Yes there's talent in Belgium (of course there is!). What about these two?
Maya's Moving Castlecis the creation of a girl who grew up on a small farm, digging up insects and collecting butterflies. She started out playing an old cello at home. When she moved to the city, she became a multi-instrumentalist and started writing songs in an attic. Driven by her imagination and experimentation, she created her own fantasy world. Meanwhile, the attic became a studio, and solo turned into a full-blown band. Produced by Stefan Bracke (Raveyards, ex-The Subs) and François De Meyer (Raveyards, Villa) and accompanied by musicians Nele De Gussem (vocals, guitar), Ben Brunin (bass, synth) and Simon Segers (drums). Maya’s Moving Castle’s first single “Next Life” will be released in September!
Blackie and The Ohoos is the band around Loesje and Martha Maieu, two sisters with a knack for twisted and perplexing tunes.
They have just finished recording “Song for Two Sisters”, their second album, which is suffused with a tense and dark, otherworldly atmosphere. The psychedelic dream pop and spooky folk is reminiscent of their debut album, but the songs and lyrics have a more mature, eccentric and distilled quality… It’s going to be an amazing album and we can’t wait to let you hear it. Hang in there, it’s dropping this fall.
Peek-A-Boo likes to give new talent a shout and Italian band Chemical Waves are a good example of this.
CHEMICAL WAVES is a project of Marco Cattani, a former member of the electronic band "Halo effect" (www.facebook.com/haloeffectband). This side project was born from desire to develop a different sound, the desire to experiment and exploring a new musical form, a deep and intense sound running
throught dark atmospheres and obsessive rhythms.
All songs use some samples that replace the vocals line.
All the tracks written and arranged by Marco Cattani. Mixing by Nicola Di Già. Guitar recorded by Nicola Di Già.
Chemical Waves has already put out four singles (The Origin, Murders TV, Sweet candy bullets and The great dictator) that anticipate the first full album scheduled for September....more info coming soon....
www.facebook.com/chemicalwaves
Excited? Well, give' em a try by watching one of their clips.
Horrorfans will certainly remember the controversial movie The Human Centipede which has been reviewed on our pages. If you can't get enough of those sick fantasies (or simply wanna know the further adventures) of the human centipede, you'll be satisfied to know that Koch Media has released the sequel.
The Story:
Martin is a mentally disturbed loner who lives with his mother in a bleak housing project. He works the night shift as a security guard in an equally grim and foreboding underground parking complex. To escape his dreary existence, Martin loses himself in the fantasy world of the cult horror film The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2009), fetishizing the meticulous surgical skills of the gifted Dr. Heiter, whose knowledge of the human gastrointestinal system inspires Martin to attempt the unthinkable.
Killing Joke's frontman Jaz Coleman has been officially declared missing according to a press release by the band. The band has also apparently cancelled their tour with The Mission and The Cult later this year.
The statement from the band:
A statement was posted on Facebook, reputedly by our singer, maligning both The Cult and The Mission and pulling us out of the shows.
He is now AWOL and has not contacted any of his band mates.
We are deeply embarrassed by this and offer our sincere apologies to all involved.
We are all concerned about our missing singer's welfare.
Killing Joke made a collective decision to play with The Cult and The Mission in September.
It was agreed by all of the band that we would do these shows. Indeed, we thought that they were something to look forward to, even though they were downsized.
We would still like to honour our commitment to this tour, the other bands, and all the Gatherers and people who have already bought tickets and made travel arrangements.
If this proves not possible, Killing Joke will make alternative arrangements to compensate for the trouble caused.
Meanwhile we are doing everything we can to make this tour happen and locate our missing singer.
KILLING JOKE.
Last weekend The Juggernauts played their first German and first open air festival gig on the renowned Electro & EBM festival Familiëntreffen VIII @ Sanderleben.
Even while dealing with some technical restrictions and fact that they played as opener in the broad day/sunlight , which made their background video almost invisible, The Juggernauts managed to get the party starting on Saturday, “drawing the biggest crowed ever to see an opener band at the Familiëntreffen”.
