Deadstar Assembly performing at Triton Festival and more
Deadstar Assembly will be touring in mid-August and Most of September. We will be playing Germany at the Summer Breeze Open Air festival mid-August and then we’ll be heading back out for a western US tour.
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.
Also, Vampirefreaks.com are running a contest where you can win a chance to get VIP treatment for the entire weekend of the festival. You can get details on that here: http://bit.ly/tritonVIP
For any more information on the upcoming tour, please be sure to check out our tour page located at deadstar.com/tour
Deadstar Assembly Get’s Ready for Another Tour!
Germany, Here we come!
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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New Twitter Background
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
New Deadstar Tour Dates to be Announced
As the new year rolls in, I’ve been spending my time trying to figure out what’s going to happen as the days fly by. I begin to wonder where the last year’s worth of hard work has gone. Things have been hectic, but finally beginning to come together. After meeting at the studio to help master the new Deadstar Assembly CD, Coat of Arms, we also discussed going back out on tour after it’s release. The release date is planned for the very end of March. This will be close to or on our anniversary of our very first live show. For those of you who know our history, we graced the stage at the Culture Room in Fort Lauderdale Florida on March 30th, 2002! Seems so long ago…
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
New Domain Name, TheDro.com
Some guy emailed me and told me he had TheDro.com for sale.
I replied and he asked me to make him an offer.
I offered somewhere around $100000000
He told me he’d cut me a Deal and sell it for $397.
I told him to fuck off.
DSA Destroy Entire Hotel! Dark Hole Sessions Vol. 2 DVD
Check out DSA remodel a hotel in the middle of nowhere, befriend roaches and kick a fan in the nuts repeatedly.. hey he asked them to do it! Seriously! From the Dark Hole Sessions Vol. 2 DVD, over 2 hours of videos, live footage and on and off stage debauchery.
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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Got Googled
After making a few changes to my web site in order to get it ranking a bit better, I ran a google search on a few terms in hopes that this site would pop up. During this process, I found some pretty funny SERPs about me.
Here’s a couple that kept me a bit entertained:
Does the Dro From Deadstar Assembly have a Girlfriend?
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080607172456AAeaxJB
Dro-Addicted
http://las-leandras.tripod.com/
If anyone comes across any other funny ones, feel free to comment here and post sites about The Dro, Deadstar Assembly, or any of the other band members.
DSA/CROSSBREED Sept. 25th, CANCELED – Reschedule TBA Soon!
The show on Sept 25th @ Revolution – Ft Laud, FL is being canceled and will eventually be rescheduled. The venue accidentally double booked that date and we are not able to perform at Revolution. Unfortunately, we will have to wait until a later date to re-book these shows with Crossbreed. LOOK FOR THE NEW DATE TBA SOON!!!!
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
Fakers and their Ignorant Victims
I’m not sure why, but for the last few days I’ve been corresponding to a girl on Facebook who claims she has met me, that she’s my girlfriend, and that she’s going to be moving in with me soon. Obviously, she’s really misinformed and there’s a couple of times where I really thought she may have been crazy.
In reality, this isn’t the first time this has happened. Before I get into this, let me tell you a short story of a similar occurrence which left me baffled.
No Neck Coat of Arms
I spent last night at No-Neck studios with Dearborn and Dreggs. We had a hard time trying to decide which song to let the fans preview next. After a conference call with Kriz DK we decided to go with Arm and a Leg. There are just some songs on the record that are so bad ass that we’re going to just wait to show the fans during the CD release show.
No plans of touring as of yet, but it seems all the messages I get from fans these days are about that. We haven’t toured in over a year and we’re all dying to play out again but of course the timing has to be right. It wouldn’t make sense for us to start booking shows again without a finished product. Seems so many bands down here decide to rush their projects just so they can play out and they pay for it in the end. We’re taking the time and making sure we’re 100% happy with where we are at before making the big jump. We survive on flying past the half-assed bullshit that everyone is so quick to put out.
For anyone interested in checking out the new song we just posted just visit our myspace page. Arm and a Leg already has over 600 listens and we just posted it. We’ve been getting great reviews from the fans and labels over seas.
I’m so excited about the new release and I can’t stress that enough. DK should be in town at the end of the month for new product and mayhem. Should be a blast, once again.
This time I’ll try harder to stay out of jail…
New Song Posted - Arm and a Leg
