Hi folks,
just wanted to let you know that the first (of many more to come!) photos of our Abraxas show are online!

The pictures can be found here

• Pictures Abraxas Gig 2010 (Martin Vill)
  

Hi everybody,
I just wanted to take the time to thank all of you who helped make the Saturday night show such a big fun and successful evening! Thanks for coming so plenty and the support! We really enjoyed playing our music to such a great and supportive audience, and were very happy to present a lot of the new material to all of you!

A big thank you also to the whole Abraxas team, it was a pleasure to work with you (as always).

A very special thanks also to Oli, our trusted sound engineer - you really made it all sound great!

Last but not least we´d like to thank Christina, Co and Sabrina for the great work with visuals, you really did a great job! Thanks a lot!

Concerning the new album: we are in the final stages of negotiation with different labels (and that whole process has kept us from releasing the music so far), but will decide about that in the coming days.
We will keep you all informed about that, and thank you all for your patience and support!

That´s it for today, have a proggin good week!

Hi folks,
we just wanted to inform you that the ticket sale for our show @ the Abraxas Theater / Augsburg, Germany has started today.

It has become sort of a tradition for us to do one or two host-gigs at the wonderful Abraxas Theater, and the next incarnation of that will be on Saturday, February 6th 2010.

In contrast to what we did before, we courageously decided to skip the opener spot and do a Dream Theater-like "Evening with..." show. So expect A LOT OF music from us...of course, this concert will see the material of the new album, as well as the stuff from "The Inner Circle".

Again, we will have the full show with all the visuals and stuff, we are working full throttle on the new ones right now!

Tickets are 10€ (box office) and 8€ (advance sale), and can be ordered from now on in one of the following ways:

• direct @ the Abraxas Theater (Sommestr.30, 86156 Augsburg, Germany, phone: 0821 / 3246357)
• direct from us; just send us an email to info@danteband.de .

Hi fellow Progheads,
we did it! Our 2nd album is done!

Mixes had been ready for 2 weeks now, and just yesterday we finished the Mastering in our own RedTube Studios. As always, once you get to the point of Mastering, you think you..re almost through it all, but it then turns out to be quite some work to get songs that sound good individually to sound good as an album (and that is very important I think, despite what all the single-based mainstream radio junk proposes!), but we are very happy with the result now!

Of course, there are still a few things to do (contacting the notary, checking with agencies and stuff), but we hope we will make the 2009 release! As to this point it is not yet clear whether we again will self-release it or not, we don..t want to give out any more information just yet.

We just wanted to thank all you out there who kept us going and encouraged us in what we are doing! Thanks so much!

So, you all have a proggin.. great day, stay tuned for more info!

Hi everybody,
ust a quick update on what we are doing right now.

As you know we were moving our studio and have been busy renovating the new rooms. Though one of the rooms still is not completely ready, we could temporarly move the recording and mixing stuff into the other one, so we were able to resume the fixing and mixing-work for the upcoming album finally.

We are very happy to get back to what we really want to do, renovating has been much tougher than we thought once we started digging into it.

If everything goes well, we should be done with the whole mixing issue very soon. We are really longing to get that album out as we think it totally rocks!

With great pleasure have we seen our debut "The Inner Circle" finding its way to Italy lately (simply crossing the alps sometimes is more difficult than crossing the Atlantic it seems ) and we are getting some nice reviews there as well. The latest one is from Rock Impressions .

• Review Rock Impressions

• Review Rock Impressions (German)

Hi everybody,
as already mentioned in the other blog entry, we recently did a promo-photoshot. We just got our hands on the first bunch of those pics, and here they are:

• DANTE Promo 2009 (Christina Bulka)
  

Hey folks,
as you know we are producing in our very own "The Hidden Studios". They have served us well in the last couple of years, but we were rapidly reaching the limit of what we can do space wise.
So, for quite some time now we wanted to move that into a much bigger location, and with the beginning of the new month we finally found our new rooms and started moving the whole studio.

Of course, this will take quite some time as we have to build everything from scratch again, and do quite some renovation in the new rooms. As annoying and time-consuming as that is, this will give us much better opportunities to work than before, so it just has to be done now.
It was our plan to move the studio after we finished our new album, but we just got that opportunity to move into these new rooms now, so we just had to take advantage of that as it was a limited-time offer.

We will continue working on the album as soon as everything works again. And dont you worry - new album will be upon you soon!!

So stay tuned!

Hey folks,
we just added a few more live pictures from the Abraxas gig.
Many thanks to Christina Bulka for the awesome photos!

• Pictures Abraxas Gig 2009
  

Good news everyone,
we are very happy to announce that the writing for our 2nd album is done!

We got a huge amount of hard rocking, progressive music done over the last year, and we are very excited with how all that turned out! With the writing done we have just entered our very own Hidden Studios once again and started the mixing process a week ago. Of course, it will take us quite some time to get all the production done (as you can imagine!), but we will keep all of you Progheads updated. The year 2009 will definitely see the new DanteAlbum! Time to get excited!

As with our debut "The Inner Circle", Alex has taken the challenge to once again create some progressive-design-wizardry for the booklet, and what we have seen so far looks absolutely awesome!

Furthermore, last Thursday saw the photoshoot for Dante 2009. This time we had the pleasure to work with Ben & Chris (who already did take the amazing Live shots @ the Abraxas gig) and entered the studio @ the FH Augsburg so we had all the professional equipment possibly needed right at hand. We cannot express our gratitude towards both Chris and Ben enough, we had a friggin good time there, and your effort was absolutely amazing, working for almost straight 12 hours! Thanks so much!!

So, much is happening right now in our world, and exciting things these are for us. We will keep you updated on everything, until then: be well, take care and PROG ON!

Hey folks,
our debut "The Inner Circle" has been ranked 7th in the "2008: Top 20 albums" - category of ProgressoR.
The complete list can be found here
Yet another cool accomplishment for our album :-)
A big thank you goes to Vitaly and the whole ProgressoR crew!

As far as the album production is concerned we are well on our way with the current song "Last", which so far is easily the heaviest Dante has ever written! Gonna be interesting to see how this turns out - you..ll never know where a DanteSong ends before it does! :-)
We will keep you updated on all matters concerning the album and everythinh else!

Hey folks,
after our show @ the Abraxas Theater we have entered the studio again to complete the writing of our new album in the coming 2 months.

The gig itself was fantastic, we all had a great time, and so had the audience (plenty as it fortunately was despite of the snow storm!). We played the whole "The Inner Circle" album as well as a few new songs, and the reaction to the new material encouraged us in our believe that the new album will be a step forward for us!

Furthermore, we have made big changes to our media presence.

There is a new layout to our whole web-presence (Website, Myspace, YouTube). It is best viewed with a resolution of 1200 or higher.

As you can see, we added a Dante-Youtube channel to post videos there. We have two videos of the Abraxas gig up there (though we did not plan on that - but we got hold of some camcorder material that was filmed there and had a reasonable good audio and video quality). We will add to that later. Also, we uploaded a few songs with the original live-visuals. Hope you enjoy it!

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• Pictures Abraxas Gig 2009