The Symphonic Metal sensation XANDRIA is back with some great news!
After the successful release of their latest studio album “Sacrificium” (Napalm Records) the band will release a new EP this summer!
XANDRIA commented on the upcoming EP:
“No rest for the wicked – there will be an EP coming out this summer! As some of you might have already heard or seen on our Instagram channel, we currently have invaded the Sandlane Recording Facilities in the Netherlands to nail down some new music for you folks.
Everything we are recording right now will end up on this yet to be titled EP. Not only it will contain 3 brand new tracks… No, here comes the fuzz: we are also going to have two remakes of Xandria classics and 1 or 2 cover versions for you!
How does that sound? We can promise. It’s gonna be rad!!!”
XANDRIA will be hitting the road soon!
Catch them live on their bombastic live shows:
14.03. IN - Hyderabad / BITS Hyderabad
18.03. UAE - Dubai / The Music Room
27.03. DE - Nürnberg / Rockfabrik
07.04. DE - Frankfurt / Nachtleben
08.04. DE - Augsburg / Spectrum
09.04. DE - Heidelberg / Schwimmbad Club
10.04. DE - Essen / Turock
11.04. NL - Groningen / De Oosterpoort w/ EPICA
16.05. DE - Neumünster / Dark Nature Festival
09.07. CZ - Vizovice / Masters Of Rock
08.08. ES - Villena / Leyendas Del Rock
Mexico attacks (again…)! Erk Aicrag and Racso Agroyam have become synonymous with electronic aggression for more than two decades. On their new maxi, the two lash out as relentlessly and harsh as in their early days. “In the Name of Violence”... listening to Hocico's brand new EP, one will easily agree that the title “is not just a name”: What emanates from the speakers is pure, electronic violence. It is almost hard to believe that this music comes from a band that had been genre-defining for more than twenty years, so fresh, punky, brash and furious is the sound of the title track and the b-side “Silent Crow.”
But then Hocico have always kept their inner fires burning and the world dishes up enough new shit that is worthy of channeling wrath unto with each and every new day to provide them with eternal fuel for sonic combustion. To make it short: “In the Name of Violence” will up the ante for the international Hard-Electro- community, yet again. The new maxi also contains four very versatile remixes of the title song: the clubby Sex-O-Sex-version from Hocico themselves, a DJ-friendly mix from Faderhead, a noise-inferno from Xotox and an experimentally groovy version by Colts. Perfect material for wrecking your local dance floor! Unleash the violence!
Siouxsie & The Banshees re-release the 'Join Hands' album... As it was meant to be!
For this year’s Record Store Day, Siouxsie & The Banshees are delighted to announce a limited edition vinyl pressing of the seminal Join Hands with its originally intended sleeve and tracklisting.
Back in 1979, and with the album ready to roll in its John Maybury-designed sleeve, the band’s label Polydor suddenly got cold feet about the supposedly “religious nature” of the artwork and substituted it for the version we know today - now repressed onto remastered 180GM gatefold vinyl with the track ‘Infantry’ restored to its rightful place as the album closer.
The album will only be available to buy from high street record stores from Saturday April 18th 2015.
Siouxsie: “I’ve always loved the artwork John Maybury presented for Join Hands and it’s wonderful to see again after all this time… Along with the inclusion of ‘Infantry’, here it is finally to have and behold in all its full glory.”
Steven Severin: “Not only does the album now look how it was intended but now boasts the original track listing. I can’t really remember why ‘Infantry’ was left off originally. Maybe we felt we hadn’t the time to develop it a bit further, maybe because it wouldn’t have fitted into the live set. Either way, it’s here now for posterity.”
(From the Banshees HQ)
Arrow Video is delighted to announce release of Sidney Lumet’s seminal 70s classic Network. Featuring a powerhouse cast list including Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway, Robert Duvall, William Holden and Warren Beatty, the four times Academy Award winning film, which also won a handful on Golden Globes and BAFTAs on release, will arrive on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK from 23rd March 2015.
This new and fresh edition features an exciting array of extra features including an hour-long documentary The Directors, focussing on Sidney Lumet, alongside an all-new visual essay on the film's making, written and presented by Dave Itzkoff (author of Mad as Hell: The Making of Network and the Fateful Vision of the Angriest Man in Movies).
The reversible sleeve will showcase both the original and the newly commissioned artwork by Chris Walker and the disc will also feature a collector’s booklet with new writing on the film by Mike Sutton and an American Cinematographer article by director of photography Owen Roizman, illustrated with original stills and artwork.
Synopsis
In 1976 two of the key players in the Golden Age of Television, writer Paddy Chayefsky and director Sidney Lumet, delivered a coruscating attack – at once savage and hilarious – on the medium that made their names.
SINCE THIS SHOW WAS THE ONLY THING I HAD GOING FOR ME IN MY LIFE, I’VE DECIDED TO KILL MYSELF.
To speak Chayefsky’s Oscar-winning dialogue, Lumet enlisted a powerhouse cast list, including Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch (as ‘the mad prophet of the airwaves’ Howard Beale), Robert Duvall, Ned Beatty and Beatrice Straight. Five of them would be nominated for Academy Awards, three would win.
I’M GOING TO BLOW MY BRAINS OUT RIGHT ON THIS PROGRAMME A WEEK FROM TODAY.
As well as its four Oscars, Network was also garlanded with a quartet of Golden Globes, a BAFTA and numerous other awards. In the years since its release, its reputation has only grown: the Library of Congress granted it a place on their prestigious National Film Registry; the American Film Institute named it as one of the greatest American films of all time; and the Writers Guild of America declared its screenplay one of the ten best of all time. It remains a true classic.
SO TUNE IN NEXT TUESDAY.
Special Features
· High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation of the film
· Uncompressed mono PCM audio
· Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
· The Directors: Sidney Lumet – a 1999 documentary on the director, containing interviews with Jack Lemmon, Rod Steiger, Christopher Walken and others
· Tune in Next Tuesday – a visual essay by Dave Itzkoff, the author of Mad as Hell: The Making of Network and the Fateful Vision of the Angriest Man in Movies
· Theatrical Trailer
· Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Chris Walker
· Collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Mike Sutton and an American Cinematographer article by director of photography Owen Roizman, illustrated with original stills and artwork
Sony Pictures is expanding its Ghostbusters movies not just to the franchise level, but to the cinematic universe level.
The studio has put together Ghost Corps, a collective headed by original Ghostbusters director Ivan Reitman and star Dan Aykroyd, that will oversee the expansion of the movie franchise not just into a cinematic universe, but also move Ghostbusters into television and merchandising.
The first order of business will be to develop a new male-oriented Ghostbusters that will be released after the much ballyhooed female-centric movie being put together by Paul Feig. The movie, which is to star Kirsten Wiig and Melissa McCarthy, shoots this summer and will be released July 22, 2016.
Joe and Anthony Russo, the duo behind Captain America: The Winter Soldier and who signed a first-look deal with Sony last week, are being tapped to produce and direct the new movie.
Drew Pearce, who penned Iron Man 3, will write the script, while Channing Tatum, another Sony favorite after the 22 Jump Street movies, also will produce with his partners Reid Carolin and Peter Kiernan. If all goes as planned, Tatum would also star in the movie.
Reitman also will produce the new movie.
Sony is one of the studios less franchise rich than others, such as Disney or Warner Bros. or even Paramount, which is cranking out Transformers and G.I. Joe movies.
How seriously is Sony taking this? Enough that Reitman is moving the entire staff of his production banner The Montecito Picture Co. onto the studio lot to focus on this endeavor. Montecito and Ghost Corps will be separate entities, however.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
