New drum cover & live drum cam footage with James Norbert Ivanyi

Hi All, I recently uploaded a cover that I've wanted to do for years now by one of my favourite bands Intronaut. In my opinion they display the perfect balance of technicality & emotion as well as heavy sludgy sections and melancholy lighter sections. Danny Walker is also one of those rare drummers that can grind it up with bands like Exhumed and Murder Construct, then also demonstrate a vast facility of jazz/latin/fusion chops when playing progressive metal with Intronaut.

I filmed this with one camera so you know it was done in one take (definitely do not recommend for a 6+ minute prog track!) 

Here's a drum cam of one of the songs from the recent Adelaide show with James Norbert Ivanyi. I'll be uploading more songs to my youtube channel soon. This track features a lot of linear drumming in both a funk and metal setting. There's some cool paradiddle action in here as well. The next time I play with James and his band made up of Liam Horgan and Stephen Taranto, will be in England for UK Tech Fest in July!

UK Tech-Fest with James Norbert Ivanyi

Here's some pretty big news that was announced a few weeks back - I'll be heading to England in July with guitarist James Ivanyi and bass player Liam Horgan to play alongside some of my favourite bands at UK Tech-Fest! We'll be doing some other shows  around UK and possibly even Europe, so stay tuned in the next couple of months. 

This line-up is without a doubt one of the best I have ever seen when it comes to technical and progressive metal bands, and to be the only Australian act on the bill is quite an honour! Some highlights of this line-up for me are The Faceless, Obscura, Beyond Creation, Exivious, The Black dahlia Murder, Panzerballet and Aborted. To say that I can't wait is an understatement!

Los Cabos Drumsticks Endorsement, Shows with Alarum + more

Some very exciting news to announce - I am now endorsing Los Cabos drumsticks! I'm stoked to be joining a whole bunch of amazing drummers on their artist roster, including one of my favourite drummers Martin Lopez (ex-Opeth), plus some of the best drummers in Australian metal such as Dave Haley, Rob Brens, Henri Sison and Jake Sproule. Los Cabos are a Canadian company that pride themselves on producing the best quality sticks. I'm currently using their 5a wood tip hickory sticks which have a great weight and feel; a bit thicker than a standard 5a. Check them out here. 

 

In other news, I recently played shows at festivals in Bendigo and Adelaide with one of my favourite bands Alarum from Melbourne! I consider Alarum to be the most influential Australian progressive metal band, having been around since the mid 90's, and I've been a big fan of these guys for the past decade so I was pretty excited to get this opportunity. They are one of the few bands known for integrating jazz fusion into thrash/death metal, which is right up my alley! Here's some footage from the Adelaide show on the 4th of Feb. Mind the guitar tone at the start!

 

Some big shows coming up up with my bands Dyssidia & Voros as well as an Adelaide show with James Norbert Ivanyi. The posters aren't uploading for some reason (apart from the one below) so I'll just list them here:

Feb 25: Voros at Enigma Bar in Adelaide for the Hadal Maw album launch

March 6: Dyssidia at The Workers Club in Melbourne supporting Fallujah (US)

March 24: James Norbert Ivanyi at Enigma Bar in Adelaide with I Built the Sky (Melb)

April 7: Voros at The Tote in Melbourne with the Hazard Circular and more

April 13: Voros at Enigma Bar in Adelaide with Claim the Throne and more

April 15: Voros at Blacken Open Air Festival in Alice Springs (!)

More to be announced soon.

New Dyssidia EP and National Tour with Caligula's Horse

Howdy all! Dyssidia released our third EP 'Of Delight and Despair' last Friday the 4th of November which we celebrated by playing the first show of our tour in Brisbane with the mighty Caligula's Horse! Listen/buy the EP here. We also released a music video for the track 'An Absolute Severance' which was filmed/directed/edited etc by the very talented Adrian Goleby (see below). This weekend we play Perth and Adelaide also with C-Horse, then Sydney with Perth veterans Chaos Divine, followed by Progfest in Melbourne with both of the aforementioned bands plus many more of the best prog bands Australia has to offer!

Following these shows, I'll be heading up to Sydney to play with instrumental prog metal guitarist James Norbert Ivanyi and his band, this time supporting Swedish legends Katatonia!

Then the night after on the 9th of December it's back to Adelaide to support Katatonia with Dyssidia! 

Voros Asian tour, show with James Norbert Ivanyi, Double Dragon reunion etc

Greetings, see below for some photos and footage from the recent Voros tour in Taiwan and China. We had an absolute blast and can’t wait to go back! Check out the Voros Facebook page for more photos and footage. *Click the below photo to go to the next photo in the gallery. 

I’m happy to announce that I will be playing with Sydney based progressive metal guitarist James Norbert Ivanyi and his band on the 23rd of September in Sydney as part of the Circles Egression Tour. I’ve been a fan of James’ music for the past couple of years now so it’s great to be given the opportunity to tackle this very challenging music!

 

I’ve got some big shoes to fill with this gig, with Rob Brens (Alarum, Hadal Maw) having played the past live shows with James as well as the Melbourne leg of this tour. Drums on James’ three releases were recorded by David Horgan (Orobouros), whose drum parts display a mastery of metal drumming as well as more fusion-oriented playing.

Check out James' releases here.

 

Speaking of instrumental guitar virtuoso’s, Dyssidia will be supporting Plini once again at Fowlers Live on the 9th of September. Fresh off massive tours in Europe & North America with Animals as Leaders & Intervals, Plini and his band have brought Intervals (US) along for the ride this time.

 

Then, the day after on the 10th of September I will be playing with my old band Double Dragon at the New Dead Festival along with King Parrot, Ruins, Disentomb, Truth Corroded and many more. To celebrate the 10 year anniversary of ‘Scars of Fire’, we will be playing the EP in full along with a couple of other DD classics. It’s sure to be a huge day as the New Dead Festival has grown to be one of the biggest heavy music festivals in Australia, with many punters from interstate planning to make the trek to Adelaide for the occasion. 

Voros Asian Tour, Dyssidia recording & Be'lakor

This time next week, myself and the rest of the Voros lads will be en route to Taiwan to kick off our first overseas tour! First up we're playing Wake Up Festival in Chiayi City, followed by a headlining show in Taipei. Then it's off to China for 3 shows. 

But before I head off on this tour, I'm recording the third Dyssidia EP at Against the Grain Studio, to be released in late 2016. 

Once we come back from the tour, both Voros & Dyssidia are supporting one of my favourite bands: progressive/melodic death metal legends Be'lakor. This show should be a big one! 

To top things off, I'll be filling in with a couple of high profile Australian acts later in the year, both in Adelaide and interstate. Stay tuned for those announcements. 

Update

It's been quite a long time since I've posted on here; I've been really busy, I swear! Since my last update, Voros released our debut album, played shows in Melbourne, Sydney & Brisbane, as well as shows in our home town of Adelaide playing alongside legends such as At the Gates (Swe) and Psycroptic. We're back in Sydney this weekend for the Under the Southern Cross metal festival featuring some of Australia & New Zealand's finest heavy acts, and rumour has it that we may be doing an Asian tour in the middle of the year....Keep up to date with Voros happenings here. Stream the album here, buy it here.

On the Dyssidia front, we have been playing some pretty big shows since the release of the band's second EP in August. These include supports for Between the Buried and Me, Trivium & Chon from the US, Tesseract from the UK, and Psycroptic, Ne Obliviscaris & Plini from little old Oz. We'll be finally embarking on some interstate shows in the coming months as well as releasing another EP later this year. Below are the posters for the shows we had the pleasure of playing in 2015.