This month it’s 38 years ago Canadian industrial act Skinny Puppy released their very first EP Remission.
This month it’s 38 years ago Canadian industrial act Skinny Puppy released their very first EP Remission, a six track record, on Nettwerk Records (December 1984). In 1986, after their first full album Bites was released, Skinny Puppy released a cassette version of Remission with additional tracks expanding the release to a full-length album. In 1987 both albums Remission and Bites ended up together on one single CD album called Bites And Remission containing 17 tracks while the European PIAS version named Remission & Bites had only 14 tracks on it.
Besides the already recognizable and typical Skinny Puppy style the EP is filled with vocal samples taken from, amongst others, the 1943 Hitchcock movie Shadow Of A Doubt and even a sample of president Ronald Reagan’s speech about pornography as art.
The original release already contained some of Skinny Puppy’s classics songs like Smothered Hope, Far Too Frail and Solvent, tracks that still can be heard at many underground parties today.
Remission (original 12" vinyl version)
Back (Side A)
A1 Smothered Hope
A2 Glass Houses
A3 Far Too Frail
Side B -
Forth (Side B)
B1 Solvent
B2 Sleeping Beast
B3 Brap...
Dark electronic band, Hem Netjer, talks of releasing inner warriors with new single
"Elemental Cry" is the third single release from dark electronic folk band, Hem Netjer and appears on their upcoming album The Song Of Trees, scheduled for release at the end of February 2023.
"Elemental Cry" features themes of struggle, facing your fears and releasing your inner warrior to overcome odds. The song speaks from two different points of view; the verses from the warrior's view and the chorus from the general’s view. The warrior will have to fight in a battle they know they can’t win while the general's job is to support the clanmates so they can do the right thing even though they will not survive in the end.
The atmosphere, fueled by the lyrics is one of finding the strength within to be a part of something bigger. It's the realization that there are no divides between those who work and call themselves family.
Lines such as “we are the land and the flame, the air and the waves speak our name” speak to how your spirit and soul lives on in nature and the community around you when you are physically gone.
"Elemental Cry" is available on all major digital platforms including Bandcamp.
On this day, 52 years ago, Kraftwerk released their self-titled debut studio album (1 December 1970). The album was produced by Konrad "Conny" Plank and is often refered to as 'Kraftwerk 1'.
On this album Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider used two drummers, Andreas Hohmann and Klaus Dinger. Their drumming provides the album a rock-ish edge, making it sound quite distinctive from Hütter and Schneider's previous work. The album contains instrumentals only.
The cover design, credited to Ralf Hütter, is a curious nod to the influence of Andy Warhol and the then contemporary pop art movement, featuring a fluorescent-coloured traffic cone drawn in a Warhol-esque manner.
No material from this album has been performed in the band's live set since the Autobahn tour of 1975 and, to date, the album has not been officially reissued. The band is seemingly reluctant to consider the album a part of its canon and in later interviews, Schneider referred to the first three Kraftwerk albums as "archaeology".
In 1971 the album peaked in the German album charts at position 30.
KRAFTWERK
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A1. Ruckzuck 7:47 |
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A2.Stratovarius 12:10 |
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B1. Megaherz 9:30 |
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B2. Vom Himmel hoch. 19:12 |
All tracks are written by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider-Esleben.
Kraftwerk (1970)
- Ralf Hütter – organ, guitar, tubon, cover design
- Florian Schneider-Esleben – flute, violin, percussion
- Andreas Hohmann – drums on "Ruckzuck" and "Stratovarius"
- Klaus Dinger – drums on "Vom Himmel hoch"
Gothic/Occult wave duo, Raven Said brings alchemy to 'Chants To Dissolve'
Gothic/occult wave duo Raven Said has just unveiled their new EP, Chants To Dissolve.
Chants To Dissolve is about the spiritual essence that represents a certain alchemical phase of Solve (a transitional process between the Nigredo and Albedo phases in basic Alchemy).
On the abstract, the EP represents the invisible and inaudible fluttering of a butterfly's wing to the deafening roar of the inescapable wave of the coming future. Physically, it's an effort aimed at changing the composition, without an exact result in a philosophical context. This means that the future is not defined and there is only the possibility of one or another existence; a certain point of polyfurcation, a set of evolution.
With pulsing vibrations of guitar and synths transformed into elegant canvases in cold tones, Raven Said is the flexible fusion of darkwave / goth rock / post-punk; the musical expression of symbolic mysticism and psychology.
Chants To Dissolve is available NOW on CD and digital formats via Bandcamp.
Industrial band Silence Embrace drops the dystopian cyberpunk EP, 'Meta Queer Dolls'
Ohio-based industrial band, Silence Embrace has just dropped their new EP, Meta Queer Dolls. Cyberpunk soundscapes for a dystopian future. That's Meta Queer Dolls.
Dead hardware, obsolete programs & formats (VHS) summarize the album's themes. Even the cover is based on dead media and video games.
Individual tracks, however, have stories of their own. "The House Awaits" is a darkwave trance track that takes inspiration from pop culture characters. The album outro, "Pandemic" is an instrumental witch-house track that starts with haunting chants, thick soundscapes and summarizes the journey taken throughout the EP."
Meta Queer Dolls is available NOW on digital platforms including Bandcamp.
