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Adorned in Ash - The Dead Walk Among Us (Full-Length Album - 2014) - Bandcamp Stream

BIOGRAPHY
Adorned in Ash (AiA) is a female fronted Christian Extreme Metal band from Pretoria, South Africa. Their music include thrash, speed and groove metal to more progressive & technical death & black metal.

They are influenced by bands such as Becoming the Archetype, Fearscape, Antestor, Woe of Tyrants, Impending Doom, Synnove, Sympathy, War Of ages, Miseration, Tourniquet, Mortification, Living Sacrifice, Frost like Ashes, A Hill To Die Upon and EXTOL, all being Christian bands within the Metal Genre.

The band started in 2008. The next few years saw the band endure tragedy and the loss of a band member and a myriad of lineup changes while at the same time being able to open for bands like Becoming the Archetype. When original vocalist Marius Visagie left the band in 2011, then guitarist Robyn Ferguson stepped up to take over vocal duties in addition to guitar, making Adorned in  a female-fronted metal band.

Adorned in Ash released their long-awaited debut album “The Dead Walk Among Us” on the 1st of February 2014 to great reviews internationally.

The album consists of 10 original songs recorded at South African guitar legend Nathan Smith’s Open Track Studios,  includes work from all band members since 2010 with Robyn’s vocals updating tracks where needed, was mixed and mastered by Robyn Ferguson and Adorned in Ash. The album art includes photography by Vlademirovka Photography with the original concept by Adorned in Ash.

The distribution is currently handled by the band and includes local orders available through www.adornedinash.com and www.noordinaryoutfit.co.za by No Ordinary Outfit as well as international orders available through www.soundmass.com in Australia, www.nordicmission.net in Norway, orders from Finland, White Metal Shop in Sweden, Sanctus Gladius (USA) and www.metalhelm.com in the USA, with metalhelm.com including merchandise such as T-shirts and hoodies. All of these websites offer shipping worldwide for a global reach. All of these websites offer shipping worldwide for a global reach.The album is also available on iTunes, Amazon, CD Baby, Bandcamp and more.


Adorned in Ash has shared the stage with some of South Africa’s best and biggest metal bands, they have had the privilege to open for the international act Becoming the Archetype (USA) on their South African tour in 2010, played for WITCHFEST 2015 with international acts including; Cannibal Corpse, Decapitated, Kataklysm, Septicflesh, Epica, Aborted, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Belphegor, Alestorm, Grave, Carnifex, Hatebreed, Restock and Skinned.

The band has also performed GORO FEST 2014 in Mozambique and which marked their first international event.

AiA has recently performed across South Africa as part of the “Among Ashes” tour, promoting their album “The Dead Walk Among Us”. These include shows in metal clubs throughout their home province including legendary metal club Zeplins’ “Metal Rights Day”, a three-day outdoor festival, Charity event with South African metal legends Agro.

Past gigs have included many events at Gauteng clubs & outdoor venues, the Rocknights at the South African State Theatre, a three-day outdoor festival, the launch party for the South African Metal Head Association as well as Metal4Africa’s SummerFest, held in Stellenbosch, South Africa.

AiA has also been featured in various online publications including Black Mountain Magazine, Black Apple E-Zine, SA Guitarist Online Magazine, Metalunderground.com, The Metal Resource, Underground Press, Fanbase Magazine and KZK101 online magazine and many more.

Adorned in Ash was the only South African metal band in the top 150 bands chosen for one of the biggest online battle of the bands called the TBFM Factor hosted by TBFM in the UK in 2012 and received international recognition with their single "Human Torch".

Adorned in Ash are continually trending on Reverbnation and peaked at no. 1 in a recent Gauteng Metal chart and at no 4 Nationally (South Africa).

In the band’s words, Adorned in Ash “exists for one purpose and one purpose only and that is to bring glory to the One Eternal and Mighty God, who sent His Son Jesus Christ to rescue us from hell…and ourselves.”

The band's goal is  aim to bring melody as well as technicality into their music, in order to appeal to a wide and varying audience, without ever compromising on the brutality & power of the death metal genre.

AWARDS
2016 - Nominated for Best Music Video 2016 

2015 - AWARDED Best Death Metal Band in the 2015 South African Metal Music Awards (SAMMA)

2015 - Nominated in 2 South African Metal Music Awards categories:
Best Death Metal Band
Best Music Video

2014 - Nominated in 3 South African Metal Awards categories:
Best Black Metal band
Best Live Act
Best Metal Vocalist

Formed In: 2008
Status: Active 
Years Active: 2008-Present

LINE UP
Robyn Ferguson - Guitar & Lead Vocals
Mark Ivey - Drums
Marinus Terblanche - Bass
Leon van Rensburg - Guitar

Country of Origin: South Africa 
Location: Pretoria
Genre: Christian Extreme Hybrid Metal 

Current Label: Unsigned/Independent
Booking/Press Contact: info@adornedinash.com
Phone: +27 72 808 7724

Official Website: http://adornedinash.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AdornedinAsh.AiA
Bandcamp: http://adornedinash.bandcamp.com
Reverbnation: http://www.reverbnation.com/adornedinashaia
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/adornedinash
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adornedinash
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Adorned_in_Ash
Myspace: https://myspace.com/adornedinash
Deezer: www.deezer.com/artist/7966420
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/AdornedinAsh
Google Plus: https://plus.google.com/+AdornedinAshAiA
Spotify: https://player.spotify.com/artist/1bcmxbgrte6hc2850zdt4o


The Dead Walk Among Us (Full-Length Album - 2014)

Released February 1, 2014 

Mixed and Mastered by: Robyn Ferguson

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