002 . On a Clockwork Highway

Just to be true to what I said in the first post, here we go with some other stuff for you to check. The band is Thee Maldoror Kollective, a very weird ensamble of people who seems related to a lot of different projects. The actual line-up consist of 4 elements: Kundhali, E.V.A.nghelya, Drakon N.O.X., H:Kashchej with the collaboration of Mr. K Nordvargr (talking about him, the “Merzbow VS Nordvargr relase is totally sick!). I discovered them just few days ago with the album “A Clockwork Highwa”, but it seems they are terrorizing people since years.

Anyway ACH is a quite impressive piece of art, an insane mix of industrial/electro martial sound mixed with screams and whispers. In some songs (like “Who Dares To Kill The Lion”) you can listen even to some tribal influences. I really like the third track (“The Hills Have Eyes”), remixed by Mz412. There’s a huge work on guitars samples and it sounds quite heavy (don’t worry, nothing to do with “In Nomine…” ^__^). By the way, it seems that music it’s not the only thing they’re interesting for. If you check their web site (http://www.maldororkollective.net) you’ll notice that it’s even quite hard to find the music related pages! Instead, they have a great page named “Exit Solutions” where they collect essays about unusual topics, like for example:

Cyberpunk and Industrial Music

check the others (you have to go first in this page and then click on “exitsolutions”), there are essays like “Technoshamanism” and “The Book Of Pleasure” by Austin O. Spare... :)

001 . First Night in the WombMachine!

Here we are with something new! This space opens because I felt that a webspace like Gehenna was somehow lacking often-updated info and opinions about two-three topics I'm planning to discuss here:

A) Music, first of all (since I'm sure you NEED some suggestions) and...
B) ...everything else I like to talk about ;) Which means movies, books, essays and whatever else is linked somehow with the stuff you can find on Gehenna East.

Just to put it clear: I'm writing in English because I would like to share this space with as many people as possible, but I'm an Italian speaker and I'm trying to do my best with the English grammar. Therefore, if you find some mistakes please be patient (you can always write a comment to my post, I like to improve my language skills) or fuck off. No destructive criticism about the language thing will be tolerated.

One more thing: I'm becoming more and more a supporter of the Transhuman movement and the connected posthuman [utopic?] society, but we will have the chance to talk about this topic later. It was just to warn you...

Coming back to the (A) point, the best thing I can do now is to start talking about the great relase of a great band of newcomers: Dope Stars Inc. The band, composed by four italian guys (they're just pretending they're American) just relased ://NEUROMANCE, an electrometal goddamn masterpiece. The limited digipack version (I got the signed one ^__^) looks amazing (DVD size, 32 page booklet with artworks from http://www.neontrinitykill.com/, the album CD and the remix CD, one poster, one sticker and some other stuff). To be honest their music sounds pimping and catchy (not too fast, not too slow, not too soft and not too harsh) but rarely a debut album was so impressive. Ok, if you look at their way of dressing it seems they are screaming from the pics "Girls, now is time to have sex!", but they are talented and good at selling themselves, no doubt about it. The remix CD includes tracks by Spiritual Front (fuck yeah!), Deathstars, Siderartica, Mortiis and so on. The producer is the same guy of Depeche Mode and HIM, so you can be sure you'll hear Dope Stars Inc name's again...By the way, NEUROMANCE "se on vitun hyvä!" / (it's fucking good, for no finnish speakers - that's for Grace Khold, the guy behind the keyboard and the art direction: we had some collaboration several months ago for some Project Ring covers. After a while he disappeared behaving like a prick, but I have to thank him anyway. He was the one convincing me to visit Finland - kiitos - and he is still a good 360° artist!).

You can listen to their songs at: http://www.dopestarsinc.com/downloads.htm
Here's a shot of the limited edition: