Turkish metallers PITCH BLACK PROCESS vocalist Emrah Demirel has announced his collaboration with a yogi, mystic, poet and visionary humanitarian SADHGURU for his new project CONSCIOUS PLANET.
The band stated: “Emrah is giving his voice to Sadhguru for his new project “Conscious Planet”. Sadhguru, a yogi, mystic, poet and visionary humanitarian, has started the “Conscious Planet” as a global movement to initiate a conscious approach to soil and planet. The movement seeks to show governments of all nations that their citizens want a policy to revitalize soil and ecology. To activate the support of over 3 billion citizens, the project has been translated into a wide variety of languages and Turkish is one of them. Emrah dubbed the campaign core video in his mother tongue to initiate the official Turkish channel and social media accounts and also PBP will be the ambassador of the project in Turkey. You can follow and support the project on all social media outlets.”
Emrah dubbed Sadhguru For “Conscious Planet”:
More information about Soil Extinction – It’s Real! | Conscious Planet Conscious Planet is a Global Movement to initiate a conscious approach to soil and planet. The movement seeks to show governments of all nations that their citizens want a policy to revitalize soil and ecology. To activate and demonstrate the support of over 3 billion citizens, Sadhguru will be riding a motorcycle alone, 30,000 kilometers across 24 nations. The rally will start in London and end in southern India, where the Cauvery Calling project, initiated by Sadhguru, has enabled 125,000 farmers to plant 62 million trees to revive soil and river Cauvery. Activating citizen participation will ensure that ecological issues become election issues, so that governments create policies and set budgets for ecological solutions, leading to sustained implementation. Find out more at ConsciousPlanet.org
Turkish metallers PITCH BLACK PROCESS, formerly known as Affliction, have re-issued their “Hand of God?” album which was released in 2013. The album was recorded and co-produced by Daniel Bergstrand at Dugout Productions, Sweden. Furthermore the band has revealed a new lyric visualizer for ‘Deceiver‘, taken from “Hand of God?”. ‘Deceiver’ features the Swedish songwriter/guitarist Niclas Engelin (In Flames, Engel, Gardenian).
Stream ‘Deceiver’ here:
Just recently PITCH BLACK PROCESS released the official video ‘Heroes of 2020’ (Feat. Cengiz Tural), in case you missed it, watch here: https://youtu.be/0W-DU3za9Sw
PITCH BLACK PROCESS (formerly AFFLICTION) was formed in 1999. Their first two albums “One Reality” (out in May 2003) and “Execution is Necessary” (released in July 2007) got very good response nationwide and also from abroad. In November 2009 they hit the road for their first European tour playing over 20 gigs (beeing the longest tour which any Turkish band had ever made abroad until then), followed up by the 18-shows European tour with WARBRINGER, in February 2010. Before the tour with Warbringer, PITCH BLACK PROCESS signed a sponsorship deal with one of the most well-known guitar companies in the world, PRS, which was another ‘debut’ for Turkey. None of any Turkish bands had signed a sponsorship agreement with such a big brand in music industry. The 3rd album “Hand of God?” was produced by Daniel Bergstrand (In Flames, Meshuggah, Soilwork, etc) at Dugout Studios, came out in June 2013. In September 2013, PITCH BLACK PROCESS played on main stage at the 82nd Izmir International Fair, being the first ever metal band to play on the fair’s history. In 2015, PITCH BLACK PROCESS became part of EVH and Fender. In November 2015 the band returned to Dugout Studios to record their 4th album, “Derin” which was released in December 2016, in Turkey on Atlantis Yapim/EMP Label Group and on Ellefson Music Productions/SPV in Europe. The band’s latest EP, entitled “SIR”, came out on March 15th 2019, via Turkish label 1877 PM.
Turkish metallers PITCH BLACK PROCESS, formerly known as Affliction, have released an official video for ‘Heroes of 2020’ (feat. Cengiz Tural), dedicated to heroes of this era! ‘Heroes of 2020’ is not included in “SIR” EP. Written, recorded and produced by Pitch Black Process at Studyo Frekans / Turkey. Mastered by Lawrence Mackrory at Obey Mastering / Sweden. The song is featured by Cengiz Tural, one of the most talented, influential and versatile drummers of Turkey.
Watch ‘Heroes of 2020’ video here:
The band stated: “Words which started to pour out onto paper during the heavy days of lockdown, turned out to be “Heroes of 2020” with online meetings, under the circumstances this era dictates. We wanted to share the song which we were able to record in the studio a few weeks ago, before 2020 ends. We would like to thank Cengiz Tural who put his soul into the song with great drum partitions!”
Just recently, PITCH BLACK PROCESS released their second single from their “SIR” EP, which is a cover of “Buselik Makamına”, available on all digital platforms! It is one of the most renowned and classical songs of MFÖ, who is one of the best-loved, iconic and oldest bands from Turkey. The “SIR” EP was produced and recorded by Daniel Bergstrand at Dugout Studios-Sweden, and it will be released via Rakun Müzik. The video clip of “Buselik Makamına” is directed by well-known Turkish director Ender Mıhlar, who also directed the video clip of “Zahid Bizi Tan Eyleme”. Two successful and beloved actors Celil Nalçakan and Sitare Akbaş, are also featured in the video.
PITCH BLACK PROCESS (formerly AFFLICTION) was formed in 1999. Their first two albums “One Reality” (out in May 2003) and “Execution is Necessary” (released in July 2007) got very good response nationwide and also from abroad. In November 2009 they hit the road for their first European tour playing over 20 gigs (beeing the longest tour which any Turkish band had ever made abroad until then), followed up by the 18-shows European tour with WARBRINGER, in February 2010. Before the tour with Warbringer, PITCH BLACK PROCESS signed a sponsorship deal with one of the most well-known guitar companies in the world, PRS, which was another ‘debut’ for Turkey. None of any Turkish bands had signed a sponsorship agreement with such a big brand in music industry. The 3rd album “Hand of God?” was produced by Daniel Bergstrand (In Flames, Meshuggah, Soilwork, etc) at Dugout Studios, came out in June 2013. In September 2013, PITCH BLACK PROCESS played on main stage at the 82nd Izmir International Fair, being the first ever metal band to play on the fair’s history. In 2015, PITCH BLACK PROCESS became part of EVH and Fender. In November 2015 the band returned to Dugout Studios to record their 4th album, “Derin” which was released in December 2016, in Turkey on Atlantis Yapim/EMP Label Group and on Ellefson Music Productions/SPV in Europe.
Turkish metallers PITCH BLACK PROCESS, formerly known as Affliction, have released the second single from their “SIR” EP, which is a cover of “Buselik Makamına”, available now on all digital platforms! It is one of the most renowned and classical songs of MFÖ, who is one of the best-loved, iconic and oldest bands from Turkey. The “SIR” EP was produced and recorded by Daniel Bergstrand at Dugout Studios-Sweden, and it will be released via Rakun Müzik. The video clip of “Buselik Makamına” is directed by well-known Turkish director Ender Mıhlar, who also directed the video clip of “Zahid Bizi Tan Eyleme”. Two successful and beloved actors Celil Nalçakan and Sitare Akbaş, are also featured in the video.
Watch the video for “Buselik Makamına” here:
Here’s what the band states about the new single:
“Hello everyone, First of all, although we thought about postponing the release of our new song due to the disastrous incident in which we also have friends and acquaintances who lost their lives and homes, that happened 10 days ago; we decided to go ahead as planned, for the reason that art is the product of the human being’s strivings of making sense of life and existing. However hard it is to prepare this announcement which we’ve thought to make to give information before the release of our new song on Wednesday; we would like to say a few things about the song and the EP, which includes that song, that we put a lot of effort into, the publication process of which is an “adventure” in itself and which is very precious to us, because of this process and effort. The song you’re about to listen to is one of three songs waiting for more than five years to meet you which we wanted to put on the “Derin” album, but couldn’t. Since we think that these three songs deserve to be shared with you, we’ve added “Zahid Bizi Tan Eyleme” alongside these three songs and returned to Sweden to record the “SIR” EP. We already released “Zahid Bizi Tan Eyleme” from “SIR” as a single in March 2019. However, after that, since the conditions we expected were not met, we didn’t deliver the rest of the EP to you. In addition to this situation, it took us a very long while to solve the puzzle that emerged later in the story, which will definitely be told in the future, of the song that we prepared the video for in May 2019. The adventure, which lasted almost 2.5 years in total, finally resulted in a happy ending last month. There are some names who have had an impact with their contribution and effort to get to where we are now and we should thank: -First of these is our new “partner in crime” Rakun Müzik. The fact that our warm relationship with the founders of Rakun Müzik has evolved into a partnership lately increases our happiness at this stage. -Dear Celil Nalçakan and Sitare Akbaş, who put their energies and efforts into the video by throwing in outstanding performances; -Our director, Ender Mıhlar who once again created miracles and adopted this work as his own after “Zahid Bizi Tan Eyleme” video in the new video you’ll be watching; -Likewise, Berkan Aşkın who has done an excellent job in cutting and editing in both videos; -Graphic, animation, video, photo acrobat Mehmet Torni, who has always come to our aid whenever we ran into trouble; We send our thanks and love to you all! -However, there are two names that we should thank specifically for this song; the “story” couldn’t have begun without one of them, and the “puzzle” couldn’t have been solved without the other: Huge love and thanks to Ateş İlyas Başsoy and Ahmet San! -Lastly, our dear pals, friends and followers, who turn every “new meeting” into a great excitement and enthusiasm; our biggest thanks is to you!!!” \PBP/
PITCH BLACK PROCESS (formerly AFFLICTION) was formed in 1999. Their first two albums “One Reality” (out in May 2003) and “Execution is Necessary” (released in July 2007) got very good response nationwide and also from abroad. In November 2009 they hit the road for their first European tour playing over 20 gigs (beeing the longest tour which any Turkish band had ever made abroad until then), followed up by the 18-shows European tour with WARBRINGER, in February 2010. Before the tour with Warbringer, PITCH BLACK PROCESS signed a sponsorship deal with one of the most well-known guitar companies in the world, PRS, which was another ‘debut’ for Turkey. None of any Turkish bands had signed a sponsorship agreement with such a big brand in music industry. The 3rd album “Hand of God?” was produced by Daniel Bergstrand (In Flames, Meshuggah, Soilwork, etc) at Dugout Studios, came out in June 2013. In September 2013, PITCH BLACK PROCESS played on main stage at the 82nd Izmir International Fair, being the first ever metal band to play on the fair’s history. In 2015, PITCH BLACK PROCESS became part of EVH and Fender. In November 2015 the band returned to Dugout Studios to record their 4th album, “Derin” which was released in December 2016, in Turkey on Atlantis Yapim/EMP Label Group and on Ellefson Music Productions/SPV in Europe.
METALHEADS FOREVER, one of the biggest metal entities out there (having today more than 153k members, led by David Maloney) and Alpha Omega‘s partner since February 2018, have posted online their April 2019 issue, featured by Alpha Omega’s STEVE DI GIORGIO, WELICORUSS, PITCH BLACK PROCESS interviews, alongside DEATH ANGEL, ROTTING CHRIST and many more!
The new EP “SIR” from the Turkish metallers PITCH BLACK PROCESS (aka PBP) will be “revealed” on Turkish label 1877 PM(stay tuned for further information)! Friday 15th March, the band unleashed the first song & video “Zahid Bizi Tan Eyleme” (feat. Hayko Cepkin) from the EP, watch it here:
The video was directed by the well-known Turkish movie director, Ender Mihlar!
In “Zahid Bizi Tan Eyleme”, PITCH BLACK PROCESS interpret a poem from the 16th century, of which melody is anonymous. With this significant work by “Muhyî”, their aim is to contribute to bring the culture of this land to the world scene, via building a bridge between east and west. It is a modern but also a folkloric song which blends traditional and authentic instruments with rock/metal elements; it is emotional, touching and sombre, but at the same time it’s moving, encourages individuality and gives a sense of fight and battle.
Just recently the band stated on the EP: “We are pleased to present the cover of our new 4 song EP; “SIR” (“secret” in Turkish). We worked with the mighty Daniel Bergstrand again, who has been an essential and integral part of the band for quite some time, to record and produce “SIR” at Dugout Studios in Sweden.”
PITCH BLACK PROCESS (formerly AFFLICTION) was formed in 1999. Their first two albums “One Reality” (out in May 2003) and “Execution is Necessary” (released in July 2007) got very good response nationwide and also from abroad. In November 2009 they hit the road for their first European tour playing over 20 gigs (beeing the longest tour which any Turkish band had ever made abroad until then), followed up by the 18-shows European tour with WARBRINGER, in February 2010. Before the tour with Warbringer, PITCH BLACK PROCESS signed a sponsorship deal with one of the most well-known guitar companies in the world, PRS, which was another ‘debut’ for Turkey. None of any Turkish bands had signed a sponsorship agreement with such a big brand in music industry. The 3rd album “Hand of God?” was produced by Daniel Bergstrand (In Flames, Meshuggah, Soilwork, etc) at Dugout Studios, came out in June 2013. In September 2013, PITCH BLACK PROCESS played on main stage at the 82nd Izmir International Fair, being the first ever metal band to play on the fair’s history. In 2015, PITCH BLACK PROCESS became part of EVH and Fender. In November 2015 the band returned to Dugout Studios to record their 4th album, “Derin” which was released in December 2016, in Turkey on Atlantis Yapim/EMP Label Group and on Ellefson Music Productions/SPV in Europe. The band’s new EP “SIR” will be revealed via 1877 PM, more information TBA. Watch the video ‘Into the Void / Derinlere’, taken from the album “Derin”: https://youtu.be/8Vys7wiZDOQ
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