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About Me

brSoul Splinter was founded October 2005 under the name "Arch Angel" by Guitarist, songwriter and Vocalist JoÃ«l. With a new line-up we felt a new name would be good for the band and thus we chose Soul Splinter.Lead singer Thamar has been with the band since september 2007 and was the first new member of the current line up. Soon Jan joined the ranks on bass and has refound his love for music through Soul Splinter. Last to join was Armand who occupies the drums. Last up is JoÃ«l who is the primary composer for Soul Splinter, JoÃ«l plays the guitars (electric and acoustic) and does the raw vocals and backing.Soul Splinter stands for a head-on, honest, no-nonsense music with lyrics about severe disease, death, depression, possession, addiction (of all kinds), injustice, (sexual) abuse, broken hearts and pointlessness. We seek to offer new light on these things and light at the end of those dark tunnels we've all been through.As for the genre, because the enormous amount of influences that can be heard in the music we have chosen to call the style "Splintercore". Metalcore (or post-hardcore) is the main element of the music together with folk, combined with countless styles of rock, metal and other genres we create a style from splinters of genres.

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Member Since: 7/2/2006
Band Members: Thamar - Vocals Jan - Bass Armand - Drums JoÃ«l - Vocals/guitars
Influences: Killswitch Engage, All That Remains, Unearth, As I Lay Dying, Caliban (The Undying Darkness & The Awakening), Diecast (Internal Revolution), Underoath, Lamb of God, Opeth, Tool & Porcupine Tree.
Sounds Like: The screams and songs of many souls....
Type of Label: None

My Blog

New Drummer

Dear Friends, It's been quiet but the silence will soon be shattered again! Yesterday we made arrangements with our new drummer. A brief "who's-he": His name is Guido Klap, he's in his twenties like...
Posted by Soul Splinter on Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:32:00 PST

New Drummer

Dear Friends, It has been a while but with the last weeks of the dutch school-season we have been quite occupied. Armand has decided to leave the band and this week we will be jamming with the guy tha...
Posted by Soul Splinter on Sat, 12 Jul 2008 09:04:00 PST

Regioruis - 1st gig!!

Dear Friend, Yesterday we played our first gig ever with Soul Splinter, it was pretty cool. Sure a thing or two went wrong here and there, but who cares? We had fun, rocked our asses off, headbanged, ...
Posted by Soul Splinter on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 12:44:00 PST

Soul Splinter Newsflash - March 10th 2008

Dear Friend,Since our last mail things have come to the point that our first Gig is in sight and we have an actual date for it now: on March 28th 2008 Soul Splinter will have its first live-performanc...
Posted by Soul Splinter on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:40:00 PST

Soul Splinter Footage!

Glad you're reading this! Because we wanted to let you know Joël will be recording some stuff of him and his acoustic guitar. We mean dead-honest acoustic versions of his guitarwork, so sit tight for ...
Posted by Soul Splinter on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 03:26:00 PST

Newsflash February 20th 2008

Dear Friends! We've been rehearsing our asses off since our manager Maurits came by and offered some constructive criticism to all four band members music-wise. After his visit we have been working ha...
Posted by Soul Splinter on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 03:20:00 PST

Quick Update

Happy New Year!We just wanted to check in and which you a happy new year (again...we know) and update you on the following: coming friday we'll be having a visitor over at our rehearsal. His name is P...
Posted by Soul Splinter on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:44:00 PST

Update December 2007

Dear Friend,First of all: Metal Christmas and a Rockin' New Year!!! Thanx for watching us in the past year!The band's been steady till now and we've been rehearsing on a weekly basis. Right now we're ...
Posted by Soul Splinter on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:07:00 PST

Quick Update

Dear Friend, Thanks for checking in! Since the last time there hasn't been much going on that was out of the ordinary. We're rehearsing once a week and we finished about five songs right now. Currentl...
Posted by Soul Splinter on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 05:43:00 PST

Arch Angel No More......All Hail Soul Splinter

Dear Friend, After debating several names for the band we have decided to call it "Soul Splinter". We're working on the conversion of our URL and so on, but myspace isn't quite bug-free so we're havin...
Posted by Soul Splinter on Sun, 28 Oct 2007 10:41:00 PST