In the last eight or so years, Children Of Bodom that darted to international fame with their debut, 1997’s "Something Wild", has gone from being "this amazing band from Finland" to a household name in the metalscene. And that, of course, is obvious given the intensity, sheer quality of their material and the flawless execution.

Primal Fear nagrywając najnowszą płytę zapraszają do studia coraz to nowych gości. Simone Simmons z zespołu Epica zaśpiewa wraz z Ralfem duet w "Everytime It Rains", przyjaciel zespołu Magnus Karlsson (Starbreaker, Allen / Lande) dostarczył dwie rewelacyjne solówki. Natomiast Kai Hansen z Gamma Ray i Henny Wolter (były gitarzysta zespołu) wciąż pracują nad kilkoma motywami. Gitarzysta Primal Fear, Stefan Leibing nagrał już wiekszosć gitar prowadzących.
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W tym roku, latem planowane jest wydanie oficjalnego DVD (po 9 latach) przez grupę Lacrimosa. Płyta będzie zatytułowana "Lichtjahre" i ukaże się 29 czerwca 2007 roku. Film ma przypominać najpiękniejsze, ekstremalne i emocjonalne momenty z ich olbrzymiej trasy koncertowej w pełnych mocy, powracających obrazach z występów na żywo. Ujrzymy Lacrimosę w takich hitach z ostatnich płyt jak: "Letzte Ausfahrt: Leben", "The Party Is Over" i "Lichtgestalt", jak również w wersjach live dojrzałych utworów np.: "Ich Bin Der Brennende Komet", "Der Morgen Danach" i "Stolzes Herz". DVD ma być przekrojem wieloletniej kariery muzycznej Lacrimosy.

Jak zapewne już wiecie w najbliższą sobotę - 31 marca w poznańskim klubie U Bazyla, odbędzie się impreza BloodLust Night pod wezwaniem Festung Breslau - Blitzkrieg An Posen - czyli BloodLust Team wraz zaproszonymi gośćmi z dwóch dobrych cyklicznych imprez wrocławskich - Sane (Cold Night) i Mark Nox (Fallen Angels Party). Klub przybierze specjalne barwy wojenne - zapraszamy od 20:00 do 5:00, wstęp 5 zł

Już niedługo na scenę wraca grupa z nurtu rocka gotyckiego – Autumn ze swoim trzecim już w karierze albumem zatytułowanym „My New Time”. Płyta ta oznacza ponowny start dla zespołu, który umiejscawiany był zawsze pośród sceny przepełnionej grupami z kobiecym wokalem. Na tym CD jednak Autumn postarało się o bardziej wyróżniający dobór tematów, tak aby zauważono jego oryginalność. Po zrealizowaniu i sukcesie ich poprzedniej płyty „Summer’s End” zespół dokonał znaczących zmian w brzmieniu.

These are heady days for those of us who wear our devotion to metal like a badge of honour. The deafening beast of the dark depths has lived to roar and rampage again and the scene has never been in a happier or healthier state. But don’t be deceived. Metal never really went away. In fact, its current fortitude stems entirely from the bands that never surrendered; those brave, liquor-soaked men whose total disregard for the vagaries of fashion and finance kept them glued to the grindstone through metal’s mainstream wilderness years. Now, as seems wholly fitting, the greatest of these are finally reaping their rewards and hitting new creative peaks as they surge unstoppably onwards and upwards. And, as it was in the beginning, so shall it be in 2006.


Just as the gravel-lined, turd-stained streets of urban England gave heavy metal to the world back in the late ‘60s, so that small country with the big voice continues to be the place where the world’s finest dark metal band rest their weary, alcohol-ravaged heads after another sonic killing spree. Love them, hate them or both, Cradle Of Filth is back again to fondle you while slitting your throat. Thornography has arrived.
Recorded at Chapel Studios in Lincolnshire, England, with renowned metallic production genius Rob Caggiano (Anthrax, Bleeding Through) and mixed by Andy Sneap (Killswitch Engage, Arch Enemy,Trivium) at Backstage Studios, Derbyshire, Thornography is the band’s seventh full-length studio album and their second for Roadrunner. The follow-up to 2004’s widely acclaimed meisterwerk Nymphetamine it’s a scintillating and terrifying collision between the familiar and the unexpected. It’s the dark, destructive and unsettling sound of a globe-conquering heavy metal band at the height of their sick, twisted powers, and the continuation of a proud, priapic and unhinged legacy that stretches back nigh on 15 years.
When Cradle Of Filth released their now legendary debut album, The Principle Of Evil Made Flesh back in 1994, the notoriety surrounding the Black Metal scene – and its spiritual epicentre in Oslo, Norway, in particular – was reaching fever pitch throughout Europe. These legions of the damned and disgusted took metal further into the abyss than it had ever been before, stripping away its worldly concerns and reducing it to a pure and chilling core of impenetrable black menace. Cradle Of Filth were undoubtedly inspired by this sea-change in metal’s ongoing evolution, they had their own plans for disseminating their own distinct, gothically-erotic propaganda and swiftly defined their own left hand path. Their disdain for playing by the rules was startling in its intensity from the very start.
Throughout the ‘90s, Cradle of Filth – led by vocalist, lyricist and crypt-crawling master of ceremonies Dani Filth – beavered tirelessly away, producing a series of peerless extreme metal classics that drew from an endless, dizzying array of inspirations and influences while always maintaining that instantly recognisable heart of filthy darkness. The brutal and brief Vempire mini-album and the lustrous, lascivious Dusk & Her Embrace (both 1996) began to reveal the band’s great sonic range. Later taking into account the slithering concept piece Cruelty & The Beast (1998) and the Clive Barker-inspired Midian (2000) – not to mention their excursions into the visual realm of film and promo– the Cradle Of Filth sound showed itself to be a many-headed creature. It was one that took delight in confounding both the purists and the critics who continually assailed the band’s motives and creativity even as their fan base expanded and their status soared. With a line-up that seemed to be constantly changing – thanks, perhaps, to the cobweb-encrusted revolving door that rumours suggest marked the entrance to the band’s rehearsal space during this period – the music was never allowed to stagnate; fresh blood and its revitalising effects remained a permanent weapon in the boys’ macabre arsenal.
As the 21st century dawned, Cradle Of Filth unleashed the epic, ambitious Damnation And A Day - a sprawling, theatrical masterpiece that has yet to be truly recognised for either its semantic depth or its thrilling levels of metallic artistry. Quietly walking away from a fractious partnership with their previous label, the band eventually found a logical home with Roadrunner Records. It was a match made in hell that spawned what was, until now, almost certainly the strongest collection of songs in the Cradle canon, the mighty Nymphetamine. Wildly varied and as heavy as anything the band had ever recorded, it was widely hailed as a triumph and led to yet more gruelling treks around the world, where their rabid fan base lurks in every shadowy corner waiting for their latest fix of barbaric drama and blood-soaked belligerence.
And so to 2006, where Cradle Of Filth find themselves in the enviable position of being in a league and class of their own. Having long since outstripped the achievements of their one-time contemporaries, the band are now firmly entrenched in a rich vein of form. The current line-up of Dani Filth, guitarists Paul Allender and Charles Hedger, bassist Dave Pybus and drummer Adrian Erlandsson is the most solid and powerful in the band’s career and Thornography is the resounding, conclusive proof. With songs as brutish, bombastic and diverse as “Libertina Grimm,” “Tonight In Flames,” “Cemetery & Sundown,” “I Am The Thorn,” “The Byronic Man” (featuring HIM’s Ville Valo on guest vocals) and a deranged cover of Heaven 17’s ‘80s pop gem “Temptation,” the world’s biggest and best extreme metal band have never sounded so exhilarating, so vital, so venomous…
“There are a lot of characters on this album,” says Dani Filth of the new opus. “There’s no central concept. It’s more along the lines of Nymphetamine in respect of diversity of content, both lyrically and musically. We spent the whole summer of 2005 working really hard on writing the material and making sure it was the best of songs we’ve ever written. Which undoubtedly it is. It’s obviously our best material thus far. It’s far more rhythmic and catchy and easily the heaviest thing we’ve done, especially on the production side of things. And there’s a real retro feel to the record, in terms of style. It’s slightly experimental for us and a lot of people will be surprised I think at the level of diversity we've managed to achieve with this, especially having worked with other musicians and having our first band instrumental included (Rise Of The Pentagram). We started to write and got into a habit of coming up with tons of stuff. Everyone would be working on ideas and we’d pool it all together in the dank confines of our rehearsal room. We kept stirring the cauldron and adding or subtracting accordingly. Thus each song has its own sound and feel in relation to the concept behind each track. And as per normal, it's all in good taste!
For example, Libertina Grimm, (which concerns itself with a haughty little vivisectrix and her dissonant life of crime) meanders through a succession of twists and turns as if to mimic her dark, labyrinthine obsessions with the dead, before finding foothold with a real primal, sex-laden hook. She might be mad, but before all else she's groovy!"
Louder, harder, faster, heavier, darker, catchier - the unstoppable force that is Cradle Of Filth slithers menacingly forward, crushing the opposition and striking warped, blackened glee into the hearts of misanthropes and malevolents the world over. The nightmare continues…may we never wake up!

Jednosobowy projekt muzyczny Clausa Larsena – Leaether Strip tworzący w nurcie elektro industrial wraz z wytwórnią Alfa Matrix planuje na 13 kwietnia opublikowanie swojego nowego dzieła. Po bardzo intensywnym oraz pełnym sukcesów roku 2006, Claus ponownie przygotowuje wybuchowy długogrający album zatytułowany „The Giant Minutes To The Dawn”. Na płycie znajdzie się 13 nowych kompozycji przedstawiających przestrzenie gdzie panuje jedynie ciemność, ucieczka z płonących dni oraz nocy aż do desperackiego krzyku zwierząt aby przeżyć.

The band wasformed in 1985, and after releasing the demo, “Instigators” (1988), and the “Blue Blood” EP (1989) on Nuclear Blas to this day still a worthy collector’s item. Atrocity presented the world their debut, “Hallucinations” in 1990. Following extensive and successful touring, Atrocity released “Todessehnsucht” (1992) on Roadrunner Records. They surprised the critics by integrating classical elements into their music, including four opera singers.

Już niedługo nakładem wytwórni Alfa Matrix ma się pojawić nowy album gwiazdy electro–industrialnej sceny – Zombie Girl. Album zatytułowany „Blood, Brains & Rock’n Roll” pojawi się w sprzedaży 13 kwietnia 2007. Płyta będzie chorobliwą inwazją dźwięków, bez żadnego oszczędzania bitów z czołgającego się świata miast, całość z wyraźnym rysem rock’n'roll’owym oraz hipnotycznym wokalem. Seksowna wieszczka Renee Cooper – Komor i jej mentor w studio – Sebastian R. Komor (znany z grupy Icon of Coil) chcą przedstawić perfekcyjny most pomiędzy mrocznym industrialnym gotykiem i futurystyczną elektroniką.

Przez ponad 10 ostatnich lat belgijski najlepszy zespół z kręgu rocka gotyckiego – Star Industry - budował silną reputację na podstawie swoich występów na scenie, bezpośredniego kontaktu z fanami, na największych festiwalach takich jak M’era Luna, WGT, Gotham, Eurorock, Dour, Carnival of Souls, Suikerrock, Alive itp. Ze swoim dojrzałym brzmieniem i wyrafinowaną produkcją pod czujnym okiem Luc’a Van Acker’a, Belgowie wracają na rynek w 2007r. z bardzo oczekiwanym trzecim studyjnym albumem. Płyta zatytułowana „Last Crusades” powstanie nakładem wytwórni Alfa Matrix i pojawi się w sprzedaży 20 kwietnia.

Sarah Jezebel Deva i Chris Rehn? Połączenie co najmniej ciekawe ... Projekt o nazwie Angtoria, który tworzą między innymi Sarah, Chris oraz jego brat Tommy, w 2006 roku wydał pierwszego longplaya. Znając poprzednie dokonania wokalne byłej współpracowniczki Theriona i Cradle Of Filth można było spodziewać się najlepszego. Czym uraczyli słuchaczy członkowie Angtorii?