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BD Infected Musician Spotlight: AbdeCaf

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There are over 200,000 registered Infected members here on Bloody-Disgusting. So it only stands to reason that a good chunk of you are musicians. And, believe it or not, I want to hear your stuff! More so, I want to share it with the rest of the community that you are such a part of. After all, aren’t we just one big happy family?

So today I want to spotlight BD Infected member v0dka4arussian, who goes by the artist name AbdeCaf. You can find all sorts of awesome information and music samples below, as well as a free download of his Unravel EP!

If you want to be a spotlighted artist, contact me via one of the methods at the bottom of this article.

AbdeCaf: I’ve been doing this project for only 6 months, and have only released music with it for 4 months. My first single ”Feed Your Brain” came out February 8th, and I sent it to Diplo who favorited it on his Soundcloud, making it the only song in his favorites, and causing it to chart on the Soundcloud Indie Chart. After that I opened for Com Truise locally as my first show. Since then I’ve signed with the William Morris Endeavor (Bloody Beetroots, Swedish House Mafia, Holy Ghost!) for booking, dropped my first EP Unravel for free, and been booked to play VELD Music Fest, Electric Zoo, Counter Point and North Coast.

Tour dates:
Right now my agent’s working on a tour for the fall but my current dates are:
July 20th – Ft. Lauderdale FL w/ Zed’s Dead
August 4th – Toronto Canada – VELD Electronic Music Festival
August 31st – Chicago, Illinois – North Coast Festival
September 1st – Randalls Island, New York – Electric Zoo Festival
September 27th – Atlanta, GA – Counter Point Festival

Favorite horror movies:
This is such a crazy list, I feel like even this won’t fully encompass my tastes but:
A Serbian Film, The Seventh Seal (can’t even begin to explain how much I love this film) Cannibal Holocaust, Halloween 1,2,4,5,H20, Ressurection and Rob Zombie’s two remakes, The Loved Ones, Kill List, Paranormal Activity 2 and 3, Slaughtered Vomit Dolls, ReGOREgitated Sacrifice, Slow Torture Puke Chamber, Perfume, August Underground series, Guinea pig series, Cannibal Ferox, Il Ultimo Mondo Cannibale, Suspiria, Profondo Rosso, The Bird With The Crystal Plumage, Amer, Wolf Creek, Begotten, House of the Devil, I Saw the Devil, Oldboy (even though it’s not really horror), Nekromantic, The Anthropomorphic Beast, The Dead, A Nightmare on Elm Street (every film except for that reviling sequel), Friday The 13th (all of em), Evil Dead 1-2 and Army of Darkness, Attack the Block, Chronicle, The original Psycho, Audition, Tokyo Gore Police, Riki O’ the Story of Riki, Every ”Of the Dead” film that George A Romero did and the Remake of Dawn of the Dead that Zack Snyder did, The Human Centipede, They Live, The Thing (the original only), Zombi 2, Cannibal Apocalypse, I Spit on Your Grave (original), Last House on the Left (original and remake), Blood Moon, Violent Shit, Hobo With a Shotgun, Rubber, and of course there’s tons I’m probably forgetting.

Composers that inspire me, at least in the realm of film:
Trent Reznor, John Carpenter, Clint Mansell, Goblin

Unravel EP (free download)

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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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