Triosphere news

This news just ticked in from our friends in Spiritual Beast in Japan - Triosphere has been made a Metal Album Nominee for the JPF Awards 2009. There were 42.000(!) submissions for album nominees and "Onwards" was selected among the top 10 in the metal category! The award is hosted by Just Plain Folks Music Organization (Just Plain Folks is a community of over 51,500 Songwriters, Recording Artists, Music Publishers, Record Labels, Performing Arts Societies, Educational Institutions, Recording Studios and Engineers, Producers, Legal Professionals, Publicists and Journalists, Publications, Music Manufacturers and Retailers and about every other type of member of the Music Industry. - and host to the world's largest independent music awards. -Webmaster).

This is of course very exciting news for the band, and we can only cross our strings and sticks hoping that the awards will cast a bit of glory upon Triosphere and "Onwards" :) The awards is held on August 29th in Nashville, TN.

The famous Rock Hard Magazine published an article in issue no.263 announcing a list of THE 20 BEST NEW BANDS in the metal scene in 2009. The list consists of what RH Magazine estimates as the most promising and up-and-coming bands from all over the world - and they have entitled Triosphere as one of those very bands! This testifies that Triosphere has made a noticeable efford by producing quality music and showing a dedicated performance onstage throughout tours and concerts all over Europe. It's a great token of motivation for the band, and gives even more spirit in the forging of the new album.

As of today, Triosphere has officially started recording the new and long awaited studio album! The metal is being forged at Trondheim Studio and engineered by Thomas, and the making of a studio diary already started. Stay tuned for updates with photos and video in the following days!

Triosphere has been confirmed for the Jorddunst 2009 festival on Frøya, playing on Thursday July 16th. The festival is located on the coast of middle Norway in beautiful surroundings, transportation and camping is well covered, more info on their website. Some of the other bands playing on the festivals are JORN, Skambankt, Katzenjammer, Tommy Tokyo, Iskald, Fatboy and Masshysteri.

Yet again Triosphere has received great reviews and comments from the audience and journalists attending their show, and also some eyecandy from the photographers out there. Rune at Eternal Terror has written a review and also uploaded a photo gallery - The same goes for Icon Music Mag which has written a review and uploaded photos from the show. And of course, our favourite photographer in Trondheim Anita Lande has taken a few shots that can be seen in her Flickr set.

A little gear update - Marcus is using the Rocktron Hush Super C and is featured in this years catalog from Audio Media. Download the PDF here!