aonia Aonia is putting on our own all-day metal festival at The Roadhouse, Birmingham. This is our first festival, showcasing the best rising talent along with established bands from the UK and Europe. Tickets are £10 and are available from The Roadhouse, by clicking here. They’ll be £12 on the door (if it’s not sold out)! …
Praise has already started rolling in for the latest release, ‘Sunchaser’! The kind folks at Pagan Hel have said: “The rhythms are punchy and bold and pursues an invigorating encounter with plenty of potently addictive hooks and sumptuous keyboard melodies. The vocals are completed to a high precision assault and very diverse, thrusting out a …
Our apologies to fans who were looking forward to seeing us at Rock & Blues on Friday – unfortunately, due to scheduling conflicts, we were dropped from the bill approximately two weeks ago. It seems that the compère and stage management team weren’t aware that we had been dropped and informed the crowd that we …
We have entered the Wychwood Brewery competition to be able to play Bloodstock Festival 2014 and would love your help! Visit this site – register (it only takes a minute and they don’t spam unless you ask them to) – then scroll along until you find us and click. You can vote every day – …
Important announcement! We are moving the release of ‘Sunchaser’ to summer of 2014. Throughout the process of recording ‘Sunchaser’, it has become apparent that our originally planned release date of 5th of April is not possible if we were going to make the EP the best it can possibly be. We don’t want to release …
Be mused! Aonia discloses details of forthcoming release Midlands-based mythic, melodic metal septet Aonia are currently cloistered away, writing and recording their next release – a five-track EP of just under half an hour – which is planned for release on the 25th of July 2014. In a contrast to their dark, horror-inspired first release, …
We are very excited to announce that Aonia has not one, but TWO new members as we continue through 2013! Firstly, Przemek ‘Slick’ Druzkowski joined us in February and has been rocking out onstage since – well, since before he had his first rehearsal, joining us at a private party for a band family member …
Exclusively for the M2M competition, we will be joined by the stunning, silken-voiced Joanne Robinson on dual and backing vocals. Joanne is a good friend of Mel’s and is an operatically trained colourartura soprano. Joanne and Mel have sung together on numerous occasions – their most notable joint performance being the ‘Flower Duet’ from Lakme …
As 2012 ends and 2013 begins, we reflect on how far Aonia has come in the past year. We have played with some very impressive names, played our first club show and got to the finals for the Bloodstock Metal 2 the Masses competition. We’ve been in Metalhammer and Terrorizer. We’ve doubled our Facebook ‘likes’ …
We regret to announce that, due to time commitments, guitarist Paul has sadly had to leave Aonia. We are now looking for a lead/rhythm guitarist to replace him so we can record our new EP early next year and fulfil our gigging commitments to the best standard we can. Aonia is a band that is …