If you’ve seen my latest post in the What made your day happier? thread, you’ll notice I mention a new band name, Transcendence.

Well, this is my new band name, and whether or not I gotta be a one man band or otherwise, I’m going through with it.

Credit goes to Mike, though, for the Album Name idea, Imminent Transcendence.

I’m tired of playing in bands where my style isn’t welcome. I need to express myself and the only way I can do that is if I play music that I like, not what the other members like.

The Band style will be something along the lines of Within Temptation, Evanescence, Lacuna Coil, Nightwish, Xandria, Nemesea, etc.

As a side note, if you haven’t checked out Xandria and Nemesea, I suggest you do so right fucking now.

Anyway, I’m doing this regardless of how I have to go about it. If I have to write the songs myself, record the music myself, or otherwise.

This is what has been missing in my life for almost a year, and I’m just going absolutely insane not doing it.

My first plans are to do some acoustic covers of Evanescence and Within Temptation, then move on when I get a full band thing going.

The one thing stopping me, is vocals. I can do backing vocals (been kinda practicing, actually) but for this I need a female singer. In the highly unlikely chance that you’re in the Cincinnati, Ohio area and are reading this, drop me an email or look me up on Facebook/MySpace under my full name (Ryan Ashbrook).