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Active member of alternative underground scene and culture since early 1990-ies. Underground is a way of life!
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(record review)Totenwagen-“Notte Di Guai”(Herbivorous Records)

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Totenwagen is another proof of diversitiy and beauty of Italian undeground scene.

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Hailing from the city of Naples, this is their third recording that came out in the end of January on the newly formed Herbivorous records. This trio plays avantguarde darkened punk hardcore. There is almost no guitar in the song structures, only distorted bass, drums and keyboards. The lyrics are in English, German, Italian and Naples dialect of Italian. I love the atmosphere of this band s music because it is so dark and gritty, added by harsh vocals and almost crusty d-beat drumming on some songs(“Nocturno punk”). This band has some great degree of originality and I would love to see them play the stuff live. The ominous keyboard element only add to the dense and almost foggy wet atmosphere of the songs and in some weird way remind me of early Goblin songs in the Dario Argento horror movie masterpieces. I loved the renaissance parts mixed with spaghetti western in the instrumental song “Nduvosck”. Needless to say that these keyboards add great deal of melodies instead of guitar and are in fact the main lines of the songs themselves. This is unusual but great punk and I am really glad that I discovered yet another gem in the dark crown of the underground music scene.

8.5/10

Follow the band: https://www.facebook.com/totenwagen/

Get the album: https://totenwagen.bandcamp.com/

 

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(new video)Labyrinthus Noctis tribute Lars von Trier with their new lyric video!

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The progressive gothic doom band ‘Labyrinthus Noctis‘, active since 2003, has recently published on You Tube the lyric video of ‘Melancholia‘, a song inspired by the famous Lars Von Trier’s movie. Melancholia is the second single from the upcoming album ‘Opting For The Quasi-Steady State of Cosmology” Linear A‘. the first single of the upcoming album, is in rotation worldwide radio from January 2018 in the transmission ‘Vittek Tape’. Opting For The Quasi-Steady State of Cosmology will be published by the indie label ‘Vomit Arcanus Productions’ in April 2018.
Labyrinthus Noctis presented the new lyric video with these words:
M E L A N C H O L I A is the second single from “Opting For A Quasy Steady State Cosmology”. The theme of the song follows the concept described in Lars Von Trier’s movie. Space and Time are forms of expression and they are equally distorted through images and words of passion and through the spectrum of a depression coming from the inability to change the orbit of events.

 

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(news)A BREACH OF SILENCE reveals new ‘Secrets’ music video

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Australia’s award winning powercore-metal pioneers A Breach of Silence have revealed a brand-new music video for the title track off their latest album Secrets. This is the third music video from their latest full-length album produced by Fredrik Nordstrom (Bring Me the Horizon, Arch Enemy, In Flames). The video was directed by Matt Donaldson.

“The issue with the world right now is that social media reinforces your beliefs and opinions (whether they are right or wrong), which can create less free-thinking and more uneducated opinions” states bassist Blair Layt. “the result is people fall further down a path of values (or lack thereof) based upon those reinforced beliefs. At the end of the day it takes critical thinking and due diligence to weed through all the false messaging out there. That’s essentially what we wrote the song about, but we tried to write it in a way, so people can connect to it however they want. There’s a million different ways to interpret it, and that’s the beauty of music.”

Guitarist Mat Cosgrove elaborates, “For the video, we wanted to do something a little different. We used “beauty” as a metaphor for the music. We wanted to feature some of our favorite places in Queensland which are very close to our hearts, and it certainly doesn’t hurt to have someone a bit more attractive than us in the video either. But what is she thinking? What does her body language, and facial expressions mean? It all depends upon how you interpret it. Based on whatever you think, it can be interpreted in any number of ways. That’s the essence of music and the arts, it can be seductive and breath-taking while not “forcing” someone to draw a specific opinion about something. That’s our Secret.”

5/5 – “this album shows a band, that deserves to be among the world’s best” – Heavy
8/10 – “thirteen tracks on the album, and there isn’t a bad one among them, definitely pick up a copy!” – Hysteria
“about as close to perfection as possible, we are deeply impressed” – Snooze Control

A BREACH OF SILENCE tour dates (get tickets)
March 10 – Belconnen (AUS) @ The Basement w/ Hostel, Drowning Atlantis

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Secrets full album is available now on compact disc, iTunes, Amazon, or Google Play, and streaming via Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora, iHeartRadio, Deezer, and more!

For information on A BREACH OF SILENCE, please visit them on Facebook, Twitter, or Eclipse Records, and follow them on Spotify.