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DEC 31, 2007 WAYNE HUSSEY: Now that
Wayne Hussey has put
The Mission
UK project to rest, he transitions to his solo carreer with a first
acoustic album titled 'Bare'. The album was recorded by Wayne at his studio in
Brazil over the last couple of months and will be available to buy on CD at the
shows on the
Mission's 'Farewell Tour' in February. The CD will also be available to buy
via the official Mission website.
It includes a cover of U2's With or Without
You, and a cover of
The Cure's A
Night Like This. This is what Wayne had to say about the new solo acoustic
record: "The recordings are loosely based on the solo shows I have
played over the last few years. It's basically just acoustic guitar, piano,
some other keyboards like organ and mellotron, an old beat box, and cello on a
track or two. There are no electric guitars, no bass, no 'real' drums. In fact,
no band. In a lot of respects I don't really consider 'Bare' as being my first
solo album. It's more an acoustic re-working of part of my past and I would
prefer to think that my first 'proper' solo album will be all new songs and
will be looking to the future rather than the past and that will, more than
likely, be the next thing I work on next year after the tour. I'm hoping that
being able to release records under my own name, ratherthan a 'brand' name like
The Mission,
will ultimately afford me more artistic freedom."Tracklisting: 1. A Night like This 2. Keep It In The Family 3. Black Mountain Mist 4. With Or Without You 5. Shelter From The Storm 6. Garden Of Delight 7. God Only Knows 8. Absolution 9. Stars Don't Shine Without You 10. My Funny Valentine 11. Bird Of Passage 12. Grotesque + bonus 13. OneThing Leads To Another Link: themissionuk.com DEC 30, 2007  ATROCITY: The latest Atrocity
album "Werk 80 II" will be released on Feb 29, 2008 with none other
than Dita von Teese on the cover. Alex Krull had this to say about the album's
musical progression: "This time we have worked together with an orchestra
and choir, so the album has acquired a slight classical touch, which I
personally like very much." As was the case on the original Werk 80, the
follow-up will also contain re-works of the new-wave mega hits of the 80's. A
two-song download single (Smalltown Boy/Relax) will be available on
January 11.Tracklisting: 01. People Are People (DEPECHE MODE) 02. Smalltown Boy (BRONSKI BEAT) 03. Relax (FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD) 04. Don’t You (Forget About Me) (SIMPLE MINDS) 05. The Sun Always Shines on TV (A-HA) 06. Hey Little Girl (ICEHOUSE) 07. Fade To Grey (VISAGE) 08. Such A Shame (TALK TALK) 09. Keine Heimat (IDEAL) 10. Here Comes The Rain Again (EURYTHMICS) 11. Forever Young (ALPHAVILLE) + bonus track for the special edition 12. Feels Like Heaven (FICTION FACTORY) Link: atrocity.de DEC 30, 2007 ATROCITY: The latest
Atrocity album "Werk 80 II" will be released on Feb 29, 2008 with
none other than Dita von Teese on the cover. Alex Krull had this to say about
the album's musical progression: "This time we have worked together with
an orchestra and choir, so the album has acquired a slight classical touch,
which I personally like very much." As was the case on the original Werk
80, the follow-up will also contain re-works of the new-wave mega hits of the
80's. A two-song download single (Smalltown Boy/Relax) will be available
on January 11.Tracklisting: 01. People Are People (DEPECHE MODE) 02. Smalltown Boy (BRONSKI BEAT) 03. Relax (FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD) 04. Don’t You (Forget About Me) (SIMPLE MINDS) 05. The Sun Always Shines on TV (A-HA) 06. Hey Little Girl (ICEHOUSE) 07. Fade To Grey (VISAGE) 08. Such A Shame (TALK TALK) 09. Keine Heimat (IDEAL) 10. Here Comes The Rain Again (EURYTHMICS) 11. Forever Young (ALPHAVILLE) + bonus track for the special edition 12. Feels Like Heaven (FICTION FACTORY) Link: atrocity.de DEC 29, 2007  SOLAR FAKE:
Solar Fake is the new solo electro project of Sven Friedrich, the singer of
Zeraphine and
Dreadful
Shadows. The debut album of Solar Fake includes 12 tracks, is titled
'Broken Grid' and will be released on Feb 1st 2008 in Europe. A record release
party is scheduled the same day at K17 (www.k17.de) in
Berlin.Tracklisting: 01. Hiding memories from the sun 02. Stigmata rain 03. (You think you're) Radical 04. The Shield 05. Creep 06. Here I stand 07. I keep my eyes shut 08. Hero & Conqueror 09. Lies 10. Sometimes 11. Your hell is here 12. I can't remember Link: solarfake.de DEC 25, 2007 MUSICFOLIO CHARTS: Musicfolio has compiled the Top 20 Albums of the year 2007. VNV Nation top the charts with their stellar ''Judgement', followed closely by Agua de Annique's 'Air' and The Birthday Massacre's 'Walking with Strangers'. Visit the link below to check the full Top 20 album listing. Link: Musicfolio's Top 20 albums of 2007 DEC 24, 2007  BLACKSUN
FESTIVAL: The first bands to be confirmed to the line-up for this year's
Blacksun Festival 2008 are
Assemblage
23, Attrition, The Azoic, Cesium_137,
Ego
Likeness, Hungry Lucy,
Iris,
Seabound,
Zombie Girl, and DJ Ian Fford with more to be announced later. The BlackSun
Festival will take place this year in the winter between March 14 and March 16,
2008 in New Haven, CT.
Rotersand and
[:SITD:] will not be participating in this year's festival as originally
announced. Due to health concerns
Rotersand has
cancelled their North American tour with [:SITD:]. 3-day tickets can be
purchased now through January 15th for $79. After January 15th, the price goes
up to $94. Follow the link below for more details.Link: BlackSun Festival  STATE OF THE
UNION: After a 4 year hiatus, Johann Sebastian and
State of
the Union have returned with their 3rd full length album, 'Evol Love
Industry'. Scheduled for worldwide release on February 18, 2008, 'Evol Love
Industry' showcases
SOTU’s
signature style of mixing hard-hitting electronic beats with haunting ballads
and symphonic orchestrations. Tracks like Dead Serious, Fall From Grace
and Radioman makes 'Evol Love Industry' their most club accessible
release to date and promises to be packing dance floors across the globe.
Release on Infacted in Europe and WTII Records in North
America.Tracklisting: 1. Fakto 2. Evol Love 3. Dead Serious 4. New Found Heaven 5. Fall From Grace 6. Nothing at All 7. I Want 8. RadioMan 9. Crusher 10. Love is Complicated + Bonus MP3 Tracks: 11. The Color of My Skin 12. Blindfold 13. Fall From Grace (Memento Mix) 14. Fallen Angels + Bonus MPEG Video: RadioMan Link: wtii records, Video Stream: RadioMan  MARINA SIERTIS:
Swedish band Marina Siertis announce that their new album 'The Much Needed
Second Cold War' will be released worldwide on January 8, 2008, on independent
label Shadowplay Music. The album comprises 13 tracks, including the singles
The Minister is Dead and Disease.Tracklisting: 1. The Minister is Dead 2.Horror Tin Can 3. Israeli “Security” Fence 4.Suicide 2 5.Third strike 6.The Much Needed Second Cold War 7.Cold Anger 8. I Never Went To The English Beach House 9. Suicide 10. American Torture 11. Disease (album version) 12. Abuse 13.I’ll Begin Listen: myspace/marinasiertis DEC 23, 2007  QNTAL: QNTAL return
in 2008 with their sixth installement: 'QNTAL VI – Translucida'.
Translucida brings together past and present in two respects: both in
historical terms and in terms of the band's biography. The album with its
balanced mix of reflection and innovation opens an opportunity of looking ahead
or back, whichever you prefer:
QNTAL continue to
operate on both sides of the timeline in 2008. Translucent arrangements focus
the attention on Syrah's multi-faceted vocals, which are not accompanied by
choral passages this time around. Next to measured moments, the sixth
QNTAL release
includes a number of candidates for the club circus as well. Release date:
February 29, 2008, on e-Wave Records, a division of Drakkar Entertainment
GmbH.Tracklisting: 1. Sleeping 2. Departir 3. Ich minne einen Ritter 4. Translucida 5. La Froidor 6. Glacies 7. Worlds Of Light 8. Obscure 9. Sumer 10. Amorous Desir 11. Ludus 12. Passacaglia Link: qntal.de  THE SMASHING PUMPKINS: The Smashing Pumpkins have announced the
completion of new material with 'American Gothic', a four-song acoustic EP to
be released digitally via the iTunes Store on January 2. Featuring the songs
The Rose March, Pox, Again Again Again (The Crux) and
Sunkissed, the EP will be available for individual purchase on iTunes or
as part of a deluxe iTunes version of the band's critically hailed 2007 album
'Zeitgeist'. In the U.S., iTunes is the exclusive retailer; elsewhere in the
world, American Gothic will be available as a physical product at retail.
'American Gothic' was produced by Billy Corgan and Jimmy Chamberlin, with one
song co-produced by Roy Thomas Baker. The songs were recorded at the Pass
Studio in Los Angeles, CA while the Pumpkins were on a break between their 2007
national tour and upcoming 2008 European tour.Link: smashingpumpkins.com DEC 15, 2007  COVENANT: In a
recent interview with Release Magazine,
Covenant's
founding member Joakim Montelius admit that they were very close to quitting.
On their recent DVD 'In Transit', Covenant had revealed that founding member
Clas Nachmanson was leaving the band, and the lyrics on Skyshaper "It's
time for us to fade away" had strongly suggested that the end was
near. But now the recharged band aims at version 2, with a new line-up, a new
sound and a new album in the making. Daniel Myer from Haujobb has been an on
stage stand-in for Nachmanson for about a year now and will now be involved in
the song writing process for the forthcoming album. Work on the new album
started and the band will enter the studio in February of
2008.Link: Release  IKON: After recording
new material over the past year and a half,
IKON has released
a new 6-track EP entitled 'League of Nations' in Australia on Nile Records. The
EP gives a taster of what to expect on the forthcoming full-length CD
‘Love, Hate and Sorrow’ which will be released mid-2008. The EP can
currently be purchased directly from the band.Tracklisting: 1. A Line on a Dark Day 2. Krista 3. Calm Before the Storm 4. Hindsight 5. Expatriate 6. A Line on a Dark Day (remix) Order: League of Nations  DAVE GAHAN:
Depeche Mode's
frontman Dave
Gahan returns on the 14th of January 2008 with the second single lifted off
his sophomore album 'Hourglass' . The double A-side of "Saw Something /
Deeper & Deeper". The first version Limited Edition CD Single is
presented in digipak. Two extra remixes are also included on the
CDS.Tracklisting: 01. Saw Something (Single Version) 02. Deeper And Deeper (Shrubbn!! Single Version) 03. Love Will Leave (Das Shadow's Rewerk) 04. Deeper And Deeper (Juan MacLean Club Mix) Order: Saw Something / Deeper & Deeper DEC 08, 2007  L'AME
IMMORTELLE:
L'ame
Immortelle are back to the label where everything began: Trisol. Their new
album 'Namenlos' can be regarded as the musical and conceptual peak of their
career as it deliberately combines the coarse style of the their beginnings
with the qualities of their most successful album 'Dann Habe Ich Umsonst
Gelebt' and offers a mixture of hard but melodic electro sounds with aggressive
and distorted male vocals and emotional melodies with Sonja's crystal-clear
hymn-like voice. Pounding industrial beats meet heart-breaking Dark Wave
synthetic harmonies and reflected German poetry opposes angry English lyrics.
The Standard edition double-CD comes presented in a jewel case with 20 page
glossy booklet. A Limited 2-CD box set is also available. Release date: Jan 25,
2008Tracklisting: CD1: 01. Vergessen 02. 1000 Voices 03. Behind The Light 04. Bleib, Requiem 05. Lost 06. Blutrot 07. Reborn 08. Es Tut Mir Leid 09. Niemals 10. Jenseits Der Schatten 11. The Cleansing 12. Namenlos CD2: 01. Erneuerung 02. When The Sun Has Ceased To Shine 03. Love Is Lost (Cover Version by Anthoni Jones) 04. When The Sun Has Ceased To Shine (Cover Version by Spiritual Front) 05. Es Tut Mir Leid (Cover Version by Steinkind) 06. Niemals (Cover Version by Sieben) 07. Requiem (Cover Version by Whispers In The Shadow) 08. Erinnerung (An Essay by Thomas Sabottka) Order: Namenlos  DIE FORM: The
unique interpretation of Bach compositions by Die Form, as it was performed
live in Leipzig on the occasion of the Bach week in 2006, is finally released
as a new album tiltled 'Bach Project'. Once again organic and electronic noise
with neo classic elements is united with experimental structures, classic
harmonies and vocals. And also again cold technical elements from mastermind
Philippe Fichot are confronted with the warm and erotic voice of Eliane P. The
Limited deluxe first edition is presented in A5 format in a precious slipcase,
punched and with special lamination. It includes special accordion fold-out
booklet and precious art print on selected high quality, plus astonishing live
photos from the Bach performance in Leipzig. Release date: Jan 25,
2008Order: Bach Project  RUN LEVEL
ZERO: Following their digital-only single 'Shattered Silence' released on
Artoffact in November 2007, Run Level Zero present their new album 'Arctic
Noise'. The album features 12 tracks of stomping and romping industrial dance
as well as a slick 12-page booklet. Released on Artoffact and available January
15th, 2007. Album cover artwork and tracklisting have been
revealed.Tracklisting: 1. Black Cinder 2. Deny Me 3. Hitting Ground 4. Stroke 5. Incision 6. With One Voice 7. Shine 8. Hand To Mouth 9. Hey Mister 10. Lies Told 11. Plaything 12. The End of the Whorl Order: Arctic Noise DEC 07, 2007  NICK CAVE AND THE BAD
SEEDS: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds release their 14th studio album 'Dig,
Lazarus, Dig!!!' on the 3rd of March 2008. Produced by
Nick Cave &
The Bad Seeds and Nick Launay who worked with the band on their last album
'Abattoir Blues/ Lyre of Orpheus', the new album was recorded over the summer
at State of the Ark Studios in Richmond and mixed by Nick Launay at British
Grove in Chiswick. The first single from the album 'Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!' is
the album’s title track and will be released on February 18th 2008. It
will be available as a limited edition 7”, CD and download. The B-side
features another new
Nick Cave &
The Bad Seeds song Accidents Will Happen.Link: nickcaveandthebadseeds.com NOV 24, 2007  COLONY 5:
Colony 5 is
back with a harder sound, while staying true to the melodies that have become
their trademark. The single 'Knives' is a first taste of what is to come from
the upcoming full length album 'Buried Again', scheduled for a February 2008
release. 'Knives' presents you with the title track, plus three remixes
[courtesy of Schallfaktor,
Syrian and
Herzschlag], together with the exclusive bonus track Avalanches. Expect
hardhitting futurepop with an edge. Released on Artoffact and available on
December 11th, 2007.Tracklisting: 01 Knives 02 Knives (Schallfaktor Remix) 03 Avalanches 04 Knives (Club Mix) 06 Knives (Syrian Remix) Order: Knives NOV 22, 2007  EMILIE
AUTUMN: The new Emilie Autumn EP "4 O'Clock" is scheduled for release
on Jan 18, 2008. Featuring the haunting, 4 O'Clock, this new release
also contains an exclusive B-side, the bittersweet and beautiful My
Fairweather Friend, four brand-new remixes of songs from 'Opheliac', and
never one to keep things simple, Emilie Autumn also reads you stories from
within her alternate reality world she calls The Asylum, as well as excerpts
from her upcoming book, "The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls",
that will leave fans shocked and readers everywhere gasping for air. Packaged
in the decadent style you've come to expect from Emilie Autumn (and the Trisol
label), this gorgeous new Limited Edition 6-panel digipak features exclusive
photos and drawings from within the Asylum.Tracklisting: 01. 4 O'Clock 02. My Fairweather Friend 03. Gothic Lolita (Bad Poetry Mix by Sieben / Matt Howden) 04. Swallow (Oyster Mix by Punto Omega) 05. Swallow (Filthy Victorian Mix by Perfidious Words) 06. Organ Grinder 07. Excerpts From The Upcoming Book “The Asylum” 08. Words From “The Asylum” Order: 4 O'Clock NOV 18, 2007  BAUHAUS: In an
interview to RockLine.it vocalist
Peter
Murphy confirmed the rumors about the new
Bauhaus album
expected in early 2008: "Since Bauhaus are no longer a band working
together, we are planning at least to release an album that was recorded in a
stunning 18 day period including writing recording and mixing , and this should
reach your doorsteps early 2008. I plan to play Bauhaus material from time to
time from this point on in the future. This is a change from my policy over the
years whereas in my own live work I chose never to play Bauhaus material,
preferring to leave that to whenever the band were to decide to reform. Now
that Bauhaus has seen its last incarnation as a bona fide band, the tours of
the recent year and a half were our last ever. So from now on, I will
incorporate my Bauhaus work into my solo concert
work".The album is titled 'Go Away White' (as announced by Sonic Seducer Mag) and is scheduled for release in March 2008 on Vinyl Records. Link: bauhausmusik.com  TARJA
TURUNEN: Hot on the heels of
Nightwish's
new album comes former frontwoman Tarja Turunen's debut album 'My Winter Storm'
under her "Tarja" personna. The album comes in both a standard CD
version and a CD + DVD limited edition, released on November 19, 2007 on
Universal Records. The album was mixed at Hans Zimmer's studios in L.A. The
first single I Walk Alone is now availbale in stores.Tracklisting: 01. Ite, Missa Est 02. I Walk Alone 03. Lost Northern Star 04. Seeking For The Reign 05. The Reign 06. The Escape Of The Doll 07. My Little Phoenix 08. Die Alive 09. Boy And The Ghost 10. Sing For Me 11. Oasis 12. Poison (Alice Cooper cover) 13. Our Great Divide 14. Sunset 15. Damned And Divide 16. Ciaran s Well 17. Minor Heaven 18. Calling Grace Bonus tracks on Ltd Edition: 19. Damned Vampire And Gothic Divine 20. I Walk Alone - Artist Version 21. I Walk Alone - In Extremo Remix Bonus DVD for Limited Edition: 1. Photo Gallery 2. I Walk Alone (Single Version) 3. I Walk Alone (Artist Version) 4. I Walk Alone (Making Of The video) 5. My Winter Storm (Making Of The album) Order: My Winter Storm  DISTAIN!:
Synthphony Records presents the fifth album proper from German electro-pop
outfit Distain!. The new release 'Raise The Pressure' contains 11 new seductive
tracks set to entrance with catchy melodies and captivating synthetic
sequences. Features a cover version of the
Pet Shop
Boysclassic West End Girls, plus a bonus 10 track second disc
entitled the 'Mandragore E.P' which includes 5 previously unreleased
remixes.Tracklisting: CD1: 01. Synthpopgirl 02. Here In Silence 03. From Horizon To Horizon 04. Mandragore 05. 21st Century Girl 06. West End Girls (Feat. Katrin P) 07. Lighthouse Over The Horizon 08. Pop Song 09. Love Machine 10. Inquisition (Feat.Sara Noxx) 11. The FLA 12. East At Last (Feat. Seyhan) CD2: 01. Mandragore (Silica Gel Mix) 02. Recruit My Soul 03. Gatorator 04. From Horizon To Horizon (DJ Feel Mix) 05. Mandragore (Hajas Mix) 06. The FLA (Turned On Mix) 07. History Forecast (Chinese Theatre Feat. Distain! / Time Code Mix) 08. Mandragore (High Hopes Mix) 09. Typical B-Side (Original Demo) 10. Facing The Rain (Instrumental) Order: Raise The Pressure |
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