Trying to find out ways of making a Gothic Christmas, then here are some suggestions, my beloved Goths.
*The best thing to modify is the centerpiece, which is your Christmas tree. Take an old dried Christmas tree and strip the needles from it. If you want to, spray-paint it black and hang black lights instead of colored ones.
*Use black candles and circle them with evergreen sprigs. If you want to, put it in a dish and put berries beside it. If you want to use red candles, just make sure to circle them with small black stones or evergreen sprigs painted black.
*Use those spooky decorations you used during Halloween to decorate your Christmas tree.
*Use plain dark-colored papers to wrap up your gifts and put on black ribbons. Most preferrably, use dark purple or red.
*Make frightening Christmas dolls from dried apples or just save that witch and dress her with a Santa outfit.
*Instead of ordinary stockings, use black ones, make their toes and tie up bells at the end.
*A little black paint and dark purple glitter goes a long way for your Christmas fit of lifestyle.
Spooky Holidays! Seasons Frightenings!
Source:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/457465/how_to_make_your_own_gothic_christmas.html
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/457465/how_to_make_your_own_gothic_christmas.html?page=2&cat=30
Friday, December 12, 2008
Friday, November 14, 2008
Cradle of Filth Update
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Thursday, October 30, 2008
Dead Gothic Society's Halloween Lists
Fellow goths, this Halloween, we are listing down some things that will always be our trademarks. Enjoy!
The thinking that a goth should have:
"A goth is not easily determined by the music he plays, the words he match to haunt, the fashion he adapts to scare people, and the occult that he practices all his life. The only thing needed to be a goth is the thinking that the society is so cruel that they cast us away. But after all, we will live because we see the benefit of a good smoke."
Must listen gothic songs:
1) Nymphetamine Fix by Cradle of Filth
2) Progenies of the Great Apocalypse by Dimmu Borgir
3) Lichtgestalt by Lacrimosa
4) Deus Ex Machina by Moi Dix Mois
5) Down With The Sickness by Disturbed
6) Cold by Static-X
7) Dead Cell by Papa Roach
8) Bye Bye Beautiful by Nightwish
9) Swamped by Lacuna Coil
10) Everybody's Fool by Evanescence
A selection of must read gothic authors:
1) Anne Rice
2) Stephen King
3) Neil Gaiman
4) Edgar Allan Poe
5) Bram Stoker
6) Mary Shelley
7) Jonathan Nasaw
The thinking that a goth should have:
"A goth is not easily determined by the music he plays, the words he match to haunt, the fashion he adapts to scare people, and the occult that he practices all his life. The only thing needed to be a goth is the thinking that the society is so cruel that they cast us away. But after all, we will live because we see the benefit of a good smoke."
Must listen gothic songs:
1) Nymphetamine Fix by Cradle of Filth
2) Progenies of the Great Apocalypse by Dimmu Borgir
3) Lichtgestalt by Lacrimosa
4) Deus Ex Machina by Moi Dix Mois
5) Down With The Sickness by Disturbed
6) Cold by Static-X
7) Dead Cell by Papa Roach
8) Bye Bye Beautiful by Nightwish
9) Swamped by Lacuna Coil
10) Everybody's Fool by Evanescence
A selection of must read gothic authors:
1) Anne Rice
2) Stephen King
3) Neil Gaiman
4) Edgar Allan Poe
5) Bram Stoker
6) Mary Shelley
7) Jonathan Nasaw
Halloween Trivia
From http://www.bonita.k12.ca.us/allen/Fun/Halloween.htm
Orange and black are the colors of Halloween because orange is associated with the fall harvest and black is the color of darkness.
Jack o'lanterns originated in Ireland where people placed candles in hollowed-out turnips to keep away spirits and ghosts on the Samhain holiday.
For a twist on the traditional jack o'lantern, why not carve a white, blue or green pumpkin!
Tootsie Rolls were the first wrapped penny candy in America.
Halloween candy sales average about two billion dollars per year.
Chocolate bars top the list as the most popular treat with Snickers being number 1.
The ancient Celts thought that spirits and ghosts roamed the countryside on Halloween night, so they began wearing masks and costumes to avoid being recognized as human.
Black cats were once thought to protect witches.
Halloween is the second most commercially successful holiday; Christmas is number one.
Some people believe that if you see a spider on Halloween, it is the spirit of a loved one watching over you.
Vampire bats really do exist, but they are not from Transylvania. They live in Central and South America and feed on the blood of cattle, horses and birds.
The North American common brown bat has the longest life-span of any mammal it's size -- about 32 years!
The movie "Halloween" was filmed in only 21 days in 1978 on a very limited budget. The movie was shot during the spring and used fake autumn leaves. Also, while the film is set in Illinois, all the cars have California license plates.
The tradition of bobbing for apples came from the Romans.
According to superstition, if you stare into a mirror at midnight on Halloween, you will see your future spouse.
According to the National Retail Federation's Halloween Consumer Intentions and Actions Survey, the most popular Halloween costume in 2004 was Spiderman, with 2.15 million children dressing as their favorite superhero. Other popular costumes included princesses (1.8 million children), witches (1.3 million) and vampires (899,000).
The world's record for biggest pumpkin is currently held by a gigantic gourd weighing a whopping 1,385 pounds!
Samhainophobia refers to an abnormal and persistent fear of Halloween. This time of year may also stir up other phobias such as the fear of: cats (ailurophobia), witches (wiccaphobia), ghosts (phasmophobia), spiders (arachnophobia), the dark (nyctophobia), and cemeteries (coimetrophobia).
Orange and black are the colors of Halloween because orange is associated with the fall harvest and black is the color of darkness.
Jack o'lanterns originated in Ireland where people placed candles in hollowed-out turnips to keep away spirits and ghosts on the Samhain holiday.
For a twist on the traditional jack o'lantern, why not carve a white, blue or green pumpkin!
Tootsie Rolls were the first wrapped penny candy in America.
Halloween candy sales average about two billion dollars per year.
Chocolate bars top the list as the most popular treat with Snickers being number 1.
The ancient Celts thought that spirits and ghosts roamed the countryside on Halloween night, so they began wearing masks and costumes to avoid being recognized as human.
Black cats were once thought to protect witches.
Halloween is the second most commercially successful holiday; Christmas is number one.
Some people believe that if you see a spider on Halloween, it is the spirit of a loved one watching over you.
Vampire bats really do exist, but they are not from Transylvania. They live in Central and South America and feed on the blood of cattle, horses and birds.
The North American common brown bat has the longest life-span of any mammal it's size -- about 32 years!
The movie "Halloween" was filmed in only 21 days in 1978 on a very limited budget. The movie was shot during the spring and used fake autumn leaves. Also, while the film is set in Illinois, all the cars have California license plates.
The tradition of bobbing for apples came from the Romans.
According to superstition, if you stare into a mirror at midnight on Halloween, you will see your future spouse.
According to the National Retail Federation's Halloween Consumer Intentions and Actions Survey, the most popular Halloween costume in 2004 was Spiderman, with 2.15 million children dressing as their favorite superhero. Other popular costumes included princesses (1.8 million children), witches (1.3 million) and vampires (899,000).
The world's record for biggest pumpkin is currently held by a gigantic gourd weighing a whopping 1,385 pounds!
Samhainophobia refers to an abnormal and persistent fear of Halloween. This time of year may also stir up other phobias such as the fear of: cats (ailurophobia), witches (wiccaphobia), ghosts (phasmophobia), spiders (arachnophobia), the dark (nyctophobia), and cemeteries (coimetrophobia).
Monday, October 13, 2008
Evil Eye
A sign of trouble. Association with the curses of the old wives' tales. These are the common things which we think about the evil eye. But, what really is the evil eye?
The evil eye is an ancient belief which was even dated back to the time of the Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians. In ancient Egypt, the people used make-ups to ward it off. Even in the Bible, it was mentioned.
Superstitions of it are usually found in Mediterranean and Central American countries.
People nowadays usually try to ward it off but they never know that they are using it through their malevolent things. However, Greeks made cures for it.
A positive use for it was used for Indra, the Hindu god of war, thunder, and storms.
The evil eye is an ancient belief which was even dated back to the time of the Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians. In ancient Egypt, the people used make-ups to ward it off. Even in the Bible, it was mentioned.
Superstitions of it are usually found in Mediterranean and Central American countries.
People nowadays usually try to ward it off but they never know that they are using it through their malevolent things. However, Greeks made cures for it.
A positive use for it was used for Indra, the Hindu god of war, thunder, and storms.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Anne Rice
(Guys, we have just held a poll regarding the better vampire writer. Now, here is our article about her.)
Anne Rice was born Howard Allen O'Brien on 4 October 1941 as the second daughter of a Catholic Irish-American family. Her early years were spent in New Orleans, Louisiana, forming the background of most of her stories. After which, she lived in East Haven, Connecticut until the death of her sister Alice Borchardt, who also pursued to be a gothic writer.
Her name Anne came out during her first day of school when a nun asked her of her name and blurted it out until her mother let it go without correcting her for she knew that her daughter was so conscious of her unusual given name.
In 1958, her father took up a residence at Richardson, Texas after the death of her mother three years before. There she attended Richardson High School and met Stan Rice whom she married later. She then took up her first collegiate years in Texas Women's University in Denton and then moved with her husband to San Francisco, where she attended State University and obtained BA Political Science. "I'm a totally conservative person", she later told the New York Times (November 7, 1988). "In the middle of Haight-Ashbury in the 1960s, I was typing away while everybody was dropping acid and smoking grass. I was known as my own square." She would not return to New Orleans until 1989.
She then had a daughter, Michelle, who later died of Leukemia at the age of 6.
Her first book, Interview with the Vampire was then completed in 1973 and was published in 1976. Nine more books then followed and this series was titled The Vampire Chronicles. These were written while they lived in Berkeley before their son, Christopher, was born. Her novels published then were counted 28.
In 1989, Anne and Stan lived in New Orleans by buying a Garden District Greek Revival house and Anne owned many building in that district that time. Interview with the Vampire was then made into a movie and The Feast of All Saints was then made into a mini-series.
Anne then returned to the Catholic church in 1998 and decided to concentrate her writings on Christ in 2002. One of these books was Christ the Lord and Out of Egypt which were published this year.
Stan Rice then died in 2002 after a couple of months being diagnosed with brain cancer. His paintings would hopefully soon find home and his diaries are now edited.
Anne now lives and works in the California desert, a few hours drive from her son, Christopher, who lives and works in West Hollywood.
Anne Rice was born Howard Allen O'Brien on 4 October 1941 as the second daughter of a Catholic Irish-American family. Her early years were spent in New Orleans, Louisiana, forming the background of most of her stories. After which, she lived in East Haven, Connecticut until the death of her sister Alice Borchardt, who also pursued to be a gothic writer.
Her name Anne came out during her first day of school when a nun asked her of her name and blurted it out until her mother let it go without correcting her for she knew that her daughter was so conscious of her unusual given name.
In 1958, her father took up a residence at Richardson, Texas after the death of her mother three years before. There she attended Richardson High School and met Stan Rice whom she married later. She then took up her first collegiate years in Texas Women's University in Denton and then moved with her husband to San Francisco, where she attended State University and obtained BA Political Science. "I'm a totally conservative person", she later told the New York Times (November 7, 1988). "In the middle of Haight-Ashbury in the 1960s, I was typing away while everybody was dropping acid and smoking grass. I was known as my own square." She would not return to New Orleans until 1989.
She then had a daughter, Michelle, who later died of Leukemia at the age of 6.
Her first book, Interview with the Vampire was then completed in 1973 and was published in 1976. Nine more books then followed and this series was titled The Vampire Chronicles. These were written while they lived in Berkeley before their son, Christopher, was born. Her novels published then were counted 28.
In 1989, Anne and Stan lived in New Orleans by buying a Garden District Greek Revival house and Anne owned many building in that district that time. Interview with the Vampire was then made into a movie and The Feast of All Saints was then made into a mini-series.
Anne then returned to the Catholic church in 1998 and decided to concentrate her writings on Christ in 2002. One of these books was Christ the Lord and Out of Egypt which were published this year.
Stan Rice then died in 2002 after a couple of months being diagnosed with brain cancer. His paintings would hopefully soon find home and his diaries are now edited.
Anne now lives and works in the California desert, a few hours drive from her son, Christopher, who lives and works in West Hollywood.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Moi Dix Mois
Biography and pictures from http://moidixmois.altervista.org/
Mana, one of the most influential artist of the Visual Kei movement founded the cult band Malice Mizer in 1992, with the guitarist Közi. During their ten years-career Malice Mizer make themselves known as a unique and influential band in japanese gothic rock scene, inventing and introducing in the Visual scene original ideas both in the music/composition and in costumes image, melting baroque and neoclassical refined influences with a gothic rock base.
The 11th December 2001, Klaha, Mana, Közi and Yu~ki decided together to suspend the band activities (and put it on hiatus) to focus on their individual projects.
Just after a few months, Mana is ready to reveal the details of his project. On March 19, date of his birthday, he announces the foundation of his new band, Moi dix Mois. For some months the identity of the other unknown members remains secret. In the photo sessions the other two members wears a white mask with the word "dix" carved on the forehead.
On July 31 Mana organizes at Shibuya the event "Dis inferno", in which partecipates Schwarz Stein, an industrial due produced by Mana with his label Midi:Nette.
At last Mana take off the masks from the other two members of Moi dix Mois, introducing the infernal trio: Mana on guitar, Juka on vocals and Kazuno on bass. They have also a support drummer, Tohru, who isn't a official member of the band.
In 2002 Moi dix Mois start their first national tour "forbidden", through Japan, and 19th November release their first single, Dialogue Symphonie, whereas for the first full album we have to wait the birthday of Mana, and on 19th March 2003 the Dix infernal album comes out.
After an awesome opening concert at Akasaka BLITZ, start the national Tour 2003 Dix infernal, whose final gig, at Shibuya AX on September 27, is recorded and released as a gorgeous live DVD Dix infernal ~Scars of Sabbath~.
Last year event is Dis inferno vol.II, an evening full of shows and guests (such as Kamijo and Mayu from Lareine), where finally Moi dix Mois and Schwarz Stein perform together of the same stage.
We have to wait Mana's birthday (19th March) to learn something about Moi dix Mois plans: at his party/concert (Heretic's Assembly I Night), Mana announces the release of a new single followed by a new full-album.
On May 31 the second single Shadows Temple comes out, Tohru becomes ufficiale official drummer, and in CD credits appears the name of Shadow X, on death voice (probably he is no one than Mana himself).
The second Moi dix Mois full album Nocturnal Opera comes out the 20th July 2004.
Moreover, on July 11 Mana comes to an event in Europe for the first time, he partecipate as a special guest at Japan Expo in Parigi.
There's also another good news for western fans of the band: the official fanclub, Mon†amour, opens the division Mon†amour International allowing fans from all over the world to join and receive the special fanclub issues.
Besides Moi-même-Moitié, the gothic fashion label owned by Mana, organizes to sell online its products worldwide, through CD-Japan.
The 6th October 2004 the third Moi dix Mois single, Pageant, is released. Meanwhile on November 8th Moi-même-Moitié publish the fashion catalogue/photobook Magnifique, interely shooted in Francia.
The 15th Dicembre a new concert is held, Dis inferno Vol.III, the setlist of the event is similar to the previous edition, but there are new things about Moi dix Mois: a new member was added to the band, guitarist K, doing also some growling/screaming vocals. For that event the band consisted also of a third support guitarist, Jun, a temporariry presence, in fact he will not partecipate to the future activities of the band.
The 27th of February 2005 there's another concert reserved to Fanclub members, Heretic's Assembly II Night, in which Moi dix Mois announced their Tour 2005, Invite to Immorality, this time including two european dates. The band achieve a great success at the sold out gig in Paris, at La Locomotive, Monday 28th March, while they do very well also in Munich, at the Georg Elser Halle, Saturday 26th.
A third date of the Tour the 24th of April 2005, the last date, is on the other hand a new concert in Japan, at the infamous Shibuya-AX.
Sadly, for the final concert of the Tour, vocalist Juka decides to quit the band, for artistic reason. Mana says that he will continue activities, trying to experiment something new.
The 27th July finally a new live DVD from Moi dix Mois is released, concerning the Europe Tour 2005, Invite to Immorality.
The DVD comes out in two editions, a limited one including 2 DVD and some extra, and a regular one with one disc only.
The 2nd December a special edition / double CD set of the Nocturnal Opera album is released in Europe (contains also the 3 singles and 2 live video from Tour 2005). The album is produced by the german mainstream label Trisol (that produces also a lot of famous western gothic bands).
In December 2005 Mana recruits a new vocalist for Moi dix Mois, but in the meantime former bassist Kazuno and drummer Tohru left the band.
The new album (EP) Beyond the Gate, is released the 1st of March 2006, simultaneously released in Japan (by Midi:Nette) and in Europe (by the german label Gan Shin). It features the new vocalist Seth. The 11th March the reborn Moi dix Mois 2006 perform at LIQUID ROOM in Shibuya with this lineup: Seth on vocals, Mana on guitar, K on guitar&voice, Sugiya on bass and Hayato on drums.
Moi dix Mois start the European Tour for the new album in two dates: March 17th in Paris, France and March 19th in Berlin, Germany. They perform at the tour final gig at Shibuya AX the 2nd of May.
Mana, one of the most influential artist of the Visual Kei movement founded the cult band Malice Mizer in 1992, with the guitarist Közi. During their ten years-career Malice Mizer make themselves known as a unique and influential band in japanese gothic rock scene, inventing and introducing in the Visual scene original ideas both in the music/composition and in costumes image, melting baroque and neoclassical refined influences with a gothic rock base.
The 11th December 2001, Klaha, Mana, Közi and Yu~ki decided together to suspend the band activities (and put it on hiatus) to focus on their individual projects.
Just after a few months, Mana is ready to reveal the details of his project. On March 19, date of his birthday, he announces the foundation of his new band, Moi dix Mois. For some months the identity of the other unknown members remains secret. In the photo sessions the other two members wears a white mask with the word "dix" carved on the forehead.
On July 31 Mana organizes at Shibuya the event "Dis inferno", in which partecipates Schwarz Stein, an industrial due produced by Mana with his label Midi:Nette.
At last Mana take off the masks from the other two members of Moi dix Mois, introducing the infernal trio: Mana on guitar, Juka on vocals and Kazuno on bass. They have also a support drummer, Tohru, who isn't a official member of the band.
In 2002 Moi dix Mois start their first national tour "forbidden", through Japan, and 19th November release their first single, Dialogue Symphonie, whereas for the first full album we have to wait the birthday of Mana, and on 19th March 2003 the Dix infernal album comes out.
After an awesome opening concert at Akasaka BLITZ, start the national Tour 2003 Dix infernal, whose final gig, at Shibuya AX on September 27, is recorded and released as a gorgeous live DVD Dix infernal ~Scars of Sabbath~.
Last year event is Dis inferno vol.II, an evening full of shows and guests (such as Kamijo and Mayu from Lareine), where finally Moi dix Mois and Schwarz Stein perform together of the same stage.
We have to wait Mana's birthday (19th March) to learn something about Moi dix Mois plans: at his party/concert (Heretic's Assembly I Night), Mana announces the release of a new single followed by a new full-album.
On May 31 the second single Shadows Temple comes out, Tohru becomes ufficiale official drummer, and in CD credits appears the name of Shadow X, on death voice (probably he is no one than Mana himself).
The second Moi dix Mois full album Nocturnal Opera comes out the 20th July 2004.
Moreover, on July 11 Mana comes to an event in Europe for the first time, he partecipate as a special guest at Japan Expo in Parigi.
There's also another good news for western fans of the band: the official fanclub, Mon†amour, opens the division Mon†amour International allowing fans from all over the world to join and receive the special fanclub issues.
Besides Moi-même-Moitié, the gothic fashion label owned by Mana, organizes to sell online its products worldwide, through CD-Japan.
The 6th October 2004 the third Moi dix Mois single, Pageant, is released. Meanwhile on November 8th Moi-même-Moitié publish the fashion catalogue/photobook Magnifique, interely shooted in Francia.
The 15th Dicembre a new concert is held, Dis inferno Vol.III, the setlist of the event is similar to the previous edition, but there are new things about Moi dix Mois: a new member was added to the band, guitarist K, doing also some growling/screaming vocals. For that event the band consisted also of a third support guitarist, Jun, a temporariry presence, in fact he will not partecipate to the future activities of the band.
The 27th of February 2005 there's another concert reserved to Fanclub members, Heretic's Assembly II Night, in which Moi dix Mois announced their Tour 2005, Invite to Immorality, this time including two european dates. The band achieve a great success at the sold out gig in Paris, at La Locomotive, Monday 28th March, while they do very well also in Munich, at the Georg Elser Halle, Saturday 26th.
A third date of the Tour the 24th of April 2005, the last date, is on the other hand a new concert in Japan, at the infamous Shibuya-AX.
Sadly, for the final concert of the Tour, vocalist Juka decides to quit the band, for artistic reason. Mana says that he will continue activities, trying to experiment something new.
The 27th July finally a new live DVD from Moi dix Mois is released, concerning the Europe Tour 2005, Invite to Immorality.
The DVD comes out in two editions, a limited one including 2 DVD and some extra, and a regular one with one disc only.
The 2nd December a special edition / double CD set of the Nocturnal Opera album is released in Europe (contains also the 3 singles and 2 live video from Tour 2005). The album is produced by the german mainstream label Trisol (that produces also a lot of famous western gothic bands).
In December 2005 Mana recruits a new vocalist for Moi dix Mois, but in the meantime former bassist Kazuno and drummer Tohru left the band.
The new album (EP) Beyond the Gate, is released the 1st of March 2006, simultaneously released in Japan (by Midi:Nette) and in Europe (by the german label Gan Shin). It features the new vocalist Seth. The 11th March the reborn Moi dix Mois 2006 perform at LIQUID ROOM in Shibuya with this lineup: Seth on vocals, Mana on guitar, K on guitar&voice, Sugiya on bass and Hayato on drums.
Moi dix Mois start the European Tour for the new album in two dates: March 17th in Paris, France and March 19th in Berlin, Germany. They perform at the tour final gig at Shibuya AX the 2nd of May.
Lacrimosa
Biography and picture from http://www.lacrimosa.ch/
In November 1990 the swiss music scene started to get curious about Tilo Wolff's Projekt LACRIMOSA as his music in form of a tape "Clamor" reached the people of the underground scene. This melancholic music filled with classical elements, surrounding poectic lyrics and topped by a emotional voice was something which fascinated many and quickly a scene was raising up, which was nearly already forgotten.
For his first release, the LP "Angst", Tilo Wolff found his own label HALL OF SERMON for giving LACRIMOSA the entire artistical freedom. The music of LACRIMOSA was already that time developing from album to album without adapting any other music styles or denying it's roots. Through this progressive development, LACRIMOSA was challenging the tolerance of a widespread audience in the diverse facetts of music-lovers around the world.
LACRIMOSA's music had been coloured by several guest musicians, but in the beginning of 1994, Anne Nurmi joined the former soloproject to become a permanent member. Anne Nurmi, who was the keyboarder, singer and one of the grounders of the finnish band TWO WITHCES, was setting new musical accents with her singing and composing.
The following releases were managing to combine the roughness of Metal and Gothic Rock, without loosing the most obvious love for classical music. With this revolutionary sound, LACRIMOSA was pioneer and obstetrician for musicstyles like Gothic Metal and Symphonic Metal, which both became a hugh trend!
After the collaboration with the world-wide known LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, top 20 positions in the German and Polish music-charts, sold-out shows in Europe, Middle- and South America, on May the 2nd 2005, just on time for their 15th anniversay, the new studio album "Lichtgestalt" (luminous figure) got released! With its musical variety, its full expression and its sympathetic production this masterpiece set new standards in the history of Dark Rock Music and highlights a remarkable career up to then!
After the release of this album LACRIMOSA went on an extensive tour that reached from Europe through America to Asia. After returning from their so far biggest tour in 2007 the two-hours double-CD "Lichtjahre" (Lightyears) and the three-hours DVD of the same name got released, which offers deep impressions in the life on tour of a band, that moves and delights the audience of different cultures on different parts of this world in the same way.
Since the beginning of 2008 LACRIMOSA are back in the studio to work on their 10th studio-album.
In November 1990 the swiss music scene started to get curious about Tilo Wolff's Projekt LACRIMOSA as his music in form of a tape "Clamor" reached the people of the underground scene. This melancholic music filled with classical elements, surrounding poectic lyrics and topped by a emotional voice was something which fascinated many and quickly a scene was raising up, which was nearly already forgotten.
For his first release, the LP "Angst", Tilo Wolff found his own label HALL OF SERMON for giving LACRIMOSA the entire artistical freedom. The music of LACRIMOSA was already that time developing from album to album without adapting any other music styles or denying it's roots. Through this progressive development, LACRIMOSA was challenging the tolerance of a widespread audience in the diverse facetts of music-lovers around the world.
LACRIMOSA's music had been coloured by several guest musicians, but in the beginning of 1994, Anne Nurmi joined the former soloproject to become a permanent member. Anne Nurmi, who was the keyboarder, singer and one of the grounders of the finnish band TWO WITHCES, was setting new musical accents with her singing and composing.
The following releases were managing to combine the roughness of Metal and Gothic Rock, without loosing the most obvious love for classical music. With this revolutionary sound, LACRIMOSA was pioneer and obstetrician for musicstyles like Gothic Metal and Symphonic Metal, which both became a hugh trend!
After the collaboration with the world-wide known LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, top 20 positions in the German and Polish music-charts, sold-out shows in Europe, Middle- and South America, on May the 2nd 2005, just on time for their 15th anniversay, the new studio album "Lichtgestalt" (luminous figure) got released! With its musical variety, its full expression and its sympathetic production this masterpiece set new standards in the history of Dark Rock Music and highlights a remarkable career up to then!
After the release of this album LACRIMOSA went on an extensive tour that reached from Europe through America to Asia. After returning from their so far biggest tour in 2007 the two-hours double-CD "Lichtjahre" (Lightyears) and the three-hours DVD of the same name got released, which offers deep impressions in the life on tour of a band, that moves and delights the audience of different cultures on different parts of this world in the same way.
Since the beginning of 2008 LACRIMOSA are back in the studio to work on their 10th studio-album.
Monday, August 25, 2008
Cradle of Filth
Biography from http://www.cradleoffilth.com/
Photos downloaded from the Internet
These are heady days for those of us who wear our devotion to metal like a badge of honour. The deafening beast of the dark depths has lived to roar and rampage again and the scene has never been in a happier or healthier state. But don’t be deceived. Metal never really went away. In fact, its current fortitude stems entirely from the bands that never surrendered; those brave, liquor-soaked men whose total disregard for the vagaries of fashion and finance kept them glued to the grindstone through metal’s mainstream wilderness years. Now, as seems wholly fitting, the greatest of these are finally reaping their rewards and hitting new creative peaks as they surge unstoppably onwards and upwards. And, as it was in the beginning, so shall it be in 2006.
Just as the gravel-lined, turd-stained streets of urban England gave heavy metal to the world back in the late ‘60s, so that small country with the big voice continues to be the place where the world’s finest dark metal band rest their weary, alcohol-ravaged heads after another sonic killing spree. Love them, hate them or both, Cradle Of Filth is back again to fondle you while slitting your throat. Thornography has arrived.
Recorded at Chapel Studios in Lincolnshire, England, with renowned metallic production genius Rob Caggiano (Anthrax, Bleeding Through) and mixed by Andy Sneap (Killswitch Engage, Arch Enemy,Trivium) at Backstage Studios, Derbyshire, Thornography is the band’s seventh full-length studio album and their second for Roadrunner. The follow-up to 2004’s widely acclaimed meisterwerk Nymphetamine it’s a scintillating and terrifying collision between the familiar and the unexpected. It’s the dark, destructive and unsettling sound of a globe-conquering heavy metal band at the height of their sick, twisted powers, and the continuation of a proud, priapic and unhinged legacy that stretches back nigh on 15 years.
When Cradle Of Filth released their now legendary debut album, The Principle Of Evil Made Flesh back in 1994, the notoriety surrounding the Black Metal scene – and its spiritual epicentre in Oslo, Norway, in particular – was reaching fever pitch throughout Europe. These legions of the damned and disgusted took metal further into the abyss than it had ever been before, stripping away its worldly concerns and reducing it to a pure and chilling core of impenetrable black menace. Cradle Of Filth were undoubtedly inspired by this sea-change in metal’s ongoing evolution, they had their own plans for disseminating their own distinct, gothically-erotic propaganda and swiftly defined their own left hand path. Their disdain for playing by the rules was startling in its intensity from the very start.
Throughout the ‘90s, Cradle of Filth – led by vocalist, lyricist and crypt-crawling master of ceremonies Dani Filth – beavered tirelessly away, producing a series of peerless extreme metal classics that drew from an endless, dizzying array of inspirations and influences while always maintaining that instantly recognisable heart of filthy darkness. The brutal and brief Vempire mini-album and the lustrous, lascivious Dusk & Her Embrace (both 1996) began to reveal the band’s great sonic range. Later taking into account the slithering concept piece Cruelty & The Beast (1998) and the Clive Barker-inspired Midian (2000) – not to mention their excursions into the visual realm of film and promo– the Cradle Of Filth sound showed itself to be a many-headed creature. It was one that took delight in confounding both the purists and the critics who continually assailed the band’s motives and creativity even as their fan base expanded and their status soared. With a line-up that seemed to be constantly changing – thanks, perhaps, to the cobweb-encrusted revolving door that rumours suggest marked the entrance to the band’s rehearsal space during this period – the music was never allowed to stagnate; fresh blood and its revitalising effects remained a permanent weapon in the boys’ macabre arsenal.
As the 21st century dawned, Cradle Of Filth unleashed the epic, ambitious Damnation And A Day - a sprawling, theatrical masterpiece that has yet to be truly recognised for either its semantic depth or its thrilling levels of metallic artistry. Quietly walking away from a fractious partnership with their previous label, the band eventually found a logical home with Roadrunner Records. It was a match made in hell that spawned what was, until now, almost certainly the strongest collection of songs in the Cradle canon, the mighty Nymphetamine. Wildly varied and as heavy as anything the band had ever recorded, it was widely hailed as a triumph and led to yet more gruelling treks around the world, where their rabid fan base lurks in every shadowy corner waiting for their latest fix of barbaric drama and blood-soaked belligerence.
And so to 2006, where Cradle Of Filth find themselves in the enviable position of being in a league and class of their own. Having long since outstripped the achievements of their one-time contemporaries, the band are now firmly entrenched in a rich vein of form. The current line-up of Dani Filth, guitarists Paul Allender and Charles Hedger, bassist Dave Pybus and drummer Adrian Erlandsson is the most solid and powerful in the band’s career and Thornography is the resounding, conclusive proof. With songs as brutish, bombastic and diverse as “Libertina Grimm,” “Tonight In Flames,” “Cemetery & Sundown,” “I Am The Thorn,” “The Byronic Man” (featuring HIM’s Ville Valo on guest vocals) and a deranged cover of Heaven 17’s ‘80s pop gem “Temptation,” the world’s biggest and best extreme metal band have never sounded so exhilarating, so vital, so venomous…
“There are a lot of characters on this album,” says Dani Filth of the new opus. “There’s no central concept. It’s more along the lines of Nymphetamine in respect of diversity of content, both lyrically and musically. We spent the whole summer of 2005 working really hard on writing the material and making sure it was the best of songs we’ve ever written. Which undoubtedly it is. It’s obviously our best material thus far. It’s far more rhythmic and catchy and easily the heaviest thing we’ve done, especially on the production side of things. And there’s a real retro feel to the record, in terms of style. It’s slightly experimental for us and a lot of people will be surprised I think at the level of diversity we've managed to achieve with this, especially having worked with other musicians and having our first band instrumental included (Rise Of The Pentagram). We started to write and got into a habit of coming up with tons of stuff. Everyone would be working on ideas and we’d pool it all together in the dank confines of our rehearsal room. We kept stirring the cauldron and adding or subtracting accordingly. Thus each song has its own sound and feel in relation to the concept behind each track. And as per normal, it's all in good taste!
For example, Libertina Grimm, (which concerns itself with a haughty little vivisectrix and her dissonant life of crime) meanders through a succession of twists and turns as if to mimic her dark, labyrinthine obsessions with the dead, before finding foothold with a real primal, sex-laden hook. She might be mad, but before all else she's groovy!"
Louder, harder, faster, heavier, darker, catchier - the unstoppable force that is Cradle Of Filth slithers menacingly forward, crushing the opposition and striking warped, blackened glee into the hearts of misanthropes and malevolents the world over. The nightmare continues…may we never wake up!
Photos downloaded from the Internet
These are heady days for those of us who wear our devotion to metal like a badge of honour. The deafening beast of the dark depths has lived to roar and rampage again and the scene has never been in a happier or healthier state. But don’t be deceived. Metal never really went away. In fact, its current fortitude stems entirely from the bands that never surrendered; those brave, liquor-soaked men whose total disregard for the vagaries of fashion and finance kept them glued to the grindstone through metal’s mainstream wilderness years. Now, as seems wholly fitting, the greatest of these are finally reaping their rewards and hitting new creative peaks as they surge unstoppably onwards and upwards. And, as it was in the beginning, so shall it be in 2006.
Just as the gravel-lined, turd-stained streets of urban England gave heavy metal to the world back in the late ‘60s, so that small country with the big voice continues to be the place where the world’s finest dark metal band rest their weary, alcohol-ravaged heads after another sonic killing spree. Love them, hate them or both, Cradle Of Filth is back again to fondle you while slitting your throat. Thornography has arrived.
Recorded at Chapel Studios in Lincolnshire, England, with renowned metallic production genius Rob Caggiano (Anthrax, Bleeding Through) and mixed by Andy Sneap (Killswitch Engage, Arch Enemy,Trivium) at Backstage Studios, Derbyshire, Thornography is the band’s seventh full-length studio album and their second for Roadrunner. The follow-up to 2004’s widely acclaimed meisterwerk Nymphetamine it’s a scintillating and terrifying collision between the familiar and the unexpected. It’s the dark, destructive and unsettling sound of a globe-conquering heavy metal band at the height of their sick, twisted powers, and the continuation of a proud, priapic and unhinged legacy that stretches back nigh on 15 years.
When Cradle Of Filth released their now legendary debut album, The Principle Of Evil Made Flesh back in 1994, the notoriety surrounding the Black Metal scene – and its spiritual epicentre in Oslo, Norway, in particular – was reaching fever pitch throughout Europe. These legions of the damned and disgusted took metal further into the abyss than it had ever been before, stripping away its worldly concerns and reducing it to a pure and chilling core of impenetrable black menace. Cradle Of Filth were undoubtedly inspired by this sea-change in metal’s ongoing evolution, they had their own plans for disseminating their own distinct, gothically-erotic propaganda and swiftly defined their own left hand path. Their disdain for playing by the rules was startling in its intensity from the very start.
Throughout the ‘90s, Cradle of Filth – led by vocalist, lyricist and crypt-crawling master of ceremonies Dani Filth – beavered tirelessly away, producing a series of peerless extreme metal classics that drew from an endless, dizzying array of inspirations and influences while always maintaining that instantly recognisable heart of filthy darkness. The brutal and brief Vempire mini-album and the lustrous, lascivious Dusk & Her Embrace (both 1996) began to reveal the band’s great sonic range. Later taking into account the slithering concept piece Cruelty & The Beast (1998) and the Clive Barker-inspired Midian (2000) – not to mention their excursions into the visual realm of film and promo– the Cradle Of Filth sound showed itself to be a many-headed creature. It was one that took delight in confounding both the purists and the critics who continually assailed the band’s motives and creativity even as their fan base expanded and their status soared. With a line-up that seemed to be constantly changing – thanks, perhaps, to the cobweb-encrusted revolving door that rumours suggest marked the entrance to the band’s rehearsal space during this period – the music was never allowed to stagnate; fresh blood and its revitalising effects remained a permanent weapon in the boys’ macabre arsenal.
As the 21st century dawned, Cradle Of Filth unleashed the epic, ambitious Damnation And A Day - a sprawling, theatrical masterpiece that has yet to be truly recognised for either its semantic depth or its thrilling levels of metallic artistry. Quietly walking away from a fractious partnership with their previous label, the band eventually found a logical home with Roadrunner Records. It was a match made in hell that spawned what was, until now, almost certainly the strongest collection of songs in the Cradle canon, the mighty Nymphetamine. Wildly varied and as heavy as anything the band had ever recorded, it was widely hailed as a triumph and led to yet more gruelling treks around the world, where their rabid fan base lurks in every shadowy corner waiting for their latest fix of barbaric drama and blood-soaked belligerence.
And so to 2006, where Cradle Of Filth find themselves in the enviable position of being in a league and class of their own. Having long since outstripped the achievements of their one-time contemporaries, the band are now firmly entrenched in a rich vein of form. The current line-up of Dani Filth, guitarists Paul Allender and Charles Hedger, bassist Dave Pybus and drummer Adrian Erlandsson is the most solid and powerful in the band’s career and Thornography is the resounding, conclusive proof. With songs as brutish, bombastic and diverse as “Libertina Grimm,” “Tonight In Flames,” “Cemetery & Sundown,” “I Am The Thorn,” “The Byronic Man” (featuring HIM’s Ville Valo on guest vocals) and a deranged cover of Heaven 17’s ‘80s pop gem “Temptation,” the world’s biggest and best extreme metal band have never sounded so exhilarating, so vital, so venomous…
“There are a lot of characters on this album,” says Dani Filth of the new opus. “There’s no central concept. It’s more along the lines of Nymphetamine in respect of diversity of content, both lyrically and musically. We spent the whole summer of 2005 working really hard on writing the material and making sure it was the best of songs we’ve ever written. Which undoubtedly it is. It’s obviously our best material thus far. It’s far more rhythmic and catchy and easily the heaviest thing we’ve done, especially on the production side of things. And there’s a real retro feel to the record, in terms of style. It’s slightly experimental for us and a lot of people will be surprised I think at the level of diversity we've managed to achieve with this, especially having worked with other musicians and having our first band instrumental included (Rise Of The Pentagram). We started to write and got into a habit of coming up with tons of stuff. Everyone would be working on ideas and we’d pool it all together in the dank confines of our rehearsal room. We kept stirring the cauldron and adding or subtracting accordingly. Thus each song has its own sound and feel in relation to the concept behind each track. And as per normal, it's all in good taste!
For example, Libertina Grimm, (which concerns itself with a haughty little vivisectrix and her dissonant life of crime) meanders through a succession of twists and turns as if to mimic her dark, labyrinthine obsessions with the dead, before finding foothold with a real primal, sex-laden hook. She might be mad, but before all else she's groovy!"
Louder, harder, faster, heavier, darker, catchier - the unstoppable force that is Cradle Of Filth slithers menacingly forward, crushing the opposition and striking warped, blackened glee into the hearts of misanthropes and malevolents the world over. The nightmare continues…may we never wake up!
Nymphetamine by Cradle of Filth (From OST - Resident Evil: Apocalypse)
Laid to the river
Midsummer, I waved
A "V" of black swans
On with hope to the grave
And though Red September
With skies fire-paved
I begged you appear
Like a thorn for the holy ones
Cold was my soul
Untold was the pain
I faced when you left me
A rose in the rain....
So I swore to the razor
That never, enchained
Would your dark nails of faith
Be pushed through my veins again
Bared on your tomb
I'm a prayer for your loneliness
And would you ever soon
Come above onto me?
For once upon a time
On the binds of your loneliness
I could always find the slot for your sacred key
Six feet deep is the incision
In my heart, that barless prison
Discoulours all with tunnel vision
Sunsetter...
Nymphetamine
Sick and weak from my condition
This lust, this vampyric addiction
To Her alone in full submission
None better...
Nymphetamine
Nymphetamine, Nymphetamine...
Nymphetamine girl.
Nymphetamine, Nymphetamine...
My Nymphetamine girl.
Wicked with your charm
I'm circled like prey
Back in the forest
Were whispers persuade
More sugar trails
More white lady laid
Than pillars of salt...
(keeping Sodom at at bay)
Fold to my arms
Hold their message away
And dance out to the moon
As we did in those golden days
Christening stars
I remember the way
We were needle and spoon
Mislaid in the burning hay
Bared on your tomb
I'm a prayer for your loneliness
And would you ever soon
Come above onto me?
For once upon a time
On the binds of your loneliness
I could always find the right slot for your sacred key
Six feet deep is the incision
In my heart, that barless prison
Discoulours all with tunnel vision
Sunsetter...
Nymphetamine
Sick and weak from my condition
This lust, this vampyric addiction
To Her alone in full submission
None better...
Nymphetamine
Nymphetamine, Nymphetamine...
Nymphetamine girl.
Nymphetamine, Nymphetamine...
My Nymphetamine girl.
Midsummer, I waved
A "V" of black swans
On with hope to the grave
And though Red September
With skies fire-paved
I begged you appear
Like a thorn for the holy ones
Cold was my soul
Untold was the pain
I faced when you left me
A rose in the rain....
So I swore to the razor
That never, enchained
Would your dark nails of faith
Be pushed through my veins again
Bared on your tomb
I'm a prayer for your loneliness
And would you ever soon
Come above onto me?
For once upon a time
On the binds of your loneliness
I could always find the slot for your sacred key
Six feet deep is the incision
In my heart, that barless prison
Discoulours all with tunnel vision
Sunsetter...
Nymphetamine
Sick and weak from my condition
This lust, this vampyric addiction
To Her alone in full submission
None better...
Nymphetamine
Nymphetamine, Nymphetamine...
Nymphetamine girl.
Nymphetamine, Nymphetamine...
My Nymphetamine girl.
Wicked with your charm
I'm circled like prey
Back in the forest
Were whispers persuade
More sugar trails
More white lady laid
Than pillars of salt...
(keeping Sodom at at bay)
Fold to my arms
Hold their message away
And dance out to the moon
As we did in those golden days
Christening stars
I remember the way
We were needle and spoon
Mislaid in the burning hay
Bared on your tomb
I'm a prayer for your loneliness
And would you ever soon
Come above onto me?
For once upon a time
On the binds of your loneliness
I could always find the right slot for your sacred key
Six feet deep is the incision
In my heart, that barless prison
Discoulours all with tunnel vision
Sunsetter...
Nymphetamine
Sick and weak from my condition
This lust, this vampyric addiction
To Her alone in full submission
None better...
Nymphetamine
Nymphetamine, Nymphetamine...
Nymphetamine girl.
Nymphetamine, Nymphetamine...
My Nymphetamine girl.
Friday, August 15, 2008
The Better Vampire Author
Today there are two vampire authors who seem to touch the youth much: Anne Rice and Stephenie Meyer.
Anne Rice was known as the genius behind The Vampire Chronicles, New Tales of a Vampire, among others. Youth admire her because her literature is about the vampires in a point of view of a vampire, though some contradict her because they say that her works are too dark especially to the minds of the young readers. Another big thing which made her vampire books famous are her arguments in those books which are based from facts as she had said. Everything she wrote was based on her life experience, especially the things which happened during the times of darkness in her life.
On the other hand, Stephenie Meyer is the genius behind the bestselling Twilight Saga. Right now, most students read her works and are touched because of a thriller amidst a love affair with a vampire and other dark creatures told about by a human; however, she has now started the vampire version of her novels. Compared to Anne, she writes more about dreams.
Now, fellow goths, it is up for you to decide which of the two is the better vampire author. Anne Rice or Stephenie Meyer?
Anne Rice was known as the genius behind The Vampire Chronicles, New Tales of a Vampire, among others. Youth admire her because her literature is about the vampires in a point of view of a vampire, though some contradict her because they say that her works are too dark especially to the minds of the young readers. Another big thing which made her vampire books famous are her arguments in those books which are based from facts as she had said. Everything she wrote was based on her life experience, especially the things which happened during the times of darkness in her life.
On the other hand, Stephenie Meyer is the genius behind the bestselling Twilight Saga. Right now, most students read her works and are touched because of a thriller amidst a love affair with a vampire and other dark creatures told about by a human; however, she has now started the vampire version of her novels. Compared to Anne, she writes more about dreams.
Now, fellow goths, it is up for you to decide which of the two is the better vampire author. Anne Rice or Stephenie Meyer?
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Different Types of Goth
According to Theme
1) Romantic Goth
Romantic Goths usually dress themselves with the Edwardian and Victorian Renaissance themes or anything with lace and frills. They usually have an outlook of being greater in their capacity for love than the normal people do.
2) Mopey Goth
Mopey Goths also dress just like Romantic Goths; however, most of them usually prefer to be in the modern apparel. They think that gentleness is effective just for sometime for gentle people always perish in the unkind world in their eyes.
3) Fetish Goth
Fetish Goths could be identified because they dress often in leather, PVC, chains, and fishnets. They are more of liberal Goths because they believe that gentle people are people who are just too prone to oppression.
4) Perky Goth
Perky Goths are “cool type” of Goths because they ride with the famous and usually go fetish, modern, and cyber.
5) Rave Goth
Rave Goths could be identified by their phat pants, t-shirts, tank tops, and glittery accessories. They usually believe in showing off what they have.
6) Geeky Goth
Geeky Goths act just like normal school people because they believe in the power of simplicity of a Goth.
7) Vampire Goth
Vampire Goths also love to show off, however, in the dark side. They usually dress in jet set, formal attire, and romantic themes.
8) Pagan Goth
Pagan Goths usually take some of the symbols and beliefs of occult of the old civilizations, such as Celts.
9) Renaissance Faire Goth
Renaissance Faire Goths usually come in fashion through their Renaissance, medieval, and Scottish attires and often use their skills according to the principles of humanist writers of Renaissance, such as Machiavelli.
10) Christian Goth
Christian Goths are just Goths who might also be in the scene, though they follow a certain religion under the cross.
According to Skill
1) Goth Writer
Goth Writers are skilled people who could compose different genres with topics of the Goth culture or anything which pertain to thriller. If not figuratively haunted, their writings might just give someone a psychological effect.
2) Goth Musician
Goth Musicians are skilled people also; however, they concentrate more on the combination of words, rhyme, and tone. Their lyrics often pertain to the occult or any other thing which seems to produce a feeling of darkness.
3) Goth Metal Head
Goth Metal Heads are also Goth Musicians; however, they concentrate more on the heavy tones of the simple band instruments.
4) Goth Death Rocker
Goth Death Rockers are also Goth Musicians; however, they concentrate on being behind the scenes even if they have a great musical talent.
1) Romantic Goth
Romantic Goths usually dress themselves with the Edwardian and Victorian Renaissance themes or anything with lace and frills. They usually have an outlook of being greater in their capacity for love than the normal people do.
2) Mopey Goth
Mopey Goths also dress just like Romantic Goths; however, most of them usually prefer to be in the modern apparel. They think that gentleness is effective just for sometime for gentle people always perish in the unkind world in their eyes.
3) Fetish Goth
Fetish Goths could be identified because they dress often in leather, PVC, chains, and fishnets. They are more of liberal Goths because they believe that gentle people are people who are just too prone to oppression.
4) Perky Goth
Perky Goths are “cool type” of Goths because they ride with the famous and usually go fetish, modern, and cyber.
5) Rave Goth
Rave Goths could be identified by their phat pants, t-shirts, tank tops, and glittery accessories. They usually believe in showing off what they have.
6) Geeky Goth
Geeky Goths act just like normal school people because they believe in the power of simplicity of a Goth.
7) Vampire Goth
Vampire Goths also love to show off, however, in the dark side. They usually dress in jet set, formal attire, and romantic themes.
8) Pagan Goth
Pagan Goths usually take some of the symbols and beliefs of occult of the old civilizations, such as Celts.
9) Renaissance Faire Goth
Renaissance Faire Goths usually come in fashion through their Renaissance, medieval, and Scottish attires and often use their skills according to the principles of humanist writers of Renaissance, such as Machiavelli.
10) Christian Goth
Christian Goths are just Goths who might also be in the scene, though they follow a certain religion under the cross.
According to Skill
1) Goth Writer
Goth Writers are skilled people who could compose different genres with topics of the Goth culture or anything which pertain to thriller. If not figuratively haunted, their writings might just give someone a psychological effect.
2) Goth Musician
Goth Musicians are skilled people also; however, they concentrate more on the combination of words, rhyme, and tone. Their lyrics often pertain to the occult or any other thing which seems to produce a feeling of darkness.
3) Goth Metal Head
Goth Metal Heads are also Goth Musicians; however, they concentrate more on the heavy tones of the simple band instruments.
4) Goth Death Rocker
Goth Death Rockers are also Goth Musicians; however, they concentrate on being behind the scenes even if they have a great musical talent.
A Brief Goth Timeline
1967: Hippie, as a counter-culture, saw the world was so exhausted with war and they promised to change everything with love.
1977: The punk culture saw that the world was still so exhausted and made a violent pessimistic reaction
1981: Goth was established because people under the culture saw the celebration of dark recesses of the human psyche, which includes the beauty of ones dark sensuality, sweeping sadness, morbid fascination, forbidden love, and enduring pain.
1977: The punk culture saw that the world was still so exhausted and made a violent pessimistic reaction
1981: Goth was established because people under the culture saw the celebration of dark recesses of the human psyche, which includes the beauty of ones dark sensuality, sweeping sadness, morbid fascination, forbidden love, and enduring pain.
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Vendetta
By Drake_Lestat1992
This serves as your bitter end, debonair
The wage of humiliation you gave me
Your burden and fury forever be
You punished your own self for what you dare
I make you suffer with my deadly stare
Such a living hell you will ever see
A worst feeling of insecurity
This is the feeling I would like to share
My blood of cold fire has just run too deep
For you killed me to break a holy creed
But then, I had no death or pain to feel
Now, I send you to your eternal sleep
You even wished to be finally freed
Then nightmare come and show you what is real
This serves as your bitter end, debonair
The wage of humiliation you gave me
Your burden and fury forever be
You punished your own self for what you dare
I make you suffer with my deadly stare
Such a living hell you will ever see
A worst feeling of insecurity
This is the feeling I would like to share
My blood of cold fire has just run too deep
For you killed me to break a holy creed
But then, I had no death or pain to feel
Now, I send you to your eternal sleep
You even wished to be finally freed
Then nightmare come and show you what is real
Nightfall in Avernus
By Drake_Lestat1992
The whole day was dull and dark
Though it had made a new remark
To let darkness sing like a lark
And start an eye-opening spark
Unto the blade of this evil hatchet
Are things that caused too much regret
Now, catch yourself in your own net
And accept the death you never bet
Now that I crossed the seventh sea
The pain is already gone from me
In your knees you will fall and see
The new supreme that is meant to be
Through great Marius' and Faustus' stand
Back from the great mage's land
I take the darkest strength on my hand
And hold this place unto my command
The whole day was dull and dark
Though it had made a new remark
To let darkness sing like a lark
And start an eye-opening spark
Unto the blade of this evil hatchet
Are things that caused too much regret
Now, catch yourself in your own net
And accept the death you never bet
Now that I crossed the seventh sea
The pain is already gone from me
In your knees you will fall and see
The new supreme that is meant to be
Through great Marius' and Faustus' stand
Back from the great mage's land
I take the darkest strength on my hand
And hold this place unto my command
Scarlet
By Kah
Smile, sardonic, wicked but fleet
Vitriolic like the potent poison
Stealing fragments from inside of you
For a moment, just a moment
Smile bittersweet…let it linger
Then pull the dagger outPay no mind to the raw flesh
It may snatch on its way Nor the elixir of existence
Turning putrid, reeking death
Gushing from the crevice
It won’t be much longer now…
Surrender the light unclench it
From blood-stained weary hands
Embrace nothingness…it is time
Smile just for a little while
Then smile no more.
Smile, sardonic, wicked but fleet
Vitriolic like the potent poison
Stealing fragments from inside of you
For a moment, just a moment
Smile bittersweet…let it linger
Then pull the dagger outPay no mind to the raw flesh
It may snatch on its way Nor the elixir of existence
Turning putrid, reeking death
Gushing from the crevice
It won’t be much longer now…
Surrender the light unclench it
From blood-stained weary hands
Embrace nothingness…it is time
Smile just for a little while
Then smile no more.
Excerpt from Nymphet in Red
By Janua Y
---
I am the nymphet whose your heart did desire… I am aware of it but dare not to comprehend. I took a glimpse of your eyes… they speak your emotions… but I would rather go blind than clearly see it through… It is delusional – forget it!---
Come, you little hypocrite - submit yourself to me on this realm of darkness, to my cradle of filth and forget what your heart did contain.---
Now, slowly - crawl crawl crawl with the serpents.
The Widowed Night
By Fallen Angel Slave of Music
I dream of a valley made of gravewhom bodies are for those soul are trapped
Imagine the city filled with blood
The sky who murdered all the starsand the moon who once bold in nature
Now sorrowed, drowned and thorned
Those eyes i see every night
Makes me fell my knees and pray in peace
For those I saw was as dead a blackI wish I could draw his heart
So I would stitch the part where it was ripped apart
To the ripper been cursed for so long
You made already to much pain in the heart
Now its time for your burial , I'll mourn for you
Wear your bloody gown for its your end of time
I dream of a valley made of gravewhom bodies are for those soul are trapped
Imagine the city filled with blood
The sky who murdered all the starsand the moon who once bold in nature
Now sorrowed, drowned and thorned
Those eyes i see every night
Makes me fell my knees and pray in peace
For those I saw was as dead a blackI wish I could draw his heart
So I would stitch the part where it was ripped apart
To the ripper been cursed for so long
You made already to much pain in the heart
Now its time for your burial , I'll mourn for you
Wear your bloody gown for its your end of time
Friday, July 18, 2008
Cunning
By Drake_Lestat1992
"I approached the expert and received a senseless allure
I even visited the doctor and found that there is no cure"
These are just the lines that denote you are not sure
Of all the things you say that I will not endure
Just beat the hell out of me and say I am not pure
And see you at the end to prove who is the one poor
"I approached the expert and received a senseless allure
I even visited the doctor and found that there is no cure"
These are just the lines that denote you are not sure
Of all the things you say that I will not endure
Just beat the hell out of me and say I am not pure
And see you at the end to prove who is the one poor
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Rapture and the Rhapsodist
by Karl R de Mesa
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In the dreams of those she haunts, Isabel is always leaving. She has been sighted barefoot and pale, by various sleepers, at the doorstep of a familiar downtown cinema, the gates of a university building at closing time, departing a smoky club and exiting a convenience store at twilight. She vanishes when she steps to the curb, just as the high beams of an approaching car freeze her. Those who do wake, often wake in sweat.
“I was playing with a visual concept, a series of posters showing this half-familiar woman always in transit,” says Allan Hernandez, explaining the basis of the name and the band’s wraith-like, female persona.
The music of THE LATE ISABEL is the origin, product and nature of this haunting rolled into a single koan. It is music that makes of funerals and wakes a celebration -- a time to sing and a time to dance as tears run down your face. The character of Isabel, the vignettes and scenes of her life (and probably her demise) live on in the band’s songs. Aural creations that crest and break like a wave of grief to wash over both viscera and brain with the force of psychedelia, ambient, shoegazer, dark wave and goth.
The band started in 1998 as MADELINE USHER then renamed itself OLD WORLD CHARM in 1999, shedding and gaining a few members along the way. Earlier still it was a death metal outfit named THANATOPSY, and so on to THE LATE ISABEL DELGADO, now remembered even more easily -- and fondly -- without her surname. The band is currently composed of WAWI NAVARROZA (vocals), ALLAN HERNADEZ (guitars), JP AGCAOILI (drums), and ROVAL BACALE (bass), all veterans of the
Coming of age in the post-punk era, the quartet grew up with a love for bands that eschewed the freewheeling go-go of ‘80s mainstream music, groups like The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Clan of Xymox, Bauhaus, Joy Division and the gaggle of artists under the 4AD banner. With this came the intuitive understanding that music had to function on all to achieve a holistic effect.
“Art is not an isolated experience. It is deeply personal and deeply communal. I believe that the visual aspect of the band needs to be included in the package,” relates JP Agcaoili.
“If I could put music, painting, poetry, literature all in one package, then I would love to do that,” agrees Wawi Navarroza.
Their debut album, DOLL’S HEAD, is made up of eight exceptional tracks composed of equal parts lament, anguish, awe and snapshots of everyday tragedies. From the sinuous and seductive chant of the title track, the hungry eloquence of “Fingers Around the Wineglass,” the demented agitation of “Follow (The Mad March),” to the exploration of the urban abyss that is “Midnight City,” the record is indeed the culmination of two years’ labor in the subculture fringe.
Meanwhile, their live performance has been praised as a “tour through the dark corners of . . .dreams,” and that, “to watch The Late Isabel live is to be intrigued. . .and entranced.”
DOLL’S HEAD crystallizes the quartet’s skill for leading the listener to precision rapture via a swirling palette of textures and sonic landscapes that bring to fore the monsters, beautiful or otherwise, lurking in the depths. Proof that being haunted can be a ravishing, rhapsodic experience.
Friday, July 4, 2008
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Light in the Dark Side: The Gothic Manifesto
Once they were just people from Germany
There are no exact origins; however it is said that the term “Gothic” was first used in the fields of arts and literature referring to works which have certain elements which give thriller, but in the modern age, it was said to be coined by Anthony H Wilson, the band manager of the punk band Joy Division during the late 80’s through the description “Gothic as compared to the pop mainstream”. It then continued to diversify until movies such as The Crow and other bands such as Bauhaus and The Cure adapted the subculture and then came the rise of Goth as a surviving subculture from punk.
Goth nowadays refers to people belonging to a subculture who claim that they feel comfortable within each others company. Regarding the “dark” stuff which was mentioned a while ago, they say that there is no such thing absolutely needed for someone to fit in the scene for they all have different musical tastes; follow different religions; and have different occupations, hobbies, and fashion sense.
Most of them claimed themselves as Goths because the way they want their lives to be are not fit to the taste of the “normal” society, enabling them to think free and reject the moral rules of the society because of hollow dogmatic reasons told to them, such as “that is just how it is” and “that is the will of the Lord”. To them, another big proof of that free thinking is their open-mindedness.
Because of these attitudes, some are prone to misinterpretation and abuse. The
On the other side, the Goth culture had already contributed much through different means such as music, arts, literature, among others, in which it gave a “darker shade” which gave the world a feeling of thriller. Good examples could be the bands Evanescence and Lacuna Coil, Wave-Gotik-Treffen photography in
Here in the
The Goths are truly unbelievable people despite the way they look and the way they appear in our society. They do not mean to haunt everyone else instead they let the creativity out of them to let those sleeping nerves work to be able to let everyone see the light amidst the darkness in our lives nowadays. They are never that violent and are not that dark for they just want to do everything which would fill their lives to let the grandiose out of them before they disappear on earth.
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