LEGENDARY UK GOTHIC ROCK BAND INKUBUS SUKKUBUS SIGNS WITH ROCKGAMER STUDIOS
Records Four Exclusive Versions of Hits for Rock Band Network

If you are a fan of gothic rock, the name Inkubus Sukkubus should need no introduction. Comprised of Candia Ridley on vocals, Tony McCormack on guitar, and Adam Henderson on bass, this long running act from the United Kingdom has been active since 1989, with over a dozen albums to their credit throughout their career. Formed out of a mutual interest in paganism, witchcraft, and vampirism, their style of goth rock has been well-received over their years, with appearances on BBC programming, features in magazines, and a steady position at the top of the Goth Rock category on SoundClick. Having performed concerts in a multitude of countries and headlined festivals throughout the world, including the Whitby Gothic Weekend in the UK and Wave-Gotik-Treffen in Leipzig, Germany, their legion of fans has steadily grown throughout their twenty-year-plus career.

Today, we are proud to announce that RockGamer Studios will be authoring five songs from their catalogue for future release through the Rock Band Network. The first single, “Death Comes”, is taken from their most recent release, 2008′s Viva la Muerte. The album tells the story of a couple celebrating their wedding on Dia de los Muertos, the Mexican Day of the Dead. You can listen to “Death Comes” in its entirety via the link below:

In addition to “Death Comes”, Inkubus Sukkubus is currently heading into the studio to record exclusive versions of four of their biggest hits specifically for Rock Band! They are hard at work on brand new recordings of “Belladonna & Aconite”, “Heart of Lilith”, “Queen of the May”, and “Wytches” which will make their debut as downloadable content for Rock Band Network.

To learn more about Inkubus Sukkubus, as well as hear more of their music and see their videos, please visit their extensive website at http://www.inkubussukkubus.com, or catch up with them at social networking sites Facebook and Myspace.

FINNISH HARD ROCKERS FREE SPIRIT COMING TO ROCK BAND NETWORK WITH ROCKGAMER STUDIOS

Today, we’re pleased to add another excellent band from Finland to the upcoming Rock Band Network song lineup. Finnish hard rock revivalists Free Spirit will be joining their countrymates Amberian Dawn on RBN when RockGamer Studios releases three songs from their 2009 album, “Pale Sister of Light”.

Comprised of Sami Alho on vocals, Vesa Yli-Mäenpää and Marko Haapamäki on guitar, Pasi Koivumäki behind the drums, Sami Hämäläinen on bass, and Timo Alho on keyboards, this group has been enthralling Europe with their melodic hard rock since 2006. We are working with them to bring three songs from their 2009 release, “Pale Sister of Light”, including the title track, as well as “Until the Night” and “Far Away from Heaven”. Capturing classic riffs and grooves while bringing them firmly into the new millenium, their songs are poised to become favorites with Rock Band players of all ages.

View the video for “Until The Night” below:

You can check out their other two songs we’ll be bringing to RBN below:

• Free Spirit – “Far Away from Heaven” ♫

• Free Spirit – “Pale Sister of Light” ♫

Be sure to visit them at their website, or connect up with them on MySpace, and be sure to look forward to these three songs coming soon to RBN!

ROCKGAMER STUDIOS SIGNS CALIFORNIA POWER TRIO RED9 FOR TWO ROCK BAND NETWORK SONGS

If you’re a fan of melodic yet harder-edged alternative rock, time to listen up! SoCal-based power trio RED9 is coming to the Rock Band Network with a pair of songs sure to please.

The roots of the band took hold in 2005, when the core members Jeff Lyons and Paul Frislie first connected and began performing together. After years of touring, jamming, and auditioning for permanent members, they finally welcomed the drummer Giovanni Fuentes into the fold. 2009 saw the release of their debut EP, “1 of 9″, which featured their single “Real Love”, as well as their first full length, “The Host”, containing the blistering “Last Mistake”.

We’re proud to be working with them to bring both “Real Love” and “Last Mistake” to the Rock Band Network platform later this year. You can connect up with them on Facebook”, Twitter, their website, or listen to their tunes on MySpace.

You can check out the two tunes we’ll be bringing to RBN below:

A sneak peek for all of you fans of awesome music. Here’s the first preview footage from Amberian Dawn‘s “River of Tuoni” and Fake Shark-Real Zombie!‘s “Sestri Levante”. Expect both of these to be available later this year when the Rock Band Network launches!

Hello out there, Internet! Chris here. All of us at RockGamer Studios are extremely excited to bring you the following news. We have partnered with long-running and fiercely independent Pennsylvania-based label CI Records, and will be bringing their artists to the Rock Band Network!

CI Records was formed 1989 in Lancaster, PA by Jeremy Weiss, and started mainly as an outlet to release vinyl from his band at the time. Over the past twenty years, they have amassed an impressive catalogue of releases from artists as diverse as August Burns Red, The Juliana Theory, Onelinedrawing, The Pink Spiders, and Sense Field. We are very proud to be helping them represent the label on the Rock Band Network! The first downloadable offerings from CI Records and RockGamer Studios will include two tracks each from three of their current artists from their hometown; Circus Circus, Sadaharu, and Texas In July.

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We’re very pleased to announce that Californian prog rock band Children of Nova have signed with RockGamer Studios! We will be bringing the title track from their debut album, “The Complexity of Light”, to the Rock Band Network later this year.

Since forming in San Diego in the summer of 2007, Children of Nova have been steadily turning heads and garnering notice in the West Coast rock scene. Having played venues all up and down the coast throughout 2008, they turned their attention to recording their debut album, entitled “The Complexity of Light”, which was released in March of this year and received considerable critical acclaim. Most recently, they took home the honors at the 19th Annual San Diego Music Awards, where they received the award for Best Hard Rock Group!

RockGamer Studios will be authoring the title track from “The Complexity of Light”, a six and a half-minute epic that will blow you away! For fans of Coheed & Cambria, The Mars Volta, or Rush, you’ll definitely want to keep your ears open for this.

You can preview their songs at their last.fm page, purchase the album from iTunes, and make friends with them on MySpace!

Listen to the song in its entirety below:

Look for this track to be available to purchase and play when RBN launches later this fall!

Another brand new artist announcement for you! We here at RockGamer Studios are proud to bring the eclectic, genre-defying stylings of Canadian foursome Fake Shark-Real Zombie! to Rock Band Network later this year! They will be joining the RBN lineup with four songs taken from their recently released “Angel Lust” EP; the title track “Angel Lust”, “Horses In Heaven”, “Running For The Razors”, and “Sestril Levante”. These four tracks will also be available on their soon-to-be-released second full-length album, “Meeting People Is Terrible” (which is currently available to all the lucky folks living in Japan).

Since forming in late 2005, the band (named after a pivotal scene in the gory Lucio Fulci classic, “Zombi II”) has been terrorizing Western Canadian audiences with their unique blend of screamo vocals, spooky ska, off-kilter metal, gang vocals, and whatever else is necessary to achieve their galvanizing, electrifying ends. Having opened for such noteworthy acts as Mindless Self Indulgence, The Klaxons, and Hot Hot Heat, and with a new album produced by Dave “Rave” Ogilvie (of Skinny Puppy fame, and who has worked with artists such as Tool, Nine Inch Nails, Queensryche, and Marilyn Manson), FSRZ! are set to take the world by storm. The RockGamer Studios crew couldn’t be happier to present their “Angel Lust” EP in its entirety to an audience of rhythm gamers worldwide. With a sound that’s been compared to everyone from the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Jane’s Addiction to The Mars Volta and System Of A Down, these four tracks are sure to make a splash.

Watch their video for “Angel Lust” below:

To preview the full tracks from the “Angel Lust” EP, please visit their page at Last.FM, or simply click on any of the song titles below. You can also get up close and personal with the band like any good social network-ite at MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter.

Look for these songs to be available when RBN launches later this fall!

A quick late Thursday announcement for you all. We’re extremely excited to announce that legendary Welsh “ragga-metal” band Skindred has joined forces with RockGamer Studios and will be coming to the Rock Band Network! “Stand for Something”, the lead single off their latest album “Shark Bites And Dog Fights” (Bieler Bros. Records), will be available upon launch of the Rock Band Network later this year.

Check out their video for “Stand for Something” below:

You can find more info on Skindred at their webpage, their Myspace page, or follow them on Twitter at @skindredmusic. Also be sure to check out their amazing new album, “Shark Bites & Dog Fights”, at iTunes and Amazon.

Guitarists, time to flex those fingers. Drummers, warm up your kick pedals. Vocalists, start doing your pitch exercises. Today, we’re extremely pleased to announce the addition of another international band to the RockGamer Studios family, and would like you to join us in welcoming Finnish symphonic metal group Amberian Dawn to the line-up! Their songs “River of Tuoni” and “He Sleeps In A Grove” will be available later this fall for Rock Band players to download via the Rock Band Network.

Since 2006, Amberian Dawn has been blowing audiences away with their extremely technical blend of symphonic metal and operatic vocals. Their debut album, “River of Tuoni”, was released in 2008 to great acclaim, and earlier this year they released their sophomore effort entitled “The Clouds of Northland Thunder” via Ascendance Records in Europe, KHY Suomen Musiikki in Finland and Marquee Avalon in Japan & Asia. Led by their composer, keyboard and guitar virtuoso Tuomas Seppälä, and fronted by the amazingly beautiful and talented vocalist and lyricist Heidi Parviainen, their powerful songs will grab you and leave you breathless.

The band is currently preparing for their second European tour, where they will be joined by Epica and Sons of Seasons. For more information on Amberian Dawn, please be sure to check out their website and their Myspace page. We’re very excited to work with them and bring their music to a worldwide audience through the Rock Band Network!

Hello out there! Chris from RockGamer Studios here, with my first post for the site. I’m the resident bass chart author, and have been dabbling a bit in venue design as well, so I’m proud to present the first footage from our forthcoming RBN release of Jonathan Coulton‘s “Creepy Doll”. We’ve got our traditional full band preview video to showcase a little bit of what you can expect in terms of the charting, but we’ve also got a first here; a solo vocals run, captured specifically to showcase the background imagery. For a song as rich in atmosphere as this, the lighting, animations, and camera cuts had to be just so, and hopefully we’ve accomplished that goal here. Take special note of the pulsating lights flicking on and off, throbbing in time to that oh-so-sinister doll’s heartbeart. And if you like what you see, please be sure to mention so in the comment section below!

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