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Category: Editorial

  • Icon In Me – Human Museum

    Releasedate: 02-05-2009; Label: Massacre Records By: Sabine van Gameren Icon in Me is project with Russian and Swedish members, all well known from their past projects. Thrash metal is what they make, but they play with the borders and flirt with other genres more often than you would have expected. “Human Museum” is their very…

  • Bloc Party – Intimacy Remixed

    Releasedate: 11-05-2009; Label: Wichita recordings / v2 records / Universal By: Nina Mende Bloc Party is a British band, composed of Kele Okereke (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Russell Lissack (lead guitar), Gordon Moakes (bass guitar, synths, backing vocals, glockenspiel), and Matt Tong (drums,backing vocals). Their brand of music is said to have been drawn from…

  • Winterborn – Farewell To Saints

    Releasedate: 02-05-2009; Label: Massacre Records By: Sabine van Gameren Winterborn is power metal formation from Finland. Their second album us just out and it is called “Farewell to Saints”

  • Oi Va Voi – Travelling The Face of The Globe

    Releasedate: 11-05-2009; Label: V2 Records / Oi Va Voi Recordings By: Sabine van Gameren Oi Va Voi is a London bases band making world music. The band is up for their third release called “Traveling The Face of The Globe”.

  • 09-05-2009 Project Pitchfork

    Supports: Deviant UK; Venue: LVC, Leiden (Netherlands) By: Sabine van Gameren LVC was hosting some industrial bands this evening, besides that the bands would play there was also an industrial after party scheduled. The band Deviant UK and the German band Project Pitchfork were up for conquering the stage.

  • 06-05-2009 Pascal Finkenauer

    Venue: Das Bett, Frankfurt (Germany) By: Nina Mende Pascal Finkenauer is a German solo artist from Hamburg who worked many times with Fettes Brot, a big German Hip-Hop act. He just released a new album and was now on Solo Acoustic Tour through the tiniest clubs in the nation. Nor was there much advertisement for…

  • Fairyland – Score to a New Beginning

    Releasedate: 30-04-2009; Label: Napalm Records By: Elvira Visser After many name changes, previously Fantasia and Fantasy the band now continues as Fantasy. The band finds it roots in France. The intro of the cd, reminds me of that Disney music movie Fantasia. The band plays symphonic power metal, something that is mostly not my cup…

  • Blue Roses – Blue Roses

    Releasedate: 27-04-2009; Label: XL/Salvia recordings By: Sabine van Gameren Blue Roses is a folk/indie rock project from the UK releasing their debut album “Blue Roses”.

  • Proving Ground – Through the Red Door

    Releasedate: 22-04-2009; By: Nina Mende Proving Ground is the nihilistic brainchild of Paulo Kalra. Growing up in the quiet desperation of 1990’s Toronto Canada, Kalra was influenced by the stylistic self-expressions of the Seattle Grunge artists, coupled with Industrial musicians from Germany and the US. He recorded his first song in 1995 with dual cassette…

  • Harmonic 313 – When Machines Exceed Human Intelligence

    Releasedate: 02-02-2009; Label: Warp records By: Sabine van Gameren Mark Pritchardis the man behind the project called: Harmonic 313. His full length release of this year is called: “When Machines Exceed Human Intelligence”

  • 03-05-2009 SIC

    Venue: LVC Leiden (Netherlands) By: Sabine van Gameren SIC is a band from Faroe islands making thrash metal. They were on a support tour with Hatesphere but due to circumstances I was not able to stay longer after their set.

  • 02-05-2009 Turmion Kätilöt

    Venue: Virgin Oil, Helsinki (Finland) By: Sabine van Gameren A little warning: photo’s inside might be shocking. Turmion Kätilöt is a Finnish industrial metal band coming from the city Kuopio. The band released two full length albums already and their third one is after some struggles with their record company about to release at 13…