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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.
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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:
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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!!
PERTH ~ Burswood Dome 4 Feb 2008
MELBOURNE ~ Rod Laver Arena 6th & 7th Feb 2008
See you there!!
~Taken from the Dainty Consolidated Entertainment Website~
EDDIE GETS HIGH AND GOES GLOBAL
THE HEAVYWEIGHTS OF ROCK RETURN TO AUSTRALIA AFTER 15 YEARS
IRON MAIDEN announce their most ambitious and extraordinary touring plans ever – and are very pleased to announce that this will include Australia for the first time in 15 years!
The ‘SOMEWHERE BACK IN TIME' World Tour 2008 will be in three sections, starting in February and March 2008 with the first leg encompassing major concerts in 20 selected cities on five continents in seven weeks including India, Japan, North America, Central and South America, and, of course, Australia, opening in Perth on Feb 4 and continuing through Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.
The tour then continues with more concerts in North America in late May and June before finishing with a third leg in July and August encompassing major stadiums and festivals all
over Europe. During the tour the band is expected to play to well over one and a half million fans and travel close to 100,000 miles.
In an historic first, Iron Maiden, their 60-strong crew and support staff and over 12 tons of equipment will be travelling around the world en masse for the first leg of the tour in a specially commissioned and converted Astraeus Boeing 757 decorated with Maiden and Eddie designs! Vocalist Bruce Dickinson, who is a qualified Airline Captain flying for Astraeus Airlines, will pilot the plane on its epic mission, flying over 50,000 miles.
Historically, this will be Maiden's fourth Australian Tour having first toured in 1982 when ‘The Number of the Beast' was Australia's number one album, then again in 1985 with the original ‘Powerslave' show and most recently in 1992 with ‘Fear of the Dark'. However a great deal has happened with the band since then, especially in recent years when ticket sales have continued to explode around the world as the band's loyal fan base continues to flourish. As Maiden have never had airplay or much video channel exposure anywhere in the world their popularity spread mainly by word of mouth on the back of a legacy of many great albums and an awesome live reputation.
With the ever increasing power of the internet the Maiden legend has fired the imagination of new young fans around the planet, and, although their audience spans two generations, it is now predominantly a young one, inspired by the massive legacy and influence of this unique band (and, of course, Eddie).
To allow Iron Maiden fans in Australia to get right up close to the band,the fan club are organising advance booking of tickets for members and running a special draw for them whereby 60 winners and friend at each show will be given first access to the venue and be first to the stage barrier. Full details can be found on www.ironmaiden.com .
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.
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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:
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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
upload it!
We just wanted to post this update to let you know that Demo Clips is a
new company who specialize in professionally filmed music videos and we
want to let the many bands out there who may be reading this here in
Australia or overseas that these guys can do a fantastic job and they
should definately be contacted if you are serious about getting your
music on video, hell they even made us look ok which says a lot heh heh.
Here's a brief rundown on what they are all about...
Demo Clips specialise in shooting video clips for unsigned / signed and
independent bands and artists. Demo Clips offer professional
production services at exclusive rates.
Demo Clips can setup and deliver a production package specific to your
needs and budget. Demo Clips offer a quick turn around on most video
productions and utilise cutting edge editing technology to deliver
quality music videos.
Be heard and seen by A&R... don't just send record companies, producers
and alike faceless (audio) demos. Cut a DVD with us and present the
record industry with a viable image. Demo Clips work with bands and artists of all genres. Our production
crew have the knowledge and experience to promote any artist via this
essential visual medium.
Contact Chris Powell (Director / Chief Editor) or Ghislaine (Jill)
Coghill (AV Specialist / Business Manager) at democlips@yahoo.com.au or
visit their web site here.
So there you have a brief rundown, these guys are good at what they do,
they are not idiots who dicovered how to use a digital camera and they
actually know their shit, so give them a try, any Aussie bands who
want to get a clip done, get in touch with them, don't say we never
told you.
:)
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).
Thursday, May 10th 2007 - Australia, Brisbane - The Arena (all ages).
Saturday, May 12th 2007 - Australia, Adelaide - Fowlers Live (all ages).
Sunday, May 13th 2007 - Australia, Perth - The Capitol (18+).
Tuesday, May 15th 2007 - Australia, Melbourne - Hi Fi (18+).
Wednesday, May 16th 2007 - Australia, Melbourne - Hi Fi (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.
I feel extremely honored to be playing music with such a talented group of musicians and I look forward to meeting you all on the road and at the shows.
Cheers,
Christian
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%.
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, Vanishing Point has been put among the worlds best music acts today.
So if you, or if you may know someone who has what Vanishing Point is looking for please reply to this email address.
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.
The new guy on bass as Steve mentioned is Adrian, a brief rundown on the new cat in the band is that Adrian has played in Leonard's band, Manic Opera (hopefully the band will reunite) and Here I Die as well as session work for many bands live and many recordings, put simply Adrian's playing is a step up and you will hear how he plays on the new VP album when it comes out.
Ok, the new album, so far we have some album titles but nothing concrete, there will be an anouncement in the next couple of months, to be honest with all thats been going on and the hectic schedule of the recording we have had our focus there... Which brings us to the album and how it is shaping up... So far, so good, the album musically is a little heavier than usual, but for VP fans it is a step up and musically it is melodic, bombastic, dynamic, quicker and suprise suprise... shorter than Embrace The Silence.
The music is completed, just doing edits at the moment on the drums and keyboards which will be finished by years end. Silvio will be in the studio the first week of January to start the vocals and will continue on until the album is finished and pending other bands recording schedules as well.
All in all we expect the album to be completed by April, we wanted to finish it earlier but we can't and have to be respectful to other bands who are to use the studio as well, if you ask us... fuck em, bastards!!! Heh heh only kidding.
So there you go guys, there's a little bit of news, there is so much more to say yet without it being 100% confirmed we will not post anymore to avoid speculation or dissapointment in case something falls through, the stuff we have mentioned here is what's going on and what's happening right now.
Big thanks go to everyone this year who has supported us, has checked out our music, to the people we have met on our travels supporting bands, to the major bands we have supported and who have been awesome (Zakk Wylde and Gamma Ray) and to the promoters who have believed in us, it is truly appreciated.
Most of all may all of you have a happy new year, may 2007 bring you all good health, wealth, happiness and most of all... more good listening pleasure.
Cheers... Vanishing Point.
Here a quick word from our new bass player :)
Hello Everyone!
My name is Adrian Alimic and I'm honored to announce that I'll be Vanishing Point's new bass player. I was apart of the progressive metal outfit with Leonard called Manic Opera where Silvio did guest vocals for the EP, so I'm no stranger to the guys. I have just completed all bass tracks for the upcoming new release due next year. Recording the new album was a real excitement for me and I look forward to meeting you all in the near future.
Adrian.
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.
I wish Tommy, Silvio, Chris and Steve all the best with the release of
the new album and the future.
To all the fans of Vanishing Point, I thank you all for your support throughout
the years and I hope I have not disappointed you in anyway.Now it's time
to move on to the next chapter in my life, teaching my children to become
the next generation of headbangers.
Thank you all,
Jack Lukic"
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.
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).
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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:
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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...
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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.
For the awards 2005, Vanishing Point is nominated in the category: The
Best Progressive Metal Album. During the month of February, people will
be able to vote for their favourite bands in each category.
Click
here to vote!
The results will be announced in March on Metal Storm and you will receive
a notification via email.
Spread the word, get ready to vote and good luck!
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...
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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.
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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!
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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…
“ We were all deeply saddened and completely shocked when we all
sat down for what was going to be just another normal and regular rehearsal.
It was in a moment of confusion and laughter because we were just joking
around as we do when we get to together. When Joe said that he had something
to say in a rather sad tone, his voice getting kind of louder to get over
the loud bellowing laughter from us joking around. He sounded as if someone
had passed away.
“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.”
We were all shell-shocked, we just didn’t know what to say or do
or think, it was even too hard to believe. Vanishing Point share something
what a lot of bands dream of and that is the great friendship that is
a huge bond that can never be broken. With Joe’s explanations as
to why he wanted to leave, a huge level of respect and understanding came
over us. With that said Joe will be greatly missed, we may have lost him
as a member of Vanishing Point but never as a life long friend.”
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.
So if you, or if you may know someone who has what Vanishing Point is
looking for?
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
Point. It was one of the biggest and hardest decisions that I've ever
had to make.
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.
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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!!!
All the best from all of us in Vanishing Point :)
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.
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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.
Fully supervised all ages benefit show - All stages all ages. 10am till
12:30am 3 stages.
$55 Pre-sale $65 on the day if available. Tickets from Ticketek.
Featuring:
Alchemist, Blood-Duster, Daysend, Frankenbok, Astriaal, Psycroptic, Dungeon,
Sakkuth, Portal, Vanishing-Point, Fort, Gospel-of-the-Horns, Alarum, The-Day-Everything-Became-Nothing,
Walk-The-Earth, Plague, Parkway-Drive, Seba-Rokketts, Minus-Life, Tailbone,
F.I.D, Japunga, Pod-People, KIN, Contrive, Earth, Brace, The-Stockholm-Syndrome,
Mindsnare, LOG, The-Deadly, Skintilla, 4 dead, Repture.
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,
Vanishing Point.
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?
SM: Well for years now I have been suffering from massive headaches which
would literally render me being locked up in a dark room, curled up in
a ball, till the pain went away. I'd get a huge build up of congestion
in my sinus' which would be the main problem of it creating so much pressure
being built up, making my head throb! After numerous x-rays and tests
we found out my sinus' was the main reason why I was getting these bastard
headaches all the time.
LF: How long
were you in for? What did they have to do to you?
SM: I was only in over night and in for most of the following day. They
reconstructed my whole sinus by taking out parts of my skull behind my
nose and scarping out cartilage. I have never been in so much pain as
I am in now. I feel like someone has swung a baseball bat across my face!
LF: How long
will you be out action?
SM: Well my doctor assures me that the worst will be over in a couple
of weeks.
LF: Off the
subject a bit here but when are we going to see the new CD from VP?
SM: Haha! Good question... Well all will be revealed very soon I hope.
There has been a chain of events as of late, which I can't get into for
legal reasons, but we will issue some press releases in the next couple
of weeks. It's been so frustrating for us lately knowing we have a killer
album to release but can't release just yet. We understand and sympathise
with our fans' frustrations and for that were sorry. I know they won't
be disappointed with the new CD. So I can say with confidence that it's
definitely worth the wait!
LF: Well
thanks for taking the time out to chat to me Silvio and we really hope
that you have a speedy recovery.
SM: No probs, thank you.
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!!!
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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
Call
- 1902-220-330
SMS - 188-99-04 by request, make sure you mention Channel V in your SMS!!
Online - www.channelv.com.au
Fax - (02) 9200 1222
MTV
Call - 1900-959-333
Email - mtvmostwanted@optus.com.au
Fax - (02) 9775-5807
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.
All the best from Vanishing Point.
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.
I think that most of you will enjoy it and hopefully we will be able to
have the album out as soon as things get done.
Although it is taking more time waiting for the studio to be vacant, it
will be worth the wait I'm sure, this we promise :)
Its adios / sayonara / dowedzenia / tchuss and of course catch y'all later
:)
Take care and stay safe
Cheers Chris Porcianko :)
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!!!!!!
Cheers from Melbourne, Australia Silvio,Tom, Joe, Jack and Chris.
July 31, 2002
There are two new interviews! You can find these in the
Media > Articles section.
We are back online! For those who were unaware, the Vanishing Point site
went offline on Monday 29th of July. Two days later we are back up and
everything is operational again.
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...
Unfortunatley I have quite a sad announcment to make...
Now that the Edguy tour is over and Vanishing Point have no further bookings
for this year I feel that now is the right time to annouce that I will
no longer be playing Keyboards in Vanishing Point. It is a decision that
for most of this year I have been trying to avoid making but after having
a long discussion with the guys earlier last week I have decided that
it is the right thing to do.
My reasons for leaving are personal and I want to stress to everybody
that this has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with anybody from Vanishing Point.
You heard it first from me, If anybody says otherwise then they are wrong!
I love those guys like my brothers and they were very supportive of my
feelings and my subsequent decision. Rest assured I will be dropping into
VP rehearsals on a regular basis where we will continue to laugh and hang
shit on each other just as we whould have if I was still a band member.
So what do I have planned next?
I have always had an interest in songwriting and music scoring and I am
looking to dedicate as much of my time as possible to pursuing that interest.
I will be writing primarily Heavy Metal, but for a bit of fun I am also
writing some pop material which I hope to get published in the future.
At this stage I have no plans to form or join any other band.
Vanishing Point are a great band and they deserve all the recognition
they can get. I look forward to the next chapter in the Vanishing Point
story and I plan to be there every step of the way helping the guys out
any way possible. Only this time not as a member, but as a fan and a friend.
For such a young age I have achieved a lot in the last two and a half
years with Vanishing Point. Be it playing at Wacken, touring Europe, or
even being a part time member of the mighty Gamma Ray. They were all excellent
times and will remain in my heart as happy memories that I will cherish
forever.
Throughout everything that we have all been through, the undying closeness
and friendship that I have formed with Jack, Joe, Tom, Silvio and Chris,
will always be my greatest achievement of all.
Thanx, and I'll see you around...
Dan.
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).
In your email type: NAME and RESERVATION DATE and AMOUNT OF TICKETS and
your ticket/s & poster/s will be saved for you to pick up and pay
on entry at the venue.
SPECIAL PRICE FOR VANISHING POINT LIST MEMBERS AND WEBSITE VISITORS
Sunday May 12 at The Corner (only $25) - send this message with your email
and you'll need to pay only $25 when you pick up your ticket/poster at
the door. This is also the FINAL VANISHING POINT Melbourne show for 2002!
(You need to mention this in your email)
Dates below: For FULL DETAILS including times check www.MetalWarriorsMetalFest.musicpage.com
METAL WARRIORS proudly presents
SYDNEY - Thursday, May 9 2002
EDGUY - VANISHING POINT - DUNGEON - ENTER TWILIGHT
MELBOURNE - Friday May 10 2002 (warm up show)
DARK ORDER (Syd), ABORTUS (Syd), CONTRIVE + support
MELBOURNE - Saturday, May 11 2002 (METAL WARRIORS METALFEST 2002)
EDGUY - VANISHING POINT - ENTER TWILIGHT - DUNGEON - ANARION - MORTIFICATION
- SANITYS CAGE
MELBOURNE - Sunday, May 12 2002
EDGUY - VANISHING POINT - SUPREMACY - DUNGEON - ANARION
Kryal Castle, BALLARAT - Friday May 17 2002
EDGUY + support
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!
The Sydney show is at Bar Broadway on Thursday the 9th May. Support bands
for this gig are Dungeon and Enter Twilight. Tickets are
$30 and are available through Redeye Records 02 9299 4233.
The two Melbourne shows are on Saturday the 11th and Sunday 12th of May.
The Metal Warriors Metalfest is on the 11th at The Espy, tickets are $33
with support from: Enter Twilight, Dungeon, Anarion,
Maladiction and Mortification. more bands to be announced
shortly! The show on the 12th is at The Corner Hotel, tickets are $30
with support from: Dungeon, Supremacy and Anarion.
Tickets are available through Metal
Mayhem 03 9621 1666 alternatively, tickets for all shows are available
through mail order: MetalWarriors@bigpond.com.
We have coming up soon, some wonderful drawings made by a Vanishing Point
fan from Germany, her name is Nani. We will be devoting an entire page
to her work. In the meantime, we have two beautiful pictures she has drawn
of our baby Silvio! They are gorgeous!
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.
This was the first chance for the legendary Kai Hansen and Gamma Ray to
see the band that would be touring with them and they were very impressed
stating that they had never seen a better show in that small venue. They
were so impressed that they asked us if Danny Olding (keyboard player)
would play for Gamma Ray on the tour.
This duty is usually handled by guitarist Henjo Richter who also doubles
as keyboardist on stage for Gamma Ray. What a way to start! One of Vanishing
Point's most influencial bands, with whom they would soon be touring had
just asked a Vanishing Point member to play for them. What an honour this
was both for Vanishing Point.
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!