Norwegian artist Jenny Hval will release her new album, Blood Bitch, on September 30th via Sacred Bones. Co-produced with noise producer Lasse Marhaug, Blood Bitch is “an investigation of blood. Blood that is shed naturally. The white and red toilet roll chain which ties together the virgins, the whores, the mothers, the witches, the dreamers, and the lovers.” It is Hval’s most fictional yet most personal album.
Hval now introduces the video for the album’s debut single, ‘Female Vampire.’ Directed by Jenny Berger Myhre, shot an iPhone and starring Hval and her friends, the video nods to the low budget horror sexploitation films of the late 70s and early 80s from which the album was inspired.
As Hval explains, “What does eternity feel like? How do you ‘live’ when there is no death? Usually, the vampire is depicted as a lonesome, all-knowing and ancient creature combining violence, aggressive sexuality and deceitful youth. The pack behind the video for ‘Female Vampire’ wanted to explore vampiric eternity in a different narrative: in a group of romancing friends. The vampire friends move through their hometown of Oslo, partaking in public and private rituals of moving together. We also wanted to combine ideas from old vampire trash movies and modern trashy iPhone videos, resulting in an enigmatic world of time-lapse like slow motion where everything is always moving, or moving on. Not there, or not there yet.”
Jenny Hval Tour Dates:
Fri. July 15 – Chicago, IL @ Constellation w/ Circuit Des Yeux
Sat. July 16 – Chicago, IL @ Pitchfork Music Festival
Fri. Aug. 5 - Katowice, PL @ Off Festival
Sun. Sep. 4 - Larmer Tree Gardens, UK @ End of the Road
Wed. Sep. 14 - Oslo, NO @ Ultima Festival
Thu. Sep. 29 – Philadelphia, PA @ PhilaMOCA
Fri. Sep. 30 - New York, NY @ Le Poisson Rouge
Tue. Oct. 4 – Boston, MA @ Great Scott
Wed. Oct. 5 – Montreal, QC @ Casa del Popolo
Fri. Oct. 7 – Toronto, ON @ The Drake
Sat. Oct. 8 – Oberlin, OH @ Oberlin College
Sun. Oct. 9 – Washington, DC @ DC9
Mon. Oct. 17 - Glasgow, UK @ Stereo
Tue. Oct. 18 - Manchester, UK @ Soup Kitchen
Wed. Oct. 19 - London, UK @ Oslo
Fri. Oct. 21 - Brussels, BE @ AB
Sat. Oct. 22 - Paris, FR @ Point Ephemere
Mon. Oct. 24 - Luzern, CH @ Suedpol
Wed. Oct. 26 - Berlin, DE @ Kantine am Berghain
Thu. Oct. 27 - Amsterdam, NL @ De School
Fri. Oct. 28 - Hamburg, DE @ Kampnagel
Sat. Oct. 29 – Copenhagen, DK @ Jazzhouse
Fri. Nov. 11 - Los Angeles, CA @ Resident
Sat. Nov. 12 – Oakland, CA @ Starline Social Club
Mon. Nov. 14 – Portland, OR @ Holocene
Tue. Nov. 15 – Seattle, WA @ Kremwerk
Wed. Nov. 16 – Vancouver, BC @ Biltmore Cabare
While Super Dragon Punch!! was already selected two weeks ago by the audience on the Dark Demons Night (Part I), the spectators of last Saturday's Dark Demons Night (Part II) chose Euforic Existence as their personal and favorite opener for BIMFEST 2016.
Super Dragon Punch!! will open on Friday December 17th while Euforic Existence will open on Saturday December 18th.
With the addition of these last two bands the BIMFEST 2016 line-up is now 100% complete and 100% Belgian!
More information about the full line-up can be found on www.bimfest.be
BIMFEST 2016 facebook event page
2016 means ten years of DELAIN – and therefore ten years of larger-than-life symphonic metal!
The band's latest EP Lunar Prelude was a tasty treat earlier this year, but haven`t we all been waiting for the main course? Finally the wait is over, as DELAIN have now unveiled first and hotly anticipated details for their upcoming and fifth studio album titled Moonbathers, set to be released August 26th 2016 on Napalm Records!
Delain: “We have never had so many milestone events in one year. The release of our EP
Lunar Prelude, our fifth studio album Moonbathers, our upcoming 10 year anniversary
celebrations and Live registration, and there is still more to come. All of this while
playing our most heavy touring year ever. We are on a roll, and our new album
Moonbathers is here to embody that. We hope you will enjoy this new effort and join us
on our endeavors making 2016 the biggest year for Delain ever!”
Moonbathers, mastered by Grammy award winning Ted Jensen, will satiate your hunger for the symphonic greatness, catchy hooks and a solid dose of metal that the band is known for. It showcases DELAIN from both their most extravagant and sensitive sides as they explore all things nocturnal through an especially varied set of tracks including a surprising cover of classic rock legends Queen as well as a reappearance of Alissa White-Gluz as a special guest on opening track on “Hands Of Gold”.
With ten years, touring the world with acts such as Sabaton, Nightwish or Within Temptation, two EP's and now their fifth full length album under their belt, 2016 will undoubtedly prove to be the biggest year for DELAIN so far!
These are crazy times and we have made a record steeped in this moment of history that we're all trying to live through. We've always considered ourselves a political band, even when that aspect seemed to be concealed by some type of narrative device i.e. dealing with issues of race by telling a story set in the time of George Wallace or class struggles by setting "Putting People of the Moon" in the age of Reagan.
This time out, there are no such diversions as these songs are mostly set front and center in the current political arena with songs dealing with our racial and cultural divisions, gun violence, mass shootings and political assholery. Once again, there is a nearly even split between the songs of Cooley and myself, with both of us bringing in songs that seem to almost imply a conversation between us about our current place in time.
"American Band" is a rock and roll call to arms as well as a musical reset button for our band and the country we live in. Most of all, we look at it as the beginnings of some conversations that we, as a people very much need to begin having if we ever hope to break through the divisions that are threatening to tear us apart.
Drive-By Truckers are celebrating our twentieth anniversary as a band in an election year where some people are trying to define what it is to be American. Definitions based on some outdated ideology of prejudice and fear. We are loudly proclaiming that those people don't speak for us. America is and always has been a land of immigrants and ideals. Ideals that we have often fallen short of achieving, but it's the striving that has given us whatever claims to greatness we have had. That's what America means to us and "We're an American Band".
American Band - the eleventh studio album by Drive-By Truckers. Coming September 30th, 2016 from ATO Records.
The undead templars of Heimataerde return with a catchy mix of Electro, medieval music and Neue Deutsche Härte on their new single “Hick Hack Hackebeil“ - a smashing harbinger for the epic new album “Aerdenbrand.“
The henchman grinds his axe, the delinquent readies himself for his final breath. Wrapped in a garb of bauble and taffeta, the beat dances to an intriguing nursery rhyme that feels like the nightmare of a sleepless night, while the melodie “Hick Hack Hackbeil” grinds into the subconscious with pompous choirs. With a fusion of anthem and horror movie, Heimataerde yet again indulge in their unconventional and non-conformist approach to port long gone musical traditions into the here and now. Next to the hit-laden title track which is on the single in three versions, the band is providing catchy club-compatible interpretations of medieval songs with the Jewish “Tsur Mishelo” and the old pilgrim-tune “Stella Splendens.” “Hick Hack Hackebeil” is released as a hand-numbered Digipak MCD, limited to 666 copies. So, shoulder that axe for the last, great dance before the “Aerdenbrand.”
Track Listing:
1. Hick Hack Hackebeil (Radio)
2. Stella Splendens
3. Hick Hack Hackebeil (Album)
4. Tsur Mishelo
5. Hick Hack Hackebeil (Club)
