Blueprint To a Downfall are a Metal band hailing from Manchester England. After Gigging Constantly for the past Year and a half, the band have built a sterling reputation amongst UK Metal Fans and even those overseas, with the band being demanded in Europe, Austrailia and America.
After Forming in 2005 they went through a number of line up changes before they became settled, releasing their debut EP through Distort Manchester Records in April 2006 (which has now completely sold out) . After playing smaller shows throughout 2006 the band began to find their sound as they wrote their follow up EP, Which surfaced in October 2006. Off the back of these two releases, the band managed to score prestigious slots such as an Enter Shikari tour support (who later personally requested the band appear with them on their next tour) as well as Shows with the likes of Dead To Fall, The Red Chord, Johnny Truant and Gorilla Biscuits.
After touring for over a month with Bristol's Ella in April 2007, a tour which covered every vast corner of the UK, the band parted ways with original guitarist Wez and brought Jay into the band, along with a new sound and new ideas. After 3 more gruelling months of touring during the summer, the band signed to Rising Records (Mendeed) and began work on their debut album, only however, to split from the label a few months later after disagreeing with the labels ethics.
In 2008 the band will record their debut album with Nick Scholey (My Minds Weapon, Flood of Red) with Rick Powel of Amplisound Studios handling mixing duties in June and July, with a view to a release late this year.
The Rest of 2008 will involve a huge amount of touring, something that the band are very familar with!
BTAD have played with the likes of Enter Shikari, The Ghost Of a Thousand, My Minds Weapon & Ella on tour, and with Bane, No Turning Back, Johnny Truant, Gorilla Biscuits, Dry Kill Logic, Becoming The Archetype, Flood Of Red, Profane, Mendeed, Devil Sold His Soul, Biomechanical, Test Switch Isolator, Blessed By a Broken Heart, Architects, The Chariot, The Blackout, Azriel, Eternal Lord, Textures, Twin Zero, Shaped By Fate, The Red Chord, Dead To Fall, Giving Chase, Viatrophy, Sylosis, Oceansize, Knights of The Abyss, From A Second Story Window, Ion Dissonance, Through The Eyes of The Dead and many more.
14th July We have an update on the album within the new blog - check it out!
15th June
We are now back from our tour with the awesome guys in My Minds Weapon. Apart from all of the cancellations the tour was amazing, big thanks to those that came down to the shows, bought merch and hung out with us. Sorry to anyone who was planning on coming down to the shows that we're cancelled, it was completely out of our hands on every occasion.
So where do BTAD go from here? Well mixing of our debut album should start in the next few days so we will be hid away in the studio over the next few weeks with that. We have a show this weekend In Grimsby (our first time back in nearly a year) so be good to see some of you down at that!
After a couple of weeks off we hit Belgium at the end of July for our tour with Sanzen, ATEWBS and Atropine, which we cannot wait for! Thats about it, another update in the near future
Nice one!
7th April 2008 So myself, Si, Mark and Jay all got back from Aberdeen yesterday after laying down the tracks for the album with the amazing Nick Scholey! We had an awesome time up there, and we really cant wait for you guys to hear what we've come up with.
The album will have 8 tracks, featuring Sell Yourself and The Fatigue of Fortune which you guys are familiar with, along with 6 brand new ones.
Gaz and Danny are currently up there doing vocals, which should be nailed by the end of the week! Then mixing should take place at the end of the month, so hopefully we will have a track to put up by mid may, just in time for our summer tour!
We also have a working title for the album which we will let you lot know soon enough!
We really hope you're as excited as we are!
Expect some form of filthy studio video diary soon (mainly pictures of cocks and me getting exposed)
Ian BTAD x
4th March 2008 We have nearly finished writing the album and we feel its the best we can write at this stage. Its a little different from the older BTAD you are used to hearing. We have a slower, more melodic approach to certain tracks and a complete contrast of faster, heavier songs to mix it up a little so to say were excited is an understatement.
We head into the studio at the end of this month to begin recording the album, then it shall get mixed/mastered beginning of May. New tracks will follow before we head on tour at the end of May.
Thats about it for now, thanks to everyone who takes the time to read this.
9th Feb 2008 - So as you may have seen we have added a brand new tour to our calendar. Were heading out for a few weeks early June with our good friends in my Minds Weapon, Go check them out in our top friends.
Summer is filling up really fast at the moment as you can see but we still have a few gaps to fill. Were also in the middle of confirming some some shows in Europe in July & August so keep an eye out for those too.
5th Feb 2008 - Big Thanks to everyone who came down to Music Box last night. Show was awesome and it was nice to see so many familiar faces as well as quite a lot of new people.
So far the tracks we put up have had a really good response and its really cool that your all giving them great feedback.
In Terms of Tours were just confirming the last few dates of our june tour before we announce that for you and were gradually filling in the rest of the summer as well. It also looks like we will be heading over into Europe as well for a few weeks which were really excited about.
3rd Feb 2008 - So the new Layout is done and up for you all to see. We also added some brand new promo photos which were done a few weeks back.
The best bit is that we put new tracks online which are just rough album demos so you can see where we are progressing with writing. The new tracks are "Sell Yourself" and "The Fatigue Of Fortune".
Check out the shows section for news on new tours especially the fact that we are heading over to Ireland for the first time to do some shows with our friends in Colour System Failure.
nice job tonight guys, looking forward to the next one shame about the crowd, seemed really dead, thank Gaz for signing that photo for me was real good of him cheers.
Yeah, I totally enjoyed it last night, all the bands were great, its a shame there wasn't a few more people there to watch though. take care, its a shame i cant be there on the 28th :(
man i remember when you guys played at that under 18s night, trash'd, you were so sick. that first time i heard you guys and fell in love you with. you guys are awsome hope your all doing great! Casper. xxx
COMING SOON!
