During their remarkable career, Diary of Dreams have played more than 400 gigs in 34 different countries. Even though they became known as a living legend quite early, they never stopped their creative strife for new musical worlds and concepts. As headliners, at prime slots of the most renowned festivals or on tour with the new German shooting star Unheilig – no matter on which stage, Diary of Dreams always knew how to deliver and how to win over new fans for the band.
And now the 10th studio album is set for release. The title of the new album will be "Ego:X", again a concept album, and it will be released on 26th August 2011 in four exquisite editions that will differ not only in their intricately designed artwork but also in their musical content.
When it comes to the actual sound of the album, there are somesurprises.
On one track, Adrian Hates’ charismatic voice meets the hauntingly sensitive performance of Amelia Brightman, and throughout the album you can hear Martin Kessler who is famous in Germany for lending his voice to stars like Vin Diesel and Nicolas Cage in the overdubbed films.
According to Diary Of Dreams "Ego:X" is a musical and lyrical journey through the life and metamorphosis of the album’s protagonist X, a character study, a movie without visuals, a gripping story showing the pitfalls and chasms of the human soul.
Of course you can see Diary Of Dreams on this year's Shadowplayfestival..
The Swedish band Endless Shame, who recently released their third studio album "Generation Blind", release a song for free.
It's the track "The Reaper" in an unreleased and exclusive version, entitled D-Floor version, not on the album that now is available for free download.
Listen to the track here and just hit the arrow pointing down to download it.
Andrea from Avant! Records that recently released the great album by Dream Affair, decided to start a tapelabel named Yerevan Tapes which he runs along with his girlfriend Silvia.
The first release is Morbido c50 by The Dreams, out next days!
Pink tape lmtd to 50 - cover attached.
You can have a listen here on Soundcloud.
Out Now on Avant!:
DREAM AFFAIR - Endless Days LP/CD
CONTREPOISON -... Until Next Morning 12'' EP
LUST FOR YOUTH - Solar Flare LP/CD
SCORPION VIOLENTE - Uberschleiss LP
CULT OF YOUTH - Filthy Plumage In An Open Sea! 12" mLP
The new VNV Nation album "AUTOMATIC" will be released in September.
The album has been in production for a while and according to Ronan himself, it looks to be an incredibly energetic and anthemic release (and then some).
VNV Nation will be be premiering some of the new songs at our show at the Nordstern Festival in Hamburg in July and snippets and previews will be posted on their website over the Summer.
Of course, as told before, you can see VNV Nation at Antwerp at 16th September along with Straftanz.
Before you start dancing around the table, we better tell you that it are just some plans in the heads.
Last years Pixies seem to have become more like some worldtouring jukebox in where hopes for new material were reduced to a minimum.
In a recent interview however with Rolling Stone, drummer David Lovering told that one day there might be change for new material. Even more, changes are now much higher than ever before. The other side of the coin is that Lovering also told that it won't be for the next days as he added that a new album may never besmirch their repertoire.
