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Ashtar

Spiritual World Metal

About Me

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Hey everyone! The album is almost done and we are passing through a major change, i prefer to say we are evolving, musically. For now, we grant you with a song that we made as a tribute for Ulver.

Ashtar was founded in 1997 by me and Daniel Dobbin. The band started as a "progressive doom metal" and the celtic feeling was added to it later on. The past years had lots of line up changes and has been busy, filled up with the release of our first album Urantia, 3 european tours, the appearance in Mexico´s Baja Prog festival, important concerts in Brazil and the upcoming release of our official DVD.

The influence comes from the spiritual world, as in serene and in tormented souls. The questions, the answers, feelings, emotions, past lives and civilizations in all kind of experiences. Ashtar is what we call "Spiritual World Metal". As for the genre, well, listen for yourself...

- Luiz Garcia

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Member Since: 7/25/2006
Band Website: ashtaronline.com
Band Members:

Paula Mineoka - lead & backing vocals

Luiz Garcia - lead & backing vocals, electric & acoustic guitars, whistles, bodhran & theremin

Oswaldo Velasco - violin

Fabio Guilherme - bass, backing vocals & castanets

Daniel Dobbin - drums & percussion

Eduardo Capella - electric & acoustic guitars

Rob Gould - keyboards, synths & vocoder

Influences: Pink Floyd, Loreena Mckennitt, Anathema, Opeth, Dead Can Dance, The Gathering, Peter Gabriel, Jethro Tull, Renaissance, Mostly Autumn, Porcupine Tree, Tool, world & celtic music , the nature & the spiritiual world..
Sounds Like: A spiritual journey of every drop of existence through time as in light and in darkness.
Type of Label: None