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Advent of Bedlam is a Death Metal band from Heredia, Costa Rica. Founded in 2000 under the name of Decembers Cold Winter by Max Gutierrez (guitars) and Jorge Chacon (former keyboards), the band saw the light officially that same year on a well received first concert, quickly gaining space and name in the Costa Rican metal scene.
After four years of hard work, unstopped rehearsing and live shows, the band was able to put out their first album, Decaying Recollections, released through a local label named Freak World Entertainment on October 2005, having Steve Austin (who also worked with Today is the Day and Lamb of God among others) mixing and mastering it.
The album received positive reviews by fan-zines, metal magazines like Metal Maniacs and online metal information media. Then they put together an official tour named Awakening Tour along with their friends from Pneuma, another local band. Founder keyboard player was replaced by Allen Obando (Keyboards) before the tour started, followed by successful live shows on national festivals and supporting international acts such as Dismember, Behemoth, Fear Factory and Death by Stereo on their Costa Rican.
In 2007, the band carried out with some deep changes, musically and lyrically speaking, deciding to continue without keyboards in order to explore a more straight forward Death Metal sound.
In December 2008 the album Ablaze All Shrines was released as an independent record and fully produced, recorded and mixed by Gutierrez at Cavan Studio and mastered by Esteban Rojas (Cisma Producciones). After all recording sessions were finished for the new record, Chavez left the band on September 2008, and his position was fulfilled by Alex Ovares (Drums). During the first semester of 2009, the album was got great reviews in several specialized zines and sites like Metal Eater, Metal Storm and Zero Tolerance among many others. All songs from the album were aired on USA to Netherlands, France, Spain and Japan radio stations. The album also got North American Distribution with one of the most important Metal Labels all around the World: Relapse Records. It was also distributed in Mexico, Colombia, Japan, Spain and has been sold through the band’s website to fans from Malaysia to Australia.
The song “Manipulating Human Emotions” can be found in UK’s Zero Tolerance Covermount CD for Issue 027. It was distributed in UK, Europe, North America, Canada and Australasia with a News-stand distribution of 17000 copies.
On May 2009, Isak and Max won the ACAM (Costa Rica’s Authors and Composers Association) 2008 Best Metal Album award for their work on Ablaze All Shrines.
During June 2009, prior the beginning of the Envenomed Tour, the band and Guzman split up half way and Roy Zumbado (Vocals) joined in right away.
A NEW BEGINNING, THE ADVENT OF BEDLAM
After nine years, in late 2009, the band left behind the name “December’s Cold Winter” to be known as “Advent of Bedlam“. The change was made after several months of reflection, as the band realized that the old name was not showing the actual lyrical and musical direction they were heading to.
In early 2010, the band entered Cavan Studio to record their new album, Behold the Chaos, again produced, recorded, mixed and mastered by Gutierrez. The artwork was made by Alex Hoffman from Cypher Visual (Behemoth, Psycroptic, Suffocation, Arsis, Beneath the Massacre). The result is a new album of pure, brutal, fast and tight Death Metal that keeps the essence of the band’s past albums, however far much intense and extreme.
On April 2010, the band recorded their first video for the single “The Stench of Your Faith”, which was released one year later, having more than 11000 views 6 months in Youtube. The song was also part of Zero Tolerance Issue 036 for the July/August 2010 publication.
The song “The Darkest Alliance” was exclusively recorded for the Heavy Metal Club Georgia Metal Alliance (G.M.A. INT’L), a Heavy Metal organization which stands for respect; loyalty, dignity; integrity and honour which was a perfect fit to the band’s ideology. More than 100 fans joined the recording of the song’s chorus, turning this into an event of celebration of TRUE Metal Brother & Sisterhood. Vocalist Roy, is the G.M.A. Costa Rica Chapter President.
ADVENT OF BEDLAM makes its official appearance on PS3/XBOX
(taken from www.metalcentre.com)
Death metal band from Heredia, Costa Rica Advent of Bedlam is pleased to announce they will be making their first official appearance on the video game world thanks to the upcoming release of “Supremacy MMA” for PS3/XBOX, a mixed martial arts game that shows for the first time and with no censorship the violence and brutality of this extreme sport.
Songs like “Awaiting for Chaos”, “Enlightenment of the Forsaken” and “Vessels of Sin” are to be featured on the fights, the game has been cataloged by the prestigious Gamepro magazine as “the dirtiest MMA game so far” and the release is planned for September 20th by the American company “505 Games”.
This way AoB continues transcending frontiers and exporting part of the quality of Costa Rican metal scene to the world.
With this news and along with the upcoming local tour for October and November 2011, the band closes the promotion chapter for the album “Behold the Chaos” looking forward to provide details from their new production and European tour.
Advent Of Bedlam - is back in the studio to record second album
Advent OF Bedlam is back in the studio to record their second album "Flesh Over God", which is due to be released in February 2012. This follows up the very successful first album release, after the band changed it's name from Decembers Cold Winter to Advent Of Bedlam - Behold The Chaos. AOB is set to promote the new album with another tour, which will also see their first UK appearance \m/
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