Having recently announced their debut LP as Dream Police, Mark Perro and Nick Chiericozzi (best known as the founding members of The Men) are sharing the title track from Hypnotized with us today.
"Hypnotized" finds the duo utilizing a Roland 707 drum machine and Juno 106 synthesizer to compliment the psychedelic, and fuzzed out guitars that the two are best known for. Mark Perro's monotone vocals lay even with the instrumentation in the mix so that the entire track washes over you.
Back in the summer of 2013, The Men had just come home from five straight months of touring. For Perro and Chiericozzi, the desire to create was still strong, so they did what they used to do when they first started the band — they started jamming.
Although the production began using the most conservative rock n’ roll devices, Chiericozzi suggested adding the drum machine to the song “Pouring Rain,” and everything changed. Over the next six months, the two Men and their collaborator Kyle Keays-Hagerman spent countless hours reshaping every song, constructing them from nothing. They obsessed over every tone, every part. They’d spend an entire day on one snare crack.
The album slowly plumed into a cloud of future primitive psychedelia bursting with glimmering electronics and cinematic, vibrato storytelling. The result of that process is Hypnotized: something borne from The Men, but free of it. It was mixed the weekend after Tomorrow's Hits was released, and then Perro and Chiericozzi were off again.
*Dream Police is not a side project, rather a new realization for the original brains behind The Men's psychedelic & sonically stimulating vision.*
The band recently spoke to Noisey about their new record, and also have a batch of U.S. tour dates coming up, check all of that out, including the title track from Hypnotized, below.
Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Elizabeth Banks, Woody Harrelson, Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Donald Sutherland, Stanley Tucci, Jeffrey Wright, Natalie Dormer, Sam Claflin, Jena Malone, Willow Shields.
The worldwide phenomenon of The Hunger Games continues to set the world on fire with The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1, which finds Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) in District 13 after she literally shatters the games forever. Under the leadership of President Coin (Julianne Moore) and the advice of her trusted friends, Katniss spreads her wings as she fights to save Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) and a nation moved by her courage.
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 is directed by Francis Lawrence from a screenplay by Danny Strong and Peter Craig and produced by Nina Jacobson's Color Force in tandem with producer Jon Kilik. The novel on which the film is based is the third in a trilogy written by Suzanne Collins that has over 65 million copies in print in the U.S. alone.
Lionsgate presents, a Color Force / Lionsgate production, a Francis Lawrence film.
The Hunger Games – Released March 23, 2012
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire – Released November 22, 2013
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 – In theaters November 21, 2014
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 – Coming November 2015
Just when we were getting used to the idea of Jeremy Renner becoming the new focal point of the Bourne franchise, it looks like Matt Damon will be returning for another adventure as former CIA assassin Jason Bourne.
Deadline reports that Damon and filmmaker Paul Greengrass, who directed the second and third installments of the franchise, will reunite for another film featuring Damon as Jason Bourne. The studio is reportedly so excited about the prospect of bringing back Damon and Greengrass that the film is expected to take the July 2016 release date that was previously set aside for the follow-up to The Bourne Legacy with Renner reprising his starring role.
The announcement hasn’t been confirmed yet, so the report is entirely unofficial at this point — but with the first three films starring Damon earning considerably more than the most recent installment with Renner, the decision seems logical from the studio’s perspective. In total, the four-film Bourne franchise has earned more than $638 million in the U.S. and $1.2 billion worldwide.
If the report proves true, the Bourne film with Damon will slide into the July 16, 2016, release date that was set aside for the next installment of the franchise and the upcoming follow-up to The Bourne Legacy with Renner — directed by Justin Lin — will be scheduled for a later date.
Combichrist - The We Love Tour - 2014
29/11/2014
Oude Bad Huis, Stuivenbergplein 38, 2060 Antwerpen
For COMBICHRIST to name their album WE LOVE YOU, it’d be easy to think the band has abandoned their sonic assault for something softer, fluffier and less bloody. Knowing Combichrist, though, that couldn’t be further from the truth. With their trademark body-pummeling beats and vitriolic vocals intact, Combichrist’s latest full-length album digs deeper into the abyss and delivers 13 tracks of relentless aggression and manic electronica. From the stuttering thump of “Every Day Is War” to the choking-on-glass/buzz-saw aggression of “Satan’s Propaganda” to the breakneck punk metal of “Love Is A Razorblade”, We Love You leaves you gasping for breath.
Founded in 2003 when LaPlegua departed Future Pop outfit Icon of Coil, Combichrist combined hardcore with electronics into a single, mechanical music monster. Without the compromise of the band dynamic, LaPlegua, who does everything in the studio himself, was able to explore whatever musical avenue he desired. The Joy of Gunz, the first Combichrist album, and the four subsequent albums – Everybody Hates You (2005), What the Fuck Is Wrong With You People? (2007), Today We Are All Demons (2009) and Making Monsters (2011), cemented Combichrist’s iconic place in the dark electronica pantheon. The 2013 album No Redemption, a companion soundtrack to the CapCom videogame DMC Devil May Cry brought Combichrist into a world more metal and intentionally harder and brutal than anything that had been previously released. Stretching their musical scope even wider, in late 2013 the band performed with a symphony orchestra in Leipzig as part of the Gothic Meets Klassik Festival.
With We Love You in queue to usher them into the next chapter, Combichrist is ready to return with a new live show that showcases all facets of the band. And like all previous albums and tours, the fans can expect pure and unadulterated Combichrist. “One of my best friends said it the best, ‘listening to this album sums up everything I know about you and music’,” he laughs, “only bigger, more bombastic and even louder!”
Considered by many to be one of the most energetic and best live bands to come out of the scene, Combichrist did not only manage to sway the Rammstein-fan-crowds when they supported the iconic German band on their “Liebe ist für alle da”-Tour, but are renowned for unleashing absolute mayhem at every show they play on their extensive tours around the globe. Paying homage to their history, they are currently a series of “old school” shows to remind fans of their illustrious electronic roots.
As anyone born in the ’80s can tell you, “I Know What You Did Last Summer” is a gem. The 1997 horror flick based on Lois Duncan’s book not only introduced a generation of teens and tweens to the never ending love between Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze, Jr., it also introduced an eager generation of young men to the wonders of Jennifer Love Hewitt running around terrified while wearing a crop top.
Well, kids these days officially have it all, because a new generation of up-and-coming actors will soon cover up a vehicular homicide then deal with a fish-hook wielding killer. Per Deadline, “Oculus” director Mike Flanagan is teaming up with the film’s original producer Neal Moritz to remake the film, which is a pretty safe bet for Sony — the 1997 version grossed $125 million worldwide, then spawned a sequel the following year.
Source: MTV
