Artist description A Bay Area based act, Red Moon Rising is influenced by bands such as Mr. Big, Van Halen, Deep Purple, Rainbow, Malmsteen, Sammy Hagar/Montrose/HSAS, and many others. Basically consisting of M. Jon Viduya writing and recording the music, and guest musicians in the studio and live

Music Style Guitar Rock

Musical Influences Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow (w/Joe Lynn Turner), Deep Purple, Van Halen, Eric Martin and Mr. Big, Creed, Queen, Queensryche, Stryper, and others

Similar Artists Deep Purple, Rainbow, Van Halen, Lillian Axe, Joe Lynn Turner, Eric Martin / Mr. Big

Artist History After years of playing everything from rock, blues, & techno, to country and gospel, M. "Jon" Viduya formed the project RED MOON RISING in 2000. Boris Polissky guests on this project on two of the earliest tracks, and Ashanti Mitchell appears on one track (both are on lead guitars).. Jon is influenced by vocalists such as Sammy Hagar, Eric Martin, Ian Gillan (Deep Purple, Black Sabbath), Joe Lynn Turner (Rainbow, Malmsteen, Deep Purple) and guitarists such as Ritchie Blackmore, Edward Van Halen, and George Lynch.

Group Members M. Jon Viduya- vocals, bass, organ, guitars on "Here Comes the Night", "Possession", "Strange New Love", and "Perfect World". Boris Polissky-guitars on "Mirror" and "Perfect World". Ashanti Mitchell- lead guitar on "Fire on High".

Instruments Gibson and Fender Guitars, Seymour Duncan Pick-ups, Ibanez and Ovation Guitars, Marshall, Laney, & Vox Amps

Albums Possession

Press Reviews "Band out of San Jose, California that sent me a demo tape with two of their original songs. The songs are called "Here comes the night" and "Mirror", both well-played uptempo melodic rockers with an 80s approach. Although the band has been influenced by 80s acts like STRYPER, POISON, WARRANT and MR. BIG, their music is not really in this style, because the rock has a slight updated 90s approach as well, which is probably due to the fact the band also takes influences from FOO FIGHTERS and CREED. On the other hand, the band's major influences come from DEEP PURPLE and RAINBOW and all these bands combined gives you the sound created by RED MOON RISING. Rating: 7/10 (Review by Gabor Kleinbloesem, Strutter 'Zine) ............... http://www.geocities.com/struttermagazine/NEWREVIEWS77.htm .................... ................ ... "From San Jose in California there can be found a super melodic outfit called RED MOON RISING. They have a self titled three track dam cd available from www.mp3.com and they have packaged a commercially viable batch of songs which literally blew my socks off.Their sound can be described as pure mid 80's melodic rock that bares a combination of Lillian Axe, Montrose, Keel, Dokken, Priest, whilst the guitar playing is very expressive, because Boris Pollisky knows when to let the melodies flow and has a great sense of feel for his instrument. Also lead singer M.Jon Viduya is one of the best singers to have emerged this year, his voice is great and he sings straight from the gut and sounds similar to Lillian Axe's Ron Taylor.The best thing about Red Moon Rising is that they are very professional in their approach and give the songs 100% which is what made this cd kick my arse, sometimes they even ozze the vintage sound of Steppenwolf with touches of David Lee Roth on the excellent 'Here Come The Night' where you can also hear hints of Ted Nugent and Judas Priest. Just listen to the awesome guitar work on this song which just kills in it's own right with memorable patterns, whilst a darker melodic pattern emerges on the equally exciting 'Perfect World'. Overall their music come across in huge amounts of American meets European melodic passion and are one band that I feel could go far with the right label backing as I feel fans of symphonic/progressive rock could also take a liking to these guys...One of my favourite new bands of the year." (reviewed by Nicky Baldrian) http://www.aor-europe.com/archive_r1.htm . ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... .RED MOON RISING 'POSESSION' Out of California comes multi-instrumentalist Marcus Jon Viduya, who does (almost) everything on his own on the CD of his band RED MOON RISING. Only guitarist Boris Polissky plays on two songs, but Marcus Jon does all the rest. There are 4 tunes on the CD, a mp3 CD, and the production is quite good. Opener "Here comes the night" is a good pure 80s AOR/Melodic Rocker. Next track "Mirror" is a bit weaker, but the other 2 songs are again quite good. First there is the catchy uptempo melodic rocker "In a perfect world", and the CD closes with the semi melodic rockballad "Possession". In the past I already reviewed a demo of this band, but this new CD is definitely an improvement. Check out RED MOON RISING at: http://www.mp3.com/redmoonrising and e-mail them at: red_moon_rising2000@yahoo.com ... (Review by Gabor Kleinbloesem).. . http://www.strutter.8m.com/NEWREVIEWS.htm

Location San Jose, California - USA

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