Over the last 24 hours I spotted some announcements about some unholy festivals that I thought were worth passing along:
CALIFORNIA DEATHFEST 2016
They probably still haven’t finished cleaning up the Oakland Metro after the inaugural edition of the California Deathfest in October (which I scribbled about in these posts), and now CDF has already announced the initial list of bands for the follow-up installment of the festival on October 14-16, 2016 — and it’s a damned fine beginning. Take a look:
Angelcorpse
Birdflesh (Sweden)
Blood Incantation
Dead in the Manger
Demilich (Finland)
Excruciating Terror
Necrosic
Revenge (Canada)
Rites of Thy Degringolade (Canada)
Ruins of Beverast (Germany)
Spectral Voice
Along with this announcement, the organizers of CDF also stated that many more bands will be announced very soon, and that early-bird weekend passes will also go on sale soon. Watch this space:
https://www.facebook.com/events/903809173039432/
UNCONQUERED DARKNESS FEST
This morning Invictus Productions and Dark Descent Records announced the final line-up for the Unconquered Darkness Fest, which will take place at the Voodoo Lounge in Dublin, Ireland, from April 30 through May 1, 2016. And it’s a hell of a line-up:
Morpheus Descends
Adversarial
Possession
Maveth
Lantern
Krypts
Corpsessed
Head of the Demon
Lvcifyre
Antiversum
Lucifericon
Malthusian
Malokarpatan
Anguish
Sheol
QRIXKUOR
Obscure Burial
ZOM
Vircolac
Ellorsith
Apostate Viaticum
I’ve always wanted to visit Dublin in the springtime. To hear the birds singing, to see the trees budding, to be sacrificed on a sonic altar of death and degradation… wouldn’t that just be glorious?
Tickets are on sale now at these locations:
www.invictusproductions.net
www.darkdescentrecords.com
NIDROSIAN BLACK MASS V
This is kind of an 11th hour announcement, because this next festival is set to begin tomorrow. Presented by Terratur Possessions and A Thousand Lost Civilizations, the fifth and final edition of Nidrosian Black Mass will take place at Atelier 210 and Magasin4 in Brussels, Belgium, and will consist of this running order of bands:
DECEMBER 2
Venue: Atelier 210
22H30 – 23H30 ONE TAIL, ONE HEAD
21H20 – 22H10 SVARTIDAUDI
20H15 – 21H00 DROWNED
19H10 – 19H55 MISTHYRMING
18H00 – 18H50 CULT OF FIRE
14H30 – [……..] PHURPA
DECEMBER 3
Venue: Magasin4
21h05 – 22H05 URFAUST
18H55 – 20H45 CLANDESTINE BLAZE/MGLA
17H35 – 18H35 NEGATIVE PLANE
16H30 – 17H15 PSEUDOGOD
DECEMBER 4
Venue: Magasin4
22H30 – 23H30 MARE feat. LAMIA VOX
21H20 – 22H10 BLASPHEMY
20H15 – 21H05 ARCHGOAT
19H15 – 19H55 NYOGTHAEBLISZ
18H05 – 18H55 NIGHTBRINGER
17H00 – 17H45 BÖLZER
DECEMBER 5
Venue: Magasin4
23H30 – [……..] PERTURBATOR
22H15 – 23H15 DARK SONORITY feat. KAOSRITUAL songs.
20H45 – 21H55 THE RUINS OF BEVERAST
19H15 – 20H25 LVCIFYRE
18H05 – 18H55 AOSOTH
17H00 – 17H45 SINMARA
Sure wish I could be at this event.
NORTH DISSONANT VOICES
This final item is a smaller and more localized event than the festivals noted above, but it caught my eye because of some interesting names in the line-up of musical performers.
The event is called North Dissonant Voices and it will take place on January 2, 2016, at CAVE 45 in Porto, Portugal. Organized principally by the Signal Rex label, it will include a book release by graphic artist Pedro Esteves (the book is Fogo Adverso, and more info about the artist can be found here), an art exhibition called Gongs & Cymbals by percussionist, going-maker, and cymbalsmith João Filipe Pais (go here for more info about his work), a DJ set, and performances by these bands:
Atila
Örök
Vaee Solis
Nevoa
Memoirs Of A Secret Empire
Vaee Solis was one of the bands included in our friend Gorger’s inaugural edition of what appears to be a continuing NCS series, Beneath the NCS Radar, and they are a great new discovery. I’ve only just begun to explore the music of the other bands, listening to only a few tracks from the latest releases by each one, but it’s all very interesting and very fine music (just packaging the first four bands together would make for a fascinating Shades of Black post, and from what I’ve heard so far, Memoirs is making some spellbinding post-metal). In case you feel like going exploring, too, I’ve included Bandcamp streams for releases by all the bands below.
Yeah, you knew I’d eventually find a way to work some music into this post.
For more info about North Dissonant Voices, visit these pages:
http://www.signalrex.com
https://www.facebook.com/northdissonantvoices/
https://www.facebook.com/events/1060530823965334
https://www.facebook.com/CAVE-45-422226761262949