shadowofacolyte
(East Midlands)
Sunday 4 Nov 2018, 3:30pm
Shadow of Acolyte are seeking an accomplished prog keyboard player who is able to play solos/harmonies along with strings/pads/mellotron parts.
We are a well-established four piece based across the East Midlands (Nottingham/Kettering/Coalville). We rehearse every Tuesday in Loughborough for two hours (8-10 pm) so availability on that night is absolutely essential. As is own transport and good quality equipment.
We are a driven, serious and committed band with a vision already in place - we are looking for someone to come on board who can share our goals and passion.
We have already released a debut album in 2013, a concept album called ‘Nicene Creed’ and have just released this January, a four track E.P. that went straight to #1 on Amazon’s Digital Hard Rock and Metal Bestselling Album Releases. We have been playing shows since June 2017 and are currently averaging one show per month.
Our earlier music is a mixture of melodic hard rock and classic heavy metal with some progressive rock influences. However, our new material is more progressive influenced with lots of time signature changes with layers of keys etc. Whilst most of our songs are rockers, we do incorporate some odd time signatures such as 7/8 and 9/8 so the ability to play in those is essential.
We are looking to explore musical territory and make some ‘thinking man’s’ melodic progressive hard rock/metal.
We have had reviews in Powerplay magazine, interviews in Fireworks and been featured on the cover CDs a couple of times.
We play all our own material, with very occasionally one Iron Maiden cover like Powerslave or Revelations.
We are extremely well organised, and use Google Drive for storing our digital assets etc.
Our new album is all demoed and there are loads of keys on it including some solos. We are currently having some discussions with some well known prog musicians to play on/mix the new material too.
Rather than list all our influences, they can be summed up as:
Classic Metal (Iron Maiden etc)
Progressive Rock/Metal (Dream Theater/Threshold/King Crimson/Marillion)
Our ages range from mid-twenties to mid-thirties.
Our website has links to all our social media presence and music;
http://www.shadowofacolyte.co.uk
Contact us on here, or on Facebook or drop us an email on contact@shadowofacolyte.co.uk - if you have recent links or videos of your playing that would be beneficial.
Thanks!