It's been five years since Italy's electronic duo Blank released their second album, Impact Zone, and it's about time we got another taste. 2013 marks the return of Blank with their third album, the gloomier, more introspective Dark Retreat. The album marks a stylistic change for Blank: atmospheric pop tracks replace the previous dancefloor focus, and a sombre mood pervades the skillfully rendered production.
The album features guest appearances from Kirlian Camera's Elena Alice Fossi as well as Elenor Rayner from The Crystalline Effect. The duo even enlisted Chris Peterson (Front Line Assembly, Delerium, Decree) and Sebastian R. Komor (Icon of Coil) on production duties with the result being a polished, dignified, and honest album.
"Less and less inspired by what we were seeing and hearing around us, we basically retreated looking for perfect darkness and silence, and let the deeper aspects of our innermost selves arise."
Filmfreaks will release in February the horrorclassic Gutterballs, a Canadian film written and directed by Ryan Nicholson.
Synopsis
A brutally sadistic rape leads to a series of bizarre gory murders during a midnight disco bowl-a-rama at a popular bowling alley. One by one, players of two teams meet blood-drenched gruesome deaths at the hand of a black bowling-gloved masked killer. This alley runs red with blood by sunrise
Label: Shock / Artnr.: INK8018
Cast: Alastair Gamble, Jeremy Beland, Mihola Terzic
Extra's: Behind the Balls (making of), audiocomment, Balls Out Gallery, teaser/trailer
Golden Antenna Records are proud to announce the release of ASCETIC: - Self Initiation.
This is a brandnew band from Melbourne, Australia featuring Damian Coward of "Heirs" on drums.
Drawn from a collective obsession with fringe philosophy and post-new-age consciousness, Self Initiation evokes the moods & spaces of 4AD’s early roster (Swans, Dead Can Dance, Cocteau Twins), with a nod to contemporaries The Soft Moon, Factory Floor & Portishead’s ‘Third’.
Thick pulsing rhythms erupt into glorious, cascading conclusion; from narcissistic rants, to sickly crooned anthems; from the outer regions of reality to the depths of the subconscious, a white shadow emerging from the process: ASCETIC.
Speaking of download, you could download their record for free on Bandcamp! But it would be great if you could support our artists and us by donating a few Euro or Dollars or whatever.
MEN WITHOUT HATS, the Canadian electronic rock group, best known for their iconic hit singles The Safety Dance and Pop Goes The Word, are pleased to confirm a new concert in Stockholm onValentine’s Day (Feb 14th), as part of their first European Tour in 20 years.
The tour coincides with the release of their critically acclaimed album Love In The Age Of War, produced by Dave “Rave”Ogilvie (Skinny Puppy, Marilyn Manson). The tour starts at London’s Islington o2 Academy on February 1st, followed by dates in Germany,Austria, Denmark, and Sweden (this will also mark the first time MWH have ever performed a concert in the UK).
1983’s hit single The Safety Dance went Top 10 in the US, the UK and 25 other countries, and recently achieved cult status on The Simpsons, Glee,Family Guy and Futurama. In 1983, MWH were Grammy nominated for Best Group. In 2011, they performed at SXSW, followed by extensive 2012 North American tours with The B-52’s and The Human League.
LONDON, O2 ISLINGTON ACADEMY Friday 1 February
MEMMINGEN, KAMINWERK Sunday 3 February
INGOLSTADT, EVENTHALLE WESTPARK Monday 4 February
VIENNA, SZENE WIEN Tuesday 5 February
COLOGNE, MTC Wednesday 6 February
FRANKFURT, DAS BETT Thursday 7 February
HANNOVER, ENGEL 07 Friday 8 February
BERLIN, K17 Saturday 9 February
HAMBURG, LOGO Sunday 10 February
COPENHAGEN, STENGADE Tuesday 12 February
STOCKHOLM, KOLINGSBORG Thursday 14 February
MALMO, INKONST Friday 15 February
GOTHENBURG, STICKY FINGERS Saturday 16 February
In February Sony SPHE will release the fifth installment in the Resident Evil film series, based on the Capcom survival horror video game series Resident Evil, and the third to be written and directed by Anderson after the first film and the previous installment.
Retribution is a direct follow-on from the previous film Resident Evil: Afterlife, and focuses on Alice (Milla Jovovich) captured by the Umbrella Corporation, forcing her to make her escape from an underwater base in the Arctic Circle, used for testing the T-virus. The film has many returning actors and characters, along with new characters from the video game not featured in the previous films
Synopsis
Alice awakes at home with her daughter Becky and her husband. But soon she realizes that she is actually in an Umbrella Corporation's underground facility. Out of the blue, the computer security system shuts-down and Alice flees to the central control room of the facility. She meets Ada Wong, who works with Albert Wesker, and she learns that a five-man team has been sent by Wesker to rescue them. However, the Red Queen sends Jill Valentine and Rain to hunt them down.
