We are proud to announce our first compilation with 20 bands. Gothtune - De Creatione Et Omnium Rerum
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01 The Last Dance - Thoughtless
02 Para Bellvm - Kill The Caesar
03 Asrai - Ghost
04 The Danse Society - Sound of Silence
05 Horror Vacui - Time
06 Double Eyelid - Black Box
07 The Court of Sybaris - Trigger
08 Lithos Sarcophagos - The Lost Tribe
09 Waterglass - Transcendence
10 KALT - The Mother
11 Arcane Winter - Another Sorrow
12 Carnival Star - Black Rain Down
13 Johnathan Christian - Fallen
14 Midnight Configuration - Inquisition
15 Katabazija - Maldororovo Pevanje
16 Corpus Principium - Scorpio Moon
17 Dominus Mortalis - In The Absence Of God
18 Death Party UK - Hellzapoppin
19 El Clan - Breaking Through
20 Madness of the Night - SWS
Gothtune Podcast #27 can now be found and listen to over itunes. You can also listen to it at onairtunes.com.
Tracklist: Para Bellvm - Убейте Цезаря (Kill the Caesar) Cinemascope - Sounds of Revelation Digital Morning - Wanderers Will Wander Johnathan Christian - Goodbye Horses Carnival Star - The Drowning Man (The Cure Cover) Vocals Zach Wiser Aurelio Voltaire - Raised By Bats Umbra Et Imago - Radiosong The Nine Tears - Age Sex Place Deine Lakaien - Farewell The Nightchild - Im Not Afraid of This The Danse Society - Message in the Wind Soviet X-Ray Record Club - Never Enough Tyburn Saints - With the Night in Our Eyes dIRECT ATTACK - Amazing Grace
Night Sins - Air Dance
Liquid Grey - Darkest Hour
Johnathan-Christian - I Walk This Earth
Madness of the Night - We are the Gothrocker´s and we Don´t Care (Chamber Mix)
The Silence Industry - brother sing, sister shout (we are all migrants)
Corpus Principium - Lacrima Della Notte
The Eden House - First We Take Manhattan
Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble of Shadows - The Conqueror Worm
Haflingerallergie - Slow
Final Rites - Whisper Louder (demo)
Our Ceasing Voice - What Used To Be A Battle Song
Useless Words of Sasha Grey - Посты умерших
Scent Of Misery - Scent of Misery
Madness of the Night
The Asgarda – released Nov 29th 2013
Madness
of the Night are Daniel Dante (Sweden) & Abir Blackshadow
(Lebanon). Formed in 2011 and based in Sweden their unique style and
take on Goth Rock can probably best be surmised in their own words:
"When we make music, we focus on our inner voices, this is where the
music comes from. There is no inspiration to our music but only the
Madness inside of us."
With the release of "The Asgarda" they have not only re-recorded
and re-mastered some of their previous releases but also written and
recorded new material for the album. It is worth noting at this point
that when we say "re-mastered" – we mean "mastered".
The
previously released tracks that appear on the album have been given a
totally new lease on life and this album raises the bar by Madness of
the Night into new highs and current fans and followers will both be
surprised at the "new sound" and possibly shocked as well.
Signing
to predominantly "metal" label Massacre Records (Germany) who describe
the release as 'Gothic Metal' and bringing in Andy Horn (Mortal Love,
Darkseed, Edenbridge) who mixed and mastered the album has given Madness
of the Night a new lease on life and raised the bar to all new highs.
Daniels
work on the music has been given the treatment it so rightly deserves
and his work not only on his guitar playing, but also his piano, synth
and programming has allowed his dark roots to grow and flourish. Classic
Goth riff driven tracks, with atmospheric backing, create songs written
with changes and melodies that are totally recognisable as Madness of
the Night. The overall sound may have been enhanced and strengthened but
nothing familiar has been taken away, it's a perfect example of what
should happen when a band's music is professionally presented.
Within all the re-mastering and mixing and production and all that "technical" stuff, what does it actually mean for the songs?
What
it means is that in balancing the music and enhancing on Daniels work
the soundscape allows the power and passion of Abir's vocal to not only
drive the songs skywards but to give her the space to do what only she
can do – deliver her message in a way that few can do these days.
Singing
in English as well as her native tongue of Arabic gives an extra edge
to The Asgarda that is both a surprise and a breath of fresh air. Arabic
may not be a language familiar to many of us, but in a song like
"Theatre of Life", Abir's vocal – which is both powerful and yet soft at
the same time, meanders and floats over the track beautifully and
singing in Arabic just adds something extra special to the song.
"Javla
Zigenare" is our pick from the album though. This song has a
"wow-factor" to rival any Goth Rock anthem out there. If it fails to get
you out of your seat then you may need to see a doctor as you're most
likely dead. If you're not screaming the chorus after even the first
listen then you will be after the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and more as this is a
track you will most certainly play many, many times.
However,
it's not all Goth Metal or Goth Rock! "Jephania" or even "She is the
Demon" are more or less piano based songs with a true darkness at their
heart following haunting melodies and almost operatic vocals. Add to
that the slow drive of "Oppression" and the epic seven and a half
minutes of "Stand Up" which is not only well written and powerful in its
delivery but also a very passionate, dark track - which for us is a
song deserving of its length – and you have an album which delivers at
every turn within the songs and within every song change.
Madness
of the Night have worked long and hard on this album and it shows.
Powerful, Haunting, Passionate and Aggressive are just a few of the
words that we would use to describe "The Asgarda", but possibly the best
way to describe Madness of the Night would be to end this article in
the same way it started - in their own words: "We Are Goth Rockers And We Don't Care!"
The Asgarda is available from Massacre Records from November 29th.
Har precis lagt upp en ny intervju jag gjorde med det italienska bandet The Nine Tears på onairtuens.com. Läs den och passa på att lyssna på deras nya skiva som finns tillgänglig i streamat format. Interview with The Nine Tears
Neuro -Sentence is a band from Colorado Springs, USA. They
describe themself as playing a mix of BloodWave, Goth, Electro,
Industrial. When I contacted them they reply me and told me they are in a
very busy time to finishing their full-length record. How is it going? Do you spend much time in the studio?
Count W-
Things are hectic at the moment between live shows and putting the
finishing touches on the full length. All of the tracks are already
recorded and mixed but we're still in the mastering phase. So at this
time we're basically wrapping up the album. The countless hours of
hanging out at the studio are behind us for the moment.
- Cold and Dry. Yes, in one way or another both of us spend a
lot of time in our individual studios. I prefer my creations to reality…
Will the sound of your coming album be the same as the E.P. "Victims & Virtues", or do you have any new influence?
Count W-
Our influences haven't changed. The new tracks have the same atmosphere
surrounding them. We think we've covered quite a bit for a debut
release, different song structures, the use of guitars, trying to
incorporate all of the different sub genres of goth/industrial etc. The
only thing that will be different on the full length is the production
quality. It will be better than the Victims and Virtues ep.
-
Count W and I have further refined the razors edge, and have come very
far from where we started in 2009; being total loners -I mean strangers.
The influences are the same musically and lyrically: the majesty of
isolation, and the sweet miseries of the individual dwelling in the last
epoch of mankind.
Will the new record be under any label?
Count W- It's possible, but at this point in time there's nothing set in stone.
- Know any? Where do you find your inspiration?
Count W-
All things dark, depraved, sinister. The two of us grew up listening to
black metal. This plays a very important role when we're composing our
music. Capturing the dark atmosphere of black metal and fussing it with
timelessness of electro goth music is something that sounds very
appealing to us. Hopefully the rest of this scene will feel the same
way. We'll have to wait and see.
- Reality and our perception of it, crude as it is considering the flesh and the serving of our neuro-sentence.
Neuro-Sentence started 2009, have you guys been in other bands before?
- Music has been the only constant in my life besides anhedonia.
You play live; do you have anything-special happenings under your concerts? Any Tesla fireworks ;)
-
We hope to drive the audience to ruin their lives for a single night of
ecstasy. Dionysus himself is a session live member, so you can infer
the rest… And yes, there is some residual energy from Tesla's workings,
which were conducted here in Colorado Springs.
How is the gothic scene in Colorado Spring, or the state of Colorado?
- Too much neon, not enough necromancy.
Is there anything you want to tell the reader?
-
“If you believe that I’ve something to conceal, lose yourself in a
mirror and see how it feels, when pain and shame are the only common
bonds between me and you.” Thank you for your interest DJ Valhalla,
Farval... OUR DEBUT ALBUM COMING SOON!
01 - Gothtune - Jingle
02 - Asrai - All seems so Hollow
03 - Phosphor - Skull
04 - Saline Grace - The Traps of Time
05 - Ikon - Azkadelia
06 - Madness of the Night - She is the Demon
07 - She Past Away - Rituel
08 - Arcane Winter - Bad Day MA
09 - Anathema - Internal Landscapes
10 - Psylocybia - With the Wolves
11 - Bloody Kiss - Pretty Face
12 - Dismal - The Waltz of Mine
13 - Dark Beauty - Save Yourself
Interview with Trevor "The Dark Lord" & Piers Sixx of Arcane Winter by DJ Valhalla. DJ Valhalla: Tell me about the background of the band? I see there are many from different bands? Piers: "We
all have known each other for many years. I first met Trev back in 1991
when my first band played with Every New Dead Ghost (ENDG), who I
followed for years. Fast forward a couple of years and I moved to
Nottingham, where Arcane Winter are from, and bumped into him again at a
goth night. I started to visit the old Nightbreed shop on Wollaton
Road, met Nick and became a fan of Trev's next band Midnight
Configuration. I don't think I missed a gig of theirs! Trev asked me to
contribute to a couple of albums and I got roped in singing and playing
keyboards at live gigs. I think between us the members of Arcane Winter
have probably been in 15 or so bands! Arcane Winter formed when Midnight
Configuration was winding down, and I can remember Trev asking Nick and
I if we were up for starting a new band at rehearsals for the last gig.
As a fan of ENDG it's a dream come true!"
DJ Valhalla: Why the name Arcane Winter? How do you desrcibe your band?
Piers: "The name took quite a while. We didn't
want to define ourselves too soon with a name that sounded
goth-or-metal-or-whatever. We knew that we were drawing on many
influences, and that those should help us find a sound when we were
first writing songs. Any band will tell you how hard it is to choose a
name which doesn't sound stupid and we didn't want something which
didn't look good written down. The name kind of came to us in the pub.
You know, where you sometimes have the best ideas! I'd say we're
definitely a post-punk goth band. We've been called "Gothic Grand
Guignol" and I think that describes us well. We're in your post-punk
with doomy guitars and killer drums. If I wasn't in this band I'd be a
fan of this band." DJ Valhalla: If I understand it right, you wanted to start a live-band after working apart with much electronic devices? Piers: "Definitely.
It was Trev's idea to rest Midnight Configuration, a band I think who
were ahead of their time. If you look around, there are a lot of
guitar-bass-drums-vocals bands now, and we wanted to see what would
happen if we adopted a back to basics approach.. That classic set up
still works, the paradigm works, so why not take it by the throat? ENDG
were brilliant, could we take it further? Playing live in a band which
uses a lot of technology can be a frustrating experience, as things
break down. I'm sure we've all been to those kind of gigs! With our set
up the worst thing that can happen is a broken guitar string." Trev: "Yeah,
that's about right, but I wanted to add that with Midnight
Configuration after 18 years and 8 albums I felt that I had for the time
being exhausted the midi/sequencer based format and I very much wanted
to be just playing guitar once again. I also wanted to expand on what
can be done with the guitar and for me part of what Arcane Winter is
about is to develop the doomy Gothic/ Post punk sound into as many
strange and enigmatic forms as is possible. DJ Valhalla:
You seem to be having lots of fun doing gigs? How many gigs you have
done until now? You seem to have played a lot of gigs and even online
gigs?
Piers: "Playing
live is the reason for starting a band, it's the most fun you can have
with your clothes on! The best thing is to play new material and gauge
the audience reaction to it. It's very gratifying to hear their
response, and drives you on to do more. Playing live is a two way thing,
it's as much about the audience as the band.
"We've
played a good few gigs; our debut show to launch the EP was a blast.
Only a few, the Inner Circle, knew our material and the audience
reaction was great, people loved it! Playing in Leeds was great, we
nailed it. There is footage from most gigs on our Youtube channel if you
want to have a look. Personally I'd play live every night of the week,
but I'm a fan of music. "Playing on-line gigs is a great way to
reach a huge audience, people from around the world, and great fun too.
The audience reaction is different to gauge as its all text based, or
SMS messages, but we treat it as seriously as any show. On-line gigs are
something we're keen to do more of, in fact we're just organising some
now." DJ Valhalla: The EP Cold Europe, can you tell me about the name?
Piers: "The name comes from a line in the song
Sagittarius- "Cold Europe is a magical place". I think that sums Arcane
Winter up nicely, a mix of north European weather and occultism. It's
snowing here right now!" Trev: "It is indeed!"
DJ Valhalla: How is it going, have you sold much, where can people find it? Piers: "We
made a conscious decision not to produce physical copies of Cold
Europe, so its available only as a download from Amazon or iTunes. It
was released in September, so we'll need to get some sales figures back,
but everyone seems to have heard it! "Maybe with next EP we'll put something physical out; we're working on that at the moment." Trev: "Due
to the release being a digital one, I think that it will take about
another 6 months before we have any clear idea on how its going. However
all of this is tied up in how well we promote the band and continue to
grow the band's name and standing in the UK and abroad."
DJ Valhalla: What kind of lyrics and message in Arcane Winter?
Piers: "The lyrics are a mix of the
gothic-fantastic, if you're familiar with Todorov, and political
rhetoric. My lyrical message is that you need to think for yourself and
stand up to tyranny, leave the world a better place. I don't think I
could write a pop song! We live in an age where the internet brings
people closer, the Arab Spring comes to mind. The song King of Nothing
is about that, rising up against the ruling powers. As a species I think
we're pretty special, it's the c**ts you need to be aware of." DJ Valhalla: You are working on a new EP, tell us more about this? Piers: "We
are always working on new material! The new EP has five songs written
already, if you've seen us play in the last couple of months you'll have
heard what some of them sound like. We have one particular track,
Kerosene, which will blow you away. We're going into the studio next
week to begin recording, then will come the artwork and the name."
DJ Valhalla: When is your CD going to be released? Piers:
The next EP should be out in time for the Nightbreed Radio all-day
event in Nottingham in May. It'll be a mini festival with bands, DJs and
a great bar. For details tune into Nightbreed Radio or visit the website. DJ Valhalla: You guys have been for a while within the gothic sceen, do you belive we heading a third wave of gothic-rock? Piers: "I've
been a goth since puberty! As soon as I realised I was attracted to
women who looked like Elvira? but to answer your question, yes, I do
think the scene is evolving a third wave. All those classic first wave
bands like UK Decay, Play Dead, The Sisters, Alien Sex Fiend, love them
to bits. Second wave bands too, particularly Suspiria, were great but
you can't live in the past. One of the reasons Arcane Winter formed was
to do something new, the scene needs to attract new fans. It's an
exciting time." Trev: "I am not totally
convinced that we are heading for a 3rd wave of Gothic rock. In the UK
there has been a grass roots upswell in the scene seemingly due to
people who were in bands years ago (like ourselves) or people who were
in bands years who have reformed. One concept that came out of a
conversation we had with Dave from Vendemmian was the idea of "Middle
youth". Essentially the idea that once a person reaches middle, middle
age or late middle age. They are financially secure, their kids have
left home and now their time is their own, what else can the do with
their time? Might as well get the band back together! "This is
something that has been witnessed over here. When I go to gigs, most of
the audience seems to be at the very least post 30 to early 50's and
although that's all cool. There is very little young blood coming into
the scene. For a scene to grow and expand it needs the youngsters to get
involved. I am a college lecturer and I work with young people every
day. I can quite clearly say that most of them have no real idea what
the Gothic scene is and to them it's something "old" people are into.
Most of my students fall into two basic camps. Rock/Metal and
Urban/dance. With the perfered music of their generation being either
extreme metal on one side, or Dubstep on the other. They are not anti
Goth as such, they just don't see that it is of their generation. The
only way young people will currently get into the Gothic scene is via
the more mainstream Black metal acts who to a great extent seemingly are
connected to our scene. "However with all of that said, I
believe that with exposure, Gothic and Gothic evolved music could cross
the generation gap. We have already made plans to work with bands
outside of the traditional post 2nd generation Gothic bands as well as
to work with as many of our peers as possible. If this generation gap
can be bridged, I have no doubt that then we could see a 3rd generation
start to develop out of the foundations of the old." DJ
Valhalla: You describe Arcane Winter with a positive punk attidude, are
you a political band? "Civil war" - "Invest in death" - those titles
are pretty political? Piers: "We
defiantly have post-punk attitude. We're like Crass with crimped hair.
It's weird how those bands from the 80s are now as relevant as ever,
particularly in Britain. Back then we were suffering with high
unemployment, the threat of nuclear war and a government made up of
complete bastards. "It's exactly the same in 2013, except with
the threat of religious extremism. So yes, we are political in that we
write about those issues, but we don't just do politics. "The next
EP has songs about a wide variety of subjects. Civil War is about how
people become obsessed with minutiae of life rather than see the bigger
picture. Classic divide and conquer, being obsessed with X- Factor
rather than what's happening in Gaza. "Invest in Death is about arms dealing. Those people need dismantling. How many people have died to further profits?" DJ Valhalla: Sagittarius is your new song, what is the meaning behind the song? Piers: "Sagittarius is about how much I hate summer! I'm a goth, what are you going to do? Winter is my natural environment."
DJ Valhalla: How much time you put on training Vocals ect?
Piers: "I've
been a vocalist for a long time, and naturally have quite a low
register. With Arcane Winter I'm trying to sing slightly higher, it just
depends on what the song needs. I won't be singing falsetto, though.
Most of the singers I like are within the range I use. DJ Valhalla: What happens when you want to create a song? How does it come in form? lyrics? music? Piers: "Generally
Trev comes to rehearsals and says "I've got this riff?" he plays it, we
jam it and it warps into something else. The bass and drum parts fall
into place as we jam, and I sing phrases over the top. I then take those
phrases and improvise lyrics, it's as simple as that. I try to make the
lyrics fit the song.. "Christmas Day in the Workhouse was just
like that, it's gloomy and dark, so the lyric fits. A dancing corpse? Oh
yes. Writing music is the greatest thrill." DJ Valhalla: Have you ever played outside UK? Piers: Not yet, but we'd love to. If any promoter wants to get in touch, please do. I love to travel and I love to play live. DJ Valhalla: Killing Joke is decribed as a major influence possibly because of the political messages? Piers: "Killing
Joke are an influence because they're the best band in the world. KJ
are one of the bands everyone in Arcane Winter loves, they are so
powerful. What they do with music is make it into a fist and punch you
in the stomach. "They're great musicians and haven't lost their
love of music or watered down their sound. Our influences it would be
them, Chrome, Hawkwind and The Sisters of Mercy." DJ Valhalla: What are your future plans for the band? Piers: "The
new EP is our next project, and filming a video for Civil War with our
visuals man Stuart Slate. We're lined up for various festivals this
year, and we're already booking live dates. We want to play as many gigs
as possible, really. Meet new people and make new fans. We'll be doing a
live EP this year, and possibly a live DVD." DJ Valhalla: Where can people find you over the internet? facebook? reverbnation? ect? Piers: "Our website is www.arcanewinter.net
we have a ReverbNation page, Twitter, YouTube, all the usual social
networking stuff. On Facebook we have an Arcane Winter page and the
Arcane Winter Appreciation Society. "We like to interact with people, so join up." DJ Valhalla: I thank you for taking the time to make this interview with me. Piers: "A pleasure! It's always good to talk." DJ Valhalla: Any comments or further thing to say? Piers: "I'd
like to thank all the people who've come to see us play live, the
promoters who've booked us and the bands we've played with. "A big thanks to Stuart Slate for being such a top bloke, and the Inner Circle for believing in us." Trev: "Yes my youth! I would like to second that!" This interview is also published on Onairtunes.com
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