MEMBERS
FOLOW JISUS ON:
DAN VESCA
VOCALS
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BIO: Dan Vesca is a Luso-Moldavian vocalist, currently the lead singer of Sotz'.
He joined the band in 2013, while being session vocalist for Colosso and also a full time vocalist for Final Mercy between 2016 and 2019.
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FAVORITE BANDS: Uneven Structure,Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza,Tesseract,Whitechappel.
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JISUS ROCHA
GUITAR
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BIO: Jisus Rocha is a Portuguese guitarist, founder of the band Sotz'. He started playing guitar in 2007 and in 2008 decided to begin a musical project with influence in the history of the ancient Mayan civilization. He named it "Sotz'" - "bat" in the indigenous language.
Sotz' already released an EP titled "Tzak' Sotz'" in 2017, a single titled "Baak'" in 2018, and an long length production titled as "Popol Vuh" in 2020, which have been receiving great reviews.
In 2018, after an invitation of Pedro Vieira de Sá, Solar Artist and mentor of the band SAEPHE, joins the project. In February 2019, SAEPHE released their debut single titled "Maldras, My King", in 2020 released another single titled as "Era Obscura"
In 2019, Jisus Rocha is invited to join the band LYFORDEATH occupying the position of lead guitarist.
In May, he joined the Skull Strings family, a french strings company, and he couldn't be more satisfied!
In 2020, he became a Solar Guitars Featured Artist, a sweden guitar brand from the Ola England.
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QUOTE: "Don't use music, serve the music."
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FAVORITE BANDS: Neurosis, Gojira, Mastodon, Lamb of God, Vital Remains, Septic Flesh, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Hour of Penance, Hideous Divinity, The Black Dahlia Murder
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ENDORSEMENTS: Skull Strings (FR), Solar Guitars (SE)
FOLOW EMANUEL ON:
PEDRO MAGALHÃES
GUITAR
BIO: Pedro Magalhães was born in 1990 and was, luckily, always connected with music, since his father had and has a good taste in music, mostly rock from the 60’s till the 90’s.
One of his uncles had a garage band in the 90’s and Pedro was frequently present in the band rehearsals, but it was later, between 2006/2007, that he picked up a guitar and started learning how to play! Since 2008, when the idea of Sotz’ was presented to him by Jisus, he never gave up to bring that idea to daylight.
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QUOTE: “To perceive is to suffer” – Aristotle
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FAVORITE BANDS: Opeth, Mastodon, Lamb of God, Alice In Chains, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Nile, Gojira, Neurosis, Septic Flesh, Fleshgod Apocalypse
EMANUEL RIBEIRO
BASS
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BIO:
Emanuel Ribeiro is a bass player who started to learn music 1999 to join the school rock band “Feedback”, under the guidance of Professor José Luís Rego and the guitarist of Carlos Alves.
In 2000 he joined the rock band “sem Registo”, that ended their activity on 2001.
In 2002, aside his friend Victor Martins, he joined the nu metal band “Hangover”, heavily influenced by bands like “Korn”, “Deftones”, “Slipknot” and "Sepultura".
After more than a year without a band, my cousin João Almeida invited me to join a band that he would have recently joined.
In January 2012, after invitation of his cousin João Almeida, he joined “Lyfordeath” and in 2018 they released their first album titled as “Nulius in Verba”.
Still in 2018, he had his first experience as a vocalist and joined “Urban War”, Groove metal band from Porto.
In the middle of 2019, and at the invitation of Jisus Rocha, Emanuel Ribeiro joined “Sotz’” as the full-time bassist, and released their first album “Popol Vuh” together.
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FAVORITE BANDS: Korn, Deftones, Machine Head, Opeth, Sepultura, Slayer, Metallica, Gojira, Killswitch Engage, Uneharth, As I Lay Diying, Devildriver, Otep, Dry Kill Logic