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In Blood And Heart
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Persistense on European Tour with Bitch (US) & Anger As Art (US) / April 2011

Line up Persistense 2011

Stefan van Vugt - vocals

Hein Willekens - guitar

Bram Trommelen - drums

Mark de Haas - bass

Biography Persistense 2011

Persistense, a contraction of the words ‘to persist’ and ‘intense’ has been on the metallic march since the year 2000.
Persistense’s music is rooted in the thrash death genre, however the various elements in their music are numerous and wide spread.
Everything from thrash, extreme, power to even having the classic metal elements all come together within this metal addicted five piece - and develops into what could be called illustrious in both form and raw explosiveness.
On top of that Persistense strives to ensure that each song is a recognizable entity of its own and does not sound like the previous one.

History
Persistense was founded in the year 2000 in Den Bosch, the Netherlands.
Except for founder and vocalist Stefan, the complete band fell apart at the end of 2005.
Since 2007 Persistense is back on track and the 2008 promo resulted in a deal with Deity Down Records. In the past years, Persistense played all over the Netherlands, with Testament, Détente, Anger As Art, Bitch, Hail of Bullets, Devious, Pleurisy and many others.

The debut album; In Blood And Heart
Persistense’s debut album, ‘In Blood And Heart’, was released in September 2009 by Deity Down Records.
The album was recorded at the Excess Studio and produced, mixed and mastered by Hans Pieters.
The release was followed by a blasting CD presentation and a truckload of shows all over Holland, some shows in Germany and a show in Belgium.
Also the album was well received by the media which resulted in a lot of positive reviews and some nice interviews.

“This band really does have all of the makings and talent to be a amazing force in metal” (metalbite)

“All of the ingredients of metal that you love are all brought together in a symphony of blissful chaos” (metallife)

“The tracks compose one of the better debut albums a band has released” (metalforge)

Performance
Persistense plays to entertain the crowd and to have as much fun as possible on stage. Persistense has a ‘plug in and play as loud as you can’ attitude with a very pure, emotional and ‘not your standard’ frontman.
“With Stefan you never know what will happen and that’s the beauty and charm of playing in Persistense”

Members
The band’s current line-up is as follows;

Stefan van Vugt – vocals
Hein Willekens – guitars
Mark de Haas – bass
Bram Trommelen - drums

artwork by Ronald Visser

Reviews In Blood And Heart

HELL IS OPEN (DE) - 8/10
SCHWERMETALL (CH) - 9/13
METALRAGE (NL) - 76/100
MARIO'S METALMANIA (NL) - 75/100
SPAZIOROCK (ITA) - 7/10
ZWAREMETALEN.COM (NL) - 74/100
METALFAN (NL) - 75/100
PAVILLION666 (FR) - 8/10
METALBITE (US) - 9.4/10
THEMETALFORGE.COM (US) - 9/10
MYLASTCHAPTER.NET (SE) - 7.5/10
KRONOSMORTUS.HU (HU) - 8/10
DIGITAL-STEEL.COM (NL) - 77/100
ALLSCHOOLS (DE) - 7/10
BLACKFUEL (NL) - 82/100
ROCK TRIBUNE (BE) - 76/100
WITH LOVE, THE UNDERGROUND (DE) - 9/10
HEAVY METAL (NO) - 75/100
CONCRETEWEB (BE) – 90/100
METALNEWS (DE) - 5,5/7
METALLIFE (US) – 9/10
FESTIVALPHOTO (SE) – 4/5
FEMFORGACS (HU) – 9,7/10
LORDS OF METAL (NL) - 74/100
STALKER MAGAZINE (DE) – 75/100
AARDSCHOK (NL) – 76/100
POWER OF METAL (DK) – 79/100
SEA OF TRANQUILITY (US) – 4,5/5
HALL OF METAL (ES) – 7,5/10
MTUK METAL 'ZINE (ENG)
PSYCHOSISDEATH (BR)
ARCHAIC-MAGAZINE (BE)
TERRORVERLAG (DE)
METALKRANT (NL)
MUSICFROM (NL)
POSSESSED (DE)

Interviews

With Love, The Underground [English / Text]
Pavillion666 Metal Rock Webzine [English / French / Text]
3VOOR12 [Dutch / Text]
The Asylum Metal Radio Show [English / Audio]
Metalchapter Radio [Dutch / Audio]
Mystic Metal [English / Text]
Metalrage [English / Text]

Live Reviews

Lunarsphere, Persistense, HOS - Meisenfrei, Bremen DE, 9 May 2010 [German] by Metal4Bremen.de
CD Presentatie "In Blood And Heart" - Plein 79, Den Bosch 4 Oct 2009 [Dutch] by 3VOOR12
Testament & Persistense Dynamo, Eindhoven, 24 Mar 2009 [Dutch] by Lords Of Metal

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Genre: Death Metal / Metal / Thrash
Location Den Bosch, Noord-Brabant, Ne
Profile Views: 115973
Last Login: 2/17/2013
Member Since 5/21/2007
Website www.persistense.nl
Record Label Deity Down Records
Type of Label Indie
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Bookings Persistense

For booking Persistense you can contact The Prophecy Artist & Bookings Agency:

www.theprophecyagency.nl

Stefan van Vugt
Wethouder van Soestbergenstraat 17
5224 JA Den Bosch
The Netherlands

tel.: +31(0)73 6122549 or +31(0)6 13868738

You can contact The Prophecy Agency from:
Monday till Friday from 12.00- 20.00hrs Or mailto :stefanvugt@theprophecyagency.nl