Guys & gals, we are entering into kind of a new venture as Lady Obscure Music Magazine. We like the depth in our content and we thought why not go into details about specific songs. Especially new metal music. We started doing reaction videos where we talk & react to even the slightest detail in a song. We start with Tesseract’s Juno! Exciting… Give it a try and let us know what you think.
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I know there are some of you out there who know me from various social networking sites for the songs, reviews, articles, photos and, videos I constantly share…
I now know that the music freak in me will not rest… Going through the motions of life, I often find myself exploring the Northern European bands ever increasing in number but keeping it straight quality-wise; or digging out the gems hidden in the side projects of the musicians we all know and love… My passions manifesting themselves in the form of band management, promotion, booking, planning and all that in the past are now maturing into something more…
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November 1, 2018 – Singer, songwriter and keyboardist Eva Kathryn has released her debut video and single, “Voices”. Blending her unique fusion of genres, and ethereal alto-soprano vocals, the song recounts her childhood experiences with school bullying and peer intimidation.
Eva is joined by Koen Herfst (Armin van Buuren) on drums, Daniel Fries (Affector) on guitar, and Connor Green (Haken) on bass. Rich Mouser (Transatlantic, Spock’s Beard) mixed with Bill Evans (Flying Colors, Steve Lukather), with Evans and Kathryn producing together.
“I hope many can relate to this song, because we all have that moment when the voice in our head tells us we’re not good enough, or won’t ever amount to anything,” Eva shares. “It’s a song about the heart crying out, and saying, ‘This is who I am!’”
Grammy Ödüllü Megadeth grubunun bas gitaristi, yazar, girişimci Metal müzik ikonu David Ellefson, en yeni kişisel projesi BASSTORY turu dahilinde iki özel performans için ülkemizde.
“Basstory: An Intimate Evening of Riffs and Repartee with David Ellefson”
Basstory; ünlü müzisyen ile samimi bir müzik gecesi vadediyor; solo bas performansını özgün ve meşhur hikaye anlatımıyla birleştiriyor Ellefson; Rock N ’Roll adıyla verdiği mücadele ve zaferlerin detaylarını anlatıyor.
Her yaz bir festivale giderim normalde.. Graspop, Hellfest, Bloodstock, High Voltage.. Bu sene malum Euro’nun geldiği durum nedeniyle olamadı. Zeytinli’ye de son günü için gidecektim. Ama madem başka ülkeye gidemiyorum, Zeytinli’de festival kafası yaşayayım dedim. Valla iyi ki de öyle yapmışım. Zeytinli ne hale gelmiş öyle?? Uluslararası standartları yakalamışız. Festivalde tutkuyla müzik dinleyen çocukları görünce ülkem adına, müzik adına çok sevindim. Yüzümden gülümseme eksik olmadı.
panish melodic metal band, KILMARA, have released a single & music video for “Out From The Darkness“, the song is taken from their fourth album ‘Across the Realm of Time‘, outAugust 31, 2018 via ROAR Rock Of Angels Records. The album was produced, recorded, mixed & mastered by Roland Grapow (Lords of Black, Masterplan, Squealer, Black Majesty, Eagleheart…). Artwork made by Didac Plà.
Guests on the album are Jordi Longán (ex-Ipsilon) keyboard solo on Principles of Hatred, Roland Grapow (ex-Helloween, Masterplan) start guitar solo on My Haven, background vocals on “crawling from darkness” and “Out From the Darkness”, Viktorie Surmøva ( Surmatra, Rosa Nocturna, Victorius ) vocals on I Shall Rise Again.
İsveç’in, Ülkemizde de oldukça büyük bir hayran kitlesine sahip grubu Pain of Salvation‘ın Ekim ayında İstanbul Zorlu’ya geleceğini duymuşsunuzdur. Kağıdı kalemi almak şart oldu tabii bu durumda. Şahsen ben bir PoS konserine her halükarda heyecanlanırım ama bir de “In the Passing Light of Day” gerçeği var ortada. Grup yıllar sonra şahane bir sürpriz yapmış ve Remedy Lane’den (kimimize göre Be’den) sonra tam olarak istediğini bulamayan ve son albüm için beklentisini çok da yüksek tutmayan biz bir kısım hayranlarına, harika ötesi bu albümü vermiş. Tarz olarak geçmişteki hiçbir albümlerine çok fazla benzememekle beraber aslında biraz kendilerine has, eski albümlerden elementler, progresif kökler, biraz da Road Salt, Scarsick, ve Be’deki modern elementlerin karışımıyla ortaya şahane bir şey çıkmış. Progresif köklerine de geri dönmüş grup bu albümde. Bu durumda ister istemez konser için duyduğumuz heyecan bir iki tık yukarı çıkıyor tabii…
– Can you give a little biographical and historical info; who is
involved in the band, and how did you guys meet up? You know, how the
journey started, what the members were doing before…
It all probably started with my one man study J. Kill & Mr. Mule (now called Junkyard Shaman). I started making music in 2012, with no goal or purpose, just for the sake of playing. It ended up being a pile of over 100 digital releases, albums and EP’s. I started playing live shows of this avantgardist guitar improvisation thing. Then a friend of mine introduced me to Cédrik Bano, and we instantly had this connection that could allow us to play up to 5 hours together without getting bored once. That’s pretty much how I knew, that this guy is someone I want to have involved in this thing. We had this other thing called Matatadrone for a while, my brother Eetu Kilpinen, with whom I have played in a grindcore band Cut To Fit for years, came to play the bass. We have lived pretty much all our life together so we know our brain inside out. We played some live shows that kinda welded the whole thing together. We had another drummer (who fit the thing perfectly) for some time and played some live shows as J. Kill & The Shady Yes Yes Men, but I wanted to have something more consistent. Drummers are also always busy or have something else going on, so I knew I did not want to have a drummer in this thing. So I picked up another person I knew I have a special connection with, Juho Yrjölä. He also sings in our other band Harhakuvia and is a Finnish underground rap artist Liskomies. Complicated enough? I wanted the drummer to be someone, who is not a drummer, who understands the essence and transcendence of hypnotic rhythm and can keep the same pulse for hours if needed. Basically, I handpicked these individuals, who I knew I could trust to understand this droning, experimental and avantgardist approach to playing music without trouble. There are no mistakes, every sound is a good sound.
basically?
Genres in general don’t mean anything to us. The thing is, we have grown tired of “music” in it’s regular sense. All the things people associate with it, genres, song structures, instruments, everything. We are building our own instruments and noise machines at the moment. I play broken cymbals and scrap metal bowls with a bow and contact mic them through effect loops, we try to find new noises out of our instruments all the time. When it comes to music, it is just a stream of whatever we happen to channel through. Mostly it is droning, ambientish sounds but occasionally some sort of “themes” grow out of it and then we observe those themes for a while before letting them go. It is what it is, just an ocean of sounds.
– Are you happy with your music? I mean, what aspect of it do you
think you guys nailed, and what parts do you think you could improve
upon?
I like everything I get to do with other people. Music is a language and as we have these “conversations” we get to know each other even better, so that is an interesting process to observe as it goes. It will only get better with time.
– Is the band going to get more involved in performing live at some
point? What’s next? Album?
– What do you see for your future? How is it looking?
The future is always bleak, we all grow old and die, so why not focus on now instead.
or plan to focus on? How did the ideas come about, and how do they
influence the writing process?
– So what bands do you guys draw your inspiration from?
– What’s more important to you? Catering to the audience or music
for its own sake?
Any sort of crowd pleasing always makes me cringe. We grew up playing punk with metal bands and everytime the fists were in the air I figured the next step is marching in the streets and burning people. It’s something Aldous Huxley called the “crowd disease” and I despise it. That is probably why I have took the position of not manipulating audience into anything. Whatever they get into their heads in our shows is on them, not on us. We are not instigating anything, we are just serving the music, which is our spiritual practice and the only reason we are here for.- Anything else you think your fans should know?
Jen Janet, vocalist and keyboardist of Blind Revision answered Nem’s questions.
Can you give a little biographical and historical info; who is involved in the band, and how did you guys meet up?
Myself and our guitarist, Kirk met at college. Phil, who is our bassist, was Kirk’s roommate at the time. We all decided to jam one day and we realized we seemed to mesh well together, so we decided to start a band and play shows. The rest is history. Our drummer went to high school with Kirk and we met our other guitarist, Jake, from a mutual friend in the Rhode Island music scene.