eathday (formerly Deathday Party) is a Los Angeles based Experimental Post-punk band, formed in Santa Ana, California in 2008 by brothers Alex Guillén and Giovanni Guillén. Previous incarnations of the group can be traced back to Santa Ana's Koo's scene of the late 1990's. While the title-track is an unreleased one, instead "Dropped Into Obscurity" was already included in the Downwards compilation "Click Heels" alongside with Tropic Of Cancer, Silent Servant, The KVB. On the B side Mannequin asked to the synth-master Legowelt to remix After Dark".
Seldom has the post-punk revival seemed as urgent as with Deathday, who match their guitar driven dirges with esoteric industrial soundscapes and tape manipulation. Their music is often as bleak as it is violent, with low end cacophony bludgeoning the listener into submission. Lyrically, Deathday often invoke the violent culture hidden beneath the media, as well as explore the crippling aftershocks of isolation and the mysticism of the occult.
Comparisons, for those who prefer them, could easily be made to the likes of Throbbing Gristle and Suicide’s uncompromising attitude and primal infrastructure, but the band has equal roots in forgotten post-punk favorites such as Nagamatzu, Venus In Furs, and Joy of Life, creating a powerful hybrid exploring the darkest and most hypnotic corners of the spectrum.
Known as Deathday Party until 2011, the band’s self-titled cassette, released in early 2012, exists as a cold snapshot of their formative material, while both “After Dark” and “Dropped Into Obscurity,” released on Mannequin’s The End of Civilaztion and Downward’s So Click Heels compilations respectively, offer a club-friendly alternative. While neither track compromises the band’s dark overtones, these tracks are ripe for the dance floor, having garnered heavy play in LA, New York, and Berlin especially.
wedish duo Cryo (Martin Rudefelt / Torny Gottberg) is finally back with their new album called "Retropia" out on January 29th via Progress Productions. The band has been working hard over the last years touring especially in Russia and they return for a russian tour in the end of March again.
Later on the band is schedule also for shows in Germany. The album holds 11 tracks of both hard dancefloor tracks such as the last single "In Your Eyes" who was on the german DAC-Charts for 8 weeks and more slow atmospheric stuff like the ending epos "So Close" which is divided into three parts.
A special Russian edition of the album will also be released on the same time by Progress Productions partner Razgrom.
Two worlds collide in Traveller, an action-packed tale of violence, corruption and the little known world of the traveller community starring David Essex and his son Billy Cook, which comes to DVD on 27 January from Metrodome Distibution.
Billy Cook plays Owen McBride a half-breed Gypsy who struggles with his identity, but is reluctant to cut his ties with the Traveller world.
As a favour to a friend he gets involved with a botched robbery and finds himself on the run from a murderous gangster as well as the police. He finds refuge with Gypsy horse dealer Blackberry (David Essex) and forms an unusual alliance with a young female police officer (Kerrie Hayes – The Mill). But the Gorja world soon clashes with the Gypsy world culminating in a deadly climax.
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Still looking for that ultimate Christmas gift? Perhaps A-Film can deliver you a solution as this week the label releases two brand new movies that are definitely worth seeing.
For instance there’s SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED, the newest movie by Iron Herring, both now out on Blu-ray and DVD.
Synopsis: Three magazine employees head out on an assignment to interview a guy who placed a classified ad seeking a companion for time travel.
Recommended if you like RUBY SPARKS or LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE
Or what about THE FROZEN GROUND, the newest Nicolas Cage-movie.
Synopsis: An Alaska State Trooper partners with a young woman who escaped the clutches of serial killer Robert Hansen to bring the murderer to justice.
Judging on the trailer, it really looks good, not?
In 2007, Sacred Bones Records founder Caleb Braaten started unearthing rare and little-heard post-punk, deathrock and dark punk tracks for an eventual compilation. Seven years later, riffing on the tradition of the internationally known punk collector series, Killed by Death, those tracks are finally being released on vinyl, CD, and digital formats as Killed by Deathrock Vol. 1. Bands from all over the world are represented on the comp, from the relatively well-known Scots in Twisted Nerve to the “completely un-Googleable” Move from Italy. Also featured are the French band known simply as Bunker on their first demo tape who later became Bunker Strasse, though still remained largely obscure. Kitchen & the Plastic Spoons formed as a sort of goof band in Sweden in 1980 and only released a couple of 7-inches before disbanding a year later in 1981.
The rest of the comp represents a vast spectrum of geography with the US being represented by Your Funeral, Glorious Din, The Naked and the Dead, and Afterimage. Screaming for Emily (UK), Baroque Bordello (France), and Taste of Decay (Germany) round out the collection. What all these bands have in common, apart from their dark, icy atmosphere, is that they’re quintessential pieces of the deathrock story whose music hasn’t been heard by nearly enough people — until now.
