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Leprous Release Weirdly Twisted Video For ‘Restless’

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Still one of my favorite releases this year, LeprousBilateral (review) is a prog rock/metal album that is destined to become one of the timeless classics of music. Now, the band has released a video for Restless that is just as weird and twisted as the album. I got a lot of Black Hole Sun vibes from this video in that everything was surreal and nothing could be figured out at first glance. Check it out after the jump and make sure to check out our exclusive interview with vocalist/synths Einar Solberg.

AMORPHIS + LEPROUS – European Tour 2011/2012:
WED 02.11.2011 (Estonia) TALLINN – Rock Cafe
THU 03.11.2011 (Latvia) RIGA – Melna Piektdiena
FRI 04.11.2011 (Lithuania) VILNIUS – Mulen Ruzas
SAT 05.11.2011 (Poland) WARSAW – Progresja
SUN 06.11.2011 (Poland) CRACOW – Kwadrat
TUE 08.11.2011 (Romania) SIBIU – Oldies Pub
WED 09.11.2011 (Romania) BUCHAREST – Silver Church Club
THU 10.11.2011 (Bulgaria) SOFIA – The 4th kilometer
FRI 11.11.2011 (Turkey) ISTANBUL – Romeo and Juliette
SAT 12.11.2011 (Greece) THESSALONIKI – Block 33
SUN 13.11.2011 (Greece) ATHENS – Gagarin 205
TUE 15.11.2011 (Italy) TREVISO – New Age
WED 16.11.2011 (Italy) MILAN – Alcatraz
THU 17.11.2011 (France) LYON – Ninkasi Kao
FRI 18.11.2011 (Spain) BARCELONA – Bikini
SAT 19.11.2011 (Spain) MADRID – Sala Heineken
SUN 20.11.2011 (Portugal) PORTO – Club Hard
TUE 22.11.2011 (Portugal) LISBON – Incrível Almadense
WED 23.11.2011 (Spain) SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA – Sala Capitol
THU 24.11.2011 (Spain) BARAKALDO – Rock Star Live
FRI 25.11.2011 (France) TOULOUSE – Le Phare
SAT 26.11.2011 (France) PARIS – Divan du Monde
SUN 27.11.2011 (England) LONDON – O2 Academy Islington
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MON 26.12.2011 (Germany) JENA – F-Haus
TUE 27.12.2011 (Germany) BOCHUM – Zeche
WED 28.12.2011 (Germany) OSNABRÜCK – Hyde Park
THU 29.12.2011 (Germany) HANNOVER – Capitol
FRI 30.12.2011 (Germany) KARLSRUHE – Substage
SAT 31.12.2011 (Switzerland) PRATTELN – Z7
TUE 03.01.2012 (Germany) SAARBRÜCKEN – Garage
WED 04.01.2012 (Germany) NÜRNBERG – Hirsch
THU 05.01.2012 (Austria) SALZBURG – Rockhouse
FRI 06.01.2012 (Austria) GRAZ – Explosiv
SAT 07.01.2012 (Slovakia) BRATISLAVA – Majestic Music Club
SUN 08.01.2012 (Hungary) BUDAPEST – Club 202
TUE 10.01.2012 (Austria) VIENNA – Szene
WED 11.01.2012 (Czech Republic) PRAGUE – Abaton
THU 12.01.2012 (Germany) ASCHAFFENBURG – Colos-Saal
FRI 13.01.2012 (The Netherlands) EINDHOVEN – Dynamo Club
SAT 14.01.2012 (Belgium) VOSSELAAR – Biebob
SUN 15.01.2012 (The Netherlands) HENGELO – Metropool

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‘Lost Themes IV: Noir’ – John Carpenter Announces New Album & Releases New Music Video!

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(l-r) Cody Carpenter, John Carpenter, Daniel Davies - Photo Credit: Sophie Gransard

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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