I'm bringing you something a bit different today, with a musical spotlight on a band and a concept album, The Calling, a prequel for the horror novel, The Dark Horde by Brewin (and yes, the author is a band member). I have a few musical snippets, a playlist, and a look at the members. Enjoy.
Brewin – Concept, Lyrics, Narration, Direction, Production
Brewin
(Andrew Drage) lives in Melbourne, Australia. He has a first-class honours
degree in zoology, statistics and philosophy from La Trobe University, has
worked as an editor and designer for five titles in the highly acclaimed Gamebook
Adventures interactive fiction series, a Senior Research Scientist at the
Insectarium of Victoria and has over twenty years’ experience as an IT
developer and analyst. He is the author of Infinite Universe, a
science-fiction gamebook, Evermore: An Introduction, a philosophical
fantasy novel, and the award-winning supernatural horror/thriller The Dark
Horde, which The Calling is a musical prequel to.
Brewin
has worked on The Calling for over twenty years with various artists,
spawning many different incarnations of the album, but this is the only version
to be released.
Hanny Mohamed – Music composition and performance, Production
Hanny
Mohamed is a guitarist and composer from Melbourne’s long time running and
established power metal band Black Majesty. He collaborated with Brewin in 2011
to create the music for Brewin’s Infinite Universe gamebook and has also
been involved in The Calling project in its various forms since 2006.
Hanny
is endorsed by Jackson Guitars, In Tune Guitar Picks and DSL Straps.
Logan Jacobs – Music composition and performance
Logan
Jacobs is a guitarist and composer based in Melbourne. Logan began learning
piano at six years old, taking simple lessons from his grandma. He took up
playing guitar and bass at fourteen, and guitar has become his main instrument
of choice since. Logan’s influences include John Carpenter, Giorgio Moroder,
Vince Dicola, Judas Priest, Kiss, King Diamond, Def Leppard and Mike Slamer.
Danny Cecati – Main vocals
Danny
Cecati is the singer of Melbourne's hard rock band Wicked Smile. He has
previously sung for the progressive metal band Eyefear and the heavy metal band
Pegazus. His powerful soaring vocals are world-renown and speak for themselves
as to his class.
Wicked
Smile’s debut album Wait for the Night is to be released September 24th
2021.
Kevin Powe – Narrator, voice of Henry Wilcox
Kevin
is an international voice actor with a love of storytelling and helping bring
dark, complex characters to life. He has lent his voice to roles like Dracula
and 2000AD's Judge Dredd, and Kevin proudly adds Henry Wilcox as a
haunted and nuanced role to that list.
Kevin's work can be heard in Digital Extreme's Warframe, Trinket
Studios' Battle Chef Brigade, and Tiny Bull Studios' Blind. He
can also be heard in the Australian-made horror audio drama YOWIE, as
well as Bithell Games' sci-fi comedy audio drama North Star Rising.
Soon
you'll hear Kevin's work in the upcoming Beyond the Veil by Sun's Shadow
Studios and in Fanclub's Dead Static Drive, described as 'Grand Theft
Cthulhu'.
Shaun Farrugia – ‘Demon’ vocals
Shaun Farrugia is the founding guitarist and vocalist from
Melbourne's veteran thrash/death band In Malice's Wake, a band that have
established themselves as a dominant thrash/death metal force for well over a
decade in Australia. Each full-length release has pushed further into darker
and heavier territory leading to the savage fourth release The Blindness of
Faith in 2021.
When not deploying his signature guttural rasp, Shaun paints
art and teaches art to his primary school pupils.
Chris Kane – Guest musician
Chris
Kane is a guitarist from Melbourne and is the founding member of the melodic
death metal band Eye of the Enemy. Over the course of three albums, Chris has
created a unique writing style with a mix of death and thrash metal with a hint
of melody.
His
signature style of musical storytelling can be heard on the track “Rebirth”.
Chris
is endorsed by Ibanez Guitars.
James Lowe – Guest musician
James
Lowe is a guitarist and composer based in Melbourne. He has been playing guitar
since 1997 and is currently working on one of his solo projects with other
prominent musicians. His interests include spaghetti, things that are mad, and
penguins.
Dexter Seamus – Voice of young Henry
Dexter
was only 5 years old when he played the part of Henry and is now a 23-year-old
recording artist and hip hop producer based in Melbourne. He recently released
his debut album Love in the Hills.
Jane Brewin – Voice of Henry’s mother
Jane
Brewin has had a life-long career in general, mental health and infant care
nursing, caring for her patient's physical and mental health with compassion,
respect and good humour. Her great pleasures these days are her family, her
dogs and being creative. She lives in Melbourne with her partner of many years,
the eldest of her two sons and two dogs, and intends to live her best life
until the very end!
Andrew Carolane – Voice of Bernard Russell, psychiatrist
Andrew
Carolane graduated from the University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Dramatic
Art in 2012 and a first-class honours Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours Degree
specialising in acting technique in 2017. An actor, director, writer and acting
coach with over fifteen years’ experience in the industry, he has worked with
some of the most renowned stage actors in Australia including Alison Whyte,
Brian Lipson, Greg Stone, Peter Houghton and Andre De Vanny. He has played many
roles, Shakespearean and otherwise, with the Australian Shakespeare Company, Proper
Villains Theatre Co, Victorian College of the Arts, Malthouse Tower Theatre, La
Mamma Courthouse Theatre, and most recently as a member of the 5AM (Five Angry
Men) ensemble performing The March in a Malthouse Theatre/5AM
performance event.
Aldo Requena – Artist
Aldo
‘Valgorth’ Requena is an Argentine artist. Many of his works deal with a dark
subject-matter. He is also known for his association with the metal music
scene. With over a hundred designs published worldwide, his artwork has
featured on albums, books, apparel, posters advertising and film. He is the
artificer of the art and texts used on the Necronomicon book for the Argentine
movie Necronomicón.
Aldo
runs Hammerblaze, a graphic design company which has done works for a variety
of metal artists and labels of all calibres from all around the globe.
