancer Abida Blaze, who is known for her exotic, mysterious moves, will join Dendura onstage at the festival.
This year, the festival headliners bring a big dose of metal from Canada and Brazil. Unexpect recently toured with Epica, Echoes of Eternity and Trail of Tears. Shadowside is a rising star in the Brazilian metal scene.
Minnesota-based artists Something to Fear and Aria Sharp have also been announced and additional bands will be confirmed in the coming months.
Flight of the Valkyries is the only music festival of its kind in the USA that is devoted to metal bands with female lead vocalists. The festival showcases all metal sub-genres. The festival debuted in 2007 and showcased a variety of female-fronted metal bands including Doro, Vainglory, Earthen, The Ottoman Empire, Visideon, Spiritual Decay and Sirens of Titan.
Meanwhile, 2008 is already turning into a big year for Dendura. The band recently signed with KillZone Records, scored distribution with Nightmare Records and they’re discussing their next album with a Grammy-winning producer. In addition, they played high-profile concerts including a show with Edguy (Who did some 2007 dates in Germany with Aerosmith) and they have a track on the US ProgPower 2007 compilation given to everyone who attended the sold-out, national festival in Atlanta starring After Forever and Sonata Arctica.
Shadowside Win International Music Contest
SHADOWSIDE have won the All Things Digital Hard Rock / Heavy Metal Artist Contest run by AirPlay Direct, Vigilante Music, Inside Strategy and Indianapolis Metal Fest.
For Dani Nolden, Shadowside's lead singer, this prize crowns the success they have been achieving in North America.
“We’re really proud of winning this. We didn’t expect a Brazilian band would come out as the winner, due to the distance. Bands worldwide entered the contest and that makes everything even more important. Before we were even notified of the victory, we were already receiving lots of messages on MySpace congratulating us, which demonstrates the exposition this competition had. This is wonderful to us!”
Throughout the month of July, AirPlay Direct, Vigilante Music, Inside Strategy and Indianapolis Metal Fest reviewed material from all the bands until the winner’s choice. As a prize, Shadowside will receive a promo campaign in North America and Europe, as well as performing on Indianapolis Metal Fest on September 22nd in Indianapolis, IN.
It’s worth mentioning Shadowside entered the contest with songs 'Highlight', 'Here To Stay' and 'Red Storm', tracks from the Theatre of Shadows album.
Also, Shadowside announce the addition of guitarist Raphael “Micheaut” Mattos. He replaces Bill Shadow, who left for personal reasons and not having music as priority.
“We have no problems with him whatsoever, we’re all still friends and everything happened in the most pacific way possible. Bill called me, talked about how he was feeling and decided he wanted to go for something else in his life. We wish him the best and welcome Raphael, an extremely easy-going, fun guy and insane guitarist! He has an amazingly heavy style and is the perfect musicians for us, I’m pretty sure our fans will be gobsmacked with him!”
Shadowside’s current lineup is Dani Nolden (vocals), Raphael Mattos (guitars), Fernando Peto (bass) and Fabio Buitvidas (drums). As of this moment, the quartet goes on with the pre-production of the new album, with a scheduled fall 2008 release.