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  9. A new era of Ascension

    in Feedback Forum

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    Sounds really good chaps. I prefer that over dragonforce to be honest.

    And Doc, spot on about that 'So Far Awaaay' in every song of theirs. I've always thought that.

    That... and the word "Fields" ... it's everywhere... But no offence to them - I don't mind their music but the lyrics are just terrible. There is zero effort there to make a legitimate song and I personally couldn't live with myself doing that - hence our songs do have real meaning and effort in the lyrics!

  10. A new era of Ascension

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    The sound is fantastic, and there's no doubting the musicianship. I love shred.

    I own 1 band t-shirt. That is a Dragonforce tour t-shirt. If I was to take the Pepsi challenge with you and Dragonforce, I couldn't tell the difference. If someone was to tell me that this was the new Dragonforce single I would believe them.

    Whereas I agree with the Dragonforce connection which is quite obvious (fast, guitar shreddy, power metal) I'd like to think we do something that they don't which is the effort we put into writing our songs.

    You can't really tell from this one song, but the album as a whole is very varied between our different writing styles and we put a lot of effort into the vocals - as opposed to Dragonforce, who sing "So Far awayyyy" in just about every song they have haha.

    Basically saying, fair enough on the comparison but I wouldn't consider us a Dragonforce clone by any stretch of the imagination

  11. A new era of Ascension

    in Feedback Forum

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    Cheers for the comments guys ... we'll find out whether we can pull it off live later in the year but I wouldn't worry about it!

    Dragonforce's mistake was that they were binned trying to play live - you can't be binned and play power metal haha - the trick is to save that for after the show! :)

  12. Avoid - Red battle 09

    in Music Discussion

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    Erm, he posted his financial details/summary to justify his business strategy. His business strategy was being picked on from first hand experience. He was trying to justify why his strategy is the way it is, and he used financial figures to explain why he does things the way he does.

    So his business strategy is a lot to do with everything, really.

    Sorry for "making you sick".

    Exactly, Redbattle's post was justifying that huge text vote and ticket costs which we felt were a complete rip off.

    Others have proved his whole financial strategy is flawed. So yes, it was wholly relevant.

  13. Avoid - Red battle 09

    in Music Discussion

    Posted

    It's clear all he was trying to do is show that he is not some con atrtist because some bitter folk have piped up because one band has more mates than the other...which has seen them through! No BOTB is any different, surely you must know that.

    I'm going to refute this stupid comment, we are in no way bitter about Red Battle. Once we realised what was going on we didn't give a shit about it. Bitterness is not fuelling Ricki's post - it's a genuine wish to stop others wasting time on this competition. Like Dick said, if someone had made this post last year we wouldn't have wasted our time with it either.

    So if you want to insult anything, insult our nativity by thinking that someone genuine wanted to run a genuine competition to help bands and instead of a joke like this was.

  14. Avoid - Red battle 09

    in Music Discussion

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    Not a great expense to themselves at all, they filled two 50-seater buses quite easily with alot of people driving down as well. Didnt cost them anything except from time advertising (which they do for all of their gigs) to fill the seats. and it paid off in the end with Recording, Equipment, Money, a Tour which the red battle(not sticking up for them still think its a bit of a joke comp) are supplying them with a driver/van and putting them up in hotels every night of the tour and also they have had quite alot of exposure because of winning.

    That's fair enough.... but what if they didn't win? Fortunately they did and it paid off...

  15. Avoid - Red battle 09

    in Music Discussion

    Posted

    That's funny also because I don't remember them removing that from the T&C and was the main reason we thought it was all BS... why should an Aberdeen band be expected to take 50 ppl to Liverpool?

    Fair enough The Locals did it but I'm sure at great expense to themselves... made a nice load of money for RB though! ;)

  18. Avoid - Red battle 09

    in Music Discussion

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    Wrong venue choice is a very good point, you already stated that Moshulu was far too big a venue - so why book it?

    There are other venues in Aberdeen that would have worked fine at a fraction of the price - Drummonds for instance, or even The Tunnels. Both very cheap to hire - we know first hand.

  19. Ascension on Northsound 1 - Tuesday 7th july @ 7pm

    in News & Announcements

    Posted

    LOL

    well you never told me it was for the fucking sunday sessions you MASK

    All i know was radio 1, ascension, tuesday, 7pm. i just naturally assumed it was live lol.

    Nevertheless, its a good sounding wee interview with our new track being aired for the first time on radio. so im chuffed

    Lol Radio 1 what a clown! Perhaps you should get that leather off your face before causing more carnage haha!

  20. Avoid - Red battle 09

    in Music Discussion

    Posted

    I didn't read any of the above post, but the band moaning carried on with the competition even though they thought it was a ripp off!? Shuddup!

    Yes, but we didn't put any money or effort into it when we realised it was dodgy therefore we didn't participate in feeding them money. We also told our fans not to come to the gigs.

    You really need to look at ways of reducing your outgoings...

    Silly money being spent there.

    Very much agreed, for a venture that only brings in 80k why are you throwing away 100k when some serious saving could be made in there?

    Finally, we have proof that the final vote count was not as it appeared however we will not go into this.

  23. Ascension Confirmed to open Metalfest UK (Ft Blaze bayley and more )

    in News & Announcements

    Posted

    Theres a dragonland and a dragonforce doing the same kind of music!!?? Banter!

    Well done guys that is awesome, youve come a long way since the noise you produced with scorge in the band, tunes online are decent!

    Aye but I would say Dragonland make the far more credible music and are a better band all round...

    Well worth a listen as they are musically very interesting and fresh (talking about the Starfall and Astronomy albums here). They use guitars in a different way to most other bands and create some very rich sounds...

    Dragonforce however would be the one trick pony and I am sure their CTRL, C and V keys are worn down to a stub after the amount of copy and pasting they must do in Cubase...

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