http://bybloodalone.com Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:38:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Our Spring 2010 Tour starts April 1st! Our last tour was a great experience and we plan on the new one being the same, and mucho fun as well. Since we now have so much material spanning multiple (somewhat) related genres we are tailoring our set each night to the ... http://bybloodalone.com/news/2010/spring-2010-tour-dates-announced/ As a promo for the upcoming tour we have made "Serpentarius" and "Seas of Blood" available for free download. In the future we plan on making this a regular thing, so feel free to visit us often. To download, visit our Reverb Nation page or click on the links below: Serpentarius: ... http://bybloodalone.com/news/2010/free-songs-now-available/ We are pretty excited for this show on March 23rd. It will be a tour kick off date for By Blood Alone and the first show BBA and Ocean have played together since the old Geno's days. We are also stoked to be playing in this great sounding room and ... http://bybloodalone.com/news/2010/by-blood-alone-w-ocean-port-city-music-hall-march-23rd/ Our first tour back in September went so well, that planning for the Spring 2010 tour is now in the works. Like last time, we intend to leave on a Thursday and return on a Sunday, hitting various Northeast US hot spots in between. If you're just dying to have ... http://bybloodalone.com/news/2009/planning-spring-2010-tour/ From the outside it may have seemed like a slow year for By Blood Alone, but trust us, this was far from the case. Originally we intended to concentrate on recording our next cd. We didn't even actively seek any shows for the first half of the year, though we ... http://bybloodalone.com/news/2009/2009-in-review/ Concreteweb.be of Belgium has posted a very complimentary and surprisingly well researched review of "Seas of Blood". It's quite rare that a reviewer will look into our backstory with such thoroughness. Hats off to Dirk Van den Auweele Jr for caring so much! http://bybloodalone.com/news/2009/review-on-concreteweb-be/ Score: 88/100. Gothic/ Progressive Metal act By Blood Alone (which now consists of singer Melynda “Cruella” Amann, guitarist John Graveside, keyboardist Jenny Wiliamson, bassist Jack Doran, and drummer Runtt…the latter replacing original sticksman John Hoerner -whom wanted to concentrate on his nursing school studies- in Autumn 2005) was founded in ... http://bybloodalone.com/reviews/2009/concreteweb-be-belgium/ Aimsel Ponti at the Portland Press Herald gave us some nice props in her column this week: The Night Is Young by Aimsel L. Ponti My, how time flies when you're playing a witches' brew of Goth-anointed alternative rock/prog/metal. It's been five years since By Blood Alone played its first show at Geno's, ... http://bybloodalone.com/news/2009/short-write-up-in-the-portland-press-herald/ Geno's Rock Club 625 Congress St - Portland ME Saturday October 24th 9pm $5 It is hard to believe it has been five years since we played our very first gig at our home away from home, Geno's (the Brown St. Geno's). We want to thank Barb for having giving us the support ... http://bybloodalone.com/news/2009/by-blood-alone-5th-anniversary-show-this-saturday-1024/ Some pics of us on the road are on our facebook and myspace pages. check them our here: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=125829&id=38637272185&l=bd8a8b7ed2 http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPicture&friendID=4081446&albumId=2732540 http://bybloodalone.com/news/2009/tour-pics-online/