Doomtree Remix Contest

Winner

 

Second Place

 

Third Place

 

Prizes: Grand Prize Winner

Swag and such from Long Live Crime Records and Doomtree.
ACID Pro 5 software.
A one year ACIDplanet Prozone membership.
From the Sony Sound Series Premium Collection: arhythmiA: Drums & Drones, Vol. 1 and 2.

About the Contest

Bang your remixing heads with Doomtree. Hard, heavy, but listener friendly. ACIDplanet.com is offering "Severed" from Doomtree's debut CD Down Below on Long Live Crime Records for your digital manipulation.

About the Artist

You may have already heard of Doomtree front man, Steve Zing. Formerly a member of both heavy rock legends Samhain and Son of Sam, Zing is considered to be an icon of the heavy rock genre.

New Jersey-based Doomtree's music is diverse because all five band members did not cut their teeth on the same musical fare. "We didn't all grow up on punk rock," Zing reveals. "I grew up on heavy punk and '50s music, like early Elvis, Bill Hailey and Buddy Holly. Steve Falco (lead guitar) digs hard-core metal, Danno (bass) is into progressive rock…our music has each of our signatures, and we put our own spins into it. We rarely listen to the radio or to other new bands."

The tunes on Down Below (mixed by Andrew Alekel who's worked with Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age and NIN), are aggressive, in-your-face and honest. The first album cut "Severed" will rile you up with its heaviness. Of course there's anger in there, which is at the core of any good heavy rock music. Yet, there is also a very subtle underlying melancholy. Zing continues, "We don't try to write songs. We do what is best for the song, whatever it takes to make the best tune possible."

Doomtree are looking forward to taking their music out of New Jersey and unleashing it onto the world at large. "The east coast has become a cover band cesspool," Zing sighs. "Every band has its own cover band…there are tribute bands to the tribute bands. We are at least trying to do something original musically, which will interest and excite fans of heavy music. We're intense, energetic, and we love what we're doing."

Welcome to the world of Doomtree - raw, energetic music your parents will hate.