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Check these reviews to get an idea of our album:

• Metal Pulse 10/10
• Lords of Metal 86/100
• Metallife 10/10
• Kronos mortus 9/10
• Aardschok 83/100 (10x eremetaal)
• Hellspawn 9,1/10
• Stormbringer 5/5
• Power of Metal 83/100
• Digital Steel 95/100
  
• Hot digits 4,5/5
• Virtuosity one 9/10
• Rock Report 5/6
• Fury Rocks 9/10 (Fury’s Favourite)
• Ice Vayal 9/10
• Exception factory
• Progressia 7/10
• Dangerdog 4,75/5 (album of the week)
• Rockarea 9/10
• Nocturne magazine 8/10
• Progwereld
• Neckbreaker 8,5/10
  
• Aux portes du metal 17/20
• ZwareMetalen.com 96/100
  

And these interviews:

• Ytsejam.com
• Kronus Mortus
• Power of metal
• Progarchives
• Progwereld
• Rocktribune

Make sure to check our site again for more!

This week we’ll be guest in two radio shows:  Thursday June 17th you can hear at “het avonduur” on Radio Siris (18:00). Further more we are going to visit Pieter van Veen from Progressive X Grooves radio Sunday June 20th (20:00 to 22:00) http://www.rosafm.nl/ Chatroom: http://www.groovyfreakz.com/progressivexgrooves.html

And a new concert added. At July 10^th Day Six will do a concert with Persistence and Lunasphere (DE) at Smiley’s, Brunssum. More information: www.myspace.com/prophecyagency.

Lion Music are delighted to have signed Dutch progressive rock/metal band DAY SIX for their new album, the Grand Design, to the label’s roster.

Since forming in 2002, Day Six have become a mainstay on the live Dutch music scene and won two major competitions in the Netherlands: the Metal Battle and the Aardschok Metal Bash. As a result, Day Six have grown to be one of the most well known progressive metal bands in the Netherlands and with the worldwide release of the Grand Design, Lion Music aim to introduce the band to a wider audience.

With a sound that combines elements from across progressive music’s history, the band have come up with a unique take on the genre which is equal parts dark and light making great use of dynamics and textures. Comparisons could be made between a fusion of PINK FLOYD, RUSH and OPETH, where colossal guitar riffs collide and intertwine with synthesized textures for a truly mesmerizing effect.

The band’s live show is also winning rave reviews with the four piece of Robbie van Stiphout (guitars/vocals), Nick Verstappen (bass), Dolf van Heugten (synthesizers) and Daan Liebregts (drums) wowing audiences with their spectacular live show.

Day Six – the Grand Design is comprised of nine tracks and clocks in at over 70 minutes. It’s set for release on Lion Music on June 18th. A preview sampler of the album can be heard at the band’s official websites: Day-Six.com and myspace.com/daysixweb.

We’ll keep you up to date as always!

Concert info

• Artist: Day Six
• Date: Friday, October 15th 2010
• City: Day Six in Eindhoven
• Venue: The Rambler
• Address: Stationsplein 12
• Country: NL
• Notes:
  With: Casual Silence
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Concert info

• Artist: Day Six
• Date: Saturday, December 19th 2009
• City: Day Six in Someren
• Venue: OJC Comeet
• Address: Witvrouwenbergweg 20
• Venue phone: 0493-440793
• Country: NL
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As you may have noticed, our old and trusty guestbook is gone. It has been replaced with the possibility to respond to news messages like this one. Further more, you can now subscribe to RSS feeds of our news, comments and our concerts list and you can add our concert dates to your Google or iCal-calendar with a single click.

Op zaterdag 10 oktober zal de band een concert geven in OJC Nirwana, compleet met zowel muzikale als visuele effecten! Om het feestje helemaal compleet te maken viert de band op exact deze datum haar 10 jarig jubileum, want 10 jaar in dezelfde bezetting is toch wel heel bijzonder.

Een avond die je zeker niet mag missen!

Concert info

• Artist: Day Six
• Date: Saturday, October 10th 2009
• City: Day Six in Lierop
• Venue: OJC Nirwana
• Country: NL
• Notes: 10th anniversary party!
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The Progpower gig went really well. After “Mountain King, Jon Oliva” was done soundchecking we rearranged the stage for our soundchecks. At 13.45 we kicked off with “Legend of the Hollow”. Despite the fact that the day was just starting, Sjiwa was already filling up with an enthousiastic crowd. Yep, we got a great response.
Then we continued with the first song of our upcoming album, entitled “7^th sign”. Halfway through the song the power went dead. No more sound, no more light. Daan of course continued drumming – he thought the problem would be resolved within seconds. Unfortunately he was wrong, and we had to stop for fifteen minutes.

The curtains closed and the stage was quickly filled with Progpower crew members. The problem was eventually found at the bass amp. This took us about fifteen minutes to find out. We quickly took a new bass amp, which produced a very dull sound at that point. Nick changed his bass guitar, but the curtains were already open and Robbie started with the guitar part of the song at the point where the power went down. Nick had to plugin in his bass guitar, but after about three seconds, the complete band could continue the show. Luckily we managed to regain the drive we had on stage before the power failure so we could complete the rest of the song and the set.

We even had some ideas to release a special Progpower edition of our album, with fifteen minutes of silence in the song ’7^th Sign’ at the point of the power failure… but this would take the duration of the album beyond the maximum length.

The set also contained two fairly long songs: ‘The Crypt’ and the new ‘Inside’. We would have closed our set with ‘Age of Technology’ but unfortunately we had to take the 15-minute break off our set length. There are a few reviews and pictures on the internet:

• Metal Discovery
• Popfrontal
• MTUK
• Lords of Metal
• Vampster
• Aardschok
• Festival info

Here are a few pictures:

In no time the supply of albums we took with us was sold out. I’m talking about our previous full-length album ‘Eternal Dignity‘. The upcomping album is not finished yet, but here is a news update about the progress:

We are one keyboard part away from finishing the recordings of the music. Vocal parts of some songs are still to be recorded – and some lyrics have to be written for the concept of the album to work out. In the past few weeks we’ve recorded some remaining guitar parts, and… because Daan liked his solo point in 7^th Sign a lot, he decided to record a drumsolo for that song. Of course his drum kit is large enough for a drum solo. … You think? His own newly found company “Liebregts BMW Parts” provided a wheelbarrow full of car parts to drum on. The solo was recorded on: an exhaust pipe, a heat shield, license plates, etc.

Further more, we are rehearsing new stuff as well as our old songs, so we can play a nice set on our album release party!

We’ll keep you updated with more news!

Greets,
Day Six

We are very proud to announce that we’ll be playing at Progpower Europe 2007. After our show at Progpower Pre-party in 2004 we will make our return this year on the mainstage!
The festival takes place on Sunday October 7th in Sjiwa, Baarlo (NL) On the same day when, amongst others, Jon Oliva’s Pain, Sieges Even and Circus Maximus will enter the stage.
For now, we’re going to work even harder in the studio to make sure our upcoming album is released on time to promote on the festival!

More information on: www.progpower.com