Release of demo Mare Crisium.
Restless Moon is very pleased to announce that a first official demo will be released as a brief introduction of what more is to come. This demo will be called "Mare Crisium" (Sea of Crisis) and will contain the following six songs, with a total playing time of almost 43 minutes:
1. Streams Of Confusion - 7:16
2. Echoes From Beyond - 7:29
3. The Coming Of Fate - 6:53
4. Imprisonment - 6:05
5. The Endless Circle - 7:22
6. A First Scent Of Spring - 6:40
Mare Crisium (the "sea of crises") is a lunar mare located in the Moon's Crisium basin, just northeast of Mare Tranquillitatis. This basin is a relatively young mare region of the Pre-Imbrian period, 4.55 to 3.85 billion years ago.
It is 350 miles (560 km) in diameter in the east-to-west direction and 270 miles (430 km) in the north-to-south direction and covers an area of 66,000 square miles (169,000 km2). Centered at approximately 20 degrees north and 60 degrees east, it is near the eastern edge of the side of the moon visible from Earth.
It has a very flat floor, with a ring of wrinkled ridge toward its outer boundaries. Ghost craters, craters that have largely been buried under deposits of other material, are located to the south. Mare Crisium is the site of a gravitational anomaly known as a "mascon," or mass concentration. The mascon is presumably the fragments of the asteroid or comet whose impact created the mare basin buried beneath the surface. The high-gravity anomaly associated with the mascon makes the already-complex task of computing the orbits of lunar space probes all the more difficult. It also causes lunar satellites orbiting at low altitudes to either impact the moon or to be flung out into interplanetary space after a few years.
Mare Crisium's contrasty greys are visual poetry.
At this stage final mixing and mastering take place, as well as working on the last finishing touch on the artwork.
As soon as the demo is official released and ready to be ordered, additional information will be posted here on MySpace.
You can pre-order a copy of Mare Crisium now, by sending a message!
Hope to hear from you, take care!
Herman - Restless Moon
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About Restless Moon
Restless Moon is a progressive rock and metal band based in the Netherlands that first saw daylight somewhere during summer 2004. The band consists of only one member, Herman Verhoef, who is performing all vocals, guitars, keyboard, bass, drums and midi programming on the hard keyboards and drum parts.
Plans for Restless Moon were started years ago, although it never came actually to something. After an emotional experience in life, lots of inspirations came to blossoming, at first in words, and later in music.
The first preliminary recordings were the song Echoes From Beyond, Herman had already written with his band Buxom Prime. The lyrics appeared to fit very well within the other lyrics and the story that was already written until then, but also, it was a very good test case in recording a song in a new private studio.
Another already existing song is Lonely Waters, which was written by Herman with his previous band Ice Cold Zone. The song has been renamed to Lonely Waters II, as this song has been altered on quite some parts in both music and lyrics which changed the lyrical theme of the song completely.
The first new music for Restless Moon was written somewhere during autumn 2004. First recordings took place shortly thereafter.
The music of Restless Moon is moving somewhere in between rock and metal, and specifically at the progressive side of it, so in short the music could be categorized as progrock or progmetal. Heavy or gentle, or in between, not limited in any way and always looking for that good melody that catches you!
The Moon and Her Man
Born as a restless Gemini on June 10, 1968, in the Netherlands, Herman’s first discovery of music was simply on the radio in the seventies, living as a child with older brother and sisters, listening to bands such as ELO, Supertramp, Kansas, Genesis, Queen, Ram Jam, Blondie, etc. There was always something “wild†in the music he liked, with guitars and drums playing an important role.
At an age of 11, when Kiss was having a huge hit with “I was made for loving you†his first album was Kiss - Alive II. The doors to rock music went wide open.
Shortly after that, with the birth of the NWOBH (New Wave Of British Heavy Metal) he was introduced to bands such as Iron Maiden, Saxon, Judas Priest, Y&T, Motorhead and the first non-Kiss album he had was Iron Maiden - Maiden Japan.
The next few years the metal scene became more extreme with thrash and speed metal and some of the favorite bands that have left their influences are Exciter, Metallica, Slayer, Agent Steel, Exodus and Toxik.
Always fascinated by playing drums, Herman’s interest grew stronger and stronger, but practical limitations of playing drums while living in a house built against the neighbors’ house, drums only remained as an interest, nothing more.
From very close he watched his friends play in the speed metal band Inferno, later renamed to Silenxce, and very much stimulated by this Herman started playing the guitar in 1987 after a year of experiments on a self made piece of wood with six strings. While being part of the Silenxce Road Crew, he soon was able to play most of the Silenxce songs himself.
After the split of Silenxce, part of that band started a new band Ice Cold Zone which Herman was asked to join in 1990. The band did a few studio recordings and live gigs but split up in 1995.
One year later, in 1996, Herman together with a few friends, founded a new band called Buxom Prime in which Herman still plays guitars today. Next thing was an old dream. A new band, consisting of relatively inexperienced musicians founded the band Everdew in 2003 and Herman was invited to try and play the drums. The band appeared to be surprised by the fact he never had played the drums before. Early 2005 Everdew split up, but had given Herman much experience playing in a band other than guitars and combined with the great amount of inspiration for new music which did not fit within the band Buxom Prime he still played in, Restless Moon started to shine its light soon after.
Finally in 2007, during a short Silenxce reunion-tour Herman was honored to replace one of the original guitar players.
New Moon
The new moon, of no importance
lingers behind as the yellow sun glares
and is gone beyond the sea's edge;
earth smokes blue;
the new moon, in cool height above the blushes,
brings a fresh fragrance of heaven to our senses.
By D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930)