A creative journey through adversities and obstacles personified through the elements of the earth, and sinister internal forces the imminent wrath of which is unleashed to test your will to get to the end. To claim your Emerald. The main theme is obtaining self-completion, making it by experiencing self-awareness and spiritual elevation by facing the good, the ugly and the evil that is inside us, the bag of Aeolus that is buried in each of our souls. With an album that is intelligently full of melodic intricacies, controversies, paganistic atmosphere and metal weight, it also has vision and pours insight into the sweaty strenuous processes of creation, having to the go through its 40 waves with you being at Those Winds mercy.
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Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door… Layne Staley
My monthly article, “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door”, published in Burst Magazine.
Issue 23, December 2014 features Layne Staley, pg. 12-13.
See full issue here: http://afternoiz.com/burst/item/7694-december-2014
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door…Marvin Gaye
My monthly article, “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door”, published in Burst Magazine.
Issue 21, October 2014 features Marvin Gaye.
See full issue here: http://afternoiz.com/burst/item/7517-october-2014
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door… Frank Zappa
My monthly article, “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door”, published in Burst Magazine.
Issue 22, November 2014 features Frank Zappa.
See full issue here: http://afternoiz.com/burst/item/7586-november-2014
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door … Jim Morisson
My monthly article, “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door”, published in Burst Magazine.
Double Issue 20, September 2014 features Jim Morisson, pg. 14-16.
See full issue here: http://afternoiz.com/burst/item/7451-september-2014
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door … Rory Gallagher
My monthly article, “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door”, published in Burst Magazine.
Issue 19, July 2014 features Rory Gallagher, pg. 12-14.
See full issue here: http://afternoiz.com/burst/item/7211-july-2014
Rockwave Festival Day 4
On a typical Tuesday evening in early July, with temperatures reaching a scorching 34 degrees celcius and after a full day’s work, I could think of nothing better to do than to make my way to TerraVibe, pumped up for listening to some quality music. An irritating fact of this year’s Rockwave festival (apart from it’s overall incongruous choice of acts) was that half of it was held on weekdays, and I regretfully was unable to be at the grounds for the start of day 4. Mahakala, Tardive Dyskinesia, Acid Death, Opera Chaotique, Chaostar, I’m sure you all did a good job despite the lack of people and the undying sun.
The mesmerizing Dead Can Dance were on my ‘Unmissable Acts’ list; even if they were playing in a cave or on the top of a cliff somewhere, I would not hesitate to attend. Actually, the setting of a (fenced!) cliff top with a view of the vast sea at sunset would be an excellent choice for a venue; perhaps I should put a suggestion in for future consideration.
Septic Flesh, whom I had seen once before, are one of the few Greek bands that have achieved world acclaim in their field, Symphonic Death Metal, so paying my respects to them for that.
Monophonics, the groovers, the funkers, the soul shakers, I was psyched to see, I had not had the chance to see them on their last visit to Athens nine months ago, and boy did they funk our world.
Craig Walker, ex member of Archive, I admit I was entirely indifferent to begin with, so his act had the best chance out of making a good impression from a clean slate. Let’s see how that went.
SPIRITUAL BEGGARS @ Kyttaro, 11.10.13 with Full House Brew Crew, Six for Nine, Drunk Motherfuckers.
Arriving at the venue, regrettably later than scheduled due to horrendous traffic, Drunk Motherfuckers were already laying out some of their usual quality stoner riffs. The sound blasting out of the amps was overwhelming, a combination of playing at Kyttaro that is a shoe-in venue, and the perks of opening for a band with nearly 20 years of music on their resume. Drunk motherfuckers played some of the old, with the usual excitement even more so than the time I last saw them. They also played some new stuff, closing their set strictly after 35 minutes of down tempo’ed hard stoner rock, with riffs that were free and unhinged keeping the crowd on their toes as the tone changed to sludge in some cases, hints of Sabbath and then back to their signature Drunk n ‘Roll desert ramblings. These guys are good to listen to, drunk or sober. Continue reading SPIRITUAL BEGGARS @ Kyttaro, 11.10.13 with Full House Brew Crew, Six for Nine, Drunk Motherfuckers.
Mahakala, Black Hat Bones, Forsaken Memoriam, Burn the Sun @ Six D.o.g.s, 29/06/13, Athens, Greece
On Saturday G.U.M (Greek Underground Music) presented the first of (what we assume to be) more fests, consisting of four bands that roughly played between 40-50 minutes each. Two, I knew already: Mahalaka have been high profiling my musical preferences for some time now, and having released their new concept album two months ago, I could not resist paying close attention to the occult thematology which I find mischievously engaging. Black Hat Bones I had seen once before, receiving their promo four track teaser (from their upcoming album) in late 2011. The album is still under construction two and a half years later. The other two bands Burn the Sun and Forsaken Memoriam were new additions to my Greek band database. Continue reading Mahakala, Black Hat Bones, Forsaken Memoriam, Burn the Sun @ Six D.o.g.s, 29/06/13, Athens, Greece
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