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● "The first full length album of the band “Evaluation” came along , flattening everything that came across its path! Powerful, original, fresh and totally brilliant in every aspect…Unexpected present from a future mega-band!" Metal Invader (Greece)
● "Evaluation, an album you should have in your cd collection" MusicalNews.com - Italy
● "Numerosi i momenti di interesse, con spunti methcore e heavy, a favore di una prova completa ed esaustiva sotto ogni punto di vista." Rock Hard - Italy
● "un ottimo lavoro, un debutto sulla lunga distanza per di piu, che, per il momento, merita di attivare i “sensori” dell’attenzione di tutti i sostenitori dell’alternative music e del cosiddetto crossover, e per il futuro potrebbe, con l’ulteriore incremento della maturita, consegnare al “genere” un gruppo davvero “superiore”." Eutk.net - Italy
● "The more you listen to the album, the more you discover things to love about it. I think that they manage to make something different and to give us a very interesting proposal of modern, alternative rock/metal." Metalzone.gr - Greece
● "A truly original musical proposal: 15 tracks of alternative metal rich in the most varied influences and supported by good production." Undergroundzine - Italy
● "Wow! Three letters that describe this album. 9/10" heavyworlds.com - Italy
● "They have had the luxury of being able to open for rock gods like Deep Purple and got to assault 6000 people with their brillance and won over many more fans, we believe it wont be long until they are invited to the Ozz Fest as they deserve." JJFM - New Zealand
● "81db makes us meet metal on a different way. You fairly fast get waved in the sphere of the album. Nearly every track has some suprising aspect. This is an album I recommend to everyone that likes to take a step in the unknown and dare to meet another kind of metal. This is one of the best debut-albums I ever listened to." - Ashladan, Belgium. 9/10
● "Tra le migliori uscite tricolori in fatto di crossover metal, di quello fatto con personalità ed inventiva, seppur impostato con trademark ben precisi - MetalManiac - Italy
● "A new idea of rock, son of Metallica and sirtàki....Evaluation, an album you should have in your cd collection." - Musicalnews.com - Italian webzine
● "81db, a band from Italy with a Greek guitarist, makes all the so called 'heavy' bands sound amateurish" - Esquire Magazine, Greece. 4/5
● "81db is one of the best new groups that I listened to these months and “Evaluation” deserves to exist in your album collection." - MetalHunter, 9.5/10
● "Fantasy and creativity, don't leave any doubt and the intriguing mixture of progressive metal and alternative rock, devised by 81db, seems to offer the right chance to surprise even the lovers of the less conventional and stereotyped stylistic solutions. Leveraging on well constructed atmospheres and a basically neverending research for unpredictable sudden changes, the foursome reaffirm their potential; we eagerly look forward to a positive development in the short term, as 81db deserve respect."
Michele Martini - Rock Hard (IT) - review of the promo EP - 8/10
● "Evaluation è un riuscito album che sprigiona fantasia e creatività, con un riuscito mix tra progressive metal, richiami grunge (più Soundgarden che Pearl Jam) e qualche elemento nu metal (sopratutto in alcune parti ritmiche).....In mezzo a tante influenze, gli 81db riescono a plasmare una propria identità".
RockSound magazine (IT)
● "Una delle poche autentiche novità della scena rock italiana attuale, e comunque qualcosa di decisamente originale"
JAM magazine (IT)
“Time to challenge your idea of how heavy rock music sounds today.”
81db was formed in April 2006 by guitarist Kostas Ladopoulos. The idea was to make a modern sounding group by combining melodies and heavy riffs with folk elements derived from Kostas’ Greek origins. This is music that challenges the mind and your standards of rock. With every listen you may discover new ways to comprehend it. After some changes of line-up the band found its solid formation. William on vocals brought an alternative rock feeling and a touch of the american sound (William is half American) to the vocal lines and matched Kostas’ (sometimes crazy) compositions perfectly. Filippo on drums and Vieri on bass became the solid rhythmic base of the 81db sound.
81db finished their first demo CD at the beginning of November 2006. Around 500 copies were freely distributed to people at concerts and anyone who liked what the band was doing. The response was overwhelming and so much so, that at the debut concert of the group the club was completely full! Meanwhile, more material was created and the band played 12 concerts in 6 months. Various local and international pod casts and radios played the song ‘Voices’ and got positive reviews for the home-made promo CD. On Dec. 2007 "Nice Trip" went to no.1 metal song of 59.330 songs in the US Music Network, Soundclick! Comments like "Extremely Original" "Without musical limits" "Psychotic sounding" etc. arrived from reviews of the EP, which were exactly what the compositions strived to reflect.
In March 2007 81db along with Fabio Bianchini, started filming a video of the song ‘Voices’. Craziness and creativity led to an extraordinary result. Later the web platform Digichannel with rock videos (and not only) from around the world, chose the Voices Video Clip to be in their home page.
In the beginning of 2008 the band signed with a new-born label formed by the experienced Orion’s Belt records/RNC music and a publishing contract with EMI Italy. A few months later Deep Purple invited 81db to open their Torino concert on 13 July 2008! 81db played in front of 6000 people and the show went beyond any expectations with many new fans embracing the 81db innovative sound.
In the meantime, after many successful international reviews of their 4-track self-produced promo EP , many people have become extremely curious on what's to follow. In June 2008 the band entered the studio Larione10 of Florence to record 12 tracks and now the time has come to find out what these guys have been up to this last period.
With their debut CD, Evaluation, out on 20 March 2009 for Orion’s Belt Records/RNC Music and published by EMI Italy, the band explores the infinite world of notes promising a 50 min. musical journey that will play and challenge your emotions, ears and minds.
The album Evaluation is also available worldwide on all major digital stores and it’s available for Licenses.
Hey guys, i wont be able to make it tonight! The toilet's playing up! Its a shame you're only in London twice this year, hopefully, you'll make it to London again next year? How was last night at Dublin Castle? Hope it was good. Hope tonight goes well. I planned the journey there as well. It was going to be good.
Guga airplay on SomaFM. The 18 channels independent global radio focussed on underground electronica, chillout, lounge has 'discovered' one of the classic Guga tracks from 'Fairiesinthehood' and is giving it some air. To use the old cliche - Tune in, chill out at cliqhop. Guga - alive and breathing - on air !
81db - UK tour 2009, Hope all is well with you and yours. Please feel free to stop by and say hello. I'm here quite a bit working. Please leave comments, and put yourself on my e-mail list if you want more updates. God bless you, and Live Victoriously!!
Our NEW release - Junk Dancer EP is OUT NOW on Louis Osbourne's label MIJA RECORDINGS @ Beatport
Early support coming from Stephan Bodzin, James Zabiela, Joris Voorn, Smokin Jo, Mistress Barbara, Richie Hawtin, Slam, Phil Kieran, Yousef, 2000 and One, Dan Ghenacia, Gregor Tresher and many more.
Hi, how are you doing? I'm Chase , im a skater from New Jersey and im working really hard to get my footage out to the public. I want to get to a Million video views by my birthday in Feb. If you could watch my video that would help me out alot. The only thing i ask is if you like it I hope you will pass it on to a few of your friends, and if you really like what you can see you can subscribe to my myspace channel. Tricky Trick Video
81db on MTV Greece • The official music video of the song "Voices" from the album "Evaluation" by 81db is on rotation on MTV Greece's show Headbangers Ball.
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