Band Profile - SHW

The
band was established on January 1995. After some years of “live”
tours with covers inspired by anglo-saxon music and strictly in
english, the SHW began to write its own songs. On May
2004 the band self-produced the first demo, “Psychotheque EP”, which
contains five songs plus a videoclip of the unpublished Momentary
Visions. Thanks to this demo they participated in several national
competitions and festivals (Video in Cantiere, Rockafé, Relazioni
Sonore, Fly-zone, Vakerock, Emergenza Festival, Umbria Rock, Rock
Targato Italia, Arezzo Wave, Red Rock Festival, Orquestra,
etc...).
On
January 9, 2006 “Psychotheque” came out in many music stores as a début album
published by the New
LM Records (Ravenna - Italy) and distributed by Masterpiece. On
February 2008 the band made the videoclip of “Broken”: the first single of
Psychotheque. At the same time the record was promoted on several
webzines: Rockit.it, Kronic.it, Music Boom.it, Live Rock.it,
RockShock.it, Territorio Musicale.com, 29100.it, Gufetto.it,
Kalporz.it, Sonikmusik.com, Musicheart.it, Sensorium.it, Altatensione
Network.it, Losing Today.it, Troublezine.it, etc. It was also
publicized in some specialized magazines (Il Mucchio Selvaggio, Blow
Up, Rumore, Ritual, Freequency, Rock Star, Losing Today, etc.) and it
was played on various web-radio and FM (radiocittafutura.it,
rtvslo.si, rlb.it, radioconegliano.it, facoltadifrequenza.it,
fpml.it, radiosiena.com, kristallradio.it, radiomusicaemergente.net,
rl1.it, radiokcentrale.it, nuovenote.it, etc.) during the period
between December 2005 and April 2006. On
April 2006: SHW
made the second videoclip of the album, with the song “Epochal
Babel”. On
May 2006 the band started a collaboration with the Alkemist
Fanatix Europe which
is responsible for the SHW management (promotion through radio -
internet - TV - press - licence for distributing the album abroad,
public relations, and so on). May,
June and July 2006: summer tour which drove the band to many festivals and competitions
throughout Italy.
8 of June 2008: after one year and half spent in their rehearsal room for the writing, arrangement and production SHW unleash the brand new single "TC" taken from the new album. On October 2008: “e-life” came out in music stores for Incipit Recordings (Label) / Alkemist Fanatix Europe (Management) (Andromeda, Plastic Head and Code7 Distribution). At the same time the record was promoted on several webzines, some specialized magazines and it was played on various web-radio and FM during the period between September and December. December 2008: the Italian webzine “Rockit.it” transmits in preview the videoclip of the first single “TC”.
SHW's Popular MP3s
| Agape |
| TC |
| Nozomi (Planet B) |



