About Materia

There are 6 bands with the name "Materia": 1) Materia is a progressive metal band from Szczecinek, Poland formed in 2007. In 2009 the band recorded a demo CD named "Vandals" and the EP Holidays On The Angels Insland in 2011. In 2013 Materia released a debut album "Case of Noise". In three years time the band gathered a lot of serious achievements and concerts.The band performed at the Warsaws' airport Bemowo on Sonisphere festival in 2012, sharing the stage with Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth or Anthrax. The band took part in a competition to the Go Agead agency and became a laureate and the prize was a performance on the scene of Red Bull on XXX Jubilee Festival in Jarocin, in 2012. As the band had beed observed during the elimination to Woodstock 2009 and semi-final in Gdynia, they won a special prize of recording session in Izabelin Studio. In 2011 Materia got to the semi-final again but that time they won the competition. The performance on the Big Stage at Woodstock 2011 was the result of it. WEBSITES: http://materiaband.com/ http://www.myspace.com/themateria https://www.facebook.com/materia.metal 2) Technical math metal band from Moscow, Russia. Band formed in 2005. They've recorded & released their first EP in september 2006. It called "MateriA" and consists of 6 brutal math-metal tracks with angry supply of their energy! They're also known as Matheria MateriA at MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/MATERIABAND 3) Materia is a Melodic Black Metal band from Puerto Rico - formed in 2009 by Alessandro Ubriaco, better known by his stage name Jani as a one-man band. Materia originally formed as an instrumental band but, Jani got some inspiration from death and apocalyptic themes and incorporated that into more recent work. In spite of Jani's previous attempt to instigate an instrumental project this has proved that he speaks more for "the art of shredding". The song structures may not differ into a Power Metal criteria but, rather a conventional type of Melodic Black Metal with a strong utilization of tremolo picking and generic intros but, have a finesse of occasional soloing break downs, which include; sweep picking, tapping, harmonized scales etc. in the vein of Yngwie Malmsteen and Wintersun. Materia's pre-band was known as Winter Souls. Winter Souls really did fulfill the transition, which is still undergoing in Winter Souls of Power Metal and Shred. As Jani slowly eased into Black Metal - he slowly hired session members as vocalists which eventually evoked the sound, that he could use. Industrial-wise, Jani thinks of independence as an important role in musicianship. Even analyzing the small things such as production and album covers would be significant towards his independence thus, making him unsigned. It would be important to know how to "figure things out" in order to really know how they work. Then it would slowly turn to a new evolution of music. Although, Jani did use Hex Productions on one EP, he moved away from the labels and actually fulfilled his duties as an independent musician and was ready to move on since he got the hang of it. Furthermore, recruiting Lorell as a keyboardist. Not only this but, he was ready to start doing live shows therefore, hiring two new live session members; Randall on guitars and Bryan on drums. Materia has an increasing reputation and after performing live the fans were ceased to be impressed. Materia is still actively making a vast quantity of EPs and have so far one album entitled "Dreams of Paradise" which was released in April 2nd, 2010 along with several other EPs. Materia is currently working on material for their TBA album "Sinister Aura". 4) Andreas Moser is the mind behind the full power psytrance project "Materia". His sound is best described as driving, deep fullon psychedelic trance with distinct reverberated atmospheres and synth´s! http://www.twenty4seven.cc http://www.myspace.com/materiadarklines 5) A Swedish drum and bass producer named Jan Warnstam, also DJ'd under alias Tectonic. http://www.discogs.com/artist/Materia 6) Spanish band formed in Bilbao in 1997. http://www.myspace.com/materiamusic