PITTY APPRECIATION POST

Hey guy :B
So, I adopted the cat, my mom's taking care of him right now XD 
Today I'll talk about Brazilian music for the first time ^-^
Pitty (Priscilla Novaes Leone, born October 7, 1977) is a rock singer born in Salvador, Bahia. She had played in two bands, Shes and Inkoma, before starting her solo career in 2003. She has sold over 2 million copies in her career, being one of the best selling rock artists in the 2000s and was voted the sexiest rock singer of Latin America and Brazil, and the 35th sexiest rock singer in the world in 2010.Pitty won several awards at the MTV Video Music Brazil, among them Artist of the Year twice, Video of the Year, Best Live Performance, and three times as the lead singer of the Dream Band. Pitty won approximately 51 awards during his seven year career.

Backing band
Martin – lead guitar, backup vocals
Joe – bass guitar, backup vocals
Duda – drums, backup vocals

Official website: http://www.pitty.com.br/#page=home (in Portuguese) 

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pitty/133281290022124

Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/bandapitty

Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/pittyleone

That's it ^-^

Have a nice week

Bye o/

LEICHENWETTER APPRECIATION POST

Hey guys :B
So, yesterday, on the post about NDH I said something about that band called Leichenwetter, and I really liked the fact they use poems on their songs, so I decided to make my last post this weekend about them ^-^
 The band was founded in 1996 in Iserlohn,  when guitarist Dawe and singer Numen recorded their first songs. Their aim was to bring back to life the lyrics of dead German poets.With names like Dawe (guitar), Numen (vocals), Cpt. Loft (bass), und RaweN (drums) they released the CD "Nachtwerke" in 1998 and their songs became part of some compilations. In 2001 they released the EP called "Schönheit ist rauh", and another album ("Urworte", 2003), but the official discography starts in the year 2005 when they release "Letzte Worte". In January 2007 the band releases in Europe the follow-up "Klage" with new songs and lyrics of dead poets.

After bassplayer Cpt. Loft leaves the band in 2009 due to personal reasons he is soon replaced by Doc. Bawin.


Poems used

Gottfried Benn - Requiem
Gottfried August Bürger - Schwanenlied
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff - Letzte Worte
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff - Mondnacht
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Gesang der Geister über den Wassern
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Grenzen der Menschheit
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Selige Sehnsucht
Andreas Gryphius - Menschliches Elende
Albrecht Haushofer - Mutter
Christian Friedrich Hebbel - Requiem
Heinrich Heine - Altes Lied
Heinrich Heine - Die schlesischen Weber
Hermann Hesse - An einem Grabe
Hermann Hesse - Im Nebel
Hermann Hesse - Traurigkeit
Hermann Hesse - Verführer
Georg Heym - Ophelia
Georg Heym - Und die Hörner des Sommers verstummten
Else Lasker-Schüler - Nur dich
Else Lasker-Schüler - Senna Hoy
Else Lasker-Schüler - Weltende
Friedrich Nietzsche - Ecce Homo
Friedrich Schiller - Sehnsucht
Georg Trakl - Klage
Georg Trakl - Allerseelen
Franz Werfel - Dort und hier
Yvan Goll - Feuerharfe
Traditional - Schnitterlied

 (Info from wikipedia)

Official website: http://www.leichenwetter.de/

Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/leichenwetter

That's it ^-^

Have a nice weekend

Bye

AMATORY APPRECIATION POST

Hey ^-^ 

So, last year I found (*cough* friend *cough*) this band.
 Amatory is a nu metal*,death metal, metalcore, and melodic death metal band from Saint Petersburg, Russia.They won two awards at the Russian Alternative Music Prize in 2005 and had a tour across Russia, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Moldova, Belarus, Ukraine and Finland.
 

Current members
Alexander [ALEX] Pavlov — Guitars
Denis [DENVER] Zhivotovsky — Bass / Back up vocals
Dmitry [JAY] Rubanosky — Guitars
Daniil [STEWART] Svetlov — Drums
Slava [SLAVA] Sokoloff — Vocals

Past members
[LEXUS] — vocals
Evgeny [PJ] Potehin — vocals, guitar (drafted for military service before the recording of Хлеб)
Sergey [GANG] Osechkin — died 15.03.07
Igor [IGOR] Kapranov — Vocals, left the band during the summer 2010 to join Russian Orthodox Church

Official website: http://www.amatory.ru/
Unofficial fan club: http://amatory4u.com/
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/amatory1

*NU METAL: also known as nü-metal, aggro-metal, neo-metal or new metal, is a subgenre of heavy metal which combines elements of heavy metal with other genres, including grunge and hip hop. The genre gained mainstream success in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

That's it, I think I'm going to sleep now XD

Probably, I won't write here until monday, because tomorrow I'll adopt a cat and I'll have to take care of him.  >^-^<

Bye, have a great weekend 

DIE FANTASTICHEN VIER APPRECIETION POST

Hey :B

 So there's another awesome German band that ~someone~ showed me  LOL

Die Fantastischen Vier (The Fantastic Four), also known as Fanta 4, is a German hip hop group from Stuttgart, Germany. The members are Michael Bernd Schmidt alias Smudo, Andreas Rieke alias And.Ypsilon, Thomas Dürr alias Hausmeister (janitor) Thomas D and Michael 'Michi' Beck alias Dee Jot Hausmarke. They were among the first groups to rap in German.Towards the end of the 1980s, Rieke and Schmidt formed the "Terminal Team", Dürr and Beck joined in 1989. Under the new name Die Fantastischen Vier(The Fantastic Four), they made German hip hop, or Deutschen Sprechgesang (German spoken-song) as they called it, popular in Germany. Although there were German hip-hop artists prior to them, it was Die Fantastischen Vier who registered the first chart hit with their 1992 single "Die da?!" from the album 4 Gewinnt, hitting #2 in Germany and #1 in Austria and Switzerland.After traveling to LA in the 1980s, the group realized the lack of connection between the struggles of "the poor Blacks in the U.S. and middle-class Whites in Germany," and made a conscious effort to move away from the typical and cliché American gangster rap (they did it :B), reacting with tongue-in-cheek humor to verbal attacks of alleged German gangsta rappers. In thefollowing albuns, they progressed to a more serious and philosophic style. The band was extremely successful in the 1990s, when they released their hit single Die Da?! (Her?! The One Over There?!) in 1992.Thomas D, Hausmarke and Ypsilon also produced successful solo albums and the four had their own weekly show Die 4. Dimension, named after their third album, which aired on the German pay TV channel Premiere in 1993/1994. the group's 7th album 4:99 was released on their own label (Four Music), with 4 singles from the album following. After the #2 hit "MfG", three singles were released at the same time, a first in German music business and each one of the singles can be associated with one of the rappers. On April 7, 2007, Fornika was released, preceded by the single "Ernten was wir säen", which was released as a download for Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock in December 2007 and was recently covered by Oomph!.

(info from wikipedia)

Official website: http://www.diefantastischenvier.de/

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/DieFantastischenVier

Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/fantastische4

Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/diefantastischenvier

Youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/diefantastischenVEVO

That's it, I hope you like it, even if it's not the kind of music I usually write about XD

Bye

NEUE DEUTSCHE HÄRTE APPRECIATION POST

Hey again ^-^
 So, this post is not (I think "isn't" sounds terrible D:) about a band, is about a musical style. I usually don't even know much about this because I don't like to label things, but since I didn't explained very well on the last post and it sounds like a good chance to know lots of good bands. And because I'd never heard anything about this before XD
 As I said on the las post, Neue Deutsche härte is a term invented by the German music press after the release of the debut album Herzeleid (1995) by Rammstein. The style is influenced by industrial metal, German rock, hard rock, groove metal, and alternative metal combining it with elements from electronic music and techno. The lyrics are generally in German, sometimes with Latin words or terms. It uses the basic setup of instruments for metal (electric guitar, bass guitar, drums and vocals), with keyboard, synthesizers and samples. Emphasis is on a demonstration of predominance, by over-pronouncing certain syllables and letters. The vocals are thus dominantly presenting in deep, male, and clean voice, and screaming is also common.

NDH imagery is often violent, and sometimes Satanic or militaristic, the latter is especially common among the more industrial-sounding bands. However, lovelorn lyrics are not uncommon and subject matter can be very diverse.


Some examples of NDH: Eisbrecher ; Oomph! ; Rammstein ; ASP ; Die Apokalyptischen Reiter ; Emigrate (led by Richard Z. Kruspe, the lead guitarist of Rammstein.); In Extremo ; L'Âme Immortelle ; Leichenwetter (They perform the lyrics written by dead German poets by using musical influences of metal and gothic); Megaherz , etc.

(Yes, I found definitions and examples on wikipedia XD)

Some videos:

That's it ^-^
there's lots of possible posts here, and a lot more on the wikipedia page, since I didn't listened to all the bands  there XD
 Bye

EISBRECHER APPRECIATION POST

Hello guys, how are you?

 So, my friend (guess which one XD) showed me that song called "Antikorper" and I decided to write about the band XD

Eisbrecher (German for Icebreaker) is a German Neue Deutsche Härte* band that consists primarily of Alexander Wesselsky (vocals) and Noel Pix (lead guitar/programming), with live support from Jürgen Plangger (guitar), Domonik Palmer (bass), Achim Färber (drums). In the United States and Canada, their record label is currently Metropolis Records. The band's lyrics and slogans often include terms of ice and sailing, such as "Ahoi" ("Ahoy") and "Es wird kalt" ("It's getting cold"); vocalist Alexander Wesselsky often wears naval and military clothing in performances.

Members
Alexx Wesselsky – vocals (2003–present)
Noel Pix – lead guitar, production (2003–present)
Jürgen Plangger – rhythm guitar (2007–present)
Domonik Palmer – bass guitar (2010–present)
Max "Maximator" Schauer – keyboards, programming (live and session: 2003–2007, session only: 2008–present)
Achim Färber - drums and percussion (2011–present)

Former members
Feelix Primc – rhythm guitar (2003–2007)
Micheal Behnke – bass guitar (2003–2007)
Martin Motnik – bass guitar (2007–2008)
Olli Pohl - bass guitar (2008–2010)
Rene Greil – drums, percussion (2003–2011)

Touring members
Sebastien Angrand - drums, percussion (2010)

*Neue Deutsche Härte ("new German hardness") is a genre of industrial metal. The term was invented by the German music press after the release of the debut album Herzeleid (1995) by Rammstein. (I thik I'll write a post about it XD)

Both texts from wikipedia ^-^"

Official website: http://www.eis-brecher.com/ (in German)
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/EISBRECHER-OFFICIAL/459205020544
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/eisbrecherkommando
Youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/EISBRECHERofficial


That's it, I hope you like it <3
Bye

MOI DIX MOIS APPRECIATION POST

Hey :D

 How are you?

Moi dix Mois is a musical project founded by Japanese musician and fashion designer Mana in 2002 after his previous band,Malice Mizer, paused activities. Their first single, "Dialogue Symphonie", was released in October of the same year.
Moi dix Mois played their first concerts outside Japan in March 2005 in Munich, Germany and Paris, France as part of their "Invite to Immorality Tour". After the tour's final show, Juka left the band. On March 1, 2006, they released the album, Beyond the Gate. This featured a new vocalist named Seth. After that, Kazuno (bass) and Tohru (drums) both left the group.In June 2006, Moi dix Mois headlined the Wave-Gotik-Treffen in Leipzig, Germany.
A prospective five city tour in the United States was scheduled for July 2006, but cancelled due to the band citing "differences in policies" with the tour organizer; but Mana did make an appearance at the 2006 Anime Expo in Anaheim, CA, and he announced that Moi dix Mois was planning to tour America sometime "within the calendar year" (BTW, the tour didn't materialize in 2006).
On 2007, they released the album, Dixanadu.
On December 27, 2008, Moi dix Mois held the "Dis Inferno Vol.VI ~Last Year Party~", where they played a session gig along with Mana's fellow Malice Mizer guitarist Közi.
They performed at Anime Expo 2009 in LA and July they went on a short 2 gig coupling tour with Közi called "Deep Sanctuary", playing on the 17 in Osaka and the 19 in Tokyo.
At the "V-Rock Festival '09" on October 24, Moi Dix Mois played two new songs, "Dead Scape" and "The Sect", and a new version of "The Prophet".
In July 2010, they went on another tour with Közi, titled "Deep Sanctuary II", this time with Malice Mizer bassist Yu~ki as a special guest at Akasaka Blitz on the 17. This was the first time in 9 years that the 3 Malice Mizer members were on stage together. Moi dix Mois' fifth album, D+Sect, was released on December 15, 2010.
On August 27, 2011, Mana announced that Moi dix Mois will be releasing a compilation album as part of their 10th anniversary celebration. The album will be composed of re-recordings of older songs, from the groups first two albums, by the current line-up. Fans can request which songs are chosen through Mana's blog.

Original lineup:
Mana – guitar, keyboards, and programming
Juka – vocals
Kazuno – bass
Tohru – drums

Current lineup:
Mana – guitar, keyboards and programming
Seth – vocals
K – guitar and vocals
Sugiya – bass
Hayato – drums

(info from wikipedia XD)

Official website: http://midi-nette.com/mdm/ (in English and Japanese)


That's it, I hope you like it ♬
Take care
Bye :B