
The Damnedones
Tell me about your history? How did you get where you are now?
DaMNeD was established by aNdu and SyD, after walking away from their previous band "Dream Sequence". aNdu wanted to re-visit his musical roots, to re-create the songs which he had made for his very first band "XanthiX"
The First Line up of DaMNeD were aNdu (Bass / vocal) SyD (Drums) and Shiya (Guitars) But through out the years DaMNeDs Line up had constant changes. yet the main driving forces behind the band remained including FaUBe who joined the band late 2004, and the enormous effort by shiya who left the band mid 2007
DaMNeD has always kept their reputation as an original band, plus bringing out a new songs at almost each show that they perform. Their First Major show was eXposure followed by Rock Fest04.
Some other shows which DaMNeD headlined are Battle of the bands and Artists for road safely. And on Dec of 2006 at LIVE HELP DaMNeD became the first Maldivian Rock band to fuse rock music with the Maldivian traditional drums Bodu-Beru creating an all new sensation of fusion rock.
Some of the recent performances by DaMNeD include Domination Fest07, "Dhunn'gethi vaa" and Rock Storm The Audition.
Yet the biggest performance till date would be taking part in the Jamming for the Islands.
Have you performed live in front of an audience? Any special memories?
all our performances are live. the most special moment for us would be when we performed the traditional song "yathi araa" with real Traditional drums.....
Your musical influences
:: aNdu
Metallica / U2 / Megadeth / Metal Church / Uriah Heep / Judas Priest / The Beatles / The Doors / Primus / Black Sabbath / Ozzy Osbourne / Skid row / Guns 'N' Roses / Scorpions / Anthrax / Slayer / Disturbed / Audio Slave / Trivium / Linkin Park / Limp Bizkit / Korn / Static - X / Night Wish / etc....
:: SyD
Metallica / U2 / The Beatles / Guns N Roses / Megadeth / System of a Down / Disturbed / God Smack / Korn / Trivium / Linkin Park / Limp Bizkit / Static - X / etc....
:: FaUBe
Pink Floyd / led Zeppelin / Deep Purple / Opeth / My Dying Bride / Porcupine Tree / Deiside / Katatonia / Dimmuborgir / Anathama / U2 / etc ...
What equipment do you use?
none specific