Lost Among Liars

According to Patricia Thomas Management, The recent collaboration between Norwegian Avant-garde metallers VULTURE INDUSTRIES and the HAPPY GORILLA DANCE COMPANY which resulted in the theatrical performance “Turning Golem”, has proved to be a considerable crowd-pleaser, so much so, in fact, that the show has been booking into various venues and festivals both this year and next. Interest in the show, which is part rooted in the heavier segment of experimental/progressive metal which features VULTURE INDUSTRIES performing music from their latest release “The Tower”, and part theatre performance which features the HAPPY GORILLA DANCE COMPANY, has grown, and as a result journalist Andrea Chirulescu has produced a “behind the scenes” documentary which explores the ideas and concepts behind “Turning Golem”.

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Featuring interviews with VULTURE INDUSTRIES frontman Bjornar E. Nilsen, who explains how the whole idea came about and how it developed, as well as with the other members of the band – guitarists Oyvind Madsen and Eyvind Huse, bassist Kyrre Teigen and drummer Tor Helge Gjengedal, who talk about the difference between performing as a band as opposed to being part of a performance ensemble, whilst members of the HAPPY GORILLA DANCE COMPANY explain their part in the project. The documentary, which is in English, was filmed in Bergen when “Turning Golem” was recently performed at the Garage, and is currently streaming on the YouTube Channel of the Norwegian webzine Eternal Terror. It can be seen below:

2013 has been a busy year for VULTURE INDUSTRIES who released their third full-length album, “The Tower”, on Season of Mist in September. As well as collaborating with the HAPPY GORILLA DANCE COMPANY, the band also worked closely with Romanian multi-media artist COSTIN CHIOREANU, whose video “Lost Among Liars”, a track from “The Tower”, recently featured at this year’s Kort and Kortkino Film Festival, Sandnes, Norway. The video can be seen here:

Next year will also mark the first appearance of VULTURE INDUSTRIES in North America, with the band set to play at the prestigious Music, Film and Interactive Festival, South by Southwest, better known as the SXSW Festival, in Austin, Texas in March. Other confirmed appearances by VULTURE INDUSTRIES in 2014 include The Headway Festival in Amstelveen, Netherlands, on the 11^th January, Prog Power Europe, in Baarlo, Netherlands on the 4^th October, and performances of “Turning Golem” at the Boule Noire in Paris, France, on the 21^st February and at Metal Days in Tolmin, Slovenia, in July. More information about VULTURE INDUSTRIES can be found on the band’s website at http://www.vulture-industries.net

Seven tracks from VULTURE INDUSTRIES can be found here:

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According to Patricia Thomas Management, With their latest full-length album “The Tower” due out on Season of Mist on the 27^th of September in Europe and the 1^st October in North America, avant-garde metallers VULTURE INDUSTRIES have debuted a video for the track “Lost Among Liars”. The video is an animated surreal visual critique of today’s society which takes us on a journey through a surreal cityscape populated by people and machines, each with their own different duties and functions. From the vagrant loser, to the dutiful cog in the wheel of industry, to the facade of family life, to the mask salesman, they are all here. Each of them tells a story of oppression, restitution, control and freedom. The video can be seen at the following locations:

Metal Hammer in the UK
Zillo in Germany
Pyro in Norway
Roadburn in The Netherlands
Rocking.gr in Greece
This Is Rock in Spain

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The video has been made by the Romanian artist Costin Chioreanu who, despite his relatively young age, has already made his mark not only as a graphic arts, but also as a stage artist, musician, animator and movie maker. Aside from having designed the cover art for “The Tower” Chioreanu has also produced the cover art for bands such as ULVER, IHSAHN, ARCURUS, AURA NOIR and DARKTHRONE. He is the official artist for the Roadburn Festival 2014.

“The Tower” will be released on Digipak CD, solid white gatefold double LP, transparent green gatefold double LP and black gatefold double LP. The LP versions, as well as the digital edition, will include the bonus track “Blood Don’t Eliogabalus”. All physical formats, along with exclusive merchandise are already available for pre-order from http://vultureindustries.bigcartel.com/ Track Listing for “The Tower” as follows:

1: The Tower
2: Divine – Appalling
3: The Hound
4: Blood On The Trail
5: The Dead Won’t Mind
6: A Knife Between Us
7: The Pulse of Bliss
8: Sleepwalkers
9: Lost Among Liars

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VULTURE INDUSTRIES are due to hit the road in September for a series of European dates guesting with LEPROUS on the first leg of their European Coal Tour. Starting in the band’s home country on September 13th, the tour routing is as follows:

13/9: John Dee, Oslo, Norway
14/9: Tribute, Sandnes, Norway
15/9: Buddy, Drammen, Norway
16/9: Parkbiografen, Skien, Norway
17/9: Musikken Hus, Gothenburg, Sweden
18/9: Debaser, Stockholm, Sweden
20/9: Nosturi, Helsinki, Finland
21/9: A2/Sputnik, St Petersburg, Russia
22/9: Tapper Club, Tallinn, Estonia
24/9: TBC, Gdansk, Poland
25/9: Progresja, Warsaw, Poland
26/9: Kwadrat, Kracow, Poland
27/9: Alte Zuckerfabrik, Rostock, Germany
28/9: Beta, Copenhagen, Denmark

VULTURE INDUSTRIES has also been performing TURNING GOLEM with the HAPPY GORILLA DANCE COMPANY, a project part concert rooted in the heavier segment of experimental/progressive metal and part theatre performance. Two more shows of TURNING GOLEM are schedule this year – 25 October at the Garage in Bergen, Norway and the 26 October and at the Phantoms Of Pilsen in Pilsen, Czech Republic.

More information about VULTURE INDUSTRIES can be found at http://www.vulture-industries.net/

Seven tracks from VULTURE INDUSTRIES can be found here:

The lyric video for the title track from “The Tower” can be found below: