Irish Rock band Xerosun's News page with all the latest and exclusive Gigs and Events from the Dublin based metal band.
In issue 64, Black Velvet Magazine reviewed Xerosun's debut album "Absence Of Light" and awarded the debut album by the Dublin 4-piece, the maximum score of 5 out of 5.
Xerosun's Fiachra Kelly and Gareth Jeffs have signed an endorsement with Polish hand made guitar manufacturer Mayones. Both members have been long-time fans of the guitars and were delighted with the endorsement deal from the guitar manufacturer. Xerosun's debut album "Absence Of Light" was recorded using their custom Mayones 7-strings guitars.
Custom double bass pedal manufacturer OFF-SET have signed Xerosun stick-man Darrin Bell with an endorsement deal for their incredible, hand crafted double bass pedal system.
Xerosun are delighted to announce that Darrin Bell has signed an endorsement deal with Turkish Cymbal Manufacturer, Murat Diril. The renowned craftsman himself created custom hand-made cymbals for Darrin from their Black Sea Series.
Xerosun will be on the DCUFM.com Metal Module with Jack "get to the choppa!" O'Donovan on Monday 26th of April. It's the last show this series and it may be some time before Xerosun are back on the metal module, so please, if you get a chance, tune in. It's a great show, with top music and we will be giving away a few copies of our Absence Of Light Album free on the air!
Xerosun, Eyesclosed and Spitting Bones will take the stage of The Pint on the 8th of May for the Summer Shout event that should not be missed! The venue, the Pint is a new venue located on Eden Quay and offers some great sound, a great pint and is close to both bus and taxi ranks.
Xeroun will be playing tonight in Fibber Magees, at the top of O'Connell street with Visitor Q and Mcgalligog. Our debut album "Absence Of Light" will be available as a limited edition digipak and T-shirts will also be on sale, door are 8pm admission is 5 euro. Hope to see you there, its going to be a ROCKING night!!
Xerosun are being interviewed on the 25th February with Vanessa on the Culture Café on DCUFM.com and then on the 15th March with Jack on the Metal Module on DCUFM.com
New image galleries have been uploaded to our gallery section. These include our recording sessions over the last year, from the Paradise Lost cover of "True Belief", and the latest video shoot for "Broken". Head on over the gallery section for a glimpse.
Xerosun make a return to the gigging circuit having taken time out for studio work. We will be joined by the excellent Visitor Q http://www.myspace.com/visitorqband and Mcgalligog http://www.myspace.com/mcgalligog at Fibber Magee's, Dublin on Saturday the 20th of March. It will be an excellent night so don't miss out!
Admission is 5 euro and doors are 8pm. For a large version of the poster, click the image below:
Xerosun will be playing with special guests The End Again and iBurn on the 12th of December in Fibber Mcgees. Admission is €5.00 and our debut album Absence Of Light limited edition digipak and T-shirt will be on sale at the gig.
To comemerate the launch of our debut Absence Of Light, we have updated our website. It has more features now like RSS feeds for news and gigs, a calendar to track gig dates, a new mailing list so you can be informed with the latest and greatest events.
Xerosun has been selected to be featured in alternativeaddiction.com's Next Big Thing Feature. The feature will start on 1st November 2009 and feature 8 bands and we need your vote!
Due to minor complications and logistic issues, the release date for our debut album "Absence of Light" has been changed from the 25th of September to the 31st of October.
Xerosun will be interviewed on the Culture Cafe show on Dublin City University Radio at 8.00pm on Tuesday, 27th of October.
It was a *VERY* hot night in Fibbers last night, but we thoroughly enjoyed it. We would like to thank the staff at Fibber Mcgees, John the sound engineer for a great job and all the support acts for putting on a great show: Odeum, Culture Vandals and Falter Ego. Thanks also to Cormac, the man with a van for getting us to and from the venue!
Xerosun are delighted to announce that none other than Seth Siro Anton will be doing the layout and design for Absence Of Light. For those that don't know Seth's work, it can be seen on Seth's MySpace page and also on photo.net. Seth has designed covers for big acts such as Paradise Lost and Soilwork.
New photos of Xerosun for the upcoming album have been uploaded to our Gallery page. Please be sure to check out Dublin Photo.net, Marcin Banaszek is the photographer over there, and he done a fantastic job! If you are looking for photographs, he is your man.
Xerosun will play an album preview gig in Fibber Magee's on Dublin's Parnell's Street. You will be able to hear the entire Absence Of Light album, with a few surprise songs! There will be 3 other acts, Odeum, Culture Vandals and Falter Ego.
We have joined the social networking craze! You can now follow Xerosun on Twitter and become a Fan of Xerosun on Facebook!
Xerosun have recorded a new cover version of the Paradise Lost classic, 'True Belief'. The track was recorded and mixed by Mick Richards in Trackmix Studio, Blanchardstown. Big thanks to Mick for this. Mastering was handled by Richard Dowling of Wav Mastering.
We can confirm that the debut album will be on a limited edition Digipack! Much thanks to Andrzej in Takt CD Manufacturing for this!
Xerosun are pleased to announce that the new album will be titled, 'Absence Of light'. The final stages of sound production are nearly completed and we hope to have the album for sale on iTunes and Underground Movement website in the coming months.