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AN AMAZING ALBUM AND MASTERFUL PRODUCTION. YES OLD SCHOOL DEATH/DOOM
METAL SPIRIT STILL RULES AND LIVES IN THE HEARTS OF MANY METAL FANS.
THIS ALBUM IS A PREFECT COMBINATION OF DEATH METAL INSTRUMENTAL ROCK
AND MOURNFUL SOUNDSCAPES. FANS OF OLD ANATHEMA, MY DYING BRIDE WILL
FIND SOMETHING OLD AND NEW. FOR EXAMPLE, SECOND SONG COUNTS MORE
THAN 17 MINUTES AND ITS AN AMAZING, A DOOM DEATH OPERA. I ONLY WANT
TO SAY GO FIND IT AND ENJOY THE FINEST ART OF METAL MUSIC...
MANDATORY - FIND A PLACE FOR THIS IN YOUR CD COLLECTION...
Days … months, and years went on as BILOCATE, the Jordanian Dark Oriental metal
band rising from the mid-country city Fuhais, walked in its path of glory and we
shall narrate the story of this epic.
The essence of BILOCATE comes from the determination of the two brothers Ramzi
and Waseem with their lifetime friend Hani to start a metal band in which they
would put their musical efforts, although many tries they did with many other
musicians, but no real results.
It was summer 2003 when Waseem met Baha’, BILOCATE’s lead guitarist, also from
Fuhais, this meeting was arranged with Essa Farah, a friend of both Waseem and
Baha’.
So after holding a number of sessions, Baha’ joined the guys to make a real
start for the band.
Starting with composing the trial instrumental track Waseem and Baha’ wanted to
examine the power of their composing, yielding a very successful collaboration,
at the time, Hani was in Macedonia, and Ramzi was busy with his college and
work.
It was only a short while for Ramzi and Hani to join the experience and at that
point the band started their now-called hit track, 2nd war in heaven.
This should be formally called the start of BILOCATE, the 4 friends continued
working strictly on their own material, composing, recording … so after “2nd war
in heaven” the band composed the semi instrumental “Days of Joy”, and then they
started “A Deadly Path”, in the middle of this song Hani introduced a very
talented guitarist to the band,
Rami Haikal, at that point it was summer 2004, it was amazing how Rami could
join the band during a composing time and it was super how he went with the flow
as if he was with the guys from the beginning, he was a perfect rhythm guitarist
for BILOCATE, so the band continued working without allowing anything to hold
them back, with the excellent lead and rhythm guitars lines, extremely powerful
harsh vocals and lyrics from Ramzi and surly the extraordinary bass lines
composed by Hani , all that combined with the efforts Waseem has made by taking
care of keyboards , drums , and recording/editing of the band’s material.
As said before Rami joined the band in the middle of “A Deadly Path”, as they
completed this song they started working on “The Tragedy Within” … mentioning
that the musical idea of this song was introduced by Rami, making a good example
of how Rami could fit in. Another spectacular thing worthy mentioning, the fact
that most of the time Ramzi was working in UAE, but that didn’t change a thing
about the band’s work.
Then after “The Tragedy Within”, Waseem and Baha’ composed 2 relatively small
tracks by themselves, “Passage” and “Shrouded” and these tracks were added to
BILOCATE’s material after the band had agreed on them.
The last track the band worked on in their first album was “A Desire to Leave”
the so-called “longest song made by an Arab metal band ever!”, it was composed
in the beginning of winter 2005, so by completing this song BILOCATE was ready
to release their first full length album “Dysphoria” containing the 7 songs
mentioned above in addition to an intro for the album. The album release was
celebrated on the local governmental radio station “Jordan FM” on October 27th
in a 5 hours show hosted by the well known Dj Mike playing the whole album on
air and interviewing the band members and taking calls from fans.
After the band had released Dysphoria, they released their first music video
which they were already working on for the “2nd war in heaven” song in
coordination with Immortal Video Productions. BILOCATE started promoting their
material through online advertisements, and they needed to go live in order to
get their performance recognized, but they couldn’t have actually done that
without the help of their good friend Ibrahim Al Qaisi, who went live with them
in a number of local concerts as session drummer like “The Burning” gig, and
mentioning his efforts when he flew to Egypt with the band to perform live in
the very first concert BILOCATE gets to appear in, outside Jordan, also joining
the band’s efforts on shooting their 2nd video clip for the song “Days of Joy”
which was produced with Jacknife Video Productions and that was namely the end
of Ibrahim’s journey with BILOCATE which lasted for approximately a year.
At the beginnings of 2007 a new era has begun, with a new drummer joining the
crew in the late 2006, Ahmad Kloob, very talented and could fit in easily as he
was introduced to the BILOCATE spirit, all together walking the first steps of a
new journey.
The 6 friends carried on preparing for their 2nd album, another round of
composing, recording and putting their best efforts into the work.
Sudden Death Syndrome, the title of BILOCATE's 2nd record, as the list includes
7 songs demonstrating the total flexibility and richness of musical ideas in
addition to the magnificent and magical work provided by key people in the
industry, names such as Jens Bogren the Swedish producer/sound engineer as he
handled a cooperative production work with BILOCATE, also performing the
excellence of sound engineering and mastering techniques, resulting in an
absolutely outstanding finishing for the album.
Also not forgetting the support the band has received during the recording
process from the English sound engineer Nash Planojevic as for providing his
facilities in Dubai and not to mention his experience enabling Ramzi to give the
desirable quality in recording vocals, and the Jordanian sound technician
Mohannad Bursheh as for providing his facilities and experience forming a
comfortable atmosphere for Hani to record bass guitars.
Other names on the list to salute for their work, Christophe Szpajdel, the
English artist, titled as "The Lord of Logos" as he offered the band a new logo
that couldn’t be more perfectly magnifying to the image of the band at their new
era, adding to that, Dennis Sibeijn from Netherlands, finalizing all what is
said above with his stunning artwork that emphasizes the band's mentality and
specifically speaking the subject album's concepts and meanings making the
record ready for distribution.
Coming to the step which will compensate the member's of BILOCATE for their
none-vanishing commitment and hard work, Daxar Multimedia, the record label that
the band has recently signed a contract with for distributing their album in the
Middle East and GCC region, covering an area of 6 countries in which basically
the band's new record will be available by the end of May 2008.
Always prepare yourself for BILOCATE’s creation … there's not much left now …
watch out for the considered as breath-taking new album.
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