Snovonne (SVK/USA/FIN) -
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A brave mix of temper and heavy riffs with fragile and heart-breaking melodies. Pure elegance in all the dark shades full of expression and emotion. Every word she writes and each note she sings is lived through to the bone. This authenticity makes the Sno-fans personally relate to her – they even translate the lyrics into different languages and present them on their profiles as something that defines their personality. Rock and metal is where Sno feels at home but she usually mixes in elements from different genres. As she says: "it’s depending on what the song needs".
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Jtr Sickert (IT)
The band was formed during the Spring of 2005 from an idea of the guitarist/composer of that time, and then producer of electronic music and Tecno DJ, Daniele Rezzaghi. It’s with this fusion of electronic and heavy metal sounds that gave the incipit to the creation of this project. Shortly after, Rez contacted and proposed the idea to his friend and frontman, Billy T Cooper, who accepted enthusiastically. Together, they decided to include a female voice and shortly after, the singer Erika Miraglia was recruited, who positively shared the ideas of the two composers. Together they started work on their first two songs, and with the arrival of the rythmic section, made up from Pora “the King” B on drums and Klaus Mantovani, on bass, the band was completed.
The band now took on the name JTR Sickert, acronym of the 19th Century painter, Walter Richard Sickert, considered by the criminalist writer Patricia Cornwell, to be Jack The Ripper. Hence JTR
A year after its formation, the band recorded a 4 track demo at the Fear Studios (It), entitled “Everything is growing old”, which received good appraisal from the most important heavy metal magazines and webzines.
Almost at the same time, the group was taking on live gigs with a series of concerts with renowned Italian bands such as The Family, Godiva, Macbeth and the well known German band Das Ich, taking part in the second edition of the DarkFest, as opening act for Roman Dope Star Inc.
During the Winter of 2007, for the first time, they appeared outside of Italy, at the Gaswerk in Switzerland, opening for the local and well-known group ( Mephisto System). A month later they opened at the Metal Legion Attack, sharing the stage with Sadist, Vision Divine, Domine and Node.
The band’s first album, “You deserve panic”, also recorded at the Fear Studios, published by the independent label “Bagana Records/Edel, came out in 2009, and was followed by the video “ Crystal night”, promo single of the album.
“You deserve panic” was considered by the press as the best album (2009) of its gender in the Italian underground scene, and was also exceptionally well appraised by European magazines, let alone an unexpected following amongst the public.
In the Spring of 2011, JTR toured together with “Theatres des Vampires”, during their European Tour, which visited countries like, Italy, Slovenia, Austria, Hungary and the Czech Republic, gathering fans along the way. It’s during this tour that Erika Miraglia is replaced by Sara Cucciniello, due to differences of opinions with group members. Sara will be with group ‘til the Summer of 2011.
Thanks to the fortunate acquaintance with TDV, singer Billy T Cooper sang a duet with Sonya Scarlet during their closing performance at the Viadana Open Air Festival 2011 with the Swedish band “ Dark Tranquillity.
It was at this time that Erika Miraglia, after 5 years, leaves the JTR Sickert project.
The band has just recently finished writing their songs for their new album, and is working on their next upcoming European Tour which starts in April 2012, together with TDV. Countries to be visited will be, in addition to the above mentioned, Turkey, Ukraine, Germany and Poland....
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HECATE (SVK)
Hecate was formed in 1996 in Slovakia. Originally, the band used to play dark doom/black metal. Currently, it plays atmospheric melodic metal spiced with a taste of alternative - its members aren't afraid of experimenting in other music styles, unlike the many orthodox bands of the Slovak metal scene.
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