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Rubicon is a long distance recording project composed of three core musicians and a few guests. The core is Shondra Paulson, vocals, Roberto Martinelli, drums, lyrics and arrangements, and Brandon Strader, guitars, bass, and keyboards.
Rubicon rose out of he ashes of Rvbikon (www.myspace.com/rvbikon), a progressive/melodic metal band from San Francisco that recorded a couple demos from 2005-2006. That incarnation of what is now Rubicon never found a singer and broke up in early 2007. The band was originally formed in 2004, and Roberto is the sole remaining member from that time. The ideals for the project were rekindled in late 2007 originally under the moniker Blazar, with the intention of creating ambient, space-themed power metal. However, the duo of Brandon and Roberto grew tired of that theme, and decided to create melodic metal with a wider scope, and changed the name to Rubicon.
Shondra is a graduate of the Boston Conservatory of Music, where she was trained to be an opera singer. She has sung opera on stage internationally. She currently lives in San Francisco.
Roberto also lives in San Francisco, where he records drums for other recording projects Ophidian Forest and Hellnaut, as well as playing in Cestvs, which involves playing with actual people in the same room.
Brandon Strader lives in rural Pennsylvania. His own recording projects include, but are not limited to, Rainwound and In Staid Grace.
Rubicon's debut album, The Die Is Cast, also features guest spots by Max Doyle (also of Grayceon and Walken) on guitar, Jack Shirley (of Comadre) on guitar, and Belinda Chang on piano.
Rubicon is now looking for a label to release its record. The album is 58:48 long and features 8 songs.
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