Saturday December 26th 2009

Greetings from the cold and embittered "Winter-Wonderland" that is Devon, England throughout the dying months of 2009. Firstly from myself and the other guys in the band we hope you've enjoyed the festivities with all the presents and food and so on and so on!

Should you have been pigged out by the ol' telly-box last night and couldn't be bothered to change the channel from BBC 2, you may have noticed a television program about our little home-town and it's surrounding area. This was of course "James May's Toy Stories" where the toffish Top Gear presenter attempted to build a model railway from Barnstaple (home of Padraich & Christoph) to Bideford (the bands birthplace and home to the other members of the band) along the historic cycle path and former real life railway The Tarka Trail.

We've done a bunch of photo shoots against this lovely backdrop, and a few video shoots too, and so it was nice to see it on TV, however, none of the model trains actually made it all the way from Barnstaple to Bideford, and thus we didn't get to see much of our little town at all.

Still, if you are interested in the program it can still be viewed on the BBC iPlayer at the moment.

Aside from this little televisual distraction Rejon and I worked hard throughout Christmas days recording his parts for our next digital single, which will be the last to come from our début album "A Dark Desire". I think it's about time to announce the final single will be "Reflections Of The Past" in a single edit form which has actually been recorded nearly entirely from scratch.

This will be the first Vampyrouss recording to feature all 7 members of the band, and we hope to shoot a video for it in the new year. Then we will return to recording the next CD for real, having a pretty good idea what we want to achieve already from our demos!

So, things are looking good for the upcoming year, thank you for all the continued support and kind words, we really appreciate it and hope you will enjoy our next body of work once it rises from the frothy cauldron of our twisted imaginations in 2010!

I'm off to feast on leftovers and record some vocals!
Cheers,

- E.S.L. Kazraine Ruthven Maars -