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Android Soul

About Me

ANDROID SOUL is a new female fronted metalband based in the Rotterdam area (The Netherlands). Three ex-Wastelands members (Dennis Graafland, Cees van Ooijen and Robert van der Poel) teamed up again to turn their co-operation that lasted for over 10 years into a fresh new start.
Wastelands has been known in this scene for their technical skills, dynamic compositions and dissociation with cliché-pop and fake-rock overruling the radio charts. During this period the band won several awards and performed frequently throughout all of Holland as headliner to promote the 'Dark Ages' album but also supporting a.o. Green Lizard and Highway Chile.
ANDROID SOUL is a follow-up with dignity keeping the quality-highlights of Wastelands. In the new line-up is chosen for only one guitarist to create space for bombastic synthesizer parts. The rough voice of the old days is replaced by a mezzo-soprano, Linda Aarts (Icaros) which will still be supported by vocal harmonies of the other bandmembers. Jeroen Lankhuizen took place behind the drumkit and received international fame by being drummer for Funeral Winds and Liar of Golgotha and was active with Cees in the progressive metalband 'Orphean'.
In April 2008, the band will release their debut CD called Disappointing Paradise.

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Member Since: 9/20/2006
Band Website: http://www.androidsoul.nl
Band Members: Linda Aarts (vocals)
Ronald Boonstra (guitar)
Cees van Ooijen (keys)
Robert van der Poel (bass)
Jeroen "Mooz" Lankhuizen (drums)

Influences: Nightwish, Dream Theater, Symphony X, After Forever, Rush
Sounds Like: Android Soul!
Record Label: PMM Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Where have we been??

Time goes by so quickly, I just realized it's almost a year since the last blog post. But not to worry, we're still alive. It's just been a tough year, and it's not over yet.Around September, we had t...
Posted by on Sat, 28 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT

TONIGHT!!!! CD Presentation!!!

FINALLY! Our CD is going to be released tonight, and we're going to celebrate it with a cd release party! Come and check us out in Alphen a/d Rijn. Tickets are 10 euros :)Hosted By: PMM RecordsWhen: F...
Posted by on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:53:00 GMT

CD RELEASE "DISAPPOINTING PARADISE"

Hello Android Soul friends,   Finally, it’s there, the fixed date for the release of our debut cd "Disappointing Paradise" : It’s the 18th of April!! Which will be a huge party, of co...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:25:00 GMT

Emma Eugènie born to Robert & Michelle!!

On Thursday, February 28th, very early in the morning, Emma Eugènie was born to Robert and Michelle!! Both mother and daughter are in good health.   Robert and Michelle, from the remaining Andro...
Posted by on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 12:09:00 GMT

We’re working on it!

No, we haven't disappeared from the earth. We are still very busy recording our debut album Disappointing Paradise. While things may seem quiet to the outside, there's a lot of work behind the screens...
Posted by on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:23:00 GMT

First studio weeks are over!

Three weeks of little sleep, hilaric and serious conversation and of course, recording our album have now passed. Not everything's finished yet, but at the end of August we hope to hold a brilliant al...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 01:56:00 GMT

A BIG thank you!

Hi everyone, Our show yesterday rocked, and we'd like to say thank you to everybody who showed up at the Peppel, and for all the kind responses we received afterwards! We're back in the studio already...
Posted by on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 05:48:00 GMT

Studio Scribbles

Four days have already passed. On Thursday, Mooz had to set up his drumkit and starting on Friday, he had to record his lines. Within two days, all 14 songs were done! Today, it was Robert's turn, for...
Posted by on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 09:53:00 GMT

AS signs record deal and starts recording!

Dutch female fronted metal band ANDROID SOUL inked a record deal with PMMRecords (www.pmmrecords.com) from Holland. The work on their debut album "Disappointing  Paradise" started June 14th. The...
Posted by on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:04:00 GMT

New demo song placed and news

There are a lot of things happening in the Android Soul camp! We can't tell you everything yet, but we can say we've extended our material with half an hour of music. The new Myspace song, Butterfly E...
Posted by on Wed, 16 May 2007 08:05:00 GMT