Rose Funeral

Rose Funeral is an American death metal/deathcore band from Cincinnati, Ohio. Their first demo, Buried Beneath the Blood, was self-recorded and self-released in March 2006. The demo was followed quickly by the release of their EP, Crucify.Kill.Rot, in August 2006. It was enough for them to get picked up by Siege of Amida Records, who re-released Crucify.Kill.Rot in March 2007. While promoting their debut album, Crucify. Kill. Rot, they toured and played shows with The Black Dahlia Murder, Unearth, Walls of Jericho, The Red Chord, Animosity, Too Pure to Die, The Faceless, Dead To Fall, As Blood Runs Black, Emmure, With Blood Comes Cleansing, Becoming The Archetype, Dead Man In Reno, For The Fallen Dreams, Diskreet, Last House On The Left, Once Nothing, My Bitter End, Endwell, Year Of Desolation, Nights Like These, In This Moment, The Burning Season, Veil Of Maya, Iscariot and more.

Their numerous regional and national tours helped gained the attention of Metal Blade Records and by early 2008, they had landed a deal. Since then, Rose Funeral has been hard at work continuing to tour across North America as well as writing their Metal Blade debut.

Other Information

• Origin: Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
• Genres: Melodic Death Metal, Metalcore, Hardcore
• Years active: 2005 – present
• Labels: Metal Blade Records, Siege of Amida
• Associated acts: Miss May I, Ringbearer, Sender Receiver
• Website: www.myspace.com/rosefuneral
• Members:

1. Tim Russel – vocals
2. Ryan Gardner – guitar
3. Devin Shidaker – guitar
4. Dale Hammond – bass
5. Dusty Boles – drums

Albums

• Buried Beneath the Blood (2006) – Demo
• Crucify. Kill. Rot. (2006) – EP
• Crucify.Kill.Rot. (2007)
• Demo 2008 (2008) – Demo
• The Resting Sonata (2009)

Links

• Rose Funeral – MySpace
• Rose Funeral – Metal Blade Records
• Rose Funeral – Wikipedia

Paths of Possession

Paths of Possession is a melodic death metal band from Tampa, Florida, United states. Formed in 1999 as Swollen, the band is a solid mix of traditional heavy metal with influences of Swedish melodic death metal. The band independently released their first CD-r demo, Legacy in Ashes, in 2000. Soon after, they was approached by Keith Suchland better known as “Splattergod” about releasing their next CD. It was mutually decided that they and Dark Faith would release a split EP, with each band contributing six songs.

As their then vocalist, Bill, had relocated to New York, Buttman asked his friend, George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher (vocalist of Cannibal Corpse) to take over the vocal position. The result was entitled The Crypt of Madness and released on Splattergod Records, limited to 1000 copies. Plans were then made between the band and Splattergod to release their full length CD in late 2004 / early 2005. Now it features George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher in a more melodic environment, with song structures that have much more in common with early Bay Area Thrash than the Tampa death metal scene.

Other Information

• Origin: Tampa, Florida, United States
• Genres: Melodic death metal, Death metal
• Years active: 1999–present
• Labels: Metal Blade Records
• Associated acts: Cannibal Corpse, Monstrosity, Silhaven, Lunar Reign, Dark Faith
• Website: www.pathsofpossession.com
• Members:

1. George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher – vocals
2. Jay Fossen – guitar
3. Jack Goodwin – guitar
4. Randy Butman – bass
5. Nick Goodyear – drums

Albums

• Legacy in Ashes (2002)
• The Crypt of Madness (2003) – Split
• Promises in Blood (2005)
• The End of the Hour (2007)

Links

• Paths of Possession – Official Site
• Paths of Possession – MySpace
• Paths of Possession – Metal Blade Records
• Paths of Possession – Wikipedia