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Hi there !

I wanted to submit you something new, one more band from Montpellier France, in my opinion they're already on the top 3 of doom bands here in France.

VERDUN was born in 2010 by the communion of five musicians with substantial backgrounds (some members appear in Fleshdoll (Pervade Prod.), Grandizer (Basement Apes), Raspoutine etc.) who have in common the passion for heavy and hypnotic musics.
Their masters ? Hawkwind, Black Sabbath, Pentagram, Pagan Altar or Saint Vitus.
After spending months in a cave of Montpellier (FRANCE) torturing their instruments in a wet cave, they decide to leave the darkness and carry the psychedelic flame that burns inside themselves. They do their very first steps on stage with Electric Wizard or with famous french bands like As We Draw, Quartier Rouge or Pord.
VERDUN plays an anxious and oppressing Doom Metal whith heavy riffs, tortured melodies embbeded in fogs of delay, some spectral voices and atmospheres that introduce the end of the world.

In the beginning of 2011, VERDUN makes an endorsement deal with Mazzette (effects for guitar and bass created by Nico ÖfÖ Am) which provides their new prototypes of stompboxes in order to shape a very personnal sound to the band.
Now, the five doomsters have just finished the recording of their debut EP "The Cosmic Escape of Admiral Masuka". The CD version will be available on January 2012 through Head Records (Pneu, Ofo Am, Goodbye Diana...) and in Tape on Throatruiner Records (Birds in Row, Comity, Plebian Grandstand, As we Draw...).

You can listen to their first EP here : http://verdun.bandcamp.com/album/the-cosmi...miral-masuka-ep

And eventually order it there : http://www.head-records.com

live@samynaire 2011 6am