Main Influences: Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd
Ben:
Maroon 5, Aerosmith, Ozzy Osbourne, Eric Clapton, Ted Nugent, Peter Frampton, Black Sabbath, Goo goo Dolls, Alice Cooper, Tool, Live, Bush, Megadeth, A Perfect Circle, Frank Sinatra, Black Label Society, Mozart.
Eric:
Dream Theater, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Metallica, Liquid Tension Experiment, Tool, Coheed and Cambria, 3 Doors Down, A Perfect Circle.
Diego:
Red Hot Chili Peppers, Victor Wooten, Jaco Pastorius, Dream Theater, Led Zeppelin, Blink 182, Story of the Year, Los Amigos Invisibles, Molotov.
Mark:
Rush, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Dream Theater, Avenged Sevenfold, Primus, Symphony X, Weezer, Dave Weckl Band, Sublime, G Love.
Antaean's last myspace accumulated over 12,000 plays and 20,000 views in lass than six months!
The band was formed in 2007, and went through several lineup changes until finally settling on its four final members. Founded by lead song writer, vocalist and guitarist, Ben Schwarzwalder, along with drummer and pianist, Mark Maslowski carried on with the band. Shortly thereafter, guitarist Eric Morgan and bassist Diego Villasmil set instantly with the vision of the founding members adding their unique style to the already well crafted songs. Looking forward, Antaean continues to feed their creative fire by composing unique and attractive songs for themselves and their audience. Their ability to please a crowd has been well known by their loyal fans for almost a year now, and having headlined and played many venues in Ohio like the Alrosa Villa, Skully's Music Diner, Oldfield's, the Newport, House of Crave, The Lodge Bar, Gibby's, and countless more, Antaean has left its mark progressing itself to one of the best bands in Ohio.
"Improving every time we play is one of the most important things we try to do as a band," said singer and guitar player Ben Schwarzwalder, "there's always room for improvement, we just try to find every little thing to perfect." With dedication like this its easy to see why the band is going places. In July of 2008 they will be releasing their EP entitled "This Road" which is a much anticipated fallow up to their basement acoustic recordings. Mark Maslowski pointed out, "it was a huge improvement going from those basement recordings to a full EP. With acoustic tracks there isn't that much you can really do with them, but on our EP, we really got to use our full range of talents." These talents include Maslowski's melodic piano riffs that accompany the tracks of "This Road" and "Stolen Away."
With the upcoming debut EP also comes the new and improved website on antaeanband.com. "We have been kicking around some ideas for the website and its coming along nicely," said Eric Morgan. Thanks to the help from professional website designer Wesley Haines and a few graphic designers, the band is hoping the web site should be online by the end of July. Diego Villasmil discussed the web site. "We figured we would get everything out at once to make a bigger impact. With the site and the EP coming out around the same time it might get more people interested in our music."
Antaean has risen onto the music scene in the city of Columbus, Ohio, which the four members have called home for several years attending the Ohio State University. Antaean has been defined by its fans as "classically-influenced Rock band with a modern twist." Willie Hunter, a noted music journalist and head of Fresh Entertainment once told Ben Schwarzwalder, "you have 'it'."
The name Antaean comes from Greek mythological giant named Antaeus, whom was born son to Gaia and Poseidon. Because of this, Antaeus was indomitable while he was touching the earth. The band takes meaning with this name as a symbol for how they operate as musicians; as long as they stay grounded, keep a level head, and stay true to themselves, there is nothing they cannot accomplish. Indeed, Antaean has achieved a lot in its short time in the market. The band has traveled as far as Atlanta, Georgia for its music, and has been in Columbus Alive, an Ohio arts and entertainment newspaper. Antaean has also been featured in the Columbus Dispatch and the U Weekly, a local college newspaper.
Jared Linder, upon hearing the bands EP was pleased with the record and the direction in which the band is heading. With every rehearsal, every show, and every moment, Antaean is set on improving themselves as artists. Antaean is looking towards the future and where they can take their music through exposing more of their creativity in a full length album.
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Hey there! I hope your summer is going great. I'm on tour now, and I'll be performing in Columbus TMRW NIGHT (7/15) at Victoria's Midnight Cafe. If you're around, it'd be great to meet you!
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Keep on kickin' ass, guys! I haven't been able to make many shows lately, but I listen to your songs all the time! I just wanted to say great job, and keep rollin' out those tunes!
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La Te Da love ya talk to you laterzzzzzzzz O by the way Ill have more pictures to post before the lil lis's and my b-day uhhhh sometimes i feel so oldddddddd lol
you have to watch the entire series!! SO FUNNY!!! I swear, my whole Saturday went by before I knew it, just watching one show after the other. I'm such a loser, I know, lol. Anyways, got any plans for next weekend? ... cuz i doooooooo! oooh, I think the pizza's here, I'm so freakin hungry right now, but it's all good. and that survey thing i was doing - THAT YOU WAS MAKING FUN OF ME FOR DOING!! - i just got paid! $76 for my first check, and since i got paid, I'm gonna do more of em, but I'm already at $184, so I'm loving it. They're so seriously stupid tho - the one I got last night was about my hair and stuff - like what kind of shampoo do I use, do I normally use conditioner ... for real, so easy. you should do it, i'm tellin yah. i guess you'll have to type the link into internet explorer or whatever, but here it is:
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