Jane's Addiction

Jane's Addiction is an American alternative rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1985. The band's original line-up featured Perry Farrell (vocals), Dave Navarro (guitar), Eric Avery (bass) and Stephen Perkins (drums).

The first album Nothing’s Shocking was released in 1988. The band went on tour to promote the album opening for Iggy Pop and Ramones.

The single from the album – “Jane Says"

Ritual de lo Habitual their second album was released in 1990. Dave Navarro stated that due to his addiction to heroin he has almost no recolection of working on the album.

Little by little self-destruction won round 1 and the group separated in 1991 with the desire to put their lives on track again.

“Stop”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwI02OHtZTg

The years that followed Farell’s addiction to drugs seemed to get worse and at that time the fans and the media waited only the worse.

Even the 2003 worldwide tour in support of their third album “Strays” ended shortly with a new break-up. The reasons seemed to be the same – addiction and hate.

“Just Because”

The new break from each other lasted from 2004 to 2008 in which the band members were involved in various projects.

Navarro, Perkins, and Chaney formed a new band, The Panic Channel, with singer Steve Isaacs, releasing only one album, called One.

Perry Farrell, and his wife Etty Lau Farrell formed The Satellite Party and released their debut album, Ultra Payloaded in 2007.

Eric Avery signed with Dangerbird Records for the release of his solo album Help Wanted in 2008.

Their greatest hits album titled “Up from the Catacombs” – The Best of Jane's Addiction was released on September 19, 2006.

Jane's Addiction performed at NME Awards USA on April 23, 2008, with the original line-up of Perry Farrell, Dave Navarro, Eric Avery, and Stephen Perkins.

At the same time Trent Reznor posted photos of the group which led to the belief that JA was recordind new material. Soon to be followed by the announcement of Trent that Jane's Addiction would accompany Nine Inch Nails on their summer 2009 tour.

During the Soundwave Festival 2010 in Australia Eric Avery closes the JA experiment and leaves the band.

Which leads us to October 2011 and the "Great Escape Artist" and the new video “Irresistible Force” which has 1,039,457 views on youtube.

One thousand might be mine......

the official website
http://janesaddiction.com/

Kings of Leon

There’s much talk… and rightly at that!

Kings of Leon have achieved success in the United Kingdom: 2 Brit Awards in 2008, their albums are in Top Five and they had 9 singles in Top 40 singles and they’re getting better.

With the release of Only by the Night, they finally reached the United States – their album achieving the Platinum status. In Australia they were certified 9-times Platinum.

It must run in the family…

Their fifth album, Come Around Sundown, was released this year on October 18 and good, if you ask me.

Kings of Leon had a nice start in church, kidnapped their cousin, taught themselves to play, spent a month in a basement and after that short time the RCA had 'Molly's Chambers', 'California Waiting', 'Wicker Chair' and 'Holy Roller Novocaine.'

And the Kings had a deal.

Youth and Young Manhood, remade, partially, after their EP Holy Roller Novocaine, got very good critics in UK and Ireland, therefore the boys toured with The Strokes and U2.

“One of the best debut album of the last 10 years”, for UK and Ireland.

Because of the Times has a more polished sound but let’s fast forward to Only by the Night, September 19, 2008.

The album has been glowing, it remained at no 1 for weeks, got positive reviews and acclamations.

Magazines claimed it was the best album of 2008 and biggest-selling too, actually the 3^rd for UK.

“Sex on Fire” was the 1^st song to be heard and it reached no 1 in the UK and it stayed there for a good while. “Use Somebody”, the 2^nd, got people thinking.

And the opinions were all right – the album achieved worldwide chart, the songs being voted in charts all over the world.

The band won a Grammy Award on February 8, 2009, with “Sex on Fire”. They won Best International Band and Best International Album at the Brit Awards in 2009, where they also performed "Use Somebody" live.

In 2010, Kings of Leon took home the Grammy award for Record of the Year, Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal and Best Rock Song for “Use Somebody” at the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards.

It has been a pleasure to the ear – keep working harder!

their official website
their myspace page

Avenged Sevenfold

If you see a deathbat sporting the stage then you know Avenged Sevenfold are about to take it and rock your mind off.
Avenged Sevenfold, usually shortened A7X, is an American rock band from Huntington Beach, California. They are leaders in the New Wave of American Heavy Metal.
They started off as being very heavy and ended up as a hard rock type band.
The band's name is a reference to the Book of Genesis in the Bible, where Cain is sentenced to live in exile for murdering his brother. God marked him so that none would kill him on account of his sin; the man who dared to kill Cain would suffer "vengeance seven times over" (KJV).



Avenged Sevenfold was formed in 1999 when the band members were eighteen years old. The first album, ‘Sounding the Seventh Trumpet’, was released in 1999. Synyster Gates was the last one to join them after the release of said album.
In 2003, after the release of their second album ‘Waking the Fallen’, they were signed to Warner Bros. Records.

The first two albums were metalcore and the vocals consisted of screaming.
City of Evil, released in 2005, strayed from the vocal line adopted and recorded a record with no screaming.
M. Shadows had issued with throat and vocal cord damage and is that that the new vocal changes were due to this fact. However after the surgery recovery and training with vocal coach Ron Anderson, Shadows says his voice is back to normal, actually even better.

Their self titles album was released out on October 30, 2007 and was a success with approximately 94,000 copies sold.
Video clips were made for ‘Almost East’, ‘Little Piece of Heaven’ and ‘Afterlife’.
A7X played along Atreyu, Bullet for My Valentine, Idiot Pilot, Blessthefall, My Chemical Romance and worked with Bleeding Through, Korn, Cowboy Troy and Good Charlotte.
Although lyrically their songs are derived from the Bible like ‘Chapter Four’, ‘Beast and the Harlot’ and ‘The Wicked End’ and their names as well as the band’s title make references to religion M. Shadows stated in an interview that they are not a religious band.
"Anyone that reads the lyrics and really knew anything about us, they would know we're not promoting either," he said. “That's one thing about this band that I love is that we never really shove any kind of, like, political or religious beliefs on people. We just, the music's there to entertain and maybe thought-provoking on both sides, but we don't try to, like, really shove anything down anyone's throat. There’s too many bands that do that nowadays, I think."
A7X doesn’t only write about religious themes, they have some songs that are political in nature like ‘Critical Acclaim’ and ‘Blinded in Chains’.
M. Shadows support for the US troops can be understood from songs like ‘M.I.A.’, ‘Gunslinger’ and ‘Dear God’.

There’s one message that slipped between their lines and settled in my brain and all of us should scream and believe in: NO COMPROMISE!

Official website
Myspace profile
VampireFreaks profile

Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble of Shadows

Sopor Aeternus and the Ensemble of Shadow's new album "Les Fleurs du Mal" came as a amazing surprise for me since I only started listening to this one-person band for a few couple of months.
Amazing and downright mind-blowing it's an understatement when it comes to show my appreciation for Anna-Varney's work.
Due to unfortunate bindings and the world's order I got to listen to the album "La Chambre D'Echo" later than most fans and I'm totally taken aback by it and it is so far one of my favorite albums ever.

For "Les Fleurs du Mal" era, first I saw the teaser, which was sweet and melodic, showing a Anna-Varney looking rather modern but still being the same butoh dancer.
The photographs that came with the music are alluring and I was bewitched once again by the beauty Anna-Varney possesses.
The new album contains the same joyous music and darker lyrics, so I'm pleased to notice that she maintained the balance on this album as well.
The lyrics for 'Some Men Are Like Chocolate' are a bit funny. We are still introduced to a world where being sexless it's a normal state in the song 'The Virgin Queen'.
I burst inside with joy at the sounds of 'Bitter Sweet' which is a very good cover!

Her voice changes from baritone, to fragile, to sweet, to powerful, to enchanting - well, it's just Anna-Varney Cantodea!
Another sad but unquestionably beautiful album and Sopor Aeternus keeps being 'fragile'!

Eighteen Visions

[left to right: Mick Deth - bass, Ken - guitar, James - vox,
Keith - guitar, Trevor - drums]

Eighteen Visions - nowadays when you see this name posted online it is usually followed by disappointment and the word emo.

Allow me to totally disagree with that!

I’ve listened to their self titled album too many times to count. I listened to it after I woke up, after I ate, when I was happy, when I was cranky, when I was in a rush and when I was relaxing – the result was the same – I was listening to some cool rock album.

All of their songs have their core in the darker side of life and they were heavy with metal and hard core influences… up until now.

Eighteen Visions follow up new direction in music – reinvention, progression and growing.

Vocally I think James has grown tremendously. I think this progress and change they developed works well with his vocal capabilities and it would have been a shame to waste this talent on hard core and metal.

One of the things that catches my attention beside the vocals are the drums. You can say I have a soft spot for them but they are powerful, intense and hard not to notice. Way to go Trevor!

The bass line and the guitars blend beautifully!

18 Visions are a good band with great potential and they showed it once again!

Let’s not forget that these wonderful musicians are amazing people as well. Word goes they are the only band whose artists are all straight edge. And over 10 years too!

It’s good to have some good examples out there! Congratulations guys!

Take a look at their official website or their myspace profile for tour dates, buy their album and join the army of fans!

There you have it! Another band that’s worth your time!

Unfortunately, James annouced the band's members will go their separate ways and not exist as 18v anymore.

DeathRock

- (also spelled death rock) is a term used to identify a subgenre of punk rock, which incorporated elements of horror and first emerged most prominently in the West Coast of the United States during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

The music of "modern" (post-1990) deathrock bands have a stronger post-punk influence than the earlier deathrock bands. Additionally, the term "deathrock" can be used as a synonym for first generation gothic rock.

Deathrock emphasizes a creepy atmosphere and an introspective mood within a punk or post-punk musical structure.

Deathrock songs use simple chords, echoing guitars, a prominent bass, and drumming which emphasizes repetitive, tribal beats.

To create atmosphere, scratchy guitars, keyboards, and experimentation with other instruments are sometimes used. Lyrics can vary, but are typically introspective, surreal, and deal with the dark themes of isolation, disillusionment, loss, life, death, etc.

Deathrock singers typically have strong, distinctive voices and a strong stage presence.

The punk subgenres most closely related to deathrock are horror punk and psychobilly.

Deathrock sounds more introspective and romantic than horror punk and it is less lound and fast as it too. Keyboards are another differentiating point: deathrock bands frequently use keyboards for atmosphere, whereas horror punk and psychobilly bands usually do not. Psychobilly, however, is easier to distinguish from horror punk and deathrock because psychobilly bands normally use an upright bass, whereas horror punk and deathrock bands do not.

Despite the similar sounding names deathrock (which is a subgenre of punk) has no connection to the similarly named death metal, which is a subgenre of thrash metal.

Deathrock is also not related to any other music genre with "death" in its name.

While deathrock, positive punk and the Batcave bands were similar enough in sound to eventually all be filed as "gothic," later generations of gothic rock moved progressively away from the original sound.

Nearly 20 years after deathrock first appeared on the music scene in Southern California, the deathrock revival began in Southern California. During 1998 in Long Beach, California, owners of the Que Sera, a local bar, to throw a one-night "old school" Gothic Halloween party. After the success of the one-off party, the event quickly evolved into a regular deathrock club called Release the Bats and a focal point in California for the reemerging deathrock movement. (The club is named after a song by the Australian band the Birthday Party.)

The current deathrock movement is similar to the original deathrock scene in Los Angeles and the Batcave movement in London. In addition to clubs, the current scene is centered around concerts, special events, parties, and horror movie screenings.

The internet is playing a major role in the deathrock revival. There are websites devoted to the discussion deathrock music, bands and fashions as well as horror movies, such as deathrock.com and post-punk.com, plus mailing lists for deathrockers on various online virtual communities, such as MySpace.

The current deathrock movement has four additional influences which didn't exist in the late 1970s.

There has been a shift to a more post-punk sound then there is the apolitical influence of psychobilly which discourages political debates that have the potential to fragment the scene. And the Drop Dead Festival, which is similar to psychobilly's Hootenanny, gives bands with smaller fan bases an opportunity to play before larger crowds.

Deathrock is not only about music, being centered around movies and book it ceases to be all about music and it becomes a life style.

What I like about it so much is the more relaxed and joking like manner in which things are seen. Horror punk with the lively influences puts a smile on my face more often than no.

“Nobody likes you when you’re dead” said Zombina and the Skeletons, 45 Grave don’t care about the concerned citizens and they say it’s Party Time.

Then I have the sensible side with Virgin Prunes and Echo & the Bunnymen; the love with Bella Morte. I get distinctive voices like Klaus Nomi and Robert Smith and so many others.

I get the sadness, the desperation and the fight with Anna Varney Cantodea.

And still I don’t fear the reaper cause we’re all undead and it’s fun.

Release the bats and come to our side! Deathrock never sounded better!

Bands:

- through the 90's

* 45 Grave

* Ausgang

* Bone Orchard

* The Birthday Party

* Brain Eaters

* Burning Image

* Castration Squad

* The Children's Zoo

* Chop Shop

* Christian Death

* Cold September

* Death Cult

* Death Ride 69

* Fahrenheit 451

* The Flesh Eaters

* Gargoyle Sox

* Gun Club

* Holy Cow

* Inca Babies

* Kommunity FK

* Mighty Sphincter

* The Misfits

* The Mob

* The Naked and the Dead

* Nervous Gender (could also be classified as punk)

* Nichts

* The Ochrana

* Of A Mesh

* Paralisis Permanente

* The Plague

* Red Temple Spirits

* Sacred Lies

* Samhain

* Screams for Tina

* Shadow of Fear

* Skeletal Family

* Sorrow (Rose McDowall)

* Specimen

* Super Heroines

* TSOL

* Theater of Ice

* Voodoo Church

- modern

* A Spectre is Haunting Europe (Vancouver)

* All Gone Dead (UK)

* Antiworld (Portland, OR)

* Astrovamps (CA)

* Bella Morte (VA)

* Black Cat Rebellion (IN)

* Black Ice (CA)

* Bloody Dead & Sexy (Germany)

* The Brides (NY)

* Cinema Strange (CA)

* Deadchovsky (France)

* Deadfly Ensemble (CA)

* Devils Whorehouse

* Dinah Cancer and the Grave Robbers (resurrected 45 Grave) (CA)

* Divino Bastardo (Chile)

* Eat Your Make Up (France)

* Frankenstein (CA)

* Frank the Baptist (CA)

* Gorgonas (Mexico)

* Hate in the Box (NY)

* Heiress Presumptive (OH)

* La Peste Negra (Spain)

* Last Days of Jesus (Slovakia)

* Miguel and the Living Dead (Poland)

* Murder at the Registry (Germany)

* N/A (Cincinnati, OH)

* The Phantom Limbs (CA)

* Pagan Holiday (Cincinnati, OH)

* The Poisoning (UK)

* Pins and Needles (CA)

* Penis Flytrap (previously featuring Dinah Cancer of 45 Grave)

* Red Voice Choir (CA)

* Scarlet's Remains (CA)

* Sixteens (Berlin)

* Sleeping Children (France)

* Spooky DeVille (SLC, UT)

* Sunday Mourning (GA)

* Tragic Black (SLC, UT)

* The Vanishing

* When You Fail (Cincinnati, OH)

* The Young Werewolves (New York, NY)

I wanna thank answers.com and the well known wikipedia.org for their immense help in creating this entry.

Wednesday 13

Every day is Wednesday, 13

Ghouls, vampires, ghosts, werewolves and all dead, deadly and poisonous creatures of the night look at what the bats dragged in!!

Wednesday 13 is an American artist that worked on different project until now. His world is gothic, filled with creatures from campy horror movie parodies and mildly macabre TV shows.

Beside from being a musician, Wednesday [Joseph Poole] also put together a comic book called Thirteen Dead Kids.


Discography

Maniac Spider Trash

• "Dumpster Mummies", (1994)
• "Murder Happy Fairytales",(1995)

Frankenstein Drag Queens From Planet 13

Full-lengths
• "The Late, Late, Late Show", (1996)
• "Night of the Living Drag Queens", (1998)
• "Songs From The Recently Deceased", (2000)
• "Viva Las Violence",(2001)
• "6 Years, 6 Feet Under the Influence", (2004)
• "Little Box of Horrors", (2006)

Compilations
• "Sweet FA", tribute to Sweet.
• "Thinking of Alice", tribute to Alice Cooper.

Murderdolls

• "Right To Remain Violent EP",(2002)
• "Beyond the Valley of the Murderdolls",(2002)
• "Freddy vs Jason Soundtrack


Wednesday 13
[the band]

Wednesday 13 got a new temporary band together Eric Griffin on guitar, Racci Shay on drums and Brix on bass.

Discography

Fang Bang (2006)

1. Morgue than Words
2. American Werewolves in London
3. My Home Sweet Homicide
4. Faith in the Devil
5. Happily ever Cadaver
6. Curse of Me
7. Haddonfield
8. Too Much Blood
9. Till Death Do Us Party
10. Buried with Children
11. Kill You Before You Kill Me
12. Die Sci-fi
13. Burn the Flames

Transylvania 90210.
Songs Of Death, Dying, And The Dead (2005)

1. Post Mortem Bordom
2. Look At What The Bats Dragged In
3. I Walked With A Zombie
4. Bad Things
5. House By The Cemetery
6. God Is A Lie
7. Haunt Me
8. Transylvania 90210
9. I Want You... Dead
10. Buried By Christmas
11. Elect Death For President
12. Rot For Me
13. The Ghost Of Vincent Price
14. A Bullet Named Christ


Check them out if you want to have a devilish laugh.

My room came alive, my dog just died,
stacked 13 pennies in his eyes
I stared at the wall, it stared back at me
Started to breath and then it started to bleed

The moon cracked open and it started to flow
And my future was exposed
The gods gave me my own TV show and they called it
Transylvania 90210


Sources:
the official website
a fan site