The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies is an upcoming 2014 epic fantasy adventure film, directed by Peter Jackson and written by Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Guillermo del Toro. It will be the third and final installment in the three-part film adaptation based on The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien. It is preceded by An Unexpected Journey (2012) and The Desolation of Smaug (2013). Produced by New Line Cinema, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and WingNut Films, and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, the film is scheduled for release on 12 December 2014.
The trailer for the 3rd & final chapter of this trilogy was presented on the latest Comic-Con where Peter Jackson took the stage to present the first footage from The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. Co-stars Andy Serkis, Lee Pace, Evangeline Lilly, Benedict Cumberbatch, Orlando Bloom, Cate Blanchet, Elijah Wood and others joined the writer/director to promote the third and final Hobbit film, scheduled for release December 17.
The Icelandic band Hugar is a duet formed by Bergur Þórisson & Pétur Jónsson. They have been playing together for many years in all kinds of different bands but in early 2012 they decided to go ahead and form a group of their own to experiment and take a personal direction in music. (Bergur is part of the live band of Ólafur Arnalds)
Their intriguing music can be described as a mixture of neo-classical, ambient & post-rock.
The first video of their debut album was just released & can be viewed down below.
You can listen to the full album on bandcamp : http://hugar.bandcamp.com/
Hugar are Bergur Þórisson & Pétur Jónsson
Other instrumentalists are:
Ólafur Arnalds - Drums
Pétur Björnsson - Violin
Sólveig Vaka Eyþórsdóttir - Violin
Guðbjartur Hákonarson - Viola
Hrafnhildur Marta Guðmundsdóttir - Cello
Björgvin Ragnar Hjálmarsson - Clarinet and bass clarinet
Auditory alchemist Blue Stahli sends us premonitions of an impending sonic assault bearing down on the unsuspecting public. Your skull will shake and your speakers will tremble as the next chapter of The Devil is revealed right before our eyes.
Watch as the madness unfold as we glimpse into an 8-bit Apocalypse strung about with unidentified assailants and creatures born from the dark corners of nightmares. The only advice we have been given is to Ready, Aim and Fire.
Blue Stahli's forthcoming sophomore album, The Devil, gathers more steam with Chapter 02, which builds on the bullrush sonics of Chapter 01. The first single Ready, Aim, Fire epitomizes the aggressive yet melodic nature of Blue Stahli's work, combing the combative temperment of guitar driven rock with the precision and clarity of electronic production. Blue Stahli produdly debuts his latest lyric video for Ready, Aim, Fire which serves as the narration to a retro fitted galatic battle.
Los Angeles / London based gothic rock band Die So Fluid have released the official music video for their track "Black Blizzard" directed by David Kenny. The track is from the band's upcoming album which will be released in the U.S. later this year. Watch for Die So Fluid on tour in the U.S. this fall. Die So Fluid are the modern incarnation of a ‘power trio’. Their sonic being possesses the muscle of metal, the angular cheekbones of post-punk, and the burning soul of vampiric desert torch song.
Black Blizzard was inspired by the Dust Bowl tragedy of the 1930s. It's referred to as a natural disaster but it was caused by man. Nature is wild and untamable, and my character in the video is the storm personified-bringing wrath after she has been abused and disrespected. - Grog (Die So Fluid)
Polish National Centre for Culture released the brand new Laibach EP “, titled: 1 VIII 1944. Warszawa.
Laibach was invited by the NCC to create the special project CD, commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising.*
Tracklist:
1. Warszawskie dzieci
2. Zog Nit Keyn Mol
3. Mach Dir Nichts Daraus
On the 24 th of October, the songs from the EP will be performed live for the first time during Laibach’s concert at the Soundedit Festival in Lodz, Poland
*The Warsaw Uprising (Polish: powstanie warszawskie) was a major World War II operation by the Polish resistance Home Army (Polish: Armia Krajowa) to liberate Warsaw from Nazi Germany.
