Cover Band Profile

Red Mist is an up-and-coming heavy metal band from Leicester, England. They are known among metal fans for their angrier songs that always seem to have some meaning, occasionally political. For example, their first album, Casual War had very anti-war songs on it such as, 'Dying Like a Dog' and 'Killing to the Sound of Trumpets'. Because of this, they are seen as quite controversial and seem to mix the heavy metal sound with the punk ideology. Their music is particually violent and loud, yet they still retain a good drum beat and incorporate original base and guitar rifts. One of their recent albums, Alone Again focused more on the darker side of human emotions, such as depression, loneliness and anger. This created quite a slowerd and sadder atmosphere around the album, but fans were pleased that they still managed to keep their usual hard-hitting style within it. The band consists of lead vocalist and guitarist, Darren Hicks, drummer Jason McNeil, bass player Chris Tonne, and female lead guitarist Alix. They take most of their inspiration from classic metal and rock bands such as, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath and The Rolling Stones. Recently they have found a lot of success in a tour of Europe called, March To Hell. A lot of their fanbase comes from England for obvious reasons, and Germany, where there is a strong metal following. When March To Hell reached Berlin, tickets sold out within three days.