ATROCITY has just returned from their shows in Spain! Supporting their latest album "Okkult" the band toured through Europe, North America, the Caribbean and Asia. Pretty much anywhere you can think of, ATROCITY played there!
As a big surprise and first metal band ever on both shows, ATROCITY & Liv Kristine performed at the two big German prime time TV shows ARD - „Das große Fest der Besten“ (Annual Schlager Music award TV show) and RTL „Die 2 - Gottschalk & Jauch gegen alle“ together with Germany’s biggest "Schlager music" star Heino, who released a Metal and Rock Remix album recently. More than twelve million viewers watched the two TV shows. Some „Schlager music“ artists called a boycott against the „metal“ performance from the beginning; however, the producers of „Das große Fest der Besten“ decided to invite Heino and the metal musicians despite the protest.
ATROCITY singer Alex Krull states:
„We had a lot of fun at both of the TV shows. At least every one we met from the world of „Schlager music“ was really nice and very respectful to us. No doubt, it’s certainly a complete different (musical) world. Some people were quite shocked that something like this „could happen“ at such a big TV event and that we were even doing this. But a boycott, really? Come on, people shouldn’t take everything too seriously. Besides all that, the massive stage set with tons of pyro effects rocked and we enjoyed performing with Heino, who is over 50 years in business! Even if you don’t like the music and some people might think Heino is a controversial artist, show me one established 76-year-old mainstream music star who decides and dares to turn his own hits into rock and metal songs and performing them on stage, too. Heino and his team are very nice people and they work highly professional.“
ATROCITY will continue the „OKKULT“ World Tour, delivering brutal sets nightly on stage! Soon there will be a new video clip for the song „Death by Metal“ released! Until then, enjoy the video for „Pandæmonium“ here!
ATROCITY LIVE
„OKKULT“ World Tour 2015
14.05. MEXICO - TBA
16.05. ECUADOR - Quito, Teatro México
17.05. COLOMBIA - Bogota, Ozzy Bar
19.05. PERU - Lima, Discoteca Centrica
20.05. CHILE - Santiago, Rock & Guitarras
22.05. BOLIVIA - Cochabamba, Ex-Carnivale
23.05. BOLIVIA - La Paz, Cinemateca Boliviana
24.05. ARGENTINA - Buenos Aires, The Roxy Live
26.05. URUGUAY - Montevideo, BJ Sala
13.06. DE - Chronical Moshers Open Air
14.08. SWE - Rockstad Falun Sabaton Open Air
More dates to be announced soon!
Killing Joke, the English post-punk band formed in October 1978 in Notting Hill, London, England, will be performing live at the Eurorock festival on May 16!
The band represents a key influence on industrial rock and left an everlasting impression on the work of later bands and artists, such as Nirvana, Ministry, Nine Inch Nails, Godflesh and Soundgarden.
Now in the theatres : LOIN DES HOMMES
Director: David Oelhoffen
Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Reda Kateb, Djemel Barek
A French teacher in a small Algerian village during the Algerian War forms an unexpected bond with a dissident, and is then ordered to turn him in to the authorities.
Drama van David Oelhoffen met Viggo Mortensen, Reda Kateb
In deze film met western-allures, begeleidt de teruggetrokken maar plichtbewuste dorpsonderwijzer Daru (Viggo Mortensen) zijn van moord beschuldigde dorpsgenoot Mohamed (Reda Kateb) naar de dichtstbijzijnde rechtbank. Vanuit allerlei hoeken belaagd door wraakzuchtige bendes, groeit onderweg het wederzijdse begrip tussen de twee. Samen binden ze de strijd aan om hun vrijheid terug te winnen.
Naar het kortverhaal De Gast (L'Hôte) van Albert Camus uit zijn verhalenbundel Koninkrijk en ballingschap (L'Exil et le royaume) (nieuwe uitgave bij De Bezige Bij ©2015).
Viggo Mortensen schittert alweer in existentialistische western, ondersteund door de indringende en minimalistische muziek van Nick Cave en Warren Ellis.
DE STANDAARD ★★★★
Als het aan het hoofdpersonage uit ‘Loin des hommes’ lag, zou hij nooit meer oorlog willen zien.
COBRA.BE ★★★★
Een meeslepende western met een bevreemdende score van Nick Cave en Warren Ellis die de tocht van Daru (Viggo Mortensen) en Mohamed (Reda Ketab) verder optilt tot een ontroerende odyssee die u niet mag missen.
HUMO ★★★
Een verstilde parel van een roadmovie met existentiële thema's - Albert Camus schreef het kortverhaal waarop 'Loin des hommes' gebaseerd is - en een erg actuele weerklank.
METRO ★★★
'Loin des hommes' is veel meer dan een eervol filosofisch traktaat. Het is een fraai, sfeervol en sterk geacteerd drama.
DE TIJD ★★★★
Norwegian electronic-rock act Apoptygma Berzerk will release their latest live album, Imagine There's No Lennon, as a deluxe 2LP vinyl set via Toronto's Artoffact Records in March. Originally released as a CD+DVD European-only issue in 2010, "Lennon" is Apoptygma Berzerk's third live album and will be the band's first on vinyl.
The deluxe set includes a vinyl-sized booklet, complete with band and live photos from 2009's Rocket Science Tour. The vinyl will also be made available on two special colour versions.
Along with the "Lennon" 2LP, Artoffact Records will simultaneously release a 2LP vinyl version of the band's wildly popular Unicorn EP. Originally released on Harmonizer in 2002 as a duet with Propaganda's Claudia Brucken, Unicorn is one of Apoptygma Berzerk's standout songs, still ubiquitous in clubs, and a fan favourite at Apop shows. The collection contains eight remixes of Unicorn, including those by luminaries Hocico, T.O.Y., Freezepop, and No Comment, as well as a sublime 808 version by Stephen Groth's own Fairlight Children project. Several of Apop's best known hits will appear on the vinyl as bonus tracks in remixed or live form, including Non Stop Violence recorded in Tel Aviv, and remixes of Suffer in Silence, Until the end of the World, Kathy's Song and more.
Apoptygma Berzerk continues to be one of Norway's most popular electronic bands, with over 100,000 Facebook fans. Last year saw the band celebrate its 25th anniversary. The band was founded by Stephen Groth in 1989.
Lost River In Theatres April 10
Available Same Day on Digital HD
"Lost River" is a dark fairy tale about love, family and the fight for survival in the face of danger. In the virtually abandoned city of Lost River, Billy (Christina Hendricks), a single mother of two, is led into a macabre underworld in her quest to save her childhood home and hold her family together. Her teenage son Bones (Iain De Casestecker) discovers a mystery about the origins of Lost River that triggers his curiosity and sets into motion an unexpected journey that will test his limits and the limits of those he loves.
