The greatest artists are restless souls, in constant need of fresh inspiration.
Once again, in 2021, the dark soul known as GOST is undergoing another dazzling transformation. When touring plans were shelved during 2020’s pandemic fall-out GOST simply returned home and dedicated himself to evolving his skills in a variety of digital media. As a result, the arrival of new album "Rites Of Love And Reverence" coincides with the holistic expansion of his vision. It offers an immersive journey fuelled by dystopian chaos and shrouded in futuristic mystery.
"Rites Of Love And Reverence" is both an album of beautifully crafted songs and a fascinating and intuitively gothic journey, rich with thoughts of supernatural wickedness and real world retribution. In keeping with its dark theme, it arrives adorned with the most stunning image GOST has used to date, created by celebrated doyen of macabre art, Nona Limmen. Both eerily psychedelic and hazily mysterious, it’s the perfect visual representation of this extraordinary record’s grim but vivid depths. The perfect soundtrack to these uncertain and frequently horrifying times, “Rites of Love and Reverence” renders GOST’s post-synthwave exploits in kaleidoscopic technicolor, delivering all the glass-shattering grit, incisive melodic melancholy and tripped-out, electronic fervour that his ever-expanding army of admirers demand. With big plans for a full-scale return to live action in the near future, GOST will be bringing plenty of shocks and surprises when these new songs are unleashed for the first time. The future, as ever, is his to mould at will.
Gost explains, “’A Fleeting Whisper’ is an homage to not only navigating spirituality but simply being human. The uncertainty of life makes living both beautiful and terrifying. We all carry around so many similar insecurities and feelings of doubt in this modern digital age. A time in our history which promises ultimate connectivity seems, all too often, to leave many of us feeling increasingly disconnected and alone.”
"Rites Of Love And Reverence" is set to be released August 13th, 2021 by Century Media Records
So sit tight and be ready for something different and enjoy today tune "Bound By The Horror" taken from the upcoming album "Rites Of Love And Reverence"!
"Whip It" is a song by American rock band DEVO from their third album "Freedom Of Choice" (1980). It is a new wave and synth-pop song that features a synthesizer, electric guitar, bass guitar, and drums in its instrumentation. The apparently nonsensical lyrics have a common theme revolving around the ability to deal with one's problems by "whipping it". Co-written by bassist Gerald Casale and singer Mark Mothersbaugh, Devo recorded "Whip It" with producer Robert Margouleff at the Record Plant in Los Angeles.
Mark Mothersbaugh – lead and background vocals, keyboards, guitar
Gerald Casale – lead and background vocals, bass guitar, keyboards
Bob Casale – guitar, keyboards, backing vocals
Bob Mothersbaugh – guitar, backing vocals
Alan Myers – drums
Although "Whip It" was released as the second single from "Freedom Of Choice", Warner Bros. Records did not expect it to be a hit, due to its nonstandard tempo and strange lyrics. The disc jockey Kal Rudman took an interest in the song and it was soon being played on several radio stations in the Southeastern United States. Peaking at number fourteen on the Billboard Hot 100, "Whip It" became a hit single and found chart success in several countries. Mothersbaugh believes the song sold well because some people assumed the lyrics are about masturbation or sadomasochism.
An accompanying music video depicts these sexual themes; it features Mothersbaugh whipping clothing from a woman on a dude ranch. Despite some claims of misogynistic undertones, the video became popular on the fledgling television channel MTV.
If there was a Hall of Fame for early '80s New Wave music, DEVO's "Whip It" would be a shoo-in for induction. Undoubtedly the band's most recognizable song, "Whip It" elevated DEVO from an underground art-rock outfit to a (briefly) mainstream pop act, albeit one that still retained its pointed and satirical view of society. And, of course, who can forget the song's surrealist and now-iconic video that was a staple of MTV during the then-fledgling channel's early years? The fact that The Simpsons even paid homage to both the song and the video in an episode demonstrates how much "Whip It" has transcended pop culture.
Holy Saturday (Latin: Sabbatum Sanctum), the Saturday of Holy Week, also known as Holy and Great Saturday, the Great Sabbath, Black Saturday, Joyous Saturday, Hallelujah Saturday (in Portugal and Brazil), Glorious Saturday (in the Philippines), Påskafton (in Sweden) or Easter Eve, and called "Joyous Saturday" or "the Saturday of Light" among Coptic Christians, is the day after Good Friday. It is the day before Easter and the last day of Holy Week in which Christians prepare for Easter. It commemorates the day that Jesus' body lay in the tomb and the Harrowing of Hell.
So for this eve, we play something that suits the day "Black Saturday", it's taken from an album where I thought the band MANDO DIAO took a step to much out of their own comfort zone. Anyway, there is one good tune on the album "Ælita" and it's this one.
On 23 April 2014 MANDO DIAOs seventh studio album "Ælita" was released in Sweden; the international release was on 2 May 2014. The first single, "Black Saturday", was released in Sweden on 11 January 2014. The new synth-rock sound has led to many disputes amongst fans of the band and critics. The Russian synthesizer "Aelita" has been the source and inspiration for this album, leading away from the former music style.
MANDO DIAO is an alternative rock band from Borlänge, Sweden. The band got their breakthrough with the release of the album "Hurricane Bar". Their main fan base is in Sweden, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Japan. Band members are Björn Dixgård (vocals, guitar), Carl-Johan Fogelklou (bass), Jens Siverstedt (guitar), Daniel Haglund (keyboard) and Patrik Heinkipieti (drums).
Today I'm working on the musical dark side, heavy riffs from the Polish pit. Here on Tune Of The Day you will get the total opposite to that.
PRIEST is a synth band that creates music rooted in the vastness of electronic dreams. The goal of their multifaceted prophecy is to safely guide humanity unto the next evolutionary step – the merging with machines.
PRIEST is like a Delorean DMC-12 it will take you back to the colourful future of the '80s. The illusions presented contains everything from symmetric star prisms, a burning escape from the darkness or to break out of your inner prison. Bit by bit, fragments of a puzzle of success story is taking shape. With a mechanical sound, futuristic melodies and a masterful voice, they´ve seduced listeners all over the planet.
Today's tune "The Pit" is taken from the band's debut album "New Flesh", released in 2017. The album is produced by Alpha (ex GHOST) and features a performance by Airghoul (ex GHOST). The recording is mixed by Niklas Berglöf (SLAGSMÅLSKLUBBEN, DEAD SOUL) and is mastered by Magnus Lindberg. "New Flesh" contains 10 tracks that sounds like when 1982 imagine how 2019 should sound like. "The Pit" is released by Lövely Records. Directed by Dan Svan.
We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
This weekend I hope you spend your time with your love ones, enjoy, relax because that is something I will do.
Today we have TYSKARNA FRÅN LUND that going to set the Christmas in Jeopardy with it’s Kraftwerksk, düsseldorfsk, german electronica with "Achtung X-Mas”, enjoy!
Peace Stones & Thetania
TYSKARNA FRÅN LUND is a Swedish synthpop group, consisting of members from the comedy group Varanteatern. The name translates to The Germans from Lund in English (the Swedish town of Lund is the home of Varanteatern).
TYSKARNA FRÅN LUND is a satirical group that makes fun of the stereotypical synth music artist and their followers, in particular KRAFTWERK. Like the latter group, TFL has a four-person line-up of (fictional) Germans, always dressed in black and with minimal movements on stage.
5 billion years after the last great extinction, where the impending collision of galaxies creates a new order of planets. Where cold, distant moons pledge alliance to new suns and expanding gas giants implode into black holes. Ancient drones, forever adrift, record toxic tales of love between dying stars. Where lifeforms in suspended animation, dream among the ice rings of Saturn and cosmic war wages among gods and planets. It is in this universe that ”Arcadea" reign supreme as the last surviving space wizards since the final extinction. The galaxy Andromeda spins headlong into the Milky Way with three intergalactic travelers in tow.
Drummer/vocalist Brann Dailor (MASTODON), Guitarist/keyboardist Core Atoms (ZRUDA, GAYLORD) and Keyboardist/guitarist Raheem Amlani (WITHERED, SCARAB) are said pioneers, the space wizards of psychedelic soundscapes where organic drums collide with synthetic keys to create an infinite transmission from an event horizon. They go by ARCADEA and their otherworldly brand of psyche-electric, synth-driven, metallic madness sounds alien yet somehow familiar.
ARCADEA's visionary, self-produced, self-titled debut was mastered by Colin Leonard (MASTODON) and features stunning cover art from renowned sci-fi fantasy artist Essy May.
”Arcadea” is 10 tune electronic commodore 64 odyssey with influences of MASTODON, recorded at Orange Peel Studios in Atlanta, GA. The self-titled debut record was released via Relapse Records this June.
Unlike their other bands, ARCADEA uses only keyboards in a unique blend of crushing, organic drums and psychedelic synthesizers. The music is at once electronic but not electronica, synthetic but not processed, heavy but not metal.
Today’s tune "Army of Electrons”, taken from the self titled debut album ”Arcadea”.
"Sgùrr" is the 6th album release by THY CATAFALQUE. Was released October 16, 2015.
For those new to THY CATAFALQUE, it is the solo endeavour of Hungarian multi-instrumentalist Tamás Kátai, who moved to Scotland several years ago. He plays a version of black electronic folkish avant-garde metal world music.
"Sgùrr" (the title of which is Scottish Gaelic for “The Top of a Mountain”).
"Sgùrr" is an violent poetic and atmospheric dark journey true the Scottish Highlands all the way to the Hungarian Lowlands, the songs are about water, mountains, their interrelationship, and the symbols attached to them. The album is very playful with a joyful ambient harmony and gritty, pummelling black metal and monumental doom-inspired riffs.
The album starts and ends “Zúgó” (Pt.1 and Pt.2) with a narrates words by Viktória Varga, in Hungarian about the passage of rapids, the sounds of water carving through mountains over eons of time. "Alföldi Kozmosz" is an electronic folkish tune, beautiful melody with almost a dancing beat. "Oldódó Formák a Halál Titokzatos Birodalmában" is a more than 15 minutes, were hard-driving drum rhythms coupled with hard and lightly aggressive guitars with a blackness feeling. "A Hajnal Kék Kapuja" is an instrumental piece, here he shows the beauty of his travels. "Élo Lény" is a more intense piece, heavy and hard with folkish approach. "Jura" is black-ended all the way, fast and heavy, dark and ugly. "Sgùrr Eilde Mòr" continues where "Jura" ends, but with a much bigger spectrum and length. "Keringo" is the last proper tune, a half pace until the drums and guitar enters half the way to give the tune some contrast until is almost fades out in a beautiful violin solo.
Vinyl of "Sgùrr"
Sum: "Sgùrr" is something totally different, if you do not listen with blinders so you should definitely try this.
Today's tune "Oldódó Formák a Halál Titokzatos Birodalmában" is taken from "Sgùrr", enjoy!
NIGHT RIOTS is an American alternative rock band from San Luis Obispo, California. Formed in 2010, the band consists of Travis Hawley (lead vocals), Nick Fotinakes (guitar), Matt DePauw (guitar), Mikel Van Kranenburg (bass), and Rico Rodriguez (drums).
The music could be compared to THE CURE and THE KILLERS; with Hawley's "emotive vocal style" compared to that of Robert Smith. It's heavy rock synth electronica with a dance feeling.
Today's tune "Nothing Personal" is taken from the debut album "Love Gloom"
Today I got a pretty nice feeling on yesterday's post, not only because it was a awesome band, more off the constellation, you know, thinking about DUO's.
Certainly, an awesome rock duo's in most people's ears / eyes is kind like this ....Mick Jagger and Keith Richards (Rolling Stones), David Gilmour and Roger Waters (Pink Floyd), John Lennon and Paul McCartney (The Beatles), Steven Tyler and Joe Perry (Aerosmith) or Eddie Van Halen and David Lee Roth (Van Halen) the list of artists could be endless if I continue like this, this is not really what I think of when I hear the Rock Duo. What I am looking for, or where my feeling is right now, DUO, ie two people in the band and nothing else. I had to double check it, so my friend Google is around to help me and I find out that it’s called Power Duo. Well, fine by me…. So much work to work out a feeling, well, lets do it like this, let’s do a Power Duo week then. Mixed Styles of course, to make it all more interesting.
A Power duo is a two-piece rock band that follows a similar blues rock style to a traditional power trio, and whose primary lineup consists of a drummer and a guitarist (such as The White Stripes, The Like Young, The Black Keys, Local H, Japandroids, No Age, Wye Oak, Giant Drag, Blood Red Shoes, Jucifer, and '68); a drummer and a bassist (such as Death From Above 1979, and Royal Blood); or a drummer and a keyboardist (such as One Day As a Lion, and 21 Pilots). In the case of power duos that utilize only an electric guitar and drums, the lack of a bass guitar can be overcome in different ways: Jack White of The White Stripes and Joe Ziemba of The Like Young use octave dividers and pitch shifters, although most of these effects are monophonic and will not work on chords; The Black Keys often have a bassist when performing live; Scott Lucas of Local H installed one half of a split bass pickup under the lower strings of his guitar and running the signal from it to an octave pedal and a bass amplifier; guitarists Brian King of Japandroids and Randy Randall of No Age split the guitar signal between multiple guitar amps (generally one for clean and another for effects), and a bass amp; drummers Andy Stack of Wye Oak and Bobby Vega of Giant Drag simultaneously play synthesizers to fill in the gap.
Suicide is an American electronic protopunk musical duo, intermittently active since 1970 and composed of vocalist Alan Vega and Martin Rev on synthesizers and drum machines. They are an early synthesizer/vocal musical duo.
Never widely popular amongst the general public, Suicide are highly influential: critic Wilson Neate argues that Suicide "would prove as influential as The Clash. The synthpop, techno, and industrial dance sounds of the 1980s and 1990s, and now the new New Wave of electroclash, all gesture back to that foundational album."
In a November 1970 flyer the band was the first ever to use the phrase "punk music" to advertise a concert.
Todays tune ” Cheree” is taken from the debut self-titled album Suicide, released in 1977.
"Cheree" was about a girlfriend of Martin Rev. A single for the song "Cheree" was released in May 1978 on both 7-inch and 12-inch vinyl formats. The single featured a remixed version of "Cheree" with the B-Side "I Remember". John Lydon of the Sex Pistols reviewed the single for the NME, referring to it as "Je t'aime with tape hiss".
Between 1977 and 1980, Lennox was the lead singer of The Tourists, a moderately successful British pop band and her first collaboration with Dave Stewart. During the time they were in The Tourists, Stewart and Lennox were involved in a relationship, though this had ended by the time they formed Eurythmics.
Her last album was The "Annie Lennox Collection" is the first greatest hits compilation by British singer-songwriter Annie Lennox. It was released on 9 March 2009.
The music its not the only thing in her life, in addition to that Lennox is also a political and social activist, leading such events as an anti-war rally in London on 3 January 2009 in response to the Gaza War. She also objected to the unauthorised use of the 1999 Eurythmics song "I Saved the World Today" in an election broadcast for Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni.
She have a web site that im totally amazed of...look at the bio, one can even turn the pages with the mouse :D Look at http://www.annielennox.com/
Enjoy this oldie with Eurythmics Sweet Dreams, thats my favvo.
Peace, Thetania
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Tour of the Universe is a current concert tour by English electronic band Depeche Mode in support of the group's 12th studio album, Sounds of the Universe, which was released in April 2009.
Todays tune "I Feel You" is Depeche Mode's twenty-seventh UK single, released on February 15, 1993 and was the first single from the album "Songs of Faith and Devotion".
Yesterday the "Tour of the Universe" landed in Stockholm, Sweden. Opening Act on the tour is Nitzer Ebb. They arrived with 8 trucks and a few busses. The set was plain and simple with a few risers built together with a lighting line a cross, nice simple effect. Allot of different lighting stuff, a huge videowall and a videoball in the middle, looks really cool and was a great effect during the show.
Depeche Mode put on an excellent show. The band had fun on stage and delivered their hits as they should do.
The tour started with a warm-up show in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg in May 2009. In January 2010, the group commenced a third European leg starting in Berlin; it will eventually end late February in Düsseldorf, Germany. The tour includes a date as part of a series of concerts in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust, to be held at the Royal Albert Hall in London. The leg also includes five shows that were rescheduled following Gahan's illness in the summer of 2009.
Here is the official live video, its old but good.
Here is a video from a week ago, live Antwerpen (Belgium) 23/01/2010
Set List: "In Chains" "Wrong" "Hole to Feed" "Walking in My Shoes" "It's No Good" "A Question of Time" "Precious" "World in My Eyes" "Freelove" "Clean" "Dressed in Black" "Sister of Night" "Jezebel" "Insight" "Judas" "Home" "Miles Away/The Truth Is" "Come Back" "Policy of Truth" "In Your Room" "I Feel You" "Enjoy the Silence" "Never Let Me Down Again" "Somebody" "A Question of Lust" "Dressed in Black" "One Caress" "Stripped" "Behind the Wheel" "Personal Jesus"
Rest of the tour dates:
2 Feb Helsinki, Finland - Hartwall Areena 4 Feb Saint Petersburg, Russia - SKK Arena 6 Feb Moscow, Russia - Olimpiisky Sports Complex 8 Feb Kiev, Ukraine - Palace of Sports 10 Feb Łódź, Poland - Atlas Arena 11 Feb Łódź, Poland - Atlas Arena 14 Feb Zagreb, Croatia - Arena 3 17 Feb London, United Kingdom - Royal Albert Hall 20 Feb London, United Kingdom - O2 Arena 4 22 Feb Horsens, Denmark - CASA Arena 23 Feb Horsens, Denmark - CASA Arena 26 Feb Düsseldorf, Germany - Esprit Arena 5 27 Feb Düsseldorf, Germany - Esprit Arena 5
The Bravery is an American rock band from New York City that consists of Sam Endicott (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Michael Zakarin (lead guitar [also known as Moose], backing vocals), John Conway (keyboards, backing vocals), Mike Hindert (bass, backing vocals), and Anthony Burulcich (drums, backing vocals). Their music is a synthesis of both post-punk revival and new wave.
"Stir the Blood" is the upcoming third album by New York-based rock band The Bravery. The album will be released on December 1, 2009, and the first single is "Slow Poison" The second single on October 1, 2009, The Bravery leaked a video for their new song "Hatefuck" via the band's myspace page.
The disturbing video was directed by bass player Mike Hindert and depicts a sadomasochistic scene where the female character wearing a gas mask cuts a vagina into the male character using a knife. The video was banned by the band's record label.
Todays tune is The Bravery - Hatefuck from their upcoming new album "Stir the Blood
Suicide is an American synthpunk music duo intermittently active since 1971 and composed of vocalist Alan Vega and Martin Rev on synthesizers and drum machines. Listening to their self-titled 1977 debut from the vantage point of late 2002, it's all so obvious: the synthpop, techno, and industrial dance sounds of the '80s and '90s, and now the new New Wave of electroclash, all gesture back to that foundational album." You could say that they invented modern day synth-pop.
Suicide took their name from the title of a Ghost Rider comic book titled Satan Suicide, a favourite comic book of Alan Vega.
Todays tune "Ghost Rider" is taken from "Suicides first album aka 1977" the tune has been covered by R.E.M., The Horrors, The Gories, Rollins Band, The Sisters of Mercy, Merzbow and The Young Gods, and was featured in a Brazilian deodorant commercial in 2005.
More info @ Martin Rev Official Site or @ Alan Vega Official Site
Listen to " Suicide - Cheree" on Spotify 
