Finally! The wait is over! Belgian contemporary, uncompromising and hard hitting electro band The Juggernauts strike hard again! Six years after their renowned debut album “The Juggernauts Are Coming” the helmeted rejuvenators of the classic Electronic Body Music sound unleash their brand new six track EP FEAR! Six great unreleased tracks driven by pounding drum machines, rumbling low frequencies, rousing sequencers, Industrial noises and bittersweet synth melodies accompany head and voice BORG while he shouts all the anger, cynicism and social criticism out of his system. Six tracks of which four brand new songs and two breathtaking remixes of the title track. Make no mistake, the Fear C-19 EBM remix by BORG and pumping Fear Club remix by True Zebra can truly be considered as genuine standalone songs!
Most songs on these EP were tried, tested, fine-tuned and approved by their fans thoroughly during the band's recent live concerts and now these songs are finally available to enjoy at will!
Just like their previous releases these tracks blast from the speakers like an unstoppable destructive force, hence the band's name! While The Juggernauts still share the spirit of bands like Front 242, Nitzer Ebb or even Portion Control, they still manage quite well to steer away from the retro-trap and copycat syndrome, providing the epitome of underground dance music with a refreshingly harsh and modern approach.
It's clear The Juggernauts are determined to continuing the renaissance of Electronic Body Music!
FEAR [EP] (BBR 001 - Digital/CD/12")
Tracklist:
1. Fear V2K18 (12” Mix) 05:19
2. End Of Time 05:39
3. Shrinking Brains 04:29
4. Fear V2K20 (C19 EBM Remix) 05:01
5. Snitch Bitch 05:26
6. Fear V2K22 (TZ Club Remix) 04:58
UK goth rock band, Sirens Of Light have just unveiled their latest release; the full length LP, Nullus Margis Gothica MMXXI.
Resurrected from the recently discovered, dusty multi-track master recordings Nullus Margis Gothica MMXXI was originally conceived as a concept album dealing with three main themes; the power of the feminine, belief systems and how the individual constructs their reality around these concepts.
Putting these ideas against a dark, moody and theatrical musical soundscape seemed a natural progression. The album was designed to be listened to from beginning to end to take the listener on an emotional journey through the record rather than a set of unrelated songs....hence the release of an album and not an endless procession of singles
The inspiration for the songs is varied. "Justine", "Maria", "Siren Of Light" and "Succubus' Requiem" are explorations of the feminine, it's power and influence. "Flames Of Kane" looks at organized religion and it's inherent violence. "Rearrange" and "The Prayer" deal with the loneliness of the human condition.
Nullus Margis Gothica MMXXI is a dark, emotional, thought provoking, sometimes bleak, sometimes macabre but always intense journey for the listener.
Available on limited edition CD and digital formats via Bandcamp. The album will be distributed globally beginning on 20th January via Code 7 Music.
Darkwave band, Neon Funeral addresses addictions & demons with new video
Hardcore darkwave band, Neon Funeral recently unveiled their latest single & video, "A Void".
The song deals with escaping a life of drugs and societal pressures; avoiding it but not wanting to talk about it. It's about someone being tortured by their addictions and demons. The instrumentals emit an overall sound that is darker and a range that is more dynamic than on previous releases. They just flow in the direction of the layered guitars that take over during the fadeout.
The video concept was one that finds the band's front man, Randy, waking up while experiencing hallucinations of a dark cult-like figure. He joins a strange cult doing strange rituals while initiating other members unwillingly. The video opens questions of societal pressures and about not being able to escape one's mind and the darker paths of life.
The fire pit represents passion and a rebirth of his life. At the end you see all the people wearing masks in a row essentially giving into the cult like Randy gives in to his fear. But they gain strength through the darkness at the end, particularly in the last scene when Randy grabs the light bulb to essentially say that he darkens his own light.
So the themes of the song and video are fear, spirituality, rebirth, strength and passion.
Neon Funeral Live Dates:
1.6.23 Richmond, VA @ Fallout
1.7.23 Washington DC @ The Runaway
1.8.23 Philadelphia, PA @ Century
On this day, 43 years ago John Peel broadcasted Joy Division's 2nd Peel Sessions!
Today it’s been 43 years since Joy Division’s second Peel Session was broadcasted for the first time by John Peel on BBC radio (December 10th, 1979).
All tracks, previously unreleased at that time, were recorded in the London BBC studios on November 26th, 1979.
The EP of this recording was released in 1986 by Strange Fruit records and spent seventeen weeks in the UK Indie Chart, peaking at number 3!
Joy Division - The Peel Sessions (II)
A1. Love Will Tear Us Apart 3:20
A2. 24 Hours 4:05
B1. Colony 4:08
B2. Sound of Music 4:20
This December, 43 ago, Throbing Gristle released the album 20 Jazz Funk Greats. It was released in December 1979 by the band's own label Industrial Records. It is regarded as the band's best work, with music magazines naming it the best album of the 1970s, and the best industrial album of all time.
Actually it is the band's first real full studio album, as prior albums contained both live and studio recordings. The album was recorded on a 16-track tape recorder borrowed from Paul McCartney after Peter Christopherson had worked on some artwork for McCartney.
The album was produced meanly using effects units and instruments from Roland and Boss.
The album's cover photograph was taken at Beachy Head, a chalk headland on the South coast of England known as one of the world's most notorious suicide spots.
In a 2012 interview, Cosey explained the album cover and tongue-in-cheek title:
“We did the cover so it was a pastiche of something you would find in a Woolworth’s bargain bin. We took the photograph at the most famous suicide spot in England, called Beachy Head. So, the picture is not what it seems, it is not so nicey nicey at all, and neither is the music once you take it home and buy it. We had this idea in mind that someone quite innocently would come along to a record store and see [the record] and think they would be getting 20 really good jazz/funk greats, and then they would put it on at home and they would just get decimated.”
The 1981 issue of the album released on Fetish Records featured an alternate version of the cover art in which an apparently dead and naked male body is seen lying in front of the band. In 2013, Radiohead graphic designer Stanley Donwood selected the artwork as his favorite album cover.
20 Jazz Funk Greats
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A1. |
"20 Jazz Funk Greats" |
2:51 |
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A2. |
"Beachy Head" |
3:42 |
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A3. |
"Still Walking" |
4:56 |
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A4. |
"Tanith" |
2:20 |
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A5. |
"Convincing People" |
4:54 |
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A6. |
"Exotica" |
2:53 |
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B1. |
"Hot on the Heels of Love" |
4:24 |
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B2. |
"Persuasion" |
6:36 |
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B3. |
"Walkabout" |
3:04 |
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B4. |
"What a Day" |
4:38 |
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B5. |
"Six Six Sixties"
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All tracks were written by Throbbing Gristle:
- Genesis P-Orridge – vocals, bass guitar, violin, vibraphone, synthesizer
- Cosey Fanni Tutti – guitar, synthesizer, cornet, vocals
- Chris Carter – synthesizer, album sequencing, drum programming, vocals
- Peter Christopherson – tape, vibraphone, cornet, vocals
