On 25th June 2016, Vicious Nature released their brand new DVD ‘Ex Cineribus’.The DVD contains a mixture of music videos, live footage, interviews plus many more features.
Drummer JB explains: “The title of the DVD, Ex Cineribus means ‘from the ashes’….which is significant due to Vicious Nature being a project formed from the ashes of Marshall Law, Cloven Hoof and Cerebral Fix.”
Track listing for the DVD is as follows:
Salvation
Fight For Your Life
Killing Me
Breathless
Dragging Us Under
The Silence That Kills
Vicious Nature are:
Andy Southwell – Guitar (ex Marshall Law)
Mark Culley – Bass (ex Cerebral Fix, Drown)
Andy Pyke – Vocals (ex Marshall Law)
Jon “JB” Brown – Drums (ex Cloven Hoof)
Notes:A long overdue headline show for Daylight Robbery at The Robin 2. Daylight Robbery have emerged as one of the great British hopes for heavy melodic rock. Their new album ‘Falling Back to Earth’ has been awarded two ‘album of the year’ awards by national rock magazines in the UK and Germany, as well as a ‘track of the year’ award in the UK for their tragic rock-ballad ‘Fallen Star’. They have received incredible live reviews from their appearances at festivals such as Sonisphere and Hard Rock Hell, touring with Uriah Heep and appearing at the NEC Genting Arena along with Whitesnake and Def Leppard where they will be returning to appear on the same night as Richie Blackmore’s Rainbow.
Daylight Robbery now have two acclaimed albums under their belts – ‘Cross Your Heart’ and ‘Falling Back to Earth’. Both albums receiving great reviews around the world with the main UK rock press hailing their songs as ‘Anthems of monumental proportions’ (Fireworks Magazine), ‘Extremely impressive’ (Classic Rock Magazine) and ‘Excellent, one of the albums of the year!’ (Powerplay Magazine).
Their live reviews have been equally impressive……‘The band of the day’, ‘Stadium rockers in feel and execution’, ‘it’s a crime how good this band really is’……..do yourself a big favour – see and hear for yourself!!!
Vicious Nature
Vicious Nature were formed from the ashes of Marshall Law, Cloven Hoof and Cerebral Fix. The band were formed in 2012 and since then have played a number of prestigious live shows in the U.K, the most notable being HAMMERFEST V. This being the launch show for their debut E.P……”FIGHT FOR YOUR LIFE” which has received some excellent reviews and the guys believe captured the true” spirit “and “power” of VICIOUS NATURE. 2014 has seen the birth of the second E.P from the guys “SALVATION”, a slightly darker and heavier offering which was premiered on the legendary Johnny Doom “METAL AT MIDNIGHT” show on Planet Rock and is currently getting air play and critical acclaim from a world-wide audience…..
The Ian Danter Band
Ian Danter has been best known for over ten years in the UK as a radio broadcaster on Talksport and more recently, Planet Rock. However, prior to his early career in broadcasting, Ian was the drummer for Midlands sleaze-legends ‘Shotgun Wedding’, and upon their disbanding……Ian established himself as his alter-ego Peter Criss with Kiss Tribute legends ‘Dressed to Kill’. His debut album ‘Prove You Wrong’ received great acclaim and spurred Ian on to write the follow-up ‘Second Time Around’ which was again engineered and produced by his good friend, Alex Cooper This album continues to receive excellent reviews.
We are thrilled to announce that Vicious Nature will be joining the already incredible line up at this years Bloodstock Open Air 2016. They will performing on the Jägermeister Stage on Saturday 13th August.
So, to sum up Friday night and the M2TM competition... 5 incredible bands battled it out to play on the Hobgoblin New Blood stage at Bloodstock Open Air 2016. From personal experience, playing BOA is a fantastic opportunity for any band and is well worth putting in the hard work and effort involved. Not only that, but we set up a bundle of great prizes for the winning band, to help them on their journey to Bloodstock.
Anyway, the stage was set and the bands were all raring to go......all the organisers were feeling a mixture of nerves and excitement, as a promoter for M2TM you see bands progress over such a short time.....to see this makes it all worth it.
Husk
Each band played a blinding set - 30 minutes sometimes doesn't seem like long enough to get "your point" across, but every band gave it their absolute all. What was great to see was a full room for EVERY band that played - the support this year from fans/family and friends of the scene has been beyond what we expected...but...the less said about some fans/family the better! Moving on!
Slaughter Horse
We did not envy Simon Hall at all - his job in judging can't have been easy as every band honestly deserved their place on that stage. Husk set the bar so high from the start, but Slaughter Horse, Pilla, A Born Disaster and Ronin all stood up to the challenge and it was extremely hard to pick a winner! But, pick a winner Mr Hall did, and Husk are very worthy. Good job Simon!
The night was finished off with a stunning performance from 2015 Wolves M2TM winners XVII, proving why they deserved their spot on BOA last year.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank a few people personally....
Firstly, thanks as always to Matt & Nicola from Mayhem Promotions, good luck next year....have fun at Bloodstock!
Simon, pleasure as always mate and thanks for trusting us with your baby once again!
Wendy, Brett & the crew at The Giffard....thank you for your hospitality and for being excellent hosts for the heats/semis of the competition. Also big thanks to Kieron and Alex for giving your time every week to help judge, its a big commitment and we really appreciate it....hope you all enjoy the bottle of booze!
Tice & all the staff at Wolves Civic, excellent job as always!
PMT Birmingham for the loan of the equipment & the donations.
All our sponsors who helped or donated prizes....Fatangel Management, Very Metal Art, Robannas Studios, PMT Birmingham, TBFM & Smashmouth Metal
Tim & Kristina from Heavy Harlequin & Schattenrand for taking fantastic photographs and video footage...can't wait to see it all!
Pilla
A Born Disaster
Tim & Kristina from Heavy Harlequin & Schattenrand for taking fantastic photographs and video footage...can't wait to see it all!
Hils for the further advice & support, Alex & Phil Caldicott for the loan of their van and also their time & my LFR brother LC for helping me lug the equipment from one venue to another.
As some of you may be aware, this could well be Bearded Monkey's last turn on the M2TM merry go round...we'll be slightly busy soon once our little bearded (or not bearded) monkey pops out! There's a hell of a lot of time, effort and hard work that goes into the planning and running of all these events, but, nights like Friday night make it all worthwhile.
Congratulations to Husk! and great job by all of the finalists Slaughter Horse, Pilla, A Born Disaster & Ronin check them all out!
Dan & Claire
Bearded Monkey Management & Promotions
Ronin
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