Densely layered, complex and atmospheric, Subconscious Landscapes sees Velvet Acid Christ pushing the boundaries further than ever. The act's 16th studio album, the new record calls on influences in the ranges of Juno Reactor, Massive Attack, and Delerium. This album can be considered a natural progression from the hypnotic grooves of past VAC songs such as "Slut". "Dilauded", & "Ghost In The Circuit". Subconscious Landscapes seems to flow between two halves of an album, with the first four songs being highlighted by guest vocals from Sabine Theroni of Psykkle on "Barbed Wire Garden" and "Taste the Sin", as well as Malgorzata Wacht on vocals for "Grey". The second half, entitled "Mauvais" on side B of the vinyl version, takes a decidedly darker turn of sound. The new album also marks the first vinyl release for Velvet Acid Christ.
01. Barbed Wire Garden
02. Taste The Sin
03. Grey
04. The Last Goodbye
05. Dire
06. Strychnine
07. Eye H8 U
08. Zalflex
09. Evil Toxin
10. Empusa
29.11 Combichrist - The We Love Tour 2014 @ Oude Badhuis - Antwerp - Belgium
BodyBeats productions presents:
COMBICHRIST
The We Love Tour 2014
with special guests:
WILLIAM CONTROL + 1 more TBC
For COMBICHRIST to name their album WE LOVE YOU, it’d be easy to think the band has abandoned their sonic assault for something softer, fluffier and less bloody. Knowing Combichrist, though, that couldn’t be further from the truth. With their trademark body-pummeling beats and vitriolic vocals intact, Combichrist’s latest full-length album digs deeper into the abyss and delivers 13 tracks of relentless aggression and manic electronica. As most of you already know a COMBICHRIST show in Antwerp is always a party! COMBICHRIST will bring 2 supports, William Control and one more still to be confirmed. Tickets are limited and going fast so don't waste your time!
Release date: 29 October. (Pre-)order now!
The sessions on the Chronic Haze album started in late 2007. Due to personal circumstances the sessions were abandoned in 2008 and finally were lost focus on. One year later Stefan Gonser started working with Michael Kissing under the Traffic A.M. moniker. They recorded two full albums and during that period Stefan also managed to create his first proper solo release as Niton Decay (Cage, 2013, SEJA 03).
The decision to release Chronic Haze also took shape in 2013. Michael did the mastering on the final tracks and improved the sound quality as far as possible.
With its tons of samples, strange access to vocals and its overall filthy and muddy sound it is a sinister album. Fragile and angry at the same time. Determined and undecided. Set in a fictive world between east and west. Torn apart but with everything in its place. There is no change? Not at all. Not even then, it seems.
Arrow Video is thrilled to announce the UK Blu-ray and DVD release of Mario Bava’s Rabid Dogs, which arrives in the UK on 27th October. This new deluxe release will include both Rabid Dogs, Bava’s original version posthumously completed from his notes and Kidnapped, the re-edited, re-dubbed and re-scored version, supervised by Bava’s son and assistant director Lamberto Bava, and producer Alfredo Leone
Mario Bava’s reputation as a filmmaker rests chiefly on his contribution to horror, particularly his baroque and beautiful Gothic chillers of the 1960s. All the more surprising that in the mid-1970s he should turn to the crime genre and create Cani arrabbiati (aka Rabid Dogs), an abrasive kidnap psychodrama that ranks alongside anything done by the better-known ‘tough guy’ directors of the day.
Rabid Dogs ought to have been a fresh start for Mario Bava. The confidence, the inescapable tension, the cynical buzz of the action and dialogue, all reveal a director who was ready to face new challenges. Sadly, as others have described elsewhere in more detail, the film was abandoned after shooting was almost complete: producer Roberto Loyola went bankrupt, owing to poor business practices on his other projects, and the existing footage was impounded. Bava, who died in 1980, went to the grave with the notion that Rabid Dogs was a failed project, a road to nowhere, a film no one would ever see. Fortunately, we now have this fresh, powerful and nerve-shredding film to admire on Blu-ray, which should help ensure that its good reputation will continue to grow as new generations are exposed to this most vivid and contemporary of Bava’s great works.
Together with both versions of the film, this new disc will also feature a newly translated English subtitled track, alongside an audio commentary with Mario Bava biographer Tim Lucas. The disc will also feature the featurette End of the Road: Making Rabid Dogs and Kidnapped which features Lamberto Bava, Alfredo Leone and star Lea Lander discussing the movie, alongside an interview with Umberto Lenzi, the alternate ‘Semaforo Rosso’ opening title sequence and a collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by author Stephen Thrower, Peter Blumenstock on the history of the film’s first distribution and more.
Synopsis
Following difficulties in his career Mario Bava happened across an idea that would enable him to compete with the younger directors lighting up the Italian box office such as Dario Argento and Sergio Martino.
Rabid Dogs begins as $70,000 of wages are being transferred when the Ajaccio gang hit. With a hail of bullets in a quick raid they speed off in their waiting getaway car. Tough, violent and realistic, Bava’s film ramps up the tension and doesn’t stop as hostages are added and the film builds to its dizzying finale.
Unfolding in real time, a rare device seen only in earlier films such as High Noon and 12 Angry Men yet totally unheard of in Italian cinema at the time, Rabid Dogs is a singular film in Bava’s filmography and one of the greatest crime films of the period.
Special Features
· High Definition (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentation of two versions of the film; ‘Rabid Dogs’ – Bava’s original version posthumously completed from his notes & ‘Kidnapped’ – the re-edited, re-dubbed and re-scored version, supervised by Bava’s son and assistant director Lamberto Bava, and producer Alfredo Leone
· Original Italian mono audio (uncompressed PCM on the Blu-ray)
· Newly translated English subtitles
· Audio commentary with Bava biographer Tim Lucas
· End of the Road: Making Rabid Dogs and Kidnapped – Featuring Lamberto Bava, Alfredo Leone and star Lea Lander
· Bava and Eurocrime – An interview with Umberto Lenzi
· Alternate ‘Semaforo Rosso’ opening title sequence
· Collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by author Stephen Thrower, Peter Blumenstock on the history of the film’s first distribution and more!
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The clip is directed by Steven Lake // From the EP 'Something Missing' mixed by Hunck & Jonathan Boulet
