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THE BAND
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Caco Gonçalves - Drums
Denis Oliveira - Vocals
Felipe Campos - Bass
Thiago Campos - Guitar, Engineering/Mixing

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DESCRIPTION
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Bad Salad is a progressive rock/metal band from Brasília, Brazil.

The term progressive metal is being thrown around like crazy these days. So what separates Bad Salad's sound from the millions of bands who define themselves as being part of this mainstream unfriendly (yet increasingly growing) genre of rock music?

- Personality: For starters, Bad Salad's music has strong personality. Each song is unique, and scars you with it's identity. They're like olives, or anchovies, for example. Like it or not, you will know what it is when you taste it!

- Rhythm: Bad Salad's music is very hammering! At times it almost feels like a full-throttle construction of a building. Some of the grooves are very tribal/ethnic, and there are many fun polyrhythmic games between the instruments.

- Memorable: Although Bad Salad's music can be considered quite technical at times, it is still very groove oriented, and melodically consciouss. The band is well aware that music, no matter how exotic the genre, is based on repetition, and variation within that required repetition. With that in mind, the compositions are able to take you on unique journeys, while still staying true to their motifs and retaining memorability.

- Appealing Lead Vox: The vocals are probably one of the bigger contributors to setting us apart from other prog-metal bands. Denis Oliveira isn't your typical heavy metal (operatic, mega vibrato) singer. While searching for our vocalist, we made it clear we wanted a more grungy type tone and delivery. We needed someone who could sing beautifully melodic lines with ATTITUDE instead of being annoying. Denis is our guy! He has great range, impeccable intonation and has a pleasant and "edgy" tone. Pair that along with well thought-out vocal lines that present hooks, and you have a much more accessible prog-metal, appealing even to those who dismiss well established acts of the genre because they get turned off by their front-men.

- Coherence between MUSIC and Lyrics: Much thought is put into Bad Salad's lyrics. Not only into a specific lyric within itself, but prior to that, into the choice of the subject. We feel the lyrics should match the mood of the music (and the mood of the various parts within a single song), and not just be some random theme picked by the designated lyricist. There's no right or wrong way to do this, but it's how it's been working for this band.

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BIOGRAPHY
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The band started in May 2007 with the formation of 2 guitarists (Thiago Campos and Marcelo Seabra), a bassist (Felipe Campos), and a drummer (Caco Gonçalves). The group had no idea what would come out of the blend, and made no effort to pre-establish any specific genre to follow. The goal was to meet inside a rehearsal space, jam, and write original songs with everyone's ideas, hence the name "Bad Salad".

As the first song started being developed the band found itself marching towards the heavier side of rock, which wasn't really a big surprise considering each member's musical influences.

Shortly after a draft of the first song was done, guitarist Marcelo Seabra left the band for personal reasons.

Caco, Felipe and Thiago continued on as a power trio, and for the following months of 2007 wrote many songs over the weekends.

By this time it was safe to say Bad Salad was a Progressive Metal band. Long songs, heavy riffs, odd arrangements and time signatures, instrumental sections, and all that good stuff.

2008 and 2009 were inactive years for Bad Salad. They had an album's worth of material, but the band was incomplete as a trio. They knew a keyboard player would have to join the team, aswell as a vocalist later on. Unable to find the right guys to complete the lineup at the time, and having other important things to do stacking up, the band was put on hold.

In january 2010 Caco, Felipe and Thiago resumed BS activities. 2 years down the line, more mature and educated, they were set on finally making an album, with or without a keyboardist.
They scheduled writing sessions everyday, and revised every single song from the 2007 sessions, making sure they were up to their new (ever evolving) standards.

After unofficially talking about the idea for many months, César Zolhof (keyboards) joined the band full time in March 2010, completing the band's instrumental lineup.

In the period of April 20th to June 20th 2010 an online Vocal Tryout was held to search for the final missing member of the band. A section of one of their unreleased songs, which goes by the working title of #8 "Susto" (later to be named 'Crowded Sky'), was put on youtube in order to promote the tryout internationally. Dozens of entries were received and reviewed by the band, some of them quite worthy. In september 2010 the band happily announced the "winner", Mr. Denis Oliveira.

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THE DEBUT ALBUM
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Our full length debut album is in the making. Most of the songs are written, including lyrics. We are demoing each and every one of them before hittin' the studio, to make sure they are mature and rockin'!

There will be a total of 7 tracks, filling up every second a CD is able to store. It's heavy, intense, and progressive. A plate full for the bored ear in search for something new and exciting.

The 'WHEN?' is something we can't say for sure right now. Other than the stages that have already been covered, there are many others that also need attention before we are able to release an album. Some of them include: album art, website, booking studio time for tracking, mixing, mastering, and of course, distribution and promotion, which will be handed to a label or dealt with in some other way.

We will likely be contacting a few labels before releasing it independently. "Record deals" are outdated these days, or so they say, but we are confident a nice, decent label will know quality when it sees/hears it and will want to work something out that will make both parties happy.

We hope you enjoy what's already up and appreciate every bit of support we've been getting. Thank you!

Bad Salad

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