We have also begun planning on a music video for Vinter’s Død that we desperately want to release at the same time as the single. It’s currently in the storyboard phase and far from becoming a reality. But if we’re going to do it, we need to get started on it yesterday! The title means “Winter’s Death” and in line with the lyrical content, this video needs to take place in the winter with snow on the ground. Well the snow is on the ground right now and with only 6 weeks left of winter, we’ll have to plan it so we just focus on the shots that have snow for now, all the rest can be filmed shortly after with less rush. The video will be a concept video much like a micro-movie. All footage of the band will have to be filmed Late May/June due to Diana’s pregnancy, so unfortunately no snow for us <:( But if we have all the rest of the video edited and just waiting for the band shots, a final product can be made a mere week after shooting.

But to accomplish any of this, we’re in dire need of some help. We need volunteers and actors. We’re going to have sets to build, props and clothing to make/buy/borrow and other positions. If interested shoot Roy an email. roy(at)13winters.com

1/20/12
Greetings everyone. Hope you all had a great holiday season. It’s a new year so here’s an update on what’s been going on with the band. Diana and Roy are expecting another baby in April. Diana has been taking time relaxing and enjoying being a mom with just one kid while it last. Meanwhile Dave has taken on an actual day job instead of working evenings so his schedule has given him the much needed free time to get with Roy and work on material. Roy in his spare time has been renovating his house to get ready for the new family addition as well as upgrade his home studio to a more professional setting than the mess of a room he had before. He hopes to be able to upgrade his system with a new computer that will be eight times more powerful than the one he built in 2005. We’ve been auditioning new members and have a couple prospects. Time will tell if they are worthy assets to us.

As for the progress on a new release: One major thing is in the countless musical ideas Roy and Dave have come up with, they have finally achieved THE SOUND the band has been striving for since 2007. With this new style in mind, Dave and Roy have finished outlining an entire EP and sometimes get carried away with even more new tracks for a full length. Due to the style change mid-writing, some tracks on the roster do not resemble the others, but since the tracks are still very good, we are not going to scrap them. There’s still a lot of work that needs to be done in bringing these tracks to completion. One track has made it to a near finish titled “Vinter’s Død”. It merely requires the vocals to be re-recorded through the much improved microphones and sound space. Roy isn’t happy with a few drum fills as well as a new idea for the ending so he wishes to re-record them from scratch. Dave is currently writing his solo. We have been discussing on releasing this track in the next couple months as a single to re-open interest in the band and break our four year stagnant run. We feel it would be a good way to show people we’re not dead, only gestating into something bigger and better.

As for the whole EP, we don’t want to set dates on one releasing anything any time soon but we desperately want to get something out THIS YEAR to mark 13 Winters’ tenth year anniversary. .

10/5/11
We found the video tape from our interview on Portland Maine's WCYY. You can see it on our Official Youtube Channel.

9/6/11
Our personal lives have made it very difficult for us to work on the EP. Today however we did manage to work on Beyond MMXI, a redo of the 2004 track from Where The Souls Wander.

Given our current life situations, we regret to announce that we are no longer going to list any predicted dates for any new releases and for now, be considered on hiatus. We are continuing work on material but our progress is far too slow to keep our fans in waiting.

7/14/11
While we have not met our intended goal date for the EP's completion, we are still diligently working on it. So far the drums and bass are completed on all tracks. Two tracks have all orchestrations and keyboards completed and two tracks have the rhythm guitars completed. Arrangements are being made to also include a live track as well.

5/26/11
We are now posting all the photos of us that we can find in a new format on the photos page. You can now view our photos by year. We are still uploading them and there's a so it will be a while before all the pages get filled in. If you find an empty page, check back later.

5/13/11
Roy will begin laying drum tracks to the EP on May 23rd, leading the way for the rest of the instruments. The EP will not be able to be released by our goal date but we anticipate to have all the tracks recorded and mixed by then.

4/21/11
We will be playing a FREE benefit show on May 21st at the Westbrook American Legion, Westbrook Maine. 21+ bring at least 1 can to benefit the Stone Soup Food Pantry. Other bands playing are Uranium Sunrise & Caytu.

4/9/11
We have decided and begun work on a five song EP titled "Born Of Vinland". We have finally set the goal date of June 21st for a new release.

2/27/11
We know it’s been a long time since we’ve posted any news or updates. Rest assured we are still moving along though. We admire the bands who are able to produce an album regularly every couple years(some do it every year) but it’s tough. Between our jobs, home lives and having to basically start from scratch as a band dropped hill in our path that we had to climb. But in the time since our last release we have completely re-equipped ourselves in pro-gear, expanded Roy’s studio, and so far have outlined about seven songs.

Last week we came up with a set of riffs that flowed to well together we were in awe. It was one of those songs that writes itself and is so good it makes everything we had been working on look like crap, causing us to go back and reconsider all the previous material. While this does slow us down even more, it makes us realize a higher caliber of metal for us to obtain. In all honesty, this new album will be nothing like the 13 Winters you knew. We’ve matured in our writing, playing skills and our goal.

Currently we have begun discussing a four song single to release as not only a taste of what’s coming, but to also just get something released. Two to three of the songs will be from the new album and the remaining will only be available on the single. We’re going on four years now and in our eyes, that’s far too long to not put anything out.

1/26/11
Yesterday our website was attacked by a hacker who successfully installed a virus code all through it. Our host immediately shut down our site and our webmaster has since cleaned the site. It is currently back up and safe. Unfortunately, Google has now blocked our site until further review. Hopefully that will not take long and people will be able to follow us in the Google search results again. We apologize if anyone got infected with any viruses while visiting our website.

12/23/10
Roy has just acquired a new drum kit from our friends at The Drum Shop, Portland Maine's finest drum store. It's a Yamaha Stage Custom with blood red natural finish. This new kit sounds amazing and will vastly improve our studio recordings as well as live sound.

12/9/10
For those of you who have seen the video of Dave performing his Guitar Solo stunt on Youtube, we have just posted on our official channel Dave performing it live in front of an audience last August.

Official Youtube Channel

10/10/10
Today while we were working on Burn The World we inadvertainly came up with our 5th song. It has no title as of yet so we have temporarily named it 10-10-10 since it was written on that day. We have it outlined in its entirety. The album is now half laid out! At this rate we’ll have 8-10 songs by the end of December.

10/5/10
We have just laid the beginning foundation on song number 4, BURN THE WORLD! We finally accomplished the sound and style we've been striving to be this track. We're getting there!

9/19/10
Dave and Roy have just outlined yet another new song. It's still too new to be announcing a name for it, but we have one in mind. We hope to keep this momentum up.

9/5/10
Tonight we have almost completed writing a new song "Paranormal". We feel this song is a good representation of what the album will sound like. We will be finalizing the writing over the next week and hopefully begin recording a demo version of it very soon. Once we have a satisfactory demo version, we will release it to the fans.

7/22/10
We finally have the first song finalized and added to the roster for Burn The World. As to weather or not it will be the opening track is still being decided. Now that we have this track out of the way, we are free to move on to the next song we've been working on.

6/28/10
Diana’s maternity leave is officially over. Last night we had our first rehearsal as a full band in over 6 months and though rusty, it felt great to be playing again. Everyone’s spirits are high and to give us some push to shape up, we already have a date booked. August 7th will be our first show since November last year and we hope to be able to roll out at least one new song. It’s an all ages show and is way up in northern Maine where the people are hungry for metal. So for all you metal heads who live up that way get ready, we’re coming!

5/16/10
What is up with this spring so far. The metal world has lost yet another vocalist. First Peter Steele, now today Ronnie James Dio died and that totally sucks. Inventor of The Horns ..m/, he was one guy who never stopped bringing swords out on stage and it never became "un-cool" for him to do it. Why couldn't have been Gene Simmons who died instead?... oh, that's right. If he had he would have claimed to have invented death first. Well at least Dio isn't being buried in an officially liscenced Kiss Coffin.

At least he lived one hell of a life and layed down so much ground for bands and fans to follow for generations to come.

!!!!!! LONG LIVE DIO !!!!!

4/26/10
Yesterday, Diana gave birth to a bouncing baby girl. While she and Roy are adjusting to the new life change, Dave has been fine-tuning some riff ideas that should do the new album good justice. We expect to be getting back on the writing horse in the next couple weeks.

Dusk Adams

4/15/10
R.I.P. Peter Steele

Type O Negative was one of the biggest influences behind the creation of 13 Winters. Me and Mike we huge fans of them since 1994 when we discovered the Slow Deep And Hard album. Type O Negative was my first concert, an experience that has stayed with me my whole life. It was Type O Negative that introduced me to the word “Goth” even if I didn’t fully understand what that word meant at the time, it gave me something to identify my obsession with graves, black clothes and dead trees. Prior to being 13 Winters, Mike and I were “Autumnal Gray” which was taken from the track Suspended In Dusk. Later after Mike left I would take that name and rework it into “Autumnal Blood Moon” which it has remained as my solo project to this day.

Even though we’re no longer influenced by TON in our modern writing, it still has been our long time dream to share the stage with them. Alas this is a dream that will never come to pass now. We still want to be a part of Dark Valley’s intended tribute album to TON but legalities and dead ends have been holding that back.

It’s inevitable that all our heroes will someday die. It’s just that we don’t normally think much about the fact that most all the living legends today will die within our lifetime. And with them passes an entire generation as the fans too are getting up there in age. As Peter said himself “Everything dies”.

-Roy Linford Adams

3/14/10
Videos from the creation, mixing and mastering are being posted now on our Youtube channel. These have been kicking around and it's long overdue for us to post them.

13 Winters Official YouTube Channel

2/24/10
We have just discovered we will soon become available to the following countries: Mexico, Brazil, Singapore, Thiland & Tiwan. We're also hoping to become available to Turkey and India in the future.

2/20/10
We figure it's time to give our fans a long overdue update on what’s been going on. Diana and her baby are doing great. She’s having a little girl due to be born towards the end of May. The band has been getting together but not as much as they would have liked to due to typical winter-life day job increases. The band has also used this time to fix/update gear. Diana’s bass cabs have all new speakers, Roy has been upgrading his drums and Dave’s been fine tuning his guitar tones. Currently the band has about five new songs outlined with one of them being recorded as a demo. They are trying to focus on what will be the title track to Burn The World, as to get at least a demo version of that put up on the net for the fans to get a sneak-peek into the future of 13 Winters. The band is aiming for a more aggressive feel to their music and lyrics that they never could have achieved before.

Our thanks and gratitude go out to all the fans who have stuck with the band through the last decade. And we hope to have a fresh new release to commemorate our up-coming ten year anniversary.

-13 Winters

12/8/09
Dark Palace just received its best review to date from Metalbite.com. It received a 9 out of 10. We would love to post all the details of how much they were very impressed, but it's best you just go and read it for yourself.

Read Review HERE

11/27/09
We just found out that Lolipop Magazine did in fact review our first album long ago. The review isn't just good, it's also got some funny stingers that make for a good short read.

Read Review HERE

11/17/09
We have just posted a new video for Horizon's End. It features footage from the movie Pathfinder, as the song was inspired by the movie. We are currently uploading an HD version onto our Youtube channel.

11/16/09
We have created an official Youtube channel. It houses the HD version of The Gift, as well as our other videos. Currently we are still uploading videos we feel will make good additions.

LINK HERE

11/13/09
As you can see, the new website is up and running. The old website had been up for three years in anticipation of Dark Palace and after a year of supporting that release it's time to move on to the next, and this time we're not going to take half a decade making it.

11/10/09
Roy has been working hard on a new site for us with a whole new look. It's far more professional with graphics for Burn The World. It should be set to launch in just a couple days.

11/9/09
We want to thank everyone who came out to yesterday's show in Portland. It was absolutely the best crowd we've ever had in Maine. Over the years we had grown discouraged with the waning crowds at local shows and this show lightened our spirits and renewed a lot of our faith in the scene.

As of now we officially start a winter hiatus to work solely on writing the third album. It will feel good to have modern material written by the three of us, as solid group collaboration instead of being written by 100 different people. What is uncertain in our future though is when Diana and Roy’s baby is born, where are we going to rehearse? We have a whole winter to figure this out so by the time comes, an answer will arise.

11/8/09
We have just posted pictures on our Myspace from tonight's Slave To The Metal Fest in Portland Maine.

Myspace Link

10/6/09
Today we started working on the re-write of our old song, Dark Embrace. We're taking what we felt was our best, and most under performed, song and making heavier and more brutal. It will be included on the new album under the title "Darker Embrace".

9/29/09
We have added a new show, which will probably be our last live date for 2009 before Diana takes her maturnity leave. It's the Slave To The Metal Tour at The Big Easy in Portland Maine on November 7th.

9/1/09
We have just learned that Dark palace has reached #21 in the Bull Moose Music chart. Due to Dark Valley Record's recent aggressive sales tactics, we've outsold Eminem.

We can only assume that this means we'll be #1 this week in the Portland Phoenix local charts.

8/28/09
Diana and Roy have just found out that they are going to be having a baby and are very joyous. We hope to use this time wisely to work on the new album through the next 9 months. But this also is cause to book some live dates for the next couple months before Diana begins to show.

We have already taken the inlay photos for the new album, so those are out of the way.

8-27-09
The title and cover art for the next album has been decided. It's going to be titled "Burn The World".

A release date will not be set yet but should be by mid-2010.

8-7-09
The entire episode of Witching Hour TV featuring us is now up on Youtube.

Witching Hour INterview On Youtube

Since youtube only allowed 10 minutes maximum, the episode has been cut into 6 parts.