Would any of you like to see more guitar tabs on the web site?  Would you like to see guitar tab plus the other instruments (vox,drums,strings)

11-10-2008

We have added lyrics from the following albums

Here lies one, Dawn of theNew Athens, and The Thalassa Mixes
to the web site.

10-22-2008

Live interview tonight on OBSCURE OBSESSION RADIO with John Prassas , Lori Lewis and Chris Quinn via Skype.

Hoy 10 pm LORI,(vocal de therion ) John Prassas y ChrisQuinn integrantes de

AESMA DAEVA entrevista en vivo. dale clik al link y te llevara a la radio

obscure obcession radio

07-21-2008

Guest Drummer and Guitarist for the “Darkness Arena” Remake

Guitarist FOX IV - sent a demo recording to A.D. a few months ago of his ideas for the song darkness. After much debate John took on the challenge of finding all of the old parts on various multi track tapes and reassembling the song into a new version. You check out FOX IV’s myspace page and you can also read a short interview we did with him here.

For this new version we brought in a good friend of the band on Drums Albert Born. Al has played in various bands in the Minneapolis area including, Banehinge, and Ocularis and recently filled in last minute for Pakistani Hard rock band “Call” which you can read about in our short interview we did with him.

Al is also confirmed to join us once again and fill in on drums for our upcoming shows in Minneapolis and NY. You can check out Al and his various bands at his myspace page.

Want to Hear the Remake of Darkness? All orders from our web site and orders from amazon.com come with download code for online bonus material in mp3 and lossless CD quality FLAC files.

07-15-2008

The following concerts have been confirmed. August 29th Earl Root Benefit at First Ave Sept 7th Club Europa This is a free all ages concert. Due to scheduling conflicts, and the opportunity bring some of our guest musicians into the spot light A.D. will have a slightly different line up for these shows.

The first is that Melissa Ferlaak and Lori will be sharing the stage for our August 29th benefit concert. Also due to Lori being in Poland with Therion Melissa agreed to fill in on lead vocals for our concert in NY on Sept 7. Keep checking back to meet some of the guest musicians who will be playing with us live, and recording with us.

R.I.P. Earl Root 1962 - 2008

Earl Root was born in 1962 and for the rest of his life embraced music with passion and enthusiasm.

He was raised in Edina MN. Growing up in a working class family he developed a strong work ethic and thrived on a full schedule that was as he said “bordering on chaos”

Earl formed the trash band Disturbed in the mid 80’s they played and toured constantly with acts such as Sepultura, and Death. A key contributor to the mid west Metal Scene Earl helped form the first Milwaukee Metal Fest, and for 27 years he ran The Root of all Evil Radio show at KFAI. Where he helped promote, interview and break many new underground acts.

Earl came home in the sense of the word when he met his wife Nancy. Nancy became an important support for him through out his life. Together Earl and Nancy held memorable 4th of July parties, and Halloween was an event that was not taken lightly at the Root household.

Well on tour he could often be found in pawn shops finding collectable vinyl or as he described it to the younger generation “Really big cd’s that sound better than cd”. In 1990 his passion for collecting brought him to open Root Cellar Records A premier Vinyl record store. To date much of his collection remains and can be bought through his families E-Bay Store.

In 2001 Earl joined Aesma Daeva as a primary rhythm guitarist. He continued to play guitar with the band throughout his chemo therapy, radiation and stem cell treatments. In 2007 with bladder cancer, and a kidney stent Earl completed a full U.S. and Canadian tour with Aesma Daeva.

Earl J Root passed away on Friday May 23rd 2008 at his home in Minneapolis with his wife Nancy at his side. He died of complications from his 10 year contention with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He is survived by his wife Nancy and son Arron.

Rootofallevil.com
Myspace Root of All Evil
Rootfund
The root of all evil radio show

05-19-2008

For our upcoming album tentatively titled 1984 we have some amazing guest
musicians who will be joining us. Rather than reveal everyone all at once
we are going to go little by little.

MAG a guitar player from Quebec
City, Canada will be playing a few solo’s on 1984. We have already started
to work on two solo’s which are turning out great!

Marc
is a great musician to work with - an exceptional work ethic, yet a relaxed
personality. His guitar style is a blend between Joe
Satriani and Scott
Henderson, Steve Vai
and Planet
X, or even Mike Stern
and Metallica. Other
than working with A.D. MAG has
worked with Paul Di’Anno (Iron Maiden’s original singer), Death metal act
Quo Vadis. MAG has even performed on stage with the Scorpions!

I am very excited to announce that “The Garden I long for” will feature classical guitarist Kostas Grigoreas - An eminent member of the Greek guitar fraternity, and one of the most serious figures in the field of classical guitar. Kostas studied guitar and theory on a British Council scholarship at Royal Northern College of Music. Two of his teachers were Gordon Crosskey , and John Williams some of the worlds most prominent classical guitarists. Well at RNCM Kostas also studied with the Pianist and conductor George Hadjinikos one of the most inspirational musicians Kostas has met.

As a distinguished composer and performer Kostas has worked and collaborated with various singers including Savina Yannatou, Nena Venetsanou, Anna Parlapanou and Aliki Kayaloglou. His works for voice and guitar can be heard on TAR radio - a highquality online musical magazine based around guitar.

12-21-2007

Our First album “Here lies one whose name was written in Water” will be Re - released in mid 2008 with the original tracks, new graphics, additional remixes, and remakes of the original songs.

If you are a graphic artist get in contact with us. We allready have a few artists whom we have worked with in the past who are interested working on the graphics for the re-release of here lies one. However we thought this would be a good opportunity for other artists we do not know of to show us there work.

additional news

It is Speculated that in 1850 on December 25′th Isabella Valancy Crawford was born. Her Poem “The Camp of Souls” is set to music on our latest album. “Dawn of the New Athens.”
Free Sample of “The Camp of Souls” - Right click and save file as

11-10-2007

Our US Canadian tour with Therion is complete. It was a huge success thanks to all of the added help we received from Therion, Therions Road Crew, Venues, Media, Street team and last but NOT least : all of you who decided to come out and supported us on this tour.