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September 12, 2011

Klangstabil – the Exclusive Viva Music Interview!

Filed under: Interviews — Tags: 2011, boris may, diorama, haujobb, interview, klangstabil, math and emotion, maurizio blanco, new album, painbastard, project pitchfork, sitd, viva music interview — admin @ 9:00 am

Meeting Boris May in person is like taking a deeper look into a mirror and seeing exactly what you want to see. Add to that 3 Klangstabil live concerts – at Nordstern Festival, Amphi Festival and at Nocturnal Culture Night! Klangstabil can rock your world easily if you are attending their concert well prepared to play along and match the energy and subliminal messages on stage. And yes, Klangstabil sounds very different live compared to their CD’s. The quiet, polite, sensitive and intelligent persons you meet in real life become “wild children of any revolution” on stage. And somehow the 2 personalities blend together perfectly. Boris May and Maurizio Blanco are fighting for a better world, starting with themselves. Add to that the fact that not only their personalities are complementary, but even their names stand as symbols of a perfect duality: B. M. and M. B.

The answer to the question: “Is this world perfectible or we should better just live in our own world where everything supports my inner peace” may find an answer today. Enjoy this great interview!

VIVA MUSIC: It is always a pleasure to meet polyglot artists. You sing in German, English and Italian. Still, the feeling one gets while watching you on stage is that the language itself as means of communication is irrelevant. We felt we could understand the language of anger and emotion even when you were playing in German (a language we don’t speak)…

KLANGSTABIL: Our music conveys emotions without filtering them, so you can easily comprehend them. Voice serves as an additional instrument, and we choose language according to its phonetic properties. Italian, for instance, is a very powerful language that can be experienced in a very passionate way. Within only one verse it can switch from inner turmoil to highest happiness and, by doing so, capture the audience. (more…)

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September 8, 2011

Nocturnal Culture Night #6 in Deutzen bei Leipzig – 02-04-September – Viva Music Review and Photos

Day One | Day Two | Day Three

About NCN Festival

Nocturnal Culture Night celebrated in the truest sense of the meaning its sixth edition in Deutzen bei Leipzig between Sep-02 and Sep-04 with a killer lineup and a very appealing atmosphere. With ups and downs due to the times of the shows (some of them took place kind of early for the party fatigue building up especially on the second and third days), the audience topped 2k participants who were in their entirety a big family. Everywhere you went, you found people smiling, ready to help and to enjoy together the shows or the side entertainment that were carefully and laid out smoothly by the organizers. With the exception of the unpredictable, to which the same organizers were able to save face wonderfully (the power cut on the second day), the festival could not have been thought up in a fancier and friendlier manner.

To begin with, the shows – they all started on time making the festival a big Japanese train station. The bands were introduced on stage coherently and with great enthusiasm, but only in German. Even after the power cut had been mended, the shows quickened their pace, so that the expected end time would be the same, and bands and audience alike showed understanding faced with the mishap. The sound was overall good and that’s one thing to credit the venues for: both the mainstage (Grosse Buehne) and the smaller one (Kleine Buehne), which were located within reach, had a great surrounding and accommodated easily the hundreds of participants without impeding access and/or blocking the view of participants.

Participants at NCN Festival 2011 – photo gallery

The participants themselves were friendly, peaceful and really at ease with the festival setup. The family feeling was not given only by the fact that participants greeted one another, were courteous and their merry-making was probably the best example of community, but also by the numerous families with kids as young as 9 months (and who knows, even younger) who participated in the festival. Their spare time was divided between the cleverly arranged stands, food courts, playgrounds, quiet areas, shops and the medieval market that took place in the proximity of the main festival venue. The shopping choice was classy and the food was really good, while the refuse collection showed that having fun and being responsible can go hand in hand.

Medieval Market at NCN Festival 2011 – photo gallery

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July 29, 2011

Great Listen: Amphi Festival 2011 Sampler Compilation from Out of Line!

Filed under: Album Reviews,Amphi Festival — Tags: 2011, agonoize, amphi festival, clan of xymox, compilation, covenant, de/vision, die funkhausgruppe, die krupps, hocico, kirlian camera, klangstabil, leaether strip, nitzer ebb, ordo rosarius equilibrio, out of line, rome, staubkind, subway to sally, suicide commando, tanzwut — admin @ 3:00 pm

Did you miss this year’s edition of Amphi Festival? Or you’ve witnessed the great lineup, venue, crowd and feel and want to revive it? Help yourself from “Amphi Festival 2011 – Compilation CD” from Out of Line: it makes a great mashup of songs you want to listen, a ready-made playlist for a drive or for sharing when you have friends over, the 18-track compilation gives the juice and diversity of the scene as proved by the 2011 edition of Amphi Festival. Initially released as a festival appetizer, the compilation can be tasted just as well in the aftermath of the event, especially since the selection of tracks is rigorous, profound and totally entertaining!

Tracklist:

Kirlian Camera – “Nightglory” * De/Vision – “Time To Be Alive (Radio edit)” * Nitzer Ebb – “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang” * Suicide Commando – “Death Cures All Pain (Aesthetic Perfection Remix)” * Staubkind – “Halt Mich“ * Subway To Sally – “Falscher Heiland“ * Samsas Traum – “Durch die Wand der Traeume” * Tanzwut – “Meer” * Hocico – “Tiempos De Furia” * Leæther Strip – “Invade my body” * Agonoize – “Vollrauschfetischist” * Covenant – “Get On” * Klangstabil – “Gridami“ * Die Funkhausgruppe – “Die Physiker“ * Rome – “Der Wolfsmantel“ * Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio – “Do Angels Never Cry And Heaven Never Fall?” * Clan of Xymox – “Tears Ago“ * Die Krupps – “Als waeren wir fuer immer“

Order “Amphi Festival – Compilation CD” from Out of Line here | Read Viva Music‘s review of Amphi Festival 2011 here.

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July 26, 2011

Nocturnal Culture Night – Lineup, Details, and More! September 02-04, Deutzen bei Leipzig

Ever since 2005, Nocturnal Culture Night festival enchanted with its cozy atmosphere, intriguingly clever lineup and enchanting surroundings of the venue of Deutzen bei Leipzig, a small municipality south of Leipzig, where the project of the Kulturpark Deutzen, a recreational and cultural venue was brought up.

Destroid, Mesh, Rotersand, Frozen Plasma, Solitary Experiments, Zeraphine, Colony 5, Santa Hates You, Das Ich, Diary of Dreams, In Strict Confidence, Girls Under Glass, In the Nursery are highlights of the 100+ bands who went on stage for the editions of 2005 and onward – and now, for the sixth edition already, Nocturnal Culture Night (in short, NCN) comes with just as impressive a lineup for the days – or better said, nights, of September 02 thru 04. A Friday-to-Sunday outdoor event, the NCN venue will include two stages for concerts, a cultural stage, a medieval market, an after-show area as well as a children’s area.

The schedule for NCN in Kulturpark Deutzen (Deutzen bei Leipzig) needs the finishing touches, but the main layout of the event looks enticing just as it is!

Friday, September-02: Golden Apes * Gothminister * Kirlian Camera * No More * Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio * SITD * Tyske Ludder * Whispers In The Shadows

Saturday, September-03: 32 Crash * Absolute Body Control * Atrocity * Elane * F.O.D. * In My Rosary * Klangstabil * Merciful Nuns * Sensory Gate

Sunday, September-04: Blind Passenger * DAF * Eyes Shut Tight * Future Trail * Fixmer / McCarthy * Krypteria * Nova-spes * Persephone * Schoengeist * Staubkind * VNV Nation (more…)

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July 20, 2011

Amphi Festival 2011 – 16&17-Jul, 2011 – Viva Music Review

Filed under: Amphi Festival,International Events (Reviews) — Tags: 2011, agonoize, amphi festival, amphi festival 2012, amphi festival 2012 info, clan of xymox, covenant, das ich, de/vision, depeche mode, diorama, dreadful shadows, Feindflug, frozen plasma, funkhausgruppe, grendel, hocico, in strict confidence, kirlian camera, klangstabil, leaetherstrip, mainstage, melotron, mind.in.a.box, staatenhaus, staubkind, suicide commando, ticket sale, viva music, viva music review, x rx, zeraphine — admin @ 5:02 pm

Day One | Day Two | The Aftermath

Amphi Festival: Day One, Saturday, July-16: General Review | Mainstage | Staatenhaus

General Review

The fact that this year’s Amphi was going to be a success was obvious from the very beginning: people teemed in large numbers, and arrived to the venue earlier that last year. This meant that the first act, [X]-RX had an impressive audience for a first act on the main stage. A breathtaking experience, the 2011 edition of Amphi Festival made us yearn for next year’s festival already! And, as a side-note, given the enthusiasm and size of the audience, Cologne’s Tanzbrunnen may prove pretty soon to be too small a venue for such an excellent event.

Compared to 2010, the number of 2011 participants was significantly higher – a reason to the point might be the diverse lineup – from electronica to gothic, and from noise to darkwave – add to that the excellent entertainment offered in-between, the 100%-giving, outgoing performances of all acts, and needless to say, the tireless, party-oriented audience – all contributed to the overall success of the 2011 edition of Amphi Festival.

Participants at Amphi Festival 2011 (Day One) – photo gallery (more…)

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July 12, 2011

Nordstern Festival, Hamburg, 08&09-July 2011: Viva Music Review

Filed under: International Events (Reviews),Nordstern Festival — Tags: absurd minds, architect, ascii.disko, blitzmaschine, combichrist, diorama, empirion, festival review, frozen plasma, hamburg, iamx, klangstabil, neuwerk, nordstern 2011, nordstern 2012, nordstern photo galeries, norstern festival, slave republic, sono, viva music, viva music review, vnv nation — admin @ 10:55 pm

Viva Music wants to thank Neuwerk Music Management and all the participants in the first edition of Nordstern Festival for an awesome experience. Let’s do it again!

Day One (below) | Day Two

Day One: July-08, 2011 Nordstern Festival @Markthalle

The venue

Hamburg’s own dark and electro festival debuted with a first evening in the generous venue of Markthalle. With a good club and concert venue layout, Markthalle proved not only to be a very accessible location (in the immediate vicinity of Hamburg’s central train station and with a myriad of means of transportation within reach of the avid concert-goer), but also a plausible choice for the size of the event and the needs of the audience. Bedecked with a no-wait bar, food stand, coatroom and merchandise stands, the venue was impressive, with good acoustics and a wonderful coordination of sound and lighting, thanks to Neuwerk’s team of skilled professionals. Though the 2-day festival passes were sold out before even the event kicked off, the management made a few 1-day tickets available at the front counter, so that late-comers to the festival could enjoy it, too. back to top (more…)

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December 31, 2010

2011 Festivals to Look Forward to

Filed under: International Events — Tags: alien sex fiend, amphi festival, analog angel, apoptygma berzerk, arcana, asp, attrition, belgium, berlin, blackfield festival, brazda lui novac, bucuresti, clan of xymox, cologne, combichrist, covenant, darkwave.ro, das ich, destroid, diary of dreams, die braut, die krupps, diorama, dr. arthur krause, dreadful shadows, dutch order, dv8fest, e-tropolis festival, empusae, end of green, eyes shut tight, faderhead, finland, front line assembly, fuzzbox, gelsenkirchen, germany, gothic festival waregem, grendel, haujobb, hildesheim, in strict confidence, klangstabil, leaether strip, leipzig, lisbon, lumous festival, m'era luna festival, mono inc., MORTIIS, nosferatu, ordo rosario equilibrio, persephone, planet myer day, portugal, pray silence festival, project pitchfork, qntal, rabia sorda, red lorry yellow lorry, romania, rotersand, santa hates you, skinny puppy, solitary experiments, sono, staubkind, subheim, suicide commando, summer darkness, tampere, tenek, teufel, the beauty of gemina, the netherlands, tying tiffany, uk, unheilig, utrecht, vlad in tears, vnv nation, wave gotik treffen, waves under water, whitby gothic weekend, within temptation, york, zin, zita rock festivals — admin @ 9:30 am

Planet Myer Day 9

When: January 7

Where: Leipzig, Germany

Who: Destroid, Brazda lui Novac, Klangstabil, Empusae, Subheim

Official Website: http://www.myspace.com/planetmyerstudios

Darkwave.ro

When: January 29

Where: Bucharest, Romania

Who: Project Pitchfork, Rabia Sorda, Tenek

Official Website: http://www.vivamusic.ro

Whitby Gothic Weekend

When: March 25 & March 26

Where: Whitby, North Yorkshire, UK

Who: Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Fuzzbox, Dr. Arthur Krause, Dutch Order, The Beauty of Gemina and others to be announced

Official website: http://wgw.topmum.co.uk/

Wave Gotik Treffen

When: June 10 thru June 13

Where: Leipzig, Germany

Who: Analog Angel, Die Braut, Eyes Shut Tight, Nosferatu, Tying Tiffany, Vlad in Tears, and others to be announced

Official Website: www.wave-gotik-treffen.de

Zita Rock Festival

When: June 18 & June 19

Where: Zitadele, Berlin, Germany

Who: Zin, Teufel, Qntal, End of Green, Mono Inc., Project Pitchfork and others to be confirmed

Official Website: http://www.zita-rock.de/

Blackfield Festival

When: June 25 & June 26

Where: Gelsenkirchen, Germany

Who: Apoptygma Berzerk, Dreadful Shadows, Sono and others to be announced

Official Website: www.blackfield-festival.de

Lumous Gothic Festival

When: July 8 thru July 11

Where: Tampere, Finland

Who: Leaether Strip, Nosferatu, Waves Under Water, and others to be announced

Official Website: http://www.lumous.net

Amphi Festival

When: July 16 & July 17

Where: Tanzbrunnen, Cologne, Germany

Who: Die Krupps, Das Ich, Diorama, Grendel, Staubkind, Klangstabil, Persephone, Suicide Commando, In Strict Confidence, and others to be confirmed. Classic & Depeche (piano concert with pianist Lars Arnold) also in the schedule.

Official Website: http://www.amphi-festival.de/

DV8Fest 2011

When: July 21 thru July 24

Where: York, UK

Who: Nosferatu and more than 50 other acts to be announced

Official Website: http://www.dv8fest.com/

Castle Party

When: July 21 thru July 24

Where: Bolkow Castle, Poland

Who: Atari Teenage Riot (de), PROJECT PITCHFORK (de), DIARY OF DREAMS (de), Closterkeller (pl), UMBRA ET IMAGO (de), SUICIDE COMMANDO (be) and many more

Official Website: http://castleparty.com/

Summer Darkness

When: July 29 thru July 31

Where: Utrecht, the Netherlands

Who: Lineup will be announced during the Summer Darkness Winter Edition, on Feb-04 (Combichrist & Mortiis concert)

Official website: http://www.summerdarkness.nl/festival/

M’era Luna Festival

When: August 13 & August 14

Where: Hildesheim, Germany

Who: Within Temptation, ASP, End of Green, Mono Inc., The Beauty of Gemina and others to be confirmed

Official Website: http://www.fkpscorpio.com/meraluna/

E-tropolis Festival

When: September 3

Where: Berlin, Germany

Who: Rotersand, VNV Nation, Haujobb, Faderhead, Solitary Experiments, Santa Hates You, and others to be confirmed

Official Website: http://www.etropolis-festival.de

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December 28, 2010

2010 Album Releases You Want to Listen to

Filed under: Album Reviews — Tags: 2010, 2010 albums, ad inferna, angel theory, angels on acid, chrom, code 64, combichrist, culture kultur, das ich, diary of dreams, faderhead, front line assembly, funker vogt, heimataerde, hocico, how to destroy angels, in strict confidence, iris, killing joke, klangstabil, la femme verte, laurentiu rusen, lost area, massiv in mensch, menschdefekt, Mergel Kratzer, mind.in.a.box, minerve, painbastard, peter murphy, project pitchfork, provision, s-talker, sam, santa hates you, shadow minds, slave republic, solemn novena, solitary experiments, stereomotion, tenek, tense, viva music, wynardtage, zeromancer — admin @ 10:00 am

A rich and provocative year, 2010 meant the release of many new albums from the relevant names from the gothic, industrial and electro scenes, but also the discovery of new artists, that come, layer upon layer of sound, to further enlarge the musical spectrum, reconsider the influences, and at the same time remain under the non-mainstream cone of light.

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November 18, 2010

4 New Bands Confirmed at Amphi Festival 2011

Filed under: Amphi Festival — Tags: advance tickets, aftershow parties, agonoize, amphifestival, clan of xymox, covenant, das ich, deine lakaien, der fluch, die krupps, diorama, dr. mark benecke, dreadful shadows, Feindflug, festival, frozen plasma, germany, grendel, group tickets, in the nursery, kirlian camera, klangstabil, leatherstrip, mind.in.a.box, nitzer ebb, ordo rosarius equilibrio, persephone, saltatio mortis, samsas traum, staubkind, subway to sally, supporting program, tanzwut, tickets, winterkalte, x rx, zeraphine — admin @ 6:57 pm

New bands confirmed for the Amphi Festival 2011:

The first new entry not only offers a profound measure to give the chills to your neighbour at the next traffic light, AGONOIZE are in any respect on top of their game! Especially in providing adrenaline-pumped electro sound, there are very few to teach the heavy machinery specialists from Berlin a lesson. Reinforced by visual splatter effects AGONOIZE are infamous for their rough-edged stage performances and nothing for the faint-hearted!

All quiet at the Amphi-front? Not in the slightest! The industrial-bombers FEINDFLUG always enjoy to deliver an action-packed show. After literally laying the Amphi stage in ashes in 2009, Felix and Banane are returning with a sonic thunderstorm, to commemorate the horrors of the World War II.

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October 18, 2010

Amphi festival news: new bands confirmed: Nitzer Ebb and Covenant

Filed under: Amphi Festival — Tags: 2011, amphi festival, cologne, covenant, darkwave.ro, das ich, deine lakaien, der fluch, die krupps, diorama, dr. mark benecke, dreadful shadows, fest, festival in romania, frozen plasma, grendel, in the nursery, jugendpark, kirlian camera, klangstabil, leaether strip, mind.in.a.box, nitzer ebb, ordo rosarius equilibrio, persephone, saltatio mortis, staubkind, subway to sally, tanzwut, tickets, winterkalte, x rx, zeraphine — admin @ 7:45 pm

Amphi Festival 2011 – The Orkus Open Air

-Press release-

Dear Amphi Fans,

a big chunk of the Amphi Festival 2011 programme has already been confirmed. Yet there is still lots of powder in the gun for exciting announcements. Since the last update we´ve already gathered two more top-acts to join the line-up and also the festival organisation department has some important news to share…:

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