Ashes and Madness release date and details announced

Just wanted to let you all know that we are nearly done with the mastering of the new cd and we are confirmed for a release date of 9/16/08 via Nightmare Records. As many of you know, the new album is called Ashes And Madness and it features Lance King on vocals, myself, Yan Leviathan, and Bill Hudson on guitars. We’ve posted a video that has our first single, The Lost And Forsaken, set against some of the artwork that will be included in the booklet that was created by Mattias Noren. You can view this video at our home page, www.avianband.com, or at our myspace at www.myspace.com/avianband. We will release a high quality audio download of The Lost And Forsaken in a couple of weeks.

The new cd will feature 10 songs and will run approximately 55 minutes. Here’s the final tracklist:

01) Ashes And Madness 7:38
02) The Lost And Forsaken 5:08
03) Into The Other Side 4:35
04) Esoteric Lies 5:18
05) Fall From Grace (Instrumental) 1:13
06) Beyond The Hallowed Gates 5:00
07) Thundersoul 5:00
08) All The King’s Horses 5:15
09) Never Fade From Me 5:11
10) Time And Space Part II: Unlock The Mystery 10:14

We have a couple of live dates confirmed for September and October that has us opening for Kamelot, Edguy, and Sonata Arctica. We will be adding some more dates including a cd release party in Minnesota so check out our tour dates section.

Posted on: June 07, 2008

Avian to co-headline Nightmare Metal Fest / New song posted

I am happy to announce that Avian will co-headline the brand new Nightmare Metal Fest which will be held in Tampa, Florida on Friday March 21st and Saturday March 22nd. The fest will feature such great bands as Cage, Warmachine, and Pownd.

Our set will be on Saturday night the 22nd (exact time TBA) and will feature songs from our forthcoming new cd; Ashes And Madness. We are also planning a very special surprise or two during the set, so it should be a very entertaining night of metal for all!

The lineup for the show will feature Lance King on vocals, Bill Hudson on lead guitar (Cellador), Mika Horiuchi on bass (Cellador), Jerry B on drums, and myself on rhythm guitar. I am looking forward with great anticipation to finally sharing the stage with the young guitar wiz, Bill Hudson. Bill and I worked on his guitar parts in my home studio a few weeks ago and we talked about how cool it would be to play these songs live together. I am very excited about finally being able to do so.

We've added a brand new song, Beyond The Hallowed Gates, to our myspace page www.myspace.com/avianband so check it out and let us know what you think.

Posted on: January 21, 2008

Bill Hudson (Cellador) Records guitar solos

Well, all of the guitars are pretty much done, Bill Hudson did a phenomenal job with the solos; can't wait for you all to hear'em. I took all of the tracks over to Lance's today and now he can begin to do his parts. We are on schedule for a mid-December finish at which point we'll go to work on finding the best possible label home.

Here's the recording lineup as it will appear on the CD:

Lance King - Vocals, Keys
Yan Leviathan - Guitars, Bass
Jerry B - Drums
Bill Hudson - All Guitar Solos

To those of you that are unaware; David Ellefson will not appear on this CD. I very much wanted him to return but unfortunately (for me) he wanted to concentrate on his other projects. All of us in Avian want to thank him for everything he's done to help Avian get on the map so to speak. We all wish him and his family nothing but the best!
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Yan

Bill Hudson Soloing Over "The Last Time"

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Bill Hudson Soloing Over "Into The Other Side"

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Posted on: November 15, 2007

Avian Studio Update

It is all Hallows Eve as I sit in my dungeon recording the guitars. Above ground, the trick or treaters are surely egging and toilet papering my house because I am not answering the door to give away candy; I have 3 songs I have to get done by Monday so that when Bill Hudson arrives to do his solos, he won’t be doing them to only a click track ;-).

The songs are coming together very nicely, we are setting down a very solid foundation which I feel will make Ashes And Madness a great cd. Lance will begin vocals next week and we hope to have everything mixed and ready to go by mid-December. Once we have some stuff ready, we’ll post some clips for you all to check out.

Hope you all had a great Halloween and got lots of good candies!

Yan

Yan Recording Into The Other Side

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Posted on: November 01, 2007

New Videos Added

We've added some new videos to the media section, enjoy!

Posted on: October 01, 2007

New album title and cover posted

Avian is proud to announce the new title for our upcoming album. The new album will be called Ashes And Madness and is set to be released in early 2008.

Mattias Noren has once again handled all of the art duties and he has done a killer job constructing a visually stunning 16 page booklet.

Posted on: September 06, 2007

Guest Musicians Announced

The final recordings are now taking place and Avian is very proud to announce that Bill Hudson (Cellador) will handle all of the guitar solos on the album! Additionally, the drums will be played by our good friend Jerry B; some of you have seen him play live with us and are well aware of what a monster he is.

Posted on: September 06, 2007

New website launched

We hope you enjoy our brand new web site designed by MetalAges Media! We'll be adding more stuff as time goes on so make sure to bookmark us! Up next we will be refreshing the graphics on ourforum and MySpace pages.

Posted on: September 06, 2007