Artist description SHADOWCAST is an Austrian act with the aim to create highly atmospherical and unconventional music mixed with dark sounds.

Music Style CyberClassic Space Metal

Musical Influences Moods, feelings

Similar Artists Pain, The Kovenant, Rammstein

Artist History SHADOWCAST saw the light of night in 1999 by Clemens Mayr. In the beginning created as an processing of ideas unused in his other band AMORTIS Clemens soon found out that he could make something more with the songs than just to use it for private joy. Therefore he decided to devise conrete plans in which way he could arrange the songs to have another band come into existence. After a long time of hard work and experimenting with ideas, eventually the “CyberClassic Space Metal” was born, a mixture of Industrial, Metal and Pop. Although the basics of SHADOWCAST already existed it still took some time until the PromoCD “Project Judgement” was recorded with Clemens’ two bandmates Roman and Simon. The 3 featured songs already represented the experimental and unique style that SHADOWCAST is all about. Clemens got in touch with CCP-Records who offered to release the debut CD “Desperate Accuse Dimension”. Although every single note and letter has been composed and written by Clemens, session-musicians were engaged once more in order to get the best-possible conversion of the songs. Roman is in charge of most of the guitars once again, while AMORTIS-drummer Lukas has been playing the drums here. The tracks on “Desperate Accuse Dimension” reach from melodic Industrial songs over catchy Rock/Metal songs up to a semi-ballad and are embossed by various styles of singing such as spoken passages, screaming and clean vocals. From a stylistic point of view SHADOWCAST is a symbiose of Pop/Rock with heavy guitars and shall be an intent to explore a new direction in the metal-corner, based on dark, emotional but also experimental and catchy music. The lyrical part of the songs deals with daily moods everybody sometimes experiences as well as with the influences religion, media and war upon our awareness cause upon us or at least try to… In the meantime new material is in the making and will be recorded within the next months in order to have it released by the middle of the year. There has been a major compository progression and the upcoming songs will be more electronically influenced than the first output. While drummer Lukas is heading into the front as the new singer, the line-up will be completed by Moritz Neuner, who is also known for his efforts in ABIGOR or DARKWELL. The new CD will consequently pursue the direction of "CyberClassic Space Metal" but also offer some surprises. Furthermore live-Shows are planned. Check out http://go.to/shadowcast for more information!

Group Members Clemens Mayr - Vocals, Keys, Bass Roman Lindenberger - Guitars Lukas Lindenberger - Drums, Programming

Instruments Yamaha W7 Synthesizer, Yamaha rm1x

Albums Desperate Accuse Dimension

Press Reviews RockHard 9/10, Legacy 12/15, Sonic Seducer 7/7, resurrection.at 10/10, www.earshot.at 7/7

Additional Info 2nd CD coming up in the middle of 2003

Location Vienna, Vienna - Austria

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