Irish Rock band Xerosun's News page with all the latest and exclusive Gigs and Events from the Dublin based metal band.
Thumping Solemnity from across the Irish sea. Although perennially scuppered by geography and the lazinesss of other nations, the Irish metal scene has long been a breeding ground for great bands and killer records like this one.
Darkly industrial debut from Dublin metal newcomers. A curious combination of atmospherically intense, at times droning, industrial metal and more traditionally melodic hard rock sensibilities, this brooding, spring heeled debut from Dublin's Xerosun manages to straddle some disparate (though rarely uncommercial) influences to come off as a compelling whole. It's a clever - if not entirely original combination; one that replicates an almost Rammstein-esque sense of claustrophobic portent but rails against it with defiant vocals not a million miles away from Metallica frontman James Hetfield's insolent twang. Indeed, with tracks as hookily brilliant as opener Cut Me Down its difficult not to look past this debut to bigger prospects looming promisingly on the horizon but for now, this'll do just fine. KKK.
Originating from Dublin, Ireland, this quartet mix up a head-pounding cocktail of thumping industrial beats, hard rock and melody. The end result can be heard on Absence Of Light their debut album for UK label Rising Records. Offering more than your average underground metal band, Xerosun are certainly turning heads with their powerful, brooding sound and, with songs like Cut Me Down and the stomping Long Way Down, it is no surprise the quartet are being given time on Irish TV. Hopefully, with the album receiving favourable press all over Europe, the backing of Rising Records will give this impressive outfit the chance to really spread their wings and develop their glorious towering sound into something quite magnificent. New material is being written as we speak so it looks like 2012 could be a good year for these Irish lads.
Xerosun - Absence Of Light CD (Rising Records) - Rising Records have found yet another great U.K. band that we need to hear more of. ‘Absence Of Light’ is the Dublin rockers debut full length (and pretty damn fine I hasten to add) with a heavy but melodic style of metal. Having supported Avenged Sevenfold on the Irish leg of their world tour…
With ‘Absence Of Light’ Xerosun moves around in the gray area between rock and metal. I find them difficult to categorize, the whole album I am wondering whether they are a rock band playing metal or the other way around. They probably will be a lot heavier playing live as they have played already with a band like Avenged Sevenfold.
Absence Of Light has been award 4/5 by Edwin McFee of Hotpress o page 90 of their November issue. Describing the album as "a punchy yet melodic molten slab of heaby metal that immediately evokes the thunder like the Mighty Thor himself". Read on for more of the review...
Xerosun's debut album Absence Of Light has been awarded a 9/10 review by french metal rock webzine Pavillion 666
Dublin-based metal outfit Xerosun have been on my own personal radar for a
while now. Ireland being such a small place many good acts often find themselves on the tips of
many tongues without really having to try to push themselves too hard on the PR front. Xerosun
have been working hard on their debut album for some time and have made an impact on the
pub/club scene across Ireland and England.
Xerosun are pleased to announce their contract signing with UK based record label, Rising Records. This deal will see Rising Records release
Xerosun's début album "Absence of Light" on December 12th in stores around the Ireland, UK and Europe. A copy of the digipak CD can be ordered
on-line at both Rising Records and Xerosun's website and will be available for download from iTunes.
Xerosun's debut album Absence Of Light is now available on iTunes, Amazon MP3, Spotify, Tesco MP3 and more! It will soon be available to Zune users in the coming weeks. Click the headline to read more!
Hels Bells Promotions presents Xerosun in Belfast's Pavilion bar on the 15th of July with Spittin' Bones, Cursed Sun and ForChristSake. Doors are 8pm with admission being £5.00. Its going to be a great metal night, make sure to bring a spare neck for all the head banging!
XEROSUN is delighted to announce that our very own Ives is now officially endorsed by Taurus Amp and Bass Effects! The guys were kind enough to meet with us in London in March, and the deal was sealed. Check out the review Ives wrote about these awesome pedals and head over to Taurus on here and check em out!
We are delighted to announce that in the last few days, Ives has become an official Hartke Bass Amp artist, having accepted an endorsement deal with the Bass amplification giants. He now stands shoulder to shoulder with such Bass Heavy weights as Frank Bello of Anthrax, Dave Ellefson of Megadeth, Stu Hamm, Victor Wooten, Billy Sheehan and the awesome Biscuit and Bass!
Xerosun's video for "Cut Me Down" from the debut album "Absence Of Light" available from Xerosun Shop.
We have posted lyrics to all the songs from Xerosun's debut album, Absence Of Light. So feel free to pop over to the new Xerosun Lyrics section for a quick browse and maybe at our gigs you guys can sing the songs with us!
Xerosun have released an official video for "Broken", track 3 on the debut album "Absence Of Light". The song is an old favourite with Xerosun crowds, so we thought it best to put it to a video.
We are delighted to announce that the Downloads section has been updated with some exclusive desktops images for PC and Mac users. You can now download the brilliant Absence Of Light artwork as desktop, iPad and iPhone backgrounds.
Xerosun are happy to announce we will be supporting the ever awesome Avenged Sevenfold on the Dublin leg of their tour for their new album, Nightmare on Monday 8th of November.
Both Fiachra and Gareth have been named as the featured guitarists on Zon Brookes' Blogozon site for this week. This weekly guitar and bass blog site, explains the use of the CAGED guitar system, which uses the five basic chord shapes (C, A, G, E and D in barre form) to create a fretboard navigation system.
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 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.