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Southern Empire
Southern Empire is formed by keyboardist Sean Timms after the dis-banding of Unitopia. Southern Empire will astound the listener with intricate yet catchy songs, amazing musicianship and a harder, more edgy sound perfectly suited to today's generation. Southern Empire released their debut album early 2016. After a 17 year involvement with Unitopia ended in 2013, Sean Timms had an album's worth of songs written, but no band to play and record them. Sean approached vocalist Danny Lopresto about forming a band to play the material and ultimately record an album and tour. The two had known each other for many years and had worked together in the studio, but never as a song writing partnership or in the live arena. Danny was extremely excited at the prospect and the two set about adding his powerfully emotional vocals to the song demos. They then auditioned for a guitarist, bass player and drummer to complete the line-up with Cam Blokland, Jez Martin & Brody Green.
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Karibow
Karibow's neo-progressive sound combines tense and dramatic compositions with catchy vocal melodies and varied guitar work. Over the years, various CD productions have documented a long musical development between progressive and adult oriented rock. The album "Man Of Rust" achieved the German Rock & Pop Award in the Best Arrangement category in 2011. Karibow was honored with the German Rock & Pop Award again, this time as Best Progressive Band 2014. In 2016 Karibow supports Canadian progressive band Saga live on their tour in Germany. Karibow consists of Oliver Rüsing (vocals, guitars), Chris Thomas (guitars), Markus Bergen (keyboards), Gerald Nahrgang (drums) and Thomas Wischt (bass). Karibow's album "Addicted" was released in November 2014 and aroused positive feedback world wide. The band continues their way with the double album Holophinium (2016).
Southern Empire + Karibow (Cancelled)
Southern Empire is Australia's newest, most exciting progressive rock band. The band is formed by keyboardist Sean Timms after the dis-banding of Unitopia. For those who love the music of Dream Theater, IQ, Transatlantic, Karnivool and Steven Wilson, this is the band you've been waiting for. During this co-headline show with the German neo-progressive rock band Karibow, founded by Oliver Rüsing, you can expect complex grooves, epic lyrics and cinematic keyboards. Karibow is influenced by artists like Saga, Marillion, Yes and AOR bands like Toto and Asia. You can find more information below.
