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Shadowside Win International Music Contest; Announce New Lineup

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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.

Source: bravewords.com

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