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Wastefall
Metal / Rock / Progressive



Cologne Germany, Athens
Greece

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Member Since8/3/2006
Band Websitewastefall.com
Band MembersDomenik Papaemmanouil : Lead vocals, Guitars
Alex Katsiyiannis : Guitars, Backing vocals
Christos Kyrkilis : Keyboards
Nick Valentzis : Bass guitar
Kostis Papalexopoulos : Drums
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Record LabelSensory Records USA - Replica Records France
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Official Statement - The END of Wastefall

  The band's situation has not been really good the past few months, since Alexander was studying in Crete (island of Greece) far away from Athens. We did renew our contract with Intromental Management this year and after this we would have had the opportunity to play at ProgPower Scandinavia in October 2008. Our drummer Kostis passed the examinations and he will have to leave Greece this summer for a few years, since he will study in a musical university in England, so we found a professional session drummer to help us for this live show. Also Domenik has moved to Germany since 2007 and although he was doing all he could, it was not easy for us to handle our obligations. The band was spread out and it was difficult for all of us to organize our priorities in any way required. We were also in a very difficult economic situation and it was then that Alexander decided to leave Wastefall.

  A few words from Alex:
"Due to various complicated reasons and my personal choice to follow my academic studies, I can no longer be a Wastefall member. I want to thank all my band-mates, fans, Claus and Lars from Intromental, Ken at Sensory and Olivier at Replica for all the great times. Concerning music, all I have to say is that I'm going to continue writing music, in a very different style though, and not with the perspective of releasing something soon. It was a great journey I will always remember. I hope that other bands will be influenced by our passion so far and mark their way in the "rotten" music business. Dom, Chris, Nick, Kostis :Love, respect, good luck and apologies. C ya out there."

  The beginning and vision of Wastefall was an idea of Alexander and Domenik and since Alexander wasn't available anymore the band's "core" was broken. After this, nothing will be the same so we got the difficult decision and we are really sad to announce the end of Wastefall.

  At first we would like to say a big thank and a lot of apologies to Hercules Loukakis for his time, honesty and will to help us out with the "ProgPower live show". We would like to thank our former members, Ken Golden from our record label Sensory and Olivier Garnier from our french record label/promotion Replica, Claus Jensen and Lars Larsen from our Official Management, George Karamanos, Nikos Sigklidis and Vicky Michalitsi (Si-lia) for being our personal local management/advertisers, all our friends, our families for supporting us, local and international magazines, webzines, forums, and finally our FANS in all over the world and all those who did believe in Wastefall's dream and supported us all these years.

  The band's website, forum, e-mails and web administration, such as any Wastefall profile all over the internet, for at least some years will be administrated by Christos Kyrkilis in cooperation with any other Wastefall member neeeded.

Best Regards,
Domenik, Alexander, Christos, Nick, Kostis
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It all goes back in 1997 when 14year old Alex Katsiyannis decided to form a hard rock band along with some school-mates. The name of the band was Distant Dreamland. The songs were more in the vein of Deep Purple and Uriah Heep. After a year of rehearsals and stuff the band changed their music style. Distant Dreamland played a mix of European and american power metal. People left the band and others joined. The band was renamed into Dead Man's Tale.

   Dead Man's Tale released the self-titled demo cd receiving really good reviews. At that time Alex wrote the lyrics along with the music and played the guitar and Domenik (Dark Vision, Lost Souls) performed the vocals. The frendship between Alex and Domenik kept them together even after the end of Dead Man's Tale.

   On March of 2003 WASTEFALL were born by Alex Katsiyiannis and Domenik Papaemmanouil. Later on, drummer George Kanavaris joined the band and Ilias Kalivas followed on the bass guitar. Wastefall signed, a record contract with Sleaszy Rider Records and released their debut album "Fallen Stars And Rising Scars" on July 28th 2003. Due to the encouraging feedback, Wastefall began working on new ideas and creations for a future release.

   Shortly, Christos Kyrkilis (keyboards) joined the band. After a while Ilias Kalyvas left the band and Stratos Haidos replaced him as new bass player. Additionally, Matthew Dakoutros (violin) joined the band to complete the line-up of that period.

   After a long time of rehearsals and composing new material Wastefall entered Fragile studios in May 2004 to record the follow-up album, to be called "Soulrain 21". On November 7th 2004 "Soulrain 21" was released again through Sleaszy Rider Records.

   Again, the band lost their bass player immediately after a release. Stratos Haidos left the band and Nick Valentzis joined Wastefall. After Nick's arrival, Wastefall had to split ways with violin player, Matthew Dakoutros and drums player George Kanavaris due to musical differences. A few months later, Wastefall recruited Kostis Papaleksopoulos as their new drummer.

   In October 2005, Wastefall hooked up with Danish based agency Intromental Management, who immediately got the band signed to the American label Sensory Records.

   Wastefall's third album entitled "Self Exile" was mixed and mastered by the infamous Tommy Hansen (Helloween, TNT, Jorn Lande etc.) at Jailhouse Studios, Denmark, January 2006.

   - Major concerts with Pain of Salvation ( GR and France), Fates Warning, Sieges Even, Black Sabbath with Ozzy Osbourne at Rockwave Festival GR along with Black Label Society and Velvet Revolver



Reviews


SELF-EXILE REVIEWS

Attention, chef d'oeuvre ! Un résultat époustouflant... Une musique à la charge émotionnelle incroyablement forte... Tout simplement une gifle montrueuse, une tornade dévastant tout sur son passage... Du Grand Art... " - 9/10 - Stéphane Auzilleau - Rock Hard

Ce groupe délivre un metal totalement différent de ce que l'on a l'habitude d'entendre... un caractère unique... Assurément un grand album... - Le Fantastique.net

Wastefall nous gratifie d'un prog métal mélancolique sur lequel la puissance des riffs est incontournable et vous prend aux tripes dès les premières notes pour ne vous lâcher que 58 minutes après... tout simplement fabuleux! - 9/10 - Progressive Waves

Quelle voix mes aïeux, quelle voix ! Comment est il possible d'atteindre de tels sommets pour un simple mortel, quand bien même serait-il né au pays des dieux et de la mythologie - Zicazic.com

C'est construit telle une cathédrale, on y entre, on en ressort subjugué. Subjugué par le talent, la richesse de l'écriture, la beauté et l'intelligence dans l'agencement des idées. - 9/10 - Antithetik

Le temps passe comme dans une autre dimension. Il est impossible de ne pas succomber à la musique de Wastefall tout comme au chant brutal, doux ou cristallin de Domenik. A peine terminée que Self Exile se laisse réécouter pour y découvrir d'autres petites choses cachées mais aussi et avant tout pour le plaisir. - 20/20 - Magic Fire Music

Ecouter cet album, c'est comme regarder un film de Peter Jackson ou de Steven Spielberg. On ne sait pas exactement ce qui se passe, mais on pénètre des univers parallèles qui, pendant une heure ou deux, vous font oublier la cruelle réalité du monde qui nous entoure. - Metal Impact

En résumé, du très bon métal progressif, délivré par un super groupe, servi par une production monstrueuse. - Hard Rock 80

Wastefall succeeds in an area that progressive metal groups usually do succeed in: making complex, entertaining and emotional music that will keep you begging for more. Each song is distinct with it's own sound and style and, overall, the material is very diverse -9/10 http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/

"Self Exile" is a dazzling, dizzying record with a lot of heart, a definite grower for those willing to put the time in, and an impressive step up for a band that oughta take this scene by storm. - Keith Bergman 7.5/10

www.seaoftranquility.org- 4.5/5

Metal Hammer GR- 9/10

SOULRAIN 21 REVIEWS

METAL HAMMER GR- 9/10 Album of the month

DPRP REVIEWS- 9/10 Andy Read

METAL REALM- 9/10

   


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Kris (くりす)





Sep 24 2008 8:48 PM

Μόλις σήμερα είδα τη μεγάλη είδηση. Ρε παλικάρια, πολύ στενοχωρήθηκα.

Είναι κρίμα να διαλύεται ένα τόσο ελπιδοφόρο, και μάλιστα ελληνικό, συγκρότημα. Απ' ότι κατάλαβα, δεν γινόταν να συνεχίσετε.

Σας εύχομαι καλή τύχη σε ό,τι κάνετε. Νά 'στε καλά...
Feli M





Sep 15 2008 2:28 PM

Φεστιβάλ ΚΝΕ 2008 στην Αθήνα...
Πληροφορίες για το πρόγραμμα του φεστιβάλ:
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AUSPEX





Sep 14 2008 12:17 PM

Hello,
new songs on our page,
check them out and tell us what you think.
Cheers from France.





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Sep 10 2008 3:18 PM




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Anna





Sep 6 2008 11:24 AM

UNDER OSSANA GHOST (When The First Bullet Strikes)





Sep 5 2008 2:15 PM

Hey, new sound on our profile called Mayfly wich will be available on our upcoming 1rst Ep! hope you'll enjoy!

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Sep 3 2008 12:08 AM

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Need





Aug 24 2008 8:08 AM

Γεια χαρά.Ανεβάσαμε καινούρια videos στο youtube. com/needband. Τσεκάρετε όποτε έχετε χρόνο.Cheers
Vinita





Aug 17 2008 5:48 PM

Hey!!
Thanks for adding me!!
Glad to be friends!!
V
Need





Aug 15 2008 3:55 PM

Geia sas paidia,

poly krima pou apofasisate na to dialysete.Einai poly stenaxwro na blepeis na stamatane kales mpantes,gia ton opoiodhpote logo...Kalh synexeia se o,ti kanete pantws...

C you around!Cheers...
J
si-lia





Aug 14 2008 1:10 PM

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Aug 14 2008 10:57 AM

Krima... :(
(heavy)metal-heart mama♠





Aug 13 2008 7:20 PM

KRIMA!!!!!!!!!!A huge loss!(Par'ola auta einai eytyxhma na exeis valei sto terastio mousiko oikodomhma ena toso mikro alla axiologo li8ari)
JimmyTrooper





Aug 13 2008 10:33 AM

Krima paidia, sigoura 8a leipsete se poly kosmo. Eseis omws kserete ti einai kalytero gia tous eaftous sas. Makari na sas ksanakousoume kapoia stigmh sto mellon. Kalh tyxh stous dromous pou dialeksate.
The Keeper [MFM]





Aug 12 2008 2:58 PM

Damned,

I am very sad to hear that!!

......
Tavo





Aug 7 2008 5:19 AM

It is so sad to know that it's over. You've made songs that are truly incredible. I really hope you can come back together someday and bring some more magic-filled music to this world.
Take care, Gustavo (a fan from Argentina)
Feli M





Aug 5 2008 9:46 AM

Oi Wastefall den eprepe na dialy8oun!!!Otan yparxei 8elhsh,ola ginodai.Edw o an8rwpos eftase sto fegari.Opoios phre auth thn apofash,sigoura de skefthke ka8olou tous akroates. Oi Wastefall htan ena group vasismeno se kati anwtero apo oikonomikes dyskolies.
-Lypamai pou etreksa na agorasw to 1o sas album otan de to gnwrize kanenas.
-Lypamai pou eklapsa me tosa kommatia sas otan ta akouga.
-Lypamai pou sto Rockwave h blouza mou egrafe to onoma sas kai otan me rwtousan poious hr8a na dw,elega esas!!
-Lypamai pou etrexa sta live sas.
(Ola auta gia ena group pou dialyetai xwris logo kai de perimenei oute na kykloforhsei to 4o album)Ti allo na pw?Aplws apogohteutika...:-(
I am nothing,as I return to nothing





Aug 4 2008 11:59 PM

Sad to see the end of a great band. I really looked forward to seeing you in Atlanta at ProgPower...was crushed that you had to cancel. Sorry to see you call it quits...good luck guys
Disco Queen





Aug 3 2008 4:03 PM

mlkia guys!krima____!
oi wastefall einai apo tis kaliteres ellinikes bades(an oxi i kaliterh) mexri twra
elpizoume sto mellon na ksanakousoume wastefall giati tha leipsei i dynamh kai to synaisthima sas!!r.i.
p
Feli M





Jul 23 2008 8:01 PM


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Jul 21 2008 9:05 AM

hello! how are you?
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