British metal legends Paradise Lost have just entered Orgone Studios in London with producer Jaimie Gomez Arellano (GHOST BC, ULVER, CATHEDRAL, ANGEL WITCH) to begin work on their fourteenth studio album.

Longtime fans will be excited to hear the musical direction that the band has chosen to pursue on this outing.

Vocalist Nick Holmes explains: “We wanted to approach the new album differently this time, by embracing the band’s VERY early days with the last few years. We have written a very dark yet melodic album, but this time many songs definitely have a death metal edge, which is something we haven’t done for a long, long time in PARADISE LOST.”

No word on an album title yet, but the record is tentatively scheduled for an April 2015 release date via Century Media Records. We will keep you updated with details as they emerge.

The history of the film Charlie's Family is long and painful. It was delayed endlessly and suffered from lack of funding for nearly 20 years. It was finally released with the name The Manson Family in 2004 to mixed reviews. Most of the music in the film was written and recorded by Phil Anselmo (Pantera) and Ross Karpelman, but it wasn't Anselmo who was charged with writing the film's soundtrack.

The soundtrack to the film was actually completed in the summer of 1995 by Download, the post-Skinny Puppy project which, in its initial lineup featured Cevin Key, Phil Western, and Dwayne Goettel. The soundtrack was released first as a limited to 2,000 copies CD and was available for sale at Download shows in 1996. It sold out quickly and was re-issued in 1997 by a new label at the time, Metropolis Records. The Metropolis release featured slightly different cover art and was presented in a digipak. Both editions are out of print.

Artoffact Records is pleased to announce an exclusive licensing arrangement with Cevin Key's Subconscious Communications to release Charlie's Family for the first time on vinyl. The edition will be available in early 2015 on black vinyl and on two separate collector's colours, pale grey, and a special edition black and bone-yellow half-and-half.

The music on Charlie's Family is dark and haunting ("strange" said the initial press release). From the opening sample-ladened and cinematic Beautiful to Gristle Dog Corr (featuring Genesis P-Orridge), to the long, digital echoiness of Catblower, the album is as unsettling as you would want for the soundtrack to Charlie Manson's life. While the masters for both audio and art are no longer available, everything possible is being done to restore the original aesthetic and provide a dynamic and engaging listening experience.

Includes an MP3 download code.

During a live Q&A session for buyers at the American Film Market, the legendary filmmaker said that his current project, The Hateful Eight, could also be his last one. Deadline is reporting that Tarantino is debating his retirement after making his tenth film. According to Tarantino, there comes a time in every director’s life when they have to step down and let younger minds take over.

“I don’t believe you should stay onstage until people are begging you to get off. I like the idea of leaving them wanting a bit more,” Tarantino said.“I do think directing is a young man’s game, and I like the idea of an umbilical cord connection from my first to my last movie. I’m not trying to ridicule anyone who thinks differently, but I want to go out while I’m still hard. … I like that I will leave a 10-film filmography, and so I’ve got two more to go after this. It’s not etched in stone, but that is the plan. If I get to the 10th, do a good job and don’t screw it up, well that sounds like a good way to end the old career.”

This is not the first time Tarantino announces his plans for early retirement. In 2009, at the U.K. launch of Inglorious Basterds, he expressed his appreciation for directors that retire at a certain age. Three years later, in 2012, he gave an interview for Playboybefore the Django Unchained premiere in which he said that “I just don’t want to be an old-man filmmaker. I want to stop at a certain point. Directors don’t get better as they get older. Usually the worst films in their filmography are those last four at the end. I am all about my filmography, and one bad film f**ks up three good ones."

But if there’s one thing we know about retirements, is that sometimes people change their minds. I mean does Michael Jordan or Michael Phelps ring a bell? For example, at the same Q&A session, Tarantino also said that “If, later on, I come across a good movie, I won’t not do it just because I said I wouldn’t. But 10 and done, leaving them wanting more — that sounds right.”At the event, the panel also included The Hateful Eight stars Samuel L. Jackson and Kurt Russell, who both expressed their doubts about Tarantino being able to stay out of the filmmaking business. Kurt Russell asked the audience “You don’t actually believe that shit, do you?”, while Samuel Jackson was curious about “What’s Quentin going to do with himself if he’s not doing this?”

Also, fans are counting on his fight against digital filmmaking to keep him in the industry. It’s a known fact that Tarantino is a hardcore fan of old school filmmaking and he’s putting a lot of effort in trying to stop the momentum of digital filmmaking. The Hateful Eight will be shot in 70 mm in what the director hopes to be a reminder that compared to film, digital filmmaking is like bringing a knife to a gunfight. “I know this business has gone digital, even more in foreign countries than in America where it’s 90%. Digital presentation is just television in public, we’re all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen. I have worked 20 years, too long to accept the diminishing results of having it come into theaters with the quality of a f*cking DVD, shot with the same shit they shoot soap operas with. It’s just not good enough for me,” Tarantino said.

And finally, one last reason for fans not to worry so much would be story behind The Hateful Eight. Following the Django Unchained premiere, Tarantino announced working on a new Western movie, not related to Django. The script leaked in January and the director immediately announced his plans to drop the movie. However, things changed in the meantime and filming is scheduled to start this month, with a cast that includes Samuel L. Jackson, Channing Tatum, Kurt Russell, Michael Madsen and Tim Roth.

So is he for real? Will Tarantino really retire after The Hateful Eight? Is this just a move to create buzz about the movie? Who knows, but one thing’s for sure, we’re all counting the days until it hits cinemas and see what Tarantino’s farewell movie will be like.

Marcel Vanthilt is for sure still one of the most adventurous musicians in Belgium. With his new “Paracetamol” Remix EP ( available as of November 24th as digital download only) he dives into heavy electro ! The titletrack from his 12”EP, released earlier on this year, got a drastic remake/remix by experienced electro musicians such as Dreamwash aka Sam Devos (For Greater Good), VV303 Aka Steve Deconinck, Marc Hupkens and Johan ‘Zymotic’ Willems. They got a wild card to dismantle the song and to rebuild it again in their own specific style, with great, surprising results…

Adapted from Nobel Laureate Władysław Reymont's classic 1897 novel, The Promised Land is the story of three friends - one Polish, one German and one Jewish - united in their ruthless pursuit of fortune. With stunning camerawork and sumptuous design, Wajda depicts the explosive energy of a world being transformed by rampant industrialisation.

Nominated for the Best Foreign Film Oscar (and also voted 'Best Film in the history of Polish cinema' in the monthly Polish magazine FILM) Wajda's lavish epic is an incisive, Dickensian tale of greed, exploitation and betrayal. This visceral examination of unbridled capitalism remains morally and politically incisive today. The Promised Land is presented here in its original full-length, uncut cinema version.

The DVD is presented from a new, director-approved HD digital transfer with restored picture and sound, and features a new, exclusive interview with director Andrzej Wajda plus a 16-page booklet with a new essay on the film by author and film historian David Thompson.

Release date: November 2014