28 February 2024
Following last year’s critically praised I Inside the Old Year Dying LP, the by now legendary songstress PJ HARVEY went on tour in Europe (still is).
And now she announced her first shows in 7 years in Northern America.
For the occasion, Harvey shared a new video for one of the album’s highlights, SEEM AN I.
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PJ: Instagram
Daily noise that works faster than any stimulant
28 February 2024
Photo by Angel Tumalan
FRAIL BODY is a post-hardcore-scream-your-lungs-out turbo from Rockford, Illinois. Recently they announced the follow-up longplayer to their praised debut A Brief Memoriam that put their name on the extreme loud noise-hardcore map in 2019.
The new one is baptized ARTICIAL BOUQUET.
It lands on March 29. Pre-order info here.
They just dropped a second taster, following lead single Refrain. It’s titled DEVOTION.
Lowell Shaffer (frontwoman) says it’s about “my mother’s undying christian faith and what it was like witnessing someone dying coming to terms that their religious beliefs weren’t going to save them from their fate.”
TUTV: Devotion resonates like a bad acid trip to bloody hell. Like a merciless and demonic battle-axe that will chop your soul, your mind and in the end your whole body in pieces. That is exactly what religion does. Slowly but surely. Screamer Shaffer sounds as if his death struggle has started while a horrible wall-of-gruesome havoc tortures him.
I really wonder what kind of stimulants he uses to make him growl and wail in pain, the way he does. This must be what you feel when the electric chair completes its destroying work. Judgement’s Day is just around the corner. MAGA Christians and their God Trump are waiting for you with their Holy crucifix in their hands..
LYRICS
Stride after stride
Just as mine
Further from you
Just as a tomb
Stride after stride
Just as mine
Further from you
Like wise a womb
Empty void in the sky
It comes in waves at night
Where were your arms outstretched
Weren’t you supposed to catch
Voices muted lungs press
Inconsequential empty breath
Hope to find some source of depth
In the darkness nothing coalesced
It comes in waves
Chest pulsate
In a new kind of solitude I lay
Where was god
When you needed him the most
Where was god
Why’d he call you back to your post
WATCH/LISTEN
BUY
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FRAIL BODY: Facebook – Instagram
Talking about an incredible bill of legends.
Daily electricity to load your batteries
27 February 2024
Band: THE CHRONICLES OF MANIMAL AND SAMARA
Who: London-based duo – Daphne Ang (Singapore) and Andrea Papi (Italy)
that fills a gap in music by bringing literature, art, and history together into
a space where rock and metal meet electronica.
They released two spectacular albums so far.
Trust No Leaders (2022) and Full Spectrum (2021)
And TCOMAS is back on the scene now with
new single MYSTERIUN TREMENDUM .
Info: “It was Written and recorded between December 2022 and October 2023, the new track merges metal and classical music, and contains section sections with classical piano and a full orchestra.”
Papi on the new song: “I would describe “Mysterium Tremendum” as being ‘Opera Metal’. It contains musical and lyrical elements that gives the work a perfect combination of ‘heaviness’ that is both melancholic and brutal.”
Ang: “The song contains a large section with a full orchestra, which took a long time to compose and arrange. It was a real challenge, but it was mostly a rewarding experience,
as we made it purely a TCOMAS effort.”
“The song explores the concept of ‘mysterium tremendum et fascinans’. I came across this concept in Das Heilige (The Idea of the Holy), a book by Rudolf Otto”, Daphne Ang notes. “It is the raw, enduring, and barbaric pain that pierces deep into the soul, which may then develop into something pure, beautiful and glorious. It is the totality of the highest and lowest points of our existence.”
TUTV: Oh my, oh my. What a jaw-dropping return this is. Mysterium Tremendum is a
symphonic metal rock rollercoaster going up and down, forth and back, through different phases. From the Bohemian Rhapsody-like piano intro to growling death metal aggression to quiet/loud/quiet/loud turbulence, from waltzing strings to operatic grandeur and back.
The piano/violin epilogue is for Daphne‘s gripping spoken word reflections on German theologian and philosopher Rudolf Otto‘s book Das Heilige. Über das Irrationale in der Idee des Göttlichen und sein Verhältnis zum Rationalen / An Inquiry into the Non-Rational Factor in the Idea of the Divine and its Relation to the Rational.
As usual, the duo comes up with a fantastic video clip to visualise their work.
TCOMAS: Facebook – Instagram – Spotify
27 February 2024
STEVE HARLEY, the former frontman of 70s glam rock legends Cockney Rebel
was born Stephen Malcolm Ronald Nice on 27 February 1951 in Deptford, London.
Happy 73 to the supreme songwriter who had to tell people all the time that he
wrote more than one song, hinting at Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me).
I agree 200%. Their 1973 debut single SEBASTIAN (on their excellent first
album The Human Menagerie) is their 24 Carat gold masterstroke.
Bombastic rock opera at its sublime best.
Steve Harley: Instagram – Bio – Discography
27 February 2024
THE SAVAGE HEARTS are a fresh rock hit team from Ireland,
assembled by Evan Walsh, former drummer of R&B sensation
The Strypes (2010-2018).
They just dropped their debut single, named GANG WAR.
The 7″ single is available via Blowtorch Records.
It’s a high-powered steamroller wired-up by an afire army of
pulverising guitar frenzy, barnstorming drums, 60s Hammond
organ, alarming vocals and a titanic chorus. A 100% ace debut.
Next, please.
Let’s roll.
The Savage Hearts: Facebook – Instagram
Daily noise that works faster than any stimulent
27 February 2024
Californian veteran rockers LINKIN PARK launch a career-spanning best-of collection, named PAPERCUTS (Singles Collection 2000-2023) on April 12 via Warner Records.
It’ll feature FRIENDLY FIRE. A mid-tempo power ballad that was
recorded in 2017 during the sessions of their One More Light LP,
but so far not officially released.
It’s one of the last songs sung by the late, charismatic frontman
Chester Bennington, who took his own life the same year.
Brad Delson (guitarist) “Friendly Fire” was always one of the band’s favorite songs from
the One More Light sessions. “Something about it wasn’t quite right, so as close as it got to the finish line, we chose to set it aside for later. When we started looking for an unreleased track to include on our greatest hits collection, I was blown away by the power of the song, the power of the storytelling, the power of the vocal, the sonic landscape, and I actually thought that it was closer than maybe we had realized at the time. We got together to work on it and connect some of the missing pieces that for whatever reason hadn’t revealed themselves during the recording of One More Light. I can’t wait for people to hear it. It’s such a beautiful, compelling, heartbreaking, hopeful story, and it really resonates with me today.”
WATCH/LISTEN
STREAM
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LP: Instagram – Website
Daily electricity to load your batteries
26 February 2024
American duo CocoRosie, sisters Bianca Leilani “Coco” Casady and Sierra Rose “Rosie” will release a new EP, Elevator Angels, due out on March 8, which is International Women’s Rights Day. It’ll contain acoustic versions of songs from throughout their career.
The first piece they share is Beautiful Boyz (feat. Anohni on
the original version) from their 2005 album Noah’s Ark.
The new take is a heavenly vocal beauty.
CocoRosie: Instagram – Facebook
26 February 2024
Cover of the upcoming album, named T.O.tallity by Californian
metal trashers TAKE OFFENSE. It’ll be out on May 10th.
First single.
TO: Instagram
