The Arch announces new album concept and will release one brand new song every month of 2018!
In 2016, The Arch released Fates, some say one of their best albums so far!
The band played the biggest festivals like M’era Luna, Wfest, Young & Cold festival in Augsburg and headline shows in Paris, London and Cologne. They also joined Skinny Puppy and Clan of Xymox in den Haag and Oberhausen.
"We didn’t stop making music”. We had so many ideas and songs that we wanted to make a successor for Fates.
In December 2018 we will release a new album with 12 new songs but we want to release each song seperately through the year. Every month a new one will be launched on itunes/spotify through Trisol. Each song will be created, mixed and finished before we start other ones. Why? Each song is a world on its own: a different story, atmosphere and sound. We want to have another approach than the usual, when a band goes into the studio with an amount of songs, and finish them as a whole, with the same global sound.
In a way, we start an album without being an album. And also not knowing how it will sound at the end. That makes it a whole different approach. And it makes us curious. It’s like an adventure.
In the end we have 12 songs that are also inspired by the month we are releasing it.
Winter will be different than Autumn. Maybe darker. Maybe warmer. We don’t know. Every song gets special artwork and sleeve so they all look like singles. We are also working on video material to release with every track."
The first song: ‘Blood Crystals’ (release date 02/02/2018)
"After reading ‘The Girl Who Played with Fire’, the second novel in the Millennium series by the Swedish writer, Stieg Larsson, we were inspired to write that song. At the end Lisbeth Salander is buried alive. When you are listening to our song, you got to imagine what is happening, when you’re buried alive yourself and you suddenly realize it. "
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European Tour 2018
09/02/2018 - Matrix Bochum (DE)
23/02/2018 - Magasin 4 Brussels (BE)
12/10/2018 - Autumn Moon Festival (DE)
More tbc
JOACHIM WITT, QNTAL, IN THE NURSERY, RROYCE & MANY OTHERS TO COMPLETE THE AMPHI LINE-UP 2018
XIV. AMPHI FESTIVAL 2018
28. & 29.07.2018 – COLOGNE | TANZBRUNNEN
JOACHIM WITT, QNTAL, IN THE NURSERY & MANY OTHERS
TO COMPLETE THE AMPHI LINE-UP 2018
How could February have had a better start, than with a bunch of new bands being announced for Amphi Festival? The final eight bands for 2018 are here and from the "Beautiful Rider" to the rivet-studded skullcap man, from cultrock to bondagepop we crack the whip for a last time. Please welcome:
JOACHIM WITT
QNTAL + IN THE NURSERY
WHISPERS IN THE SHADOW + PRIEST
ES23 + SCHEUBER + RROYCE
XIV. AMPHI FESTIVAL 2018 COMPLETE LINE-UP!
28. – 29. Juli 2018 DE – Köln | Tanzbrunnen
AND ONE + ASP + OMD + OOMPH! + MONO INC. + AGONOIZE
MIDGE URE + GOETHES ERBEN + SOLAR FAKE + JOACHIM WITT
AESTHETIC PERFECTION + UNZUCHT + NEUROTICFISH + FUNKER VOGT
[:SITD:] + ASSEMBLAGE 23 + GRENDEL + QNTAL + IN THE NURSERY
GIRLS UNDER GLASS + [X]-RX + SHE PAST AWAY + LEBANON HANOVER
MAD SIN + THE CREEPSHOW + CENTHRON + GRAUSAME TÖCHTER
HELDMASCHINE + PERSEPHONE + KIEW + SOVIET SOVIET
WHISPERS IN THE SHADOW + A PROJECTION + CORDE OBLIQUE
PRIEST + FUTURE LIED TO US + ES23 + INTENT:OUTTAKE
SCHEUBER + SYNTHATTACK + RROYCE + LA SCALTRA
Info: www.amphi-festival.de or www.facebook.com/amphifestival
Original tickets: exclusively available at www.amphi-shop.de (worldwide shipping)
Today, exactly 39 years ago, John Peel broadcast the first Peel Sessions, performed by Joy Division
Today, exactly 39 years ago John Peel broadcast the first Peel Sessions, a studio live session performed and recorded by Joy Division at the BBC Maida Vale studios in London on January 31st, 1979.
Below the setlist of this recording & broadcast session.
Exercise One
Insight
She's Lost Control
Transmission
At the time of broadcasting, all performed songs were previously unreleased.
Later that same year, on 10th December, John Peel broadcast a second recording session by Joy Division
7 years later, in 1986, the first 'The Peel Sessions' EP, was released by Strange Fruit Records. The version of Transmission featured on this EP is one of the few recordings available where both Ian Curtis and Bernard Sumner played guitars at the same time.
The EP spent thirteen weeks on the UK Indie Chart, peaking at number 4.
The release of a second volume of the Joy Division Peel Sessions would follow in 1987.
Below you can listen to the original repeat tranmission broadcasted by John Peel on 5th April.
Editors unveil new single 'Magazine', taken from forthcoming album 'Violence'.
A dizzyingly bright, yet barbed opening salvo, 'Magazine' marks an intriguing stylistic shift for Editors. The single, the band's first in three years, is an anthemic pop song that savagely attacks the empty gestures and posturing of those in power. Built around a rousing chorus, swelling keys and crunching, industrial chords, 'Magazine' is a muscular, dynamic call-to-arms. Sure to whet the appetite for 'Violence' and strike an emotional chord with their legions of fans, 'Magazine' demonstrates an ambition from Editors that their latest work is destined for the biggest stages this summer.
Talking about 'Magazine', Editors frontman Tom Smith says ''Magazine is a pointed finger aimed at those in power...some corrupt politician or businessman...a character, and a tongue in cheek poke at the empty posturing and playing to the masses of the power hungry."
'Violence' is the sixth album from Editors, and follows 2015's acclaimed 'In Dream'. It is produced by Leo Abrahams (Wild Beasts, Florence & The Machine, Frightened Rabbit) and Editors with additional production from Benjamin John Power (Blanck Mass, Fuck Buttons) and mixed by Cenzo Townshend, except 'Hallelujah (So Low)' mixed by Alan Moulder.
The 'Magazine' video was shot in Amsterdam by renowned photographer, director and long term Editors collaborator Rahi Rezvani.
'Violence' Tracklisting:
1. Cold
2. Hallelujah (So Low)
3. Violence
4. Darkness At The Door
5. Nothingness
6. Magazine
7. No Sound But the Wind
8. Counting Spooks
9. Belong
First Belgian International EBM Day at De Casino, St-Niklaas (B) on February 24 (24.2)!
This month, BodyBeats Productions will organize their International EBM Day event that will take place for the first time in Belgium on Saturday 24.2.2018 at the splendid venue De Casino (St.Niklaas, B).
As the name and non-coincidentally chosen date (24.2) already suggest, it is the intention to celebrate and honour the electronic music genre Electronic Body Music. "Do not expect headliners like Front 242, DAF or Nitzer Ebb, but rather a fine selection of the legacy in today's EBM scene, of these bands aforementioned" said BodyBeats.
Let's take a closer look to the line-up!
PLASTIC NOISE EXPERIENCE (D), or for short PNE, should be no strangers to our loyal Peek-a-Boo reader as this band is of the second EBM generation and was founded already in 1989. Since then, PNE has established themselves in the underground Electro / EBM scene, their releases and concerts guarantee quality and ambience.
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PANKOW (IT), founded in 1979, and thus of the first EBM generation, is considered one of the pioneers of the Italian EBM / Industrial movement. Over the years, the went through a lot of line-up changes and for several years now, Pankow chief Maurizio Fasolo has incorporated the Belgian Bram Declercq (Ex-NTRSN) as singer and stage animal.
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JÄGER 90 (D), from high up in the North-East harbour city of Rostock, will be representing the German E.B.M. elite with their minimalistic but hard hitting no nonsense EBM. Undoubtedly and heavily inspired by the likes of Nitzer Ebb and D.A.F. these gentlemen have been taking stages with their Neue Körper tanz Musik! No time to breathe! Just Dance!
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THE JUGGERNAUTS (B) will be taking the honour of representing the Belgian EBM offspring. Active since 2013 with their instant EBM club-hit Phoenix and currently touring intensively with their debuut album The Juggernauts Are Coming these EBM protagonists could not be missed on this high-day. They know how to fuse the minimal rhythm and bass driven structures of Electronic Body Music with a more aggressive and modern approach perfectly.
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X-MOUTH SYNDROME (FR), cross-over EBM from Lille, North France, played BodyBeats Dark Demons Night in 2017 and delivered a great performance, receiving very good feedback from the attending audience. Their music is characterised by the meeting of various musical worlds such as EBM for powerful bass, synth pop for melodies and punk for energy and dynamic vocals. Reasons enough to be there on time.
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24.2.2018 International EBM Day @ De Casino, St-Niklaas, B (Tickets & Info)
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BodyBeats Productions heeft onlangs de volledige line-up van hun International EBM Day-evenement vrijgegeven dat op zaterdag 24.2.2018 voor het eerst zal plaatsvinden in de prachtige zaal van De Casino (St.Niklaas, B).
Zoals de naam en de niet-toevallig gekozen datum (24.2) al voorspellen, is het de bedoeling om het elektronische muziekgenre Electronic Body Music te vieren en eren. "Verwacht geen headliner zoals Front 242, DAF of Nitzer Ebb, maar eerder een fijne selectie van hun nalatenschap in de huidige EBM-scene," aldus BodyBeats.
PLASTIC NOISE EXPERIENCE (D), of kortweg PNE, zou voor de trouwe Peek-a-Boo lezer al lang geen onbekende meer mogen want deze groep van de tweede EBM generatie werd reeds opgericht in 1989. Sinds is PNE een gevestigde waarde in de underground Electro/EBM scene en staan hun releases en concerten garant kwaliteit en ambience.
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Het Italiaanse PANKOW, opgericht in 1979, en dus van de eerste EBM generatie, wordt dan weer aanzien als één van de pioneers van de Italiaanse EBM/industrial beweging. Door de jaren heen band doorging heel wat line-up veranderingen en sinds enkele jaren heeft Pankow opperhoofd Maurizio Fasolo de Belgische Bram Declercq (Ex-NTRSN) als podium beest ingelijfd.
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JÄGER 90 (D), uit de havenstad Rostock, vertegenwoordigt samen mer de eerder aangekondigde PNE, de Duitse EBM-elite met hun minimalistische maar beukende, no-nonsens EBM. Ongetwijfeld zwaar geïnspireerd door bands als Nitzer Ebb en D.A.F. nemen deze heren al geruime tijd podia in in en ver buiten Europa met hun Neue Körper Tanz Musik! Geen tijd om te ademen! Gewoon dansen!
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DE JUGGERNAUTS (B) hebben de eer om de Belgische EBM-volgers te vertegenwoordigen. Actief sinds 2013 met hun instant EBM-club-hit Phoenix en momenteel intensief en wereldwijd tourend met hun debuutalbum The Juggernauts Are Coming mochten deze EBM-protagonisten op deze hoogdag niet ontbreken. The Juggernauts weten perfect hoe de minimalistische, ritme- en basgedreven structuren van Electronic Body Music te versmelten met een iets agressievere en moderne aanpak.
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X-MOUTH SYNDROME (FR), cross-over/EBM van Lille, Noord-Frankrijk, heeft in 2017 al met succes op de Dark Demons Night gespeeld en wist een geweldige prestatie neer te zetten, één die door het aanwezige publiek zeer goed ontvangen werd. Hun muziek wordt gekenmerkt door het samensmelten van diverse muzikale stijlen zoals natuurlijk EBM voor krachtige bas, maar ook synthpop voor melodieën en punk voor energie en dynamische vocalen. Redenen genoeg op er op tijd te zijn op zaterdag 24 februari!
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