DYSSIDIA RELEASE NEW ALBUM + HADAL MAW RECORDING

Looking at my last post, it turns out that 2020 won’t be such a big year after all! Gig bans due to the Coronavirus mean that the Dyssidia/Alarum dual album launch tour has had to be postponed to later in the year. On the plus side, the new Dyssidia album ‘Costly Signals’ was released not long ago on the 27th of March and has been met with some really great feedback and positive reviews! You can purchase the new album on CD and vinyl here and stream it/download it wherever you get your music. I recently filmed some drum playthroughs for a few of the album tracks, so I’ll be posting those over the next few months.

Shortly before the government got serious with the Coronavirus measures, I went to Melbourne to rehearse with the Hadal Maw guys and track the drums for a couple of new singles. I ended up recording 4 songs so it was a productive session! There’s a few videos on my Instagram page of the drum tracking, but here’s one I uploaded to YouTube.

Hadal Maw played in Adelaide in early January where we played the track Failed Harvest for the first time. Hands down one of the hardest songs I have ever learned…frankly, I’m suprised at how well I pulled it off! I posted it to Facebook and Instagram shortly after the gig but just put it on my YouTube channel:

HAPPY NEW YEAR! 2020 IS SET TO BE A BIG ONE!

Happy New Year all! Since I last posted, I have played a couple more shows with Hadal Maw and also joined the band! Here’s the full set from the Brisbane show in October:

I’ve also been learning some new Hadal Maw material which has of course been very challenging. I’m looking forward to heading back to Melbourne in the coming weeks to start jamming the new tunes out with the guys. We will be playing an Adelaide show with my band Voros in a couple of days at the Crown and Anchor which should be an awesome show.

Dyssidia are preparing to release our new album around March this year with an Australian tour to follow with Alarum, who I will also be playing with (double sets seem to be the theme for 2020!). This album has been a long time in the making and we’re all really proud of the end result, so we can’t wait to get it out there and start playing some shows again.

Finally, James Norbert Ivanyi will be releasing his new album shortly after Dyssidia, so there will be tours with him to follow as well! 2019 was a bit quiet on the gig front, but 2020 looks like it will more than compensate for that with plenty of big shows!

Wishing everyone a fun and productive year and thanks for everyone who has supported me and my bands over the last decade :)

Footage from ALARUM & IVANYI shows + Fill in gig with HADAL MAW (Melb)

I’ve been extremely slack about posting updates this past year, but here’s a quick update of what’s been going on. The Alarum tour with Obscura back in late March was awesome - so cool to see Obscura and Sebastian Lanser (drums) show everyone what it truly means to be at the top of the tech-death game. Here’s some footage from the Sydney show at the Factory Theatre. There’s a bit of a drum solo at 1:47 if you want to skip to that bit!

The next few months following the Alarum shows were pretty quiet on the gig front, although Voros supported Phil Anselmo in March and played at the massive HEAVY SA Fest in April which were both great shows. I also kept busy by doing a few fill-in gigs with local reggae/alt rock band Attonbitus.

I was on Channel 7 recently as the James Norbert Ivanyi band was featured on the ‘Guitar Gods and Masterpieces’ show on 7Plus. This pro-shot footage was from the Melbourne PROGFEST show back in late January:

The IVANYI band just played the Melbourne Guitar Show last weekend which was a fun gig to play. The full set was posted on the Melbourne Guitar Show facebook page. We finished our set at 3pm on Saturday, then I went straight to the airport to play a headlining set with my band Dyssidia back in Adelaide! That was a big day.

The Dyssidia album is getting sent off to be mixed this week by renowned German engineer V. Santura (Obscura, Panzerballet) so stay tuned for more news on that shortly!

In other news, I will be filling in for Rob Brens in one of my favourite bands HADAL MAW at a new venue in Melbourne called the Geddes Lane Ballroom on the 13th of September. Rob actually played in Alarum and Ivanyi before me funnily enough! It’s been incredibly challenging learning the Hadal Maw set but it’s certainly been rewarding! Dyssidia will also be playing this show so it’s going to be another big day/night!

ALARUM TOUR WITH OBSCURA (GER)

I’m super excited to be playing drums with Alarum as the main tour support for one of my favourite bands Obscura at the end of March! Sebastian Lanser from Obscura would have to be my favourite drummers at the moment, being one of those rare drummers that has a strong command over the skills required for both technical death metal and jazz fusion, and everything in between. The number of odd note groupings (5, 7 etc) on their latest album and the frequency of which they change is just mind boggling!

We’ll be playing a bunch of songs from the new Alarum album due out in a few months, as well as some songs from previous albums. It’ll be a nice mix of heavy stuff and jazzier stuff which should work nicely with Obscura!

Progfest 2019 + Dyssidia & Voros live footage

Hi All,

Some big shows to start the new year with Ivanyi playing on all 3 Progfest shows in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. There’s 3 international headliners this year with The Ocean, Monuments and Skyharbor all making the journey to Aus for these shows.

I managed to (just) successfully record the drum tracks for the Dyssidia album in late October - check out our Facebook page for some footage. More studio videos to come in the new year.

Here’s some footage from our show in Melbourne a few weeks ago (more footage also on our Facebook page):

And some drum cam from the Voros set at our EP Launch show in October: