24.06.2008 - Tyrant Throne on Gigan Tour Compilation CD

Tyrant Throne's track "Excavation to Our Rotten Ancestors" from Abominations EP was featured on the compilation CD released by Sinister Music Inc. (USA) and distributed at Gigan Tour 2008 (USA, Canada, and the United Kingdom) that had Megadeth, In Flames, Children of Bodom, Job for a Cowboy and High on Fire on the road for this year.

The compilation is supported by Metal Edge Magazine, and features bands from labels like Roadrunner Records, Century Media, Relapse Records and Nuclear Blast such as ex-Sepultura brothers Max/Igor Cavalera's thrash band Cavalera Conspiracy.

Thanks for Sinister Music for the great support!
Special thanks to Erin Ludewig of Sinister Music Inc.

www.sinistermusicinc.com
www.metaledgemag.com
www.gigantour.com

24.06.2008 - Zaher Siryani Joins Mega Power

Zaher Siryani joined the Thrash band Mega Power. Mega power was the first ever Metal band in Jordan; formed in 1982 and recorded some demo tracks then split up in 1992. Recently, in 2008 the band was reformed by its founding member Jamal 'Aladin" Obeidat (One of the oldest Metalheads in the scene) with a totally new line-up including Zaher. Good luck to Mega Power, give us some ass kicking Thrash Metal!!!

11.04.2008 - Tyrant Throne's Full CNN Interview

You can now watch the full interview with Tyrant Throne on CNN from the following links:

- Watch the Interview on CNN's official Website
- Watch the Interview on Youtube

As it has been previously mentioned, the interview took place on Wednesday, the 30th of January 2008 and was a part of an episode in "Inside the Middle East" program, which also included an interview with fellow Saudi band Wasted Land.

The interview included many questions to Phexataan and Zaher Siryani about the band, Metal in general, and the Jordanian Metal scene (Only few are included in the broadcasted one). After that the band had a jamming session which was captured by the CNN crew.

The episode was broadcasted on March 1st, 2nd and 6th of 2008 and was repeated a couple of times each day.

The interview will be available as a video on the band's official website soon rather than links other websites.

11.04.2008 - Reviews Added

3 relatively old reviews that were not added to the official website before are now added to the "Abominations (EP 2007) Reviews" Section in "Media". The first by Metal Waves (Tunisia) in French, the second by Battle Magazine (Egypt) in English, and the third by Slug Magazine (United States) in English. You can check them out from these links respectively: Review 1 | Review 2 | Review 3 ... Or you can check them out from the Media section along side other interesting stuff there...

17.02.2008 - Tyrant Throne CNN Interview

Tyrant Throne were interviewed by CNN TV on Wednesday the 30th of January (2008). The interview included questions to Phexataan and Zaher Siryani about the band, Metal in general and the Jordanian Metal scene. After that the band jammed a couple of songs. The interview was captured on video and will be officially broadcasted on CNN TV on the following dates:

March 1st, 2008: 10:30AM, 4:30PM, 9:30PM
March 2nd, 2008: 2:30PM, 8:30PM
March 6th, 2008: 4:30PM, 8:30PM

The interview will be part of an episode in the "Inside the Middle East" program, which will also include an interview with fellow Saudi band Wasted Land.

For More info check the interviewer Hala Gorani's Inside the Middle East blog by clicking HERE.

Picture: Schams Elwazer and Hala Gorani from CNN with Tyrant Throne's members

01.01.2008 - Interview & Review Added

A new review for "Abominations" EP by Xtreem Music (Spain) has been added to "Media". The review is available in both English and Spanish. To read the interview click here.

Also; Tyrant Throne, Bilocate and Infested Mind appeared in Spiegel Magazine (Germany) in an interview and an article about the music scene in Arabian countries. The article is currently available in German only, click here to read.

01.01.2008 - Tyrant Throne's New Theme

As was announced some months ago on JorZine.com forums by Phexataan, the band decided to adopt the Nabataean Mythology theme in future Tyrant Throne releases. Coming from a country with such a majestic ancient monumental city like Petra the capital of the Nabataean Kingdom, it would be great to make brutal music about its mysterious mythology.

Musically, the band started working on the new material, but still not heavily because most members are quite busy with different stuff, but soon real composing sessions will start for the next release which will be a full-length album. This time the music will be even heavier, faster and more sick and brutal than "Abominations EP" that was released in January last year.

01.01.2008 - Phexataan Guest Vocals With Soulbleed

Phexataan was asked by the members of Thrash/Melodic Death Metal band "Soulbleed" to do the complete vocal work as a guest on their debut album which they're already recording at Phexataan's personal studio "The Phexagon". The band needed someone to do the vocals for the album after their original vocalist left the band during recording time for personal reasons. The task was accepted by Phexataan and vocals recording sessions will start soon.

03.11.2007 - R.I.P. Witold "Vitek" Kieltyka

We are extremely shocked and sad to learn that one of the best blasters around lost his life in a tragic tour bus accident yesterday near the Russian/Belarusian border - Vitek (Witold Kieltyka), the drummer of one of the bands we most admire and bang our heads to - Decapitated!!!

Our deep condolences to the Decapitated crew, Vitek's family and friends, and of course to every Metalhead around the world. We also hope for a full recovery for Covan (Adrian Kowanek) the band's vocalist who was also seriously injured in the accident...

We shall drink for you Vitek... Rest in Peace

Witold "Vitek" Kieltyka - 1984-2007

22.10.2007 - Gig Summary: Veni Vidi Vomui ... Pics Added

Great show, great bands and great people. Thanks for everyone in Lebanon especially the guys from Kaoteon for the great hospitality. Thanks for all the people who attended especially those who came from Jordan specially to see and support us.

Also, thanks again for Rami Haikal and the whole Bilocate crew...

The show was very nice, all bands were very good, nice small underground pub, the sound wasn't perfect but it was good and heavy as hell - playing there was a blast anyways.

Some pics from the gig are already available on the Media section.
To view them directly click here. More pics will be sent to us from the guys in Lebanon soon....

18.10.2007 - Rami Haikal Live Guest With Tyrant Throne

Bilocate's rhythm guitarist Rami Haikal will join us as a guest 2nd guitarist on some tracks of our playlist in Lebanon's Veni Vidi Vomui concert which will take place on Saturday, October 20th. This will not be the first time that Rami Haikal appears as a guest with the band on a live show as he earlier played with us on one track in Highway Inferno I. Big thanks to our great friends Bilocate for the continuous support and friendship.

For more info about the concert read the previous news post | www.metalje.com

www.bilocate.net
www.jorzine.com

11.10.2007 - Tyrant Throne Live in Beirut-Lebanon

Tyrant Throne will perform in Beirut-Lebanon on October 20th. The concert will be entitled "Veni Vidi Vomui" where Tyrant Throne will play along side Kaoteon, Kimaera, Blaakyum and Inner Incineration; all hailing from Lebanon.

This is going to be Tyrant Throne's first ever appearance there and probably the first by a Jordanian band if my memory serves well. We are damn excited to share the stage with some of the best bands in Lebanon.

Concert Info:
Concert Title: Veni Vidi Vomui
Date: Saturday, 20 October 2007
Time: 9:30 PM
Venue: Cherry's Pub
Location: Antelias
Tickets: $10/15000 LL (1 beer + 1 shot)
Bands:
Tyrant Throne, Kaoteon, Kimaera,
Blaakyum, Inner Incineration

Our merchandise will be available at the venue

For more information check out:
www.metalje.com

06.10.2007 - Old and New Interviews/Reviews Added

We apologize for the long break in updating the website. 2 interviews conducted with Phexataan were added to the Media section. The first by Wouter Roemers from Masterful Magazine (Poland) and the other which is a relatively old one by Patrick Doms from Hell Razor Zine (Belgium). You can check them out directly from the following links respectively: Interview 1 | Interview 2

3 reviews for the EP "Abominations" were added to Media; the first done by Novo Metal (Brazil) in Portuguese, and the others by BruView (Germany) in German and Supreme Brutality (Denmark) in English. We are currently working on getting English translations for the German and Portuguese reviews. Check them out directly from the following links respectively: Review 1 | Review 2 | Review 3

14.08.2007 - Cairo Metal Fest Pics Added

Some live pics from July 13th "Metal Fest 2007" in Cairo-Egypt are added on "Media" on the "Live Pics" section. Check them out. To check them from here directly, click here. More pics of the band's performance in the fest will be added as soon as we receive them.

07.08.2007 - Tyrant Throne on Metal On Radio

3 tracks from the band's EP "Abominations" were air played yesterday night on Metal On Radio (Portugal). The tracks are "Excavation to Our Rotten Ancestors", "One Man Kingdom", and Cannibal Corpse's tribute "Staring Through the Eyes of the Dead". Also, the whole EP was added to the radio's music base and will be put on heavy rotation during the period the radio is in automation; that means that Tyrant Throne will be played more than once a day on Metal On radio.

We thank DJ Necro for the great support...
To check the radio and listen to it live go to it's official website:
www.metalon.org

31.07.2007 - Tyrant Throne Online Shop

There is now an official online shop for Tyrant Throne (TT-Shop). You can buy our official merchandise from there. To check it out, click on: TT-Shop

Fans worldwide are now able to purchase our merchandise with an easy process. You can currently buy 2 items from the shop; "Abominations (EP 2007)" and "Abominations T-Shirt". More interesting items will be added later. The image to the right is Tyrant Throne's Abominations T-shirt. Click on it to view a larger image.

The T-shirt is currently available in Large and X-Large sizes, other sizes are currently out of stock.

29.07.2007 - Reviews, Interview & Many Images

2 new reviews for "Abominations" EP by Masterful Magazine (Poland) are now available. Although both reviews are done by Masterful Magazine, but they are different reviews; one in English written by Wouter and the other in Polish written by Olo. To read the full English review click here. To read the full Polish review click here.

On other news; Tyrant Throne, Bilocate and Fares (CruelDestiny) from JorZine.com appeared in Pulp Magazine in an interview and an article about the Jordanian Metal scene. For more details click here.

Further more, the whole "Media" section has been fully updated and enhanced; many new pics and artworks are now added in the "Visual" section. Almost every section has new images except for the "Live Pics" section since we are still waiting to receive our pics from Egypt's Metal Fest 2007.

17.07.2007 - Gig Summary: Metal Fest 2007/Highway Inferno I ... & More

Metal Fest 2007, Cairo-Egypt: A great day, a great show! Tyrant Throne's first show outside of Jordan. The band did a great performance and enjoyed a long event of Extreme Metal watching other amazing bands as well. The crowds went crazy, the Egyptian fans are fucking amazing, they gave us a great atmosphere while playing that made the show even better, we would love to play in Egypt again for those crazy fans!

The gig venue was changed one day before the show for some technical problems, the new venue was Al-Badia also in Cairo. The only down point in the show for us was the electrical/technical problems we faced which started during the 5th track on our list; something was wrong with the electricity so the sound and light systems kept going off until they were finally fixed and we continued our show.

Special thanks for Ekramy, Kareem, Gina, Metson and the rest of the organizing team, we miss you already guys, we hope we'll be able to make it again to Egypt! Special salutes to all the bands that played in the fest or the bands and people we met there. Deathless Anguish, Wasted Land, Grieving Age, Dark Philosophy, Hate Suffocation, Wyvern... You all kick ass, we'll meet again on the road!!!

Highway Inferno I, Jerash-Jordan: A cool small Metal gig. A perfect preparation for Egypt's Metal Fest. All bands did a great job. Thanks for the support from Bilocate, Spade and Dementis. Non to be said more.

Tyrant Throne's playlist on both shows (only 8th track differs):

01 The Chaos Beast

02 Staring Through the Eyes of the Dead (Cannibal Corpse)

03 Slaughter for Salvation

04 Nonexistence (Six Feet Under)

05 Excavation to Our Rotten Ancestors

06 Summoning Redemption (Morbid Angel)
07 One Man Kingdom
08 Powder Burns (Bolt Thrower)/Excavation to Our Rotten Ancestors

Few pics from Merza Farm's Highway Inferno I gig are now added on the "Media" section. You can check them out directly from here. More pics from Highway Inferno I will be added as soon as I get a hold of them.

Pics from Egypt's Metal fest will be posted soon. There will also be some available videos soon from Tyrant Throne's performance at the fest.

On other news; an interview with Zaher Siryani by Ellen Simpson from Vampire Magazine (Netherlands) is now added to the "Media" section. You can check it out directly from here. Also added to "Media"; Phexataan's short interview by Dayal Patterson from Terrorizer Magazine which was specially prepared for the Middle Eastern Report Part II. Check it our from here.

05.07.2007 - Highway Inferno Gig

Here are the info for Tyrant Throne's worm up gig for Egypt's open air Metal Fest. The gig will be held on Friday, the 6th of July (Tomorrow). It will take place at Merza Farm in Um Errumman on the way to the city of Jerash. Bands featured other than Tyrant Throne are going to be Spade, Bilocate and Dementis. For transportation, there will be 2 buses waiting at the main gate of Jordan University which will take off to the gig venue at 2:30 PM sharp and will head back to Amman at 9:00 PM. Bus charge is 2JD only (2 way). If you are not invited, don't bother to come; it is a private invitations gig.

Sadly, Rami Haikal from Bilocate wont be able to join us anymore for both Highway Inferno and Egypt Metal Fest 2007 for trouble in managing time between his work and the trip to Egypt, so we will stick to our ordinary line-up; Phexataan, Zaher, Hanna. Thanks again to Rami and Bilocate for the great support.

To have a closer view about the gig check out the info down bellow, and click on the gig poster to enlarge it and read important stuff related to it.

Highway Inferno I Info:
Gig Title: Highway Inferno I
Date: Friday, 06 July 2007
Time: 4:00 PM
Venue: Merza Farm
Location: Jerash/Um Errumman
Tickets: Free Invitations
Bands:
Tyrant Throne, Bilocate, Spade, Dementis

For more info call: 079-6955098 / 079-6921515

For info about Metal Festival 2007 (Egypt) scroll down to the previous news post!

01.07.2007 - Tyrant Throne Live in Cairo-Egypt

Tyrant Throne will perform in Cairo-Egypt on July 13th at the open air Metal Fest 2007 along side bands from Egypt and KSA. The fest will take place at Sakkara Nest.

This is going to be Tyrant Throne's first ever appearance in Egypt, it will be definitely huge and kick ass. In preparations for the Fest; the band will perform in a small gig in Jordan on the 6th of July, and will be joined by Bilocate, Spade and Dementis. More info about this gig will be posted soon.

Rami Haikal; rhythm guitarist of Bilocate will join Tyrant Throne only for these 2 gigs as a session live guitarist to add up a second guitar to the performance. We would like to thank Rami and Bilocate for their support and friendship. Adding up Rami on
guitar, the line-up will be as follows:

Phexataan - Bass & Vocals
Zaher Siryani - Guitars
Hanna Marzouqa - Drums
Rami Haikal - Session Live Guitars

Egypt Fest Info:
Concert Title: Metal Fest 2007
Date: Friday, 13 July 2007
Time: 3:00 PM
Venue: Sakkara Nest
Location: El Marutia, Sakkara road
Tickets: 60 LE (75 LE at the door)
Bands:
Tyrant Throne, Wyvern (Egypt), Dark Philosophy (Egypt), Deathless Anguish (KSA),
Wasted Land (KSA), HateSuffocation (Egypt), Grieving Age (KSA), Monarch (Egypt)

Tyrant Throne CD's and T-shirts will be available at the fest

www.egyptmusicgates.com

For more info call: 0122386548

25.06.2007 - New Review

A new review for "Abominations" EP done by Extreme Metal (United States) is now added to the Media section. The Review was written by Mike (Extreme). You can check it out on Media or directly from here.

19.06.2007 - Tyrant Throne on Terrorizer Magazine

Tyrant Throne has been featured on "Terrorizer Magazine"; Extreme Metal's top mag on issue #158 as a part of The Middle Eastern Scene report. The report also featured Phexataan's two other bands "Augury" and "Phex" and Jordanian Doom Metallers "Bilocate". Moreover, a big part of the report included answers by Phexataan to questions from Terrorizer regarding the scene in Jordan and other related matters.

You can download the report from here: Part 1 | Part 2

This report was prepared few months ago but was only published last month; at that time our drummer Hanna Marzouqa wasn't with the band yet, so for that reason he's sadly not mentioned in the report.

17.06.2007 - Interview With Phexataan/New Tyrant Throne Fan Forum

Check out the interview with Phexataan by Alon Miasnikob from Metalist Magazine. Go to "Media" or check it out directly from here.

A fan forum for Tyrant Throne was made on the Metal website "Metal Legend". We sincerely thank Hell Commander from Metal Legend for the great support. The following link will lead you to the forum:
Tyrant Throne's Fan Forum on Metal Legend

www.metal-legend.org

Thanks for the support... Enjoy the forum suckers!!!

04.06.2007 - TT Interview on Camelhead Podcast

Tyrant Throne had the honour to be the first band to get featured on the new Jordanian Podcast "Camelhead". A live audio interview was done 3 days ago with Phexataan and Zaher Siryani on Episode 1 of the Camelhead project.

You can listen to the interview from the following links:
Part 1: http://www.4shared.com/file/17053766/38d488cd/Epsd_1_Part_1.html
Part 2: http://www.4shared.com/file/17057635/520ad052/Epsd_1_Part_2.html

Or you can check Camelhead's Myspace page: www.myspace.com/camelheadpod
Or Camelhead's website: www.camelhead.tk

For the future, you can check the interview at the "Media" section.

Thanks for the support guys!
Stay fucking brutal...

27.05.2007 - New Review/TyrantThrone.com

A new review for "Abominations" EP done by Vampire Magazine (Netherlands) is now added to the Media section. The Review was written by Ellen Simpson. You can check it out on Media or directly from here.

On other news, there has been a slight change in our official domain name; TT's official website is now www.tyrantthrone.COM instead of www.tyrantthrone.TK

24.05.2007 - Hanna Marzouqa the New Tyrant!

After 3 fucking hard years trying to look for a drummer who can handle our extremely fast and stamina consuming music, we were finally able to find a technical drummer who can play our music perfectly. Hanna Marzouqa; an old friend of ours is now officially Tyrant Throne's permanent drummer. He proved to be a fucking machine, and he earns his place well behind the drum kit of Tyrant Throne.

With this new stone solid line-up, we are ready to kick more asses than ever!!! This is the new official line-up of the band:

Phexataan - Bass & Vocals
Zaher Siryani - Guitars
Hanna Marzouqa - Drums

New pics of the band can be viewable on the "Media" section.
You can also check them out directly from here.
To know more about Hanna, check out his profile on the "Tyrants" section or directly from here.

17.05.2007 - Technical Problems

We apologize for those who have been trying to check the website for the past 4 days where it didn't work with them; the website was facing some technical problems, but now its working again (as you have probably realized) and everything is back to normal. Enjoy!

14.05.2007 - Abominations Reviews

2 new reviews for "Abominations" EP are now added to the Media section. The reviews where done by Stylus Magazine (Germany) and Estigia Webzine (Argentina). To read the reviews go to "Media" or click here for Stylus Magazine's review and here for Estigia Webzine's review.

On other news, our crusher "The Chaos Beast" was featured on Brutalism radio, show #17. This is the second time for Tyrant Throne to be featured on Brutalism radio after the track "Slaughter for Salvation" was featured some time ago. Tyrant Throne is also getting more network exposure from Extreme Metal (USA) by featuring our Cannibal Corpse tribute track "Staring Through the Eyes of the Dead" on Extreme Metal's SoundClick page; the track got rank #1 on the charts of the subgenre on SoundClick knowing that tracks for international bands like Decapitated, Amon Amarth, Behemoth, Aborted and more are featured as well.

09.04.2007 - Tyrant Throne on Brutalism Radio

Tyrant Throne was played and is being broadcasted on Brutalism Radio, show #14 (2007). Also, Tyrant Throne is promoted on Extreme Metal music website.

Thanks for the support from Brutalism.com and ExtremeMetal.us:
www.brutalism.com
www.extrememetal.us

21.03.2007 - Abominations in Zarqa

Our EP "Abominations" is now available in the city of Zarqa, Jordan. The EP is available through Kottage music shop with the same price as in Mute Records, Amman.

21.03.2007 - TT Joins JorZine Management

We are glad to announce that Tyrant Throne has joined JorZine Band Management. JorZine will help the band in booking for events and gigs, contacting labels, band and releases promotion. We thank the whole JorZine team for their great efforts but, we specially thank the band's direct manager, Mohammad Yousef. For more info about JorZine: www.jorzine.com

21.03.2007 - The Phexagon Studio

"The Phexagon Studio"; Phexataan's personal home studio is now officially open and ready to accept bands for recording music. The Phexagon is going to be dedicated to support the Jordanian Bands by recording and producing their music with pro sound quality for low prices. Check out the studio's official website: www.phexagon-studio.tk

16.03.2007 - Drummer Needed

We're looking for a serious and technical permanent drummer for the band. If you're not that good don't waste our time or yours!! We need a drummer who is capable of playing the like of the material on our EP "Abominations", a flexible one, i.e.: a blast beater, fast on double bass, good stamina and most importantly with a good musical feeling on drums!

There are many big plans ahead of us, so we need a strong drummer to be able to go strongly!
Live gigs and a lot of other big shit are waiting...

If you don't know that already; we play Technical Brutal Death Metal. If you haven't heard our music yet why the hell are you checking our website??!! Still, you can listen to some stuff on our Myspace page to get a better idea of the style we play: www.myspace.com/tyrantthrone

If you're good and interested in auditioning, send us an email at:
tyrant_throne@yahoo.co.uk

We will contact you and give you the time and date of your audition.
Stay brutal, grim and ugly... Fuck You...

12.02.2007 - Phexataan on Al-Watan Radio

Phexataan will be featured today at 4:00PM as a guest on Al-Watan Radio (Freq: 100.3) and will be talking about Metal music. The talk will be general since the program is short. But still, we hope that the bad image that people have about Metal will be at least slightly changed. Also a song by one of Phexataan's bands (Tyrant Throne, Phex, or Augury) will be broadcasted during the program.

07.02.2007 - Abominations Exclusive Review

The exclusive review done by JorZine for "Abominations EP" on its release date is now added to the "Media" section. You can check it directly by clicking here.

You can also check the review from its original source on www.jorzine.com by clicking here.

14.01.2007 - Abominations Out Now!!!

Finally Tyrant Throne's bone crushing EP "Abominations" is now released. Get your ass to Mute Records and buy it! Its only for 2JD. Support the Underground!!

For people outside Jordan who wish to get the EP, please send us an email on tyrant_throne@yahoo.co.uk ... We will send you the CD by mail. It will only cost you 6.5JD ($9.0) including shipping price!!

For info about Abominations go to the "Vomitory" or click here.

Thanks for everyone who supported us, and for those whom are going to support! Stay true and brutal!

We would like to specially thank all our loyal friends who stood behind us. All the bands who proved to be great friends and supported us. Everyone who is true to himself and Metal. We thank the guys and team of JorZine for their great promotional help and support! Last but not least, the guys from Mute Records for the promotion and selling! Extra special thanks goes to Basil Bursheh and Sirenwave!! YOU ALL RULE!!

A special statement by Tyrant Throne:
ALL ENVIOUS LOSERS, FUCK OFF!!! WE PISS ON YOU!!!

Also added: Tyrant Throne's new promotional picture is now added to the "Media: Tyrant Pics" section. This is the same photo that is featured in Abominations' CD booklet. Click on the picture to enlarge it!

In the near future, there will be some merchandise for the band available, especially for Abominations like (T-shirts, Posters and more). Probably a merchandise section will be added to the website.

Don't forget to check Tyrant Throne's official Myspace.com page; www.myspace.com/tyrantthrone ... We want to see your comments about the EP...

10.01.2007 - Abominations Release Date

Tyrant Throne's "Abominations" EP will be released on Sunday, the 14th of January, 2007. The EP will be available at Mute Records for only 2JD; only a symbolic price so as everyone will be able to get it.

For people outside Jordan who wish to get the EP, please send us an email on tyrant_throne@yahoo.co.uk ... We will send you the CD by mail. It will only cost you 6.5JD ($9.0) including shipping price!!

Due to personal reasons, the Swiss artist Genzo wasn't able to make the artwork for the EP, so Phexataan handled the job personally and did all the design and artwork for the Beast!

We hope that all Metal freaks will support us and the Metal scene by getting the EP. You can listen to a track from Abominations; "Slaughter for Salvation" on our Myspace page.

Thanks for everyone who supported us, and for those whom are going to support! Stay true and brutal!

10.01.2007 - Tyrant Throne's Official Myspace.com Page

The Official Myspace page of Tyrant Throne is now launched: www.myspace.com/tyrantthrone
Slaughter for Salvation; a track from the upcoming EP is available for streaming on the page. Check it out!

07.12.2006 - Studio Update 04: Abominations

7 straight hours of work on Wednesday and 5 straight ones today were the title of Abominations' Mastering process. Now, the EP is fully produced and the final versions of all the tracks are ready after Phexataan finished the Mastering about an hour ago. Be sure that this release will be a shock to the Jordanian and Arabian Metal scenes...

Now, we are only waiting for the cover artwork to be done and the printing will start.

PATIENCE, FOR THE BEAST IS COMING...

03.12.2006 - Studio Update 03: Abominations

The mixing process for Tyrant Throne's first EP "Abominations" was finally done 3 days ago. The mixing was done at Phexataan's home studio "The Phexagon". Prior to the mixing, also the editing, and all production work was done at The Phexagon by Phexataan.

The EP is sounding great, all tracks sounds totally amazing and totally bone crushing Brutal Death Metal! The final stage after the mixing is the Mastering process, it should be started in 1 or 2 days.

Now we're waiting for the cover artwork which is being worked on by the Swiss artist; Genzo. Once the mastering and cover artwork are done, the printing and pressing will start, so Abominations release date will be announced soon!

More to come...

19.10.2006 - Phexataan Live on Flute With Orjuwan

Phexataan will participate as a guest member in Orjuwan's concert tomorrow; Friday, the 20th of October at The Doors Cafe, 8:00 PM. Phexataan will play the Flute with the Doomish mood music project, which is a solo project of Bilocate's keyboardist Waseem Essayed.

It will be a non-metal doomish mood music evening, although the musicians participating are all members in bands from the local metal scene. Other session members participating include Muhammad Al-Sa'ad the keyboardist of Sathony, Hani Al-Abbadi the bassist of Bilocate and Rebal on drums. Also, participating on 2 songs will be Rami Haikal and Baha' Farah the guitarists of Bilocate.

28.09.2006 - Studio Update 02: Abominations

Recording of vocal lines was completed about 2 weeks ago. We should have started with the next step directly but some circumstances delayed our work as usual; We had to move from the Sirenwave studio for some specific reasons concerning the building that the studio lies in. We moved all the studio equipment to Tyrant Throne/Augury's rehearsal room which is now turned into a studio room, we even got some new studio equipments as enhancements! Sadly there is no Sirenwave studio anymore, but the new studio room will be turned into an official studio soon to serve the needs of all local bands; its basically the same equipments of the Sirenwave studio only enhanced, but with a different location and title; There is no specific title yet, but am thinking about "Phexagon Studio"!!

Now we are done fixing and building the new studio room, that means we'll soon continue our work on Abominations. We still have to equalize the guitars, do the last touches on drums, mix the tracks and the EP will be done.

Some stupid pics from the recording sessions of the EP are uploaded, more pics will be added in the next update. The pics are available on "Media" in the "Studio Pics" section. To view them from here directly click the following link: Abominations Studio Pics

30.08.2006 - Studio Update 01: Abominations

We are done recording everything except the vocals now for our coming EP "Abominations". We started recording rhythm guitars about 10 days ago, and they where lain down in 5 days by Zaher Siryani, after that Phexataan started with the bass lines and they were done in 3 days. Yesterday the final touches on lead guitars where done by Zaher.

A little problem emerged which is that we had a deadline until Wednesday night which was yesterday because the producer Sirenwave will leave Jordan for good to the USA, so by that we wont have time to do the mixing process because it takes a lot of time and needs lots of concentration. Now the thing we're going to do is to record the vocals here and send the files to Sirenwave online and he'll do the mixing from there. Fortunately we will still be able to use the Sirenwave studio for the recording of the vocal parts and also for the future because the keys will be left with us. Hopefully Phexataan will start recording the vocal parts in 4 days maximum.

As you understand already, the mixing process will be delayed for some days, that means the release of the EP will be also delayed for a short time, but its worth the wait, you'll see for yourself when its out...

That is for now! Keep checking the website for the latest details. Some pics from the studio will be posted soon.

08.08.2006 - No Near Live Shows

There will be no live shows for the band until the end of August and maybe September because we want to put our full concentration on the recording of the EP.

05.08.2006 - Soon in the Studio

We're finally done composing the material for our first EP. We will start the recording process next week at The Sirenwave studio. Tyrant Throne's EP will be probably called "Abominations". More info soon...

16.06.2006 - Apologies to Fans!

We send our apologies to all the fans who attended yesterday's show at Geezer and who were expecting to see Tyrant Throne or Phex performing in that gig. Although we were supposed to perform and our name was written on the gig's flyers, but we couldn't perform, because, we were informed only 2 days before the show that the session guitarist Sirenwave wont be able to perform for personal reasons, so we didn't have the time to get another session guitarist. Also because the session live vocalist who was going to perform with us didn't have the time to finish working on the vocal parts for songs chosen for the gig in the given time. The session vocalist was Rami Mattar, who is also the vocalist of "Deathraw" and the concert manager!

16.06.2006 - JorZine

Jor Zine, the new Jordanian online zine which is dedicated to promote and support the Jordanian metal scene: www.jorzine.com

06.06.2006 - 666

It is June 6th, 2006; 6/6/06!!! 666; hails to all evils out there! For the rest of the world... FUCK OFF!!!

01.06.2006 - Live Pics Added

Although the show wasn't complete, and it was only 20 minutes of play, but Tyrant Throne live pics from May 25th show "The End of Heartache Trip" were taken and are added on "Media" on the "Live Pics" section. Check them out. To check them from here directly, click here.

01.06.2006 - Gig Summary: The End of Heartache Trip

Well well well, what I've got to say! Could it get worse than that? I don't think so, at least we've learnt another lesson about Jordan and it's foolish peoples' mentality! Have fun reading! That trip thing was the biggest down point in our musical life so far! It was a complete mess, not a single good thing happened; zero managerial work! Here's what happened, in a summarized way of course (That's for both bands Tyrant Throne and Phex):

We arrived to Wadi Rum at about 13:30, weren't able to see anything because of dust, but that is not an issue! After an hour and a half, the lunch buffet was set, the food sucked, it was more like horse shit! After that, we went and got our selves a tent. Until 17:00 which was the hour when the bands should start playing, the stage equipment wasn't set on stage yet, amps and monitors were still in their boxes, the sound mother fucking assholes were sleeping; I got really angry because of that and went to the stage with Dementis's drummer and guitarist and we started setting the equipment ourselves, then when the sound guys saw us they came to set the equipment. When everything was set, electricity problems happened, and until the problems were solved it was 19:00 already. We, Tyrant Throne started playing, and the mixer guy fucked everything up, he kept playing with volumes all the time, then a manager from the camp came and said that the gig must stop because the DJ party has to start, so we couldn't even complete the playlist. Promises came that at 9 o'clock the DJ party will end and the metal gig will start again - LIES! The DJ party didn't stop before 1:30 AM. Anyways, even if the gig was going to continue at 9, we as the Phex band and the rest of the bands decided not to perform and draw back after what we faced when we played as Tyrant Throne. So Tyrant Throne was the only band that performed and only for 20 minutes. There were only about 35 metalheads max including band members; the hundreds of other attendants were families, kids and old people, that's the reason why we were forced to discontinue! It wasn't a metal concert after all; only a party in Wadi Rum with some metal performance!

The biggest fuck up: When we came down from stage and went back to our tent, we found out that all our things and baggage were thrown out of the tent and put in a place far, filled with sand! The reason was because they wanted to give the tent for a family!!! So the camp management simply throws our things out and gives the tent to the family! Its great how they treat bands, eh? After arguments with them, we got promises for 3 hours that a new tent will be set for us - LIES! We stayed until dawn sitting on chairs in the middle of the camp looking at stars! In a moment of silence, guys from the "intelligence" started making some hustle about hearing people swearing God's name, so problems started all over, they even wanted to take a girl who accompanied us to the police station for swearing, we went to talk to them but they forced us to stay away; unbelievable! After that, they wanted to gather all the metal guys in the camp to take their names and see if there are any previous charges against them (us as well of course)! What the fuck, from problem to problem. The problem was finally solved I don't know how, I think one of the security guys went and talked to the intelligence guys, so no one's name was taken! These guys just wanted to have fun by the way... At about twelve at mid-night as I recall, dinner finally came, and I wish it never did; I think it was Hyenas' meat or something, the most disgusting thing I ever ate in my life! After dinner we went and sat again under the stars, till around 3:30 AM, then everyone slept at someone else's tent, friends' tents and stuff like that! Thanks a lot for Dementis for offering us to share their tent with them, you rule guys! But we didn't want to be pain in the ass!

So to sum up, is was total shit! Water bottles; hot like a piss and so fucking expensive... The next day we made it better ourselves, we went to Aqaba with all the group, but there we split from them and went alone (Johnny Mazurka's idea), took hotel rooms, got a rest, swam in the hotel's pool and met with the group again and went back to Amman!

Performance wise, we did so great, and the sound was so good for the first time ever in Jordan, but as mentioned before, the guy on the mixer kept fucking with the volumes, so he made us stop in some songs because of his stupidity. Every now and then one of the guitars loose its sound! And the bastard liar says he was doing nothing!

I hope the bad picture and disappointment will be removed in future gigs. There's a gig probably on June 15th, Tyrant Throne will participate, with the same playlist probably. Also my one-man band Phex will participate and I will keep the same session members to fill the line-up which are mostly Tyrant Throne's members.

The last point that I want to mention is that not everything was the fault of Rami Mattar; the metal part manager of the concert; mostly all the blame goes on the camp management, specially a guy called Saleh!

The pics above are from the trip: First pic is from Tyrant Throne's performance. The second and third pics show us sitting "Tentless"!

- Phexataan

23.05.2006 - Live: The End of Heartache Trip

The band will participate in May 25th concert (In celebrations of Jordan's independence day). The title is "The End of Heartache Trip", which is a 2 day trip to Wadi Rum and Aqaba; the gig will take place in the middle of the desert in Wadi Rum. Phexataan will also perform with his solo band Phex; Zaher Siryani and Sirenwave will also perform with Phex as session members.

As usual, Sirenwave and Hamzeh Abu-Fares will perform with Tyrant Throne as session live members to complete the line-up for the gig!

Line-up for the show:

Tyrant Members:

Zaher Siryani - Guitars

Phexataan - Bass/Backing Vocals

Session Members:

Sirenwave - Guitar (from Sirenwave, Asphalt Annihilation, Apokalyte)

Hamzeh Abu-Fares - Vocals (from Dementis)

Show info:

Title: The End of Heartache Trip

Date: Thursday, 25 May, 2006

Time: 4 PM

Venue: Wadi Rum, Jordan

Tickets: 20 JD (1 day), 35 JD (2 days)

Bands:

Tyrant Throne, Phex, Dementis, Munz n the Gang, Deathraw

More Info:

There will be transportation to the gig venue; 4 buses will take off from 4 different spots in Amman and Irbid. For more info please contact the event manager.

Rami Mattar: 079 6764075

01.05.2006 - Live Pics Added

Live pics from April 23rd show "The End of Heartache II" are added on "Media" on the "Live Pics" section. Check them out. To check them from here directly, click here.

25.04.2006 - Gig Summary: The End of Heartache II

Like always, Tyrant Throne performed a crazy show, with brutal mosh-pits. The sound was ok this time. All the bands performed excellently. There is nothing more to be said. Sorry for this late summary.

Tyrant Throne's playlist on the show:

01 Ruin (Lamb of God)

02 Nonexistence (Six Feet Under)

03 An Experiment in Homicide (Cannibal Corpse)

04 Don't Care (Obituary)

05 Staring Through the Eyes of the Dead (Cannibal Corpse)

06 The Chaos Beast (Tyrant Throne)

Ruin and Nonexistence were repeated after The Chaos Beast, because it was still too early to end the show!

Thanks to all the fans who attended the show, especially to those who like Tyrant Throne!

Special thanks to Hamzeh Abu-Fares from Dementis for performing with us live for the second time!

Gig pics will be posted soon; keep checking the website to view them...

22.04.2006 - Bad News!

The session guitarist Sirenwave wont be able to participate with us on the End of Heartache II gig, and there is no time to get another session guitarist now and teach him the songs since the gig is tomorrow. We thought about not participating, then we decided to perform with one guitarist only; but that will make us shorten the playlist and to change some songs on it, we have tried to choose songs which work with one guitarist only. We hope everything works out well... The show line-up will be as the following:

Zaher Siryani - Guitars

Phexataan - Bass & Backing Vocals

Hamzeh Abu-Fares - Session Vocals

Software - Drums

18.04.2006 - Live: The End of Heartache II

Tyrant throne will participate in "The End of Heartache II". The line-up will be exactly the same as the previous gig. Here are the info and the line-up:

Tyrant Members:

Phexataan - Bass/Backing Vocals

Zaher Siryani - Guitars

Session Members:

Sirenwave - Guitar (from Sirenwave, Asphalt Annihilation, Apokalyte)

Hamzeh Abu-Fares - Vocals (from Dementis)

We will use a drum machine for the drums...

Show info:

Gig Title: The End of Heartache II

Date: Sunday, 23 April 2006

Time: 4 PM

Venue: La Casa Rosa, 7th Circle, Amman

Tickets: 5 JD

Bands:

Tyrant Thro