Stargazer Consultancy has announced the signing of German composer and musician Steve Brockmann.
Steve joins the Stargazer artist roster having already released three albums, the last in 2012 being a stunning rock opera with George Andrade, “Airs – A Rock Opera”.
Steve commented: “Stargazer is doing a great job, I am looking forward to the future, it’s wide open and looking good!“
Steve Brockmann is preparing to release his next album and more details will be revealed soon.
For more details on Stargazer Consultancy and the services available, visit the official Facebook page here and the official website at this location.
Metal Shock Finland Chief Editor, Mohsen Fayazi and Senior Manager Alison Booth have joined together in partnership with their respective other areas of work: Stargazer Consultancy and Blackdiamond’s Metal Mayhem.Stargazer was set up to be a useful guidance in the rock and metal music industry. Some of the services on offer include custom artist biography and press release writing, designing and licence negotiation. Blackdiamond’s Metal Mayhem is a weekly rock and metal show on UK radio station TotalRock.
Introducing:
Mohsen “Stargazer” Fayazi
Mohsen has built his career in the music industry over the last seven years, beginning by writing many music articles on the popular online encyclopaedia, Wikipedia, in 2009.
He then started working with renowned Middle Eastern metal webzine Jorzine in 2010 and began conducting the first of many interviews to come.
In 2011, Mohsen was invited by Metal Shock Finland President Tarja Virmakari to join the team. He was soon a major contributor in creating the well respected rock and metal news source that the online magazine is today and became Chief Editor.
During this time, Mohsen has forged strong relationships with record labels such as Nuclear Blast, Century Media and many more. A plethora of interviews have taken place over the years, with esteemed artists including Wolf Hoffmann (ACCEPT), Michael Weikath, Markus Grosskopf (HELLOWEEN), Jon Schaffer (ICED EARTH), Arjen Anthony Lucassen (AYREON) and Steve DiGiorgio (DEATH, CONTROL DENIED, TESTAMENT and more). Many thought provoking reviews and articles have been written.
Another area of work is designing high quality banners, posters and logos, some examples are all the headers and logos seen on the Metal Shock Finland website and social media. Posters have also been designed for metal legends ACCEPT, notably for Sweden Rock Festival in 2013, along with being official Ambassador for the band in Iran, as well as doing promotional work.
Mohsen has worked for two Iranian death metal bands in the role of agent and manager. He has been instrumental in spreading their names worldwide, as well as securing a record contract.
Mohsen created the specialist sister magazine to Metal Shock Finland, a quarterly production by the name of Metal Shock Times.
The magazine has focused on aspects of the music industry, reports, reviews and interviews.
Alison Booth (AKA Blackdiamond)
Alison’s career in the industry has been built over the last five years, starting in 2011 by initially joining Metal Shock Finland as an Author. This consisted of writing daily news articles, reviewing new albums and interviewing artists, then progressing to becoming Senior Manager and also Utilifests Project Manager; arranging partnerships with rock and metal festivals worldwide. Festivals supported include Wildfire, Metal Crowd, Brutal Assault and Devilstone.
In 2012 she joined the long running excellent English radio station TotalRock, presenting a weekly two hour show, Blackdiamond’s Metal Mayhem amongst a team of stellar DJ’s. Featuring bands worldwide, many guest artists have appeared for a chat on the show including Michael Schenker, Bobby “Blitz” Ellsworth (OVERKILL), Andi Deris (HELLOWEEN), Nigel Glockler (SAXON) and Glenn Hughes. As well as big named bands, Alison also supports new bands and frequently features their material on the show.
Alison also has built solid relationships with record companies, promoting their band’s music through her radio show and with press releases, reviews and interviews on Metal Shock Finland. She is an experienced writer, having had reviews published in AOR magazine.
Alison has worked with ACCEPT as Ambassador for the UK.
“We are excited to present our services to the rock and metal community as partners and look forward to taking our partnership forward.”
To find out more about Stargazer Consultancy and the services available, visit the official website here and the official Facebook page at this location.
For more news on Blackdiamond’s Metal Mayhem show, check it out every Tuesday from 6PM GMT on http://www.totalrock.com and find out more on the official website here. The official Facebook page can be found at this location. Past shows can be listened to on Mixcloud.
After releasing their successful debut EP, “A Hymn Of The Vicious Monster”, Iranian death metal act AZOOMA have recently entered the Studio to start recording their first full length studio album which will be released this year via Xtreem Music. The recording will take place in Mashhad at ‘Azooma Studio’ under the supervision of the band’s drummer Saeed Shariat.
Saeed commented: “We are excited indeed to bring some new material to our fans. Our upcoming album will have more horror, a more complicated story and more blood. This is something different and we assure you that this one will blow your mind, it’s something you haven’t heard before.”
Also the band has recently signed a management contract with Mohsen Fayazi and Stargazer Consultancy. Mohsen commented on AZOOMA‘s forthcoming album: “I am glad that these guys found their way on the death metal path of glory. By listening to the demos of Azooma’s upcoming album, I can say they found their signature style in this genre of music.”
Check out what the band had to say to their fans from the studio on the YouTube clip below:
Iranian modern rock and metal project, featuring Ehsan Imani, RAGER BLAZE has recently inked a management contract with Stargazer Consultancy. Ehsan Imani is a musician, producer, composer, photographer and multi-instrument player, who graduated with a “Professional Singer-Songwriter” qualification from the Berklee Online University.
Mohsen Fayyazi, CEO of Stargazer Consultancy has commented:
“Ehsan Imani is the absolute pride of all Iranian rock and metal lovers. He knows music, recording, mixing, mastering and all their tricks very well. It’s my honour to serve him as a manager and I saw all lightness in the future of this talented man!“
Ehsan Imani has stated the following:
“I’m really glad about this contract. Today in this industry, its really hard to find someone who really knows what’s he doing, so bands feel lots of pressure doing all the marketing-related jobs on their own. But Stargazer took that pressure away from me, and there’s no one here who can do this job better than him.“
RAGER BLAZE debut self-titled full studio album was released on digital format worldwide and CD only in Iran, on 1st January 2014. The album fronts modern rock and metal music from Iran and Ehsan had no limits in writing his great music. A trailer of this album has been posted on the RAGER BLAZE YouTube channel and can be seen below:
Iranian death metal warriors AZOOMA will release their debut EP, entitled “A Hymn Of The Vicious Monster” worldwide on 15th June via Xtreem Music. Stargazer Consultancy has premiered exclusively the band’s first Studio Teaser Trailer, which offers death metallers a brutal technical taste of the AZOOMA‘s newest record.
Check out AZOOMA‘s vocalist Shahin Vaqfipour, guitarist Ahmad Tokallou, bassist Farid Shariat and speedy drum machine killer Saeed Shariat in the studio during the recording of their “A Hymn Of The Vicious Monster” EP:
“A Hymn Of The Vicious Monster” is a 6 track EP and was mixed and mastered by Iranian producer Ehsan Imani in Mixter Blaze Studio. The artwork was created by Shahryar Shervin .The EP will be available on both CD and in Digital format.
AZOOMA frontman Shahin Vaqfipour stated the following regarding the concept of the EP:
“We really like the idea of telling a story throughout this EP, we want each song to be unique but all of them to relate to each other and complete each other. We wanted to create something new and at the same time, staying true to the roots of death metal and its traditions.
“A Hymn Of The Vicious Monster” is about a normal person who seems to be a victim of the situations he is in, but eventually it becomes clear that if the conditions are right, he can turn into the monster which he thinks he is a victim of.
It’s the nature of mankind. If he has the opportunities, he can turn into something evil which he thinks he would never be and do some vicious deeds. Everyone has this potential, but the true power and purity is not to let this nature, this essence grow.“
Stargazer Consultancy has recently announced that Persian Progressive Death Metal warriors AZOOMA have recently inked a deal with Stargazer Consultancy.
“We are excited to announce that we have recently signed a contract with Stargazer Consultancy, which is powered by the first Iranian metal music journalist and publicist Mohsen Fayyazi. We started to find our way in the metal world about 10 years ago, it was not easy as perhaps many of you know, we faced several difficulties, but now we took another step forward into the metal music industry. Ahmad, Saeed, Shahin and Farid’s best wishes to you all, especially to all Persian metalheads.
Respect and Regards
AZOOMA” The band commented via a post on their official facebook page.
According to Bravewords.com, AZOOMA have recently finished recording their first outstanding conceptual EP which includes stories about human misery, time travelling and awakening. The band was influenced by legendary bands such as DEATH, OPETH, GOROD when writing this album, but it still will be a very new experience for true metal fans to hear this Persian style death metal. Also the band played as co-headliner act at the Persian Metal Fest 2013 and shared a stage with great metallers such as GOROD.
AZOOMA have recently paid tribute to the legendary MORBID ANGEL by covering their “Dawn Of Angry” song. The video is posted online and can be seen on the Youtube player below:
Stargazer Consultancy has announced the signing of German composer and musician Steve Brockmann.
