Cult of Youth have been keeping quite busy since the release of their magnum opus Final Days. In keeping with their ambitious touring schedule, the band are slated to head back to Europe for most of the month of October. In conjunction with this announcement the band are sharing two videos from their recent KEXP sessions which give really great insight to their power and energy as a live band.
Pitchfork says of their recent album: "Final Days’ exhilarating, cathedral-toppling spectacle could prove to be the career game-changer that ensures his band remains a cult no more."
Sean Ragon has been active in the DIY punk, industrial and experimental music communities on the east coast for over 15 years while also running a record store and label in Brooklyn (Heaven Street and Blind Prophet Records, respectively). He has been recording under the moniker of Cult of Youth for the last seven years.
Ragon, once the project’s lone member, is now flanked by Jasper McGandy on bass and Christian Kount on electric guitar (both of whom were members of seminal Sacred Bones band The Hunt). Cory Flannigan on drums and Paige Flash on cello complete the five-piece. The end result is Cult of Youth as they were always meant to sound. Final Days feels like a full realization of the project, it's everything Cult of Youth has been moving towards for the past seven years — post-industrial, post-punk, and post-enlightenment.
Watch the KEXP sessions for"Roses" and see their fall tour dates below!
OUR DATES
Oct 6, 2015: Paris, FR - La Machine du Moulin Rouge
Oct 7, 2015: Nantes, FR - Pôle Étudiant
Oct 8, 2015: Bayonne, FR - Le Magneto
Oct 9, 2015: Madrid, ES - Wurlitzer Ballroom
Oct 10, 2015: Lisbon, PT - Sabotage
Oct 11, 2015: Porto, PT - Cave 45
Oct 12, 2015: Oviedo, ES - Late de Zinc
Oct 13, 2015: Bermeo, ES - Beleza Malandra Ateneo Kulturala
Oct 14, 2015: Barcelona, ES - Rocksound
Oct 16, 2015: Marseille, FR - Poste à Galène
Oct 17, 2015: Athens, GR - Death Disco
Oct 18, 2015: Bologna, IT - Freakout Club
Oct 19, 2015: Zagreb, HR - Klub Attack
Oct 20, 2015: Innsbruck, AT - PMK
Oct 21, 2015: Basel, CH - Hirscheneck
Oct 22, 2015: Brussels, BE - Le Brass
Oct 23, 2015: Amsterdam, NL - Sugar Factory
Few bands match the pastoral beauty and majesty of Harmonia, the visionary German band that existed from 1973 to 1976. The ‘Krautrock’ supergroup, brought together Dieter Moebius and Hans-Joachim Roedelius of Cluster, and Michael Rother of NEU!, who were later joined by Brian Eno.
On Friday 23rd October Grönland Records will release the entire Harmonia back catalogue as a five vinyl box set, including previously unreleased material recorded 40 years ago at Harmonia HQ: Forst, Lower Saxony, Germany.
The box set includes ALL available records ever made by HARMONIA:
MUSIK VON HARMONIA (1974)
Digitally Remastered
DELUXE (1975)
Digitally Remastered
TRACKS AND TRACES (1976)
Double Vinyl including the "lost" Brian Eno recordings, which were found and originally released in 1997
LIVE (1974)
And in addition to the four Harmonia albums there will be a fifth vinyl:
DOCUMENTS 1975
previously unreleased recordings from Hamburg gigs and 2 studio tracks from Forst
(to be made available to press as a promo only cassette copy)
In addition to the five vinyl recordings, also included in the box set is a pop up artwork of the rambling mansions Moebius, Roedelius, Rother and, for a while, Eno called home in Forst, a lush 36 page booklet with previously unreleased photo material documenting the history of Harmonia plus the original Harmonia Live Poster and download code for all the albums in the box.
Watch the new trailer for SPECTRE. A cryptic message from the past sends James Bond on a rogue mission to Mexico City and eventually Rome, where he meets Lucia Sciarra (Monica Bellucci), the beautiful and forbidden widow of an infamous criminal. Bond infiltrates a secret meeting and uncovers the existence of the sinister organisation known as SPECTRE.
Meanwhile back in London, Max Denbigh (Andrew Scott), the new head of the Centre for National Security, questions Bond’s actions and challenges the relevance of MI6, led by M (Ralph Fiennes). Bond covertly enlists Moneypenny (Naomie Harris) and Q (Ben Whishaw) to help him seek out Madeleine Swann (Léa Seydoux), the daughter of his old nemesis Mr White (Jesper Christensen), who may hold the clue to untangling the web of SPECTRE. As the daughter of an assassin, she understands Bond in a way most others cannot.
As Bond ventures towards the heart of SPECTRE, he learns of a chilling connection between himself and the enemy he seeks, played by Christoph Waltz.
Dutch death thrash ragers IZEGRIM have entered Soundlodge Studio (GOD DETHRONED, SINISTER,..), the German-based recording studio owned by Jörg Uken, to begin tracking the follow-up to 2013’s ‘Congress Of The Insane’ scheduled for an early 2016 release. The cover art will be designed by Björn Gooßes from Killustrations design studio (DEW-SCENTED, HACKNEYED,..).
Guitarist Jeroen Wechgelaer had the following to say: “this album will be a logical follow-up to ‘Congress Of The Insane’. This time around, we’re taking the villain’s point of view. It’s going to be intense, catchy and furious. We can’t wait to release this beast!”
‘Congress Of The Insane’ was released on September 15 2013 via Listenable Records. The album contains 11 songs, including "Manifest Of A Megalomaniac", which features a guest appearance by Sabina Classen from HOLY MOSES.
IZEGRIM is:
Jeroen Wechgelaer - Guitar
Marloes Voskuil - Bass/Vocals
Bart Van Ginkel - Guitar
Ivo Maarhuis – Drums
Uniform formed in New York City in late 2013 when old friends Ben Greenberg (Hubble, The Men, Pygmy Shrews) and Michael Berdan (York Factory Complaint, Drunkdriver, Believer/Law) realized they lived on the same street. Their impulsive collaboration quickly yielded Our Blood / Of Sound Mind and Body single. The six tracks that comprise the equally abrasive but more refined Perfect World have been coming together between tours and work ever since.
The music that Greenberg and Berdan conjure up under the Uniform moniker is immediate, aggressive, and even primal in form, but it plumbs untold depths. Berdan’s venomous voice mines deeply personal themes of resentment, regret, reflection and addiction over the hum of Greenberg’s almost impossibly disciplined guitar, bass synth, and drum machine lines. Greenberg uses the word “templatized” to describe their approach to writing songs for Uniform.
“There’s this set bunch of gear to create sounds, and it only creates sound through a certain process, or within its own limitations,” Greenberg said. “The goal of song- writing is to see how many different kinds of sounds you can get from the same basic process and machine.”
On Perfect World, that machine is firing on all cylinders. The guitar is run through a cheap ’80s preamp marketed to metal kids. The drum machine is equally no-frills, an Akai XR20 that Greenberg says “most people wouldn’t want to keep around.” These humble components are combined with noisy synth and Berdan’s profound howling to form something much greater.
Post-punk, synthpunk, and industrial traditions are borrowed from as needed, but the constraints placed on the process mean the result is unique to Uniform. Berdan describes his lyrics as the consequence of feeling “so full of pain, confusion, deep selfishness, and general animosity that you make some horrible mistakes and have to learn how to forgive yourself for them.” Perfect World feels like the sum of all that pain and confusion, but it also feels like the catharsis.
Today the band are sharing the music video for "Indifference" (Directed by Micki Pellerano & shot by Jacqueline Castel) in conjunction with an announcement of select tour dates with Drew McDowall (ex-Coil, Psychic TV) and Dark Blue. Check out the video & dates below!
TOUR DATES
07/22 Philadelphia, PA @ PhilMOCA +
07/23 Cleveland, OH @ Now That's Class!
07/24 Chicago, IL @ Club Rectum *
07/25 Toronto, Ontario @ S.H.I.B.G.B's *
07/26 Montreal, Quebec @ Casa Del Popolo *
(+ with Dark Blue)
(* with Drew McDowall)
