Mischa van Rodijnen - Vocals + Guitar Dave van Beek - Bass
Michiel van der Avoird - Vocals + Synths
Bart Waalen, Chris Stadhouders - Drums
Leon de Groot - Guitar
Incorporating heavy music with a soundscape influenced edge, transmission0 came out of the ashes of dutch hardcore band Reveal. With the break up of this band in 2001 guitarist Mischa van Rodijnen and bassplayer Dave van Beek decided it was time for a new chapter in their musical career. Being both big metalfans, but also fans of bands like Sonic youth and the Cure, they decided to try and link up these 2 styles of music in their songs.
At the end of the summer of 2003 enough songs were written to record an album and so they asked Michiel van der Avoird to join them on keyboard and samplers. In August, September and October 2003 the three recorded their debut ‘0’. Once this album was recorded transmission0 started to look for a drummer and a second guitarplayer. Eventually they were found in Bart Waalen, who also played drums for sk;rl, and Leon de Groot, who was left bandless after the split-up of indierockers the Void.
With this line-up transmission0 began playing shows. The band got picked up fairly quickly and had the opportunity to play with some great bands. Then, in the run up to the worldwide release of the cd/lp in the summer of 2004 on Go-Kart records, the band played at the prestigious Furyfest in Lemans, France. After that festival, people started really showing interest in the band. When the cd/lp was released in July, this interest grew even bigger. Interviews were done with magazines like, Terrorizer, RockSound UK, etc.
After their appearance at Furyfest the interest for the band grew and they got to play a lot of clubshows and did a European tour of almost a month with Canadian rockers The End (Relapse records) and a couple of months later a tour through the Eastern and Northern parts of Europe together with the Power and the glory (Deathwish inc.) After this last tour the band took a rest from performing and went into the studio to record their second record, called ‘Memory of a dream’. This cd was also released by Go-kart records on November 20th. The first reviews are raving and the band did interviews with all major metal magazines in Europe, like Metal Hammer Germany, Aardschok (90/100 points), Rock sound France (7/8 points), RockTribune (83/100 points) and Terrorizer (8/10 points), to name but a few. All these magazines agree on one thing: transmission0 has something new to bring and can be a big promise for the future.
Transmission0 [over and out]'s Friend Space (Top 4)
You are realy cool )) your "Paracas" and "Damn Machines" were something like a hymns for some days of my life. But I can't understand the large part of lyrics, 'cause my English is far from ideal) P.S. Now I collect money for guitar) I want play harsh siberian post-metal/sludge/post-rock. "Memory Of A Dream" is one of tremors for my decision to play that music.
now come on! why quit? there's not even a blog about it! i don't believe anything until i read a blog concerning your breakup or whatever it is that made you "quit"... this can't be true :-(
ummm... you can't quit! I'm sending love all the way from australia, and I've given you top friend status!! that means i think your shithot and you should come tour here. Be it true, I will be incredibly disappointed. =( xX
Why?! I was just preparing a major media hype around your new album.
Your band is quite honestly one of the best in its genre. I hope you are not succumbing to the industry! Please keep going, and if you cant stand each other, please take your sound elsewhere and get with people that can help you continue making great music.
Yeah, your breakup makes me sad too! I just received the "Memory of a Dream" album in the mail and im totally in love with it! lease tell me that some of you will continue making music in some other bands that us fans can monitor and listen to :D
Hey Hey,
Just checking in to see how things are going these days? Looking forward to meeting up at a show at some point. Keep in touch.
Cheers,
Matt & Kane
you make really cool music, very interesting. I bought two albums from this band, really amazing. The revieuwers were right, you have got some really cool shit! Thanks for making my day better, finally found some cool music... Keep up the good work!
