Feeling glum about tomorrow's impending return to reality, following a blissful bank holiday weekend?
Well then Ashestoangels' haunting new tome, 'Elsinore' should prove the perfect soundtrack for those back-to-work blues.
Taken from their acclaimed new album 'With Tape And Needles', which is released via DustDevilSounds, 'Elsinore' boasts a soaring, melancholic chorus hook that you'll be humming for the rest of the week.
“I started Ashestoangels a very long time ago; most people learn their craft in a number of different bands, but I've just stuck with one,” says Ashestoangels’ singer/synth botherer Crilly of his band’s humble origins. “I've written literally hundreds of songs since the band started, some of them are pretty terrible! But I think you can trace a fairly clear evolution from our first song to where we are now. I've always had a sound in my head, its just taken this long to get it out.... Like Johnny Cash we sound like this because we don't know how to play any other way.”
Even after these years of development and slaving over a hot amp, Ashestoangels - completed by drummer Jim, bassist Nico and guitarist Adam - were willing to accept outside creative input on their craft, teaming up with Aiden vocalist and upcoming producer WILLIAM CONTROL for the album’s most essential stage: “William could see what we were going for on this album and really pushed us to try and achieve it,” recalls Crilly. “He really knows his stuff when it comes to electronics and punk rock, the two things that make up a lot of our sound. It would have been a very different album if we had worked with anyone else. He told us that we were a great local band, but it was time to step our game up. With him driving us we rewrote and recorded the whole album in about 14 days.
“When we came into the studio we brought an albums worth of songs that we thought were finished - William thought they were demos,” he continues; “So, we basically quit sleeping and just got on with rewriting it. It was very intense and my ego took a death punch to the face but we came out a much better band.”
Peek-A-Boo proudly presents 85 the newest clip by French coldwave-act Contre Jour.
Contre Jour - 85 from Contre Jour on Vimeo.
With an impressive discography populated by small runs of cassette and vinyl releases, Sweden’s Trepaneringsritualen (aka Thomas Martin Ekelund) has quickly cultivated a cult following not normally seen within industrial music in 2013. With an uncanny ability to tap into the primitive nature of old school ritual ambient and death industrial, Trepaneringsritualen creates a strikingly authentic sound… shadowy and endlessly bleak, replete with clanking metal, slow, ceremonial percussion, and brooding textural depth, all infused with vocal incantations and murky, post-mortem atmospheres. "The Totality Of Death" is technically a 2CD set, released separately yet simultaneously between US label Malignant and Belgium’s Silken Tofu. The material is a 2 hour collection of rare and out of print recordings in addition to never before released tracks. The artwork and layout is nearly identical, and both are released in editions of 500 copies. Digipak.
E One proudly presents the third season of The Walking Dead, the succesfull zombieseries. Once again Sheriff Rick Grimes has to fight the walking dead aka zombies.
Even if you think that there's just too many zombiestuff around, you'll definitely have to give The Walking Dead a change as it's different then the stuff you seen before.
From 26 September on Entertainment One releases the third season on both dvd and Blu-ray. You might be indeed very afraid.
Flux Fin (formerly known as just ”Flux”) recently released the harsh EP ”Defences/All Out” with a slightly different sound. On the new release ”Cold Shiver” the classic electro pop vibe is back. Release date is August 19 and the single is available worldwide through the usual channels.
