Christian Death is a common name in the underground scene. A deathrock/punk rock band formed in 1979 by Rozz Williams is now Valor’s and Maitri personal journey and music project. Christian Death is known for being one of the pioneers of the ‘deathrock’ genre, which is punk rock with horror elements among other visual delights. Chistian Death had seen several line ups and changes over the years and despite the dispute over the name, Gitane Demon was among the members that shared the stage with this creative artists where both Wlliams and Valor developed at some point.
NECRO SEXUAL TOUR

This is the first Christian Death Tour in year introducing a new album and a line line up.
Now is your chance to see them live at the Galaxy in Santa Ana, a show not to be missed!

It’s great news to hear about this Necro Sexual Tour after such a long period of silence from Valor and company. Secondly, after hearing the samples of The American Inquisition I had the feeling that this was going to be a really great album, and a return for the band. The album’s concept is focused on the illness of society: drugs, former US President Bush, evangelical religion and how self centered society is. It is more deathrock than anything they have done in a very, very, long time and it seems like they have moved away from metal a bit, which is a good thing! Metal fans who like their last few albums might be dissappointed because it sounds like their old school deathrock material. Still they might play their Christian Death classics for the hardcore fans pleasure!

Galaxy Theatre
3503 S. Harbor Blvd.
Santa Ana, CA 92704
(714) 957-0600

Band Members:

Valor – vocals, guitar, violin
Maitri – vocals, bass guitar
Nate Hassan – drums
Chains Lenihan – guitar

www.myspace.com/christiandeath
www.christiandeath.com

ICONIC ARGENTINE RASTA PUNK ROCKERS TODOS TUS MUERTOS RELEASE ‘GREATEST HITS’ TODAY

Leading rock bands like Rage Against The Machine and Foo Fighters have praised Todos Tus Muertos for their tremendous musical influence. Their music has been out of print In The United States for almost 10 Years and will be available at digital outlets for the first time.

Sample Select Tracks From The ‘Greatest Hits’: here and Revisit The Classic Groundbreaking Video For Punk Anthem: Mate

“Riddled with controversial messages and island rhythms, Argentine polyglot rockers Todos Tus Muertos have been making a political multi-genre scene, a la The Clash in Britain, since their inception in 1985 .” -CMJ

Nacional Records released the new greatest hits album by iconic Argentine rasta punk band Todos Tus Muertos today, February 19th. The album is a collection of the group’s timeless tracks as well as several bonus songs. Highlights include “Dale Aborigen”, featuring Manu Chao as well as members of Los Fabulosos Cadillacs and Los Autenticos Decadentes. Todos Tus Muertos are renowned for their influence on top rock acts such as Rage Against the Machine and Foo Fighters. Todos Tus Muertos (“All Your Dead”) was born in Buenos Aires in 1985.

The group named itself in honor of the tens of thousands murdered by former Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla. They quickly broke onto an unsuspecting Latin American music scene with a unique mixture of social messages and massive doses of punk, ragga, reggae and raw energy.

After being named the Best International Group by the leading 1990s Latin-rock magazine La Banda Elastica , Todos Tus Muertos gained attention around the world. Renowned for their explosive live shows, Todos Tus Muertos have toured across North America, South America, Europe and Asia throughout their storied career. Their music has influenced scores of new artists across the Americas.

‘Greatest Hits’– Tracklisting:
1. Andate
2. Rasta Vive
3. Sé Que No / Requebra
4. No Te La Vas A Acabar
5. Todo Lo Daría
6. Tu Alma Mía / Adelita
7. Mate
8. Asesinos Profesionales
9. Jah Lion
10. Mandela
11. Hijo Nuestro
12. Políticos
13. Dale Aborigen
14. Lehenbiziko Bala
15. Trece
16. Incomunicado
17. Mandela Dub
18. No Más Apartheid

www.NacionalRecords.com

Los Angeles art-punk pioneers SAVAGE REPUBLIC have come roaring out of obscurity with “1938″, their first full-length album of new material in 18 years, and will be performing this friday Jan 4 at the Cafe du Nord in San Francisco, California.

Savage Republic shares the bill with “The Drift”, which includes members of Neurot Recordings artists “Tarentel”, and San Francisco based Carta.

Advanced tickets are available now through Cafe du Nord. Discounted copies of both the “1938″ CD and “Siam” EP will be available at the show.

Savage Republic also plays

SATURDAY Jan 5 in Davis, California.

The “1938″ European tour follows January 18 – January 31. Details and exact dates/venues are listed at http://myspace.com/savagerepublic

New live video clips have been posted by fans on YouTube.

There are still tickets available for the Neurosis, Earth, Saviours show at the Great American Music Hall on New Years Eve! Earth is also appearing live in the pit on KFJC on MON DEC 31 at Noon (12pm) P.S.T. on kfjc.org (89.7 fm).

Savage Republic “1938″ on Neurot Recordings

The first full length studio release by Savage Republic since 1989. Available now.

“Very few artists can stand as being actually unique. Artists who make sound that fills the holes in your soul that nothing else touch. Savage Republic is one of these very few. As a founding member of Neurosis I can say that we are very aware and vigilant of all things that happen around us. There is no tolerance for disruption in our ritual. For the last 13 years we have played one band and one band only for our preshow music. Savage Republic is the soundtrack that sets the tone for whats to come and what existed before.” – Scott Kelly/Neurosis

SAVAGE REPUBLIC 2007

Los Angeles art-punk pioneers Savage Republic have come roaring out of obscurity with “1938″, their first full-length album of new material in 18 years, hot on the heels of this spring’s powerful “Siam” EP, both on Neurot Records. The new album is now available. Throughout the 80’s SR was a deep-underground phenomenon, playing highly unorthodox shows in remote desert locations, abandoned factories, skid-row parking lots and grimy bars across the U.S. and Europe with such luminaries as Einsturzende Neubaten, Minutemen, Sonic Youth and Live Skull as well as hardcore-punk slugfests with the likes of Bad Religion, Angry Samoans and Final Conflict. Known for their oddly-tuned guitars, tribal beats, shouted vocals, metal percussion (typically 55 gallon oil drums and items gleaned from dumpsters and junkyards), and Morricone-meets-Dick Dale melodies, their performances were at times ritualistic and occassionally involved fire and explosives.

Beginning with the arrestingly aggro ‘Tragic Figures” in 1982 on through the wildly diverse experimentations of their final studio album “Customs”, recorded while on tour in Greece in 1988, SR produced music that seemed to come from some distant uncharted region. A land at turns harsh and beautiful where elements of Mikis Theodorakis’ film scores smashed into 60’s psych, tribal punk and oddball Mediterranean folk-pop. Jarringly eclectic, they often sounded like a completely different band from album to album–at times from song to song on the same album. The music was packaged in beautifully distinctive chipboard covers hand printed by noted graphic artist, letterpress printer and band founder Bruce Licher. They even issued their own postage stamps. Then in 1989 everything went quiet as the republic scattered to pursue other interests. After reuniting in 2002 for a brief U.S. tour supporting the boxed-set reissue of their five studio albums by Mobilization Records, several of the members began sharing ideas for new songs, reviving the band officially in 2005.

In their current incarnation Savage Republic core members Thom Fuhmann, Ethan Port and Greg Grunke are joined by UK punk-rock veteran Val Haller whose resume includes stints with Wayne County & The Electric Chairs, Flying Lizards, Lords of The New Church and X-Ray Spex, and noted drummer and percussionist Alan Waddington, known for his tenure with The Unforgiven as well as live and studio work with everyone from Willie Nelson to Gwen Stefani. The album also features contributions by guest artists including multi-instrumentalist Tara T. Tavi, classical violinist Julia Zuker and drummer Bryan Taylor. In keeping with their tradition of graphic excellence, the album is packaged in a tri-fold cover designed by and featuring the photography of Ramona Clarke-Fuhrmann. While staying true to their roots, SR have updated and expanded their singular Arabic-surf-soundtrack-folk-noise blend into a musical hybrid both contemporary and timeless. Trademark scrap-metal percussion and layers of guitar drone are now joined by spooky ambient textures evoking sonic landscapes exotic, dreamy and sinister. In typical SR fashion songs careen about in a sort of schizophrenic world tourfrom jaunty Balkan martial tunes (“Marshal Tito”), back to SoCal for a short ‘n snappy Cult-meets-Ventures surf session (“Anemone”) then back to krautrockland with a long-form Can-ish workout (“Caravan”, enhanced by Zuker’s evocative violin) just after an Asian detour (“Siam”). In the closing track (“Peking”) guitars go from minimal to very, very maximal over haunting melodies from Zuker and Tavi’s Chinese hammered dulcimer. An undercurrent of dread is never too far away as evidenced by the title track, “1938″: “It’s 1938 all over again…you’re arguing over draperies while the house burns down!” spits Fuhrmann over a mornful melodica figure, hammering bassline and almost funky guitar. History seems to be repeating itself, with the world once again teetering on the brink of some massive violent convulsion. No one wants to acknowledge the sorts of chioces and sacrifices the future may require. Peace for our time? Go ask Neville. On “Torpedo” he excoriates those who are all hat and no cattle like a motivational speaker in the throes of a serious ‘roid-rage episode.

Along with instrumental and vocal duties Fuhrmann also produced the album with input from recording engineers John Crawford and Kerry Dowling. Fuhrmann explains SR’s writing and recording process on “1938″: “In the past we wouldn’t go into the studio until every note of every song was worked out. This time we wanted to take a looser approach, kind of an extension of how we did “Customs” where the entire thing was written and recorded on the spot. We still occasionally use the monotone guitar, but it’s narrow scope can be very limiting at times. We are more interested in exploring other tunings and atmospheres. Kind of throwing away the crutches as it were… I was more interested in capturing good energy and making use of whatever ‘happy mistakes’ came up than getting every note perfect.” Grunke continues: “We’d bring in our ideas, some things were just loosely sketched out, some were more structured and everyone would add their parts Most every song was done in one or two takes. On “Caravan” we were actually switching instruments with each other as it was recording.

“Another aspect of the band’s resurrection is their emergence as a formidable live act as evidenced by ferocious performances this past year that had jaws dropping across Italy, Germany, Belgium, Poland and Greece as well as the northeastern U.S. As percussionist/guitarist Port explains “We make a lot more effort to engage the audience–we don’t just stand there staring at our shoes anymore We have a lot more fun now.” Grunke concurs, deadpanning that “I don’t think people were expecting so much energy to be coming from a bunch of old farts like us.”SR is already in the planning stages of a wider European tour for January 2008 in support of “Siam” with possible swings through Japan and Australia. As for the future, Grunke continues: :The 2002 reunion was fun but we had no interest in reforming to play old material like some art-punk nostalgia act. What we’re doing now still feels vital and we’ll continue as long as we have something to say. We’re already working on the next album.”

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