2003: The StartRising from the Jordanian mid-country city Al Fuhais, BILOCATE the Dark Oriental metal band has founded a realm of success, the story of which begins when the two brothers Ramzi and Waseem EsSayed along with their lifetime friend Hani Al-Abadi met Baha' Farah after so many trials to find a guitarist that can pursue the same commitment as they did.
Together, the four friends built the first brick of BILOCATE, practicing and composing. However, after a year from that brick, another guitarist joined the crew, Rami Haikal, who could blend in so perfectly as he joined in at a composing time of the first demo release with 3 tracks.
2004 - 2005: The Composing, The 1st Release
The Composing sessions started for the new release, many lines were written and recorded, the situation was not easy due to having metal music banned in Jordan so it took a while for the album to take a perfect form, in 2005 BILOCATE entered their home made studio for a month recording, mixing & producing their full length album named “DYSPHORIA” with 8 tracks having Ramzi performing vocals and writing lyrics, Hani on bass guitars, Baha' and Rami for guitars and Waseem handling keyboards and drums & the lyrics for the 20 mins track (A Desire to Leave) labeled as "Longest song ever created by an Arabian metal band" and been called as "The Opera of Doom Metal".
The Official release of Dysphoria was in october celebrated on the local governmental radio station Jordan FM in a show that lasted for around 5 hours hosted by Dj Mike and BILOCATE members.
2006 - 2007: The Concerts, The Videos
In Jan 2006 BILOCATE released their first music video for their now called hit track 2nd War in Heaven on which they worked with Rakan Al- Khaldi (Immortal Video Productions) following it by a 6 local concerts and headlining the Egypt Metal festival with the support from their good friend Ibrahim Al- Qaisi on drums who actually performed his last days with the band by joining them in the making of their second music video for the track Days of Joy which the band worked on with George Durzi (Jacknife Productions).
At that time it was late 2006 when the guys met Ahmad Kloub, who could fit perfectly with the band as a drummer after he got introduced to the BILOCATE spirit and the 6 members started their new journey for a new album.
2008 - 2009 The Masterpiece, Sudden Death Syndrome (as described by terrorizer magazine)
Record Deals | Festivals
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Sudden Death Syndrome, the title of BILOCATE's 2nd record, with 7 tracks demonstrating the total flexibility and richness of musical ideas in addition to the magnificent and magical work provided by key people in the music industry.
The Album was mixed and mastered in Sweden at Fascination Street Studios by Jens Bogren the Swedish producer/sound engineer worked with the worlds top metal bands like Opeth, Bloodbath, Katatonia, Paradise Lost, Amon Amarth, Symphony X and much more, resulting in an absolutely outstanding finishing for the album & Quality that made a great impression on everyone who listened to the album.
Also not forgetting the support the band has received during the recording process from the amazing sound engineer Nash Planojevic (ex-Iron Maiden & Saxon) at InTheMix Studio - Dubai enabling Ramzi to give the desirable quality in recording vocals, and the Jordanian sound engineer Mohannad Bursheh at Phexagon Studio in recording the bass guitars. Christophe Szpajdel, the English artist, titled as "The Lord of Logos" as he offered the band a new logo that couldn’t be more perfectly magnifying to the image of the band at their new era.
The Artwork was created by the one and only Dennis Sibeijn from The Netherlands (Known by his work with Metal Blade records) and topped up with the new logo created by "The Lord of Logos" behind Emperor & Moonspell logos (to name a few) Christophe Szpajdel from the United Kingdom, with all the mentioned efforts the record was finally ready hit the world.
Coming to the step which will compensate the members of BILOCATE for their none-vanishing commitment and hard work, Daxar Multimedia, the record label that the band has recently signed a contract with for distributing their album in the Middle East and GCC region, covering an area of 6 countries in which basically the band's new record has been made available by the end of May 2008. As “Sudden Death Syndrome” got released it received so much attention by local, regional, and foreign magazines and websites like Terrorizer, Close Up Magazine, Decibel, Metal Hammer, Legacy Magazine, MetalReviews, OC Magazine, JorZine E-Zine, JO Magazine, even the Dutch TV channel NOS, namely BILOCATE entered the international scene as a result of their new record.
In 2008 after the release of Sudden Death Syndrome the band signed distribution deals with many major distribution companies / labels like The End Records (USA), MetalZone (Benelux), 279 Productions (Greece & Cyprus), Loco Music (Finland) to promote & sell the album worldwide.
In 2009 BILOCATE were one of the bands features in Al Jazeera TV Metal in the Middle East report and also performed in SandStorm Festival in Dubai (United Arab Emirates) Headlined by MELECHESH
In July 2009 Bilocate will perform in Europe in 2 major open air festivals, Lithuania’s Devilstone festival (with Sepultura and Sinister) and Turkey’s UniRock Festival (Amon Amarth, Arch Enemy, Kreator, Paradise Lost and 20 more bands).
2010 - 2011: Signing with Kolony Records
After the successful release of Sudden Death Sydrome in 2008 the album finally settled in Kolony records (Italy) albums roaster, Kolony re-released the album worldwide in 2010 and it was another huge success, Sudden Death Syndrome was made available in all music retail stores in europe, festivals mercy areas and many major online stores and again it received a massive media coverage and reviews hailed again.
in the same year BILOCATE worked on new materials and we looked back on our first full length album and our demos and re-recorded 5 tracks from scratch, composed new track and did an adaptation for Paradise Lost's "Dead Emotion" from their 1990 legendary album "Gothic", and we played in dubai many times, Egypt and Germany.
2012: Summoning the Bygones & Code666 records (Aural Music Company)
After we finished composing and recording the new release, we started the search for a label and managed to get a deal that met our expectations from Code666 records a part of Aural Music Company (Italy) the label didn't waste any day to release our latest masterpiece titled "Summoning the Bygones" the album worldwide release date was set to June 11th 2012 and received 23 great reviews from the media before its official release date, the album is made available in all online music stores and digital music stores.
Summoning the Bygones featured a unique guest appearance from the metal-icon Dan Swano (Edge of Sanity, Bloodbath and many others) on vocal in 2 tracks "Hypia" and "A Desire to Leave" and also Paradise Lost track "Dead Emotion" re-made entirely in BILOCATE's style.
Concerts, tours and festivals are scheduled in 2012 - 2013, stay tuned!