June 2014

COLLAPSE UNDER THE EMPIRE - The load on the Titan's shoulders

COLLAPSE UNDER THE EMPIRE - The load on the Titan's shoulders

In Greek mythology, Atlas carries the vault of heaven on his shoulders. Even Titan might have lifted himself up on the sound block "Shoulders & Giants", which Collapse Under The Empire created three years ago: instrumental flights of fancy, which draw their power from a nerve-racking tension, made this album the climax in the work of the North German post rockers to date. Now they let "Sacrifice & Isolation" follow, which aesthetically immediately follows "Shoulders & Giants".

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BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE - In the footsteps of Johann Sebastian Bach

BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE - In the footsteps of Johann Sebastian Bach

The Brian Jonestown Massacre is one of the longest serving bands that mediates between transfigured sixties psychedelia and violent shoegazing. Groups like the Wooden Shjips or the Black Angels would be unthinkable without the preparatory work of BJM. Founded by Anton Newcombe at the beginning of the nineties in San Francisco and now based in Berlin, the band is now releasing their 15th album. On the last records Newcombe and Co. tended more and more towards electronic trance, interspersed with oriental sounds and grooves.

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URIAH HEEP - Statement about joie de vivre

27. June 2014

Uriah Heep

URIAH HEEP - Statement about joie de vivre

Life can be so simple. Just do what you like and you will do it with joy, energy and passion - if you have to until retirement age. "Sure, I still have a lot of fun, otherwise I wouldn't do what I do," says Mick Box, last remaining founding member of Uriah Heep. eclipsed caught him a few days before his sixty-seventh birthday on June 9. So, is there gonna be a real rock'n'roll party? "Sure," he laughs, "I'll make it pop." But before that there will be some live shows in Scandinavia, among others at the "Sweden Rock Festival".

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