Tag Archive for 'progressive'

24
Sep

Daily Update – Agrypnie, SCR news, Metal Nights news, background informations, music recommendations

I am always excited about new technology and I am still amazed about my small (slow but cheap) notebook and that I can write a web blog before going to sleep, listening to music from the server via Wifi. And I was really encouraged to continue writing this blog lately. I even received a new soundcloud track for review today! A lot of people and even bands told me that they read this blog with pleasure and curiosity. I did not expect to have this kind of great feedback shortly after the blog started. Thank you for the warm words!

Did you read the news today? There was a sand storm over Syndey / Australia which made everything look orange like on Mars and you could sometimes even hardly see anything (see this BBC link for more). As I read this news I realized that Torsten – mastermind of AGRYPNIE and ex-NOCTE OBDUCTA singer (both signed to SCR) – is living there at the moment. He told me that when he woke up he first thought that the windows were painted orange… Well, fortunately he also had some good news for me. He revealed the cover art for the next AGRYPNIE album entitled “16[485]” which is about to be released in December 2009. I think this is a really interesting piece of art and something very unique:

AGRYPNIE - 16[485]

AGRYPNIE - 16(485)

If you want to support me, the label or the band feel free to spread this artwork and tell everyone that the new AGRYPNIE album offers cold, atmospheric and sometimes raging post black metal and will hit the stores in December. Feel free to post it in forums, blogs, news – everywhere and refer to Supreme Chaos Records (http://www.s-c-r.de). Thank you for the support!

But there are more band news to add. We are about to sign (well actually everything is already fixed) a solo project from a German producer. I was visiting him in his studio and we talked really a lot about music like we always do – and I really enjoy this. But we also talked about the record which will be finished end of the year and will involve some pretty cool guest musicians. He also showed me the first artwork ideas and promo shoots which look amazing. You can expect a progressive mix of calm and extreme music with both, clean vocals and deep growls. Be sure this is not really that modern music but can be compared to some of the works of pioneers who opened death metal to new progressive influences. Very varied though. We have been talking about this project for almost two years now and I am more excited than ever! I will keep you posted on this.

Being cheered up by the latest success of the METAL NIGHTS event series I designed a logo. It is the letters M and N with horns. Check it out on the MN page and tell me if you like it. Maybe we can do some shirts or stickers of it…
The German Metal Hammer has put up a live report including a gallery for the last Metal Night with Dornenreich. Check it out here (German only!).
But there is no time to rest. So I booked new bands, even for 2010 already. November, 7th, we will set up NIGHT OF DOOM where the headliner BLACK SHAPE OF NEXUS will be supported by the local doom heroes MIRROR OF DECEPTION (also the organizer of the infamous DOOM SHALL RISE festival – the biggest doom only festival in the world!) and the local Crowbar-like heavy weight DOOM DIVISION. Be sure that I have another surprise waiting for this event…

To something different – yesterday I found out that the new PARADISE LOST album is streamed on their MySpace page at the moment. So after the great video for the title track I gave it a listen and I must admit that this album sounds interesting at last. I will attend the Paradise Lost show in Stuttgart / Röhre for the awesome guys of GHOST BRIGADE in first instance but now I am curious about Paradise Lost as well.

Right now I am listening to KLONE from France like I did yesterday. What a great band. They are recording a new album at the moment. Be sure to check out their last album “All Seeing Eye” – this is something you should not miss! I feel too bad about really remarkable bands being not noticed. This band deserves your attention if you are into progressive rock or metal or if you just want to discover a band that is really different…

I am off to sleep now wracking my brain about when Thunderbird 3 is about to be finished and if it solves IMAP problems… do not forget to vote and comment! Discuss everything, say how you like the music I suggested!

03
Sep

Opeth interview, new music, eBay stress etc.

Short night, new day.

I have posted yesterday that you can send me your tracks for a possible review and had one track in my mailbox immediatly. I will put the review online later that day but I have already listened to it several times. So keep up sending me your music, new suggestions are always welcome and I guess the people out there want to discover new music as well. No limits. Extreme metal, hardrock or even jazz… Everything is welcome!

At the moment we are sorting out bands and we have several bands in our focus which we want to sign to either SUPREME CHAOS RECORDS or PREVISION MUSIC. Be sure – very interesting bands, nice guys and awesome live appearances. I hope we can give you some more informations in the near future – and you can discover some more interesting music.
Also I have booked new artists for the METAL NIGHTS, some good old Swedish friends as well as very old school stuff. But this is already for 2010 and cannot be revealed, yet.

Tomorrow I will be attending a post rock / hardcore / metal concert with the great TEPHRA in Karlsruhe / Sadtmitte. Also on stage: ANTITAINMENT, TOM MESS and TRAGIC VISION. Of course I will put up a live review shortly after I am back home.

You may now be asking – what was about OPETH in the headline? Well I recently found an old interview with Peter / Mikael from OPETH on my harddisc which I did back in December 2005 on the Ghost Reveries tour for Powermetal.de. There are some really interesting questions and answers. I will put up that interview the next day in this blog…

As there was a lot of Swedish death metal in this post today I have to post one track from a very cutting-edge band called EDGE OF SANITY. It has a very catchy chorus with an outstanding vocal line and it actually is a cover version from Dan Swanös “new band” NIGHTINGALE. Check it out here:

This is also a little hint for several activities going on in the back at the moment. Besides of dealing with eBays API insanity. They are changing all the attributes and – BAM – just some months later your eBay integration code does not work anymore. That is where I left my night – thank you eBay …

28
Aug

August, 27th – Stuttgart, Merlin – Ikarisches Ensemble

As promised this is a new update.

After a short night and some usual work it was time for another very special live event. Having packed some parcels for the mailorder I went Stuttgart downtown to a club, Merlin, where usually a lot more softer artists show up on stage. This time IKARISCHES ENSEMBLE claimed the boards that mean the world. I met up with some friends there and we had a relaxed beer first in the beautiful garden of the club. But then the band plugged in their guitars…

The music and live appearance is really hard to describe. You see a three piece, a drummer, a bass player and a very skinny guitar player who is also doing the insane vocals from time to time. As you can read on their homepage the band interpretes classical compositions which are writing for totally different instruments like piano in a very own, new way, transformed to drums, guitars and even vocals. But they also use these parts as basis for own compositions. All in all the music sounds very maniac, really insane and is very hard to follow. Some cues of the instruments even seem to be totally random – but be sure they are NOT. The only band that comes up to my mind when being ask how this sounds like is Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, but less fluently, with a bit more Jazz influences, less vocals and without any visual support (a Sleepytime Gorilla Museum show must be more like a theatre play I guess). A highlight was definitively a five piece interpretation of a composition which was transformed as described above. I did not understand the name of the composition unfortunately. But it had a weired timing and beeing musician myself I know how hard it must be to play this very staccato music in the right timing. Plus the band did it sight-read from a partiture.

Unfortunately the band has played more new songs this day which are lacking of vocals. But the encore was an old song which really works well live and you can even almost bang your head (which of course noone does on Jazz concerts, hehe).  I guess that most of the people attending this (free!) show were musicians or at least very into music, so they gave the artists a round of applause and went kind of enthusiastic when the band left the stage to get them back for the encore.

Conclusion: This was a very special evening, with very special music in a very special club. Something different to all the metal and rock shows I usually attend.

After the show I went straight home to build up a new bed – seems like an unnessecary side-note? Well this was kind o hard to do alone and the night went off… so not much sleep again.

IKARISCHES ENSEMBLE homepage: http://www.ikarisches-ensemble.de

IKARISCHES ENSEMBLE song samples:

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Nécrologue à l’innocence
(2004)

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Ewige Wiederkunft
(2004)

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Gnomus
(2005)




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