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NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND
Press release “Crossing the Rubicon” (Dance Macabre)
To make a long story short… Paolo Greco, former member and producer of Ecodalia’s Time Has Told album wrote and produced the songs for what was to become eventually NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND way before the band itself was formed. Once the music was conceived, the band starts to take shape in 2007 giving NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND the necessary stage presence. Yet every single detail, whether it be creative or technical, is carefully and deliberately carried out still under his supervision.
Unlike so many other productions in this vein of so-called Industrial Rock or Electronic Rock, NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND’s tracks are not built merely upon a mediocre beat, a monotonous guitar riff and some yelled lyrics added to the recipe. NOT AT ALL! These are Songs (yes, with a capital letter) that have a lot of ear-candy: killer verses and real catchy choruses (why not?), simple structures with hooks and gimmicks left and right, and a production that given its quality must have surely been conceived to have international appeal. It’s as if CEVIN KEY (Skinny Puppy) or RHYS FULBER (Front Line Assembly) would have added exciting song-patchwork to rapid guitar riffs that will shake the legs of any KMFDM-fans.
Immediately the violent opener “Phoenix Uprising” indicates the direction of an album that has what it takes to give a new impulse to the Industrial-Metal scene. Songs like “Game” or “Heaven in Hell” have a distinctive stamp on them which most musical comrades of Madrid-based NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND can only dream of. “Crossing the Rubicon” strikes a tension arch from trance to trash-metal without losing its target — vigorous Industrial Rock. This exciting spagat connects the best genre-ingredients of all times and catapults the energy of early NINE INCH NAILS into the present in a way no one else has in this millennium.
Oh man, and what a feast of remixes…!!! The album has already created a buzz within the relevant circles of the scene way before the release — a full-house of genre-colleagues have loaded “Crossing the Rubicon” with a bunch of exciting alternative remixes: DIE KRUPPS, DAS ICH, William Faith (FAITH & THE MUSE), En Esch (ex-KMFDM, PIGFACE, SLICK IDIOT), Seb Komor (ex-ICON OF COIL, MELT), Adrian White (FRONT LINE ASSEMBLY, SILENT ALARM), and Ulf Häusgen (ex-THE FAIR SEX). Thus reaches this double-album the 20-track mark putting NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND at the spearhead of today’s dark-scene with one of the most extraordinary debuts of the last years. Make no mistake, NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND deliver the goods.
The album title “Crossing the Rubicon” is a metaphor for deliberately passing a point of no return, especially when a business of risky consequences is at stake. This portrays precisely where NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND stand at present. The journey has began — only victory awaits to be fought for, at the other end of the Rubicon river.
2010 Tourdates with Hanzel Und Gretyl:
We. 08 September >> Germany – Berlin/SO36
More Oktötenfest Tourdates with NFU to be confirmed here..
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HELLFIRE SOCIETY
Release 2009: “The Angry Army” (Hellfest/Universal)
Short Bio: Hellfire Society was born in 2001, founded by the leader/singer David whose dissatisfaction with the socio-political and religious status quo of his native Italy caused in him a desire to question what he saw around him every day, and, when he found answers that he could not accept, to find a way to respond and be heard.
David formed HFS to give voice to his anger and serve as a method of spreading his views to others. The reception to his project was unprecedented, with Hellfire Society’s first ever live concert being attended by over 1500 paying fans. HFS’s gut-wrenching guitars, carried by the force of David’s powerful voice and balanced by his excruciating attention to detail and musical arrangement, incited a response from crowds that soon had them performing on national television and touring throughout Europe.
The band starts writing what later on will become the debut album “The Angry Army”, they refuse several offers from labels looking and waiting for the right one, in this period the bassist Trauma joins the band bringing new life into the band, choosing carefully their moves they record and release a cover of “Bang Bang” which receives a unexpected success all around the globe: the song was originally born as bonus track for all of those fans who were waiting the album.
On September 2008 HFS is called for the official remix of “Runaway” by the world famous artist Ladytron (toured with NIN), the remix is released by the major Nettwerk Records in 17 countries around the world, included in the cd and also printed in a limited edition vinyl.
In the meantime Hellfire Society signs its most important contract with one of the most important Artist Development & Music Marketing companies in Europe Brainstorm (DE) already responsible for the promotion for acts such as AC/DC, Metallica and Guns n’ Roses among others.
Follows is what HFS has been waiting for a long time: a contract with the major label Hellfest/Universal Records.
The video for the first single “Mad About You” is filmed in an old asylum in Florence (Italy),
a very evocative location that sets the atmosphere of what will soon become the lite-motif of the band, a WWII set surrounded by wicked medical experiments. Buckles and goth accessories are left behind, replaced with tactical wear and post nuclear urban guerrilla gear, they start to call their fans “soldiers” and “The Angry Army” was born.
Mind blowing guitars wisely mixed with electronics, granitic rhythmic section and the powerful voice of the leader/singer make the band stand up in a crowd of anonymous industrial rock bands.
Controversy is behind the corner, a picture of David with the writing “WAR” on his chest is published, immediately becoming the icon of a screamed and powerful rebellion is warped and misunderstood by the masses, accusing them of being “pro-war”, David replied in an interview: “HFS is not pro-war, we only provide music for fighting. Everywhere, every day people have to fight a battle, no matter how small, we all have to fight our wars, often just to save our right and freedom. We only provide the right music to do it to.”
Waiting for the extensive promotion that Brainstorm is preparing for the album and the tour the band decides to start a mini-tour in Europe in order to test the new line-up that sees David on vocals and guitars, rock solid Tramua on the bass, the return of AK-47, the former guitarist of the band, and the last member that joined the army B3N on the electronics, live FX and samples.
This completely new live set-up is tested with great success in a series of sold out shows, among which the one @ Siddharta Club in Prato where the band plays in front of an excited crowd followed by an exclusive DJ Set by Morgan (Bluvertigo/X-Factor), then is the time for their show @ the Club Semifinal in Helsinki where once more the show is sold out.
The album, “The Angry Army” released on June 19th 2009 by Hellfest/Universal Records is what they call a Fight Rock Manifesto, cutting edge, powerful and catching, a synergy that is rare to find in a debut album, which is the emergence of a project that you won’t want to miss!
www.myspace.com/hellfiresociety
2010 Tourdates with Hanzel Und Gretyl:
Th. 26 August >> Swiss – Zürich/Werk 21 
Fr. 27 August >> Austria – Klagenfurt/Stereo
Sa. 28 August >> Austria – Wien/Viperroom
More Oktötenfest Tourdates here..
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Booking and Info:
RED ROCK MANAGEMENT
co\ Richard Koning
Phone +49(0)511 – 8492256
Skype ritchie.koning
Email ritchie@redrock-management.de
Die CD-Release-Party “Römisch Drei” der Band “Die Blumen” aus Hannover findet am Freitag, 04. Dezember 2009 im Gig (Saal) Hannover-Linden statt.
Der gute Gärtner aus Scherwudforest umschreibt die Blumen wie folgt:
CT werden ein Video drehen und wollen, dass Ihr entscheidet welcher Song der neuen CD es werden soll!
Wir freuen uns sehr auf die Zusammenarbeit mit Olli, g-Buzz, Bromme, P.E.E.R und Lars “Neo Hippie Space Rocker” von Cosmic Tribe.
Wir knnen Euch mit Freude mitteilen das “die Blumen” und RED ROCK beschlossen haben, gemeinsam an einer blumigen Karriere in den Gewlben des Musikgeschfts zu arbeiten.