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Биография : Essence (DK)

Essence emerged in 2005 and was formed by four young aspiring musicians. Despite their young age of 16 years at the time the lads quickly prove themselves as a force to be reckoned with. While playing many shows in their local area in the North of Denmark, they soon rose in the ranks and with their improvements, national shows followed. In February 2011 they recorded their debut album Lost in Violence. The album is recorded live in 12 days without any use of Beat Detective, Elastic Audio, Sound Replacer, Re-Amping, bass picks, triggers and so on – blunt brutal force directly from the soul.

With many successful shows in Denmark the band has gathered much live experience and built up a live expertise rarely shown by a band at this stage and age. This strength has given the band plenty of opportunities to support some of Denmark’s most exposed metal bands, such as Artillery, Mnemic, Mercenary and Raunchy. Besides, many of the Danish festival bookers have invited Essence to their festivals, ensuring a positive, rock solid and energetic experience for their audiences. Eg. at Aalborg Metal Festival 2009 along side Satyricon, Dark Funeral and The Haunted.

As their album came out, and after recording a music video for the track Blood Culture, containing a strong and emotional bass solo as intro, new opportunities presented themselves. The band has had extensive national promotion via TV, radio, magazines, internet sites and most importantly by fans and supporters spreading Essence’ name and music. The band toured Denmark as a co-headliner of MTV and 3rd Tsunami Agency’s the New Aera Tour in March 2011. In May LiveNation invited the band to be direct support for In Flames at a sold out show for 800 energetic metal heads in Aarhus, Denmark. They toured Europe with Vader and Krisiun on Massive Music’s Summer Campaign 2011. Few days after the tour ended Essence delivered a massive show for 2500 eager attendees as the closer of Roskilde Festival’s warm-up days. In August they played a very successful and important show at Portugal’s Vagos Open Air where over 6000 Portuguese music lovers showed up to party with the band, leaving an overwhelming number of new Essence fans in the queue for the signing session afterwards!

After getting back from Portugal in August 2011 the band picked up on song writing, where they left before gearing up for tours and festivals, spending several days a week in their rehearsal room. The band consider the song writing process for the most important and fragile of all process’ a band goes through, as they very firmly secure that a quality production gets quality songs. The focus lies on writing catchy and memorable music and getting their music to grow. As the four individuals progresses in life and becomes wiser, different types of riffs come out of their minds. This will ultimately lead their thrash metal into development, as the next album will be very different from the debut album.


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