THE FREQUENCY CONSPIRACY, the project from former 24-7 SPYZ drummer Joel Maitoza, have just released a new video for their latest single ‘Words Get in the Way’. The amped-up cover version of the Gloria Estefan/Miami Sound Machine ballad from 1985 features Craig Soderberg from –itis on guitars/keyboards/vocals, Jaimie Scott from Tyketto on bass and Joel Maitoza on drums. The latest single is from the nine song debut album titled “Quarantine Covers” on So Cal Records, which is available now on CD through Amazon, as well as all digital and streaming platforms.
Check out the official video release of Words Get in the Way by The Frequency Conspiracy here:
“Losing Connection” is the second single from the upcoming album of Finnish psychedelic folk-rock project ITERUM NATA. “Trench of Loneliness” will be released on all relevant formats on February 10, 2023.
This was the first song I wrote for the album. I don’t arrange my songs in advance at all, but I instead like to see where the music takes me. In many ways, “Losing Connection” revealed to me the direction my new material was heading in. Everything except percussion and vocals were recorded in just one session. “Losing Connection” is for those poor souls who need to live their lives in constant agony. It’s a reminder that everything, even the pain, will eventually go away.
“Trench of Loneliness” is the fourth album of ITERUM NATA – a psychedelic folk-rock project by Finnish multi-instrumentalist Jesse Heikkinen, who is also active with The Abbey. While the music of Iterum Nata is occasionally upbeat, the general atmosphere has more in common with neo-folk than Jesse’s former band: Hexvessel, for whom he played lead guitar for five years. All aspects of Iterum Nata are profoundly inspired by the pagan worldview, esotericism, and the dark regions of the human mind; the result is something that could easily pass as the bastard offspring of Rome, Tenhi, Of the Wand & the Moon, Linda Perhacs, Espers, and early King Crimson.
“Trench of Loneliness” was recorded at Studio Beyond North Star. With the exception of Hiski Pajuniemi’s appearance on tin whistle, Jesse handled everything – from the composition to tracking and mixing – entirely by himself.
The project was formed in 2017, following Jesse’s move from Oulu to Tampere. After years of playing other people’s music in various ensembles, all the while longing to write and perform his own material, he conceptualised and founded Iterum Nata. The band name is Latin for ‘born again’ and was chosen as a reference to how a person must always redefine himself – meaning, undergo a rebirth of sorts – in the wake of a powerful experience.
One year after the self-released eponymous debut from 2017 came “The Course of Empire” on Inverse Records. The second Iterum Nata album caught the eye of Finnish label Svart Records, and the critically acclaimed “Bardo Disorder” came out in 2020. Once Jesse had finished the material for the fourth record, he concluded that Nordvis was the perfect fit for his vision of “Trench of Loneliness”.
Tracklist:
1 – My Name is Sorrow 2 – One With the Sun 3 – Forgotten Friends 4 – Bones in the Forest 5 – The Feather 6 – The Mountain 7 – Losing Connection 8 – I Only Sing With the Dead 9 – I’d Rather Be a Fool Than a King 10 – Comedy of Humanity
Bay-area avantgarde metal entity PALACE OF WORMS will be releasing their new album, “Cabal”, on February 3rd 2022 via Acephale Winter Productions.
Just recently No Clean Singing was hosting the exclusive premiere of the new single “When the Stones Come Tumbling Down“. Stream the song HERE.
Operating since 2007, California-based Avant Metal project PALACE OF WORMS has a diverse and accomplished oeuvre that reflects its creator’s eccentric and often bizarre tastes and sensibilities. From the project’s early origins as a raging and misanthropic Black Metal band to its more recent releases which incorporate influences such as Doom, Death, Progressive, Ambient, and Electronica, each POW release is a completely. Sole member Nicholas “Balan” Katich sees no point in marinating in the stagnant pools of orthodoxy and believes evolution to be the true path.
“Cabal” is the latest and final full-length statement from the project.
Keeping with past tendencies towards unpredictability “Cabal” presents a wholly different approach than the mostly Post-Black Metal sound of the previous full-length “The Ladder”. Where “The Ladder” flirted with Progressive Rock and Doom sounds “Cabal” fully embraces these influences and throws elements of Deathrock, Electronica, Folk, and Death Metal into the quagmire. What results is the most personal and accomplished work the project has ever produced and its themes reflect its creator’s worldview after 4 decades of life. It casts the past in darkness but also looks cautiously forward, ever searching for the light to guide its narrator into a hopeful future.
Originally PALACE OF WORMS was solely the work of Balan, but on “Cabal” he is joined by an accomplished cast of co-conspirators including Trevor Deschryver (Lycus, Silence in the Snow, Deafheaven), Sammy Fielding (Noctooa), Roberto Martinelli (Botanist), Dylan Neal (Thief), Shelby Lermo (Vastum, Ulthar), Hunter Burgan (AFI), Andy Way (Thoabath, Sutekh Hexen), Elizabeth Gladding (Lotus Thief,Forlesen), Meghan Wood (Crown of Asteria) and more.
“Cabal” presents kaleidoscopic visions of subterranean carnival netherworlds, pale winter skies dotted with Ravens a flight, moonlit necropolises which play host to clandestine, and diabolical rituals, and the metaphorical immolation of the ego from which the Phoenix of transcendence and ecstatic freedom will arise. Light and dark refracting through the broken prism of the mind’s eye over 8 tracks.
Descend into the depths of the subterranean lair of the “Cabal”: the place where the monsters live.
Tracklist:
01. Telepathic Crucifixion 02. Bizarre Blood and Exhumations 03. Through the Dark Arches 04. When the Stones Come Tumbling Down 05. Cabal 06. Cessation of the Heart 07. Rebirth of Nihil 08. Winterbird
“Invocation of the Nine-Horned God” is the third single from “Alkai”, the upcoming album of Lithuanian ritualistic dark-folk project VĖLIŲ NAMAI, due for release on January 20, 2023.
Listen to “Invocation of the Nine-Horned God” here.
Band leader Julius Mitė commented:
The song “Invocation of the Nine-Horned God” is about an inner journey to the world of Elnias Devyniaragis: an ancient Lithuanian mythological creature. Also known as the nine-horned deer, Elnias Devyniaragis is a totem that carries celestial bodies – mostly the moon, but also the sun – on its antlers. Devyniaragis is mentioned in archaic songs as an allegory to the position of the heavenly bodies. It is said that a white deer runs away at the solstice and returns at Christmas. In some Baltic songs, the deer is also a symbol of the sun’s return, as the mythological deer holds the sun in its antlers.
“Alkai” is the fourth album of Lithuanian ritualistic dark-folk project Vėlių Namai. It serves as an open invitation to experience the mystical world of the Baltics – to feel the sacredness of its ancient past.
Draped in a sonic tapestry woven from a great variety of musical traditions, the listener is sent off on a hypnotic flight of the imagination. Ceremonial chanting and droning folk parts give way to a kind of otherworldly, trance-inducing techno performed with mostly organic instruments. As with the radically different music styles, digital and analogue sounds are fused together seamlessly. Pulsating minimalism merges with vocals and shamanic percussion to create a hypnotic soundscape coated by mesmerizing melodies played on guitars, lutes, and ethnic string instruments such as the Turkish baglama, Lithuanian kanklės and Latvian giga. This ambitious concoction boils down to an exquisite brew infused in equal parts with Dead Can Dance, Wardruna, Sigur Ros, and various electronic music.
“Alkai” will be released by Nordvis on CD-digipak and digital, January 20, 2023. The album features guest appearances by Espen Winther of Eldrim, Swedish-Serbian composer Petar Mrdjen, and prominent Lithuanian singer Liucija Nanartavičiūtė. Cover artwork by Joan Llopis Doménech.
Vėlių Namai can be translated as ‘Home of souls’. The main intention behind the project – studio recordings, live shows, and the underlying philosophies – is the deliberation of matters pertaining to life, death, and the spirit world. This exploration is conducted through the lens of ancient Baltic understandings and concepts about the afterlife.
The band was founded in 2006 by Julius Mitė, a Lithuanian musician who was based in Prague at that time. Over the years, what started as a solo endeavour evolved into a full line-up with the inclusion of guitarist Jokūbas Krasauskas and percussionist Gintaras Aleksandravičius. Prior to “Alkai”, Vėlių Namai released three albums: “Pasiklydę” (2009), “Laumių Šokis” (2016), and “Kúrir” (2018). Over the years, the band has performed in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Czech Republic, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Slovakia and Belarus. Vėlių Namai in concert is characterised by a strong emphasis on the visual and ritualistic aspects that aims to induce a trance-like state in the listener. Their performances always include incense, video projections, hundreds of candles, animal bones, make-up, ceremonial garb, and various old Baltic, Ivorian and Middle Eastern imagery.
Vėlių Namai invites you to experience the darker side of nature, and of existence itself. Tread the trail of spirits – shrouded in mists and mysticism – and touch the other side. Visit your true home in the realm beyond.
Tracklist:
1 – Aftensinn (‘Evening Mood’) 2 – Væringjar – (‘The Varangians’) 3 – Bardo 4 – Vilkobelė – (‘The Hawthorn’) 5 – Miklagarðr – (‘The Great City’) 6 – Alkai 7 – Saulės Kalvis – (‘The Sun’s Blacksmith’) 8 – Paskandos – (‘The World Beyond the Water/Hell/Drowning’) 9 – Invocation of the Nine-Horned God 10 – The Plateau 11 – Nótt (‘The Night’)
Since their inception in 2006, THE HIP PRIESTS have released a mighty thirty 7” singles, four albums, two compilations and three EPs by various independent labels from all over Europe & the USA. Fiercely independent and tirelessly driven, the ‘Priests have preached their high energy sermon of misanthropy, hate and contempt across numerous tours of the UK, Europe and USA and made countless rapturously received festival appearances.
Gaining a richly deserved reputation as a white-hot live band, the last few years have seen the band’s popularity increasing further with them regularly playing alongside kindred spirits such as The Hellacopters, Gluecifer, The Good the Bad and the Zugly, New Bomb Turks, Dwarves and Zeke at both festivals and in clubs. Rave reviews pour in for every release, ranging from ‘a band on top of their game & steps ahead of any of their UK contemporaries’ to ‘if you’re in any doubt about how good these bad boys are then you need locking up’. After 16 years some bands would be taking it easy but in spite of a global pandemic, there was no let-up in their determination and activity. Their fifth, and by far their best full-length album – ‘Roden House Blues’ – was written, rehearsed, and recorded during this period and will be released May 5th, 2023, via The Sign Records.
The new single ‘Shakin Ain’t Fakin’ is the first bittersweet taste of ‘Roden House Blues’ and comes thundering out of the traps all guns blazing, a full-tilt rock n’ roll assault to kick 2023 into touch.
Or as The Hip Priests themselves say. “Shaking to the sound n rattling with rage. Keeping your sanity and keeping it real whilst global politicians try to kill (or sell) us all. Ignore Elton, any nights good for fighting. This tune was a later arrival to the selection of songs we tried out for inclusion on the new album but, from rough demo to the moment we all rehearsed it, it quickly staked its place as one of the album’s cornerstones and has already become a live killer. More hooks than a fisherman’s box, incendiary guitars and an enormous anthemic chorus. What more do you need from your rock ‘n’ roll? … How about Von Cruz effortlessly spitting out a rapture-inspired Rap?
Always shaking- never faking. Pull up that pavement – I can see the beach.”
The Hip Priests. Zero fucks n’ less success since 2006. The most prolific band you haven’t heard of. High energy sweaty sermons of misanthropy, disillusion (self) loathing and despair. Get ready to have your ears torn clean off.
The Hip Priests are: Nathan Von Cruz – lead vocals Austin Rocket – guitar/vocals Lee Love – bass/vocals Gentle Ben – guitar/vocals D.P. Bomber – drums
Catch The Hip Priests live at the following dates:
February Monday 27th Dragonfly Rock Cafe, Almeria Tuesday 28th Sala Plant Baja, Granada
March Wednesday 1st Fun House, Madrid Thursday 2nd Salason, Cangas De Morazzo Saturday 4th Hell Dorado, Vitoria Sunday 5th El Sotana Rock Pub, Teruel (With The Dangerfields) Wednesday 22nd Bennigans, Derry Thursday 23rd Áras Na Ngael, Galway Friday 24th Fred Zeppelin’s, Cork Saturday 25th Venue Tbc, Limerick Sunday 26th Wild Duck, Dublin
Germany (With Lucifer Star Machine)
April Thursday 27th Sonic Ballroom, Cologne Friday 28th Freakshow, Essen Saturday 29th Zollkantine, Bremen Sunday 30th Indra Musikclub, Hamburg
UK (With Bitch Queens)
May Thursday 25th The Pipeline, Brighton Friday 26th Hope And Anchor, London Saturday 27th Nice And Sleazy, Morecambe
Finnish one-man dark acoustic prog folk rock band NOBODY released a new EP Father of Lies. This four track EP is once again released in cooperation with Inverse Records.
The man behind Nobody, Tuomas Kauppinen comments the EP and tracks:
“The Father of Lies violates us every day of our lives, feeding us with hatred and fear, rewarding acquiescence with even more brutality. The further we give in to his reckless demands, the further he will tear our souls apart. He is a psychopathic god who will never stop, unless we say “no”. And we will say “no”, eventually. It will not be a revolution of guns and bloodshed that will liberate us from his grip, but a revolution of our hearts.
The Divine Marquis
The marquis de Sade was a deranged bastard, without doubt. He bound up sex workers, whipped them bloody and imprisoned them in his chateau, forcing them to watch as he masturbated on religious icons. But this was not the reason why the status quo locked him up for the greater part of his life. The reason was that de Sade wrote about what the upper classes did in their free time, how they raped and tortured vulnerable people for their pleasure. Napoleon Bonaparte, that pitiful midget who thought he would grow bigger by enslaving Europe, saw de Sade as a threat because he wrote what he saw. And if you think that times have changed, that no longer truth-speakers are persecuted for speaking out, you are fatally mistaken.
Chain of Events
Karma means reaction. For every action there is a reaction. Bear that in mind the next time you bitch at a clerk in the supermarket, just because your boss made you feel like shit at work. What are you doing in a workplace that makes you feel like shit anyway?
Alliance
Love is impossible to describe. We all want it, but it takes sacrifices beyond what most of us are willing to make. Love easily destroys you, too, if you make too many sacrifices, in the wrong ways. Then love will rot and turn to hate. Every goddamn poet writes about love, but have they taught you anything about it, in the truest sense of the word? If they have, let me know. I still can’t describe love.
House Uphill
My home country is filled with depressed, suicidal and even murderous souls who can’t have access to help except in the form of pills that numb their minds, make them fat, deprive them of their sleep, make them impotent, psychotic, incoherent and disagreeable in infinite ways. No real help is available, unless you kill someone or almost kill yourself, at which point it’s too little, too late. We are nothing but cattle to the Father of Lies, and he doesn’t care about our well-being as long as we keep making him profit. This is the story of one of those animals who never had a chance, was never given a chance, and who was buried among the rest of the discarded livestock, without a flower on their grave to ease their decomposition.”
Track list:
The Divine Marquis
Chain of Events
Alliance
House Uphill
Cover art by: Don Satyr Max
Line-up:
Tuomas Kauppinen – vocals, acoustic guitar, electric bass, accordion, congas, electric guitar, contra bass, keyboard, djembe & triangle
Kimmo Kuusniemi’s ASA unveil the long-overdue release of "Collective Failure" + first music video for title-track! Check it out and stay tuned for more news! Click image to watch the video
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