Angelusnoctis - Bats inside my head

I was browsing the galleries of the DDT and I’ve just found us there! Check the www.poisonbytes.de gallery of the 25 Dark Dance Treffen, they have lots of photos not only of the bands, but also photos of the people. Nice work!

I almost have no words to describe how it was. I’ll just say that UnterArt was again the winner… They were great! I left the Hocico concert 4 songs after the begining, but UnterArt made me stay dancing and signing during the whole show…

I think I’m having a “favorite band” again…

Here I post some photos of the festival. Enjoy!

The day I listened to a song of Ashbury Heights for the first time I was in Granada, in a gothic pub called UNTOTEN. We had to ask about the song we were listening… It was so melodic and catchy!! They told us the name of the group, and the next day we were looking for info about them in the web.

I knew that Out of line was releasing their CD, as I check their web regularly searching for news… I had seen the coverart before in their ‘new releases’ section, but I didn’t pay a lot of attention to it as I was eclipsed with the UnterArt ‘Memento’! (And I’m still crazy about it! I don’t know why I extremely love their music above the rest… Sometimes I feel like a mad teenager fan… :S).

The thing is that after listening to the music of Ashbury Heights I think a new style in futurepop is coming… They make fresh tracks, they have wonderful melodies and high quality voice effects; but at the same time their music is so accessible, that it would perfectly fit in any MTV show…

You should listen to “Bare Your Teeth”, with a starting melody that augurs what you’re gonna find in the CD. I also love “Smaller” (a great chorus that makes you sing though you don’t want to), and “Penance”…

I’m longing for the day that dark electro music becomes successful out of the dark scene!

So long writing in my blog and I haven’t said anything about an important artist… Digital21, a guy who makes everything in his CDs, even the cover art, the videoclips…

I went to a concert of him about two years ago, I haven’t listened to him before, but I remembered reading the name of the group in sonidobscuro.com. As the concert was really cheap (just 1,5€, some official institution pays the rest!) I bought my tickets, and I could enjoy one of the best concerts I’ve ever seen. It was so great that I bought his CDs at the end of the show. The music he makes is described as eletronic punk… I have to say that some tracks remind me of Placebo music.

Since that day I’ve tried to see Digital21 again, he’s been playing in Malaga (his hometown, and the place where I live) this summer, but for different reasons I couldn’t go (one of the concerts was the same day I was arriving from the Mera Luna, we were so tired!).

This time I’m not gonna miss it. I’m looking forward to see again all that electronic machinery around him as he shouts loud the powerful lyrics, full of critics and nonconformity. This time the show takes place at the same venue, the “Teatro Diputación” in Malaga. This time is cheap too: just 4 euros. The 9th of february, at 10:00 pm. I’ll be there for sure!!

Look the CD cover of the latest Miss Kittin work!!!!

I love all those small bats, the illustraton style, the colors… ^^

I want a T-shirt with those drawings!!!!!!

Since I came back from my holidays in Berlin I’ve been searching for an reason to go back to Germany… And some days ago I found it! The 25 Dark Dance Treffen.

In Lahr, next to Karlsruhe and Strassburg, the Universal DOG is the venue for a great night of live shows and DJ sessions. For the first time in my life I’m seeing Hocico!!! And Xotox…

I didn’t know this fest existed, but latelly I’m in a “searching mode”. I let my boyfriend search for new music and I’m allways looking for events! The thing is that they don’t have any english info in the DDT website , so I have to guess almost everything with the google tanslator… I’ve gotta say that the fest organization has been really helpful answering us the most important questions.

So, the crazy weekend plan is like that: taking a plane on Saturday, arrive to Stuttgart, rent a car and get to Lahr by the time the fest starts. And the same to come back home on Sunday… I know it’s gonna be a hard weekend, but I know how I’m gonna feel after that: extremely happy.

The next CD of UnterArt comes with a great cover design… I loved their first CD artwork, but I think this one is even better. The mixture of texures and the touch of reds and orange over white make it really powerfull. And I’ve allways admired the art of making something so bright look so dark…

We don’t have the CD in our hands right now, as the release date is the 1st of february, but I guess the designer of the cover is the same that their first CD artwork designer… Look that noisy texture over everything!. Check the website, a great portfolio full of CD sleeves with a peculiar style.

Out of line has uploaded an UnterArt wallpaper, which I’ve already made mine!! Now we just have to wait for the CD to be in the stores…

I was just checking last.fm to add the WGT to my events… And I found they updated it!! This is the line-up users have written (I suppose they have been checking shows in each group tour info, as the official WGT site hasn’t updated anything yet.) (I keep the links to the last.fm profiles)

Tristania, Covenant, London After Midnight, Lake of Tears, Mesh, Trail of Tears, Die Krupps, Welle:Erdball, Unheilig, Neuroticfish, Diablo Swing Orchestra, Samsas Traum, Faun, Gothminister, Skeletal Family, Asrai, Reaper, Inertia, Xotox, end of green, Rezurex, Jesus On Extasy, Secrets of the Moon, The Other, Star Industry, The Spook, The Creepshow, Chamber, 32Crash, Nachtmahr, Krauka, Straftanz, Ashbury Heights, WeltenBrand, Necessary Response, Super Heroines, Militant Cheerleaders on the Move, Onetwo, northborne, Steinkind, Cauda Pavonis, Kloq, The Beauty of Gemina, StoneMan, Schallfaktor, Morian, Menticide, In Mitra Medusa Inri, PostScriptum, Suicidal Romance, Knifeladder, Days of Fate, Gothika, Mono Inc., Lavantgarde, While Angels Watch, Din [A] Tod, Other Day, 13th Monkey, Deviant UK, The Beautiful Disease, Santa Hates You, Transit Poetry, The Veil, Dead Guitars, Ingrimm, Stellar Corpses, Solar Fake, Jesus On Exstasy, Folkstone, Christian Death 1334, The Dirty Weather Project

It will be nice that all of them are confirmed (some are, as I’ve done my reseach work too :D)… There are a few that are on my whislist: Covenant, London After Midnight, Gothminister, Reaper, Straftanz, Northbone, and… Christian Death!!! (I was thinking about going to their show in Madrid in February, but maybe I wait for the WGT). Of course there are a lot I also want to see… Xotox, 32Crash, Skeletal Family, Welle:Erdball, Neuroticfish, Die Krupps…

I can’t wait to know moreeeeeeeeee!!!!!

VNV Nation - Nemesis (video by Irvihammas ). First time I paid attention to the lyrics I felt like crying (yes, I cry over everything hehehe) ^^. Enjoy!

“Everybody wants to live in a lie
But why should we delude ourselves
It’s not as if we can’t see something’s wrong
Where’s the duty to what’s right
Intentions end with empty words
And chaos replaces order

Those who shout loudest
Impose their will
Upholding laws that serve a few
Declaring peace while the sirens sing
In the name of progress
The name of madness
Drum beats faster
Crowd chokes louder
And chaos replaces order

Oh when justice lowered a voice
It can’t be heard
Vindication for every suffering and hurt
Let retribution hold dominion over earth
Because Judgment Day’s not coming
Judgment Day’s not coming soon enough

Because Judgment Day’s not coming
Judgment Day’s not coming
Judgment Day’s not coming
Judgment Day’s not coming soon enough

Oh when justice lowered a voice
It can’t be heard
Vindication for every suffering and hurt
Let retribution hold dominion over earth
Because Judgment Day’s not coming
Judgment Day’s not coming
Oh when justice lowered a voice
It can’t be heard
Vindication for every suffering and hurt
Where retribution hold dominion over earth
Because Judgment Day’s not coming
Judgment Day’s not coming soon enough

Soon enough”

Yesterday my boyfriend and I were shopping in a shopping mall… Just searching for some throusers. And suddenly we paid attention to the waist of some men’s black jeans… And the Combichrist skull was there! They have used it instead of the “i” dots. Here you can see the photo. It was a pity I didn’t have my camera with me, we took a small pic with a mobile phone…

I had already seen that skull in other clothes, is exactly the same as the one in Combichrist CDs, but they have just removed the signs in the forehead…

I wonder if the ones making clothes are copying Combichrist logo, or if Combichrist did it and they just added the signs… I’d love to know who’s the designer of their image. Anyone?