October 20 2006

 

 

 

Studio time

While we're in the studio, here's some blurps

Sometimes it would be nice to have a little peek into the future. Seraphique is a band that pushed aside the standard and rewrote the rules in their own little segment in music. It results in the dazzling fireworks of classic metal suffused with atmosphere. Ingenious music of the kind that changes your mind. Once you get on the carousel you can't get of. Not only has our band got talent and charisma - just check our press, but we also have the qualities of dedication and perseverance. Since we recorded, engineered, mixed and produced the album all by ourselves, we released it independently as well, as no proper label was found. As a matter of fact, we think labels are trying to be on the safe side too much, these days. History has shown that great opportunities were missed by some companies. Where are the entrepeneurs? "Chrysalis" is Seraphique's triumphal entry into the extensive universe of music. It has astonished the public and critics confronted with it and harvested enthusiasm, defense, respect and imitation. Seraphique will destroy prejudice and liberate the public from mediocrity and baseness. So there you go! As we speak, the band is recording the second full-length album "Black Alpha". Mischa is working on the drumparts. Right now.

June 7 2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Progressive?

Listening to the Evergrey CD 'Monday morning apocalypse', I'm enjoying myself! Great work! This is going to be on my MP3 player, making my daily busride more enjoyable. Funny thing is, that the software that converts the well-recorded music to butchered-up MP3's, reveals that Evergrey is 'progressive metal'. OK, fair enough, this is not the kind of music that you get to learn on your first guitarlesson. But I state that it's 'only' heavy metal, just like the Stones sing that it's only rock 'n' Roll. Heavy Metal is intrinsically progressive, reinventing itself each and every time. The hard part of writing the music is to make it be 'progressive' without making it sound far fetched. Evergrey did it (again!), the coming months, it's our turn. Cheers, Chris.

April 10 2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Guestbook closed

More than 100 spam entires on our guestbook per day forced us to close the guestbook for new entries for now. Measures are sought to fix the problem. * Edit - guestbook trashed, go to our Myspace domain for interaction.*

March 23 2006

 

 

 

 

Black Alpha - compositions completed

Well, we had all songs of the Black Alpha album completed, except the titlesong. This afternoon, we finished it. It's an epic song, which builds up from a ballad in E major to an uptempo finale, while swithing back from an E and B minor key to A major and E major. This makes the song stand out between the doomy, diminished and harmonic minor riffing of the mainstream. So now the raw material can be recorded to become an album.

March 12 2006

 

 

 

 

 

Spam removal machine

XdeckX done it again! Our Supreme Website Designer has upgraded this site so we can now remove spam from our guestbook. It's nice to have a lot of "well-dones" of the guestbook, as long as it is not accompanied by links to "bargain-sites".

It's probably a worm-thing or bot or something like that, so we keep our eyes on the guestbook and remove any spam.

So now it's back to the guitar...

March 2 2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spam

Our guestbook is spammed. Some virus, we guess. Well, if you're hungry for a rip-off deal, check those useless entries and buy that cheesy stuff. To quote Blackadder: our dear spammers - may you all die miserably. Meanwhile, we are looking for a way to delete all spam without destroying our database. Music-wise, we're still on the recording track, Black Alpha is going to be killer!'

February 27 2006

 

 

 

 

 

Next Chapter

2006 will prove to be an important year for Seraphique. Our album Black Alpha is our main concern right now, and we're planning on working on it for the major part of this year.

As for now, may 2006 bring you peace and wisdom.

January 2 2006

 

 

 

 

Enjoy the rain

As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius, which to Angels look like torment and insanity, I collected some of their Proverbs; thinking that as the sayings used in a nation mark its character, so the Proverbs of Hell show the nature of Infernal wisdom better than any description of buildings or garments.

Some words from William Blake, a man of paramount wisdom. This he wrote to introduce the infamous Proverbs of Hell. To show the nature of our Infernal wisdom, here's a fragment from one of the songs that will appear on Black Alpha.

 

Rampant and atrocious play of light

I see the night restrain, a rainbow without rain

Trains of thought, aimless and derailed

Preparing to collide, transforming contents to other elements

As night sweeps around us, suspended in air

Distinction made us wise, restrained desire dies,

Shining above all, beautiful, so immoral

 

I owe some insight on this one to my close friend Kim… thanks extended.

I hope you all enjoy our rain.

 

Profound peace, ora et labora, Rein.

November 21 2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Are we sick enough?

The recordings are progressing week by week.The question "will it sell?" is raised now and then. Well, Nietzsche said:

Only sick music makes money today (Der Fall Wagner, Section 5).

So whenever a track is recorded, when someone makes a run for the bathroom, it's allright. And is it? Our studio is now nicknamed "Hurl World", so it is!

November 16 2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

A new album on its way

Freely quoted from the "Manifesto Of Futurist Musicians" by Balilla Pratella: "Publishers discard any music that surpasses mediocrity, since they have a monopoly to disseminate and exploit their wares and defend the field of action from any dreaded attempt at rebellion".

So our second rebellious quest begins: recordings for our BLACK ALPHA album start now. Recording the drums is scheduled for december 2005, the coming months will be used for finishing the compositions and recording some tracks in the process.

Some words on BLACK ALPHA: (Black) is like the silence of the body after death, the close of life. - Wassily Kandinsky, 1911. And before life there was... a stir. Black Alpha symbolises dominance, a beginning, breaking through the pain. An opportunity to explore the meaning of life anew. Meet you somewhere on our separate roads.

October 24 2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Free download: Chrysalis booklet

The complete Chrysalis CD booklet can be downloaded for free @ the music section. Featuring credits and lyrics, in a beautiful design, offering exciting aesthetic pleasure.

September 13 2005

 

 

 

 

Seraphic pornography

Dear citizens,

The lovely miss Van Halen has taken some new shots of your favourite band. Be astonished in our gallery.

A little reminder of the future, check us out at www.myspace.com/seraphique

Come on scoundrels, this is a new era, join us and let's be friends.

August 31 2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

New date for Groningen-gig

The concert that was planned for October 1st has been moved to October 8th. Tell your friends.

August 12 2005