Angelusnoctis - Bats inside my head

Last week I bought my flight to Berlin to stay there a couple of days and then go to the Wave Gotik Treffen!! I’ve never been there, but as my friends tell, it must be an incredible experience.

It is supposed to be something like a huge meeting of goths from all over the world, something like a big family. When I search photos of it I allways find every style in people: the after-punk ones, classic goths, electro and cyber ones, the fetish looks… The great thing is that the whole city becomes dark. A friend of mine told me that in every corner of the city, every shop or restaurant they prepare something “goth” for that days. I’m afraid of feeling so comfortable these days that maybe I’ll get depressed when the festival is over.

Check the official page gallery where I’ve taken the nice photos for this post. You’ll find not only a lot of photos of people, but also live photos of the bands. The thing that still impresses me is to find families with their children! It’s nice to find kids there, I suppose it has to be funny for them, as their parents dress them up in those black and goth clothes, they make up them… Girls even look like little princesses!

We don’t know the line-up yet, but I have my wishlist:

• And One
• UnterArt
• London After Midnight
• Combichrist
• VNV Nation
• Cinema Strange
• The Sisters of Mercy (incredible, but last year they played in the South of Spain!)
• Covenant
• and many more…

Every year I come to Vitoria to stay with my family and friends again during Christmas. Vitoria is a quite cold place, I think I forgot my days in Finland, where winter made us deal with -5 to -15 degrees almost everyday!

Anyway, it’s nice to meet everybody again. But as years pass by, I feel more like a foreigner here. It’s strange to read signs in Vasque, to see how people is really different here… They talk different, they wear different clothes, their faces even even look different!!

Maybe I’m becoming an andalusian… xD Yesterday my father didn’t stop telling me that it’s a pity that I speak this way, that I’ve lost my good pronunciation… :S

The thing is that I love this place. Vitoria is a really nice and comfortable city… If you don’t know it you should come and visit it!

Las weekend I flew to Barcelona to the “Dark Christmas Festival”. Covenant + Reaper + (I+).

I was really surprised with Reaper, as I’ve never seen their live before, and it was really good. I like their music, but their show was really energetic. I loved their song “She is a Devil and a Whore”, which I listened at least three times that night (the concert and the after party in Demonix).

Covenant was great, it couldn’t have been in other way. Eskil told us that they had some problems with their lugage, and the main synth didn’t arrive to the airport, so tey have to use a”smaller” one. It was almost funny to see that small keyboard, as big as a shoes box. xD Anyway they sounded great., and the frontman didn’t stop telling us “Hit me with your love!” (that was quite funny for me)…

I forgot to take my camera with me, so I couldn’t take any photos. I would have taken some with them in the afterparty as both, Reaper and Covenant, were there, among us taking some beers… That’s a thing that I love of this kind of music: you always have the oportunity to talk with musicians to tell them they’ve done a great work!

Lately I’ve been more concentrated on listening to electro and 80’s music, but last week I got back to an Antiworld CD, and I thought it’s time to listen again to my forgotten afterpunk, deathrock, batcave…

Today, I bring a Cinema Strange video. They are from U.S.A. (California), and I’ve allways loved their skill to make their songs sound so dramatic. Sometimes they’re like a soundtrack for any David Lynch film…

This video is taken from their DVD “Pressed Flowers / Squashed Blossoms”, enjoy their “Catacomb Kittens”.

Like a record, baby. But I already know your name ^^.

I was searching for a Paralitikos video to post it here, but they have the worst quality I’ve ever seen!! So here you have a Paralisis Permanente video, the “teachers” of my beloved Paralitikos…

¿Why do great artists allways die young?

Two weeks ago I went to Barcelona to my third concert of Rabia Sorda this year. I love their music: powerful, full of feelings and ideas. It was a pity that only around 40 people were there… I thought that Erk Aicrag of Hocico (!) would attract more people… Anyway, we had a great time, the concert was superb. I know that the lack of spectators isn’t good for the promoters, and even for us at the end (if nobody goes, they won’t organize concerts like that); but that small audience lets you to closely connect in some way with the band. Their PC got blocked once, but even that was nice ^^.

The surprise that night was Stigmatroz. I had just listened to a song in their myspace before, they sound quite similar to Hocico (in my opinion), but they really worked hard to impress us. They filled the stage with strange metal stuff, as if they were in a factory. They had curious paintings over their bodies (although they reminded me of some Balck metal singers look), and they played all the time with their acting. But they aren’t just a look, their music was really nice, check their myspace.

That was a great night, I’m looking forward to the next concert!

Our underground stop was Frankfurter Allee, we were staying at Dark Hostel, next to the K17. Our holidays in Berlin.

I love Berlin, this is the second time I go there. I love the variety of things you can visit or do. In the center, besides the Bundestag, the Museums and Alexander Platz, you always find markets in the streets, original shops, hot dogs sellers everywhere… I particularly love a bar called Barato, in Friedrischain. It’s a place where you can have dinner or a cocktail while you listen to good music (futurepop, ebm, electrodark, industrial…). Comparing to spanish prices it is quite a cheap place, and food is super! And the K17, which is three streets far away from Barato, is one of the best discos I know. They have 4 different floors, with different styles of music: 80’s, metal, electro… And they open almost everyday!

During my holidays this year I had the opportunity to meet Steve Naghavi, the singer of And One in the K17. It was quite a surprise, and I almost talked him as a crazy fan… But he was very nice, and told me they were coming to Spain in May… That night we also met a couple from Valencia (that guy on the right in the photo). Everytime I go to Berlin I meet some Spanish people who go to the K17! It seems to be quite famous.

Another thing I love from Berlin is the Out of Line Shop. Here in Malaga is really hard to find any electro music CD, so when I get to a shop as the one in Berlin I can spend more than an hour trying to decide what to buy. I know you can buy everything from the internet, but I love going to a shop where I can find everything I like, even special editions and other stuff.

I hope I can get to Berlin soon again. Now it’s time to learn some german words…

Next december, on the 15th, quite a big event in Dark Scene takes place in Málaga (Spain). Some friends of mine are organizing a festival with Spetsnaz, Proceed and Xtertor; you cannot miss it if you like electro music! The Filmore Rock venue is the host of this festival. Come and enjoy it, and if you stay during the day maybe you can try the “Espeto”, a typical dish from Malaga (kind of barbecued sardines).

The ticket is just 18 € if you pay in advance (20€ if you buy it in the disco). You can reserve one calling to +34 651 751 459, or if you are in Malaga, you can buy it at “El Rincón de Jack”, a club located at Francisco de Cossio street, number 16, 3rd local. You can also buy your ticket at “Tiberio Dark Side”, a clothes shop located at Don Cristián street, number 15.

Listen to Spetsnaz in their myspace; they come directly from Swedeen to make your body move with their powerful EBM. And give a try to the tracks of Proceed, as good as the first ones with the Electro Body Music. Don’t forget the show of Xtertor (a.k.a S.I.T.H.), a new local electro band who will for sure impress you with their shocking electro music.

If you are missing the Out of line Festival anywhere in Europe, you still have the oportunity to come to the sunny but also dark Malaga and see Spetsnaz and Proceed together!! Dark Scene is alive! Olé!

The power of our useless brains
helps me to forget my daily pain
we make one step after another
and we try to discover
our evil border

Lola Angst - “Just Slaves”