Situation of the Hungarian metal life

The best albums and favorite (international / Hungarian) bands in 2014 by the readers of biggest Hungarian hard rock and heavy metal magazine, HammerWorld:

Kínos                    Embarrassing

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Alternative selection by RNR666

Triptykon  Black Magic Six  Midnight  Correction House  Liturgy  Lantern

Steam Engine  Zeni Geva  Zu  Bo Ningen  Boris  Oozing Wound

Bölzer  makrohang  Gustave Tiger  OvO

Two London based bands
an all female post punk noise rock band with French singer and Turkish bassist:
Savages (Matador Records) &
an all Japanese psychedelic rock band, similar to another Japanese band, Boris:
Bo Ningen
are in a special collaboration

London 2012. Savages are recording the debut album. In the middle of an intense three weeks, they set out one evening to see the band Bo Ningen. A few days later producer Johnny Hostile begins to muse over the possibility of two bands playing in the same space at the same time.  Concurrently Gemma Thopson of Savages is reading about the performances at the Cabaret Voltaire.

“Zurich in 1916 and Hugo Ball is instrumental in creating the Cabaret Voltaire – a club which will become central to the performances of the Dada movement, during which the artists would experiment with forms of sound poetry and simultaneous poetry. A movement created through the horror of World War One, it attempts to understand how society has reached such an illogical decision. Through simultaneous poetry begins the attempt to delve into chaos and maelstrom, to find the voice of the individual struggling to be heard. We decide to approach Bo Ningen with the idea of collaborating on a Sonic Simultaneous Poem.”

The idea begins to take shape in early 2013, they prepare for both bands to rehearse together in a studio with a loose composition based around five chapters. As the musicians of both bands consider how to apply themselves with their instruments to each chapter – revolving, colliding and intertwining with words sang in Japanese, French and English. They also envisage the physical space in which to perform.

„We imagine a stage in a large u-shape to contain as much of the audience as possible in the centre. The two drummers next to each other at the ‘bottom’ of the u, then leading around symmetrically (facing each other): guitarists, bassists and singers at the tips of the u-shape. Bo Ningen have a guitar extra, so we hang one from the ceiling to hit as you would a gong. Eventually we fix a date and a space for what we believe is a one-off performance that we name „Words To The Blind.” It was performed at The Red Gallery, London on May 29th 2013. The 37-minutes long track will be released on November 17th by Stolen Recordings (UK) and Pop Noire Records (France).

Snippets from the performance

They will do it again together this on 19 November at the Oval Space, London.
Tickets have been sold out.

They said: acid punk. I say: psychedelic rock. Influenced by kraut rock and Japanese pop. Similar to another Japanese band, Boris.

BO NINGEN – SLIDER

from the album III on Stolen Recordings (UK)

Their short story: 2006. Two Japaneses meet in London and form the Bo Ningen. Give only one show where the audience to force them to cease music. 2007. One of them meets another Japanese. Big happiness. They play music for 10 hours per day. Finally the drummer is coming towards them.

English based Japanese psychedelic noise rock attack, or Zeni Geva light:

from the album III by Stolen Recordings

Their short story: 2006. Two Japaneses meet in London and form the Bo Ningen. Give only one show where the audience to force them to cease music. 2007. One of them meets another Japanese. Big happiness. They play music for 10 hours per day. Finally the drummer is coming towards them.

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Tender is a brand new Hollander vinyl only record label,  their musical spectrum ranges from soul to garage punk. The 5th release is the debut single of Chasing Rainbows. It’s a Santa Barbara (California)/Amsterdam based music collective with 5 core members. One of them is Henk Jonkers, a multi-instrumentalist, who is active in the Dutch scene in various alt/blues/punk/rock bands from the mid-80s, for example: Fatal Flowers, Molly Rotten, 13, Do The Undo, Hallo Venray, etc, as well as produced albums for Claw Boys Claw, zZz and more. Chasing Rainbows play 60s style psychedelic, „roots” influenced garage rock.

2006. Two Japanese meet in London and form the Bo Ningen. Give only one show where the audience to force them to cease music. 2007. One of them meets another Japanese. Big happiness. They play music for 10 hours per day. Finally the drummer is coming towards them. Psychedelic hard rock and roll, or Zeni Geva light:

 Line The Wall LP by Stolen Recordings

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Parquet Courts have been making great garage punk rock music since 2010. Their first LP was a big surprise. This EP is sometimes Fall- and Country Teaser-like folky punk rock’n’roll, and hip hop:

EP by What’s Your Rupture?

European Dates Oct 14-31
Ireland, Holland, Danmark, Germany, Belgium, Italy, France, UK

The singer/guitarist Andrew Savage is member of Fergus and Geronimo. It is the first recorded musical manifestation of space funk paranoia. He is Fergus. Geronimo’s other band is the minimal electro new wave Future Punx

A francia coldwave hullám hajnalán, de nem, inkább 9 óra tájban, a Trop Tard nem sokat vacakolt, egyből kazettára vették fel számaikat. Amikből két kazetta készült: ’87, ’88. A Sacredbones úgy gondolta itt az ideje (18:45), hogy a nagyvilág is megismerkedjen velük, ezért pár száz példányban kiadta mind a kettőt, hozzácsapott még csak válogatásokon megjelent és kiadatlan felvételeket. 3XLP.

Why Not? 

A két kazetta 2012-es CD kiadása idén májusban ITT is. (A You Tube-on találsz néhány számot tőlük!)

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2006: Két japán találkozik Londondban. Megalakítják a Bo Ningent. Egyetlen koncertet adnak, melynek a közönség vet véget. 2007: Egyikük találkozik egy másik japánnal. Nagy az öröm. Napi 10 órát zenélnek együtt. Végül a gitárosok mellé szembe jön egy dobos. Igen, az.

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