n preparation for a new full-length album, darkwave band Bella Lune of Phoenix, Arizona, has a track featured on "DeathMass Six", the latest installation in an annual holiday charity compilation created by LA musician Jeremiah Saint.
Joining the ranks of other alternative underground acts like Polaroid Kiss, No:carrier, and Saint’s own project DECAYEDen, Bella Lune is proud to donate the song “The Dolly Pop Song (SAINT[ed] Fornication Mix)” a low, bass-heavy dance track that features the personal touch of Saint. All of the compilation’s proceeds are forwarded to The NestEggg Group, Inc. Food Bank at The LGBT Community Center of the Desert in California, which feeds approximately 300 families every week. The compilation is available here (name your price): https://jeremiahsaint.
Bella Lune’s contribution to the compilation is a springboard for their upcoming fourth official studio album, "Tranzendental". The album is set for a release date in January of 2015, and features a sound that leading member Fuchsia Angel says is a departure from their previous work. It is being produced by Mike Jenney of Alter Der Ruine fame.
"DeathMass Six" Track List:
∆ Collide of Souls – Deathmass Time Is Here
Fox and the Red Hares – Restless Soul (Feat. Matt Coleman)
Roadside Memorial – Flesh and Bone
Spirit Before A Fall – Tonight… In My Arms
Sunday Funeral – Deadly Kiss
Jeremiah Saint – Crestfallen
Polaroid Kiss – The New Coliseum
No:carrier – Life
Lelany – Forgive
Burntsystems – Silent Night
Bella Lune (Dolly Pop Song (SAINT[ed] Fornication Mix)
Vio – Every Second (DJ Areal Kollen Remix)
DECAYEDen – Kein Flucht
LARVA – Los Perros Ahorcados No Ladran
Corroded Master – God Gave Me a Song
DieGressiveSoul – Psycho Dance
Visions in Black – Salvation
Frausun – German Burlesque
†he SAINT(ed) - Winter WonderLust (outro)
Back in 1992 doomy goth metal quintet Moonspell was formed by vocalist Fernando Ribeiro, guitarist Ricardo Amorim, keyboardist Pedro Paixão, bassist Sérgio Crestana and drummer Mike Gaspar. The band released their debut album "Wolfheart" in 1995. Their second and breakthrough album "Irreligious" was launched in 1996. The band recorded another four albums before the release of their chart topper "Memorial". Anno 2014 and two albums later, another release is in the making, next year the band will release their new album "Extinct".
In support of the album Moonspell announced the Road to Extinction Tour 2015 with special guest Septic Flesh. Both bands will perform at Biebob Concerts on March 14.
Artist(s)Moonspell / Septic Flesh
Support(s)+ support
GenreIndustrial/Gothic
Date14/03/2015
LocationBiebob Concerts (Vosselaar)
Antwerpsesteenweg 84, 2350 Vosselaar
Doors19:00
Hour19:30
Sisters Of Mercy guitarist Chris Sheehan has lost his battle against cancer
New Zealander Chris Sheehan (real name Chris Starling) has lost his long battle with Stage 4 metastatic nodular
His musical career includes founding band The Starlings, and performing with Curve, Babylon Zoo, the Sisters of Mercy and Mutton Birds. His time playing guitar with The Sisters of Mercy was the 1996 Roadkill-Tour, and then again from 2000-2003, during the Trip The Light Fantastic, Exxile On Euphoria, the Summer Europe 2002 and Smoke And Mirrors tours, leaving the band in 2005.
Source; Post-punk.com
Literature features Kevin Attics, Nathaniel Cardaci, Chris Schackerman, and Seth Whaland. Attics, who’d written for numerous music trades as a teen, met Cardaci and Whaland at the house venue they both operated in Austin, TX. Cardaci and Whaland each ran small imprint labels and, a million adventures later, the trio decided to form a band. Upon moving to Philadelphia the group befriended Schackerman who also joined the fold.
In 2012, following a well-received single and a track on Gerard Cosloy’s “Casual Victim Pile II” compilation they released their debut album, Arab Spring, which became a cult hit within the indiepop community. That album is sharp and immediate, almost mod-ish in its attack, but always tuneful and going for melody where it counts. They toured the US in support, and have performed with the likes of The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Eternal Summers, Ted Leo, Sic Alps, White Fence, Gentlemen Jesse, Hospitality, and Brown Recluse. They also appeared on Terre T's Cherry Blossom Clinic.
In 2013 they released a follow-up 7”, “Tie Dye” and contributed a track to Esopus Magazine alongside artists like Jens Lekman and The Shins. They also played at that year’s NYC Popfest, which helped cement the buzz that was steadily growing amongst savvy pop fans. Arab Spring was treated to a re-mastered re-press, which followed the first pressing and quickly sold out.
Autumn of 2013 saw the band begin work on their second album, Chorus, with lauded engineer Gary Olson (whose body of work includes records by Crystal Stilts, Mad Scene and The Beets) at his Marlborough Farms studio in Brooklyn, NY. As a beautiful autumn turned into one of the harshest winters in recent memory, Olson and the band began stretching out, enhancing the album with studio techniques dating back to the late 60s including true-tape flanging, sending vocals through Leslie speaker cabinets, and the same analog style of automatic double-tracking created at Abbey Road Studios.
The result is an album that is as immediate as it is timeless, full of effortlessly catchy and well-crafted tunes that echo pop legends like The Smiths and Orange Juice. All of that time in the studio has resulted in a rich, considered sound that puts the band's arranging and playing front and center. Chorus is one of the most exciting pop records in years, and marks Literature at true contenders.
The Belgian atmospheric black/death metal band THURISAZ and their label Sleazy Rider Records have set January 24th of 2015 as release-date for their new upcoming CD/DVD entitled 'Thurisaz: Live & Acoustic'. The cover artwork and track listing can be seen below.
The band has the following to say about 'Thurisaz: Live & Acoustic': "Thurisaz has always been more than just heavy songs with distorted guitars, growls and screams... There has always been a more softer and emotional side to Thurisaz... Often acoustic songs with mainly clean vocals and emotional lyrics. We never wanted to play those songs live before, because we felt that playing them amongst the heavier songs wouldn't do them justice. But throughout the years we realised that a lot of the fans also appreciate this other side of Thurisaz. That's why, in september 2013, we decided it was time for a new challenge: an acoustic show with all the songs we didn't play before. We didn't want to bring the songs too literally, we wanted to add something special that would raise the songs a few levels. The aim was to bring a total experience, in a cool venue, with live projections, an awesome lightshow and of course additional strings. It was also a chance to pay hommage to the bands that influenced us throughout the years. It took us 9 months of hard work, but in the end we gave birth to something beautiful that made it all worthwhile... "
'Thurisaz: Live & Acoustic' track listing:
1. Symbols
2. Interlude I
3. Years Of Silence
4. Finality (Woods Of Ypres cover)
5. Never To Return
6. A Natural Disaster (Anathema cover)
7. Inner Voices
8. Interlude II
9. Broken
10. Fading Dreams
11. My Kantele (Amorphis cover)
12. Past Perfect
The CD/DVD was recorded and filmed in front of a live audience and with a choir on the 1st of March 2014 at a sold-out show in 'GC Forum' in Wervik, the band's hometown.
Special Guests: Els Blieck: vocals, Inge Van De Wiele: violin, Lore Van Loock: violin, Gudrun Bovyn: cello
Filmed by Jo Geysen and Christophe Blomme
Directed and edited by Jo Geysen
Sound recording and mixing by Nik Mettez and Peter Theuwen
Lights by Daan Vermote
Video projections by Jeroen Bille
The first single 'A Natural Disaster' (Anathema cover) can be streamed through
