LABEL:      Eye Of Sound / Suburban
WEBSITE:  www.devilsoldhissoul.com
MUSIC:     MySpace
VIDEO:     Clouds Video
               Like It's Your Last Video
AGENT:     Joost Kamp

BIOGRAPHY:
Formed from the ashes of Mahumodo, one of the most influential underground UK bands and following on from their much heralded 2005 debut mini album release A Darkness Prevails released on Visible Noise Records, Devil sold his Soul brings you their eagerly anticipated full length debut album, A Fragile Hope, on Black Willow and Eyesofsound Records.

Mixing together an epic and progressive, ocean sized film score sound with a harder, metal edge, Devil sold his Souls sound is a fine balance of power, aggression, melody and space. Mile high riffs, crashing percussion, piercing samples and an otherworldly melodic feel inhabit the bands finely tuned sound. A Fragile Hope takes off with the breathtaking instrumental In the Absence of Light, building up walls and washes of calm and tranquility before smashing it all down with the crunching, 100 mile and hour album opener As The Storm Unfolds. The record continues with the groove dominated opus The Starting, coming across like a Pink Floyd cover played by a more progressive minded Black Flag, eventually leading to the climactic, piano led finale of last track Hope.

Now, with 50,000 myspace friends, a Radio 1 Maida Vale session and an XFM Ian Camfield session in the bag, press reviews and features with the likes of Kerrang, NME, Plan B, Q Magazine, Metal Hammer, Rock Sound, Big Cheese, Time Out, The Fly, Total Guitar, Rhythm, Terrorizer and more, and support with MTV2, Scuzz and Kerrang TV, DSHS are one of the UKs finest and most popular bunch of underground heroes. The band have already toured and played with the likes of Bring me the Horizon, Red Sparrows, Gallows, All Shall Perish, Architects, Enter Shikari and more, as well as putting on a host of UK headline tours.

Devil sold his Soul have always been fiercely independent and after the expiry date period had passed at previous label Visible Noise, rather than sign with another larger independent label or be sucked into a label bidding war, DSHS instead gathered a close team around them, recorded the album themselves and with help from Eyesofsound Records, set up Black Willow Records as an outlet for their music.

The first single from the album, Between Two Words, along with an amazing Sitcom Soldiers/DARYL directed video (FFAF, Gallows, Lethal Bizzle,) accompanying video promo, was released in July 07 and the band are set to release new single The Starting again with promo video, in December. The band will also be reissuing the debut mini album Darkness Prevails in early 2008 with extra tracks, remixes, alternative takes, unreleased demos and many other extras.

Look out for Devil Sold His Soul on the road all throughout late 2007 and 2008.


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