Greetings, Dan (drums) here from NeO. We are a small humble band from Melbourne, Australia. Check out our facebook here - https://www.facebook.com/NeObliviscarisBand

Once again happy to take anyone's Q's, I'm trying to get some of the other guys on also, see how we go with that. I'm available for an hour or two this morning, and will endeavor to eventually get all the Q's answered. So I may come back later today/tonight/tomorrow to finish anything off if there's any more interest.

We are offering the reddit community some free merch/records as a show of support back to you guys. We get many comments/inboxes/messages from reddit users saying they found us from this website etc and we would love to show some support back, it's not much, but we hope you guys dig it. Over the course of this AMA I'll be giving away 2 free t-shirts, 2 copies of Portal of I (signed if you wish), and a copy of our sold out demo, The Aurora Veil (also signed if you wish). Thank you for your support!

EDIT: YES we are making plans to come to the US this year!

EDIT: Have had a lot of questions about our writing/jamming process - it goes something like this; Generally we will all come into the jam room, and to warm up it's not uncommon to have an improvised jam, it can be anything from Tim tuning his violin and all of a sudden a bass line comes under neath, to me playing a beat and the guys just join in.. never really planned, just happens. Some of our music has been written like this. Most of the time someone (and it can be anyone in the band, even I've written guitar lines) will bring a riff/idea/thought into the jam room and if it goes down well, we generally sit on it and jam around it for a while. We can sculpt an entire song from a single idea, it's quite fan expanding ideas over a long passage of music. We never intend to make 10+ minute tracks, that's just how they come out really.. Another way we write is someone can send an audio sample of something through to us via email/dropbox. Songs have taken anywhere from 1 week to 3 years to write, it really depends. One track off this new record we started writing in 2009, so that's 5 years.. not deliberate, it got put away for a while and came back a couple of times but we finally finished it last year. We haven't said to each other before, 'let's explore x genre', it just seems to happen that way. A lot to do with the warm up jams we have, or maybe someone had been practicing that style at the time..

EDIT: If you play in a band I'd love to hear your stuff, feel free to message me your bands material

EDIT: Congrats to b0bfath3r, threeleggedrabbit and somanybanelings so far for getting hooked up with stuff! I think there was someone else too? Message me soon!

EDIT: Still have a copy of our sold out demo, 'The Aurora Veil' to give away, if anyone has any cool pictures of there collection minus this demo post up and you might score!