Founding member Mario ‘Grizzly’ Pauwels (drums) and long time band members Dario Frodo (guitars), Josey Hindrix (vocals) and Stripe (bass) welcome guitarist TOM TAS into their ranks.
Tom is a 34-year old, hard working, professional musician, who has already been performing for several years with his other bands 23 Acez, Quantum Fantay and Neo-Prophet.
After the summer, Tom will also be joining the band in the studio, to start recording Ostrogoth’s next full length studio album, scheduled for release, late fall 2017.
Tom Tas: “Being a big Ostrogoth fan myself, for many years now, it’s an honour for me to be invited to play with these legendary Belgian Metal warriors, and I am greatly looking forward to join the band both on stage and in the studio”.
Throughout their 36-year carreer, Ostrogoth has always seen different talent come and go. So Tom is already the 8th guitarist and the 19th musician to join the ranks of the band and his addition makes the new line-up the Mk 14 version of the band.
Come and see the new line-up during the upcoming summer festival shows in Belgium, Germany and France.
July 9 – Scheps Kermis, Balen, Belgium
July 29 – Headbangers Open Air, Brande-Hörnerkirchen, Germany
August 12 – Herbakkersfestival, Eeklo, Belgium
September 10 – Pyrenean Warriors Open Air, Torrreilles, France
They have an affinity for horror movies and venerate Vampira, Morticia Addams and Lily Munster. They are dreamy, wicked, full of fantasy, mysterious and aloof. They are Aeleth Kaven (vocals, song-writing & composer) and Dae Widow (vocals), two banshees intend on sharing sorrow, pain and loneliness with their fabulously unique voices. Dae loves hope and East-Asian Mysticism, Aeleth prefers the Occult and venerates destructive Black Metal. The antithesis is manifesto, inspiring their dissimilarity and shaping their youth. They recount the search for a particular place where injured souls find succour, tranquillity and where they can settle down. A place protected by darkness in which one can be anything one wishes to be and do as one pleases, indulging in one’s hidden fantasies. And they discovered that darkness is not necessarily to be feared but can be in fact most extraordinarily beautiful indeed.
“Ghosts” is an outstanding EP by this eclectic and imaginative duo, which employs minimal synth with original New Wave embellished by a decent portion of post-Punk. Particularly the elementary melodies and arrangements comprising bass, guitar, synthesizer and drum computer, enhanced with aloof yet enchanting wave-like voices casting their irresistible spell. Sentiments like sadness, emptiness and melancholy are transposed into their songs. At times Aeleth Kaven intones inexorably and dark, then soft and gentle in accord with Dae Widow’s dreamy and maiden-like voice. With a straight lined impellent drum computer, perfectly harmonised instrumentation and the echoing canto achieving an ancillary expanse. “Ghosts” is uncompromisingly cold, dark and minimalistic, eerie and sinister not unlike a walk through an ancient cemetery draped in fog and moonlight. “Find beauty in darkness” is their motto! LA SCALTRA represent the most gorgeous Gloomy-Goth, full of obscure creativity and heavenly tristesse.
Texan Industrial/Hard Rock band, Torque Order, released their latest EP, Metal Machines, On May 2th. Along with the title track, it features remixes by Society Burning, Adoration Destroyed, Kounter Mehzure, Precision Field, DJ 501 and Russell Rott. Pre orders are available now at the Torque Order Bandcamp page.
The EP also includes artwork by acclaimed conceptual artist, Soren Bendt. An official lyric video, created by video artist and musician Marcelo Nespoli, was released today on the band’s YouTube and Vimeo sites to promote the upcoming release. Lead singer Los Vincent had this to say about the track: “We have been working on Metal Machines for 5 years, and it has been a metaphorical thorn in our sides from the very beginning because each of us had different ideas for the direction the song should take. After years of hard work incorporating aspects of each member’s varied musical tastes, we feel it is one of our strongest tracks to date.” Drummer Jaye Leigh Vincent added, “Since our internal collaboration was so successful, we decided this would be a great track to open up to the music community and ask them to remix it. I am so impressed with each of their takes on the track.”
Torque Order has been writing and performing their brand of Industrial Rock since 2011. Originally the brainchild of Los Vincent, the addition of Josef Pfost on guitar and Jaye Leigh Vincent on drums helped to solidify the Torque Order sound: angst ridden vocals, heavy use of synthesizers, driving guitars and artillery like drums. It came together to form their debut release, Trust No One, in 2014. Their lyrics are rife with warnings for the people about how the world’s military, business and political regimes function. Politically neutral, their content is for all to hear, to promote positive change.
Factory Floor return in 2016 with 25 25, their second album for DFA and the follow up to their hugely acclaimed 2013 self-titled debut. With their music stripped to a mesmerising dance of percussion, fragmented voice and melody, 25 25 captures the next vital stage in the evolution of one of the UK's most restless and exploratory groups. Today the band share 'Dial Me In', the album's lead single that is available now on a limited 12".
Following the release of their debut album Factory Floor in 2013, the band - consisting of Nik Void and Gabriel Gurnsey - slimmed down to a duo. Having already boiled the scorched textures of their early singles down into their debut's hallucinatory club-not-club stomp, they both seized the opportunity to voyage further along the pathway, mixing the album with razor-sharp precision via David Wrench (FKA Twigs, Caribou).
Inspired by playing a growing number of late night club shows, the pair's music gradually evolved into the sound captured on their second album and in their current live incarnation: a stark, ultra-minimalist and eerily soulful dancefloor pulse, yet one that still bears Factory Floor's unmistakable hallmarks of hypnotic repetition and jagged, punkish intensity.
Speaking of 'Dial Me In', Void says: "Being openly progressive has always been the Factory Floor way, be it via improvisational live shows, early Blast First releases, DFA reworks, or open studio collaborations and residencies.
'Dial Me In' was the first track Gabe and I wrote together for this record. At this time we were both exploring new set ups - some unfamiliar gear like modular systems, as well as various machines combined with regular old stuff like my Roland sampler, live drums and effected live vocals. Our shows between 2014-2015 where steadily moving towards late night club stompers, and gradually our tools were becoming more and more mobile within two Peli cases wheeled across the continent. We were forever testing out changing sets from one place to the next. This single is all about transition, adjustment and transparency - something we needed to get out there so that dots can be joined and the next page can be turned ready for 25 25."
25 25 is out 19th August 2016 via DFA.
Live date:
17.07.2016 DOUR Festival
Geneviéve Pasquier. live one. tape. raubbau raub-044
side a. studio recordings. running time 36:36
1 outback
2 blitzkrieg baby. part 3
3 warm leatherette (sharcactus remake)
4 douleur (sharcactus collaboration)
5 8 p.m. daily news
6 recipe
7 i am not yours (alternative version)
8 today the disco (alternative version)
9 schizofren (alternative version)
side b. Live at rhiz / vienna 25.04.2011. running time 36:43
1 emméne moi
2 blitzkrieg baby 3
3 bouge!
4 all the other girls
5 fusion
6 warm leatherette
7 dead man
8 i love you
Edition of 100 copies. release date: 13.06.2016. this tape includes an mp3-download-code
After the first lady of electro industrial has been hiding in the long grass for some time (or rather she has been pursuing her role as a member of thorofon), the numerous fans of geneviéve pasquier will be delighted to discover this little stocking filler: nine unreleased outtakes and alternative versions, and eight tracks from a 2011 live performance in vienna, both covering her entire creative period from the electro pop beginnings to the more experimental and headstrong material that made up the ant-zen albums 'soap bubble factory' and 'le cabaret moi' in 2006 and 2009.
Shifting between styles with ease, geneviéve pasquier presents a sound that is timeless, accessible and abrasive at the same time, with her extrovert vocal performance always taking the lead. the studio recordings really fathom the boundaries of the electro industrial gene pool, from the soundscapes of 'outback' or 'i am not yours' to the industrial grit of '8 p.m. daily news' or
'schizofren', from the sleaziness of 'douleur' to the minimal electro of 'recipe' and 'blitzkrieg baby' (complete with the unsettling sound of war), not even shying away from a booty-shaking, tongue-in-cheek remake of her cover version of 'warm leatherette'. geneviéve pasquier’s emotive, alluringly distanced croon takes center-stage on the live tracks, a manifesto of female fortitude, confident and unique.
More than a treat for the fanboys, 'live one' is a convincing and coherent compilation, drawing from the past and pointing towards the future (even though those categories are void in the geneviéve pasquier universe), and if there’s a 'live one' you may also hope for a number two.
