Two new songs - 'Artemisia Teaser' and 'Departing Words' - from the new album "Artemesia", the long-awaited second studio album by Dutch Progressive Metallers Sun Caged, have been put online at the band's MySpace page. These are not the final mixed songs.

The album is about 70 minutes long and has been released on March 23rd in Europe by Lion Music.

"Artemesia" tracklist:
01. Lyre's Harmony
02. A Fair Trade
03. Unborn
04. Blood Lines
05. Painted Eyes
06. Engelbert The Inchworm
07. Afraid To Fly
08. Dialogue
09. Departing Words
10. Doldrums

Source:	myspace.com
Band profile:	Sun Caged

The band announced the new bassist, it's Roel Vink, "he is a young bassplayer with a lot of good musical ambitions, and we will start to work hard on learning him all the songs." commented the band.

Roel Vink will play live with Sun Caged for the first time at the Elsrock festival in Rijssen, The Netherlands on August 26th.

Also the band commented on the recording of their upcoming album: "We are currently recording our second album. All drums have been recorded, and now Marcel and Rene are recording their tracks.
Barend Tromp (ex Lemur Voice) will play bass on a few songs, and also will play a sitar solo in one of our songs. It will be great for fans of Lemur Voice to see Marcel work with Barend again, since Lemur Voice splitted up in 2000."

Source:	suncaged.com
Band profile:	Sun Caged

After almost 7 years bassist Rob Van Der Loo decided to leave the band due to musical differences, the departure was in a friendly way. Rob posted the following message to explain the situation:

"I've been a member of Sun Caged for almost seven years which is quite a while.
Playing in Sun Caged convinced me that I wanted to be a full-time professional musician.
But seven years is quite a long time and in this period a lot of things like personal interests and musical taste can change. As a musician I need to be challenged and through the last 18 months I started to realize that Sun Caged wasn't longer the challenge for which I was looking.
When I'm a member of a band I need to support the music for 200% and not for 100% or less.
Making decisions like this can be very hard but I took a lot of time to think about it and I'm sure that this is the right choice for as well me as the band. The fact that I'm leaving the band doesn't mean that it's the end of my musical career. In fact I think it will give me much more new fresh ideas and possibilities to work on. And there's always a big chance that we will work together again in the near future.
I would like to thank all the (ex-)Sun Caged members for the awesome years we've played together and for their friendship. Of course I'd also like to thank all the Sun Caged fans all over the world for their great support: you guys rule! And last but not least I wish the band good luck with the upcoming line-up and the new album.

All the best,

Rob"

The band is currently looking for a replacement, people who "are interested to join Sun Caged as the new bass player, (and) then send an email with a sound file of your playing to marcel.coenen@gmail.com ".

The band point out that this won't change their plans to enter in the studio in April 2006.

Last live appearance by Rob will be "at Thursday April 27th in 013 in Tilburg, The Netherlands. Sun Caged drummer Roel Van Helden will play his Conservatorium graduation concert this day and afterwards we will play a set with Sun Caged."

Source:	suncaged.com
Band profile:	Sun Caged

The following message was delivered on the latest Sun Caged newsletter:

"Sun Caged is busy with pre recordings for the upcoming album, 8 songs have been recorded as demo versions to prepare for the studio recordings next year.

We booked the studio in the beginning of February to start recording the second Sun Caged album."

Source:	- Sun Caged Newsletter -
Band profile:	Sun Caged

Since Joost Van Den Broek (keyboard) and Andre Vuurboom (vocals) left Sun Caged earlier this year, Sun Caged is now back and complete. Joost Van Den Broek was replaced by Rene Kroon in July 2004 and Andre Vuurboom was just replaced by Paul Adrian Villarreal. Paul is currently still living in the USA, but he will relocate to Europe before the new year starts. The band is working on a new album which will be recorded at the end of 2005.

Source:	suncaged.com
Band profile:	Sun Caged

From the band's homepage:
"Sun Caged is currently busy writing songs for the second album. The songs sound great so far and show some different aspects from the band.
The search for a good singer goes on and we have some good options ! Things are looking positive currently and we hope to announce the news pretty soon.
The band will first work on a new album and when that album has been released the band will start playing live again, so have patience !
We want to thank the fans for their loyalty regarding the band and the changes and we hope you will all like the new material".

Source:	suncaged.com
Band profile:	Sun Caged

After several auditions we can announce the new keyboard player for Sun Caged.
The new man is Rene Kroon, better known to some people as "Pingel".
Rene is a very good player with a lot of technical abilities, and he managed to figure out the audition songs with no errors. Also his sounds came very close to the original sounds Joost used on the CD.

We welcome Rene in the Sun Caged camp !!

A new singer has not been found yet, but auditions are still going on, so we hope to announce the new singer also soon.

July 26th 2004 (http://www.suncaged.com/news_band.php)

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Sun Caged

Singer André Vuurboom and keyboarder and mastermind Joost Van Der Broek quits Sun Caged and the concert on Sweden Rock Festival is the last ever with those on the band.

Joost has joined After Forever, where he replaces Lando Van Gils on keyboards.

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Sun Caged

Dutch progressive metallers SUN CAGED, who feature in their ranks STAR ONE keyboardist Joost van den Broek, have announced the addition of drummer Roel Van Helden to the group's ranks. The 23-year-olf Van Helden, a student at the academy of music in Tilburg, Netherlands, joins the band as the replacement for Dennis Leeflang, who left the group earlier in the month. " surprised us with the fact that he managed to play the whole album within a week," the band write on their web site. "Besides that, there is a very good chemistry between us and Roel, musically as well as on a personal level. We never played our songs that well before!

"What's funny is the fact that Roel is already a member of Marcel 's solo band and he is also the drummer our bassist Rob played with, at age 14, in his first band.

"We welcome Roel in the Cage, and we are sure that this has brought SUN CAGED to a higher level. We also would like to thank all other drummers who showed interest, and we also hope that the true SUN CAGED fans will welcome Roel with open arms, possibly at one of our upcoming gigs."

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