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The Asylum Music Group (AMG)

The Asylum Music Group (AMG) is a group of musicians located in the Auckland area in New Zealand. The aim of AMG is to help increase the exposure of the bands and artists by grouping them together under one head - The Asylum Music Group. It is a non profit organisation that offers music downloads via its website. As a consequence of being a non profit organisation the AMG website is currently on a free blogspot, but as exposure of the bands/artists increase The Asylum Music Group has expressed an interest in the purchase of their own domain name.

The Bands/Artists of The Asylum Music Group: The Blue Devil Zaryathus The Band With No Name* Matt Edwards (solo project)

* the band actually has no name at this point in time.

The Blue Devil The Blue Devil was the first band to become part of The Asylum Music Group. The Blue Devil, sometimes abbreviated to TBD consists of three members - Christian Geese (guitar and vocals), Matt Edwards (guitar, bass and vocals) and Dave Hu (drums). Orginally starting out as an improvisational acoustic duo (Matt & Chris) the band progressed, incorporating vocals and then electric guitar. Once The Blue Devil started to use a drum machine they began to write solid songs rather than improvisational numbers. However the limited experience of both Chris and Matt when it came to drumming limited their progression. With the addition of Dave to the band in mid 2009 The Blue Devil was finally able to put together some music.

The genre of The Blue Devil is complicated to pin down. The band is primarily a southern rock, groove metal band, however they often use synth effects within their music (added after the initial recording) and wander into various other genres and subgenres. These include, but are not limited to, blues, blues rock, experimental metal, death metal, deathcore and acoustic ballads.

Songs by The Blue Devil: Burnt Me To The Ground The Darkened Dawn

* Both these songs are available for download via the AMG website -.

Burnt Me To The Ground: The recorded version of this song that is available for download is taken directly from a practice in which Dave partner video tape them playing. However there are several alternative version that have not been released for download, and may not have been recorded yet. Guitar: Chris Drums: Dave Vocals: Matt

The Darkened Dawn The second song that The Blue Devil released onto the AMG website for download was performed solely by Chris, using a drum machine and Logic Express to put the song together. Initially this song started as an experiment and then became a warm up song that The Blue Devil would play at the beginning of a practice.

Zaryathus Zaryathus (pronounced Za-rye-a-this) is a hard house project. Zaryathus' hard house is given a twist of science fiction and horror sounds and given a pinch of metal to create a blend that is both hard house and brutally creepy. The songs produced by Zaryathus, like those of The Blue Devil, are available for free download from the AMG website. The first Zaryathus album, Music of The Solar Winds, is is to be released in November 2009.

Music of The Solar Winds [2009] 1. 1951 Farewell To The Master (1:41) 2. Desolation Constellation (00:29) 3. The Dark Rift (4:46) 4. The Second Coming (The Dark Rift Part II) (4:00) 5. Starburst (5:08) 6. Equilibrium In Equinox (10:15) 7. Loftstrom Loop (aka The Loftstrom Loop of Figure Number 5) (3:12) 8. Galatic Allignment Twenty Twelve (00:34) 9. The M82 Syndicate (3:50) 10. Starwisp (2:23) 11. Music of The Solar Winds (31:03) 12. Code To Zero (3:25)

The Band With No Name* The Band With No Name* has not yet produced any music available for download from the AMG website. They are a band influenced heavily by Arch Enemy and Children of Bodom.

Matt Edwards (solo project) Matt Edwards, one of the guitarists and vocalists from The Blue Devil has created a solo project in which he plays all the instruments himself. Guitar, bass, drums, harmonica and vocals. Like the original work of The Blue Devil, the Matt's solo project is diverse in its genre, and will often cover opposing genres within a single song. There is no music recorded and available for download at this point.

All information on this page has been taken directly from the AMG website, or from an interview with the bands and band members.