HELMET: Meantime 20th Anniversary - European Tour

From the beginning of March to the 8th of April, HELMET will be touring Europe.

ICARO: check them out.

YOG : new album for immediate release (Division Records)

Beware : YOG's new album is out ! So if you are looking for the eradication of all living creatures before the end of this year, you have to drop yourself on"Half the sky". This "bullet in the head" by our beloved swiss grinder-math-metal terrorists is currently available through Division Records (ASIDEFROMADAY, Dirge, Unfold, Lost Sphere Project...).

Extreme virulence, sick blast beats, mentally ill math-grind, YOG is for the Swiss scene what the panzer was for battlefields : a pure war machine. After the release of their savage 1st album entitled "Years of nowhere" in 2007, these Swiss bastards have destroyed a lot of stages across Europe with bands like Today is the Day, Genghis Tron, Gojira, Knut, Burnt By the Sun‚...!

Keeping the will to dive beyond the fury and velocity limits, the band has given birth to a new monster, recorded by Jérôme Pellegrini at studio du Terrier and mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side studio YOG's new album is proudly going to make a lot of ears bleed to death.

By the way, an audio extract from the album is available, right NOW !

for fans of Dillinger Escape Plan, Botch, Pig Destroyer, Mumakil, Lost Sphere Project... chaos...

Live review: KYLESA, CTTS & KEN MODE

With a poster with names like KYLESA, CIRCLE TAKES THE SQUARE and KEN MODE it was expected a good turnout, and it certainly was. But it was not acceptable only a few people were there at the opening watching and enjoying best band out those three names: KEN MODE.

Yes: they performed their set of kicks and it was simply awesome. Take TAD and MELVINS all together, add a little bit of metal (I said "little bit") somewhere and you will have a picture.

Some of the few they were at the beginning expected nothing about them, mostly due to ignorance of their existence (this is not an insult taking into account those million bands you can find everyday surfing on The Net), but since yesterday, they won't forget KEN MODE. That was a fact as people's opinion sounded out around by us when instruments got in silence.

You could watch attitude, power, heavy sounds and a bunch of good songs didn't disappointed us who mainly went to see'em.

From our point of view, they were the best on stage yesterday night because the other two bands got their own cancers. Namely: CIRCLE TAKES THE SQUARE and their technical/ experimental resources indigestion and KYLESA and their own way to understand exploration into other musical genres.

CTTS made it good. They transmitted their energy but soon their twisted melodies misleaded the listener out of that enjoyment. And that's another fact that is widely on the table subject to debate: why the fffffff are many bands twisting to the bone their melodies just for the sake of it? Is this only to show how good they can handle their axes? In that case, unfortunately they will be listened only for a while... bye bye, musical career. Just to end CTTS words: they have to realise people return to the rhythm of the song when the "insistent/ monotonous/ repetitive/ tiresome/ whatever" riffs come back out of the loudspeakers... cannot be blind for that.

KYLESA's case is somewhat different. When an underground band reaches certain grade of popularity they enter into a room of decissions that sometimes are senseless. I can understand after the years, musicians grow up to different levels affecting their inspiration... but it's clear when you have a popularity due to your own way to feel music it becomes a suicide to change it. That's why side bands are for!!!! Jokes appart, above mentioned behaviours are not bad in essence but it's gotta be a main warning for any band to balance their new steps.

KYLESA's new stuff is not bad at all but it cannot be compared to their early material, which they save for their last songs of the live set.

We will talk again about KEN MODE soon, here in NOIZELAND.

So better watch this space, as always.