"A Forest" is a song by the English rock band THE CURE. Co-produced by Mike Hedges and the band's Robert Smith, it was released as a single from the band's second album "Seventeen Seconds" on 8 April 1980. It was their debut entry on the UK Singles Chart, reaching number 31. The accompanying music video was first shown on BBC's Top of the Pops program on 24 April 1980.
Recorded and mixed over seven days, along with the rest of the songs from the album, "A Forest" is representative of THE CURE's early-1980s gothic rock phase. The song has featured on the band's setlists for many years. Several versions have appeared on concert albums, and it was remixed and released as a single from Mixed Up in 1990.
Serval cover versions have been made over the years and I notice that the tune has been here before, last time it was with James Leg, read about it here: https://tuneoftheday.blogspot.com/2018/04/james-leg-forest.html. Today's version is a bit harder than his đ
The Polish extreme metallers BEHEMOTH have made a version, a video for their cover of "A Forest" by THE CURE. The song also features Niklas Kvarforth, singer of Swedish black metal band SHINING. The song is taken off of BEHEMOTH’s new EP also titled “A Forest”. The EP was released May 29 via BEHEMOTH's own label New Aeon Musick. BEHEMOTH released "I Loved You At Your Darkest" in 2018. Check out the video below.
Enjoy today's cover of THE CURE "A Forest" with BEHEMOTH and Niklas Kvarforth
"Unsainted" is a song by American heavy metal band SLIPKNOT. It was released as the lead single from their sixth studio album "We Are Not Your Kind" on May 16, 2019, accompanied by its music video, see it below. This is the first SLIPKNOT single released since "All Out Life", which was released on October 31, 2018, as well as their first single without their former percussionist Chris Fehn who was fired from the band due to a lawsuit earlier in 2019.
A music video directed by Shawn "Clown" Crahan was released alongside the song on May 16 and has, as of December 2019 over 67 million views on YouTube. Blistein characterized the video as full of "creepy, cultish imagery". It ends with Corey Taylor walking out of a church to find he and the other members of the band turned into statues, then proceeding to light his statue on fire. Luke Morton of Kerrang! called the video "a lot to take in", writing that it is "full of kaleidoscopic visuals, religious iconography, and fire".
"Oh, I’ll never kill myself to save my soul/I was gone but how was I to know?
I didn’t come this far to sink so low/I’m finally holding on to letting go"
SLIPKNOTs tour supporting their new record, "We Are Not Your Kind", began in Europe earlier this year and the group has announced their 2020 return, this time bringing BEHEMOTH with them.
The tour begins on Jan. 14 in Dublin, Ireland and will hit over 20 cities before wrapping up on Feb. 24 in Helsinki, Finland, see all the dates below for Europe and the upcoming Knotfest Roadshow. For fans in Europe, it's a partial taste of the Knotfest Roadshow that's currently sweeping through North America, which features BEHEMOTH as well as VOLBEAT and GOJIRA.
Head to Slipknot's website for more ticketing information and see the complete list of dates below.
Tonight they play in Sweden, yes I'm not there this evening, have a family business to attend to as to oldest girl is turning one year older.
So in the meanwhile, we spin a tune with SLIPKNOT, taken from their latest record and wish them all the luck tonight and send a big hug to BEHEMOTH aswell.
"Bo nie ma dla mnie miejsca w niebie - Because there is no place for me in heaven"
Nergal’s (BEHEMOTH) inscrutable blackened blues project ME AND THAT MAN are close to releasing the follow up to "Songs Of Love And Death", the new album is titled "New Man, New Songs, Same Shit, Vol.1" and set to be released on March 27 via Napalm Records.
The new album contains 11 tunes where each with their own character and vibe; alongside the most talented and important individuals across the whole scene. Together, they take trips to the lands of blues, folk, country, and even Spaghetti Western.
New Man, New Songs, Same Shit, Vol.1 will also feature guest musicians including SLIPKNOTs Corey Taylor, MASTODONs Brent Hinds, TRIVIUMs Matt Heafy, EMPERORs Ihsahn, MADRUGADAs Siver HĂžyem and DEAD SOUL, who all joins the pact with the devil.
Today's tune "Surrender" (feat. DEAD SOUL and Rob Caggiano) taken from the second album "New Man, New Songs, Same Shit, Vol.1"
ME AND THAT MAN additional live dates:
Mars
27 - London, UK - Islington Assembly Rooms
April
2 - Wroclaw, Poland - Zaklete Rewiry
3 - Szczecin, Poland - Kosmos
4 - Gdansk, Poland - Stary Manez
5 - Torun, Poland - Lizard King
15 - Warszawa, Poland - Palladium
16 - Krakow, Poland - ZetPeTe
17 - Poznan, Poland - Tama
18 - Gostyn, Poland - Hutnik
19 - Katowice, Poland - P23
June
20 - Clisson, France - Hellfest
21 - Dessel, Belgium - Graspop Festival
25 - Rivas-vaciamadrid, Spain - Auditorio Miguel Rios
26 - Madrid, Spain - Rock The Night Festival
July
9 - GĂ€vle, Sweden - Gefle Metal Festival
August
5 - Jaromer, Czech Republic - Brutal Assault
Saturday the 26th of January, Yes I know Im late, but hey it is what it is.
Back on track, that Saturday was a very interesting day, I did a double gig. The main thing was to work with BEHEMOTH at Annexet, but at the same time support my colleague with FIRST AID KIT at the Globe. So I was at both places at the same time, oh well running in between the arenas.
At FIRST AID KIT, we did the famous confetti, this time it was heart shaped paper confetti to be shooted with stadium shots. Pretty cool effect. Then we had a golden waterfall, you know a fall of golden sparkles, really cool. These girls really can sign, amazing. And it's the home field for these Swedish youngsters and it must have been a show of the lifetime to play for a sold-out Globen. They also had some guest artists as Amanda Jenssen, Sarah Klang, Little Jinder and Silvana Imam that joined the evening. Below is some pictures from the day.
Upstairs at BEHEMOTH it was mostly fire, some CO2, rigged as a crucifix and some black confetti to symbolise insects. Pretty cool effect, when the confetti was blown up in the arse on the bass player that did his centre number in the tune "Lucifer", see the live clip from Paris below, no fire here only sparkles because of the regulations at Bataclan.
The main act BEHEMOTH did a hell of a show, can't even remember if I have seen them as good as this. Excellent set list and very good executed, all my favorite tunes was played like "Conquer All", "Ora Pro Nobis Lucifer", "Ov Fire and the Void" and "Chant For Ezkaton 2000 E.V", decent length of the show, cool choreographed with pyro and the video wall, very good lighting, good sound and excellent pyro techs, well-done guys. See all the tunes below.
But hey this was not everything, together on the tour they had magically lurked over WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM and the Swedes in AT THE GATES, what a tour package that is. WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM was the first band to open the evening, half an hour they got in the spotlight and they used their time wisely with an excellent sound quality that really released their dreamy and seductive black metal in a dignified manner. The second act was the Swedish veterans AT THE GATES, with an hour of play time they mixed their tunes with new like "To Drink From the Night Itself", "A Stare Bound in Stone" and "Daggers of Black Haze" with classics like "Slaughter Of The Soul" and "Blinded By Fear" where Seth from BEHEMOTH helps out with some extra guitars.
BEHEMOTH setlist from the evening at Annexet.
(Intro) Solve
Wolves ov Siberia
Daimonos
Ora Pro Nobis Lucifer
Bartzabel
Ov Fire and the Void
God = Dog
Conquer All
Ecclesia Diabolica Catholica
Decade of Therion
Blow Your Trumpets Gabriel
Slaves Shall Serve
Chant for Eschaton 2000
Encore:
Lucifer
We Are the Next 1000 Years
(Outro)Coagvla
AT THE GATES setlist from the show.
(Intro)Der Widerstand
To Drink From the Night Itself
Slaughter of the Soul
At War With Reality
A Stare Bound in Stone
Cold
Daggers of Black Haze
(Intermission)El Altar del Dios Desconocido
Death and the Labyrinth
The Swarm
Heroes and Tombs
Suicide Nation
The Book of Sand (The Abomination)
Blinded by Fear (With Seth from Behemoth)
Kingdom Gone
The Night Eternal
WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM setlist from the show.
Angrboda
The Old Ones Are With Us
Born From the Serpent's Eye
Today's tune "Ora Pro Nobis Lucifer", taken from the album "The Satanist", enjoy!
Ecclesia Diabolica Evropa 2019 E.V. Tour with BEHEMOTH, live in Paris, Le Bataclan, 22 January 2019
To enhance the next cycle of activity for their acclaimed current album "To Drink From The Night Itself" and to stress beginning of their massive European tour with BEHEMOTH and WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM, Swedish melodic Death Metal pioneers AT THE GATES are now releasing a strictly limited 7" EP entitled "The Mirror Black".
This collector item features the two songs "The Mirror Black" and "Daggers Of Black Haze" off the album "To Drink From The Night Itself" in the versions that come with guest vocals by Rob Miller (Amebix, Tau Cross). This special release with street date of January 11th, 2019 (The first date of the European tour!) and pre-sale start of today, comes limited to 1000x copies worldwide, split up as follows: Black 7Inch: 400x copies (CM Distro Europe Wholesale & Onlineshop) Golden 7Inch: 100x copies (CM Europe Onlineshop) Clear 7Inch: 300x copies (CM Distro Europe Wholesale & Onlineshop) Transparent Red 7Inch: 200x copies (Exclusively from the band on tour), get the chance to grab a copy, see the tour dates below.
Today's tune "The Mirror Black (Featuring Rob Miller)". Video by Costin Chioreanu / Twilight13Media, Filmed by Costin Chioreanu and Gina Sandulescu, Actors: Andrei Tudorache and Ioana Dragan, enjoy!
BEHEMOTH, AT THE GATES & WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM – European Tour 2019:
10.01.2019 Frankfurt (Germany) - Batschkapp
11.01.2019 Munich (Germany) - Tonhalle
12.01.2018 Prague (Czech Republic) - Forum Karlin
13.01.2019 Vienna (Austria) - Arena * Sold out!
15.01.2019 Zurich (Switzerland) - Komplex 457
16.01.2019 Milano (Italy) - Alcatraz
17.01.2019 Lyon (France) - Le Transbordeur
18.01.2019 Barcelona (Spain) - Razzmatazz
19.01.2019 Madrid (Spain) - La Riviera
21.01.2019 Toulouse (France) - Le Bikini
22.01.2019 Paris (France) - Bataclan
23.01.2019 Oberhausen (Germany) - Turbinenhalle
24.01.2019 Berlin (Germany) - Huxleys
25.01.2019 Copenhagen (Denmark) - Vega
26.01.2019 Stockholm (Sweden) - Annexet
27.01.2019 Oslo (Norway) - Rockefeller
29.01.2019 Helsinki (Finland) - The Circus
30.01.2019 Tampere (Finland) - Pakkahuone
01.02.2019 Hamburg (Germany) - Grosse Freiheit 36
02.02.2019 Utrecht (The Netherlands) - TivoliVredenburg
03.02.2019 Brussels (Belgium) - Ancienne Belgique
04.02.2019 Esch-sur-Alzette (Luxembourg) - Rockhal
06.02.2019 Bristol (UK) - The Marble Factory
07.02.2019 Birmingham (UK) - O2 Institute
08.02.2019 London (UK) - O2 Forum Kentish Town
09.02.2019 Manchester (UK) - O2 Ritz * Sold out!
10.02.2019 Dublin (Ireland) - Vicar Street
11.02.2019 Glasgow (UK) - QM Union
AT THE GATES – Live 2019:
02.03.2019 UmeÄ (Sweden) - House Of Metal Festival
22.03.2019 Kiev (Ukraine) - Pochayna Event Hall + Powerwolf
23.03.2019 Moscow (Russia) - Zil Arena
25.03.2019 St. Petersburg (Russia) - Club Zal
12.04.2019 Tilburg (The Netherlands) - Roadburn Festival
25.04.2019 Brisbane (Australia) - Triffid + The Haunted & Witchery
26.04.2019 Sydney (Australia) - Manning Bar + The Haunted & Witchery
27.04.2019 Melbourne (Australia) - Max Watt’s + The Haunted & Witchery
05.-08.06.2019 Sölvesborg (Sweden) - Sweden Rock Festival
15.-18.08.2019 St-Nolff (France) - Motorcultor Festival More info @
choose to qualify to the best albums that 2018 have given us.
Here is the albums between 20 - 11.
Today's tune will be publish later on this evening.
So here we go!
20. Visigoth - Conqueror's Oath
The Americans in the NWOTHM band VISIGOTH have made
a fun sing-along album about Warriors, Knights and Sword.
19. A Perfect Circle - Eat The Elephant
14 yrs before some new material saw the light
and it ended up to be an exceptional album.
18. Primordial - Exile Amongst The Ruins
PRIMORDIAL have released a masterpiece,
an emotional and perfectly crafted album.
Read the review here!
17. Necrophobic - Mark Of The Necrogram
"Mark of the Necrogram" is a fantastic release from these gents.
It's melodic, very catchy and right on the spot, an epic album.
Read the review here!
16. Khemmis - Desolation
After six months of spectacular album releases,
"Desolation" effortlessly floats up to the surface
as one of the greatest releases of 2018.
Read the review here!
15. Behemoth - I Loved You At Your Darkest
ILYAYD is another strong addition to BEHEMOTHs remarkable musical catalogue.
Read the review here!
14. Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats - Wasteland
"Wasteland" is a high-watermark album from your favourite freaked-out uncle.
Read the review here!
13. StrÀngen - Rock PÄ Svenska
This album is a beautiful and worthy monument of
a talented musician who has pulled away from life too early.
Read the review here!
12. Greenleaf - Hear The Rivers
"Hear The Rivers" is an absolute gem of an album. Don't miss this!
Read the review here!
11. SlĂŠgt – The Wheel
The Danish SLĂGT have released an excellent heavy metal album,
don't miss this one.
Today's tune comes a little later, it will one of these, check it up.
"I Loved You At Your Darkest" (ILYAYD for short) is the 11th full-length release for the Polish blackened death metal band BEHEMOTH. The album was released on October 5, 2018.
BEHEMOTH is a band that always been about breaking boundaries, taboos, leaving its comfort zone and thinking out of the box! Something that I value high as listner to their musical creations. After the masterpiece of "The Satanist" the previous album, they are back with another powerful, dark and full of mind-blowing sounds that will surely run more than one time on your record player, mine has even if I am a bit late with this review. ILYAYD is an album with no fillers, extremely good quality straight true the album. BEHEMOTH shows that they still are one of the top bands in their genre.
Nergal's vocals are horrified and excellent, guitar playing is melodic and evil. Inferno's drumming is like a furious machine. The hellish bass licks by "Orion" and the haunted and icy riffing by "Seth" makes this a very good band.
ILYAYD opens up with the "Not to forgive" from the children’s choir in the intro "Solve" until the "Wolves Ov Siberia" shows it blackened backbone self. "God = Dog" features classic black metal with heavy riffing and a insane video. The melodic blackened piece "If Crucifixion Was Not Enough" is a real beauty to the lovley and vicious power ballad "Bartzabel" or the catchy choruses and riffs in the hypnotic hymn to the anti-god "Havohej Pantocrator", in "Angelvs XIII" and "Sabbath Mater" we get some powerful BEHEMOTH pieces, blasting, screaming, hateful and some melodic guitar riffing to the tear the heads off tune "Ecclesia Diabolica Catholica", overload and blastbeat-heavy tunes like "Rom 5:8" and the album closer "Coagvia". It doesn't get more blasphemous than this!
Sum: ILYAYD is another strong addition to BEHEMOTHs remarkable musical catalog.
Today's tune "Bartzabel", taken from ILYAYD, enjoy!
"The Satanist", is the new video from Polish extreme metallers BEHEMOTH.
The video, directed by Andrzej Dragan, is another ambitious and visually striking piece of art from the band that’s known for videos that remain a cut above standard metal music videos.
Behemoth front man Nergal comments:
"BEHEMOTH has always been about breaking boundaries, taboos, leaving its comfort zone and thinking out of the box! Here we go again with the brand new video from us. It’s already a fourth official clip off "The Satanist"… The concept came from the director, Andrzej Dragan. It’s situated in modern Warsaw in the present times. It’s where the carnal world meets the unknown… it’s where the ZOS meets KIA… It’s where SACRUM is raped by PROFANUM…"
Director Andrzej Dragan adds:
"This is a picture of alienation and ultimate rejection of an over sensitive character by an anonymous city."
I really adore when a band put so much effort in the creation of a Video. BEHEMOTH have always created something different, they stand out from the masses and consistently creates visually stunning and provoked Videos.
In "The Satanist" a confused woman walks the streets of Warsaw, Poland. The woman is filled with fear and confusion, almost that she panics when she tries to get forward in a world that is distorted.
Today's tune is the title track from the tenth album "The Satanist", Released February 3, 2014
The video is Directed and Produced by Andrzej Dragan.
Now returning with opus number fourteen “The Plague Within”, PARADISE LOST are once again refining the chemical equation to their sonic alchemy with the kind of creative invincibility few can deliver, this can clearly be heard on the first single and video "Beneath Broken Earth". Really looking forward to spin “The Plague Within” on the turntable soon, with the first taste it sounds really good (:, the album is produced by Jaime Gomez Arellano (GHOST BC, ULVER, CATHEDRAL) and visually rounded-off by art courtesy of Zbigniew M. Bielak (WATAIN; BEHEMOTH).
PARADISE LOST are a gothic metal band that formed in 1988 in Halifax, England and are considered by some to be one of the pioneers of the gothic metal genre. PARADISE LOST has proven to be an influential band, with Jonas Renkse of KATATONIA saying that his band started off "as PARADISE LOST fanboys".
Their line-up has remained stable for such a long-standing heavy metal band, consisting of singer Nick Holmes, guitarists Greg Mackintosh and Aaron Aedy, and bassist Steve Edmondson. Holmes and Mackintosh are the principal composers, with almost all of the band's songs credited to them. During the years, the band has only changed drummers.
Speaking to Rock Sins, Nick Holmes stated that the new album would have elements of all previous Paradise Lost material including a return to the death/doom of their early output, stating that "there’s some songs that could’ve been written in 1989, a couple of really old school doom/death songs which are gonna surprise a couple of people when they hear it".
The Artwork is done by the Polish illustrator Zbigniew M.
Bielak
Born in 1980 in Cracow, Zbigniew M.
Bielak is a Polish artist and architect, best known in the musical
realm for his record cover illustrations, which among others include
meticulously handcrafted artworks of WATAIN, GHOST, VADER or ABSU
albums.
Paralelly to that his artistic output is mostly focused on
encyclopaedic, archaeologic and architectural illustration, and has
crossed multiple mediums within art including drawing, oil and acrylic
painting or serigraphy, with the pursuit of historical coherence and
attention to detail being clearly focal points of his varied stylistic
leanings.
Todays tune "Beneath Broken Earth" is the first taste of the upcoming album "The Plague Within"
Listen to ”Behemoth - The Satanist" on Spotify 
