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Jordanian Dark Oriental metallers BILOCATE have inked a deal with the Italian label Code666 (Aural Music) to release their third studio album “Summoning the Bygones”. The album was mixed and mastered at Fascination Street Studio in Sweden with producer Jens Bogren (OPETH, KATATONIA, BLOODBATH, AMON AMARTH, SYMPHONY X, PARADISE LOST).

"Summoning The Bygones" artwork and promo track will be announced soon. Video footage from the studio diary can be seen below:

BILOCATE’s bassist Hani Al Abbadi commented on the deal: "Its an honor to join Code666 roster and a step forward in BILOCATE’s musical career, 'Summoning the Bygones' has the most intense and best material we’ve done so far. We are pleased to release it with a sub-label of one of the biggest musical companies in Italy – Aural Music”.

“'Summoning The Bygones' is an old vision with a totally new arrangement, we took the tracks and rewrote many parts of their music and lyrics from scratch but kept the old spirit that everyone enjoyed in 'Dysphoria', the album will remind our fans of what we’ve given them before but they will surly feel the change… it has many passages and will carry you into a heavy, fast, dark oriental Metal journey”, commented vocalist Ramzi Essayed.

Added Code666 label manager Emi:

"Having been a personal long-time fan of the band, there was no way we would let this chance slip past us to sign them for the new album. As a label we haven't signed many Oriental Metal, but in BILOCATE we have found a high quality addition to our roster and are looking forward to working with the entire BILOCATE team in the future!”.

The album also includes a fully modified version of "Days Of Joy" under a new name "Hypia" (which is actually the very first name this song had originally when it was composed in 2003), in addition to a brand new song and a cover of "Dead Emotion" from one of the legends in Doom/Gothic Metal PARADISE LOST taken from their legendary album “Gothic” rearranged totally in BILOCATE style, it’s a way of celebrating 20 years from the release of this amazing record that created a whole new Metal genre.

The tracks ‘Hypia’ and the legendary 20-minute track ‘A Desire To Leave’ features the Metal icon Dan Swano as a guest vocalist.



The track-listing for the effort is as follows:

01 – The Tragedy Within (8:45)

02 – Beyond Inner Sleep (5:59)

03 – A Deadly Path (9:52)

04 – Passage (5:01)

05 – Dead Emotion (PARADISE LOST cover) (5:25)

06 – Hypia (Feat. Dan Swano) (9:34)

07 – 2nd War In Heaven (8:22)

08 – A Desire to Leave (Feat. Dan Swano) (19:51)

i. Obscurity

ii. Surrounding Hell

iii …Of Leaving


More info:
www.code666.com
www.auralmusic.com
www.bilocate.net
www.facebook.com/Bilocate

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Jordanian Dark Oriental Metallers BILOCATE recently inked a deal with Flaming Arts Agency (Behemoth, Novembers doom, Blood Red Throne, Hate, Hecate Enthroned...and more) as their official management and booking agency (worldwide) handling all band affairs in the music industry and to be the sole representative for all matters related to Bilocate affairs.

As Bilocate frontman and vocalist Ramzi Essayed commented on the deal "We've been in touch with them over the past years, and they've been always professional, helpful, and supportive and as we stand in a good relationship it's about time we take this a bit further therefore we’re very excited for this deal as it’s definitely another successful step in Bilocate's musical career"


The Flaming Arts Agency is a music management, booking and development company who represents and consults bands and musicians of extreme Metal. Founded in 2002 by Vadim Khomich the company started out as booking in the Russian states and quickly grew to the biggest booking agency in Russia for extreme music booking bands such as Papa Roach, Behemoth, Ill Nino, Cannibal Corpse, Chimaira, Sepultura, Within Temptation, Vader, Dismember, Dying Fetus, Cradle Of Filth, The Cult, Testament, Devil Driver and many more.

Following the success of the Russian territory, the company quickly grew worldwide and now book in UK, Western Europe, Asia and USA. Now fully fledged into management, booking and artist development the agency is one of the most reputable in Europe offering three different services for the extreme metal scene.

http://www.theflamingarts.eu/artists/

METAL ASYLUM (DXB) will be the host of two upcoming events featuring bands from around the middle east. First up, Saudi Arabia's Deathless Anguish (Death Metal) along with Bahrain's Motor Militia (Thrash Metal) will be axing some full on heavy metal goodness on July 22nd at Cheers Bar (The Lodge, Dubai). Tickets for the event cost 60 DHS; event is 21+. (For more information, visit the event's official page by clicking here)

Then on July 29th, METAL ASYLUM will be the host of RAM Battle Middle East. Which will feature bands from all around the Middle East battling out for big prizes; including tour stops in the Middle East, Europe and Asia; 6 hours worth of tracking time at one of UAE's premier studios (In The Mix Studio); 3,000 DHS voucher from Musician's Warehouse (Dubai); and clothing/merchandise from RAGE, Metal Mulisha and Metal Asylum.

Jordanian Dark Oriental Metal pioneers, BILOCATE, have also confirmed a special performance at RAM Battle; following their recent performance at Wave Gotik Treffen Festival (Leipzig, Germany).

Tickets for the event cost 70 DHS. RAM Battle will feature performances by COAT OF ARMS (Metalcore/UAE - Winners of RAM Battle UAE), REVELERZ (Alternative Rock/Kuwait), EXPLODE (Progressive Thrash Metal/Iran), among many others.
(For full information about RAM Battle, line-up, judges and more; visit the event's official page, by clicking here)

[PRESS RELEASE]

Jordanian dark oriental metallers BILOCATE have been confirmed for this year's Wave Gotik Treffen Festival, which will take place June 09 - June 13 in Leipzig, Germany. The band will play alongside doom and gothic international acts such as KATATONIA, ANATHEMA, TIAMAT, TRISTANIA and 266 other bands. BILOCATE will perform on stage on June 10 and will deliver an impressive set-list including songs from their latest album 'Sudden Death Syndrome' as well as brand new stuff. As for this show, the band's keyboardist Waseem Essayed will be replaced by session player Saif Zaabi from the UAE band XCEED.

Commented singer Ramzi Essayed: "We are honored to be a part of Germany's biggest gothic metal festival and share the stage with many great bands, this marks BILOCATE's first live performance after 2 years, the band will gather in the same country finally just few days before the festival but we will make this an event to remember. We will play new tracks from the upcoming album as well as some of our fans favorite titles, we are done from recording the new album and expect nothing but fast, atmospheric and dark tunes that will satisfy your metal taste".

Added Lorenzo Marchello of Kolony Records: "We're really glad the band will make it back to Europe finally! Even if they already played some European major festivals in the past - Devilstone Open Air (LT) and Uni Rock (TR) -, this is the first show of BILOCATE in Germany so far. Last year the band was forced to cancel several show in Europe, including Metal Camp (SL), Hell Over Vellach (AT) and Rockmaraton (HU) due to the rejection of European Visas by the Italian embassy. It looks almost all problems with Visas have been fixed now and BILOCATE are finally ready to meet their German fans!"

Moreover, the band is gonna perform in Dubai, UAE this upcoming Friday, June 3 as headliner of the Holy Noise metal night. More details can be checked here: http://www.facebook.com/holynoise.

In other news, BILOCATE has announced they have completed the recording of the new album, which took place in 3 different countries (Jordan, KSA and UAE). Band's upcoming release will feature a very special guest which will be announced soon, as well as album title, release date and record label's details.


[Ed note: BILOCATE is featured on our new digital compilation album "Volume 2: Sounds of The Middle East" with their song 'The Dead Sea' and are currently working on their follow-up album to 2008's "Sudden Death Syndrome"]

Holy Noise (Dubai) will be hosting their next show on June 3rd, headlined by Jordanian "Dark Oriental Metal" pioneers BILOCATE and support acts, BILLY BOB'S BLOOD DRENCHED BREW and DEATH tribute band SYMBOLIC.

To find out more information, visit the event's official Facebook page.

[Ed note: BILOCATE is featured on our new digital compilation album "Volume 2: Sounds of The Middle East" with their song 'The Dead Sea' and are currently working on their follow-up album to 2008's "Sudden Death Syndrome"]

[Press Release]

BILOCATE guitarist Rami Haikal has inked an endorsement deal with the world's famous hand-made custom guitars and bass manufacturer MAYONES as his exclusive endorsement to join MAYONES artists heavy-weighted family like BLOODBATH, KATATONIA, PARADISE LOST, MY DYING BRIDE, DARK TRANQUILLTY, TIAMAT, SCORPIONS and many others.

Rami commented:

"PERFECT, this is the word which really describes Mayones Guitars! I have tried many guitars in the past, many were great but I have never found the sound & the quality which I have been looking for, not until I have played on my Mayones AXE.

I have chosen my Regius Pro AXE to have a Mahogany body topped with a Transparent Graphite Flamed Maple, equipped with the EMG81 & EMG85 pick-ups, the results were amazing, a warm yet aggressive sound which satisfies every need for a brutal yet warm sound.

As for the finishing, it was more than perfect, specially the inlays work, my Guitar features my family name written using Arabic Calligraphy, done in such fine details which shocked me the moment I saw the guitar.

I would like to take this chance to thank the Mayones team, who were really great to deal with and I recommend MAYONES to every serious musician who really enjoys a fine & a perfect instrument."

The deal will include other members Baha Farah and Hani Al Abadi from BILOCATE. More details will be announced soon.

BILOCATE is currently recording their 4th release scheduled to be out by September/October 2010.

Click here for more information

www.Mayones.com
www.Bilocate.net
www.myspace.com/Bilocate

[Press Release]

Jordanian dark oriental metallers BILOCATE have inked a deal with the Italian label Kolony Records. The band's second album, "Sudden Death Syndrome", which was originally released on Daxar Music in 2008, will be reissued in July.

The cover artwork for "Sudden Death Syndrome" was designed by Dennis Sibeijn, who has previously worked with such bands as DRACONIAN, CHIMAIRA and ABORTED.

"Sudden Death Syndrome" was mixed and mastered at Fascination Street Studio in Sweden with producer Jens Bogren (Opeth, Katatonia, Bloodbath, Amon Amarth, Symphony X, Paradise Lost)


The track listing for the effort is as follows:

01. Humans And The Dark Affiliation
02. Blooded Forest
03. The Dead Sea
04. Ebtehal
05. Inoculate
06. Pure Wicked Sins
07. The Stone of Hate


Bogren previously stated about Bilocate:

"BILOCATE takes the qualities from the best epic death metal bands and blend it with their very own Middle Eastern touch, and out comes one of the most interesting metal bands I've heard for a long time You can hear that they put effort and thought in to every note and every scream!"

Bilocate will be performing live in Europe this summer, on the following dates:

• Jul 5 2010 - Slovenia, Tolmin (Metalcamp Fest)
• Jul 7 2010 - Hungary,Pecs (Rockmaraton Fest)
• Jul 23 2010 - Austria,Obervellach (Hell Over Vellach Fest)

In other Bilocate news bassist Hani Al Abadi signed an endorsement deal with Radial and ISP professional audio products used by legendary bands like Dream Theater, Metallica, Cannibal Corpse, not to forget some of the most influential bass players of this era, Victor Wooten, Billy Sheehan, Dave LaRue and many more.

For more information visit:
http://www.myspace.com/Bilocate
http://www.myspace.com/kolonyrecords
http://www.kolonyrecords.com

[Press Release]

The 3rd live appearance this summer is confirmed, ROCKMARATN Festival 2010 welcomed BILOCATE in its headlining line-up alongside MAYHEM, ENSIFERUM, PRIMORDIAL, ROTTING CHRIST and 60+ more bands.

Rockmaraton is taking place from the 5th till 11th of July 2010 in Pecs, Hungary.

Ramzi Essayed: "Rockmaraton 2010 is one of the few live appearances BILOCATE selected this summer, definitely will be a blast."

For the festival line-up click here.


More news to be announced soon, stay tuned.

For further information:

Official Site

Bilocate Tracks:
Myspace
Youtube

RockMaraton Festival

Dubai based monsters Nervecell and Egyptian death metal beasts Scarab are featured in this month's issue of Metal Hammer's Planet Metal.

Planet Metal is a mini magazine that is attached to this month's issue of Metal Hammer along with a compilation CD for some of the most popular underground metal bands from around the globe (outside Europe and North America).

The CD includes music from Bilocate (Jordan), Bhayanak Maut (India), Myrath (Tunisia), and Farzad (Iran), among many others.

Click here to order your copy today.

[Press Release]

BILOCATE would like to proudly announce their appearance in Hell Over Vellach Fest (Austria) on Friday, 23 July 2010 alongside Graveworm and Agathodaimon, this will be quite an experience for the band to demonstrate the Middle Eastern and Jordanian vision in Metal music across Europe, so we'd like to give our deepest gratitude for our friends and fans for their progressive support, and you better be ready for one hell of a show.

Festival line-up to date:

Vaginal Penetration
Bilocate
Watch Me Bleed
Graveworm
Baneworth
Counterweight
Teufelskreis
Madog
Orden Ogan
Emergency Gate
Agathodaimon

BILOCATE was also confirmed earlier to co-headline METALCAMP Festival 2010 (Tolmin, Slovenia) in the same month.

More dates to be announced soon, stay tuned.

Jordanian "dark oriental" metal band Bilocate are confirmed to appear at this year's METALCAMP Festival in Tolmin, Slovenia. The band will be performing on the first day of the festival along side Noctiferia, The Order of Apollyon, and Welicoruss.

Front man Ramzi Essayed comments:

"Its a great honor to be a part of the world's most popular metal festivals, METALCAMP is like a dream for any band to play in. The first day of the festival is surly an important day, fan(s) from all over the world are coming with hunger and passion.

we will be the first festival installments to serve them, be ready to lose some parts of your necks!!!"

METALCAMP Festival Promoter Boban Milunovic comments:

"we are very happy to be able to host Bilocate the Metalcamp festival 2010th. Definitely a band to remember that will surely destroy 2nd stage at the Metalcamp official opening party. " You can check out a performance clip for the band at DevilStone Open Air 2009, as well as the list of bands on this year's METALCAMP Festival bill so far, after the jump!

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Bands announced for the festival so far, are as follows:

• ABSTINENZ
• ACELDAMA
• ASHES YOU LEAVE
• BEHEMOTH
• CANNIBAL CORPSE
• DECAPITATED
• DEMONICAL
• DORNENREICH
• ENOCHIAN THEORY
• ENSIFERUM
• EPICA
• EQUILIBRIUM
• EX DEO
• HAMMERFALL
• HEIDEVOLK
• IMMORTAL
• INSISION
• INSOMNIUM
• KALMAH
• KORPIKLAANI
• LEAVES' EYES
• LITHIUM
• METSATÖLL
• OBITUARY
• OMEGA LITHIUM
• OVERKILL
• PARADISE LOST
• ROTTING CHRIST
• SABATON
• SONATA ARCTICA
• SUICIDAL ANGELS
• SIX FEET UNDER
• THE DEVIL'S BLOOD
• THE EXPLOITED
• TRAIL OF TEARS
• VARG

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If you missed going to SandStorm Festival in Dubai earlier this year. You can now watch videos of Melechesh, Bilocate and Kaoteon's performances at the event. (All credit goes to SandStorm Festival for uploading the videos)

iDesktop.tv

Bands On Myspace:

Kaoteon
Bilocate
Melechesh

Oh yea there will be a great deal of ass kicking going on in Dubai once again this year, this time Sandstorm Festival will be bringing the whoopin on your candy ass, with a pretty awesome full on metal night, with Melechesh (OH FUCK YEA!) Bilocate (need I say more) and Kaoteon (ROOAR!) on May 2nd, at the Chi Club, here's the event's flyer, followed by details.


Extreme Events is proud to present to you SandStorm Festival 2009 – The sound of the underground that will take place on 2nd of May 2009, at Chi club – The lodge, Al Naser Leisure land Featuring the Sumerian Thrashing Black Metal from The Netherlands (Originally Jerusalem) MELECHESH for the first time EVER in the middle east along side the dark oriental metal band BILOCATE from Jordan to perform for the first time in United Arab Emirates Supported by the Lebanese extreme metal band KAOTEON.

SandStorm Festival 2009 will be an intense true metal gathering, focus to get you the best out of the best in the realm of metal, locally and internationally, true to it's mission, 3 Bands will destroy your ears and dislocate your head. So stay close and wait for the shocking news that will drop your jaws wide-open.

MELECHESH - The Netherlands - Sumerian Thrashing Black Metal
http://www.myspace.com/melechesh

BILOCATE - Jordan - Dark Oriental Metal
http://www.myspace.com/bilocate

KAOTEON - Lebanon - Extreme Metal Band
http://www.myspace.com/kaoteon

Doors Open at 6:00 PM, Event Starts at 8:00 PM
Tickets by 100 AED, available on doors and Virgin Megastores

Age +21

for more information
+971 50 7260226 | +971 50 4562778 | +971 50 8887614

or email: info@sandstormfestival.com
SandStorm.Dubai@gmail.com

Official Site

"Playlist" a music show on the news channel Al Jazeera (English) recently documented the middle eastern metal scene, featuring interviews with Nervecell, Bilocate, Oath To Vanquish, Orphaned Land, Betzefer (if you havent heard their album "Down Low" yet, pick it up!) and TarantisT.

Here's the 2 part episode....

Alot of Metal has been going on over at JorZine.com. So without further to do, here's the latest update from Jordan's leading Heavy Metal webzine.

Interview with Diablo Swing Orchestra D.S.O

In the interview the band talks about their brand of Swing/Rock music, their influences, their
upcoming studio effort and alot more.

Here's an excerpt:

JZ: You personally, as musicians and music fans, what are your influences in and out of the metal genre of music? And is there any kind of music you all listen to, aside from metal and swing music of course?

DSO: Our musical tastes within the band are quite diverse. But it has to have a nice vibe to it and none of us is into any music that is too gloomy and pessimistic, we like it when the message is either really aggressive or positive =). Click Here To Read The Full Interview.

Interview With Jordanian Dark Oriental Metal band BILOCATE

Bilocate just recently announced that they are to be featured on Terrorizer's upcoming (unsigned bands) compilation album "Fear Candy" for their March issue (Cannibal Corpse on the cover, issue #181) the song featured will be "The Dead Sea".

JorZine conducted an interview with the band, about their latest distribution deals, plans for any upcoming shows, their album "Sudden Death Syndrome" and alot more.

Here's an excerpt:

JZ: When do you guys plan on releasing new material?

Rami Haikal: The first thing we are going to do now is to re-record our first album Dysphoria for it is a powerful album that has a lot of great ideas, but it didn’t get its chance because of many factors, one of them was our financial situation back in 2005, so the album hasn't got what it deserves as Sudden Death Syndrome has in terms of production & mixing, but now as we are preparing it to be released in mid 2009 it will be outdressed more carefully for somehow we had time to look back at Dysphoria and find ways to merge a new vision into the same tones, from what we've done so far and the expected outcome you can be assured that you'd be waiting for something much more than lets say "worthy"… yet later on by mid 2010 a 3rd album will be out hopefully as the writing process for the that album has started already… eventually, we are trying to make sure not to waste one second away from music & business… the next couple of years will have many new surprises from BILOCATE, stay tuned! Click Here To Read The Full Interview.




Latest Reviews:
Redeemers (Feat. Silent Echo) - Halloween Show(31/10/2008)

The 31st of October was a very good day for metal in Egypt, 2 concerts were taking place, “Metal Accord” and “Redeemer’s Halloween Night”, so finally after we got to the location of Metal Accord we found out that it was canceled due to management reasons, so we did the obvious and went to Redeemers’ Concert. Which would be the first concert I’d go to in Egypt, obviously I was a little worried about this. However, all of my feelings of uncertainty were blown away the minute the concert began. Click Here To Read The Full Review






There is a ton of more Metal over on JorZine.com so make sure you head over and check out some of the latest reviews and interviews, and some of the previous stuff you missed also...

Bilocate are one of the leaders in the Jordanian and Middle Eastern metal scene,
they play doom/death metal blended with oriental instruments, they call their style "Dark Oriental Metal" the band's latest album "Sudden Death Syndrome" has been getting rave reviews ! from Blabbermouth.net, Decibel Magazine, JorZine, VileNoise.com and Live4Metal.com just to name a few (Check out alot more reviews over at their Official Website)

The band recently performed a show in Lebanon at "Metal Blast II" with Kimaera and Kaoteon,

They have also been featured in "J Magazine" (The Official In-flight Magazine for Kuwaiti Al Jazeerah Airways) Discussing the culture role in BILOCATE's Journey and its effect on the Music, highlighting A Musical CD, a Book & a Movie that effected BILOCATE's Music

The band is currently crushing its way through the scene and I got the chance to ask Ramzi Essayed the band's frontman some questions about whats going on lately with the band, how are they liking the reviews, about shooting a video and alot more,
Heres how it went:

TMR: Whats going on lately with Bilocate ?

Ramzi: We have released a new album "Sudden Death Syndrome" back in June this year, we got ourselves a distribution deal in some countries in our region as the album is being sold in Virgin Megastores, Currently trying to get our album to be distributed in Europe and USA, played one concert since the album release which took place in Lebanon on September 6th this year, the album is getting reviewed by lots of magazines and we are getting interviewed and recognized as a result of the album success.

TMR: Any plans for an upcoming video ?

Ramzi: Yes, we are planning a music video that we might start producing very soon, but as you know we need to make some studies in order to provide something good.



TMR: Hows the reviews for your new album "Sudden Death Syndrome"?

Ramzi: Actually "Sudden Death Syndrome" is a success, as we are getting positive feedback from all our fans who tend to leave comments and thats pretty much apprecited, also the album is getting very powerful encouraging reviews with high ratings from big magazines and webzines, like Decibel magazine, Blabbermouth.net, Vilenoise.com, Rockfreaks.net, live4metal.com and Jorzine.net



TMR: Are you guys planning on playing in gigs outside of Jordan ?

Ramzi: As I mentioned earlier we have already played one gig in Lebanon (One of our neighbour countries), the thing is, we are'nt allowed to play live in Jordan, so any gig we'll play will probably be outside Jordan.



TMR: What was the reason you guys started Bilocate in the first place ?

Ramzi: Our love for music that grew with us since we were so young, and we have always believed that we can do something different when we combine our efforts all together.



TMR: Which bands are you currently into ?

Ramzi: If you are asking about other projects in which Bilocate members are currently contributing, there's Orjuwan a side-solo project of mine "Waseem EsSayed" which has one album released back in 2005 "Merna" and I'm currently working on a new album, and our guitarist "Baha' Farah" is also establishing a new side-solo project called Enrive, however, if you are asking about bands that we are currently enjoy listening to, well I would list the following bands: Opeth, Porcupine Tree, Bloodbath, Myrkskog, Vital Remains, Katatonia, Evoken and several more.



TMR: What advice do you have for a young musician just starting out in today's metal scene ?

Ramzi: To some extent developing out of tone music is not a bad thing, because life itself is becoming out of tone, just keep it thoughtful.



TMR: Would you like to add anything to the fans out there?

Ramzi: We really appreciate all the support we are getting from our fans, Keep it Dark!!


I'd like to thank Ramzi for taking the time to send me feedback,
Keep an eye out for Bilocate cause they will surely kick your ass badly !!



Check out Bilocate's:
Myspace
Official Website


also
Check out the band's jamming video for 2nd War in Heaven