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Aristal

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Member Since: 3/8/2007
Band Website: this one
Band Members: Kyle Gaddo (vocals, guitar, bass)
Influences:

Kyle - (in no particular order) Matt Barlow, Mike Patton, James Hetfield, Robert Stjärnström, Devin Townsend, Dan Swanö, Mikael Åkerfeldt, Chuck Billy, Roy Khan, Nobuo Uematsu, Jon Schaffer, Christopher Amott, Marco Hietala, James Malone, Arjen Anthony Lucassen, The Internet, video games, Japan, insomnia, ninjas, animu, 4chan, DESU!, psychology, multi-colored note cards, dinosaurs, Hater Tots, Haterade, Erin's dream world, zombies


Sounds Like: Crushing skulls in the Forest of Heavy Metal and Other Heavy Minerals
Record Label: Whirlwind Of Hate Music
Type of Label: None

My Blog

in absentia

Growing up is really difficult to do, especially when you almost have to force it within yourself to accomodate to the circumstances that surround you.The wishes of my former bandmates to get this pro...
Posted by Aristal on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 01:50:00 PST

Goodbye

As of tonight, Oz Kraus and Will Dixon have left Aristal for greener pastures. They cited creative and motivational conflicts with vocalist Kyle Gaddo, whom they said "has been working on lyrics for s...
Posted by Aristal on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 01:08:00 PST

New Stuff

We've had our little page up for some time now, and we FINALLY have some halfway decent tracks up! Granted, the drums and bass are in MIDI and there aren't any vocals (yet), but I think you all can gl...
Posted by Aristal on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 03:44:00 PST

Lance is our saviour

So, Lance and Will were working on a song a while back and finally had a chance to get back together and finish work on it.  Lance tells me that they've finished it, aside from writing the drums ...
Posted by Aristal on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 01:45:00 PST

Phew

Jeeze, is it school time again already?  Summer seemingly just flew by, and so did time for practice.  It's a shame all of us boys barely got together to write and practice--we could've play...
Posted by Aristal on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 11:28:00 PST

UPDATE 6/25

Kyle turned 21 on June 23rd, so happy belated birthdays to him (me, 'cause I'm the only one who ever blogs here...only because Will is the only other person to have the password).Lyrically, three of f...
Posted by Aristal on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 07:55:00 PST

Songs and a show!

So, Aristal has a tentative first show on July 9th at the Boardwalk/Joint/something in Flagstaff, AZ.  I'm not even sure--Will told me the Joint and Oz recently mentioned it would be at the Board...
Posted by Aristal on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 04:54:00 PST

Commence crushing

A couple of days ago, Will and I started work on a new song and it's developing quite nicely.I've been trying to crank out lyrics as best I can, especially for the track you hear on the MySpace. ...
Posted by Aristal on Sat, 26 May 2007 08:38:00 PST

Finaaaaaaaaaaalzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

;aowejr'oieajr;oaih'oiho'iOIAHWE'ROIAHE'OFIHWe are all so busy.No time to be creative~Rartgaregaeragar.COME TO OUR GUITAR-B-Q.May 4th or May 11th?  I've gotten votes for both, but so far, the maj...
Posted by Aristal on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:55:00 PST

We, us and...us?

So, we're very slowly working on some new material, but in all honesty, it's the end of the semester and we're all working on getting by in school.As such, I don't feel we've all been getting inspired...
Posted by Aristal on Sat, 14 Apr 2007 01:30:00 PST