Blutengel’s new album Schwarzes Eis

Chris Pohl’s main project Blutengel has announced that a new album titled Schwarzes Eis will be released on Friday the 13th in February. The album, which was preceded by the single Dancing in the Light in November will be a grand package indeed, as even the normal version will have another CD along with the main album. The second disc is called Behind the Mirror and it’ll boast eight completely new instrumental tracks. The limited edition of the album, however, is where the real action is. Schwarzes Eis? Check. Behind the Mirror? Check. Fancy box? Check. Grandiose 40-page booklet? Check. A third CD with not just bonus tracks but an actual, second new album? Che… Wait, what? Yeah, the third disc is a whole album of its own, Redemption, and it’ll have 10 tracks that didn’t fit on Schwarzes Eis. One of the songs is a new version of Winter of my Life which was released earlier this year as a download and very limited 7 inch vinyl. So all in all, you’ll be getting a total of three discs full of brand-new Blutengel goodness. What’s not to like?

Unfortunately I wasn’t able to find the album anywhere for preorders, but in the meantime you can listen to a part of the song Dreh dich nicht um on Blutengel’s MySpace (which has actually been updated).

L’Âme Immortelle’s live DVD+CD emerges from the shadows

The Austrian L’Âme Immortelle’s new live DVD and CD package Jenseits der Schatten was released December 15th. The DVD side has the whole concert filmed during the band’s Namenlos tour, and it contains 21 songs from all around the band’s production, whereas the CD has 16 tracks picked from the set (you can see the track list for both after the break). Interestingly, the concert was filmed completely in black and white, making for a rather unique look. The DVD also contains some extras, for example more live material filmed in Vienna and behind the scenes goofiness.

The DVD+CD was initially only released as a limited edition six-panel digipack, and it’s available at most of your usual stores: Amazon.de for 21,95 €, Infrarot.de for 18,99 €, EMP.de for 21,99 € or for you in the US, Isotank for $24.99. Please note that the CD or DVD aren’t available separately! Just though I’d need to clear that up, since my original post was a bit ambiguous on the matter.

You can watch the trailer for the DVD here, or listen to two songs from the CD on L’Âme Immortelle’s MySpace.

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Mina Harker goes Tiefer on debut album

Do you remember the awesome remix version of Rammstein’s Ohne Dich by Laibach and Mina Harker? Well, now Mina Harker has finally, just about a week ago on October 31st, released her very first album titled Tiefer. Tiefer seems to be a very promising blend of gothic, industrial, rock and poppy things with Harker’s great voice on top of it all. On top of ten other rock-pop-goth songs, there’s also a duet with Dero from Oomph!, who Harker will be supporting on their German tour for the successful album Monster.

You can check several samples from the album, including the aforementioned duet with Dero, on Mina Harker’s MySpace site. Tiefer is obtainable from most stores, like EMP.de for 15,99 €, Infrarot.de for 14,99 €, Out of Line Shop for 12,99 € or Isotank for $19,99.

You’ll find the track listing for the album after the break.

Blutengel presses onwards with new single Dancing in the Light

Just a couple of months have passed since Blutengel released their huge live DVD set Moments of our LIVEs. Now the band is back at it again: a new single, titled Dancing in the Light, will be dancing in the light of day in nine days on 14th November! The single will be a teaser for the next album, which is scheduled to be released sometime early next year, and there’s going to be two different variations of the single. Both Dancing in the Light (”Forsaken”) and Dancing in the Light (”Solitary”) will feature the title track, a music video, an exclusive remix and two extra songs. The remixes and the bonus tracks are, of course, all different on both versions.

You can catch a trailer for the single here. The single seems to be orderable from just about everywhere, for example EMP.de has both versions (Solitary, Forsaken) for 6,99 €, Isotank has them (Solitary, Forsaken) for $9,99 each and Out of Line Shop has a bundle with both versions for 11,98 €.

And now for the piece of news countless people have been waiting for…

Rammstein begins recording of the new album

Yeah, that’s right, the NDH band that made the genre popular around the world has finally started recording their next album. The newly updated official website has been stripped of the Völkerball-look that’s been annoying eager fans for a couple of years by not displaying any updates at all with a simple black-and-gray style. Also, just about everything on the site has also been cleaned up and replaced with a newspost stating that recording will commence on November 9th in a studio in San Fransisco, while the drum tracks are being worked on in Los Angeles. Not much yet, but darned if I’m not excited. Rammstein’s definitely not my favourite German band anymore, but they bloody well do deserve the praise and the success they’ve had for their efforts in making German music (and German altogether) more popular all around the globe.

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On 29th this month the gothic electro outfit Blutengel will release a new live 2-disc live DVD titled Moments of our LIVEs. The DVD, which will feature a full live concert and a whole second DVD full of extra stuff like interviews, backstage goofiness and rehearsal videos, will be available in a grand total of three different setups:

The normal DVD with both the live and extra material DVD,

A limited version with the DVDs and a live CD all in a digipak

And finally, an even more limited fanbox with the DVDs, the CD and also an exclusive T-shirt thrown into a nifty box.

All versions of Moments of our LIVEs are available copiusly at a number of stores, including IsoTank: normal version for $32.99, limited version for $44.99 and the fanbox for $60,99, Poponaut.de: normal for 18,45 €, limited for 27,95 € and box for 44,95 € and EMP.de: normal for 19,99 €, limited for 27,99 € and box for 41,99 €

You can hear samples of Blutengel’s earlier works on their MySpace that doesn’t seem like it’s been updated in ages, slightly fresher material from their 2007 album Labyrinth can be caught here.

Hit the jump for a full tracklisting of the DVDs and CD.

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Blutengel has a new album coming out pretty soon. Labyrinth, their first full-length studio album since 2004, will be released on Friday, September 14th. That’s almost exactly 2 months after July’s Friday the 13th release of their single Lucifer which caught a good bit of attention in the electrogoth world. Labyrinth is available in 2 versions: a regular and a limited edition. The regular CD has 15 all-new songs while the limited edition includes a bonus disc with some extra B-sides, a remix, and a couple live songs as well.

You can download clips from 4 of the songs from Labyrinth here on Blutengel’s website (right click on the bold song titles). Personally, I thought it was kind of hard to get a good feeling for the songs with these samples, but what I heard was pretty good. Their MySpace page does have full-length songs, but for some reason they only have older songs there. Some updating, please?

Labyrinth
01. Into the labyrinth
02. Singing dead men
03. A new dawn
04. Beauty and delight
05. Dreamland
06. Gloomy shadows
07. Shame
08. Body move
09. When the rain is falling…
10. I remember (everything)
11. Lucifer
12. Sunrise
13. Behind your mask
14. Engelsblut
15. Escape (outro)

Bonus disc on the limited edition
01. Lucifer (DubMixx by Jenne)
02. Born again
03. Stormy rivers
04. Victory of death
05. Snowblind
06. Soul of ice (live 2007)
07. Love killer (live 2007)

Blutengel is releasing their latest maxi Lucifer today. There are 2 versions of the CD, Purgatory and Blaze, which you can either buy seperately or combined. Both versions offer the standard Lucifer track plus a few remixes. Two live tracks are added bonuses for both, as well. Despite the release date, Blutengel is having no bad luck selling their music. In fact, Infrarot.de already sold out of the Purgatory version.

I haven’t heard the tracks yet, but it should be pretty good judging by Blutengel’s past music, nice gothic rock. If you haven’t heard Blutengel before, you can listen to a few tracks here.

Lucifer (Purgatory)
01. Lucifer (Single Version)
02. Lucifer (Remix by Necessary Response)
03. Seelenschmerz 2007 (Reworked by Eminence of Darkness)
04. Solitary Angel (live 2007)
05. Bloody Pleasures (live 2007)

Lucifer (Blaze)
01. Lucifer (Single Version)
02. Lucifer - The Tempter (by Rabia Sorda)
03. Black Roses 2007 (Reworked by Eminence of Darkness)
04. My Saviour (live 2007)
05. Der Spiegel (live 2007)