Duminică – Retrospectiva externă a săptămânii (9-15 ianuarie)

15 ianuarie 2012 | postat de altinnuendo

* Trupa norvegiană de black metal/thrash metal Aura Noir, din care face parte celebrul chitarist Rune Eriksen (ex-Mayhem), se pregăteşte de lansarea unui nou album de studio. Acesta va fi intitulat "Out To Die" şi va apărea pe data de 23 martie via Indie Recordings. Tracklist-ul va conţine următoarele piese:

01. 'Trenches'
02. 'Fed To The Flames'
03. 'Abbadon'
04. 'The Grin From The Gallows'
05. 'Withheld'
06. 'Priest's Hellish Fiend'
07. 'Deathwish'
08. 'Out To Die'.

Solistul trupei, Aggressor, a stat de vorbă cu revista Terrorizer despre noul album:

"It feels right. That's all I can say really. I'm not sitting here digging it; it's more like I'm content with having the finished product there, and now we can go play live. Because I think our music comes into its element when we're playing live. For me, a new album is like, 'Okay, we have more songs to play live now.'"

Cel mai recent album de studio lansat de cei de la Aura Noir se numeşte "Hades Rise" şi a apărut în 2008.


* Într-un interviu acordat revistei Rolling Stones, chitaristul Alice In Chains, Jerry Cantrell, a dezvăluit că trupa va lansa un nou album anul acesta.

"We started writing in 2010. Then I had shoulder surgery. I had to get some bone spurs and torn cartilage taken care of, so that put me back a little bit. But we've been writing through the whole process."

Acesta nu a dorit să ofere mai multe detalii, preferând în schimb să discute despre anii '90 şi despre fostul solist al trupei, Layne Staley, decedat în 2002.

"It kind of grew into something a lot larger than we anticipated... To recreate ourselves without losing our identity and having the fans support us through that and have the quality of music come out like it did. Transitioning from the old lineup of the band and moving on, it was a lot. It's a career worth of changes in six, seven years. It's nice to have a second life and we're in the midst of that."

"Layne’s mother’s been doing a show for Layne every year, and we give to that. It’s good to remember your people. Life is very temporary, and we will be joining them shortly. Hopefully it’s not too soon, but it’s good. It’s some amazing people that should be remembered."

Precedentul album de studio Alice In Chains, intitulat "Black Gives Way To Blue", a apărut în 2009.


* Trupa americană de post-metal Pelican va lansa pe data de 10 aprilie un nou material discografic. Acesta va fi un EP intitulat "Ataraxia/Taraxis" şi va apărea la casa de discuri Southern Lord. Tracklist-ul va conţine următoarele piese:

01. 'Ataraxia'
02. 'Lathe Biosas'
03. 'Parasite Colony'
04. 'Taraxis'.

* Jurnalistul american John Parks, de la publicaţia Legendary Rock Interviews, a realizat un interviu cu chitaristul Brian "Head" Welch, în care acesta vorbeşte despre plecarea sa din Korn, dar şi despre cariera sa solo.

Legendary Rock Interviews: It was sort of shocking to the fanbase and I'm sure your bandmates in Korn when you announced you were quitting but I think it was sort of inevitable and understandable given the fact that you were lost in addiction and trying to raise a daughter.

Head: "Yeah. I really enjoy the music stuff we did, I really, really love the tunes and the music end of it all. I'm really stoked that we accomplished as much as we did musically and I love it, I still love hearing and playing that music. It was really cool to have been a part of that whole part of Korn. I just personally think back to some of the stuff I did back then, the way I treated people and the things I did and I am really, truly sorry. Some of the things I did to people, to myself even, were just horrible things to have done and that's what I am ashamed of, not the music or the guitars that me, Fieldy and Munky did. I'm proud of the whole band musically, all of us, including Jonathan, who really was on some other level with his performances but some of the lyrics, even back then I was like, "Why are we singing about that? We could be trying to sing about something more deep or more real, ya know?" Having said that, I will totally admit that most of the time i loved what he was writing and coming up with at that time. He and all of us were just doing what came naturally to us as angry, drunk kids. That's all we were. On the surface we were laughing and having a good time but all of us had our issues and the lyrics of those early Korn albums were really an outlet to express some of that anger and issues we had. Jonathan knew better than anyone how to tap into that angry place and let it all out."

Legendary Rock Interviews: What's the plan for the new release from Head? Is it going to be where you keep releasing singles to iTunes and Amazon or are you looking to do an official full length or physical product?

Head: "I want to do an official EP. I really want to make as big of a deal as possible and get behind it as much as possible because I think it's some of the best material I have ever done. We are label shopping and considering all that but I'm not gonna sit around and wait, I want to have the actual product for people to get at shows or get online and put out this EP. The music we are recording is incredible and we are really stoked so I wanna get it out there and print copies as well as have it on iTunes. We are label-shopping, but as for the EP, we are doing it through a digital label called InGrooves. They have a lot of the bigger selling stuff on iTunes and are a really good label as far as digi-labels go. The business is just so much different these days. Everything has changed."

Legendary Rock Interviews: It's interesting you mention that. I was wondering how much you guys from Korn think about the fact that you were part of that last great, golden wave of music sales. There's a whole new generation of kids who have no concept of midnite record release parties or massive sales displays and one of the first bands that comes to my mind when I think of '90s or 2000s record sales is Korn. Does that take on significance to you?

Head: "That's a trip, really. You're right, though. There were record-breaking numbers, too, in that era of CD sales. The industry was selling at an unbelievable clip. It is crazy to me that I was a part of that. My bass player never "made it" or whatever, financially, in music and is always telling me, "You should just be walking around smiling all the time. You really have no right to ever be unhappy or depressed about anything, Brian. You wrote books, you were in Korn and sold millions upon millions of records back when music actually sold and have all this respect from people based on all that. The money was perfect and your timing was perfect, you have lost all rights to be angry at anything for the rest of your life, dude." He's happy to be making really cool music in our band and everything but he's always reminding me of how grateful I should be and I am. It was and is a special thing for all of us."

Legendary Rock Interviews: I've seen the tip of the iceberg as far as the sex, drugs and insanity behind the scenes in the rock world and I've got three little kids myself so, like I said, I do understand some of your decisions to get straight and all that. Do you ever look at your daughter and think, "Thank God I got off the roller coaster when I did, while she was around to look at me and identify with me?"

Head: "Oh my God, dude, I am so thankful. That's right up there on the list of reasons of why leaving Korn was the only choice for me at that moment. I thought I could try and get clean and keep playing the money machine rolling and the insanity going or I could really try and make a personal stand for myself and my kid and be like, "You know what?! I'm cool with leaving it all. I wanna raise my kid in a decent environment and keep my head and have her see her dad as someone she can respect." A lot of the stuff we did and were involved with wasn't respectable and I walked away from all that. I truly sucked at so much as a father and as a person, but at least I could do that one thing for the sake of my kid to at least be able to have her see that and think about that. I truly think that was the one thing I could have done to positively affect my daughter for the rest of her life."

Legendary Rock Interviews: I talk to lots of "ex" members of bands and the general consensus seems to be that whatever's good for their former band seems to be good for them personally or business-wise. Do you sort of feel the same way?

Head: "Oh yeah, without a doubt. I am very happy for those guys and proud of that music and totally past the point of holding an ill will for any of them. I just hung out with Jonathan and his wife the whole night a few months back and hung out with Fieldy some time after that when I was out on tour with my band. It is without a doubt all good. I have nothing but good vibes for them and I'm sure we will always stay in touch."

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* Săptămâna aceasta, site-ul austriac DarkScene.at a realizat un amplu interviu cu solistul trupei Sepultura, Derrick Green, ce poate fi urmărit în întregime mai jos:

În luna iunie a anului trecut, trupa a lansat un nou album de studio, intitulat "Kairos".


* Trupa irlandeză Therapy? a realizat un nou videoclip pentru piesa 'Living In The Shadow Of The Terrible Thing', ce reprezintă primul extras single de pe albumul "A Brief Crack Of Light", programat să apară pe data de 6 februarie prin intermediul casei de discuri Blast.

* Celebrul muzician canadian Leonard Cohen va lansa pe data de 31 ianuarie un nou album de studio, intitulat "Old Ideas". Noul CD va apărea prin intermediul casei de discuri Columbia şi va avea următorul tracklist:

01. 'Going Home'
02. 'Amen'
03. 'Show Me The Place'
04. 'The Darkness'
05. 'Anyhow'
05. 'Crazy To Love You'
06. 'Come Healing'
07. 'Banjo'
08. 'Lullaby'
09. 'Different Sides'.

Primul single de pe album este piesa 'The Darkness', ce poate fi audiată mai jos: