KENSIFELLA

KENSIFELLA
Here we go with a style-melting-pot band based on punk.
The clear example is the song they've chosen at the beginning: "Weaned From The Scene" which could figure a statement of what you'll get on this demo. This song is a perfect piece with a perfect ragga punk perfectly assembled with a hardcore punk chorus. Ideal for NOFX worshippers...

But right after that, "Good For Nothing" attacks you with a some-way stoner styled song which has nothing to do with what you expected.

When your attention is tripping, rambling outside somewhere you believe you'll find an explanation which one could be the connection between those songs, "Son Of A Gun", their third cut, shocks you with a Bad Religion/ JawBreaker shaped tune that, once again catches your attention with its quality and, again, the question of how a band can be so cool manufacturing so different tunes in that high standard... Aliens?!?!?! Maybe something more strange because they close their demo with an alternative-rock song titled "Caged" with its own personality...

Just right when you think you've guessing a clue, cd-player loops on to the first song waking you up with that killer-fast harcore punk riff, putting you down on that question of the beginning... "How...?"

I feel Kensifella is a band deserved to be seen live. I'll try to know what songs they cover when they give an encore. And, of course, everyone should monitor them closely to check what's next!!!

Guys: keep me posted...

HIGH ON FIRE + PELICAN en Madrid

HIGH ON FIRE + PELICAN en Ritmo & Compas, Madrid

ROADBURN FESTIVAL 2008

ROADBURN FESTIVAL 2008
April 17 - 20, 2008, 013 venue Tilburg, Holland

Here's (by the hand of spanish label / distro / promoter ALONE Records) fat info about next ROADBURN.

Here's another newsletter from Roadburn's HQ. It's kinda along as there's a lot to tell about the line up [Boris, Jesu, Grails & Neurosis' Scott Kelly added to the festival line-up David Tibet curates a day-long event on Sunday, April 20th, 2008. CURRENT 93 will be performing as well as OM].

FIRST OFF: PRE SALES WILL START SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1st.
I'll forward all the ticketinfo and the direct links to ticketservice, and ticketing via the Roadburn/013 website throughout next week.
There will be a festival ticket for Friday April 18 & April 19 -the core of the 13th Roadburn Festival. [there will be no daytickets available for Friday or Saturday]

There will be seperate tickets for The Afterburner with The Glasspack [Sunday April 20th] and David Tibet's long-day event [Sunday, April 20th] . Please note: the After burner and David Tibet's long-day event are totally different events. We'll divide the 013 into 2 different venue's: 013's mainhall for David Tibet & Current 93. The Green Room and Bat Cave for the Afterburner.

There's gonna be a seperate ticket for the Roadburn pre-heat on thursday as well -I'm still working on the line-up. More info to follow.

We're also working on the campsite as well. More info to follow.

NEUROSIS' SCOTT KELLY TO PERFORM ACOUSTIC SOLO SHOW AT ROADBURN FESTIVAL 2008

Roadburn is pleased to report that Neurosis' Scott Kelly will do an acoustic solo show (his first ever in Europe!) at Roadburn 2008, which will take placeApril 18-19, 2008, at the 013 Club in Tilburg, The Netherlands. Scott Kelly will perform songs from his forthcoming solo album for Neurot Recordings as well as some tracks from earlier records, on Friday April 18, 2008.

Scott Kelly comments: "Acoustic songwriting and performance has been a focus of mine over the last few years. It is a challenge that I embrace with all of my heart.The simplicity and gravity of this type of communication is something that I hid from in my earlier years of writing and performing live music. In this type of setting there's nowhere to hide, all scars are evident, all mistakes are obvious, and all intentions are known. I have been very inspired to go deeper into this experience and bring things from myself that I had previously buried. I will be performing songs that I have written for a forthcoming solo record on Neurot Recordings as well as a couple of previously released tracks. Roadburn is the place that I feel I need to bring this to light for the first time outside of the U.S. I will give it all."

Grails have also been confirmed for the Friday Roadburn date, April 18, 2008, and with the addition of Boris & Jesu to the Saturday Roadburn date, April 19, 2008, the line up of the 13th annual Roadburn Festival is now complete.

DAVID TIBET CURATES A DAY-LONG SPECIAL EVENT AT THE ROADBURN FESTIVAL IN HOLLAND ON APRIL 20, 2008

David Tibet has been invited to to curate a special long-day-event as part of the 13th annual Roadburn Festival, which will take place April 20, 2008, at the 013 Club in Tilburg, The Netherlands. Current 93 will be performing as well as other special guests to be announced soon.
David Tibet comments: "I am proud and delighted to confirm that I have been invited by the wonderful Roadburn Festival in Tilburg, Holland to curate a special day-long event. Current 93 will be performing, as well as some special guests that I have invited to accompany us. I can confirm that the majestic OM will be appearing, and that I am presently discussing the appearance of 2 or 3 more of my favourite artists. Roadburn is perhaps the pre-eminent festival of doom, stoner, psychedelacidic and othercoloured metal, and I am very touched and happy to have been invited by Roadburn to bring some of those artists whom I love to a festival whose work I have long admired."

Founded in 1982 by David Tibet, Current 93 has created a highly personal musical and æsthetic entity over 23 years, subliminal and dramatic, an opulent and complex music made of psychedelic Coptic jazz, distorted folk memories, apocalyptic ballads, gothic chorals, nursery rhymes and Roman electronics. Tibet's musical influences are wildly diverse, ranging from psychedelic rock bands from Ramases to Patripassian, from Gregorian Chant to Sahidic Threnodies.
Current 93's sound varies, according to Tibet's choice of collaborators, but it has oscillated between apocalyptic tape loops, minimal piano-and-voice settings, electronic hymns, massed drone attacks and children singing at the end of the world, whilst always featuring Tibet's own idiosyncratic singing and guitar playing. David Tibet has worked with Steven Stapleton (Nurse With Wound), Antony and the Johnsons, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Marc Almond, folk goddess Shirley Collins, Stephen O'Malley, Attila Csihar, Andrew W.K., horror writer Thomas Ligotti, Nick Cave and Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance) and many others artists.

OM, comprised of Al Cisneros and Chris Hakius, the former rhythm section of stoner-legends Sleep, combine minimalist vocal mantras with propulsive drumming and vibrating bass to channel mind-expanding paeans of spiritual awakening.

Tickets will be on sale on December 1, 2007, and cost € 32,50 for the day. For more information (including the other guests David Tibet will announcing), please visit www.roadburn.com or www.myspace.com/roadburnfestival.

Later
Walter
ISIS TO HEADLINE FRIDAY ROADBURN FESTIVAL DATE, FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 2008.

Post-metal icons ISIS have been confirmed as the headliner of the Friday Roadburn Festival date, Friday April 18, 2008 at the 013 Club in Tilburg, The Netherlands. Currently celebrating their 10th anniversary as a band, the Boston-to-Los Angeles transplants will help fans take part in their milestone anniversary by releasing their entire catalog in one deluxe 12 vinyl-LP box set, and their headlining slot at Roadburn 2008.
Throughout the years, ISIS have maintained their position in the vanguard of post-metal by consistently exploding the idiomatic strictures that have defined heavy music with each successive release. Roadburn reveres ISIS and feel they warrant discussion alongside such established pioneers as Neurosis and Celtic Frost.

Roadburn is also pleased to report that Swiss post-metal stalwarts Kruger will play the Saturday Roadburn date, April 19, 2008.

The 13th annual Roadburn Festival will take place April 18-19, 2008. Also scheduled to appear on the Friday Roadburn date are Witchcraft, Tony McPhee's Groundhogs, Baby Woodrose, Danava, Mos Generator, Blood of The Sun, Gentleman's Pistols, La Ira de Dios, Zone Six & Church of Misery amongst others.

Seminal avant-garde/metal pioneers Celtic Frost are confirmed as the main headliners, playing Saturday, April 19, 2008. Year of No Light , Electric Wizard, Cult of Luna, Acid Mothers Guru, The Heads, Kongh, Lesbian, My Sleeping Karma, Electric Orange & Nadja amongst others will also play the Saturday Roadburn date.

There will also be 2 additional dates added to Roadburn 2008: Thursday, April 17th [Roadburn's Pre-heat], and Sunday, April 20th [Roadburn's Afterburner --Kentucky's The Glasspack will play an exclusive show, making their European debut ]. The Roadburn Festival is currently talking to David Tibet/Current 93 about a very special curated evening at the festival's main-hall on the Sunday, April, 2008. More info will follow shortly.

Originally a spin-off of the Roadburn web site, the Roadburn Festival has emerged as an event in its own right --it was even nominated for the prestigious 'festival of the year' award in the Netherlands this year. Roadburn brings together bands, fans and media from around the world. Despite its international acclaim, Roadburn retains an underground vibe and ethics, but with seriously big-league production values. Pre-sales start at the end of November.For more information (as more bands will be confirmed in the next few weeks) and Roadburn's partnership with Terrorizer magazine , please visit http://www.blogger.com/www.roadburn.com or www.myspace.com/roadburnfestival

ROADBURN FESTIVAL 2008April 17 - 20, 2008, 013 Tilburg, The Netherlands

Here's the first official newsletter of Roadburn Festival 2008.

Swiss advant garde/metal pioneers CELTIC FROST have been confirmed as the main headliner of the 13th annual Roadburn Festival, which will take placeApril 18-19, 2008, at the 013 Club in Tilburg, The Netherlands. Although CELTIC FROST are recognized as a pivotal influence on both the extreme metal and gothic metal genres, Roadburn also considers CELTIC FROST a seminal influence on the current stoner, doom and psychedelic scene. Indeed, we feel CELTIC FROST merits notice alongside such established pioneers as Hawkwind and Black Sabbath.In celebration of this lesser-acknowledged side to the metal giants, CELTIC FROST will perform a special one-off show at Roadburn, comprised of a repertoire which will be slightly different from the tour repertoire played in 2006 and 2007. CELTIC FROST will be playing on Saturday, April 19, 2008. Tom Gabriel Fischer: "We are very proud to have been invited to headline Roadburn. Much like Celtic Frost, Roadburn follows an artistic path which deviates slightly from the norm. We all think that Roadburn and Celtic Frost is a perfect combination, and we are looking forward very much to our concert there."

Also scheduled to appear on the Saturday Roadburn date are cult-doomsters Electric Wizard, Cult of Luna, Acid Mother's Guru, The Heads, Year of No Light, Kongh, Dixie Witch, Lesbian, Electric Orange, Nadja and My Sleeping Karma amongst others.

Witchcraft, Tony McPhee's Groundhogs, Baby Woodrose, Danava, Mos Generator, Blood of The Sun, Gentleman's Pistols, ZoneSix, La Ira de Dios and Church of Misery amongst others will play on Friday, April 18, 2008.

There will also be 2 additional dates added to Roadburn 2008: Thursday, April 17th [Roadburn's Pre-heat], and Sunday, April 20th [Roadburn's Afterburner --Kentucky's The Glasspack will play an exclusive show, making their European debut ]. The Roadburn Festival is currently talking to David Tibet/Current 93 about a very special curated evening at the festival's main-hall on Sunday, April 20, 2008. More info to follow.
Please note: there will be separate tickets available for these additional shows.

Originally a spin-off of the Roadburn web site, the Roadburn Festival has emerged as an event in its own right --it was even nominated for the prestigious 'festival of the year' award in the Netherlands this year. Roadburn brings together bands, fans and media from around the world. Despite its international acclaim, Roadburn retains an underground vibe and ethics, but with seriously big-league production values.

Ticketing and camping information will be forthcoming as soon as the lineup is solidified. We're aiming to get this done in November.

Pre-sales start at the end of November. I'll keep you 'burners posted.
For more information (as more bands will be confirmed in the next few weeks) , please visit www.roadburn.com or www.myspace.com/roadburnfestival

Hope to see you all at Roadburn 2008.

I'LL DO.

CHANG FFOS and SUMA - Dire Gospels 2007 Tour - MADRID (14/Nov/2007)

I can imagine some bands who fit perfectly on tour... many bands. But this time, CHANG FFOS and SUMA fit perfect even though you can consider these two bands different.






I think this makes this gig a must see because you will enjoy two ways to understand aggressive music.



If we compare this show with a boxing fight, there is no KO anywhere... but CHANG FFOS wins by little. And they win because of their originality.







Put into a coctail bottle BLACK COBRA's discography together with a bunch of records of FUGAZI and shake energically...

Though their performance is not a blast, what they do is efficient enough to feel blown off.
But it is difficult to centre your attention on something specific but the drummer: he is the soul of the band. He sweats pure energy on his playing. You gotta take into account twisted melodies and continuous changes of rhythm and speed on each song.

Simply awesome and shocking.

SUMA results a bit different. Prepare to enter on a stoner trance atmosphere. They play –for those of you who didn’t tasted this band before- some kinda down-tempo-stoner riffs repeating again and again that wraps you during songs.

Frontman –or may I say “backman” because he positioned himself behind the band- looks like a recently escaped from a psycho-mental asylum because of his acting: he moves heavy imaginary energy balls in the air, moving hands like if he were practicing a kind of oriental relax art, playing slowly with a torch like if he never seen any before and staring to the eyes of each one we were there completely absent, completely outside of the act and rhythm... resulting pretty strange.

But don’t fear him: I talked with him at the beginning of the show and obviously he was a normal guy...

Niiiiiiiiiiiice show.

So DIRE GOSPELS Tour is a MUST SEE, bros: a skillful choice putting both bands together. Don’t miss’em!!!!!!

Check them live and buy their merchandising.

NOIZELAND Records announces its first release

NOIZELAND is proud to announce what could be considered its first reference as a label at the moment. Together along with the invaluable help of the astonishing spanish label ALONE RECORDS, NoizeLand Records has co-produced/ co-released the re-release of the amazing first work of VIAJE A 800 "Diablo Roto dË" which was widely requested after its out-of-print some before its first pressing was on the streets.

This new release has a pretty cool and spectacular art and it comes in heavy vinyl (500 copies: RUN before it's sold out!!!!) as a luxury society to the comfortable CD format.

Don't miss the chance to get this masterpiece that also means the birth of the dream of NOIZELAND RECORDS, a fan handmade record label.

Damm!!!!!!!!!! Still disconnected...

Damm...NoizeLand is still disconnected from the world... and it is becoming hard to maintain new NOIZELAND's world in this f@!?¿¡¡º damm situation.Many live reviews are thrown to rubbish like EL PARAMO, RIP KC, NATAS, TAURA... hang on them days before is useless.

There is only one guilty on this frustrating situation I'm in: my stupid DSL Internet services provider. They don't neither have given me a dead line for the connection... and it's now hundred and five days stopped!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fuck this monopoly...

In the meantime, your album reviews will be posted when possible on any connection I can use... and that hasn't been easy until this moment.

I'll do an extra effort to satisfy all of you who have been trusting NOIZELAND... but preventing any sudden problem, be patient.