Some time ago, a band from russia caught lots of attention in insider’s circles with their debut “Snippets” (available as a free download at Zorch Factory Records). Offered was post punk in a dark Bauhaus-style, a mighty voice, which could tempt the one or another icon to chuck the microphone and an atmosphere, as if there’s no tomorrow. Beginning of 2011 the EP “Whatever…” followed and attached consequently to the debut and expanded SCOFFERLANE’s fan base.

After a few subsequent line-up changes, which made a quartette out of the 6-headed band, Matt (aka Stuart Stumpman – Vocals), Konstantin K. (guitar), Anton C. (bass guitar) and Senya K. (drums) now keep the trail they’ve chosen.

Who now thinks, that SCOFFERLANE cushioned on their new album “Veto” due to the reduction of members, will be taught otherwise . The dark atmosphere is still left, the guitar work was perfected and sounds much more matured, Matt’s distinctive voice still dominates the songs in a Peter Murphy-ish way, the bass drives and tows itself melancholic and the drums still dance light-feeted as always through the songs.

A real firework of modern post punk, which is fired on the 14 songs of the album by SCOFFERLANE. With easyness the compositions play up to the listener’s ear. “Veto” will be available from February the 17th on in all well-known download stores and on afmusic as well as on CD for the first time.

Tracklisting:

1. She Fell
2. What Do You Propose
3. I Awoke
4. Veto
5. Single Finger
6. On Predators
7. Rubber Arms
8. So Pretty
9. Home
10. Ode
11. Last Chance Rope
12. Harish
13. All Because Of Us
14. La Nuit* (download only)

“Anyone who’s listened to Scofferlane or watched Scofferlane’s videos would be surprised to know that they are a current, fairly new band. They are amazingly polished and got that special something that seduces the listener. The sound ranges from post- punk to psychedelic to dark indie. Ever since their first on-stage appearance in the summer of 2008, this young group has been the subject of many controversies. A stimulating blend of diverse rock-and-roll traditions, unusual and unique lyrics, with a touch of decadence glamor. The vocalist, alternating between hysteria, morbid sexuality and a slightly arrogant insanity, uses not only his exceptional voice, but his whole physic to express himself. Their music combines raw sound with complex melodies. Scofferlanes’ style and performance, which is never something lighthearted and carefree, always leaves a lasting impression on the audience.” www.dropdeadfestival.com

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The bulgarian band Voyvoda will release their second album “Iztok” on February 7th as a download, the vinyl issue will follow on 20th of April, 2012. Offered will be experimental sounds somewhere between post punk, cold wave and balkan komita folk.

As on the forerunner “The Confederacy” and the couple of EP’s, the journey goes deep into the history of the balkans, back to devotional rebels and their commanders (called Voyvodas). During the trip you’re able to hear stories about devotion, respect, honor, love’s strength, fratricide, sorrow, betrayal, hope and despair, coated into a structure of lyrics reminding of a weird combination between Nick Cave, Johnny Cash and Hristo Silyanov.

Voyvoda’s sound is a combination of post punk, minimal and cold wave of the 80s, stirring balkan folklore and majestic eastern-orthodox chants. “Iztok” will be available from February 7th 2012 on at afmusic and in all well-known download stores in high quality. Furthermore the band offers a “name your price”-download on bandcamp, while the first 30 persons, that pay 1 Euro or more will get a free promo CD of the album.

On Jamendo, Dogmazic and some more download platforms the album will be available as a free download.

Tracklisting:

1. Iztok 02:40
2. The Man in the White Coat 02:14
3. Boylover James 05:12
4. D.A.S.F. 02:19
5. Mr. Mrak 03:29
6. Stefan the Vlach’s Son 04:51
7. Staroverets 02:28
8. Doubts 03:43
9. No Passports 03:44
10. 6000000words 06:02

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This is the first release of Chemical Waves, a project of Marco Cattani, a former member of the electronic band “Halo effect” (www.facebook.com/haloeffectband). This side project was born from desire to develop a different sound, the desire to experiment and explore a new musical form, a deep and intense sound running through dark atmospheres and obsessive rhythms. It’s a melancholy AND NOSTALGIC dark sound.

Chemical Waves is an open project involving in a next future different artists from other bands. All the tracks were written and arranged by Marco Cattani and Nicola Di Già made the mixing and recorded the guitars.

The first song called “The Origin” is a song, inspired by the evil nature of man, on a trip through the Jewish Museum in Berlin, from The Garden of Exile to Holocaust Tower.A place where silence is a lot of noise! The song is an obsessive and repetitive theme with a great atmosphere and impact, with a hypnotic guitar riff and an illuminated sampler of the voice of Carl Jung. The single contains an instrumental b-side called “The last straw”, a symbolic act in remembrance of all victims of human madness as well as a special version made by The Headcase.

The debut single from Chemical Waves is available from January 30th on at afmusic as a free download.

Tracklist:

1. The Origin
2. The Last Straw
3. The Origin (The Headcase Remix)

“…we need more understanding of human nature because the only real danger that exists is man himself, he is the great danger, and we are pitifully unaware of it. We know nothing of man, far too little. His psyche should be studied because we are the origin of all coming evil.” (Carl Jung)

CW FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/chemicalwaves
CW SOUNDCLOUD: www.soundcloud.com/chemical-waves
CW YOUTUBE: www.youtube.com/chemicalwaves
CW BLOG: www.chemicalwaves.blogspot.com

Simultaneous to the pre-single “Things” to the new album “Absolute Zero”, which will be released in the end of March, Emerald Park release the single “Reality Bites” on January 27th 2012 worldwide as a free download under Creative Commons.

Next to the success-single and the B-side “Someone to Love” the single will be available, containing a previously unreleased alternative version of the song “Ume”, on 23 Seconds Netlabel, Bandcamp and lots of other download portals.

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After they’ve just released their second album “Ganz nah am Licht”, Verlustprinzip keep themselves busy. Since the last CD they have grown with the new member Mike Lutz (CABO DE GATA, ex-DER ZERFALL), who proves his talent and skill with the remix version of “Inneres Kind” now.

The track is available for free on Soundcloud and Bandcamp.

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Who thinks, that Joakim Jakobsson after his his leaving from The Search keeps his feet still, will get taught better in an impressing way. DUELLEN offers with their self-titled debut EP finest Indie-Pop, which brings you to sing along with, even to the swedish lyrics.

Some time passed by, after Joakim left the Indie-Pop Band The Search and decided, together with Brian Biezki – whom he met first in 2010 and who moved from argentina over spain to sweden, due to the scandinavian pop culture there – to work together in a musically way. After a few months, Brian left the project again, but Joakim has found in Tina Bergström (ex The Search), Mikael Saltzman (ex The Search), Olle Billius (Jeniferever) and Simon Lundborg a perfect addition, so that out of a little 2-man-project grew a band quickly.

Already after a short while the first songs were written, recorded and now they form into a 5-track debut EP. Swedish Lyrics about life, love and death and the mainly discreetly guitars, which permanently conjure moony-melancholic melodies, bring up a deep going atmosphere.

Conclusion: Fans of The Search will notice a similarity, which can’t be denied because of Joakim being a former member, without, occasionally due to the swedish lyrics, having to pass on DUELLEN’s own charm. The debut will be available from December 13th on as a download in all well-known online stores, to try out on bandcamp and a lot of further platforms as a free alternative.

Tracklisting:

1. Sanningen
2. Livet leker
3. Ond tro
4. Det ljuva livet
5. Frågan

www.myspace.com/duellenband

Eligible to halloween the current album “The Chainsaw Chronicles” (CD 2009) as well as the debut album “3D Audio Horror” (CD 2005) will be available in all well-known download stores and as a free download on a lot of platforms through afmusic.

From their journeys into the world of terror, Dead United brought a record contract, written on human skin and their current work “The Chainsaw Chronicles” a unique jewel of horror punk. “The Chainsaw Chronicles” is like brushing your teeth with maggots, is like scratching your back with a chainsaw, is like wearing a pullover made of barbwire. All in all punk rock, which makes your hair stand on end. Raw creatures – risen out of horror movies – board the stage: mummies, zombies, vampires and other worms rock, that the slime and the blood cobble to the clothes and the last freezes in the veins.

Dead United let the chainsaws roar and your teeth chatter. A monster spectacle for eyes and eears – so pick up your umbrellas and all your courage and go for it.

3D AUDIO HORROR

Tracklisting:

1. Intro: Space Rape 0:33
2. Space Rape 2:37
3. Intro: Cosmic Ball 0:14
4. Cosmic Ball 2:24
5. Intro: Vampire’s Empire 0:10
6. Vampire’s Empire 2:20
7. Zombie Girl 4:08
8. Flying Saucer 2:18
9. Call of the Dead 3:35

THE CHAINSAW CHRONICLES

Tracklisting:

1. Intro: Prologue 1:02
2. Underworld Cats 2:41
3. Curse of the Mummified 2:05
4. Tomb of Dr. Horror 3:03
5. Intro: Little Beasts 0:11
6. Bug Attack 2:13
7. We Are the Fiends 3:14
8. We Rise Tonight 1:49
9. Intro: Space Rape II: Toxic Intercourse 0:29
10. Tentacles 2:35
11. Intro: Warning 0:37
12. Zombie Radio 2:13
13. Moon 4:18
14. Intro: Beware! 0:16
15. Braineaters 1:51
16. Zombie Girl 3:43
17. Killergame 2:45
18. Rock the Brain 2:11
19. Chainsaw 2:45
20. Epilogue: Night of the Chainsaw 1:30

www.deadunited.com

Press picture by Michael McCarthy, 2011

Principe Valiente’s debut album finds the band fulfilling the promises of their achievements to date. The Stockholm based band has in a short time gained a reputation for their live shows and are the subject of an increasing interest in their material in clubs and social networks on the internet. Their sound may partly be the result of a variety of elements inspired by the minimalism of certain post punk acts and the lushness of shoegaze, but is primarily characterized by an ambition to break new sonic ground.

This combination of innovative and inspired material makes for an invigorating listen as it is difficult to pinpoint in regard to genre. As a result, their music has frequently been labelled “dark pop”, a description that sums up the sonic qualities reminiscent of bands as diverse as The Sisters of Mercy, The Sound, Interpol and Suede.

The music video for the newly released “The Night” has been rotating on german television (topped the Pop10 video chart week 47 & 49) and the band’s eponymous 2007 EP has been played on the radio and by DJs around Europe. The EP has also received good reviews on the other side of the pond. As the album has been greatly anticipated, the material has been meticulously scrutinized for the full length effort, work that has resulted in a conceptually and sonically consistent album throughout. Songs like “One More Time” and “New Life” are hypnotic, energetic and powerful and even though the songs work very well in their own right the record is structured enough to create a rewarding album context for the songs as well.

Tracklisting:

1. Intro
2. Before You Knew Me
3. One More Time
4. In My Arms
5. New Life
6. Solitary Man
7. Stay
8. Afraid
9. 150 Years
10. The Night
11. Dance Like There’s No Tomorrow

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www.principevaliente.com

“Sometimes it is hard to smile, sometimes it is hard to understand”

This line of a song of the second release of VERLUSTPRINZIP “Ganz nah am Licht” is a good mirror image for the whole album. Because it isn’t light fare, you have to get into the 9 songs and be ready for an unknown journey.

VERLUSTPRINZIP achieved to frame the charismatic speech of the singer with subtle sounds and tone collages much more intensive. Well-thought-out anti-arrangements and haunting lyric form a mood, like being in a building of cement and glass and a chill runs through the room. It seems, as the psychiatry isn’t far away, when you listen to the disturbing-vexing sounds of VERLUSTPRINZIP. But as psychotic the music is, it won’t let you go anymore!

The extraordinary work will be released on October 17th 2011 as a limited CD-R as well as a download on afmusic and all well-known download stores.

Tracklisting:

1. Wir Freuen Uns 03:33
2. Tod Wie Stein 02:41
3. Reflexion 02:49
4. Inneres Kind (solange Zeit) 03:43
5. Denken 04:47
6. All Diese Wesen 03:19
7. Naturpoet 04:01
8. Nachtlicht 02:54
9. Manchmal 05:52

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The solo album “Du känner mig för väl, farväl” of the Emerald Park’s singer TOBIAS BORELIUS was original released as a cd on january 14th on Smaragd Records in Sweden and afmusic in Germany. The download is available in all well-known online stores.

From now onwards there is a free download available under Creative Commons License on afmusic and 23 Seconds Netlabel, as well as on several other download portals.

Download: afmusic | 23 Seconds Netlabel