Juggernaut Music Group presents new signing :
Known to a few from our artists page on the new website, we are delighted to unveil one of our latest signings.
Aiming to combine the melodic nature of Video Game soundtracks with the harsh aggression of "Harsh EBM", Imminent Violence is Matt Lester from Atlanta, GA.
Previously known as "Dunkle Traume", Imminent Violence cites an influence list featuring established acts such as Acylum, The Retrosic, Funker Vogt, and Nobuo Uematsu.
Picked up by us on the strength of the energy alone, this track acts as an introduction to the most mysterious band on our roster - in lieu of a forthcoming EP and album.
Completely free, "Diseased" is a perfect example of what Imminent Violence can do.
Mastered by Clint Robertson (nolongerhuman), "Diseased" marks the debut of one a small number of bands on our roster making a resurgence in this sub-genre. Juggernaut Music Group unveils : Imminent Violence.
Aesthetic Perfection 'Til Death' Tour + Faderhead kicks off on Valentine's day in Antwerp!
Aesthetic Perfection's new album "'Til Death" has now been officially released worldwide!
After having toured with names such as COMBICHRIST, COVENANT and many others, AESTHETIC PERFECTION are gearing up for their “´Til Death”-tour together with FADERHEAD.
The band will be accompanied by TERROLOKAUST (Spain).
Their co-headline tour with Faderhead begins this Friday, Valentine's Day, in Antwerp.
TIL DEATH TOUR 2014
14.02.2014 Antwerp (B), Kavka
15.02.2014 Sheffield (UK), Corporation
16.02.2014 Glasgow (UK), Classic Grand
17.02.2014 Newcastle (UK), Cluny
19.02.2014 Cardiff (UK), The Globe
20.02.2014 London (UK), Camden Underworld
21.02.2014 Utrecht (NL), Tivoli Oudegracht (Summer Darkness Winter Ed.)
22.02.2014 Oberhausen (GER), Turbinenhalle (E-Tropolis Festival)
25.02.2014 Munich (GER), Backstage
26.02.2014 Zurich (CH), X-Tra Limmathaus
28.02.2014 Glauchau (GER), Alte Spinnerei
02.03.2014 Frankfurt (GER), Das Bett
04.03.2014 Hanover (GER), Engel 07
05.03.2014 Berlin (GER), Magnet Club
07.03.2014 Malmö (S), Babel
08.03.2014 Hamburg (GER), Markthalle
14.03.2014 Athens (GR), Second Skin Club*
15.03.2014 St. Petersburg (RU), Backstage Club*
16.03.2014 Moscow (RU), Rockhouse*
*AP Only
Lady Neptune to release 'Destroys The Moon' EP on 24th February via Icecapades
Manchester based label Icecapades are pleased to confirm details of 'Destroys the Moon', the second E.P from Lady Neptune, the alter ego of London based musician and visual artist, Moema Meade.
Five tracks of bedroom produced, speaker-tickling, unhinged noise digressions, and layers of fuzz-punk blast are delivered with an ice-cold, laconic air. 'Destroys the Moon' will chime with those hipped to Moe's work with her other bands, Dog Legs & As Ondas, as well as those who had their ears pricked up by her only other previous release, the now long sold out, 'Saves Planet Earth' E.P.
Having now pooled members of Shopping and H.Grimace in as hired guns for her live band (along with producer of this E.P, Joey Fourr), Moema is looking ahead to a short tour in the spring in support of the release.
She says; "(Lady Neptune) came about because I’m in other bands that are really fun, but I had all these other songs that were really different, so I thought I’d put them all together.. I called it Lady Neptune, I guess as an alter ego. I think she’s more colourful than I am.. The whole thing was meant to be Space themed, with the Neptune thing. I guess she’s a bit out of this world, or trying to be"* Watch the video for 'Words' below...
Lady Neptune - Words from Moe Meade on Vimeo.
LAIBACH release a brand new album, SPECTRE, on CD, vinyl and download on 3 March 2014. The deluxe edition of the album will come with four extra tracks plus the SPECTRE Partybook: a laminated linen bound party membership book with SPECTRE’s manifesto and an invite to register your allegiance to its thesis.
SPECTRE follows the band’s widely acclaimed conceptual album VOLK (2006) – where Laibach interpreted national anthems of historically imperialistic nations – and the release of the side projects LAIBACHKUNSTDERFUGE (2008) and IRON SKY: The Original Film Soundtrack (2012).
SPECTRE’s release will be followed by a worldwide tour, which includes dates at KOKO, London as well as the band’s first foray into China: a live date on 22 March will be preceded by a Laibach Kunst exhibition (17 January-20 March), plus a Laibach Seminar at the City University of Hong Kong on 21 March.
Laibach has once again ‘re-invented’ itself in a newly born, yet polished and solid, formation. And, as is now customary, Laibach calls into question all the rigid and cemented interpretations (and prejudices) about itself, about its music, intentions, philosophy and ideology. Laibach are masters of escape, true escape artists. And yet, despite everything, SPECTRE resonates as a real and full-blooded Laibachian work and nothing else.
With SPECTRE Laibach has created a big, important, and almost dangerous step forward; it seems that this time it has fatally crossed the Rubicon. On this album the group – which has never defined itself politically, but has, nevertheless, constantly analysed politics through its work – comes across as politically engaged as never before. SPECTRE literally sounds like a political manifesto manifest in poetic form. Titles and lyrics couldn’t be more direct. With these lyrics and songs, Laibach, who has always given a controversial impression – or an impression of controversy – especially in terms of its political orientation, is now very clearly taking a position on the political spectrum and probably irreversibly abolishing its own (to some extent quite comfortable) political ‘freedom’ and neutrality.
The album opens with The Whistleblowers, a contagiously optimistic piece of classic “militant & symphonic” Laibach, sounding like the sequel to Lieutenant F. J. Ricketts’s 1914 “Colonel Bogey March”. This rousing whistle along track – “From North and South / We come from East and West / Breathing as one / Living in fame / Or dying in flame”” alludes to the heroism of the new, ‘digital’ Prometheans of freedom - Bradley Manning, Edward Snowden, Julian Assange.
No History, knows no mercy, and leaves no doubt: Laibach require uncompromising action, they demand bravery and boldness and seek heroes “who will be the creed of a new political faith”. And, in one of the verses of this song, listeners can find a mini-‘manifesto’ about the album itself, its sonic expression, and the position of the group in relation to its own history.
In amongst these rallying calls from the band, sits a rare Laibach love song: We Are Millions And Millions Are One deals with love in today’s impossible times, times which are dangerously close to the fictional reality of classic anti-utopian novels such as Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We (Мы), Laibach’s inspiration for this song.
Ending the album is the elegant utopian song Koran a track that shows the possibility of a better and fairer world – on Earth or in the hereafter. Koran – which literally means ‘recitation’ (also another key Laibachian trait) –, of course, to some extent also refers to the series of uprisings, revolutions and wars in the Arab world that have been taking place in the past few years and which refuse to sink. Consequently, the album ends with the (in)complete, open, unfinished sound of a piano key...
SPECTRE Tracklisting:
The Whistleblowers
No History
Eat Liver!
Americana
We Are Millions And Millions Are One
Eurovision
Walk With Me
Bossanova
Resistance Is Futile
Koran
TOUR DATES - 2014
6 March - Luzern, Schüür, CH
7 March - Weinheim, Café Central, DE
8 March - Paris, Trabendo FR
10 March - Leuven, Het Depot, BE
12 March - London, KOKO, UK
13 March - Amsterdam, Melkweg, NL
14 March - Cologne, Stollwerk, DE
15 March - Schorndorf (nr Stuttgart), Manufaktur, DE
16 March - Munich, Technikum, DE
22 March - Hong Kong - The Vine Center, CN
2 April - Rome, Orion Club, IT
3 April - Trezzo (Milan), Live Club, IT
4 April - Frankfurt am Main – Mousontrum, DE
5 April - Dresden – Reithalle, DE
7 April - Berlin, Volksbühne, DE
8 April - Hamburg, Uebel & Gefrährlich, DE
10 April - Malmö, Babel, SE
12 April - Poznan, C.K. Zamek, PL
13 April - Gdansk, B90, PL
15 April - Wien, Arena, AT
16 April - Budapest, A38, HU
18 April - Praha, Archa Theatre, CZ
9 May - Zagreb, Tvornica Kulture, HR
In 2014 Summer Darkness will not have a summer edition. This year Summer Darkness says its farewell to Tivoli Oudegracht as location with the winter edition, which is set for February 21st with: Hocico, Aesthetic Perfection, Faderhead, Terrolokaust, Winterkaelte and special guest Johan van Roy of Suicide Commando.
After 11 successful editions of the largest Dutch dark underground lifestyle festival it is time for a moment of reflection. The festival has always had an eye for innovation, but innovation obviously doesn’t just happen, the festival will now take an extra year to find new interpretations for innovation.
There are several conditions that make this a good time for a sabbatical. In the summer of 2014, the Dom Square, the heart of the festival with the market, stage and terrace, is unavailable due to excavations. The German Amphi Festival has decided to move to the last weekend of July, which for years has been the fixed festival weekend of Summer Darkness. The organization of the festival will have a new home at TivoliVredenburg, this all given, it is a good moment to think about the future.
The various Summer Darkness presents concerts, like May 18th Näo, Puin + Hoop & Distel and June 14th The Cruxshadows, and the dark undergound club night Cyberia will continue.
www.summerdarkness.nl/festival/news/message/title/Summer-Darkness-takes-sabbatical
