Wrust Blog http://www.makesomenoise.co.za/members/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:21:38 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 New Video "Kill Or Be Killed" http://www.makesomenoise.co.za/members/60 Check out the VIDEO section of our profile. Wrust have loaded the NEW video for KILL OR BE KILLED.
This is the debut video from Botswana's Metal Export WRUST (pronounced rust).The song is taken from their debut Witchdoctor Records release "Soulless Machine"www.witchdoctorrecords.com

Produced by
Magic Hour Productions

]]> Shaughn Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:00:35 +0100 Wrust to play Metalmania in Poland http://www.makesomenoise.co.za/members/60 MEGADETH, EVILE, THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN and WRUST are among the confirmed bands for the small/side stage of the 22nd edition of the Metalmania festival — the biggest metal fest in Central-Eastern Europe — which will take place on March 8 at the Spodek Hall in Katowice, Poland. The festival billing is now shaping up as follows:

Main stage:
MEGADETH (US)
THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN (US)
SATYRICON (NO)
OVERKILL (US)
VADER (PL)
IMMOLATION (US)
ARTILLERY (DK)
FLOTSAM AND JETSAM (US)
MARDUK (SE)
PRIMORDIAL (IE)
INSIDE YOU (RU)
POISON THE WELL (US)

Small stage:

STOLEN BABIES (US)
EVILE (UK)
OCTOBER FILE (UK)
MORTAL SIN (AU)
DRONE (DE)
DEMONICAL (SE)
NON-DIVINE (NL)
IZEGRIM (NL)
WRUST (Botswana)
PANDEMONIUM (PL)
CARRION (PL)

www.witchdoctorrecords.com/wrust

]]> Shaughn Sat, 02 Feb 2008 06:06:47 +0100 Botswana: Kalahari Knights http://www.makesomenoise.co.za/members/60 Located at the southern end of Africa, Botswana is a sparsely populated country which has given rise to a mere handful of bands. Foremost among them is Metal Orizon, who released several independent albums. Their hard rock tinged heavy metal could be heard on national radio stations in neighbouring South Africa, where they also performed at a number of rock festivals. No new material has been released since 2001, and it is presumed that they have now broken up. The flame of Botswani metal has now fallen to Wrust, who have just released their debut album in April 2007 through Witchdoctor Records.

The only other active metal band from Botswana appears to be Crackdust, a new band with just a single released last year to their discography. By any standards, the scene is minute; but Stux Daemon (vocalist, Wrust) remains unfazed.

"The population of Botswana is 1.7 million people. 50% have never heard anything about rock, let alone metal music. About 25% love music. Then cut that by half for the Gospel music lovers. Now we are looking at 12.5% of the population, which loves hip-hop, R&B, local genres and jazz. I will then say maybe less than 1% of the population is into rock, then 0.05% into extreme metal. I guess you get the idea."

That still leaves about 8000 people, but the point is made.

The lack of support also means it is not that easy to get gigs in their homeland, and Wrust frequently perform in South Africa, where there is a stronger metal community. Stux is enigmatic when asked about the status of Botswani metal: "I think that no other metal band has actually gone for the world domination or something like that!"

 

****South Africa will be featured in an upcoming feature****]]> Shaughn Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:24:38 +0100 WRUST WEbSITE http://www.makesomenoise.co.za/members/60 Hi

The WRUST website is up and running.It is WWW.WRUSTBAND.com pl go check it.It has more info about the upcoming album entilted Soulless machine. The track post on this site is called Run taking from the Soulless Machine album which is in its Mastering stages at WDR studio. Listen to it as much as you want its free tell your friends, girlfriends, boyfriends, mum and dad, about WRUST.

 Later

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