Prophecy Fest 2016 draws close - the organisation is looking forward a lot to a big gathering with many fans and friends and a singular musical program in just one month from now!
Since the last Prophecy Fest mailing they have been able to organize two more highly attractive items on the agenda: already on Thursday (July 28) there will be a concert evening of our friends of the Trollmusic label as an opening event. On Saturday morning there will be a performance of Wöljager's music theatre play(!) "Vom Leben und Sterben". Here the exact running order of the full event:
Thursday, July 28 (Hönnetalhalle, Balve):
19.00 Trollmusic concert evening
Alvenrad / Mirna's Fling / The Good Hand
Friday, July 29 (Balver Höhle, Balve):
15.20 Hekate
17.10 Germ
18.30 Les Discrets
20.15 Iron Mountain
21.45 Secrets of the Moon
23.30 Helrunar
Saturday, July 30 (Hönnetalhalle, Balve)
11.00 Wöljager (music theatre, seated)
Saturday, July 30 (Balver Höhle):
13.50 Völur
15.10 Bohren & der Club Of Gore
16.50 Antimatter
18.30 GlerAkur
20.00 Alcest
21.50 Sol Invictus
23.20 Vemod
Apart from that each attendee will receive an exclusive hardcover programme (format: 18x18 cm, 72 pages) with 2(!) audio CDs and a DVD for free! Please find attached the book cover with an illustration of Fursy Teyssier, the art director of this year's Prophecy Fest. Here the track lists of the DVD and CDs:
Live DVD "Prophey Fest 2015"
1. Crone - Perfect Army
2. Lifelover - Mitt Öppna Öga
3. Amber Asylum - Autonomy Suite
4. Camerata Mediolanense - Canzone All'Italia
5. Darkher - Hollow Veil
6. Empyrium - The Franconian Woods In Winter's Silence
7. Tenhi - Uuvu Oravan Luu
8. Vemod - Ikledd Evighetens Kappe
CD1
1. Germ - An Overdose On Cosmic Galaxy
2. Alcest - Percées De Lumière
3. GlerAkur - Can't You Wait
4. Iron Mountain - Enthralldom
5. Antimatter - Leaving Eden
6. Les Discrets - Virée Nocturne
7. Bohren & der Club Of Gore - Prowler
CD2
1. Völur - Es wächst aus seinem Grab
2. Secrets Of The Moon - Man Behind The Sun
3. Helrunar - Magdeburg brennt
4. Vemod - Venter På Stormene
5. Wöljager - Up'n Likwäg
6. Sol Invictus - Kneel To The Cross
7. Hekate - Die Sonne im Geiste
On September 5th Fuzz Club will be releasing the third LP Everything Is A Lie from Southampton's Dead Rabbits. The LP follows on from their previous Fuzz Club LPs Time Is Your Only Enemy and The Ticket That Exploded and yet again reaffirms the band as one of the most exciting and refreshing outfits in the wave of current shoegaze bands. It’s the mesmerising concoction of shoegaze, neo-psych and post-punk, delivered with a lethargic but hopeful restraint that is pinning the band at the top of the UKs fruitful ‘psych-gaze’ scene and Everything Is a Lie is certain to keep them sitting there comfortable for a while.
‘Everything Is a Lie’ could be plucked straight out of 1989, deeply indebted to Spacemen 3, Loop and My Bloody Valentine, it feels languorous and apathetic at times but frontman Thomas’s fragile yet hopeful croons drive it with an insatiable vigour from start to finish. Washed-out fuzz-encrusted guitars are underpinned by whirling bass-lines that Peter Hook would be proud of, if not envious. Hazy synths crash over you whilst thundering percussion locks the album into a deep psychedelic groove, hitting you square in the face like an immersive wall of noise.
Dead Rabbits formed in 2011 and since then have been busy playing countless gigs and tours throughout the UK and Europe - appearing at Eindhoven Psych Lab, Common People, Cosmosis Festival and sharing the stage with the likes of The Warlocks, Band of Skulls, Yuck, Night Beats, Crystal Stilts and The Telescopes.
AMBASSADOR21 "We Are Legion" EP is out on Industrial Strength Records at June 17th and available in all best digital stores, incl. Juno Download, Hard Tunes, iTunes, Beatport and many more.
The EP includes original tracks and remixes by NEGATIVE A, MATT GREEN and DETEST.
Invasion presents first video teaser of upcoming album.
A new AMBASSADOR21 album "Human Rage" will be released this Fall. In support of the new album, the digital single "Revelation" will be released in the end of July.
It will include two new songs - "Revelation" and "Fear Level Red". All donors of our fundraising campaign will get it for free.
Recorded by Jim Sclavunos (Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds / Grinderman) in Chapel Studios in Lincolnshire and then Toe Rag in East London, and mixed by Sclavunos and Mikey Young.
The Wytches second album All Your Happy Life draws on a lifetime’s worth of new experiences shoehorned into two whirlwind years since their acclaimed debut album Annabel Dream Reader. There’s no difficult second album syndrome here. This black-hearted set is a combination of heavy comedown psychedelia and bilious and brilliant baroque ‘n’ roll. It’s portentous and scathing. Scabrous and bold. Utterly nihilistic.
Influences and inspiration is drawn from unexpected places – reading Tolstoy’s stories of dysfunctional relationships on the tour bus, digging the warm Hammond-and-acoustic tones of Elliot Smith, loads of underground metal bands – but mainly it is informed by observing small town English life with new eyes, having traversed the planet on that first wave of success that followed their 2014 debut. It’s not so much the sound of the calm after the storm, but the howling vortex that follows in its wake.
All Your Happy Life marks a creative leap for The Wytches. Some might say it is the sound of a band finding their place in the world but really it is about world being allowed to enter the sphere of The Wytches - on their terms.
Additionally, The Wytches will play a string of headline shows and festival this Summer, including a special headline show at Hebden Bridge’s The Trades Club and appearances at Bestival and Psych Fest. The full list of shows is as follows:
29th July Kendall Calling, Lake District
5th August The Trades Club, Hebden Bridge
6th August Skeleton Coast Festival, Liverpool
3rd September 1-2-3-4 Festival, London
9th September The Ritz, Manchester
11th September Bestival, Isle Of Wight
24th September Psych Fest, Liverpool
The Wytches are: Kristian Bell (vocals, guitar, organ), Daniel Rumsey (bass) and Gianni Honey (drums)
White Lies have announced details of a new album, tour and single for their first new material since 2013’s ‘Big TV’ album.
Out on October 7, ‘Friends’ is self-produced by the trio of Harry McVeigh, Charles Cave and Jack Brown and was recorded at Bryan Ferry’s London studio.
The album is preceded by new single ‘Take It Out On Me’, which can be streamed below and impacts on August 12. Bassist Charles Cave said of the song: ““Right up until we recorded the song it was called ‘89-1-3’. It was inspired by a lunatic on Instagram who kept commenting on a friend’s photos in pseudo-Biblical verse. From his profile, I discovered he lived in a remote cabin with a rough-looking dog. He posted weird videos in which he quoted random numbers. As a challenge, I turned them in to a song. The only problem was that it went so well everyone said it should be the first single, so I relented and gave the chorus real lyrics.”
Listen below to the single.
Source: NME
