Eyes Of The Nile (Iron Maiden Tribute)

Eyes of the Nile formed in late summer of 2015, when Chris answered a Craigslist ad placed by Navid for a Maiden tribute.  A few emails and a voice memo recording of the chorus of "Flight of Icarus" later, the two realized they knew each other and had crossed paths in the Northern Virginia music scene, had a mutual respect for each other's work, and decided to recruit other musicians to play the classic Maiden catalog.  Chris is a conservatory trained professional percussionist with the Navy band in Washington DC, who has also played countless shows with prominent DC area cover band Dr. FU.  Navid is currently the vocalist/guitarist and main songwriter in Iris Divine, a progressive metal band signed to Sensory Records.  Several auditions later, the strings came together with Daniel Tidwell (vocalist/ guitarist/ songwriter of Terracide) and Jason Hurley on guitar, and finally, Fern on bass. 

With a shared love for the music of Iron Maiden, Eyes of the Nile is committed to delivering the songs with intensity and emotion; while you may hear a vibrato reminiscent of Bruce Dickinson, Harris' signature Fender bass tone, or Clive and Nicko's rhythm nuances, the band has chosen to forego stage props and costumes (although an Eddie the 'Ead might pop up at any time), and keeps the focus where it belongs - on the music of Iron Maiden, some of the greatest in the history of heavy metal.

Ashes Reign began in 2010 when founding members Vinny Carrion (guitar) and Ryan Neurauter (bass) started to meet up and jam. They spent years trying to lock down members, most notably a vocalist and drummer, and in 2021 the band finalized its lineup with Carter Litvinas (guitar) and William Burton (drums) with Vinny stepping into vocals. After hitting the local live scene hard for the past year, the band has completed its debut EP - Mountain's Echoes.

             Ashes Reign is a self sufficient band. Over the past decade, Vinny has built a formidable home studio where most of the recording happens. For our debut EP, Mountain's Echoes, we knew we wanted to work with a professional studio to record drums and for mixing and mastering our debut at a professional level. After months of research, we decided to go with Full Circle Recording (http://fullcirclerecording.com/) out of Chester, VA. The music produced by this studio has been stellar and we want that muscle behind our production.

             Pre-production is done at Vinny's home studio where we finalize all of our tempos and meters. The guitar and bass direct-ins (DIs) are grabbed in-house with a Kemper profiling amp to have them re-amped at Full Circle's discretion.