Cooking with Satan

La Otracina, Telecult Powers and La Big Vic are playing at the famous Coco 66 in Greenpoint, Brooklyn tonight. The concert starts quite late, which is interesting I think. Things will probably get weird. It’s 5$ and it’s a bunch of great bands so if you happen to be around…

If the Death Star would have been built in 1982 and included, among other things, a disco, you can be sure that this album would have been a total must on the dance floor. Even the bad guys need entertainment, we never think enough about that. Or even where and what they eat for example.
Horror space electro disco rock with a low, evil, guttural voice conducted by Darth Vaders look-alikes.
Weird as fuck, totally funny and entertaining. This record is great.

Warning – Why Can The Bodies Fly

Not much is known about them except they’re coming from Kabul, Afghanistan (says the legend) and make the coolest music videos ever…

Be ready to get mindfuck…

More Mater Suspiria Vision stuff can be found here.

A little homage to one of the greatest photographers of all time, Diane Arbus.
She was known for her black & white photographs of deviant and marginal people, a chronicle of freaks and misfits. If you’re not familiar with her work, you definitely should. Truly, amazingly beautiful.

Fancy a little bit of black thrash attack? Here’s a mix compiled by Fenriz himself for our friends at Vice Magazine in collaboration with A Fist In The Face Of God”.
Fenriz + Vice Magazine? So what? Fenriz rocks and I like Vice Magazine (mostly for this). Plus the mix is pretty good: old-school underground thrash, tight jeans and big sunglasses. Get stupid.

TRAPPED UNDER VICE

Alice Cooper and Friday the 13th are two of the reasons why, yes, it was fucking cool to grew up in the 80’s…

Have you seen this before? Right. Me neither…

I wanted to write a review of the last Burzum album when I just thought there’s no space for bad stuff here… In memory of the good ol’days: Dunkelheit forever.

Here’s a mix I played for the Live Alive opening at the Brachfeld-Gallery in Paris a few months ago. The exhibition consisted in a bunch of t-shirts portraying famous fashion designers the way our favorite bands were in the 80’s. As you already guessed it was a great success as the music was actually a million times better than the exhibition itself.
Now dude, it’s your turn to have fun.

BANG

Look at the man! Isn’t he awesome??? I wanna hug him…

What else can I say?
I like my propaganda better with synths…
Play that shit loud Heintze!!!

CHUCK

From the grey rainy suburbs of Paris, in the stinky basement of some lousy concrete building, emerged in the early 80’s a batch of broke youngsters who, tired of killing boredom by drinking cheap beer and provoking fist fights, eventually started to make some music. Nothing specifically original so far. Some music played by bored broke youngsters drinking cheap beer and provoking fist fights with a pronounced taste for third world drama, social oppression and nunchakus. But Bérurier Noir was born. And by being born in this very specific part of France at this very specific moment in history, they crystallized the voice of a whole generation of pissed-of kids. Up to the barricades, boys and girls. England got The Clash, France got Bérurier Noir. They’re less good musicians but much dirtier, nastier, crazier and definitely bad-ass.
Here’s for your listening pleasure the first 7″ released by this cult french gang.
Mandatory.

NADA!

One day, I’ll go to New-Orleans…

This saturday at Glasslands in Brooklyn (among a million other things): Zola Jesus, Effi Briest, Nice Face and Amen Dunes.
Should be good. Hipster to death, but good…

Probably one of the best band ever, the austrian duo released only masterpieces through its short existence. Good luck to you if you try to put your dirty hands on their albums, they’re now as sought as the holy grail itself.
From music to artwork, absolutely everything is perfect and I can’t think of no band as appealing as this one.
It’s bones and old stones, ritual chants and stories of blood, honor and poisoned daggers.
Here’s a gift to all their admirers and an interesting prelude for the strangers out there. Here’s the long gone “Book Of Lyrics” written by Alzbeth and compiling all the lyrics (and the texts that inspired them) in an astonishing presentation.
Welcome (back) to the crypt.

A few images from Aluk Todolo recent european tour that the band kindly sent me.
Have I ever tell you how AWESOME this band is?

Intense. I can smell from here the stress of the production team…

These two bands will play in Brooklyn on june 26th as part of the Northside festival which takes place on various spots in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Ok, I’ll be honest, I don’t know anything about Floor (I read somewhere that’s their reunion tour) but I do like Unearthly Trance, and I like Pollution even more. Pollution fucking kills you. You hear me?

Founder of Women and Supreme models, Paul Rowland, now creative director at Ford, is also a photographer driven by an “obsession with otherworldliness” and influenced by: “Diane Arbus, Joel-Peter Witkin, Roger Ballen, Francis Bacon, Riccardo Tisci, Morocco, sorcerers, shamans”. One hell of a freak show right? He has shot various things, especially a lot of editorials for V-Magazine, and these polaroids are only the tip of the iceberg but this is most likely where my preference goes. Good stuff.

Paul Rowland website is here.

Hey BMers, here’s one to you…

Hey guys, as you might have noticed I didn’t really have time to upload this website lately. The main reason is that I’ve been shutting down everything here in Paris for my imminent and permanent departure to NYC. And that’s quite a hassle, from doing cryptic paperwork for visa to emptying the total mess that became my apartment…
Actually I’m taking my plane tomorrow, early afternoon. And I can’t tell you how much I’m excited. Not to go too much into details, I’ll be more or less away from my laptop these next four weeks so don’t expect anything much going on here.
Thanks for your support and understanding. Now you can check what’s below or fuck off.

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on this note:

Hey, if you happen to be in Paris, don’t miss this show tonight:
Monarch, Desecrator (man, this band still exists?) & Black Widow will be playing with a free entrance fee in support of “Le Kiosque” (don’t ask me more about that).
I like the bands, I like the spirit and what a fucking cool flyer!!! See you at the bar!

One of my favorite punk-rock album ever…
Last summer, I was blasting this stuff in my headphones, walking up the 5th avenue at a very decisive moment of my life. “How Lonely” was the song, stuck on “repeat” and surprisingly related to everything I lived before, that feeling just can’t be wrong.
I uploaded this stuff for my old friend Charlie Savant, my true initiator to the punk realm.
Get yourself a drink and play this shit loud as fuck!

here

You were wrong to dress up the New-York Dolls in a red latex outfit but we do forgive you. Rest in peace, you goofy cockney dandy…

This week-end I have a special thought for these guys…
You could call that gratitude.
Again, Lech Kowalski is a beast. Seems like this film was never properly released on DVD but some downloads can be found here and there for the smart ones…
Here’s the first episode of a ten parter available on Youtube.
So long Johnny!

As part of “…On The Road To Death Tour”, three killer bands from the french BM elite will be playing in Paris on the 5th of april.
Hell Militia (featuring Willy from Mütiilation on vocals), Blacklodge (featuring Shantidas from Diamatregon/Aluk Todolo as VJ and TV) and Aosoth. If you don’t choke on your easter bunny, come over and celebrate.

Are you ready for a unique tremendous journey through infinite desolation?
Sit down at dusk in your favorite armchair, take one deep breath, relax, now you can press play and close your eyes, you just bought your ticket to another world.
You’re going to wake up on that sinking ship, going deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper…
And it won’t take long for you to realize, there’s no way out on the Salt Marie Celeste.
This shit is going to blow your mind! Ambient in its purest form!!!