Hi there,

not much of updates on this profile for some time now since I've been busy with my forsaken band :)

This band I started with my friend Saeid (bassist) a couple of years ago but it got to a very rough and slow start that I was just about ready to give up on it....

Until we heard about Alexandria library battle of the bands...we applied with (to tell the truth) very crappy demos, and we got accepted!!

Anyways, we worked our asses off for about 6 weeks rehearsing almost 4 and sometimes 5 times a week...we practiced like never before and arrived in Alex filled wth very very high hopes

In concert, we had a huge mishappening right at the beginning of the concert...my violin's cables went crazy and started goin on and off...we were playin Fade to Black instrumental, solos on violin but no violin was heard...sound engineers would fix the problem, we start the song and then it would go off again, so they fix it once more and we start again...so on for like four times!

Audience got diappointed for sure but they were in for a treat because once we fixed the sound problems for good, we were rocking like crazy ...everybody liked our two original songs  and "I belive in a thing called love" was nice (I did loose my voice  -yup, I sing too- during I believe in a thing called love which was not very cool :D)

We asked if anybody wanted an encore and the audience were all for it...we played "The man who sold the world" and that was the conclusion for the first 25 minuted of our "long way to the top"..

We will posting videos and updated on our myspace (http://myspace.com/theartificialflavor) very soon,  go check them out and show  your support!!

Much Love,
Mahmoud - The Violin Freakenator


By the way the band is called "Artificial Flavor"