MTS Management Group is pleased to announce Xander Demos (XDB, Sabbath Judas Sabath) has topped the CMG Radio Top 20 Rock Chart for weekending August 15, 2014. Xander’s single, “Dancing Through Daggers” (Shark Nest/MTS Records) comes in ahead of tracks by Arcade Fire (#6, “Reflektor”) and Arctic Monkeys (#4, “Do I Wanna Know.”) “Dancing Through Daggers” will appear on the forthcoming XDB album of the same name, due out this fall. Xander’s track from his debut album, Guitarcadia, “Under A Darkened Sky” is also in the Top 20, at #18. To view the entire chart, please visit http://cmgglobalradio.com/cmgglobalnetworkcharts/rock.html.
“We’d like to thank the fans for being so good to Xander, over the past couple of years,” said Michael Stover of MTS Management Group, Xander’s manager. “We’ve been really blown away by the support they’ve shown, from requests to online voting, to ticket sales. We’d also like to thank CMG for all they do to promote our artists, on a worldwide airplay level. This is quite an honor, and a first for Xander and XDB.”
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Xander Demos is a metal guitarist, who has recorded and performed with James Rivera’s Sabbath Judas Sabbath, Ged Rylands’ Rage of Angels, Liberty ‘N’ Justice, Modern Superstar, James Rivera’s solo band, and others. Endorsed with Suhr, McNaught, Conklin and Brian Moore guitars, Xander is also a perennial performer at NAMM Metal Jam with some of the biggest names in metal. Xander will appear in the upcoming metal movie, Hair I Go Again. XDB–Xander with Jeff Anzelone, (drums) Mario Brescia, (vocals) H. Dan Bozym, (bass) and Jeff Morris (keys, vocals)–has performed at Skull Fest, Wolf Fest, and Rock Harvest II, and other notable metal events. Xander was recently nominated for three 2014 International Music and Entertainment Association Awards. For more information, http://www.xanderdemos.com.
According to Xander, the specs for his artist model are as follows: “Brian Moore’s patented comfort-contour top, Basswood body with quilted maple top (aka the “Holy Grail of tonewoods”), maple neck and birdseye maple fingerboard. 24 jumbo stainless steel frets on a 14″ radius fretboard – yes, 24 frets…. Thin profile neck shape. Seymour Duncan Crazy 8 custom shop bridge pickup, Duncan Jazz neck pickup with black/blue zebra theme. Recessed Wilkinson tremolo with Graph Tech Guitar Labs piezo saddles (for those cool acoustic moments), mid/dark volume switch for the piezos. No tremolo is complete without the Tremol-No from my good buddy Kevan Geier to make sure this trem goes up, down, or not at all… Sperzel tuners with the “D-Thing” on the E-string, tuned a half-step down, .009 DR strings (thanks to Steve Bello and the fine folks at DR), genuine EBMM Petrucci three-way pickup selector switch, Luminlay 1/8″ side marker glow-in-the-dark dots. Controls are laid out similar to a Petrucci model EBMM but a “little” different. This model will be done in the “Chlorine Burst” with black back and sides. Very much looking forward to this Swiss Army knife of a guitar!”
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