| SUNN O))) Japan Shoshin pass | 08 04 2009 | |
| This pass and a set of earplugs in their own SUNN branded container are bonuses for people in Japan who buy 2 tickets for each Tokyo or Osaka shows at this months Japan gigs. | ||
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| Pickguard for the all black Electrical | 08 04 2009 | |
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| SAVX on Touch Radio | 08 04 2009 | |
| http://www.touchradio.org.uk/
Touch Radio 40 | Edwin Pouncey http://www.touchradio.org.uk/touch_radio_40_edwin_pouncey.html 03.04.09 - R'Occult 'n' Roll – 23:52 - 192 kpbs VBR Recorded 02.04.09, at: “R'Occult 'n' Roll – Music and Magic on the Wild Side” Readings by Sandy Robertson and Edwin Pouncey at Treadwell's Books, London. “The connections between rock music and the occult range from the legends of bluesmen selling their souls to the Devil for success, through to the influence of Aleister Crowley on the Rolling Stones, The Beatles and Led Zeppelin in the 60s and 70s, and the Satanic music and imagery of today’s Black Metal underground. This talk will cover all these subjects, together with lesser-known examples of ‘rockultism’. You may even get to hear some mad, bad and occasionally dangerous musick too. Earplugs optional. Sandy Robertson is the author of The Aleister Crowley Scrapbook (now in print for 20 years) and has written for Mojo, NME and other publications. As well as being a music writer and illustrator for The Wire magazine, Edwin Pouncey (aka Savage Pencil/Sav X) is an artist whose work has been shown in galleries in the UK, Europe and America. Sandy Robertson and Edwin Pouncey were colleagues at the legendary rock paper Sounds during the 80s.” In this excerpt, Edwin Pouncey discusses the genealogy of Black Metal. Continue reading: Touch Radio 40 | Edwin Pouncey | ||
| Black Death | 01 04 2009 | |
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| SUNN DJing | 01 04 2009 | |
| Well Cavemanskillz & The Lord DJing.
At Rough Trade East in February First time we've cleared a room in a while! Even the staff left. Tony stayed though. | ||
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| Daniel Menche: Atavistic Librarian | 01 04 2009 | |
| Yo pardner of black muerte!
After visiting that "witchcraft market" in Mexico City I was eager to get back to my library job to research the beeseegees out of this whole "Saint Muerte" phenomenon. I found a truck load a fascinating stories and GREAT videos. You maybe very interested in some of these tidbits. From the recent news it looks like Saint Muerte is the new BLACK! Below is a smorgasbord of news stories relating to this exploding religion of death. VERY interesting read considering that Saint Muerte is the god of choice for drug lords. Just last week there was raids through border towns to remove Saint Muerte statues because they are considered somewhat responsible for the violence...(yeah right!). Check out this quote below from a court wiretap of a drug lord who killed two boys. --------------------------------- Police in the U.S. learned about the abductions when the parents of the two boys, the youngest 14 years old, reported them missing. The investigation ended when one of the accused killers, Gabriel Cardona-Ramirez, also known as “Pelon” and “Gaby,” bragged about how the boys were crying when he slashed them to death with a broken bottle, then poured their blood into a cup for a toast. “Poom! The little cup [drink]! Poom!” Cardona-Ramirez boasted on a federal wiretap planted at a cartel hide-out on Orange Blossom Loop in Laredo. His words were translated into English for U.S. court officials. “I filled it with blood and poom! I dedicated it to La Santisima Muerte” – St. Death. ---------------------------------- Very Interesting News stories below all about SAINT DEATH: http://www.beliefnet.com/News/2003/01/Saint-Death-Worshippers-March-In-Mexico.aspx http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-mexico-muerte_avilamay27,0,6329824,full.story http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/452438.aspx?option=print http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/laplaza/2009/03/santa-muerte-st.html http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1671984,00.html Here's the IMDB profile of a 84 minute documentary simply called "Le Santa Muerte" Looks good and it has that hunky Latino lover Gael García Bernal narrating it.....NICE! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1022580/ I believe this is the official trailer but I could be wrong. Regardless it's fascinating http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgQftFWM41Q And finally this great music video about Saint Muerte! You GOTTA check out the music video! It's a total "spit your coffee out funny" Just wait until a few minutes in and the band "magically" appears with Saint Death and dances and sings up a storm.. Very Muerteistico! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6joFAy9NW8 Ok! there you go. My librarian skills at work! Hope you dig it!...My students sure did! Daniel | ||
| SUNN & Cope Moog Ceremony 2006 doc | 31 March 2009 | |
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| Iommi (thanks Lord) | 31 March 2009 | |
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| Æthenor drum roadie | 31 March 2009 | |
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| SUNN en vivo | 30 March 2009 | |
| Dentro del apartado del festival de México en le Centro Histórico,llamado Radar, se presento Sunn O)), una banda de drone metal lidereada por Stepehen O'Malley y Greg Anderson, acompañados por el vocalista Attila Csihar de Myhem y Oren Ambarchi compositor y multinstrumentalista. En esta su primer presentación en México inundaron el recinto con lo mejor de los sonidos del black metal y de noise. Encapuchados y rodeados de neblina el grupo cedió el escenario a lo que ellos opinan es lo esencial: la música.
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| Jimmy Page (with KTL booking agent Danilo Pellegrinelli) | 28 March 2009 | |
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| KEIJI's O2 | 27 March 2009 | |
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| more JERK | 27 March 2009 | |
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| Quietus! | 26 March 2009 | |
| Hi Greg,
Good to speak to you. Here's a couple of things. ....... 2. A 'story' on my website www.TheQuietus.com about our very own Prime Minister showing his approval of 'Monoliths & Dimensions': http://thequietus.com/articles/01362-gordon-brown-passes-verdict-on-new-sunn-o-album And I've attached the pictures of SunnO))) action figures that my girlfriend made. Sorry about the Marshall amp. We don't have any Orange or Sunn in my garage. And obviously we're finding it difficult to find an Attila lookalike GI Joe. Please pass on to Stephen. Cheers, John Doran -- John Doran, Writer and Editor www.TheQuietus.com www.johndoran.co.uk | ||
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| Great Mexican bootlegs | 26 March 2009 | |
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| One for the road | 26 March 2009 | |
| Classic Brötzmann album | ||
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| Rehberg @ GRM Paris | 26 March 2009 | |
| Playback was apparently through about 80 of these. | ||
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| No Pigs | 25 March 2009 | |
| Guy's first band:
No Pigs www.myspace.com/nopigs | ||
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| FUZZ | 25 March 2009 | |
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| bass in the mist | 24 March 2009 | |
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| THE LIMITS OF CONTROL | 23 March 2009 | |
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| Metal namesakes | 23 March 2009 | |
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| Grisey & Lucha Libre | 21 March 2009 | |
| More remains from a great trip to Mexico... pics: Herzog. | ||
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| Cry me a River | 18 March 2009 | |
| Khanate Springs Eternal
In praise of some dearly departed, egocentic, avant-metal assholes By Phil Freeman Tuesday, March 17th 2009 at 3:16pm It's rare that a band truly leads by example, particularly in metal, where stylistic and genre parameters are strictly patrolled. The New York City avant-doom quartet Khanate, though, followed its own path from 2001 to 2006, combining a crushing musical and spiritual heaviness with a mastery of silence that created and sustained suspense without any of metal's usual horror-movie theatricality. You can hear the roots of their sound in the slow first half of the title track to Black Sabbath's namesake 1970 debut, except here, drummer Tim Wyskida's cymbals play the part of the rain and Stephen O'Malley's guitar echoes the church bells (and not Tony Iommi's gloomy riffing). Khanate's excoriating marathons of pain never permitted the cathartic release inherent in even the heaviest rock. Unfortunately, no group can operate at this level of intensity for long, and after two full-length CDs, several limited-run live CDs and DVDs, and 2006's Capture & Release EP, they split. Now, some final recordings have emerged: the four-song, hour-long Clean Hands Go Foul, which features the band's shortest song (the six-minute "Wings From Spine") and its longest, the 33-minute "Every God Damn Thing." It's possibly the band's best release, the manner of its creation indicating a potential path Khanate might have pursued. "The music on CHGF was improvised during the Capture & Release sessions," says vocalist Alan Dubin. "James [Plotkin, bassist] cut the fat via computer butcher, so to speak, and assembled the pieces into four cohesive works. . . . I was given rough demos of these tracks and wrote the lyrics." Unfortunately, Khanate's interpersonal volatility seems to guarantee there won't be anything else forthcoming: In Plotkin's words, "Try to imagine a band consisting of a flake with multiple personalities, an egomaniacal control freak, an out-of-control attention whore, and a complete bastard with a volatile temper. It's amazing that we lasted as long as we did." Wyskida, who continues to work with Plotkin, believes Khanate continued to evolve right up to the end. "Everybody in the group listened to a wide variety of music and had continual interest in music they hadn't heard before. The more you take in, the more interesting and unpredictable the things you shit out." Indeed, unpredictability of a truly ominous sort was one of Khanate's signal attributes. The live recordings, especially the DVDs, are masterpieces of sustained tension, as the achingly slow tempos, the feedback, and, above all, the volume allow Plotkin and O'Malley to bring the sound up, down, and around like dueling conductors while Dubin shrieks in hyper-realistic, unrelenting anguish. The audiences are held rapt, and when a chord does descend, it's like the ceiling falling in. "There was always a pathway to continued evolution—or, rather, change—but only the four of us could be Khanate," Dubin says. "We were and are four creative, egocentric assholes, who at the same time have very unique imaginations and eclectic ideas about music. Had it continued, someone would have died." So the band did instead. "My reason for ultimately letting it die was basically Plotkin leaving," he continues. "James made it clear that he wanted to do a lot more touring with the band. I have a very lucrative career that I'm passionate about, as a creative video/film editor, and was more than satisfied doing a few two- to three-week tours per year." "I think Khanate was neglected to a point by other members' 'side' outlets, and that added piss to the dwindling fire," he adds, an assessment with which his bandmates concur. "The band did have a consistent issue with evenhandedness—people's attention or so-called dedication/commitment to what the other elements were hoping to accomplish or work together toward," admits O'Malley, who's currently recording and touring with Sunn O))), KTL, and other projects. "If we could have been a bit more patient and in agreement about how to work together, we could have taken it further. Regardless, what we did accomplish is some of the most interesting music I had the pleasure of being part of creating." Khanate's music is hard to point out as being a glaringly obvious influence—the way you can tell a band's been listening to a lot of Iron Maiden or Slayer—and gigs were infrequent enough that you can easily believe that, yeah, the scene, in New York and elsewhere, will go on without them. But within the sub-basement of metal that is doom, Khanate showed that a way forward was possible—that merely playing slow, downtuned riffs and pounding the drums like you were guiding oarsmen wasn't enough. For all its apparent adherence to sonic orthodoxy, metal has long been secretly avant-garde, experimenting with sound in ways more mainstream rock bands can't or won't. Khanate's dissonant, oppressive, yet spacious music—along with its total lack of solos or traditional performance strategies—was so deliberately alienating that it raised questions about the very purpose of being at a metal show, and that's a challenge more bands should be willing to take. from Village Voice | ||
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| Csihar & Ambarchi at Teotihuacan | 17 March 2009 | |
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