Evestus (2003 - 2006)

SHORT BIO:

EVESTUS (current profile at myspace.com/riseofthenewscum), started solo electronic work in 2004, while performing as vocalist since 2001 in Estonian metal project SOLWAIG, not to mention percussionist duties for industrial death-beat group FORGOTTEN SUNRISE.

The end of 2004 saw the release of Evestus’s first solo album “Destiny in Life” that got him a deal with Canadas DTrash records who re-released the debut album to a wider audience. Being a fairly colorful and erratic mixture of samples and synths, Evestus quickly received more serious looks after releasing “Wastelands”, his 2nd full-length album under DTrash records, that was more in-depth and thorough expression, a hazy and multi-layered work of contemplative avant-garde industrial-electronica which ran deeper and more intensely emotional than any previous EVESTUS material. After the huge success of "Wastelands", (7/10 Virus Magazine, 7.5/10 Terrorizer, 9/10 Connexion Bizarre, 4/5 ReGenMag.com) Evestus was determined to make the third album take an even bigger step forward than "Wastelands" did of its predecessor. That in mind, he picked up the pen and pencil and blew the dust off his microphone. 2006 and 2007 were spent researching music and lifestyles, upgrading the studio, auditioning and experimenting with live instrumentalists. Experimental gigs were given in Estonia, Lithuania and Finland to see how everything works out on stage and how to get the most out of any venue. And besides a few remixes done for Dtrash records and producing an Estonian hip-hop artist "Sol1st", Evestus was writing down blueprints of what is to become one of the greatest industrial/gothic albums of the decade...

RECENT:

Spring 2008 marked the beginning of the Dramatic Era for an Estonian based industrial composer/songwriter EVESTUS as "Sacrifice", his first single from a genre defining third album "This Is Dramacore" (TBA 2009), makes its way to Baltic MTV. It may seem that this young man (24) from an ex-Soviet Union country is grabbing for a spot way out of his league in the world of (alternative) music, but his confidence and determination bring up uncertainty among even the biggest of skeptics out there. "Sacrifice" single includes a "radio edit" of the original track, 8 remixes by the likes of Team Cybergeist (US), Kirdec (BEL) and Apocryphal Superorganism (CAN) and even a mix by Evestus himself. The single was released on june 4th with a video that made its way to Baltic MTV (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) as an exclusive and landed on 15 on it's first week on MTV Baltic TOP 20 where the video stayed for 6 weeks. Regenmag.com also gave this single a great review!

In November 2008, MTV and NOKIA asked Evestus to represent them in the “NOKIA comes with music” campaign as a reknown Baltic industrial act. Evestus presented a lecture concerning the history and concept of Industrial music at Baltic Film and Media College in Tallinn, Estonia. On December 8 2008 Evestus’s second single/video “You’re Not Good Enough To Be My Enemy” entered Baltic MTV playlist as an “Exclusive” and will candidate for Top 20 and Rock chart next week.