1. Ethereal black metal and hypnotic doom from Nevada City and Sacramento CA. The lineup consists of Soell Silent Hawk Bratt, James Bratt, and Patrick Hills. 2. Desiccation, a Boston-based deathcore / metalcore band founded in late 2008, has played on the New England stops of over a dozen national tours and major festivals including: Welcome to Hell Tour (2011) with WhiteChapel, The Acacia Strain, Veil of Maya and Chelsea Grin (Palladium / Worcester); Transmission Fest i(2010) with The Acacia Strain, Vanna, MyChildren MyBride, For the Fallen Dreams, Legend, and This is Hell (Palladium). The Attack of the Wolf King Tour (2010) with MyChildren MyBride and Haste the Day (Palladium). The Day of Grays Tour (2010) with Mutiny Within and Sonata Arctica (Palladium). The Anti Hero Tour (2010) with Bleeding Through, After The Burial, For Today, and The Word Alive (Rocko's, Manchester, NH) Music as a Weapon Tour (2009) with Suicide Silence (Tsongas Arena / Lowell); Summer Slaughter Tour (2009) with Born of Osiris, Suffocation, Wings of Plague, and Dying Fetus (Webster Theatre, Hartford, CT); The Be Shred or Be Dead Tour (2009) with Suffokate and Sea of Treachery; The Really F-cking Heavy Tour (2009) with Within the Ruins and Chelsea Grin; They are the winners of: The 2009 (Massachusetts) Ernie Ball Battle, chosen as the winner by Ken Susi of Unearth; The 2009 Summer Slaughter (Connecticut) Battle The 2010 winner of the Berklee College Battle of the High School Bands - the first metal band to ever win the award, judged by faculty members of Berklee College of Music. They released their self-titled debut album in April, 2010 which is available on iTunes. Their home page is www.myspace.com/desiccationmetal. Desiccation has been the subject of several magazine articles, including Pulse Magazine (http://www.thepulsemag.com/wordpress/2010/09/0910-up-comers) identifying them as a Band To Watch.