Vanishing Point will be playing live at The Corner Hotel on Saturday, September 27th. This will be their last show before leaving for Europe. They will be back in Australia towards the end of November.
Please welcome Vanishing Point's new full time Keyboardist, Jake Lowe! Jake has been playing with VP for a while now, and was last seen when VP supported John Satriani this year. We've got big tour news!!! Vanishing Point will be supporting Joe Satriani next month (July, 2008) and embarking on yet another European tour! All the details can be found in the Tour Dates page. We have uploaded some photos from the Iron Maiden tour earlier this year, in which Vanishing Point supported. You can see them here. Vanishing Point will be playing with Transcending Mortality in Sydney on Saturday, August 23rd. The venue is The Manning Bar, Sydney Uni. Doors open at 7:30pm. Tickets are $12, or $15 at the door. It is an over 18's gig. Here's the flyer:
We now have the Fourth Season t-shirts available to buy from here. We've uploaded a bunch of new reviews. There's five new reviews for "The Fourth Season", one for "Tangled in Dream", one for "In Thought" and we've posted up a new interview. Enjoy! VANISHING POINT will play with Heavy Metal Rock God's IRON MAIDEN!! Vanishing Point have secured the supporting slot for Halloween's first Australian tour! They will be supporting Helloween on their Brisbane and Melbourne shows! See below for the flyer.
We've added a huge swag of reviews for "The Fourth Season." Check em out here. The flyer for the up and coming Vanishing Point album launch show (for The Fourth Season) is now online. You can view it right here:
Vanishing Point are having an album launch for the new album (The Fourth Season). Saturday, December 1st, 2007. The HiFi Bar and Ballroom. Over 18's only. $15.50 +BF. Support bands are: In Malice's Wake and Enter Twilight. You can now purchase The Fourth Season from this web site! Just visit our shop page. We've uploaded three audio samples from the new album, The Fourth Season! There's a bunch of new reviews of The Fourth Season now online. Check em out here. Vanishing Point are looking for some one who would be willing to undertake managerial duties for the band. Things are just getting out of hand for us now. The band is growing at such a rate and we are finding a little difficult to keep up with things. We are basically putting out the feelers to see would be interested in working with us. Would be great to hear from you all soon. We've just added a handful of new reviews for the new album! Read them here. Metal-Rules.com have just reviewed The Fourth Season. Read it here. Tommy has just done an interview with HailMetal.com. You can read it here. The new video clip for Surrender is online! You can view it on our videos page. We've posted a bunch of photos from the DragonForce tour in the Image Gallery. Attention Vanishing Point customers!!! We have reason to believe that there has been a small break-down in communication between PayPal, us and you, the customers. If you have ordered something from us recently, using PayPal, we REALLY need you guys to email us your addresses. We've got your items ready to send out, but no address to send to!!! Email us at orders@vanishing-point.com.au. Thank you! VANISHING POINT VIDEO CLIP COMPLETE!!! Greetings ladies and gentlemen, just a quick note to let you know that
we are still alive and keeping busy with everything related to the new
album.
Two weeks ago we had recorded a music video for a song from our
forthcoming album which will be released in the next few months, the
song titled "Surrender" was recorded by our good friends at Demo Clips,
and so far the video looks excellent, we will let you know when we will Cheers... Vanishing Point Vanishing Point have secured the spot for the national support for DragonForce's up and coming Australian tour!!! VP will be playing six shows across the country in support of DragonForce. This will be DragonForce's second time in Australia, and the first time for Vanishing Point to play in Brisbane and Perth! Tickets go on sale on Friday, February 16th. The tour dates are as follows: Wednesday, May 9th 2007 - Australia, Sydney - The Forum (all ages). Thu May 17 - New Zealand, Auckland - The Powerstation. Vanishing Point have found a new drummer! Please welcome, Christian Nativo: Hello everyone, My name is Christian Nativo and I'm pleased to announced that I am the new drummer for Vanishing Point. Previous to VP I have been playing in Melbourne Metal band PTB (Powers That Be) and doing freelance / session work for bands all around Melbourne and Interstate. Vanishing Point begins it's arduous task of finding a drummer who will be replacing Jack. After releasing three studio albums, nearing completion of their fourth album / new album and completing extensive European and Australian tours, Vanishing Point seeks a drummer with great communication skills, who is friendly, easy going, has own transport and is willing to commit 100%. Hi Peoples, just thought to jump on and say hello to you all and give you all an update as to how the new album is going and some news.
Firstly, we would like to thank Steve for his contribution to the band for the last ten months, unfortunatley sometimes things don't work out and Steve decision to leave was mutual with all the guys in the band, there is no bad blood, there are no rumours, its just a simple fact that if things don't work, then they dont work. Dear friends and fans... we regret to announce our brother Jack retiring from his role as our drummer. We are so proud of Jack and his new found priorities in life and we cant wish him anymore luck than we have already. This Saturday night 9th Dec will be Jack's last gig with Vanishing Point and Gamma Ray in Melbourne Australia at the HI FI Ballroom... Here he is with his own words. "Hi everyone this is Jack here, drummer from Vanishing Point. I
wish to inform you all that after 16 great years with Vanishing Point,
it has now come to the time for me to call it the day. All my goals I
believe have been fulfilled as a musician, recording three albums, European
tours and film clips to name a few. After just getting married and my
wife now expecting twins, my focus is now more on family rather than music.I
will still remain to be close to the band and will help them when in need.
I have also recorded the drums to the follow up album "Embrace the
Silence" which the title is yet to be named. We all still remain
close friends and I wish all the success they thoroughly deserve in the
upcoming future. Please be assured that Vanishing Point still are as strong
as ever before which will be proven with the release of the new album
sometime next year. Thank's Jack for everything you have done mate, all of us will miss you
very much but we will be glad to see the end of all the little rippers
you so kindly let us smell..but most of all we will miss your amazing
sense of humour which has cracked us up many time's,your kind heart,and
your endless support that you have given us throught the years. You have
been our foundation from where the band has been built on. Thank you for
being there time after time you will be difficult to replace not just
as a drummer but as someone who we consider to be all our best friend. Vanishing Point will be supporting the mighty GammaRay on their up and coming brief Australian tour! Vanishing Point will be opening for GammaRay on their Melbourne show which will take place on Saturday, December 9th, 2006. Doors open at 8:30pm and tickets are $40 (plus booking fee).
Vanishing Point will be performing at the 2006 Metal For The Brain Festival!!! Fifteen years of Metal history will come to an end on Saturday November 4th, 2006, when Australia's largest and longest running metal festival: Metal Tor The Brain hosts it's grand finale event! Featuring a broad and diverse line-up of 40 of the country's hardest working extreme acts and an international special guest. The last Metal For The Brain will be the largest Australian Metal showcase ever staged with a barrage of bands spanning over 14 hours. Metal For The Brain is a benefit show with the proceeds supporting brain injury victim Alec Hurley. Here is the flyer:
Tommy is selling his "Wolfgang" guitar!!! Peavey EVH Wolfgang Guitar: USA archTop USA archtop with stoptail bridge, has a few scratches and dings. The Volume & tone pots are both push/pull for strat sounds... very versatile model! Any experience I've had with Peavey products is that they are built like a tank. And this guitar is no different. The reason for selling this 'wolfgang' is Tommy is endorsed by ESP guitars now. Selling for: $1400. See photos of the guitar here and here. Vanishing Point to support Black Label Society! Vanishing Point will be supporting BLS on two shows of their 2006 Australian tour. VP will be playing on September 23rd, in Adelaide at The Barton Theatre and then on September 24th in Melbourne at The Palace. Both gigs start at approx. 8pm. The Adelaide show is $62.35 and the Melbourne show is $69.90. VANISHING POINT PREPARING TO RECORD NEW ALBUM IN SEPTEMBER!!! Hello everyone, hope you are all well. We are currently busy writing and preparing ourselves for our fourth album for Dockyard 1, we are booked to go back into the recording studio in September with Endel Rivers at Palm Studio's (Black Majesty, The Eternal and many others) and things are going really well, what can we say about the new material so far? It's probably the heaviest music that we have come up with in some parts within the Vanishing Point style, we still have the melodic edge, symphonic arrangements and thought provoking lyrics as usual that you would expect on a Vanishing Point album, we are very excited about the new material and we hope that you guys stick around for the next album!!! Oh yeah, this time the album will not take years to complete, we want to have it ready for early next year and yes as many people are asking the songs will be shorter, at least the majority of them will be heh heh. We also have a myspace page in, so check it out at here! Cheers from Melbourne, Australia Vanishing Point We've uploaded photos from the Jeff Rule Benefit Show to the image gallery. Vanishing Point are playing the Jeff Rule Rememberance show on Friday, April 7th at The Corner Hotel. Here's the flyer...
Vanishing Point ranked #5 on Best Prog Album of 2005 on Metal Storm! We've added a bunch of new reviews and interviews. New review of "Embrace The Silence" by BrainScabZine.com is now online. Check it out here (fourth review from top). Every year, the metal webzine Metal
Storm organizes the Metal Storm Awards. Jack gets tooned! Check out this awesome cartoon of our very own drummer, Jack Lukic, as drawn by Diego Hodgson of RockToons.com! ![]() Vanishing Point's performance in Sydney on January 6th has been reviewed by PyroMusic.net, and includes lots of cool live shots! You can check outall that and more here! Vanishing Point will be headlining the Heavy at Home IV gig in Wagga Wagga, on Saturday, January 7th, 2006. This will also be Joe's very last show with Vanishing Point as bass guitarist. Here's the flyer...
Vanishing Point have ranked number 1 on a top 5 Australian releases on this web site! Hello to all our fans and our good friends in the media. We would like to announce officially that Vanishing Point has found a new bassist. It has been a very hard and reluctant task in finding a replacement for Joe. With over a dozen applicants stretching as far as Europe and abroad we didn't have to look further than our own back yard. After going through several weeks of auditioning it is with great pleasure to welcome Steve Cox to his new position as our new bass player. Steve has fitted in with his new role quite nicely with his great sense of humour and professionalism towards VP is most welcom. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank those who did try out but who were unfortunately unsuccessful. We wish all the very best for your future and know in what ever you chose to do you will be successful. Vanishing Point are now also endorsed by Ensotec - Engineered Sonic Technologies. They make world-class cable products, great sound, great look and made for durability. Photos of Vanishing Point from the Under Raven Skies festival are now online and in the Image Gallery. Vanishing Point are now also endorsed by DSL guitar and bass straps. DSL are 100% Australian and strong, quality straps! Vanishing Point will be headlining in Sydney on January 6th, 2006! See the flyer below for more details.
Recently Porn star Silvia Saint and Silvio Massaro were seen rather close at this years Australian SEXPO '05'.We don't know much at this stage but the rumours are flying around at the moment as they did spend quite some time together! You can be sure you will hear it first if Silvio decides to take a career change. Let's hope he isn't camera shy, we sure as hell know that Silvia isn't!!! We'll have to interrogate him and find out what really went down, pardon the punt, stay tuned!
Some great news from overseas... "Embrace The Silence" has debuted as number two on Japan's import charts! VANISHING POINT SEEKS NEW BASS PLAYER! After the shocking and sad news of Joe Del Mastro deciding to leave
Vanishing Point we thought it was going to throw the VP boys in a real
spin. Here is what they had to say… “Guy’s ……GUY’S…. I have some thing
to say …” It was something that we all never expected to hear
but in a very brief moment of silence it was out “ I’m leaving
the band.” So there it is Vanishing Point begins it’s arduous task of finding
a replacement Bassist. After releasing 3 studio albums and completing
extensive European and Australian tours, Vanishing Point seeks a Bassist
with great communication skills who is friendly and easy going and is
willing to commit 100%. Must have the ability to write in a team environment
and have some stage experience. Should be financially secure and be able
to tour overseas. After signing to Germany's fastest growing record label
Dockyard1 (dockyard1.com) Vanishing Point has been put among the worlds
best music acts today. Please reply to this email address. Message from Joe Del Mastro: Hi Everyone. I am writing to let you all know that I am leaving Vanishing Point. My
reasons are personal and it was a decision that I needed to make. Lately
I've noticed my life going in a different direction. I felt a lack of
passion and drive that I once felt for the band. Vanishing Point needs
a member who shares the same vision and future goals. I felt it was the
best thing to do for myself but more importantly for the future of Vanishing
Vanishing Point has been one of the best experiences of my life. It was a childhood dream of mine to be in a band just like Vanishing Point. I have the utmost respect for Tommy, Jack, Silvio and Chris and I wish them all the best for the future. I thank you all for the great times and the opportunity to create and play great music with you. You are friends for life. I'd like to thank all the fans and people I've met through the band. A special thanks to all my friends and family for their support. A big thanks to everyone who has helped me throughout this wonderful journey. Cheers, Joe Del Mastro Metal CD Ratings.com have just reviewed "Embrace The Silence." You can see the review here. We've posted a link to a new interview with Chris Porcianko, conducted by Andreas of Evilized.de. The interview is in German and English! We've also updated our links page. We now have "Embrace The Silence" t-shirts for sale from our online shop! Vanishing Point will be performing more shows in October! On the 29th of October at The Manning Bar in Sydney they are co-headlining with Dungeon for the Under Raven Skies show. This will be Dungeon's last ever show as they are calling it quits! : ( Also playing will be Sakkuth, The Eternal, Switchblade, Lycanthia, Dissension, Leicohtica, Kania, Inane Eminence, Transcending Mortality, Celestial, Aeturnus Dominion and Chambers of Insanity. Entry fee is $30 plus booking fee. This show is to raise money for the M.S. Society of N.S.W.
There will be a show in Sydney on January the 6th, plus maybe two more in Adelaide and Perth... Further details to be announced soon! Vanishing Point will be supporting their good friends, Black Majesty on Saturday 1st of October at The Esplanade Hotel - Gershwin Room in St. Kilda (Melbourne). Vanishing Point's producer (Tangled in Dream and Embrace The Silence) Endel Rivers' band Hardbite will also be playing! Doors open at 8pm and the cost is $15. We've added a bunch of new review links. All are awesome and positive! : ) Vanishing Point's new album, Embrace The Silence is finally released in Japan today! Vanishing Point will be playing at a PBS FM benefit gig coming up on Saturday, September 3rd. The gig will be at The Corner Hotel in Richmond, and it all kicks off at 7pm. Tickets are $10 for PBS subscribers, $20 for non-subscribers.
Vanishing Point are playing in Adelaide on August 6th, 2005! This will be the Adelaide leg of the new album launch shows. See the flyer below.
We've added a heap of new reviews, a few interviews and the lyrics to the new album are online finally! And in a final note, we have brand new merch coming very soon! :-D Vanishing Point are having an album launch for "Embrace The Silence" on Saturday, 16th of July, 2005. The venue is The Hi-Fi Bar and Ballroom and doors open at 8:30pm. There will be special guest supports to be announced. Entry is $15. We've added a whole heaps of new "Embrace The Silence" reviews to the site! Now that the new album, Embrace The Silence is out we have made a few minor updates and changes to the web site. Some you will have noticed already. You can now buy the new album from our shop page. And we have posted an ecard animation promoting the new album on our downloads page! We've added a bunch of new reviews! Mostly of Embrace The Silence, but a few Tangled in Dream ones, and an In Thought one too. Vanishing Point will be on PBS FM's Screaming Symphony to conduct an interview on Tuesday, 3rd of May (tomorrow!). You can also listen online with PBS FM's online audio stream. The following information is from the Screaming Symphony web site: "With their new album EMBRACE THE SILENCE complete and pushed back until the 9th of May, we'll have the boys in the studio to talk about it on May 3rd. Hopefully by then they'll have more info on a CD launch, their plans for the rest of the year, the responses from overseas and the expectations of a five year wait. Should be a lot of fun (AND INFORMATIVE TOO!)." The new album, "Embrace The Silence" has had it's release date pushed back ANOTHER week! : ( The release date is now May 9th, 2005. We have a little bit of disappointing news... Sadly the release date for "Embrace The Silence" has been pushed back a week. Due to some disc pressing complications the album will now be released internationally on May 2nd, 2005. Regardless we have updated the web site with a slight new look, we hope you like it! Also, we have uploaded two new newspaper articles featuring Vanishing Point! You can see them in the Articles section. Greetings Earthlings, we hope that you are all well. We have available three new song samples from our upcoming album that will be released worldwide on April 25th through Dockyard 1. The songs available for download are Hollow,
My Virtue and Live
To Live. We hope you enjoy the song samples as much as we enjoyed
making them, so spread the word!!! Ladies and gentlemen, we hope you are all well. Ok here's some news for you all: our new album "Embrace The Silence" will be released worldwide on April 25th, 2005 through "Dockyard 1" the new German company / record label formed by Dirk Putzke, Christine Stephan (both ex-Sanctuary / Noise Records) and Piet Sielck (Iron Savior). We are happy to release this news to you all out there and we thank everyone for their patience. It has been a trying time, nevertheless we now see the light at the end of the tunnel and cant wait to get the new album out there! Photos from Metal For The Brain are now in the Image Gallery! Big thanks to PyroMusic.net!
Vanishing Point will be supporting Finland's Nightwish on their first tour of Australia for their two Melbourne shows! They are playing at The Corner Hotel (57 Swan Street, Richmond) on Monday, March 21st and Tuesday, March 22nd.
Vanishing Point will be appearing at this year's Metal For The Brain
in Canberra! Saturday 5th February 2005, University of Canberra Refectory
Belconnen ACT. Featuring: November 14th, 2004 Silvio and Tommy will be appearing on Screaming Symphony (PBS FM's Power / Progressive Metal radio show) on Tuesday, November 23rd! They will be airing a new song from the up and coming new album "Embrace The Silence." November 8th, 2004 Vanishing Point will be performing live at long last on December 11th! They will be playing at The HiFi Ballroom, doors will open at 8:30pm and entry is $15. Expect to hear three songs from the up and coming new album "Embrace The Silence." Bands supporting will be Chalice, Manic Opera and Without End.
November 3rd, 2004 We have put up a new live review, a new review of "Tangled in Dream" and there's also a new interview Silvio did with Hail Metal.com! October 27th, 2004 Welcome to the brand new Vanishing Point web site! Along with the new look is the track listing of the new album "Embrace The Silence", and our merch is now available online from our shop page! October 15th, 2004 Greetings Earthlings!!! This is just a small update to let you know that we have officially changed the title of our new album to "Embrace The Silence." We are currently speaking to labels about the release of the new album and we are hopeful that if all goes correctly then it will be out early in 2005. We sincerely appologize for the delay, but the matters for the delay have been out of our hands. Silvio has been ill once again and he has been in and out of hospital over three times in the last week and a half, we have seen Silvio and he is slowly doing ok, we dont know what to say at this point in time and when Silv is better we will let you all know. We thank everyone for their kind wishes to Silv. Our web site is going to be re-vamped in hopefully not too long, our supreme webmaster David Griffiths has been hard at work on it and we are happy with the results. A question many people from all around the world have been asking is "will you guys ever get your arses into gear and get your merchandise online?" Well the good news there is that we will have our existing merchandise (shirts and CDs) available soon! Anyways thats it for now, we once again appologise for the delay and sincerely thank you for your patience, Kindest regards, August 25th, 2004 On the morning of August 16th, only hours from celebrating his 30th birthday, Silvio Massaro was admitted to St. Vincent Hospital, Melbourne Australia, for surgery on his sinus'. We asked him for the reason why this surgery was done. We sent in our little reporter Linda Fiorentino to ask the important questions. LF: Could
you start off by telling everyone why you went into surgery? LF: How long
were you in for? What did they have to do to you? LF: How long
will you be out action? LF: Off the
subject a bit here but when are we going to see the new CD from VP? LF: Well
thanks for taking the time out to chat to me Silvio and we really hope
that you have a speedy recovery. July 9th, 2004 Greetings Earthlings!!! Just a quick announcement to let you all know that the rumours are true, our brothers from Finland, Sonata Arctica have recorded a cover of "Two Minds One Soul" which will be released as a bonus track for an upcoming single through Nuclear Blast. This is an honour and we can't wait to hear it!!! Tommy and Chris have officially joined the ESP guitars camp and are now proudly endorsed by this killer guitar company!!! Joe, Tommy and Chris have officially signed up with Dean Markley guitar strings as well, so if you are a guitarist looking for killer guitar strings that will keep tone and put up with abuse then we definitely recomend them, these strings are awesome!!! Cheers for now!!!
See a photo here! June 14th, 2004 For those who have never seen the video clip for our song "Never Walk Away" from "Tangled in Dream", we have uploaded it so it is available for download! The video has been zipped and is in MOV format. We reccommend you use Quicktime Alternative to view the video, and not regular Quicktime. Click here to download the video! March 17th, 2004 Just to keep all you VP fans up to date with the progress of the brand new album, we are so very close to it's completion, we can taste it! It has been a trial to say the least, but we are 99.9% finished in the studio! After a day or so of the web site being temporarily offline we are back online! The downtime was due to us once again switching hosting servers. There is one particular Sydney, Australia based Internet registry and hosting company who we are quite unhappy with, but we feel we would be stooping to their level by naming them publicly. January 25th, 2004 We have some more photos from Metal for The Brain, and a review in the Live Reviews section by Brat of Metal-Rules.com! January 9th, 2004 We have a pile of new live photos, taken from Vanishing Point's performance at Metal For The Brain on December 22nd, 2003. See them here! January 1st, 2004 We have the audio files from the live "unplugged" set Silvio, Chris and Leonard performed at PBS FM's Screaming Symphony on December 16th, 2003. You can find them to download in the audio samples section. December 9th, 2003 Silvio, Chris and Lenard will be performing an acoustic set live on PBS FM on Tuesday, December 16th during Screaming Symphony! The exact time will be somewhere between 10pm and midnight (GMT +10:00, Melbourne Time Zone). If you don't live in Melbounre, and cannot pick up PBS on 106.7 FM, you can always connect to their live audio stream and listen with your computer! October 27th, 2003 If VP fans want to see VP video clips on "MTV" or "CHANNEL V", all they have to do is keep requesting VP songs everyday until they play them! Request "Never Walk Away", "Forgotten Self" and "The Only One"! CHANNEL V MTV October 14th, 2003 Hello everyone, just a quick update to let you all know that we are going to be playing live at this year's Metal For The Brain festival in Canberra! We will be playing some songs for our upcoming album which is titled "A Life Less..." as well as some songs from our last album "Tangled In Dream". We will be appearing live at the Utopia Records outdoor stage and we will be playing a forty minute set that will begin at 9:40pm and we hope to see many of you there :) This years Metal For the Brain will be held at the University Of Canberra, Belconnen ACT, Australia on December 20th. Apart from that we are still recording our new album whenever the studio is available (believe us , it is crazy and we want to get the album finished!!!), and we will soon have our merchandise online for people that are interested in shirts, CDs and posters etc. Here is the flyer! We
thank you for your patience and support. February 22, 2003 Hello everyone, how are you all doing?
All is going well here, we have been relatively quiet because we have
not been recording this month due to the recording studio being booked
out. We are back in there in March and we are looking forward to getting
it all finished. In January Jack, Tom and myself recorded the drums and
guitars, the result has come out great and we just have to go back in
there and fix a couple of things up when the rest of the guys are done.
Words escape me as I try to describe so far what has been recorded, the
songs have that typical Vanishing Point character to them, yet they have
a bit more balls this time. The slower songs sound really cool and we
have indications what the songs titled "Embraced" and "Somebody
Save Me" will sound like because Leonard has recorded the keyboards
for those tracks and they sound huge. December 9, 2003 Hello everyone, we hope that you are all well and doing great. :) Many people have been asking us why we have been very quiet of late and if there is any new songs coming along. Well, after all this time we are happy to announce that we have completed writing our third album and we are very happy with the end result of the songs so far. Nothing has changed in Vanishing Point in the way that we approach our songs and the way that we write, rest assured there will be no dramatic changes with the new songs, some of the songs are a little heavier yet they still have the melodies that you can expect from Vanishing Point. We are booked to enter the recording studio in early January 2003 and we will be once again working with Endel Rivers at Palm Studios here in Melbourne, Australia, we cant wait to get back in there as much as we cant wait to get the new album out to you. :) Hopefully the time between the album being released and the completion of the album will not be too distant this time. The songs/titles that will be on our next album will be "If Only I", "Reason", "My Virtue", "Hollow", "Season Of Sundays", "Breathing", "Reflection", "Embraced", "A Life Less..." and a few more once we finalize the song names/titles. So anyways, we hope that you will stick around for the next chapter of Vanishing Point, no doubt it is going to be a good one. :) We would also like to express our best wishes to everyone all over the world for your warm words, patience, friendship and most of all, your support. All of us in Vanishing Point wish you a Merry Christmas
and a happy/safe/metal new year!!!!!! July 31, 2002 There are two new interviews! You can find these in the
Media > Articles section. July 23, 2002 At last the Vanishing Point Tour Diary is online! This was written by Chris Porcianko, while the band was on tour with Sonata Arctica supporting Gamma Ray on their No World Order tour last year. Along with the tour diary, you will find a bunch of photos taken from the very same tour. These are live shots, back stage shots and funny shots! Click here to open up the Vanishing Point Tour Diary! Enjoy! May 23, 2002 Hello to all my friends... May 3, 2002 It's only just one week away from the Edguy
/ Vanishing Point Australian tour. DON'T MISS OUT! If you plan to turn
up at the door and not buy a ticket in advance, we would recommend that
you reserve a ticket to avoid disapointment as the previous Vanishing
Point show in Melbourne was a complete sell out. It's as simple as sending
an email to: MetalWarriors@bigpond.com
and you'll also get a FREE COLOUR tour poster. (Please e-mail by Tuesday
the 7th - midnight). March 8, 2002 The huge Big God's Metal Massacre is back on this year! Why are we telling you this? Because Vanishing Point's own, Silvio and Chris will be there, unplugged for charity! For further details on this worthy cause head to the official Big God's. March 2, 2002 Edguy will be touring our shores and playing
in Sydney and in Melbourne in the month of May as part of the Melodic
Metal Tour! Vanishing Point will be co-headlining the three shows! February 26, 2002 We have a brand new Vanishing Point interview! This was interview was conducted on the 18th of May 2001 by DC and myself with Chris Porcianko. This interview is in Shockwave format, thus requires the Shockwave browser plug-in. If you don't already have it, the download will start straight away for you. Here is the interview! January 31, 2002 And finally, I'd like to mention how wonderful the Vanishing Point welcome home gig went last Saturday! The boys played brilliantly (as always) and the turn out was HUGE! Thanks to everyone who came and supported Vanishing Point and the support acts! We now have a flyer for the upcoming Vanishing Point Welcome Home concert! Details for this huge event are just below. Satu Reunanen conducted an interview with Chris which you can find at the AOR-Europe site. There are also pictures from their Finland show! January 13, 2002 METAL WARRIORS METALFEST proudly presents The Welcome Home Concert for Australia's Melodic Metal Masters Vanishing Point! First show back from the triumphant and biggest ever tour by an Australian Heavy Metal band since AC/DC and Rose Tattoo. Hard Rockin' Heavy Metal DJ and support bands: Chalice, Kymera, Enter Twilight, Anarion and Battalion. Live at The Espy, Gershwin Room (Doors open: 6:00pm) Saturday, February 23rd. Tickets on sale January 19th. More news, Matt from Full Strength Online Magazine has put together a Vanishing Point fansite! Check it out at this address: www.closerapart.cjb.net Dave Hargreaves from Ultimate Metal.com has conducted an interview with Vanishing Point guitarist, Chris Porcianko. Jump straight to the interview here! November 25, 2001 Big thanx to Arne and Alex who have created really cool Vanishing Point fansites! Thanx guys! You can check their sites out on the links page, under the Fansites link. November 2, 2001 Vanishing Point will be attending (but NOT playing) at a very special gig on November 17th at The Gershwin Room, Espy Hotel, Melbourne. Metal Warriors MetalFest will feature: Enter Twilight, Eyefear, Anarion and Battalion! Plus as a great honour, Dirk Schlachter of Gamma Ray will be the guest of honour! The Tangled on Tour 2001 is nearly at an end and we have an update on VP's doings! Vanishing Point were supported by friends of ours from the
band Megace. It was a family night attended by management, record company,
touring company and the members of Gamma Ray to name a few. After a national television appearance on TeleBruxelles (Brussels television) where the Brussels show was announced, the tour went onto the beautiful Brussels, Belgium where Vanishing Point played a headliner show which went for almost 2 hours. After this show we headed down to the South of Germany. A town called Schliersee in the province of Bavaria (home of the European office for Metal Warriors). This was an awesome week for all. We stayed at five star hotels and were pampered by the entire town. The town was open to our use as we pleased to film the video clip for 'Closer Apart' from the 'Tangled in Dream' album. They even offered blockades if need be. We were the very special guests of honour in the town that week. After a hectic few days of filming, we finished the stay with a press conference where the mayor presented us with gifts. They also made an announcement that the clip was to be used for the Tourist Bureau. We then travelled a few hours to the next show in Aalen, Germanywhich was to be the official warm up party for the Summer Breeze festival where Vanishing Point was to play with the legendary PAUL DI'ANNO (formely the original singer of Iron Maiden) with his band Killers. This was another great honour for us all. The venue was packed and the night was rocking. Vanishing Point had left a huge impression. Thirdly, we have uploaded a mamoth pile of images. These include live shots from Vanishing Point's Farewell show on Friday 13th July at The Espy Hotel, Melbourne. Also featuring MISC. photos from various other gigs, airport shots, instore signings, etc. Check these out here. We've added two newspaper articles featuring Vanishing Point. You can check them out in the Media, Articles page. September 11, 2001 We have three sound samples for you fans to download! One more is on the way. They're in the Audio page. We've been busy putting up a tonne of reviews too! Check them out on the Articles page. And finally, we've created a fan site section on the Links page. If you have a Vanishing Point fan site, send it in to us and we'll post it on here! |