The five-piece fronted by extraordinary vocalist Lena is probably releasing one of the best albums of 2019!
METAL OBS MAGAZINE
Tight musicianship and crisp production complete the job of making this a real winner. Infected Rain sound like they’re ready to take the next big step up the music ladder!
DEVOLUTION MAGAZINE
The Netherlands has For I Am King, Ukraine has Jinjer and Moldova has Infected Rain. A modern metal band with female screams that inspires your fear!
AARDSCHOK MAGAZINE
Let yourself get infected by a group that is far from the overly fabricated metal that many of us have become accustomed to getting used to!
RADIO METAL
With 'Endorphin' they have created an album with which the breakthrough will only follow!
ARROW LORDS OF METAL
October 18th will see up and coming Moldova-based dynamic metal outfit INFECTED RAIN release their fourth album, entitled Endorphin, via Napalm Records.
The band – fronted by extraordinary multi-talented vocalist Lena – has just unleashed a third video clip, to the brutal-yet-eerily melodic track Black Gold.
Watch INFECTED RAIN's brand new music video below!
Says the band: Should we be or do what they say? What is the true beauty nowadays? How many times did you ask yourself these questions? How many times did you have the doubt! The frustration is real.
It’s been really hard to hold back from the urge to share with you one more song before we release our album Endorphin. Ladies and gentleman please enjoy every shade of Black Gold.
Fierce screams and growls, heavy riffs and pounding beats combined with ingenious samples make INFECTED RAIN’s style an energetic blend of the best modern metal styles the heavy music scene currently has to offer. The band was formed in 2008 and made their first appearance on stage in the same year, performing a concert dedicated to Slayer. Countless shows all over Europe and Russia followed, alongside headlining slots at Europe's big festival names, until they gained the well-deserved attention of leading rock and metal label Napalm Records. INFECTED RAIN has released two EPs, several singles and three critically acclaimed, full-length records to date. Get infected by the future of modern and extreme metal – you won’t want to escape from the vehemence that is INFECTED RAIN!
See for yourself, and catch INFECTED RAIN live on tour at one of the following dates:
02.11 - (IT) Bari - Demode
03.11 - (IT) Rome - Orion
05.11 - (IT) Bologna - Estragon
06.11 - (IT) Milan - Live Club
07.11 - (CH) Zurich - Komplex 457
08.11 - (DE) Stuttgart - LKA
09.11 - (DE) Oberhausen - Turbinenhalle
10.11 - (BE) Antwerpen - Trix
12.11 - (UK) Manchester – O2 Ritz
13.11 - (UK) Glasgow – Garage
14.11 - (IRL) Dublin - Academy
15.11 - (UK) Bristol - SWX
16.11 - (UK) London - O2 Forum Kentish Town
17.11 - (NL) Utrecht - Tivoli
19.11 - (DE) Frankfurt - Batschkapp
20.11 - (DE) Hannover - Capitol
21.11 - (DE) Berlin - Huxleys
22.11 - (DE) Leipzig - Felsenkeller
23.11 - (DE) Munich - Tonhalle
24.11 - (AT) Dornbirn - Conrad Sohm
26.11 - (FR) Bordeaux - Le Rocher de Palmer
27.11 - (ESP) Barcelona - Razzmatazz II
28.11 - (ESP) Madrid - Mon Live
29.11 - (FR) Toulouse - Le Bikini
30.11 - (FR) Rennes - L’Etage
01.12 - (FR) Paris - Elysée-Montmartre
03.12 - (DE) Saarbrücken - Garage
04.12 - (DE) Nürnberg - Hirsch
05.12 - (SLO) Ljubljana - Kino Siska
06.12 - (HU) Budapest - Barba Negra
07.12 - (CZ) Zlin - Hala Euronics
08.12 - (AT) Vienna - Arena
10.12 - (PL) Krakow - Klub Kwadrat
11.12 - (PL) Warsaw - Progresja
12.12 - (LV) Riga - Melna Piektdiena
13.12 - (FI) Helsinki - Tavastia
14.12 - (FI) Tampere - Pakkahuone
15.12 - (EST) Tallinn - Rock Cafe
17.12 - (SE) Stockholm - Klubben Fryshuset
18.12 - (NO) Oslo - Vulkan Arena
19.12 - (SE) Gothenburg - Trädgarn
20.12 - (DK) Copenhagen - Amager Bio
21.12 - (DE) Hamburg - Docks
Album Tracklisting:
1. The Earth Mantra
2. Black Gold
3. Symphony Of Trust
4. Pendulum
5. Passerby
6. Lure
7. Victims
8. Walking Dead
9. Taphephobia
10. Storm
Infected Rain are:
Lena – Vocals
Vova – Bass
Sergey – Guitar
Vidick – Guitar
Eugene – Drums
Today it’s been exactly 29 years since Nine Inch Nails released ‘Sin’ (October 10th, 1990), their third single taken from the NIN debut album Pretty Hate Machine. The song peaked at number 35 in the UK single charts.
Ever since the song became one of NIN’s most wanted and played song on underground parties as well as being played live by the band.
The single versions of the song ‘Sin’ differentiate significantly from the album version, opposed to the rather synth-pop version we can hear on the album Pretty Hate Machine, it was produced with a more EBM approach. With distorted vocals and its alternate instrumentation it became the basis for the nowadays live version.
The original release contained three variations of ‘Sin’ as well as Nine Inch Nails' first officially release cover song ‘Get Down Make Love’, originally by Queen. Although all versions of ‘Sin’ were produced by Adrian Sherwood & Keith LeBlanc, the cover was produced by Trent Reznor and co-produced by Al Jourgenson of Ministry.
Sin - Tracklist (US version)
1. Sin (Long) 5:51
2. Sin (dub) 5:00
3. Get Down make Love 4:19
4. Sin (Short) 4:19
Sin
You give me the reason, you give me control
I gave you my purity, my purity you stole
Did you think I wouldn't recognize this compromise?
Am I just too stupid to realize?
Stale incense, old sweat
And lies, lies, lies
It comes down to this
Your kiss, your fist
And your strain, it gets under my skin
Within, take in
The extent of my sin
You give me the anger, you give me the nerve
Carry out my sentence, well I get what I deserve
I'm just an effigy to be disgraced, to be defaced
Your need for me has been replaced
And if I can't have everything
Well, then just give me a taste
It comes down to this
Your kiss, your fist
And your strain it gets under my skin
Within, take in
The extent of my sin
You give me the reason, you give me control
I gave you my purity and my purity you stole
Did you think I wouldn't recognize this compromise?
Am I just too stupid to realize?
Stale incense, old sweat
And lies, lies, lies
It comes down to this
Your kiss, your fist
And your strain, it gets under my skin
Within, take in
Well, my sin, it comes down to this
Your kiss, your fist
And your strain, it gets under my skin
Within, take in
The extent of my sin
Songwriter: Reznor
© The Bicycle Music Company
Four friends started to make music more than 30 years ago and today they are still friends who still make music, just for fun. Perhaps very naive but still with a heart for music.
These Belgians are quite popular in Germany, England, Spain, the Netherlands and Italy. In England, they are even called "the best kept Belgian secret". In Belgium almost everybody knows them.... a forest ranger, a video director, an art director and a booking agent, a strange combination that seems to work out well. Their songs are dark, romantic and pure. New Wave as it used to be but also contemporary. The rhythm is slower, the topics are up to date. Yoga Noise about how unhealthy it is to live healthily, Dark Room is about life without light and how your senses feed your worst thoughts, Phantom Chase is about the eternal search and pursuit of your archetype. Cadaver Synod is again about the absurdity of religion, with the co-operation of Blaine L. Reininger (Tuxedomoon). The music is sensual and passionate.
Our proposal to you: listen to the music and let it touch you. And don't tell anyone else.
Small anecdote: "The album "XII" is the result of, again, a "naive" idea: let's make a song every month with only the first takes and make an accompanying video with the song. Sometimes it was difficult, even impossible and yet, it worked. Or... how innocent ideas can lead to a good story."
Writer, singer and producer, Addie Brik has released a brand new single on her own Itza Music label on the 27th of September 2019.
‘I Know What I Do’ was recorded in London and is the first in a series of monthly digitally releases featuring recently re-discovered archive studio material. The follow up to last years ‘I Have a Doctor Onboard’ album, the new single features Bedouin Ascent’s Kingsuk Biswas and funk artist Menace.
Originally from Savannah Georgia, Addie Brik began writing poetry in her teens and this led to the prestigious Naropa Institute where she was mentored by Allen Ginsberg and famed CBS journalist John Steinbeck Jr. She joined a young artist’s troupe on Francis Ford Coppola’s lot at Zoetrope with such luminaries as Ed Harris and produced and acted in a production of Sam Shepard’s Cowboy Blues there.
She relocated to the UK in 1998 and taking musical inspiration from artists such as Henry Purcell, Joni Mitchell, Serge Gainsbourg, Washington Phillips, Shirley Collins, Joanna Newsom and Missy Elliott her demo recordings were discovered by Peter Gabriel which led to a deal with Geffen Records with Andy Gill of Gang of Four producing.
"The phenomenal Georgia-born Ms Brik has a ravishing vocal and tireless imagination" Daily Mirror
Since then Addie Brik has collaborated with The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Simple Minds, Plaid, Tarwater, Wendy and Lisa, Sugarhill Gang, Luke Vibert, BJ Cole, members of Funkadelic, Fishbone, Maxim Rysanov, Andrei Samsonov, HB Barnum (Aretha Franklin’s legendary writer and arranger), Kate St. John and John Philip Shenale.
For press enquiries contact: andy@somefriendly.co.uk
YOVA - Debut Single 'Moondog' (featuring members of PJ Harvey / Grumbling Fur / Cameron Craig)
London based via Northern Macedonia, analogue duo YOVA are set to release their debut single as a one track on the 26th ofSeptember followed by a digital bundle that includes a brand new remix on the 7th of November 2019.
‘Moondog’ was co-produced with Martin McDougall and Grumbling Fur's Daniel O’ Sullivan and then mixed by Grammy nominated Cameron Craig (Bjork, UNKLE, Annie Lennox and Joe Strummer) will be available digitally at all the usual major outlets.
Recorded by the YOVA line up of Jova Radevska (vocal & lyrics) and Mark Vernon (music) together with Alex Thomas (drums), Daniel O’Sullivan (bass, mellotron, programming), Martin McDougall (kalimba) and Rob Ellis (ondes martenot), the song will be accompanied by a stunning video created by Cristian Barnett from film-makers Fabulous Frank.
The first hint of what to expect from their forthcoming debut album, the magical, haunting and liminal whispers of ‘Moondog’ capture perfectly YOVA's mysterious and distinctive cinematic sound.The emotionally charged lyrics stir the imagination and soul while quietly illuminating a unique and brave narrative.
Jova and Mark began recording the initial sonic structures of YOVA in a variety of locations with a number of like-minded collaborators. Mark via his past work with PJ Harvey, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci and John Cale contacts his friend the producer, drummer and multi instrumentalist Rob Ellis (PJ Harvey, Anna Calvi, Marianne Faithfull, Scott Walker) to arrange, manipulate and shapeshift the emerging sound.
The music ignites and work quickly gets underway in Jova's native Macedonia, a cellar in Seven Sisters and a coastal bedroom in West Bay. Mark re-unites bassist Ian Olliver with Rob Ellis on drums and the rhythmic spine of the original PJ Harvey group are recording together again for the first time since the release of Polly's emblematic first single ‘Dress’ in 1991. The results of these recordings will surface on the forthcoming album in 2020.
With a strong body of songs now in place and an album ready to go, YOVA are set to take to the stage for the first time and plan to announce a number of very special live dates to coincide with the album release next year.
