Our 6th release, Dead Man in Space (vinyl only release) has arrived! 145 gram vinyl in glossy sleeve with A4 heavy card insert. It should be going out to distributors soon.
Record Heaven has it in stock if you are in Scandinavia.
Kozmik-artifactz and Sulatron in Germany will also stock the LP shortly.
Two other places that sell the record are: www.motljud.com and www.progzone.no
In the USA you will likely be able to find it in a few weeks at: www.stonerrock.com, Thrill Jockey, Hellride Music.
All those in the UK in order to save postage should contact Pariah child Mailorder in Ireland for the cheapest rates.
We will be playing the following concerts so far in 2010:
19th March Dragens Hule, København (with Siena Root)
8th April, 2010 Lades Kælder, København DK (opening for GNOD)
14th April, De Vinger, Den Haag, Holland
15th April, 2010 ROADBURN FESTIVAL, Tilburg Holland!
24th June 2010 Kildemose Festival, Fyn Denmark (We headline the Friday Night!)
We will also have a new CD released on the Transubstans Label in April before our concerts in Holland. We are working on a deal for the release of Dead Man in Space in Japan with bonus tracks not on the vinyl release.
Bad Acid is going MONTHLY as from 1 March 2010.
Cult underground dvd magazine Bad Acid has crawled out from lysergic catatonia and will deliver the ugliest and most unhinged music direct to your eyes, ears and brain EVERY MONTH.
Each Tab introduces a mesmerising collection of the known and unknown, a rising mass of bands too heavy, weird, fucked up or brutal to make mainstream press.
In every issue we present:
90 minutes of dvd- live and promo videos, twisted animation and disturbed short films.
60+ band audio compilation, many with several tracks or whole albums.
Printed magazine with in-depth reviews of all featured bands, plus interviews and articles.
Label profiles including audio samplers.
Galleries of cover artists' sick artwork.
Promo copies of all releases will be sent out in advance of release dates for review/comment in your publication
For all press contact Dave at badacid@hotmail.co.uk
Coming up:
Tab8: Release date - 1 March
Promo Videos by
Beehoover
White Hills/Dan McGuire
Fflint Records
My3yeah
Live footage by
Acid King
Dragged Into Sunlight
J’m’en Fous
Rise To Thunder
Spancer
Short Films by
Contanimation
Tekknorg
65 band audio compilation
5ive
Almandino Not Quite Delux
Gravanzia
Happymeal
Dead Daughter
Zu
Antikoreshi
Electric Mud Generator
Mynationshit
Areknames
Bastard Of The Skies
Dreaming
Oresund Space Collective
Berkowitz Lake & Dahmer
Panzram Division
Remesh
Hollowing/Maor Appelbaum
Blue Sabbath Black Cheer
Beyond Terror Beyond Grace
Magnolia
B*tong
Barr
Eramal
Gnod
Gorse
Outrageous Cherry
Harvey Milk
Revok
Hybrid
Union Of Sleep
Kenji Siratori
Oxbow
A Fashionable Disease
Trollmann Av Ildtopberg
Long Pig
Pathology
Malachia
Alix
Chimora
Millions
The Mirimar Disaster
Swamp Don key
Moss
Drug Honkey
Nosmaus
Skull Defekts
Pysychofagist
Burmese
Cadaver Eyes
Queen Elephantine
RJ Shrey
Treachery
Serpentina Satellite
UFO Gestapo
Churches Burn
Relapxych.0
Pendro
La Otracina
Witchfield
Enablers
Hotel Hotel
Gutted With Broken Glass
Wyrm & Rats With Wings
22 track Roil Noise label sampler with accompanying 10 screen pdf feature
44 page printed magazine
In-depth reviews of all featured audio and dvd bands, plus fanzine reviews and interviews with:
Areknames
Blue Sabbath Black Cheer
Queen Elephantine
Front cover by Soph Willett/CreativeEyelidsDesign (Alunah/Catacomb Recs)
www.myspace.com/badacidmagazine
View online & comment: mastermindband.com/blog/?p=30
December 18th is Mastermind guitarist Bill Berends birthday! On this auspicious occasion we would like to make a very big announcement…
MASTERMIND has signed with LION MUSIC of Finland to release the long awaited INSOMNIA album!! Our first album for the label, "Insomnia" will be released on February 19th 2010. This is our first full length studio album in many years and features vocalist Tracy McShane joining founding members Bill Berends (guitars, synths, bass) and Rich Berends (drums) along with Jens Johansson (Stratovarius) once again contributing keyboard solos and piano.
We are all very pleased with this development and hope those of you reading will help spread the news far and wide, Mastermind is back! And to add to this wonderful news, the band has been rehearsing with bassist Tim Spillane preparing for live performances in support of the album release. As some may recall, Tim played bass with Mastermind in 2001 performing at our NJ Proghouse & Pittsburgh shows with Symphony-X amongst others. Welcome back Tim!
The Insomnia album also features the bass talents Chris Eike & Greg Hagen.
Visit lionmusic.com for more information about the release. Happy birthday indeed! A wonderful way to start a new year!
After 3 printed issues Psych Trail Mix has gone online, making all issues available in PDF format. Here's the info from publisher Brent Marley:
I started Psych Trail Mix zine back in the winter of 2008 and have done it ever since. It's something that I wanted to do to just get things out of me! For one thing, I loved music so much that I wanted to write about it, review it, explore it further, talk with others who are into the particular genres that I enjoy, and to create something of my own in appreciation for it. It's been an amazing creative outlet that has let me communicate with other like-minded individuals who are into the psychedelic genre and all the great things that come with it. Psychedelia isn't just a kind of music, or a passing fad, it's a whole THING. There's a lot to it. At first I printed them out myself and mailed them out completely free of any sort of charge. This went on for the first 2 issues. Then the 3rd issue I had to charge for shipping costs. Now. through talking with others who had a printed zine to start, I figured "PRINT YOUR OWN ZINE" might be the best way to go. This allows you to view the zine in PDF format and hopefully, PRINT IT if you'd like to. I hope that now, being web-based and COMPLETELY FREE that I will bring in even more readers. I hope you enjoy Psych Trail Mix. If any of you would like to communicate, I love to hear from readers, so I highly encourage it. Please contact me at psychtrailmix@yahoo.com with comments. Thanks!
Check it out at www.helioschrome.com/psychtrailmix.html
PSYCHOTROPIC CARAVAN FESTIVAL II
Psychotropic Caravan Festival II – 6.2.2010 Nosturi, Helsinki, Finland
Orange Goblin, The Heads, Litmus, Pharaoh Overlord
The first and nearly sold out Psychotropic Caravan was held at Nosturi in February 2009, featuring live performances from Circle, Lord Vicar, Vibravoid and Dark Buddha Rising. The next festival celebrating heavy and psychedelic music will be held on Saturday the 6th of February 2010 with Orange Goblin, The Heads, Litmus and Pharaoh Overlord as the main acts.
The headliner for Psychotropic Caravan II is the stoner rock / biker doom act Orange Goblin. The psychedelic fuzz rock band The Heads and Rise Above Records’ 21st century space rock elite Litmus play in Finland for the first time. Pharaoh Overlord consists of members of Circle and play hypnotic stoner rock.
Temples, Mr. Peter Hayden and Tuliterä will play at bar Alakerta on the ground floor of the venue in between the main stage bands. Psychedelic visuals and cosmic projections will blow your mind on both floors. Psych rock fest veteran DJ Kozmik Ken will spin vinyl at Nosturi, while Psychotropic Zone and Club Planet Caravan DJ’s are present at Alakerta.
Psychotropic Caravan II Warm-Up is on Friday the 5th of February at Alakerta. Big Naturals - a loud psych rock duo - and Semtex - green smoke reeking sludge - play gigs and the night culminates in an Open Stage Deep Space Jam Session.
Merchandise and distros will be present on both evenings.
Tickets for Saturday are 26 €, pre-sold at Tiketti (www.tiketti.fi) and Lippupalvelu (www.lippupalvelu.fi). Warm-Up tickets are 7 € and pre-sold at Tiketti.
Pre-sales start on Wednesday December 2nd. The age limit for the festival is 18.
Psychotropic Caravan II
Sat 6.2.2010 19:00
Nosturi & Alakerta
26 €
ORANGE GOBLIN (GBR)
THE HEADS (GBR)
LITMUS (GBR)
PHARAOH OVERLORD
MR. PETER HAYDEN
TULITERÄ
TEMPLES
Psychotropic Caravan II Warm-Up
Fri 5.2.2010 20:00
Alakerta
7 €
BIG NATURALS (GBR)
SEMTEX
OPEN STAGE DEEP SPACE JAM SESSION
For more info, contact: Jukka Hätinen, jukka.hatinen@gmail.com, +358 40 758 3144
Jerry
Mastermind October 2009 Newsletter
Greetings all!
Many of you have been fans of Mastermind for a long time, yet we are aware others have only come to know us from our last few releases and various live appearances. Over time our earlier albums have been getting harder to find on CD, so to recap the history of the band you can now listen to our first two studio albums in their entirety, absolutely free!
MASTERMIND Volume One
mastermind.bandcamp.com/album/mastermind-volume-one
MASTERMIND Volume Two "Brainstorm"
mastermind.bandcamp.com/album/mastermind-volume-two-brainstorm
This is heavy prog-rock from the original power trio lineup with lots of guitar & synthesizer action. Our starting point and still the favorite era for some fans. Yet as I said lots of folks haven't heard this stuff before, so if you like what you hear spread the word, tell a friend, write a review, publish a link!
Bandcamp is a new music platform with downloads in any format you choose… mp3, AAC, FLAC, Ogg, Apple Lossless, etc. Of course we hope you decide you can’t live without it and snag a copy for your iPod or burn a CD (Apple Lossless and FLAC files render 100% CD quality) and album downloads come with full color printable pdf cover art. There’s an option to set at any price above the minimum if you want to show your appreciation. If not, you can still listen online as much as you like, no strings attached.
Click the SHARE link to embed little players anywhere too. There are some free tracks in there if you look for them. We just want you to hear the music. More to come!
Also, there's a new video of "The Ride of the Valkyrie" from the Live in Tokyo album now on youtube...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNpTAvjMdn4
This is all leading to something new & fantastic, so hang with us!
Bill Berends
c/o MASTERMIND
mastermindband.com
Mastermind titles are also available at:
mindawn.com/artists/mastermind
Read the story below. Huw and Marion have written a single for the organization Killing Cancer, titled “Photodynamic Therapy”, to be released by Cherry Red Records as a global digitial download from 19th October available on iTunes, Amazon MP3, eMusic & Napster to name but a few.
Hear a clip of the song at the Killing Cancer web site at: www.killingcancer.co.uk
Visit the Huw Lloyd-Langton web site at: www.huwlloyd-langton.co.uk
CLICK HERE to read an article in Classic Rock magazine about Huw, the single, and its message.
Space Rock Con 2009 is scheduled for Saturday September 19 at Vision Studios (www.visionstudiosatlanta.com) in Atlanta, Georgia.
This is the current line up so far. Click the band names to visit their Myspace pages.
WEERD
PXL
BRIBING THE BHUDDA
JACKSON DOUGLAS
GHOST WOLVES
The Giant White Elephant
UNUS MUNDUS
THE SUBLIMINATOR
DARK NIGHT OF THE DARK SOUL
MIKE HARMOND
HART DEER
I still got a few openings left and there may be some changes before the show.
Anyone who's interested in performing and particpating at the show, contact:
www.myspacecom/spacerockconcarlo
0r strangemage@otmail.com
or 256-736-8778
Tickets are $10 and the show runs from 10am - midnight
If you wish more info on visions studios go to www.visionstudiosatlanta.com
or any more info, contact Carlo
