OF THE ARCHAENGEL enter studio and starts to record new album
In the last July 13, OF THE ARCHAENGEL enter in studio to record their “debut” full lenght album without a title till this moment.

The recordings are taking place at Scremin Studio in São Paulo-Brazil, a studio where recently was recorded the solo album of the current André Mato's band guitar player André Hernades.

“We will use at the OA album some studio techniques shared by the producer Roy -Z (Bruce Dickinson, Judas Priest, Halford) in his last Brazilian visitation, and the expactations of course is to obtain an excepcional result to this project” says Gus Scremin producer and sound engineer.

“After extense research, we decided to work with Gus and his studio because of its extreme musical refinement and its experience on working with high-level productions. In fact this points are requirements and are needs of our songs since we work with a lot of musical elements and it´s not that simple to make all of this sounds good, clearly and in accordance on what we idealize for the album as final result” says Alex, the band former of the group.

The band made available a studio report with English translations coming soon.

Check it out by clicking here.

 

Free download of the single “The Dante´s Children Extravagance”
OF THE ARCHAENGEL announces that made downloadable its promotional CD"The Dante's Children Extravagance: Chapter Alpha"
You can download it for free at the band´s My Space

www.myspace.com/ofthearchaengel

Interviews at Elegy Iberica and 7 Gates of Hell Mags.
In April, OF THE ARCHAENGEL have their name highlighted by being part of interviews in 2 European publications.

The first one is the alternative Portuguese magazine ELEGY IBERICA were is featured a full page interview in this 09 issue where the band gives with exclusivity the first details on its future release to come this year.

The extreme magazine 7 GATES OF HELL also leave the Archaengelic speech reaches the Polish metalheads at its #21 through a 1.1/2 page interview.

OF THE ARCHAENGEL would like to send their bleesings to this publications for their very appreciable support.


OF THE ARCHAENGEL welcomes new Finnish guitar player.
Brazilian metallers OF THE ARCHAENGEL have announced their new line-up and welcome new guitarist, Timo Kaarkoski.  Timo, who was born in Helsinki, Finland now officially has the position of guitarist, which was left by Alex Rodrigues, who will be in charge of the band's vocals on live performances.

Timo comments: "For me it was a great surprise to find a band making the kind of sound which OF THE ARCHAENGEL does, and the most unexpectable thing is that I discovered it through a Finnish fan of them, and when I knew that there was an opportunity to join the band I immediately got interested and now we are here to rock on!"

With this change the Of the Archaengel's line-up features: Alex Rodrigues - vocals, - Timo Kaarkoski - lead guitars, Paulo Moura - guitars / keyboards, Lucas Barone - bass and Pedro Alzaga - drums.

Of The Archaengel is formed from the ashes of LETHAL CURSE, which began the activities in 1992.

Samples of the band's work are available on MySpace


OF THE ARCHAENGEL Press Acclaim:
The first band´s recording after the adoption of the brand new name OF THE ARCHAENGEL the promo-single CD “The Dante´s Children Extravagance” are awakening a huge enthusiasm and appreciation at the most diverse press channels including the main specialized magazines from their homeland of Brazil. Rock Brigade, the biggest South American magazine choose OF THE ARCHAENGEL as the “highlight of its #236 edition” Check-out what is being said:

“everything here is extremely professional: from the graphical production to the sound production, from the web site to the songs, from the song´s arrangements to the performance, everything that differentiates real bands from the ones that are only playing making music is featured at this recording”
-Rock Brigade Magazine-

“… a great national revelation for shure!” -Novo Metal-

 “The Dante´s Children Extravagance” is a very well composed demo, from a mature band ready to give bigger steps. Quality and professionalism indeed don’t lack – 4/4” -All the Bangers-

“… a mature band that knows what is doing. 10/10” -Metal Hearer-

“ pretty enjoyable! The overall composition seems pretty interesting! I can't think of many bands who sound similar...” -Peaceville Records / Paul Groundwell-

OF THE ARCHAENGEL finish pre-production :
The band has material composed and pre-produced for their new album, and started the preparations to enter in studio to record their 2° album. More details coming soon.


OF THE ARCHAENGEL official Myspace
The band wishes to say thanks to all of you who paid a visit to their myspace site. If you haven’t had a look yet, why don’t you check the official OF THE ARCHAENGEL myspace home at www.myspace.com/ofthearchaengel and listen to exclusive tracks only available there. OF THE ARCHAENGEL is looking forward to meet you there as new friends!


OF THE ARCHAENGEL is the result of the obstinate work of musicians engaged in developing a singular sonority able to be discernible on the nowadays over populated heavy music universe. Refusing to dwell on one musical dimension alone, the band has a great pallet of influences that reach distant limits due to an eclectic line-up with musicians coming from distinct scenes and owners of different backgrounds.

Their music has a lush and surprising song structure with notable diversity of moods, dynamics and atmospheres where the guitarist Alex Rodrigues (also the band´s former) and his composition partner Paulo Moura creates through the contrast of different polarities, the musical “duality” inherent to the OF THE ARCHAENGEL´s music, that allied to the dramatics contours of its vocalist, the synthesizers interventions (also in charge of Paulo Moura) and the refined technique of their drummer gives to this band an intriguing...
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The interview below is a compilation of questions made by the following interviewers: Antonio C.Magalhães: Rock Brigade Mag. /// Jaime Amorim: Metal Vox /// Frank Gonçalves:Novo Metal /// Rosberg Lima: Brutalism ) and answered by Alex Rodrigues (G).
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