Before heading to the west coast, we will be playing in Philly at Polaris on September 4th and thenTriton Music Festival in Brooklyn, NY hosted by Vampire Freaks. This Labor Day festival is also a 3-day festival which will include some of the best DJ’s and industrial music artists. Some of the artists performing at the Triton Festival will include: Apoptygma Berzerk, Clan of Xymox, Celldweller, Hanzel Und Gretyl, Razed in Black, Terrorfakt, and many more.

Germany here we come, West Coast Dates with The Dreaming also Being Booked!

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After about 8 Years of playing shows in the US, Deadstar Assembly finally gets ready to embark on their next level of touring. We’re currently gearing up for the second leg of the Coat of Arms tour which will begin at Germany’s Summer Breeze Open Air Festival. You can find out more information about the tour on the Summer Breeze website. Some of the bands we will be performing with at this festival include: Sepultura, Napalm Death, GWAR, Cannibal Corpse, The Black Dahlia Murder, Agnostic Front, Behemoth, Dark Funeral, Dying Fetus, Gorgoroth, Ill Nino, Macabre, My Dying Bride, Sick of it All, Suffocation, The 69 Eyes, and many more! You can check out the full list on their Bands Page.

We got word that this 3-day festival is already sold out. There will be about 90 Bands and 30,000 people for each day of the festival! I’m mostly excited about the fact that I can finally leave the country again and especially for a show this big. For those of you who didn’t know, my Brazilian passport had expired and it was a bit of a bitch for me to get it renewed. I’m not an American Citizen, just a legal resident, and it was a lot harder than it should have been for me to renew the passport. Anyone who’s had to deal with the debacle will tell you, dealing with consulates are less than appealing. Their web sites are missing a ton of important information and just trying to find out what I needed to do was bad enough, let alone trying to call them. They’re the most unhelpful people you’ll ever deal with. You call them, and they tell you to email the site for more information, then they reply to the email and tell you to call them. It’s like a never ending FOR loop in a poorly written piece of software.

Regardless, after all of that was taken care of, I got more great news that we’re also going back out west for this second leg of the tour. We’ll be performing in states such as Colorado, Utah, Washington, Nevada, and one of my favorites, California. We get to perform at The Whisky A Go-Go in West Hollywood, CA for the second time and I can’t wait! This part of the tour will be with The Dreaming. The Dreaming includes Christopher Hall (Singer of Stabbing Westward) and Carlton Bost (Guitarist of Deadsy).

I’m looking forward to the upcoming tour and hope everything works out the way it’s supposed to.

Summer Breeze Open Air Festival

The Dreaming

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South Florida’s DeadStar Assembly are about to launch their musical delirium into the masses once again with their first tour in over two years. The band will embark on a 20 city tour with Team Cybergeist (Angel Bartolotta – Dope) on select dates in support of their third studio effort “Coat Of Arms” to be released on March 30th 2010.

DeadStar Assembly’s “Coat Of Arms” Tour 2010

April 08th 2010 – Brewster’s Pit – Jacksonville, FL
April 09th 2010 – GroundZero Spartanburg, SC*
April 10th 2010 – Gil’s Virginia Beach, VA*
April 11th 2010 – Zakk’s Murfreesboro, NC
April 13th 2010 – Digital Ferret Philadelphia, PA
April 13th 2010 – Club Polaris Philadelphia, PA*
April 14th 2010 – Club Hell Providence, RI
April 15th 2010 – Championship Bar Trenton, NJ
April 16th 2010 – The Silo Reading, PA
April 17th 2010 – Montage Music Hall Rochester, NY
April 18th 2010 – Don Hills New York, NY
April 20th 2010 – Hi-Fi Concert Club Lakewood, OH
April 21st 2010 – Blondies Detroit, MI
April 22nd 2010 – Reggie’s Rock Club Chicago, IL
April 23rd 2010 – TBA Cedar Rapids, IA
April 24th 2010 – TBA Sioux Falls, SD
April 25th 2010 – Station-4 St. Paul, MN

I finally got a few minutes of downtime which is pretty rare for me and decided to spice up my twitter background.

As a graphic designer & developer, it frustrates me that I don’t have a custom bad-ass web site and personal social networking designs. I spend all of my time designing for others and never have enough time to design for myself anymore. It’s unfortunate because the reality is, no matter how many hours I put in each day, I still seem to be getting no-where financially.

The thing that sucks about my field at the moment is that no one is really willing to pay what us designers and developers are worth. In turn, projects take longer to complete and are more difficult because freelancers end up having to take on more projects at a time, at lower costs than normal, in order to pay the bills & survive.
I strongly believe that if clients were willing to pay more, designers could focus more of their attention to the one specific project at hand and not worry about having to take on others just to stay afloat.

Regardless, I took a bit of time I had left over after completing a task and decided to finally design something for myself. Check out my new Twitter Background image and feel free to comment and let me know what you think.

I have uploaded it to the server in case anyone wants to use it as their background. I understand that it’s a personal background and has all my links on it, but if anyone requests a custom made one for use on their page, I will gladly create one for them as time permits.

Link to the full size image: http://the-dro.com/images/twitter_bg2.png

Here’s a sneak peak at our new look & feel and be sure to look out for the upcoming tour dates.

The full tour officially starts Mid-April as dates are coming in faster than ever…

Deadstar Assembly - Coat of Arms 2010

ALSO:

Don’t miss DSA’s LIVE return This Weekend
Sat. Sept. 26th at the State Theater in St. Petersburg, FL!

This performance will be the debut of new blood Kriz D.K. along with the infamous MUBO back on Keyz! DSA will perform new cuts from our upcoming release along with crowd favorites from Unsaved and our Self Titled Debut CD, “Deadstar Assembly”. Come set the night aflame with us and Crossbreed!

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DSA AND CROSSBREED WILL STILL BE PLAYING SEPT. 26th, 2009 AT THE STATE THEATER IN ST. PETERSBURG, FL – HOPE TO SEE EVERYONE THERE!!

Deadstar Assembly & Crossbreed at State Theater - Sept 26