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Metal for your Veins Edition, Design and Realization: Alejandro Pérez Zerquera. Collaborators: Alejandro De La Cuesta (promotor of concerts in México and tours organizer in Latinoamérica) Edu - CD MUSIC (Department Interviews) Yusniel Valdés Contacts: Alejandro Pérez Zerquera. Lacret 411 apto 4 e/ D’Strampes y Figueroa, Santos Suarez, 10 de Octubre. La Habana, Cuba C.P: 10500 E-mail: ale666@nauta.cu Any suggestion, comment or opinion can write to the previous mail. To receive the magazine you should send your e-mail to add it to the distribution list. Find the previous editions in: http://www.issuu.com/alejandro7775

Cover: Dark Tranquillity In this edition: 1. Dark Tranquillity. 2. Billy Gibbons in Cuba. 3. Ozzy Osbourne in Cuba. 4. From the Cuban scene. 5. Biography. 6. Interview. 7. From the press. 8. To know. 9. From the press. 10. Reviews. 11. New productions.

Editorial Greetings readers. We are already in January! ¡New Year!. New goals and objectives, and my main objective is to continue taking you this magazine that point likes and that every day they are continued adding readers of all parts. Many things have happened from the last edition, so much in the Cuban scene as international, and here they will be reflected several of these events. In This edition, First of the year, I have decided to publish several articles that reflect the visit to vat of Billy Gibbons (Leader of ZZ TOP) last month of December and the recent visit of Ozzy Osbourne all this and more with the objective of taking you the best in the rock, so much national as international! Gratefulness and Greetings: To Omar Vega Riaño (SubtleDeath), Yusniel Valdés Puig (Jesus is my Rock), David Zaldívar, the Nico (Medieval Warlock) who served me of inspiration to carry out this magazine; to PMU, to Tiago (Stoner), to Kiko (Tendency), to Miriela, to Eric (Blinder), to Ivo (Bad News), to Joan (Krampus) to Edu (Duke Productions), to Joel Morales (American Line Prods), to Gothic Rec Productions, and the bands Blinder, The Nottingham Prisas and Rabia Perez. A very special gratefulness to Dark Tranquillity to be devoted their time to respond to our interview.


Another time I should thank to the friend Alejandro De la Cuesta, since thanks to him I could interview to this super band of death melodic metal. Niklas, one of its guitarists, answer the questions. By: Alejandro PĂŠrez

First that all, greetings and be welcome to this rock magazine. First question, when and where Dark Tranquillity arises? Who are their actually members? Hi and thanks for the interview opportunity! We formed in Sweden over 25 years ago and all the members grew up and attended school together. Line-Up: Mikael Stanne - vocals Niklas Sundin - guitar Martin Henriksson - guitar Martin BrändstrÜm - keyboards, programming Anders Jivarp - drums As we know the band was formed in 1989. From this year to the present many members has left the band and others entered. Why? I don't think that we've had many line-up changes at all compared to most other bands that have been around for so long. 4 out of 5 original members are still in


the band, and none of the other guys have been members for less than four years, so we've still been a pretty stable band. The reasons why people chose to leave have been the typical ones; musicial differences or a desire to focus on regular work and family life. We've always toured a lot, and not everyone will be happy with this lifestyle in the long run. How CD´s Dark Tranquillity has made until now? And videos? How do you define your music? Let's see...I think that we've made 10 "real" full length albums as well as a couple of compilation and live records, so it depends on how you count. As for definitions, I've always been comfortable leaving the exact categorization to the listeners. Everyone tend to have their own ideas anyway. In general though, we often get labeled as a "melodic death metal" band, but I'm not sure exactly what that means these days.

In 2013 you had made your last CD until now, named “Construct”. Do you tell us how the process of recording and edition to the same was? The process was pretty straightforward. All the songs were written collectively by the band, and the album was recorded in the studio owned by our keyboard player. For the mixing duties we hired Jens Bogren, known for his work with bands like Opeth and Katatonia. We focused more on atmosphere and mood as


opposed to heaviness and energy, the main reason being that the past 2-3 albums had been pretty similar in style. On the whole, we're very pleased with "Construct", and it's an important album in our discography, though right now all the focus is on the songwriting for the next album which will be recorded pretty soon. We know that Dark Tranquillity keep a relationship with In Flames. How is the relationship with this band? We all grew up in the same area and was part of a local scene that was very small at the time. Our vocalist Mikael sang on the first In flames album "Lunar strain", and I helped out with lyric writing in the beginning, so we go way back and have toured together many times. In Flames' vocalist was also a member of Dark Tranquility for the first four years.

Now a days, it is spoken about the problems of the rock and metal scenes, but we have seen as recently are leaving a great numbers of young bands. What does think Dark Tranquillity about this? Any of these new bands that Dark Tranquillity listen and you can recommend us? I don't know...Every band member listens to different music, and we have very different tastes, so there probably isn't one single new band that ALL the D.T. members are a fan of. We've been doing this for such a long time, and tastes get more selective with age, so in a way it takes a lot to impress us these days. That said, there of course is a lot of good new music out there.


Thinks Dark Tranquility that Internet is a good platform that helps to that many bands comes out? Or otherwise is a means that harm to this world? There are pros and cons with everything. We were pretty early with getting a band website (1996) and have always thought that the Internet is a good platform for us to directly communicate with people. At the same time, it's important to remember that the music is the most important thing and not get lost in constant updates about other things. When we formed the band, this kind of music wasn't even available in regular record stores, so we had to rely on tape trading and sending cassettes through the mail to other bands and listeners, so things definitely have changed. Our country was visited by many rock´s band. In 2005 came Audioslave, in 2008 came Sepultura. This year came The Dead Daisies in February and CJ Ramone in August. This year came The Rolling Stones. Have think Dark Tranquillity in come to Cuba any time? We'd love to play in Cuba, but so far it hasn't been possible to arrange something. Let's hope that we finally get the chance when the next album is out, as we always love to visit new places. Two last questions. How Dark Tranquillity see the future of the band? What Dark Tranquility thinks about the future of the rock music in general? The first question is easy: We'll make a new album and then tour as much as possible during 2016 and 2017. As for rock music in general, it's nothing that I think too much about. As long as there are talented and creative people around, I'm sure that the future for music (be it rock, metal, electronic, pop or whatever) is bright. Well, Dark Tranquillity thanks for your time and for answer this questions. Any words that Dark Tranquility want to say to the Cuban people that love the rock. Thanks a lot! Let's hope that we can make it over to Cuba as soon as the next album is out - looking forward to seeing you there!

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More than one year recently, the news circulated among the old Havana followers of the rock, ZZ Top would arrive in Cuba to act in the scenario of the Factory of Cuban Art (FAC). Another edition of the Festival JazzPlaza taken place in these moments. The musician X Alfonso and the patrons of the FAC placed in billboard the announcement. However, the visit of the American grouping was not summed up. One year later, the vocalist and guitarist founder of ZZ Top, Billy Gibbons, lands in Havana. The Cuban capital traveled and it happened, for many, as a North American tourist more. It had been speculated on the presentation from the band to the complete one. The news that circulated one month ago, referred to another concert in the Theater Maxim Rock. But this it closed for repairs from November. After all, the three of Houston didn't arrive, but of the wolf a hair." The famous musician had planned to give two concerts in our country. The first of these concerts took place the night of Thursday 18th in the Factory of Cuban Art and without place to doubts; it was a very special concert, because the band shocked the public there present. So much was the emotion that the Ship 4 of the Factory didn't give supply there for all the fans gathered that were surprised when seeing live their enormous talent. The group came accompanied with two electric guitars, a first floor, two pianists, and three batteries, two of them, played for girls. Although the concert programmed for 11 in the night, had a delay of half hour, it began very for up, with songs of its new CD Perfectamundo, like "I Want More Money". One of its pianists, of Argentinean nationality, expressed that this CD was inspired by the Cuban town and for its future. Billy Gibbons, founder of the group, singer and main guitarist, spoke in blended Spanish with English, joking with which alone he knew three words in that language, but they were very important, salt and pepper". Possessor of a great charisma went with sympathy to the public, and it signed him an autograph to an admirer in the middle of concert. They were allowed to listen the blue The Drifter and Baby please don't go", the well-known " Tush ", and toward the final "Whole lotta love", of Led Zeppelin, with a formidable bereavement of the drummer, highlighting the strong touch of the toothpicks, although with an interpretation not very guessed right in charge of the other battery that improvised a part with rap.


The show was short, alone it had an hour of duration and people refused to allow them to go, requesting him the old successes, for they only played two topics more than that foreseen. Nobody stopped one second to take out pictures, of filming with cameras and cellular, to leave perseverance of the memorable function. You grieve he/she could walk, and much less to dance. They were heard frantic screams of emotion that ended up deafening, continually demonstrating that the Cubans know how to appreciate the well made music. And it surprises even more that will continue arriving famous musicians, after the trail that The Dead Daisies, CJ Ramone, and Take Six. The trio ZZ Top arose in Houston, Texas, in 1969, with the original members Billy Gibbons (guitar), Dustin Hill (bass), and Frank Beard in the battery. The band is characterized by its peculiar southern sound of the rock and the blue, being one of the most outstanding in the South. Their two guitarists have a special look: suits, glasses of sun, hats and large beards. They reached the fame in the decade of the 80 with the CD The Lunatic, Eliminator and Afterburner. They are winning of CD of gold and platinum along their entire career, carrying out extensive tours for North American cities and at international level. They have made appearances in cinema and television, interpreting musicians. Their songs form part of series like Sharp Dressed Man, and in the same way, in the productions of Hollywood Back to the Future III, Armageddon, Shanghai Noon, and Ghost Rider, among others. In 2004 ZZ Top was included in the Living room of the Fame of the Rock. The second of the concerts it took place on Saturday 20 in the Mella Theater, place where it shared scenario with big figures of the Jazz like the Cuban Roberto Fonseca. It arrived this way at the end the two unforgettable presentations of Billy Gibbons in Havana, with the hope that in a very next future we can have in our country the visit of noted figures of the rock. Here I leave them this picture like sample from that unforgettable rock night to the country blue in the Factory of Art.


The Cuban Revolution of de Billy Gibbons The guitarist surprises with a CD of Afro-Cuban rhythms that takes to Havana. By: Gerardo Ortiz. (Taken of internet) Now that Cuba is in fashion again that a genuine North American musician of rock comes close to his powerful music it can sound to exercise of opportunism. Or to expression of sincere appreciation for a cultural patrimony that, for political tolls, it has been too much time in the drawer of the indifference. With Cuba another time on fire, the guitarist and singer of ZZ Top heads the landing of the most genuine American rock in festival of jazz of Havana. Billy Gibbons, also, will present its first disk in solitary in 48 years of career. An album titled Perfectamundo that surrenders flavorful tribute to the Afro-Cuban jazz that macerated in the two sides of the strait of the Florida during decades. In cities that take the music in the veins like New Orleans, Havana or New York. Three of the crucial places where the Afro-Cuban jazz was born, later labeled as Latin jazz. They are not new, by no means, the relationships between musicians from United States and Cuba. Already at the end of the years 30 the Cuban successes of composers like Arsenio RodrĂ­guez or Miguel Matamoros didn't understand of opposite. Arsenio, a blind musician of a small rural village of mount inside (with seven years it lost the view for the kick of a horse in the head in their town of Matanzas); it disembarked for the first time in New York in 1947. For those dates, Matamoros triumphed in Mexico with a singer that then would be legend, Benny More. The mambo arrived and the whole world pointed to the Cuban dance. The party for the first landing of Cuban music in New York what you/they lasted the days of friendship between Washington and Havana lasted. In Cuba, the dictator Fulgencio Batista accepted submissive the cultural impositions of the interested neighbor of the north. They were days of glory in the clubs and the


cabaret of Havana, a broth of music cultivation like few they have been seen then in the world. The theaters overflowed representations and concerts. It was such the demand that the most reputed musicians made double program: in Havana in mid afternoon and then, airplane by means of, a second recital in clubs of Florida. Nights of big names, some pioneers of the Afro-Cuban thing: Mario Bauzá, Machito, Chano Pozo (author of the classic shortening, now 67 years of their death they are completed in a quarrel by matters of marijuana in a bar of the Harlem), Juan Tizol or Mongo Santamaría. Fernando Trueba captured of marvel that intense activity in the lively Boy and Rita.

Legacy The CD of Billy Gibbons this Latin legacy rejuvenates in the popular music of United States, now that they seem friendly the political problems that, for example, they ended up impeding that a Cuban singer of boleros, the septuagenarian Ibrahim Ferrer, picked up its prize Grammy for the project Good View Social Club. And that to the producing of that historical rescue of the son montuno and the Cuban bolero, the Californian guitarist Ry Cooder, a displeasure cost him to record in 2003 the stupendous CD Mambo with its friend Manuel Galbán, leader of the doo-wop group and The Sapphires in Cuba... Few years before neither had the welcome that deserved the series Cubanismo for quality! Of the trumpet player Jesus Alemañy, not even the vivacious Mardi Gras Mambo in New Orleans. The CD Perfectamundo is also born from a challenge to crosscurrent of the politics. In 2014 Billy Gibbons received an invitation of the festival Jazz Square of Havana that takes place each year end in the Cuban capital. And it is not a festival anyone: in their three decades Jazz Square has received artists like Dizzy Gillespie (in its fifth edition it discovered the pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba and it encouraged Paquito D'Rivera and Arturo Sandoval) and reputed jazzmen like Charlie Haden, Roy Hargrove, Tete Montoliú or Michel Legrand. Neither the Latin jazz was an unknown sound for the musician leader of ZZ Top, an entire reference of the rock guitar. In New York, before forming the trio of legendary beards, Billy Gibbons received classes of Latin percussion with its father's friend: it was Tito Bridge, another legend of the gender. And in Perfectamundo it claims that he has not forgotten the lesson. "Play congas again, bongo, maracas and, the most important thing; kettledrums have been as


mounting another time in bike. It is something that you never forget. It can that you don't make it every day, but you go up yourself and you walk", it pointed out in their web the musician Perfectamundo it has more than enough that recorded in their domestic study of Houston and also in The Ángeles and Pontevedra. While we smoked and we drank wine we began to play to check what it could leave making it to the Cuban thing In the eleven songs of the new CD, Billy Gibbons puts in value the Afro-Cuban wealth in the jazz and the contemporary soul. Although it is not the first one, neither the only one. Musicians for the free one as Dr. John, Omar Sosa or Angá Díaz already wrote nutritious chapters to both sides of the sea. Basically, Gibbons explains, we have been a handful of types gathered to make some noise. While we smoked and we drank wine we began to play to check what it could leave making it to the Cuban thing". For Perfectamundo, the singer has added the Argentinean Martin Guigui, to the Cuban Chino Pozo and to the pianist Mike Flanigan, and it warns to those more surprised by her Latin turn: "You can make mosh or to dance the mambo." Wind of change With a foot in the AfroCuban jazz and the other one in the imposing wealth rock of ZZ Top and Led Zeppelin, taken place next to Joe Hardy (that has worked with Steve Earle or Jeff Healey and that in 2006 it modeled the CD in direct That seems an accident of Total Catastrophe, the repertoire of Perfectamundo it includes own pieces as Salt and pepper, devised starting from a dinner in a Latin restaurant; backstitching of hip urban hop with the voice of Heron (You're what's happenin', baby); and an it sails firm: a version with metals afire of Treat her right, original of Roy Head in 1965. There are also two tributes to the old school of the blue: Slim Harpo (Got love if you want it) and Lightnin' Hopkins (Baby, please, don't go).


From the Cuban scene BLINDER is born at the end of 1998 after the disintegration of MEDIUM, some of the most noted bands of Cuban metal. Their first ones two EP " Transhumans” and "Option Zero" are carried out respectively in the years 2001 and 2002, with topics full with variety and complex rhythms, where flowing of the keyboards contributed an extra dimension to their atmosphere, all this inside the extreme metal, death and the aggressive thrash. Given the great acceptance for the Cuban underground, two of their compositions are selected to integrate the first collection CD of Cuban bands Cuba Underground carried out by the label Mexican Option Sónica/Dark Side; they also appear at times in the CD compilation “Free Territory” in charge of the record Cuban EGREM of being carried out the first Festival International Cayman Rock, being this a sample of the most significant thing of the Cuban scene. An important step that consolidated its career was to be chosen to integrate the catalog of protected groupings or subsidized on the part of the Provincial Center of the Music Rafael Prats", institution that contains the best Cuban musical proposals at state level. They were also invited the acquaintance it programs television national of Alive Sensible alternative music." In the 2003 Blinder it establishes a great impact in every year in the scene of the Cuban metal with the participation in all the events dedicated to the gender in spite of confronting the classic alignment changes. In 2007 the grouping returns with its 3er EP titled "Culture Of the Fear", which obtained critical positive in magazines, fanzines and radio programs inside and outside of the country, also carries out 2 topics for the collection CD Not Sauce, Brutal Just Music: The Cuban's Hardest conformed by the best Cuban bands of Metal, which was produced by the Brutal French stamp Beatdown Records and that it left to beginnings of the 2008. In the 2011 they are invited to the first edition of the International Brutal Fest in their tour for their city Santa Clara. In the year 2012 participated again in the


program television “Cuerda Viva", being nominated for the award ceremony inside the category better band metal of the year. For the 2013 after a series of presentations in different places of the local scene and the interior of the country enter to burden their first production in called CD “Hegemonic Cult” through the Canadian stamp Rhombifer Music. In this disk a solid work is shown and it confirms the beginning of a new stage and evolution of the band, without betraying its roots. It contains 7 topics and a cover version of Slayer like bonus track. The guitarist appears as special guest Steve Smyth of the fame of bands like Testament, Nevermore and Forbidden, the masterization was in charge of Andy LaRocque, the legendary guitarist of King Diamond. The 2014 mark an important year for the band when being registered by the Canadian Label Willpower Entertainment for the realization of their second production that will leave by the middle of the 2015, the same one will have again invited of fame and it will contain 12 unpublished topics. Besides having the masterization in charge of Chris Donaldson Guitarist of Cryptopsy. Lyrically the band seeks to encourage those people that believe that everything is lost to look for an exit that of value to its lives, using like main weapon the mind. Line up: Eric Domenech (vocals) Aldo Diaz (guitar) Yoandi Broche (guitar) Asley De Armas (bass) Reinel Rodríguez (drums) Compilation: - Cuba Underground (Option Sónica/ Dark Side / México) 2001. - Free Territory (EGREM / Cuba) 2003. - Not Salsa …Just Brutal Music (Brutal Beatdown Recs/Francia) 2008. - Mi Generation that rise (Cuba Metal Promotions/España) 2009. - Vs. Control (Cuba Metal Promotions/ España) 2011. Discography: - Transhumans - demo - 2000. - Transhumans II (Opcion 0) - demo - 2002. - Culture of the Fear - demo - 2007. - Hegemonic Cult - MCD - 2014 Social Nets www.facebook.com/metalBLINDER www.blindermetal.com www.rhombifer.com Email: domenech.blinder@gmail.com


Again our small island has been news in the big social nets again. This time it is not any event of international reach neither anything resemblance. It is the recent visit that he/she carried out to our country the legendary singer of Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne. It was without doubts a tremendous news for the lovers' of the rock approval in Cuba, because, after the visit that carried out in last November Mick Jagger, singer and director of The Rolling Stones, it seems that we are dedicated to continue surprising us with the visit of big stars of the rock. This time, Ozzy came accompanied by one of its children, Jack Osbourne, in a private visit that extended for almost one week. According to the mythical vocalist's declarations, its visit to the Island has to do with the filming of a documentary of the channel History Channel. The iconic vocalist of Black Sabbath, author of classics as Paranoid, Iron Man, Mama, I´m Coming Home, among other, he carried out this trip to the Island before beginning the tour of farewell of Black Sabbath, titled The End. Born as John Michael Osbourne in Aston, a town near Birmingham, Ozzy is a musician that takes on if a career with more than 40 years of activity. It was part, in their beginnings, of the original formation of the influential band of heavy metal Black Sabbath to which is attributed to be creative of this gender, at the end of the years 60 and principles of the years 1970, it stops later to begin a career like soloist at the beginning of the years 80, achieving big successes and revolutionizing the musical gender again. Known by many as The Madman ,The Godfather of Heavy Metal and The Prince of Darkness, Ozzy Osbourne affirmed recently in an interview to the magazine Rolling Stones that plans to continue with its career in solitary after Black Sabbath says goodbye forever to the scenarios. In their trip to the Island, the fruitful vocalist and composer carried out a series of activities, among those that were the visit to historical centers of interest in Havana and it intruded in the cultural circuit of the Cuban capital. Without place to doubts, the visit of this enigmatic singer to our small island leaves the hopes open to that someday will be able to dream of the performance of big rock bands in our country.


Took of internet - Saturday 9 January 2016 Granma newspaper Ozzy Osbourne " If it was not for the Beatles I would not be here� The Ozzy 2016 know that he is a survivor. He knows that it put order in the chaos, he knows that it won to their legend in the last rounds and he knows, also, of their enormous influence in the world of the rock and roll. By: Michel Hernåndez

Pictures: Yander Zamora

Ozzy in front of the statue of Lennon, in the Havana park. Ozzy Osbourne arrives in an old car at the park John Lennon in Havana. It takes a gray gabardine, black sweater, black pant, I peel on the shoulders, their famous crucifix on the chest, and a thick ring on the left hand. It is placed in front of the leader's statue Beatle and he says something in very low voice. Ozzy is accompanied by its son Jack Osbourne and of a team of the television producer History Channel that films each movement of the historical vocalist of Black Sabbath. The origins of that ritual lie in the childhood of Ozzy. The musician that its childhood caught in the most ferocious claws in the poverty in the deep England lived saw how it changed its life thanks to a couple of disks of The Beatles that fell in its hands when he was an adolescent without future. Its obsession for The Beatles took it, even, to form its first band next to the talented guitarist Tony Lommi. In principle, they were devoted to the blue but then they would enter in the world of the celebration of the black magic, the occultism and the symbolic


universe of the human desolation. In that way, Black was born Sabbath and, also, he was born the heavy metal like gender and philosophy. Ozzy is accompanied by his son Jack Osbourne. The Ozzy 2016 know that he is a survivor. He knows that it put order in the chaos, he knows that it won to their legend in the last rounds and he knows, also, of their enormous influence in the world of the rock and roll. The vocalist has other plans for the afternoon. After remembering to Lennon he goes toward the Yellow Submarine. He walks with leisurely steps, wrapped in a strange tranquility that anything has to do with the character's apparent malignancy that he interprets on the scenario. Already in the installation, he looks with interest the allegorical images to the Beatles, he reads the sentences of their printed songs in the walls, he sits down in the center from a table to the feet of the scenario and his son, Jack, accepts two drinks without alcohol for him and his father stops. To the front, the remarkable Cuban guitarist Luis Manuel Molina dedicates him a small tribute. They are three pieces of the responsibility of Ozzy, among them, Deey and Mr.Crowley that Molina interprets faultlessly. The British, surprised musician, he thanks to the guitarist before beginning a dialogue with this editor and with three historical journalists and rock specialists: Guille Vilar, Juan Camacho and JoaquĂ­n Borges Triana. "If it was not for the Beatles I would not be here now. I come from a very poor family and when he


was boy they captured me the heart. When I listened to them for the first time, it was as if all my dreams appeared before me. They simply captured my soul and when I knew Paul McCartney it was as meeting with God", Ozzy tells me when the encounter recorded by the team of History Channel beginning. I ask him on their visit to the statue of Lennon and he admits me that he doesn't like that type of “briefs ". “I have known Ringo, to Paul, but I never met John, although I had loved. I become sad when I see their image in some brief because he reminds me that it was a very cowardly acts that of the shot. It was very sad the murder of a man that gave so much pleasure to so much people through their music", he says. In the 2001 Dreamer, a quite enigmatic topic in its repertoire was published. He admits me that the song was born under the inspiration of The Beatles. "Like I am so fanatic of the Beatles, unconsciously it leaves me very similar melody to the Beatles. It was not that he was trying to make a song, as the next one it Imagines, but I worry about the Earth, the places, people, the violence and the wars. And then it would be good if we all could take ourselves to us well, we would have a better world." Black Sabbath will say goodbye to the scenarios after its last world tour that will break at the end of this month in the scenarios of United States. For their new stage in loner is planned to arm a band but he doesn't still know to what musicians he will call. "My plans are to make the tour with Black Sabbath and later I will take a brief rest and to write some new things. Up to now I don't still know who will be in the band. I don't know if the group that I have now will be the one that I will have in one year. Alone I know that Tommy Clufetos, my current drummer, is brilliant." The trajectory of Black Sabbath with Ozzy like frontman summarizes a good part of the history of the metal. The musician, 67 years old, assures that the alignment has worked because a climate of friendship exists among its musicians. "We are all friends, we take ourselves well. According to the way in that I see it, my only cause is to respect people that pays to buy an entrance. I am now the sufficiently old and wiser thing of what used to be and I don't believe that it is exactly to have an argument reinforced in the scenario. It is lamentable to see how people become greedy, she becomes crazy, and it is divided. In most of the bands with which have been, that has ruined the final result of the work that is the music�. Ozzy, to who owe him hymns like See you in the other side and I just want you, also talks about the guitarists with those that it has shared alignment. "When I make an audition for a new guitarist, I send them a song of my band, and I make them to play before me. In the way in that I see it, if I am before and my band is behind and I don't have to say high, that is a brilliant group for me. Because people sometimes want to overact and I am the boss of a machine that reproduces music and if that team is not focused in the audience, I frame sack and it bothers me." "Zakk Wyld - the prince of the darkness adds - he is the member with more time of the band that I have had and it is as my family, his family is mine. He is a


brilliant type, a great guitarist, it is crazy as me, and, if I told him I need you for one week he would arrive, and vice versa, if he needs me he only has to call me." The British singer Ozzy Osbourne, vocalist of the band Black Sabbath, in the park dedicated John Lennon in Havana. This father of the metal shows reservations toward the musicians that use the technology above the heart. "I find now that people are losing the art of playing live because the music is so digitized and there are so many tricks and so many shortcuts. People simply press now bellboys, when they make a recording, let us say that they sing a line and yes he is brilliant, they simply repeat it, he is as losing the magic." The reason of its trip to Cuba is the recording of the eighth chapter of a program of History Channel called The World Tour, in which Ozzy goes, counted its impressions of the country that it visits. "This is my first time in Cuba and it is fantastic. One feels sure here, it is really brilliant; if he had known it he would have come before�. We are really passing very well here it". For if it was little, it finishes off with a smile when he is asked about the possibility of a concert in the Island. "I want to come to live to Cuba, not alone to play here", he rushes before to say goodbye to the journalists and


to greet to the rockers that went arriving to the Submarine to observe, with their own eyes, to one of the big legends of the history of the rock.

Biography The Nottingham Prisas is a rock group formed at the beginning of the 2009 in Miranda of Ebro (Burgos). Among the main influences of this band they are Spanish groups of rock like: Barricade, Log, Gets dizzy and groups of hard rock of the years 80 - 90 as: AC/DC - GOTTHARD - GARY MOORE - PRETTY MAIDS, WHITESNAKE, ETC…. After numerous concerts in the year 2011 record their first one Scale model-CD, car taken place by them titled “FIRST STOP” with 11 topics still presenting not very well a rock defined. They highlighted songs like: "It has fallen the curtain", "Uncertain Moments", "The queen of the dance" and "Hello and good-bye". Later on the band continues giving concerts in its origin town and surroundings; until in the spring of the 2013 they record in the studies Lekim Music in Cambrils (Tarragona), under the production of Mikel Herzog their second CD titled "LOST SONGS". This new work denotes in its 8 topics a bestial evolution in the band in all the senses. The topics are: "The pact", "Preparing their demons" Poor unhappy", "My penance", Skin to skin", “The career", “Dream without you" and "Lost Songs" The initial formation of the band was: Pedro Morcillo: (Voice)--David García: (Guitar)--Domingo García: (Bass)--José Wool Antonio: (Guitar)--Paco Solano (Battery) .Subsequently a formation change took place José since Antonio (Guitar) and Domingo (Bass) they left the band for personal circumstances and it would be registered Arturo Quintana (I Lower) and José Manuel Padilla (Guitar). To the few months Arturo Quintana (Bass) decides to leave the group and Fran Rubio would arrive (Bass) to complete the current formation: Pedro Morcillo: (Voice), David García: (Guitar), José Manuel Padilla: (Guitar), Fran Rubio: (Bass) Paco Solano: (Battery)

Discography First Stop (2011) Lost Songs (2013)


Rabia Pérez it is a group of Spanish rock with a nonpareil rhythm. After hearing several of their topics I decided to interview them and kindly they consented. Rabia Pérez, singer of the group, answers to the interview. By: Alejandro Pérez.

First that all greetings and be welcome to this pages of Metal for your Veins. For me is a pleasure can do it this interview. To begin. Why the name of Rabia Pérez? Some special meaning? Many thanks to you for the opportunity above all. Yes, the name and the logo undoubtedly have their meaning, it was eats up it felt when to compose and to interpret most of the songs, in fact I sit down very but that very identified. When and where the band arises? Who are their current members? The band was strange the form of being composed, about seven years ago I knew to Gabriel Rock like component in another band to which I belonged and to weigh that most of the times were played my topics it was not identified in the form of exposing them, I am certain that him neither, then good because the band was dissolved, and in principle you began with this project in which I will be a soloist, but I didn't want that the components were every different time and I began me to take brilliant with them because we stay as band although there


have been some changes, it didn't seem exactly since they were integrated a lot and they contributed every day but to the own topics. The members are: Gabriel Rock (rhythmic guitar and soloist) Juan Fran Head (rhythmic guitar and soloist) Babu (bass) and just has incorporated to the group

Roberto García (battery) and to finish myself Rabia (vowel and keyboard). Which have been the bands that have influenced in Rabia Pérez when composing their topics? From Iron Maiden to the Soft jejeje is many influences in it jejeje. They are few the rock groupings that have a woman like vocalist. Why did decide to have a woman like vowel? They didn't have left Jajajaja more remedy Jajajaja. Tracks like “Fermín”, “Prisoner” and “Your desires" among others they compose your first CD, which I have been able to listen and so that I tell them. How would they define the music of Rabia Pérez? Completely based on real facts as the same life, to who has not happened him or somebody knows this way, direct or indirectly. Until now you have made your first CD “Rabia Perez”. How was the edition process and recording of the same one? Do you have thought to do another CD later on? The process was long and hard. It has been produced and engraving at home, which has taken a long time so much in time, like in means, like in investment of


teams, and to be concluded recording in Fusible Studios that gave him the final sound. Of course that it will make a second CD jejeje. Do you have the opportunity to participate at some time in some rock festival in their country or outside of this? With which bands have shared scenario? We have had occasion of sharing scenario with many bands and that they have left us very good mouth flavor the truth. There have been as many soloists as groups, one of them that we loved was Neverend, and we had share scenario with Orfebos and No es Pecado Future plans? Many, the truth. A loose topic that has been recorded for the foundation Adri Milán and in the one that José collaborates Andrea the former vocalist of Magician of Oz, the published topic will be in some days. The video clip for the campaign of condemned gender violence, beneficent calendar also next to many artists for animal “Alba’s Association” and already unemployment because there are many but jejeje. If you have the opportunity to came any time to Cuba. You will do it? Of course that yes…to see when we have the opportunity jejeje. Well, before to finish, something that want to say to the followers of this magazine. Yes, that continue ahead in their life that after passing it very bad you can be very but that very well and that they enjoy to the maximum of each moment. And to you many thank you to give us the opportunity. Kisses Web Sites Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rabia-Perez/335050353359745 Twitter: https://twitter.com/rabia_perez?lang=es Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/rabiaperezmetal

CD Music is a record label belonging to Duque Producciones. This record label is devoted to give promotion to the Spanish rock bands.


Duque Producciones is a record independent Spaniard arisen in 2004. Productions Duque Producciones puts to artists' disposition and groups that request them, a series of services to help to these to develop their musical growth. Organizations of Duque Producciones tours Duque Producciones puts to the artist's disposition and musical group a service of Organization of Tour. We facilitate the artist the comfort of carrying out the concert in the city wanted at national level without having the concern nothing else of having to act. Road Manager - Professionals to your disposal Personnel qualified for load / discharges, road-manager, tour manager, stage manager and personal of backliner with high experience in tours with national and international bands, festivals and rooms. It is very important to have a reliable team for your concert, for that reason, Duke Productions will give you the security that you need so that everything works correctly and flow everything with easiness. Rent Van - Comfort and technology We have to your disposition • Van Renault Master with TV and DVD, games, light for computer, mobile and more conductive 8 squares. • Van Nissan vannette 5 squares driver + it loads for backline. We can also see the rent possibility other vehicles without driver. Promotion y Marketing - We make more visible to our artists. • Study personalized of the event to promote or/and CD or/and Group. • Contact with editors for reviews in written press and critical • Promotional Planning with media. • Shipment of assemblies to press. • Close of interviews media. • Close of interviews media. • Reviews in internet (pages specialized web, forums, etc). • Sending from Material to the Means for their Critic of CD, to Puncture CDs in radio stations of Radio, to Hang Mp3 in specialized Webs… • Publication of Dates of Concerts. • Shipment of Mailings to more than 20.000 Contacts of Press, City councils. • Promoters and public related with the Music. As well as the following optional points: • Contratación de publicidad en medios de comunicación. • Elaboración y entrega de elementos promocionales. • Elaboración de merchandising. • Distribución de flyers. www.duqueproducciones.com


CARNAVALE DI VENDETTA it is a young band of punk rock coming from Argentina, on their beginnings like band and other elements respond to this interview carried out for to the friend Yusniel ValdĂŠs.

Welcome to this magazine. Thank you to you. CARNAVALE DI VENDETTA it is a young band with hardly 5 years of career and it is formed at the beginning of 2010. Conjugating gypsy rhythms, rock and punk. Comment us like it is that his formed this band... The band was formed to beginnings of the year 2010, we came from different projects but we are friends and family many years ago. It arises of the communion, the union and the pleasure of making music together. And the reality is that we had 4 songs and the producer had already gotten a shows cycle every week and we had to begin to play if or if. You are of the city of Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina; comment us of the scene of the rock in Buenos Aires. Argentina is being developed enough in what is the culture, more spaces are opening up where to show your art, not only musical, also theatrical, poetry spaces, in short, all that has to do with the artistic plane. This is helping enough


to that there are diverse proposals for the varied public that knows how to take advantage of the different options. Speak to us of their first EP, that which were distributed in an independent way. Was no record company interested in you? When we had 5 or 6 songs we decide to record them and to distribute them for people that came to our shows. We also take advantage of those same ones we give to give them to different media. We never had neither we look for the support of a record company. This independent road that we take is incentivized by the longings of generating our new music, to record it and to leave to present it, not only in Argentina but in all the countries that we can visit. "Bleed, Perspiration and Rhythm" is your first CD. The welcome toward this work the one that the band waited was when it finished recording it and to publish it? Comment us on this work. Our first CD was very important for us. The starting point of all the things that you/they happened later, was we are very according of like it was the disk, we could capture the such band which was in that moment, it was a very alive, very hot CD, it was to record it, to mix it and to leave tour to present it. Which have the most influential bands been when composing the topics of this CD? Each one was looking for their roads and developing them, we like a lot of music of different times and different styles. To name some we could tell them: The Beatles, David Bowie, The Ramones, Tom Waits, Dylan, The Clash, and also of the Latin mark: Sumo, Cadillacs, Molotov, The Decadent, and CafeTacvba. But they are more. Defines how you want your following works. Us to the moment to generate new songs, new ideas, we look for that that we don't know what it is, neither how to play it, we look for inside the whole fan of things that we like to play, the new spirit of Carnavale Di Vendetta, a new CD is that, a new spirit, different to the previous ones that it comes with other energy and mark other directions. As I was reading you have been presented and they have carrying out concerts in different places of Argentina and they participated of the Festival to Connect, for April of the 2012 they gave beginning to the Tour of the End of the World 2012, along seven months and 60 offered shows, they traveled great part of Mexico diffusing their music. To close the great year of the band, already in Buenos Aires, they continued with presentations in the Festival Degenerate Marathon 4 and in the Personal Fest, where they shared scenario with noted national and international artists.


Along these 5 years of band we have had the opportunity to present our music in several points of our country and of carrying out several tours for Mexico, in fact we returned 15 days ago of our last tour. To be able to take our show to so much different scenarios of a country like of other it delights us very much, we enjoy so much to make a disk as of leaving to present it... we are of constantly playing. For 2013 they are devoted to present their first CD in the whole Argentinean territory. In November the Tour began Lives Latin 2013/14 that it takes them again to Mexico with more than 60 shows and who’s closing would be in the Multicultural Festival Lives Latin 2014. You talk us about this. In the year 2013 record the CD “The Foam and The Salt", before and after the recording we present ourselves live constantly, and at the end of that year we went to the second tour by Mexico and the closing of the same one was March 30 in the Festival of Music Lives Latin 2014 that it is developed in the Forum Sun City of Mexico. It was a great experience, to be able to present us before so much quantity of people and all that bears the festival. It is so immense, there are so many bands and it works to the perfection. A great opportunity so that many means of all Mexico can end up listen our music... a great moment that we enjoy to full be. In the 2014 it is published in Mexico, their second called album "The Foam and the Salt", through Intolerance Records. Why that not to record and to publish the CD in Argentina? In fact the two CDs of Carnavale gave Vendetta ("Bleeds, Perspiration and Rhythm" -2012 - and "The Foam and the Salt -2014 - ) they were recorded in Argentina and published in Argentina and Mexico, through Intolerance Records. In December we will enter to record the third disk in our country and it will be published in simultaneous in both countries. For this year 2015 began the tour Epidemic of the Dance… With several dates in the cycle Summer of Emotions, sharing poster with artists like The Cafres, The Flannel and Miss Bolivia, in the cities of Sea of the Silver, Mendoza, Córdoba and Buenos Aires. Preparing their third tour in Mexico that begins in March, with shows confirmed in the DF, Puebla, Guadalajara, Monterrey and more towns, in this tour for some cities of Latin America. Can we have them for Cuba? It comes being a very intense year, of many trips, shows, sharing experiences and anecdotes around Argentina and Mexico, in May the stage of Mexico of the tour culminated The Epidemic of the Dance 2015, in June it pulls up the stage again Argentina until ends of November. We are already organizing our tour of March 2016 for the exterior, so God willing we can include Cuba this time like part of the tour, for us it would be a pleasure to be able to visit those lands.


What is the best thing that you have gotten as band until the moment? To continue making songs together, to record CD and to play in live. Without the song there is not anything. As you see the current state of the scene Argentina? Some band that you want to recommend us? There is a growing scene; with many bands that coming working and developing their music a while ago, as we commented them before, the opening of new cultural spaces has helped very much. Bands are a heap that good are, we can name Vetamadre, Isabel Band Itinerante, Persian Chinelas, Your Mother Reigns and many more, the one moved is always in constant movement. Before to finish, any words that you want to say. To thank the space for the diffusion of independent bands, to the Salutte!!! Where we can be modernized with what CARNAVALE DI VENDETTA is making? You can find us in www.facebook.com /Carnavaledivendetta In our official page www.carnavaledivendetta.com.ar , there all our links of our modernized virtual spaces is. Mobile MĂŠxico: (52) 2225 115 590 Mobile Argentina: (+549)116 725 6543 https://soundcloud.com/vendettas https://www.facebook.com/CarnavalediVendetta

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From the Cuban press. Sound highway Saturday 26th December 2015 Granma newspaper

Billy Gibbons "I wanted to honor the Cuban influence in the American musicians" By: Michel HernĂĄndez

I don't believe that there are many rock stars that forget that they are rock stars. When one knows of about Billy Gibbons discovers that it is one of those musicians that doesn't interest him to be gone up to the legend paper neither to sell a common image. In fact, it is easy to sit down in front of the leader of ZZ Top and to forget that we are in front of a type that has created a heap of wonderful songs and it is located, with their band, in a momentous part of the history of the rock and roll. Gibbons receives us sat down as a sage in a sofa in one of the facilities of the Factory of Cuban Art. They accompany him three of the musicians that participated in the recording of their first album in solitary: the pianist and Argentinean film director Martin Guigui, the pianist Mike Flanigin and the bear Alex Heron. Very few they know what there is behind their thick beard, carefully maid during several decades, but what doesn't fit doubt is that there, after that symbol, appears a musician that is not willing to their 66 years to keep more doubts in the body and he/she has rushed an adventure that put the surprise in the face of the faithfulness followers in ZZ Top to live. With beard on the chest, dark glasses, a small cap and motorist's suit, Billy seems that of a moment to another will interrupt the interview (carried out next to the speaker and vocalist Juanito Camacho)

to be released in a Harley Davidson as if one of those rude types that took out him fire to the emblematic was and already extinct route 66, in United States. Their voice is serious and snores. It takes a ring on the finger and it appears a smile in their face when I remind him that Jimi Hendrix considered it, 40 years, and the most promising young guitarist in United States ago. The best test in its words is the CD Perfectamundo, an album with which intrudes in the Latin and Cuban rhythms in a way very iconoclast and original, although, for moments, a very near influence of Carlos Santana´s work is perceived. "With this CDI wanted to honor the influence of the Cuban music in the American musicians of jazz and in other aspects of the popular music. It has been, through the time, a very decisive relationship, and my objective is that all know about that union", co-mint. The musician presented the disk with two concerts in the Festival Jazz Square, where, clearing is, had to interpret several of the topics summits of its band, as The grange. "To my godfathers of ZZ Top, Dusty Hilly and Frank Beard, they like a lot of east CD, because now they can be on vacation", Gibbons fools while it assures that very soon will come with its band nurse to play in Cuba. Obviously it could seem a joke to say that Billy Gibbons has to the god of the subject blue for the beard, but nothing else near the truth.

In fact the band that integrates the select club of the Living room of the Fame of the rock and roll, became big to know how to amalgamate, with own credentials, the sounds of the rock and roll and the blue and other adjacent rhythms as the country. Certainly in the root music it resides, for Gibbons, the secret of the survival. "The blue is the column of the popular music and we have never separated him. For that reason we continue having our fans", he responds with agility when I ask him how they have fixed them to him to continue in the highway before the invasion of a new wave of commercial rock. The genesis of Perfectamundo can have been more than for four decades in New York. "My father that knew Tito Puentes, wanted me to study percussion with him and I went to know it to New York. He felt very inspired because he/she discovered that I could also play the percussion. For Tito, if one played percussion, he/she had to make it perfectly", Billy says who it demonstrates that he learned the lessons well in several segments of the CD. The guitarist also talks about her tour with Jeff Beck, on the secrets of her songs with flavor to tavern and highways, but he always returns the steps on her relationship with the Cuban music. "This project has been very important for me, he insists, while he admits that this tour for Cuba is the fundamental part of that Perfectamundo that he brought to the island to the


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METALLICA throws comic that counts his history While all the fans are while waiting for the launching of a new album of the band, Metallica has in mind other plans. These are a comic that counts the trajectory of 35 years of the band. This comic takes for name ' Orbit: Metallica' which was published by StormFront Mediates and the text was written by Michael L. Frizzel and illustrated by David Frizzel, in turn the one in charge of the illustrations inside comic was Jayfri Hashim. The comic can get it from the place web of Comic Flea: www.comicfleamarket.com Next you can see the cover of the comic that illustrates to the alignment more iconic of the band and the alternating cover with the current alignment.


James Hetfield, of Metallica, reveals its 10 fav 2015; Justin Bieber is in the l

Jam es Hetfi eld, voc alist of the ban d of Met allic a, shared a list of her 10 favorite things that happened in the 2015, through the official page of the group. To know Robert Plant, the return of Pepper Keenan to the band Corrosion of Conformity, the recording of the next album of Metallica and the day in that Justin Bieber shone a T-shirt of Metallica they are some of the most memorable things in the year for the singer. In June, Bieber published a picture in its bill of Instagram shining a black hat and a black T-shirt of Metallica, what caused a torrent of insults toward the singer of pop. A user of this social net wrote: "Take off that T-shirt, you don't deserve it". Another added: "You are a shame for Metallica."


In an interview with the magazine GQ in the 2013, the members of Metallica assured that they are fans of Bieber. “Are we Beliebers? Yes", Hetfield responded. While the baterista Lars Ulrich added: “Is it possible to have respect for him without being a Belieber? I believe that the boy is very talented and obviously it has happened for a lot to an early age that should be difficult for the mind. The fact that he still makes that he makes it is admirable and I believe that it is talented super, so I suppose that For the cuban press Culture Thusday 31th December 2015 Granma newspaper I am a Belieber."

Good-bye to a genius List of complete the rock and roll of Hetfield By: Michel Hernández

Lemmy Kilmister died to the 70 years and he went to stop to that paradise alone reserved rockero for those that gave life to immortal classics and they ascended to the scenario with a vital attitude that distilled energy for the four sides. They say that Lemmy won't go with God because he was God, but the certain thing is that with its death the world of the metal loses one of its bigger icons of the last decades. The leader of Motorhead, died because of cancer and the news disclosed by the members of the band it shocked to the forces of the rock and roll and the metal. Metallica, for example, left clear the impact that produced him the farewell of the celebrated frontman. "Lemmy, you are one of the main reasons for the one that this band exists. We will be you eternally grateful for your inspiration", wrote in twitter the parents of Master Puppets. Ozzy Osbourne, the mythical vocalist and composer of Black Sabbath, a band that was in the same origin of the metal, talked about Lemmy in a very beloved way. "I have lost one of my best friends. It will be sadly missed. He was a warrior and a legend. I will see you in the other side", it pointed out the call Prince of the Darkness. Lemmy had collaborated with Ozzy in CD where Tracks like Mother, I´m Coming Home appear.


MUSE announces tour " Drones " 2016 Last month of December MUSE gave to know the dates for the presentation of its last production “Drones”. Next you can see the days and places of their world tour.

January 14 January | Detroit, MI | Joe Louis Arena | 16 January | Toronto, ON | Air Canada Centre | 18 January | Quebec City, QC | Le Centre Videotron | 20 January | Montreal, QC | Centre Bell | 21 January | Montreal, QC | Centre Bell | 23 January | Quebec City, QC | Le Centre Videotron | 25 January | Boston, MA | TD Garden | 27 January | Brooklyn, NY | Barclays Center | 31 January | Philadelphia, PA | Wells Fargo Center |

February 01 February | Washington, DC | Verizon Center | 26 February | Paris, FR | Bercy Arena | 27 February | Paris, FR | Bercy Arena |


March 01 March | Paris, FR | Bercy Arena | 03 March | Paris, FR | Bercy Arena | 04 March | Paris, FR | Bercy Arena | 06 March | Cologne, DE | Lanxess Arena | 07 March | Amsterdam, NL | Ziggo Dome | 08 March | Amsterdam, NL | Ziggo Dome | 09 March | Amsterdam, NL | Ziggo Dome | 10 March | Amsterdam, NL | Ziggo Dome | 12 March | Brussels, BE | Palais 12 | 13 March | Brussels, BE | Palais 12 | 15 March | Brussels, BE | Palais 12 | 16 March | Brussels, BE | Palais 12 | 31 March | Munich, DE | Olympiahalle | April 02 April | Birmingham, UK | Barclaycard Arena | 03 April | London, UK | The O2 | 05 April | Dublin, IE | 3Arenas Dublin | 06 April | Belfast, UK | The SSE Arena | 08 April | Manchester, UK | Manchester Arena | 09 April | Manchester, UK | Manchester Arena | 11 April | London, UK | The O2 | 12 April | London, UK | The O2 | 14 April | London, UK | The O2 | PMU UK | The O2 | 15 AprilBy | London, 17 April | Glasgow, UK | SSE Hydro | Artist: Bad News (Malas Noticias) 18 April | Glasgow, UK | SSE Hydro |

May 02 May | Lisbon, PT | MEO Arena | 03 May | Lisbon, PT | MEO Arena | 05 May | Madrid, ES | Barclaycard Center | 06 May | Madrid, ES | Barclaycard Center | 09 May | Vienna, AT | Stadhalle | 11 May | Zurich, CH | Hallenstadion | 12 May | Zurich, CH | Hallenstadion | 14 May | Milan, IT | Mediolanum Forum | 15 May | Milan, IT | Mediolanum Forum | 17 May | Milan, IT | Mediolanum Forum | 18 May | Milan, IT | Mediolanum Forum | 20 May | Milan, IT | Mediolanum Forum | 21 May | Milan, IT | Mediolanum Forum |

June 03 June | Berlin, DE | Mercedes Benz Arena | 04 June | Prague, CZ | O2 Arena | 06 June | Hamburg, DE | Barclaycard Arena | 08 June | Copenhagen, DK | Forum | 09 June | Copenhagen, DK | Forum | 11 June | Stockholm, SE | Ericsson Globe | 12 June | Oslo, NO | Telenor Arena | 14 June | Helsinki, FI | Hartwall Arena |

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CD: 12+1 Qualification: 4.5 of 5 starts

Bad News are not a band more than hard rock inside the panorama Cuban underground, it is a synonym of the gender whose influences of the heavy, the trash and the Rock'n roll have been able to consolidate a new, strong and vigorous sound of heavy rock. And it is that the grouping, composed by Yordi Matos, first voice and electric guitar; Pedro Rodríguez Sánchez (father), guitar leader; Dayana Montalvo Smith (Repo), in the first floor and choirs; Darel Alfonso Rodríguez in the keyboard; Orlando Hernández, rhythmic guitar; battery and musical address of Pedro René Rodríguez (son); in their three years of having created exhibits a considerable rating. Aided by this deluxe line-up, their most recent production, the CD 12+1 (2014), it not conquered with their excellent melodic diversity alone to the most diverse


publics, but also a space among the lovers of the alternative music in the recently concluded Festival Cumanayagua Alternative 2015. Without doubts, a premiere for the entire high one for the boys of Cardinal red, easily predictable if it is repaired in the categorical track list of the CD. From the opening, “Strange Animal” surprises and it pleases starting from the own minute zero, with his classic battery entrance and guitar that he invites us to untie our wilder side. The whole song is remarkable, a suggestive composition, enchanting, but mainly very rockera. With similar qualities “Bang bang bang” occupies the track 2 whose tempo and contagious melody emerge as the main attraction. This time the battery, with the particular riff of the topic, doesn't happen indifferent for anybody. After two good injections of adrenaline, it arrives “Dancing Rock´n Roll” moment where the vocalist become showman, demonstrates that she has registrations to give and to give, while the guitars and the first floor have a good time among the classic sonorities popularized by Chuck Berry in the decade of the 50. "Until when” the fourth court is and it arrives with a wild tone, a complex topic full with changes that makes sprout the feelings and the licentiousness of Yordi Matos on the scenario, while the sound of the electric guitars works which drugs for the less passionate listener. Neither you realize and already almost are in the equator of the disk. Now it is the moment for “Static World", melody that catches and it also seduces from their first one listens, when having alone one of the best of the CD. With a very catching riff and making a good use of the changes along the whole song, “Because I am” it recreates, maybe, an idyllic version of the interior world of the authors, loaded with desires, passion and eroticism, with some that another satirical brushstroke. But this work doesn't give rest, mainly if we speak of quality. The hard rock of potent guitars returns anything less than with the topic that identifies to the band: "Bad News". A brief, direct piece and that it plays with the motivations of the group decorated with suggestive allusions to the social context. On the other hand, “Tomorrow” in acoustic version, it is presented elegant and fine, so sure of itself that it does without of the overwhelming riffs to stand out. It leans on much more in their vocal melody seconded by some refined chords. "Army of Rock ´N Roll", the only topic in English of the volume, closes for the entire high one this exempt proposal of perfectionisms and loaded with originality. A CD, according to their agents, fact with the help of a lot of sacrifice, with few resources, without virtual instruments or sequencing, but with a lot of love.


Cocktail of melodies or it mixes sui generic, the CD 12+1 it is synonymous of identity. With music and letters equally suggestive, the grating voice of Yordi Matos in interaction with the guitars and the battery, generates a particular sound. Pure alternative rock and 100% Cuban. Tracks: Strange animal Bang, Bang, Bang Dancing Rock & Roll Until when Static world Because I am Charging life Green worms Tomorrow (acoustic Version) I am your destination With me they won't be able to Bad News Army of Rock ´N Roll

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Pearl Jam could throw new CD this year

2016 seem to be the year so that Pearl Jam publishes its new CD.


"Probably, the band attempts it and have another album this year", indicated Jeff Ament in an interview with Vice, where it is expressed on his activities in the skateboard - that is a practitioner from his youth -, helping to build places for his development in United States. "I still go up myself to the skate, I play music, game basketball and I walk in bicycle. It maintains me young", the bassoonist, 52 years old said. For the time being, the only plans of the quintet of Seattle -whose last work is “Lightning Bolt", of the 2013" - they are to travel to South America for a tour that will have them for the first time in Colombia November 25th.

Saratoga announces new CD In the last edition of the X Legends of the Rock 2015 of Villena (Alicante), Saratoga took advantage to throw the news: there will be new disk of this formation for the 2016, an expression with which they want to thank the whole affection that received for their Tour the Return 2015.


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