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Blackest of the Black Festival to Hold Danzig Listening Party, Autograph Session!
From Misfits to Danzig, the 61-year-old Glenn Danzig is still at it, with his latest album, Black Laden Crown, releasing on May 26th.
To celebrate the release, Danzig fans in the Los Angeles area are in for a treat, especially if they can make their way to the Blackest of the Black Festival. Not only is the show Danzig’s kick-off tour, but there will be a private listening party to go along with an autograph session surrounding the event curated by the legendary rocker!
Band performance times have been announced for the highly anticipated KLOS Presents Blackest Of The Black Destination Festival, coming to Oak Canyon Park in Silverado, CA in Orange County this Memorial Day Weekend, Friday, May 26th and Saturday, May 27th. The brainchild of Glenn Danzig, the event not only serves as a music festival but as a cultural experience: an escape. The festival will be hosted by Full Metal Jackie and will feature camping, along with a number of sinister attractions, and two music stages curated by Danzig.
With performances by some of the heaviest acts around, Blackest Of The Black includes Danzig’s first confirmed U.S. headline appearance of 2017. VIP doors open at 3:30 p.m and General Admission doors open at 4:00 p.m. Band performance times for Blackest Of The Black are as follows (subject to change):
Friday, May 26th:
9:30 PM – Suicidal Tendencies
8:30 PM – Corrosion Of Conformity
7:40 PM – Discharge
6:55 PM – Deafheaven
6:10 PM – Suicide Silence
5:30 PM – Butcher Babies
5:00 PM – 3Teeth
Saturday, May 27th:
8:55 PM – Danzig
7:40 PM – Ministry
6:40 PM – VAMPS
5:40 PM – Atreyu
4:55 PM – Venom Inc.
4:10 PM – Marduk
3:25 PM – DevilDriver
2:45 PM – Combichrist
2:05 PM – Ghoul
1:30 PM – Ritual
The festival has also announced Blackest After Dark: an exclusive after party that will be held on the Blackest Of The Black festival grounds. The event will serve as a listening party for Danzig’s new album Black Laden Crown, which will be spun in full, as well as heavy music from KLOS. Kicking off at 10:30 p.m. and lasting late into the night, the carnival rides and bar will remain open for the duration of the party. Admission to Blackest After Dark is included in Friday’s festival admission.
Glenn Danzig’s comic book company Verotik will be hosting special signings at their booth during the festival, including signings from Danzig himself, only on Friday, May 26th. Additionally, award-winning comic book artist Simon Bisley will be signing on both nights of the festival, Friday, May 26th and Saturday, May 27th.
The Verotik area is only one of a slew of dark attractions to be featured at Blackest Of The Black. The festival will also feature a roaming freak show filled with contortionists, demons, and more, thrill rides, and a Sugar Skull Contest. The main attraction, Castle Danzig is a fully immersive walkthrough experience of agony and ecstasy, all based on the music and graphic novels of Glenn Danzig. Within the vicinity of the eerie castle and courtyard, attendees will find a sacrifice altar, bondage stage, suspension stage, electro stage, blood bath, a padded cell, stocks, cage dancers, and more!
Information on tickets, VIP packages, camping and more can be found at www.BlackestFest.com.
Please note that festival admission is not included with camping spots.
Blackest Of The Black is produced by Synergy Global Entertainment (SGE), and presented by KLOS 95.5 FM. Sponsors for Blackest Of The Black include Modelo, Rockstar Energy Drink, Cosmic Fog, Musicians Institute, Blackcraft Whiskey, SlideBar, and more.
For more information on Blackest Of The Black, visit: http://www.BlackestFest.com
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‘Lost Themes IV: Noir’ – John Carpenter Announces New Album & Releases New Music Video!
John Carpenter has been teasing big news for a couple weeks now and all has been revealed this morning. Carpenter is back with Lost Themes IV: Noir from Sacred Bones Records!
Lost Themes IV: Noir is the latest installment in a series that sees Carpenter releasing new music for John Carpenter movies that don’t actually exist. The first Lost Themes was released in 2015, followed by Lost Themes II in 2016 and Lost Themes III: Alive After Death in 2021.
John Carpenter called the first Lost Themes album “a soundtrack for the movies in your mind.”
From John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies, Lost Themes IV: Noir is set for release on May 3 via Sacred Bones Records. The album pays tribute to Noir cinema!
In conjunction with the announcement, they’ve shared a music video for the album’s first single, “My Name Is Death”, a miniature noir film directed by Ambar Navarro, starring Natalie Mering (Weyes Blood), Staz Lindes (The Paranoyds) and Misha Lindes (SadGirl). “Noir is a uniquely American genre born in post-war cinema,” states Carpenter. “ We grew up loving Noir and were influenced by it for this new album. The video celebrates this style and our new song, My Name is Death.”
Sacred Bones previews, “The scene-setting new single marks new territory for Carpenter and his cohorts, propelled by a driving post-punk bassline that is embellished by washes of atmospheric synth, pulsing drum machine, and, at the song’s climax, a smoldering guitar solo.”
“Sandy [King, John’s wife and producer] had given John a book for Christmas, of pictures from noir films, all stills from that era,” Davies says of the lightbulb moment for Lost Themes IV. “I was looking through it, and I thought, ‘I like that imagery, and what those titles make me think of. What if we loosely based it around that? What if the titles were of some of John’s favorite noir films?’ Some of the music is heavy guitar riffs, which is not in old noir films. But somehow, it’s connected in an emotional way.”
Sacred Bones notes, “Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes the songs on Lost Themes IV ‘noirish’ is sometimes slippery and hard to define, and not merely reducible to a collection of tropes. The scores for the great American noir pictures were largely orchestral, while the Carpenters and Davies work off a sturdy synth-and-guitar backbone. The noir quality, then, is something you understand instinctively when you hear it.”
“It’s been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that became the initial Lost Themes, his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood’s great second acts,” the label explains. “Those vibrant, synth-driven songs, made in collaboration with his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, kickstarted a musical renaissance for the pioneering composer and director. In the years since, Carpenter, Carpenter, and Davies have released close to a dozen musical projects, including a growing library of studio albums and the scores for David Gordon Green’s trilogy of Halloween reboots. It helped that they grew up in a musical environment. Daniel’s dad is The Kinks’ Dave Davies, and he would pop by the L.A. studio – the same one the Lost Themes records are made in today – to jam, or to perform at wrap parties for John’s films. That innate free-flowing chemistry helps Lost Themes IV: Noir run like a well-oiled machine—the 1951 Jaguar XK120 Roadster from Kiss Me Deadly, perhaps, or the 1958 Plymouth Fury from John’s own Christine. It’s a chemistry that’s helped power one of the most productive stretches of John’s creative life, and Noir proves that it’s nowhere near done yielding brilliant results.”
Here’s the full Lost Themes IV: Noir track list:
1. My Name is Death
2. Machine Fear
3. Last Rites
4. The Burning Door
5. He Walks By Night
6. Beyond The Gallows
7. Kiss The Blood Off My Fingers
8. Guillotine
9. The Demon’s Shadow
10. Shadows Have A Thousand Eyes
The following physical variants will be available:
- Sacred Bones Exclusive Red on Clear Splatter vinyl w/ Screen Printed 7” bonus track “Black Cathedral”, a Silver Foil Stamped Jacket and poster.
- Sacred Bones Society Exclusive on Black and White Splatter on Clear w/ Screen Printed 7” bonus track “Black Cathedral”, a Silver Foil Stamped Jacket and poster.
- All retail Transparent Red, with a Gold Foil Stamped Jacket and poster.
- Indie Exclusive Tan and Black Marble, w/ Screen Printed 7” bonus track “Black Cathedral”, a Gold Foil Stamped Jacket and poster.
- Rough Trade Exclusive Oxblood Red and Black Splatter, w/ Screen Printed 7” bonus track “Black Cathedral”, a Gold Foil Stamped Jacket and poster.
- Shout Exclusive Black and Clear cloudy, w/ Screen Printed 7” bonus track “Black Cathedral”, a Gold Foil Stamped Jacket and poster.
- Black LP, with a Gold Foil Stamped Jacket and poster.
- CD
- Tape
You can pre-save Lost Themes IV: Noir right now!
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