tag:www.badprincess.net,2005:/blogs/unsearchable-news?p=1Unsearchable News2023-10-06T12:32:39+01:00Bad Princess Productionsfalsetag:www.badprincess.net,2005:Post/72837252023-10-06T12:32:39+01:002023-10-16T15:52:31+01:00Void sign with Brucia Records, Oct 2023<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/s:bzglfiles/u/230332/87dc8be1468d4c5c27f44c261131881fd5144b09/original/brucia-banner.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><span>From Brucia Records, 6th October 2023</span></p><p><span>"We are incredibly proud to announce that Avantgarde Metal pioneers </span><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.facebook.com/theunsearchablevoid?__cft__%5B0%5D=AZVD2NlPvhuBT9IZ9T2ugHGkE3rr0fWKlxuNX3GjKjBby3VFFpnD_J0dFV3lrSk58K5v5c6wSc3yGAQ3aNkxbjf7UxMJ5e33bqEdp31eeSX42jnPo1HnrMZkHvWZPIOlE0WHwD3LUX2E9oT8c6sQXTX91eOlW0NuuWBgn3peRo5oXvE-PtvyqvEN4y4XBweXL1M&__tn__=-%5DK-R"><span>Void</span></a><span> have joined our roster.</span></p><p><span>Formed in London in 1999 and boasting an impressive back catalog of genre-defining releases, Void have been constantly at the forefront of sonic innovation and a favourite of us at Brucia Records since time immemorial.</span></p><p><span>From the upcoming new album expect what Void do best: reinventing themselves, marking a distinct departure from the previous releases whilst paradoxically remaining quintessentially Void.</span></p><p><span>The new album will also feature a new line up formed by the collaborative experience of Matt Jarman (Void 's founding member) with Camille Giraudeau (Dreams of the Drowned, Doedsmaghird), Lars Emil Måløy (Dødheimsgard, If Nothing Is) and Tariq Zulficar (Atramentum). George Geegor Anagnostopoulos - Dødheimsgard's live sound engineer, has also collaborated in co-writing the album.</span></p><p><span>All the details about the new Full Length will be unveiled in a week's time, but in the meantime you can make yourself familiar with their immense talent and check out their previous releases, if you have not done so already."</span><br> </p><p><a class="no-pjax" href="https://www.facebook.com/bruciarecords" data-link-type="url">https://www.facebook.com/bruciarecords</a></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style='-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(36, 37, 38);color:rgb(228, 230, 235);font-family:system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;margin:0.5em 0px 0px;orphans:2;overflow-wrap:break-word;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;'><div style="font-family:inherit;text-align:start;" dir="auto"> </div></div>Bad Princess Productionstag:www.badprincess.net,2005:Post/68949902022-02-11T14:32:09+00:002022-09-11T19:23:04+01:00Void Live @ Electrowerkz, Feb 19th 2022<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/230332/1cf8ca299296e482c19a56ea55524bd54619d4e7/original/void-feb19th-flyer03c-ew.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>Next Saturday February 19th is the next VOID show, at Electrowerkz and will probably be the last show for a while, as Void disappear again for a while to complete work on the fourth album. </p>
<p>About now would be a good time to say how stoked we are, raging to go and ready to rock etc... but let's cut the crap shall we? </p>
<p>These last few years have been hard for everyone, and somehow, these last months, for some of us at least, have seemed the hardest. Just within our small selection of freaks we've had major health traumas, career overload, mental health problems, relocations, unemployment and more. Personally I have been in a very dark place through these winter months. It doesn't get any better by pretending it doesn't exist, does it? On top of this, on a band level we now have to contend with living in four different towns and yet more line up changes, so please don't think me a snowflake when I say, it is a massive effort to pull this show together. </p>
<p>However: </p>
<p>On February 19th at Electrowerkz we will attempt to invoke the healing, restorative powers of music. Like a phoenix rising from the ashes will will mobilise our weapon of choice and say a collective FUCK YOU to the pandemic, FUCK YOU to depression, FUCK YOU to the capitalist system that dismembers and undermines the music scene and kicks bands when they are down. FUCK YOU. </p>
<p>Join us, as we invoke once more the spirit of the Unsearchable Void, in the form of five human individuals, with nothing to lose and nothing to prove. Let us share with you the light that we have found on our journey through the darkness. Let us live again. </p>
<p>Your friend, </p>
<p>Matt & The Unsearchable Void</p>
<p>PS: </p>
<p>A word about DSI studio: "After 10 years, The Dissident Sound Industry studio has closed its doors. DSI was a cooperatively run rehearsal and recording studio that existed in Tottenham from 2011-2021, run by volunteers from these bands. Please come and celebrate with us as we give our beloved studio a send off! Leftover proceeds from the studio’s business will now help fund three new studio projects: Djenga Rock ‘n Rooms, SSP Studio & more. The spirit of DSI lives on!" </p>
<p>The significance of the Void - DSI connection is not to be dismissed. I myself started The Dissident Sound industry as a production company in 2002 and its first credited endeavour was indeed our debut album "Posthuman". It wasn't until 2011 I opened DSI as a studio, along with my partners Keith Thomas (Flowers of Flesh and Blood/Gurgle), Maxime Seiter (Dead Existence/MWM), Wagner Antunes (Erege/Tropical Nightmare) and Nick Nicholson (Alta Cruz, Elite Vampire Cult). I left the studio circa 2017 but it always held a place close to my heart.</p>
<p>http://www.theunsearchablevoid.com</p>Bad Princess Productionstag:www.badprincess.net,2005:Post/67814052021-10-20T09:44:04+01:002021-10-20T09:44:04+01:00New Album! // New Lineup! // New Shows!<p>Greetings Void fans, well met, well met. We hope you survived the mass extinction, the death of the old era and the birth of the new. We hope that you haven't suffered as some have, bearing witness to the devolution of common sense, the building of mental walls and the erosion of freedoms. We hope that you have emerged stronger, as we have. Ready to tackle new challenges and make another mark on the world. </p>
<p>Yes, we predicted the end. And lo, it came, and smothered the world. Yet in each death there is new life. In each end, a new beginning. </p>
<p>This is our news: </p>
<ul> <li>Void will return to the stage this coming November 19th at Eradication festival, Fuel, Cardiff, with a set of songs, spanning their 22 year discography, fronted by vocalist Levi LeBlanc. </li>
</ul>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/230332/73d3d34dad7485f873e8bd8908b22dcb262e6025/original/eradication-festival-logo.jpeg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<ul> <li>We are also formulating plans for two shows in London, performing “The Hollow Man” in its entirety with a full line up, with Laura Katrin joining Levi on lead vocals. Late January 2022 TBC at the DSI Studios farewell gig and a headline show, April 2022 TBC. Bands and promoters wishing to get involved, enquire within. </li>
</ul>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/230332/4af1f9779e6d6f53c692e55672408db57ab7cbf4/original/jadjow-brucia-logo-by-void.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJiemdsZmlsZXMifQ==/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<ul> <li>In other news, a fourth album entitled “Jadjow” has been written, to be recorded in February 2022 in Athens, featuring an all new line-up of Matt Jarman (Void) on guitar and lead vocals, Camille Giraudeau (Dreams of the Drowned) on lead guitar, Lars Emil Måløy (Dødheimsgard/If Nothing Is) on bass and Geegor Anagnostopoulos (Liturgy of Desecration) on drums. Artwork is by Laura Katrin (Void) with lyrical contributions from Gerardo Serra (Void) and Joe Norman (Echoes and Dust). </li>
</ul>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/230332/e41f5d321fdcb764b1c7b21f70cf73a51e1f7cf8/original/laura-wandus-i-become-what-i-think.jpg/!!/meta:eyJzcmNCdWNrZXQiOiJjb250ZW50LnNpdGV6b29nbGUuY29tIn0=/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>Labels interesting in working with Void who wish to hear the Jadjow demo tape, please get in touch. </p>
<p>Void plan to return to the stage in 2022 to support this new material, with a live lineup featuring a mix of new and classic members. </p>
<p><strong>VOID's third album "The Hollow Man" was released in April 2021 by Duplicate Records </strong></p>
<p>Here is a selection of some of the reviews it received: </p>
<p>METAL HAMMER - FEB 2021 </p>
<p>Akercocke crywanking to Cyberpunk 2077. Mysticum’s take on Jeff Wayne’s The War Of The Worlds. Whatever Void’s third record is, it sounds like nothing else on earth... Mercilessly explorative. Addictively replayable. Void, mate. (8/10) </p>
<p>ARROWS LORD OF METAL </p>
<p>There are absolutely (masterful) riffs that are reminiscent of something like 'Traces Of Reality' and the basis remains a healthy pot of experimental black metal, but that does not stop the British from squealing through the bend on all sides… All this requires considerable instrument control, but that is no problem for Void. The vocals are not inferior to all this musical versatility, because they easily vary between theatrical, bizarre and completely insane. </p>
<p>It should be clear: 'The Hollow Man' is by no means an easy album. There's so much going on in just 38 minutes that it takes a lot of listens to get to the bottom of the record, but that only makes it more rewarding. (9/10) </p>
<p><a contents="https://arrowlordsofmetal.nl/void-the-hollow-man/" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://arrowlordsofmetal.nl/void-the-hollow-man/">https://arrowlordsofmetal.nl/void-the-hollow-man/ </a></p>
<p>ECHOES AND DUST </p>
<p>This heady mix is gloriously strung together into a deeply impressive and coherent concept album of the very best kind, told in VOID’s signature language of brutal and unpredictable riffs. Here, that style is expanded by their most eclectic range of genres to date, the fullest, richest production of their oeuvre, and all wrapped up in the enigmatic and eye-catching artwork of Metastazis. Pulling off their grandiose ambition with panache, this is VOID’s best work yet, and one that demands obsessive replaying. </p>
<p><a contents="https://grizzlybutts.com/2021/01/15/void-the-hollow-man-2021-review/" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://grizzlybutts.com/2021/01/15/void-the-hollow-man-2021-review/">https://grizzlybutts.com/2021/01/15/void-the-hollow-man-2021-review/ </a></p>
<p>GRIZZLY BUTTS </p>
<p>The full listen would be a jarring skull fuck of an avant-garde extreme metal album if not for the smoothing effect of the orchestrated bits, the striking variety of the vocal performances, and complete “roundness” of the theme represented therein. (85/100) </p>
<p><a contents="https://grizzlybutts.com/2021/01/15/void-the-hollow-man-2021-review/" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://grizzlybutts.com/2021/01/15/void-the-hollow-man-2021-review/">https://grizzlybutts.com/2021/01/15/void-the-hollow-man-2021-review/</a> </p>
<p>Top albums of January 2021 </p>
<p>An unusually memorable avant-garde black metal album with plenty of proggy hits and curiously memorable moments that are a wonder to return to. </p>
<p><a contents="https://grizzlybutts.com/2021/01/27/the-top-20-albums-of-january-2021/" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://grizzlybutts.com/2021/01/27/the-top-20-albums-of-january-2021/">https://grizzlybutts.com/2021/01/27/the-top-20-albums-of-january-2021/</a> </p>
<p>CAN THIS EVEN BE CALLED MUSIC </p>
<p>Remember Ashenspire and/or Vulture Industries and/or A Forest of Stars? Well, Void is a new name to add to this rather short list of theatrical progressive metal purveyors. </p>
<p><a contents="https://canthisevenbecalledmusic.com/void-yaeth-svirfneblin-and-nautilus/" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://canthisevenbecalledmusic.com/void-yaeth-svirfneblin-and-nautilus/">https://canthisevenbecalledmusic.com/void-yaeth-svirfneblin-and-nautilus/</a> </p>
<p>NO CLEAN SINGING </p>
<p>This isn’t the kind of music that can be thrown together quickly, but it has been so unusually good that it rewards the patience of fans. </p>
<p><a contents="https://www.nocleansinging.com/2020/12/29/seen-and-heard-void-womb-nervous-decay-omnikinetic-ensanguinate-gravedancer/" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.nocleansinging.com/2020/12/29/seen-and-heard-void-womb-nervous-decay-omnikinetic-ensanguinate-gravedancer/">https://www.nocleansinging.com/2020/12/29/seen-and-heard-void-womb-nervous-decay-omnikinetic-ensanguinate-gravedancer/</a> </p>
<p>Visit & Like the Void Facebook page for more info. </p>
<p><a contents="www.theunsearchablevoid.com" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.theunsearchablevoid.com">www.theunsearchablevoid.com</a></p>Bad Princess Productionstag:www.badprincess.net,2005:Post/65574452021-02-24T16:50:56+00:002021-02-24T16:51:41+00:00New Lyric video for IV: Imminent Demise - "The Black Iron Prison"<p>The new lyric video for IV: Imminent Demise - "The Black Iron Prison", taken from forthcoming album "The Hollow Man"</p>
<p><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="B061tZK1LwM" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/B061tZK1LwM/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/B061tZK1LwM?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="180" width="320" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>
<p><a contents="https://youtu.be/B061tZK1LwM" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/B061tZK1LwM" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/B061tZK1LwM</a></p>Bad Princess Productionstag:www.badprincess.net,2005:Post/65099212020-12-30T02:28:06+00:002020-12-30T02:28:06+00:00Slight delay / reports of imminent disaster / Brexit / Covid / is it the same thing!?!<p>Please note The Hollow Man release date is now February 2021. <br>Apologies for the delay, but rest assured, the end is nigh. </p>Bad Princess Productionstag:www.badprincess.net,2005:Post/64366232020-09-17T22:22:11+01:002020-09-17T22:22:11+01:00"The Hollow Man" release date announced by Duplicate-Records / Artwork by Metastazis / 1st track now streaming<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/230332/32a8a4c580c6ff6bb0098e6f02acf69b1355bf4b/original/12-vinyl-cover-4mm-spine-template-5-copie.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span class="font_large"><a contents="duplicaterecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-hollow-man" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://duplicaterecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-hollow-man" target="_blank">duplicaterecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-hollow-man</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Releases January 29, 2021 </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Mixed by Camille Giraudeau (DREAMS OF THE DROWNED),</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">mastered by Greg Chandler (ESOTERIC) </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">artwork by Metastazis</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">A Bad Princess Production</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Stream the 1st song " The Hollow Men" at <a contents="http://duplicaterecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-hollow-man" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://duplicaterecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-hollow-man" target="_blank">http://duplicaterecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-hollow-man</a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"> </p>
<p>UK avantgarde metal entity VOID return to Duplicate nearly a decade after their previous self-titled album. Their third full-length is a concept album breathing urban dystopia and existential despair, inspired by T.S. Eliot’s poem ‘The hollow men’. </p>
<p>"The end is NOT nigh. Take it from us: we are self-appointed apocalypse experts. We were the plague doctors outside your local tube station, who laughed heartily on the ruins of the post-industrial civilisation. We’ve got a song titled ‘This is the way the world ends’, and have written a whole (upcoming) album on the overlap between individual delirium, collective breakdown and the vision and experience of the end times. What other credentials do you need? </p>
<p>Do not fall for the illusion that we are suddenly living in a dystopian world. We already were. </p>
<p>If you are transferring your iniquitous trading to the fetid comforts of your isolated hovel, take a moment's respite from self-manipulation before the exalted black mirror, and look, look deep into your own void. Strip away your comforting capitalist layers, what if anything is left?" - Void </p>Bad Princess Productionstag:www.badprincess.net,2005:Post/60993962020-01-14T19:33:06+00:002022-05-10T17:35:05+01:00DHG/Dødheimsgard Live in London - Full Show<p>"To welcome the stranger's neighbour <br>A vast, swift talk of romance and despair <br>A bellboy's journey through the eight limbs of Yoga" </p>
<p>DHG/Dødheimsgard - Live in London at the Camden Underworld, December 10th 2019 </p>
<p>FULL SHOW - Ft. Matt Jarman of Void on guest guitar. </p>
<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/GvWXfdeP0jw" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/230332/4e4595b10a79e213a9a988413b79eeec2562444a/original/dhg-liveinlondon.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
<p>We are immensely proud to announce that we are now hosting a video of the full DHG/Dødheimsgard London show on our Youtube Channel! </p>
<p>If you love DHG as much as we do then this video is for you.</p>
<p><a contents="https://youtu.be/GvWXfdeP0jw" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/GvWXfdeP0jw" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/GvWXfdeP0jw</a></p>Bad Princess Productionstag:www.badprincess.net,2005:Post/60081202019-12-13T15:10:27+00:002019-12-13T15:16:36+00:00Matt Jarman plays with DHG/Dødheimsgard live in London<p>On Tuesday night I received the Arch-mage's blessing and took the portal to the top of the mountain. <br>There I was welcomed by a generous spirited group of supremely talented misfits, who every night transform into the sinister sect of freakish wizardry known as DHG/Dødheimsgard Official. <br>They remade me as the "yellow painted devil from Void" and vomited me onto the stage, a highlight of my tiny existence. </p>
<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.avenoctum.com/2019/12/dodheimsgard-bolzer-blaze-of-perdition-matterhorn-london-underworld-10-12-19/" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/230332/055c43931cf81f9a88669220177dd82abbb21d40/original/screen-shot-2019-12-13-at-15-04-14.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Photo by Pete Woods</p>
<p><br>Pete Woods from <a contents="Ave Noctum" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.avenoctum.com/2019/12/dodheimsgard-bolzer-blaze-of-perdition-matterhorn-london-underworld-10-12-19/" target="_blank">Ave Noctum</a> was also present, immortalising the seance with <a contents="these words&nbsp;and pictures" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.avenoctum.com/2019/12/dodheimsgard-bolzer-blaze-of-perdition-matterhorn-london-underworld-10-12-19/" target="_blank">these words and pictures</a>. </p>
<p>Or try the review at <a contents="Old Man's Mettle&nbsp;" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://oldmansmettle.com/2019/12/11/dodheimsgard-and-bolzer-live-at-the-underworld-london-10th-december-2019/" target="_blank">Old Man's Mettle </a> which also includes some live clips.</p>
<p>Thanks to my bros and heros: Yusaf Parvez, Lars Emil Måløy, Øyvind Myrvoll, Tommy Thunberg & George Geegor Anagnostopoulos </p>
<p>Also thanks to my buddy Rua Acorn who filmed the show. Look out for that one coming soon!</p>
<p>http://www.avenoctum.com/2019/12/dodheimsgard-bolzer-blaze-of-perdition-matterhorn-london-underworld-10-12-19/</p>Bad Princess Productionstag:www.badprincess.net,2005:Post/58713572019-08-27T12:57:26+01:002021-10-20T09:44:37+01:00UK MINI TOUR W/ THORNAFIRE (CHILE)<p><iframe class="justify_inline" data-video-type="youtube" data-video-id="7NGo87t67XA" data-video-thumb-url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/7NGo87t67XA/mqdefault.jpg" type="text/html" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7NGo87t67XA?rel=0&wmode=transparent&enablejsapi=1" frameborder="0" height="180" width="320" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></p>
<p>*UK VOID TOUR SEPTEMBER 2019* </p>
<p>We are pleased to announce Void are embarking on a mini UK tour with our brothers from Chile Thornafire Official this September. Stay tuned for event pages and further info. See you in the pit folks! </p>
<p>11th September - Dark Horse Moseley Birmingham <br>12th September - The Gryphon Bristol <br>13th September - The Dev London</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/230332/bd5a7e4f4519658710ef9a62dc1131bcbe92c949/original/67683193-2177947542333810-2441873896312406016-o.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/230332/bd5a7e4f4519658710ef9a62dc1131bcbe92c949/original/67683193-2177947542333810-2441873896312406016-o.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/230332/3fca0bad6bab0d85820f6616231e688fc0efa46e/original/67248470-2146445682150663-3904131366622593024-o.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/230332/0e5c55cd3c272bdbab343a7707fbb13f07e07958/original/64928178-2390100901033691-5174515751419117568-n.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_" /></p>Bad Princess Productionstag:www.badprincess.net,2005:Post/57413362019-05-03T12:12:44+01:002019-05-03T12:57:24+01:00Q&A with G.S.Richter, circa June 2018<p><strong>Hi Matt,</strong></p>
<p><strong>Just dropping a line to let you know that I have been working on the Void article. Life is kicking me in the nuts. Between kicks, I squeak out whatever work I can. </strong></p>
<p><strong>Here are some questions that I'd like to pepper throughout the article in a sort of unstructured interview. If they generate follow-up questions, we'll work those in too. </strong></p>
<p><strong>Thanks. </strong></p>
<p>>>>>>>>>>></p>
<p>Hi Richter, </p>
<p>Time again then to sit at the control station and hammer the keys a bit. </p>
<p>Sorry about your nut crushing. Hope you source the necessary chutzpah to kick life back. I'm afraid my nuts are quite battered at the moment too, (I actually got kicked in the nuts literally today) and I might have lost the plot somewhat herein. Probably not much worth printing... too long, too off topic, too self indulgent... More worthy of a flushing than a printing? </p>
<p>Let's find out. </p>
<p><strong>0. How does it feel to be the oldest living band named Void (in a time that we at the Toilet like to call "peak void")? 1. Does the fact that a million other metal bands keep stealing your name ever make you want to change it? </strong></p>
<p>Oldest is good. So is living. But peak Void has been a pain in the arse. It has made it extremely difficult to locate our band online. Especially the second album. It's on Spotify, for example, but try searching Void - Void, you won't find it without scrolling many pages.</p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/230332/c07e58728e78030661da720b161c2fa0597403d5/original/screen-shot-2019-05-03-at-12-27-54.png/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.png" class="size_m justify_right border_" />(https://open.spotify.com/album/5hN8AKJ6dlLIb7ud7Egf1t?si=gbBV60HMRva5Yc34obFelw)</p>
<p>Maybe that's how it is supposed to be. Maybe we are meant to be consigned to the void. Maybe no one is searching for it anyway. Poetic justice. #Unsearchable #unknowable ... That's ok I guess, we didn't make the music to become stars, however we would like to play some nice festivals, we would like to tour Europe and beyond; so we are waving our fucking flag and keeping the name. </p>
<p>We did seriously consider changing it. We nearly became 'The Unsearchable Riches of Void', or 'The Unsearchable Void', and in many ways we are, just not officially. We never put (official) after our name anyway. Why do they all do that? It looks so shit. We could have used a completely new name, been a completely new band, BUT we love the old songs as much as the new, so without that history to back us up, and considering the rate at which we turn out songs – I can imagine... four or five nearly forty year old guys, popping up with seven or eight weird ass new songs that don't fit into any new scene? At least by keeping the name we fit into a category of our own. </p>
<p>However: Can you imagine being a fresh faced young musical duo at the millennium's end, and one lad turns to the other and says "why don't we call it void?" Its hard to imagine there can ever have been a time when that can have seemed like an original idea! Of course, it wasn't, and there had already been an established 'void' but we didn't know that at the time. Neither of us knew very much about punk or hardcore. </p>
<p>Unglamorously enough I think the name was originally inspired by the funeral scene from Alien3, "we commit these bodies to the void with a glad heart...", I was so moved. It was the only 'word' I contributed to the band from its inception until about 10 years later. </p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/230332/606d298ddee30c87061b08b9f0834be809db1577/original/static1-squarespace.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/230332/95fd70eef013ffc3c3a34188471f313e2972dd96/original/r-2378848-1280572138-jpeg.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_left border_" />As for getting ripped off... I doubt you're being serious, but there was a band that popped up called 'Posthuman', with an album "Into the Void"... That's a bit weird isn't it? Just coincidence? You tell me... I don't remember if there's any stylistic similarity. </p>
<p>I never read anywhere in print that any band has been influenced by this particular Void, but I've received a few personal messages over the years to that effect, including from artists I respect. Things like that really make it worth while. </p>
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<p><strong>2. Is it okay for people to think of you, Matt, as a sponge? (Stylistically, that is.) </strong></p>
<p>A stylistic "pore bearer", a sister of the Diploblasts. Sponges have unspecialized cells that can transform into other types and that often migrate between the main cell layers and the mesohyl in the process. Sponges do not have nervous, digestive or circulatory systems. Instead, most rely on maintaining a constant water flow through their bodies to obtain food and oxygen and to remove wastes. Sponges were first to branch off the evolutionary tree from the common ancestor of all animals, making them the sister group of all other animals. </p>
<p>Sister of the Diploblasts! </p>
<p>The first to branch off the evolutionary tree... </p>
<p>You mean because, stylistically, I soaked up all sorts of stuff and spat it out again into the music? </p>
<p>And unspecialised cells do transform into other types that migrate between layers... thematically as well as stylistically. That still occurs. But that I am porous to any kind of wave-born material that tries to pass through me? No way. I am a solid, impregnable type of material. Something dogged and headstrong, like living stone, I resist most recorded music I come into contact with... stylistically. At least I do nowadays. I'm a bit more amenable at live shows. </p>
<p>It was different at the point of maturity in my life cycle of course. My teenage years. I took on a lot of data, stylistically, then. </p>
<p>My parents weren't into popular music so as a kid I absorbed the radio. Cheesy pop was my thing, I remember singing along with Colour Me Bad's, I Wanna Sex You Up, even doing the pump-your-body-and-stab-the-air dance. I was lucky if they played some Nena Cherry, or some Simply Red. I still get the hooks from "I love your smile" or "Finally it has happened to me" stuck in my head sometimes. In my grossly inaccurate memory banks that was only moments before my sister started dating a metal head and I heard the black album for the first time. I found a way out... or in. Although initially I just played Nothing Else Matters and turned the tape over to play "The Unforgiven" on repeat. This has got nothing to do with Void, or your question, so far, but fuck it, here it comes. What I soaked up, and kept inside. It didn't pass through me. It's still there. </p>
<p>1992 Metallica & grunge at the same time, </p>
<p>1994 Pantera > Slayer (I was reading the big magazines and following orders), Entombed Wolverine Blues, Fear Factory </p>
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<p>1995 Sepultura > Carcass > Death's 'Individual Thought Patterns' (Shit was getting good now - I went to Donnington Monsters of Rock that year), I read a review of Emperor's In the Nightside Eclipse, I also started playing in the school orchestra. I met Mat McNerney around this time and he had an older friend called Kola Krauze, they introduced me to a lot of bands. </p>
<p>1997 I stopped listening to much else other than Emperor, Dissection, Satyricon... I didn't like Burzum or Darkthrone much. I liked the linear scaffold. I hated cradle of filth. I got completely lucky in that I was studying A level music (because I wanted to do Music Technology) and the syllabus that year was Russian Ballet, Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Mussorgsky, Stravinsky. I was a sponge for that genre. It's some of the best ever music ever written imho. Mat McNerney and I took a trip to Norway, passing through Oslo, and there we met Fenriz, amongst others. They became fast friends. I was too misanthropic for friends. </p>
<p>1998 Life at home became utterly shit. Unbearable. I listened to Satanic Black Metal sounds and cut my arms. I went to Central America and visited the ancient cities of fallen civilisations. I drank so much I couldn't speak. </p>
<p>Then I moved to Scotland. I had Written in Waters copied on tape. I didn't understand it yet but I would soon. I wrote the first Void song, "Superhuman Frequencies". “Let's not be afraid to use effects”, Mat said. <img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/230332/968c43defc5e67d84aed0ddcedb98f82bc27f88b/original/download.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_" /></p>
<p>1999 was the year. Everything changed for me. I was free, my spirit soared. Dødheimsgard released 666 International. La Masquerade Infernal came out. Even Ulver released a good song (maybe more than one...) Sponge sponge sponge. Fleurety released Last Minute Lies. I remembered that record the other day and heard it for the first time in years. Wow. </p>
<p>2000000000000. I felt empowered, an individual. Cut off from my family, I could be whoever I wanted. I moved back to London and started taking drugs in the goth club Slimelight, which also had a "techno" floor... it wasn't really techno, but I liked it. Do you remember Apoptygma Beserk? They played it there. I met the guys from Aborym on the dancefloor. My ego exploded into the Void. I heard Aphex Twin's 'Come to Daddy'! & Squarepusher 'come on my Selector'. It was dark and electronic. It was better than most metal, more intense. But there wasn't enough music like that. Detailed and classically beautiful but really full on. All this stuff, sponged up and mixed together in me - this was Void, this was who I was. I got more into electronic music. I was a student on a music technology degree course in London. <img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/230332/380d5fef2615d28c3a9265206da033d29d2ef011/original/big-1510942233-image.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_right border_" /></p>
<p>If I was so happy during this time, how come the music came out sounding so dark? I ask myself on your behalf, Richter. Well on the one hand, because of its influences, but also, because this kind of happiness, that stems from giving personal permission to find thrill in self-destructive patterns... it’s quite negative. To find belonging and acceptance by hurting yourself. It wasn't sustainable. Mat McNerney chose to steer clear of me around this time. </p>
<p>2003 Void split up, I was devastated. I didn't want to hear metal music anymore. I found new friends and took ketamine in filthy squats. I got a full time job and lived for the hit from the weekend. One of the last records that Mat copied for me was "Deloused in the Crematorium." </p>
<p>2004 I moved to Brazil, with my Mars Volta record. I met Wagner Antunes, who had been in the straightedge hardcore scene there, but was now listening to what he called 'Post-Hardcore'... they don't call it Post-Hardcore anymore, that's a kind of screamo now isn't it? Wagner introduced me to some bands that I really liked, the more progressive ones, bands like Fugazi from DC, Faraquet, Medications and things like Dismemberment Plan, which is kind of pop/indie, but nicely arranged with really depressing lyrics. We started a band called Erege, that was called post punk, not because we were punks before that, but because that's what happens when a black metal guitarist and a hardcore drummer - who don't share a common language - smoke weed and make a band together. <img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/230332/005e894cf299ab1921469348748a7bdb8b27efd8/original/000000000320.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_" /></p>
<p>I did a lot more drugs in a lot more parties. I overstayed my VISA by 10 months and came home broke and broken. </p>
<p>That's about where it ends for spongeyness. I don't think I soaked up much more than that. I got back into metal in 2009 when I met Joe Burwood, who is a massive metal fan, when we were working on the Flowers of Flesh and Blood (an anarcho hardcore punk band) record together. But I didn't start listening to new metal bands. I dusted off my DHG and my Ved Buens Ende and picked up where I had left off in 2003. I started tracing backwards instead of forwards through time, back in the direction of Pantera, and Colour Me Bad... But by now, the experience of playing in a proper band, with a drummer, like how it had been in Erege, that's the hit I was after, the thrill I was addicted to. So Void was reformed as a live band, playing in the style of the first demo that had Czral on drums, but influenced somewhat by the hardcore band we were playing in, the doom bands we were gigging with and the playing style of the band's new members. With Rob Archibald on bass (the most talented musician I have ever met, alongside Joe, both can play all the instruments) and the awesome power of Ben Lowe (R.I.P.) on vocals. That was a very good year... For all of us. And for Void. If we could have carried on like that …. ???? </p>
<p>I've discovered a few good bands since then, Shield Your Eyes & Nitkowski from London, Toe from Japan, Sleepy Time Gorilla Museum from the States, God Speed You Black Emperor from Canada; there's not a great deal else I've soaked up to be honest, certainly very little in the metal genre. Stuff like Oranssi Pazuzu is alright I guess but I can take it or leave it and this shoegazey post-black-metal stuff, "Blackgaze", that seems to have hijacked the genre of post-black-metal, like how those emo bands hijacked post hardcore earlier, that's not for me. I can't sit still and pretend that I'm dead for thirty minutes anymore, I'm far too ADHD, and anyway, I've got to get up and get scavenging. I've offspring to feed. I've got the million plates of modernity to spin, and deliberately spoon feeding myself doses of someone else's bleakness isn't on the list of priorities. Same with doom/sludge. I was pretty sure I was OK with doom, (which is so humongously popular now in London, with Desertfest etc, which I still haven't been to) but I put on the new Sleep album in the car yesterday, which facebook keeps raving about, and I just didn't get it. I mean are this band so amazing that they don't require notes anymore? I couldn't find many riffs amongst the endless open bottom strings, ringing out through one song into the next. Of course I'm mucking about. I know what it's for, the music... but it's not for me. Not without a LOT of drugs n' alcohol, Sir. Then I'm just about anyone's : ) <img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/230332/ef29e454a9aaacaa464896a9f8759ba646d7efbb/original/nitkowski-home.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_right border_" /></p>
<p>I get bored. Say something or get off the stage. Play some Nena Cherry. But clearly this is not established thinking because Blackgaze style post-black metal and doom/sludge are the big things at the moment. So we, Void are stopping to call ourselves Post Black Metal these days. Or even black metal. Is it black metal? </p>
<p>Euronymous said, to be black metal it only had to be Satanic, which we're not, and who would want to follow his kind of religious Satanism - an inverted Christianity, anyway? Religion is stupid. He said that the Satanism wasn't a gimmick but i guess that was the gimmick. Saying it wasn't a gimmick. </p>
<p>Interestingly, Fleurety's 'Min Tid Skal Komme', an album I have a lot of respect for, although I wasn't hooked on it like Written in Waters, gets described as Post-Black Metal, because it is original sounding music. But how can it be post black metal, released in 1995? This is just black metal isn't it? Before black metal became homogenised to sound like exactly one thing (Burzum, Darkthrone) and post black metal its more shoegazey offspring. Svein Egil said they used to lie in bed at night, scared that Euronymous would come and kill them in their sleep for not sounding original enough hahahaha. So maybe we are a black metal band. That's not what you asked. You asked if I'm a stylistic sponge. Short answer: not anymore, no. </p>
<p><strong>3. What's holding it all together, man? What driving force is at the center of the Void? </strong></p>
<p>Playing guitar. Playing together, with good musicians. The endless pursuit to get tighter as a band. But also writing riffs, hammering notes into a sequence that pushes a riff past the abstract and obvious... (its just another riff... nobody needs another riff!) </p>
<p>Something that says, yes, I am finished, I don't require more development. You put your soul into this and it sounds like that. Sometimes a riff sounds generic to us and we develop it and change it beyond recognition. Sometimes it comes out exactly as it should be and never changes. Sometimes I'm trying to play something I've sponged up in my head, and it comes out wrong, and you call it your own. </p>
<p>There was less careful structuring of riffs when we wrote the tape, because we were so well rehearsed and well maintained after doing the second album, the riffs just plopped out, one after another into the rehearsal space, lovely smooth sausage shapes that got hammered into songs. Good times... good times. What holds it together now is the knowledge that all that has been learned so far is yet to be properly expressed, and that the next album will be the one to really tear a [w]hole in music. And the one after that will be where we really get going, it won't even use notes, or not as you know them. Ha ha, I jest. It's a game, it's all a fucking game. For sure we are older and fatter now and the tight waistline has slipped, but we're working hard to get it back. <img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/230332/36466bf89c57fe1083e6a0661d6bc15e1f4e3742/original/turo-void-blackandwhite-img-7821.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p><strong>4. I take it the long hiatuses and stylistic shifts between albums have been the result of both artistic growth great adversity. Care to elaborate? </strong></p>
<p>I've probably answered this above; using far too many words. blah blah blah. me me me. </p>
<p>I'm a hypersensitive sponge, I don't deal well with rejection, grudge-bearer, paranoid... but loyal, and expecting of the same. My wife says I expect too much from people and am constantly disappointed. A slight can take years to wear of. How annoying. </p>
<p>But Ben's suicide and Rob's psychotic break were tragedies that were not of my making. We were really rocked by these events. </p>
<p>These guys were not easy to replace. We're still finding our feet in a way, but through the inclusion of Levi as vocalist and more recently Gerardo on bass, we have evolved into something new again. We've just added a second guitarist as well. We thought we'd never be able to do another album... And then suddenly, there it was, 37mins of new music demoed on my computer: </p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/230332/0e2605984e3974171bcad8b40f94df6f3fc6b539/original/abomination-born3.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_none border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/230332/c84128a4df8ac22494456b02ba5cc1186c4b94b8/original/denbigh-yobo-thescar1.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_none border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/230332/020eed0acdb978e7b250586e57f163a703d86271/original/feral-worker3-daily-fail.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_none border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/230332/68f9a8bade608ea09ae05d5fbe8a44caa0223fd3/original/plagueheadline2.jpg/!!/undefined/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsInNtYWxsIl1d.jpg" class="size_s justify_none border_" /></p>
<p><strong>5. The new EP seems to have more of a political or socially conscious flavor. What brought this about? Are you trying to communicate something to the world or just bleed your demons? </strong></p>
<p>I am not the lyricist of the band, if I was the band might be more political, although judging from what I've typed already herein it might just be more narcissistic and whiney. But I do find myself arguing to make more political statements in the band these days. I worry a lot about the world, especially about the actions of our countries' ruling elite, the US primarily, but the UK too... military bases, war hawks, pipelines, fossil fuels... and ordinary people over there paying the ultimate price... and ordinary people over here believing all the bullshit and hating 'otherness' and diversity even more, which feeds back into the war engine and the self-preservation, or exclusive, nationalist mentality. It isn't always justifiable to point the finger but your country, and mine, have a lot to answer for. If we could only cut their lifeline. Stop using/buying petrol, coal, single use plastics... I mean what's gonna happen now that China won't buy your rubbish? Throw it over the wall into Mexico? Into the sea? This Republican 'fuck the future' attitude has got to be reversed, or soon things will look like a Phillip K Dick story, nothing but fields of blasted ash and slag, nothing moving but man made killing machines, like the Faro robots of Horizon Zero Dawn, eating all life on earth. (I love that game.) </p>
<p>Joe Burwood our drummer is also politically conscious, fiercely socialist. he’s not interested in the lyrics much, but he’s more of an online activist than me. And from a proudly working class background, posting anti-capitalist memes and the like. It's funny how when this band started they were calling these anti establishment ideas 'conspiracy theories'. We don't use that term much anymore do we? Nowadays there's the echo chamber of mainstream media, and the conspiracy theories are the more believable stories, widely reported in the alternative press. Chemical attacks? Bullshit. 'Liberating' oppressed cities? Bullshit. Moderate rebels? Bullshit. Russian aggression? </p>
<p>Is this the new cold war? Time to live in fear again and do whatever our governments tell us while they dismantle social order and scoop up whatever Power they can?. I call bullshit. </p>
<p>If you worry about the world, knowing there's not an immense amount you can do about it, where can you put that energy? Your day job? It's inevitable that it will bleed into your art. Hopefully it will inspire some kind of meaningful action in me as well, before I die. I helped out the Punk scene a lot in the past, and they like to think of themselves as activists and all about inclusivity. That's cute, but really they're just an alcoholic, hedonist clique. Their protest is no more effective than the squat party ketamine heads'. </p>
<p>But I'm not the main lyricist of the band. I wrote the lyrics to Babylon, (the more straight-up-black-metal song on the second album, music by Joe) and that is a political song. And I've written some personal, and some political stuff for the new album. Mat McNerney wouldn't listen to my input and only wrote very abstract things. My involvement was too add all the vocal effects in those days. Ben Lowe wrote deeply personal lyrics. I was involved extensively in the arrangement of Levi LeBlanc's lyrics for the cassette, but the words are almost entirely his. Lyrics on the new album are written by Gerardo, Levi & myself. </p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/230332/8c4e479ba9cac41666ca20a3033df74e389d0faf/original/trumptheendisnighcover-optimised-copy.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" />I imagine your question stems from the Donald Trump quote at the start of the song '...Scumscrubber'? Well that originated from how I interpreted Levi's lyrics to that song... about "reckless moral authorities [that] fell well short of integrity"... Pretty sure he meant to be political there... but not necessarily. it's hard to know exactly what Levi is talking about a lot of the time, but i dig the vibe. </p>
<p>That's all for now. </p>
<p>Too right. I've written a fucking book. I hope its not another kick in the nuts. </p>
<p>Cheers, </p>
<p>Richter </p>
<p>Cheers, </p>
<p>Matt</p>
<p> </p>
<p>IMAGE of seated figure: Peter Howson, title unknown.</p>Bad Princess Productionstag:www.badprincess.net,2005:Post/57279982019-04-22T14:02:57+01:002019-05-10T11:23:24+01:00"The Hollow Men" Homage to Apocalypse Now.<p>On May 10th, 1979, Francis Ford Coppola’s towering masterpiece “Apocalypse Now” was released at the Cannes Film Festival. </p>
<p>On May 10th 2019, 40 years later, Void release their homage to Marlon Brando’s reading of “The Hollow Men”, as featured in the film, on their youtube channel “The Unsearchable VOID”. This teaser of the new album is our tribute to an immortal work. </p>
<p>https://youtu.be/FS2r8aTCiwo</p>
<p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FS2r8aTCiwo" width="560"></iframe></p>
<p>“The Hollow Man”, Void’s upcoming third album, recounts the tale of the fall of an ordinary man. A Londoner, a loser, a loner of no reknown. He lives alone, drinks alone, is unskilled and unloved. He could be you or I. </p>
<p>#apocalypsenow #thehollowmen #marlonbrando #poem#albumteaser #blackmetal #avantgardemetal #avantgardeblackmetal#metal #progressivemetal #actor #tseliot #despair #blackfeed#cinema #cannes #anniversary #tribute #homage #fanvideo #blood#poetry #40yranniversary #40th #birthday #darkfilm</p>Bad Princess Productionstag:www.badprincess.net,2005:Post/54862332018-10-25T21:32:54+01:002018-10-25T21:40:29+01:00MORE #fakeNEWS FROM THE VOID: <p>www.theunsearchablevoid.com </p>
<p>We are living through interesting times. Have you taken a look at the headlines? </p>
<p>The Scum 07/10/2018 - A human cloning procedure backfired horrifically for a terminally ill scientist whilst capturing his consciousness onto an smartphone device. </p>
<p>The Moral Scar 15/10/2018 - A local rockstar has become embroiled in a scandal of violence against a minor, leading to the forced closure of music venues across the city. </p>
<p>The Daily Fail 21/10/2018 - In a London office, a worker went feral, terminally corrupted by the impending heat death of the universe. </p>
<p>The Daily Excretion 26/10/2018 - Authorities are attempting to deport a noted foreign academic who recently became obsessed with a paranoid ‘end times’ delusion. </p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/230332/0e2605984e3974171bcad8b40f94df6f3fc6b539/original/abomination-born3.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_none border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/230332/c84128a4df8ac22494456b02ba5cc1186c4b94b8/original/denbigh-yobo-thescar1.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_none border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/230332/020eed0acdb978e7b250586e57f163a703d86271/original/feral-worker3-daily-fail.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_none border_" /><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/230332/68f9a8bade608ea09ae05d5fbe8a44caa0223fd3/original/plagueheadline2.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_none border_" /></p>
<p>Are you struggling to make sense of the troubled times we are living in? Do you see signs of impending doom wherever you look, but don’t quite know how to make sense of them? Are you smelling the foul stench of society’s decay, but are desperately trying to ignore it? If you answered ‘yes’ to any of these questions, do NOT fear! VOID’s first official video will make everything clear. </p>
<p>Released on 1st November, via <a contents="Lords of Metal" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.lordsofmetal.nl/en/" target="_blank">Lords of Metal</a> (http://www.lordsofmetal.nl/en/) and everywhere else two days later. </p>
<p>Now to our raving reporter for an update from the live scene. </p>
<p>LIVE </p>
<p>On Friday 12 October Void performed in Bristol, invited by NeCrow Promotions to share the stage with Human Mycosis and Wolfbastard. Your favourite scumscrubbers slayed it, and had a great time with the local crowd. Dan Thaumitan of Noizr zine was at the show - you can read his report here: <a contents="https://noizr.com/news/reviews/the-unsearchable-riches-of-void.-bristol-gig-review/:2287/&nbsp;" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://noizr.com/news/reviews/the-unsearchable-riches-of-void.-bristol-gig-review/:2287/" target="_blank">https://noizr.com/news/reviews/the-unsearchable-riches-of-void.-bristol-gig-review/:2287/ </a></p>
<p>ALBUM RECORDING </p>
<p>The Bristol gig marked the end of live performances for a while. While you were too busy following the unfolding of the Brexit controversy, hoarding groupon vouchers, gorging on late-night take outs, and frantically masturbating under your duvets, the Voidsters have retreated into the shadows, summoned their worst nightmares, and started recording the band’s third full-length album. Stay tuned to our instagram feat for regular updates: <a contents="https://www.instagram.com/theunsearchablevoid/&nbsp;" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.instagram.com/theunsearchablevoid/" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/theunsearchablevoid/ </a></p>
<p>www.theunsearchablevoid.com </p>Bad Princess Productionstag:www.badprincess.net,2005:Post/53733382018-08-03T12:41:13+01:002018-08-03T12:41:13+01:00Recent reviews and Interviews<p>We've had some great press lately:<a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://twitter.com/toiletovhell/status/1012727977157816326" target="_self"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/230332/206628ec17b1066eac3300be97b6db67f20c57d8/original/screen-shot-2018-07-02-at-12-53-40.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
<p>GS Richter at the toiletovhell.com conducted this feature, including a historical run through, review of the material and interview with founding member Matt Jarman. It is a laugh out loud perspective from the most original and imaginative journalists writing about metal today. Read it here:</p>
<p><a contents="https://twitter.com/toiletovhell/status/1012727977157816326" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://twitter.com/toiletovhell/status/1012727977157816326" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/toiletovhell/status/1012727977157816326</a></p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/230332/349c26aedf122c5720df07ef295056f0e1371c50/original/screen-shot-2018-08-03-at-12-39-30.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>And we are very pleased to see that Martin Perecis, who has been familiar with the band since the start, has reviewed our cassette EP over at Lords of Metal ezine. Read it here:</p>
<p><a contents="http://www.lordsofmetal.nl/en/reviews/view/id/37390" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.lordsofmetal.nl/en/reviews/view/id/37390" target="_blank">http://www.lordsofmetal.nl/en/reviews/view/id/37390</a></p>
<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://www.lordsofmetal.nl/en/reviews/view/id/37390" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/230332/60c177865a915ca949815c6dd98a4183995d0b31/original/screen-shot-2018-08-03-at-12-39-22.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
<p>We've also added several live dates, in London, Bristol and Leeds, so check out our gig listing OK?</p>Bad Princess Productionstag:www.badprincess.net,2005:Post/52790022018-06-06T17:30:02+01:002019-11-19T02:58:01+00:00NEW LYRIC VIDEO for 'THE WILDEBEEST'<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/aaFVkYGNFM8" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/230332/817376c6ced6299ba1349095664e64865aac154c/original/void-wildebeest-lyricvideo-promo1.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_left border_none" alt="" /></a>VOID - 'The Wildebeest' - LYRIC VIDEO <br>Post black metal from London</p>
<p>Live footage from show in support of Scuorn, May 20th at Nambucca, London <br>Footage shot by: Tatu Mantovani, Liam Hughes O'Hegarty & the Greyman of MetalPervTV </p>
<p>#theunsearchablevoid <br>http://www.theunsearchablevoid.com </p>
<p>The Wildebeest is taken from "The Unsearchable Riches of Void" Cassette EP, self-released in 2017/2018 </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Available from Bad Princess Productions <br><a contents="https://www.badprincess.net/void-unsear…" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://www.badprincess.net/void-unsearchable-riches" target="_self">https://www.badprincess.net/void-unsear…</a> </p>
<p>Watch on Youtube at: <br><a contents="https://youtu.be/aaFVkYGNFM8" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://youtu.be/aaFVkYGNFM8" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/aaFVkYGNFM8</a></p>
<p><iframe allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aaFVkYGNFM8?rel=0" width="560"></iframe></p>
<p> </p>Bad Princess Productionstag:www.badprincess.net,2005:Post/52789982018-06-06T17:20:35+01:002022-05-10T17:30:18+01:00Posthuman Liner Notes now at Todestrieb.co.uk<p>Todestrieb asked us to write a 15 year anniversary retrospective liner notes for the Posthuman album.</p>
<p>He has included each track from the album, and links to the references made therein.</p>
<p>Have a look, if you want to know how Posthuman was made.</p>
<p><a contents="https://todestrieb.co.uk/blogs/features/liner-notes-void-posthuman" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://todestrieb.co.uk/blogs/features/liner-notes-void-posthuman" target="_blank">https://todestrieb.co.uk/blogs/features/liner-notes-void-posthuman</a></p>
<p><a contents="" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://todestrieb.co.uk/blogs/features/liner-notes-void-posthuman" target="_blank"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/230332/af3133d86a3ff63edb7e699cd644e633042b5427/original/screen-shot-2018-06-06-at-17-19-35.png/!!/b:W10=.png" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>Bad Princess Productionstag:www.badprincess.net,2005:Post/52147782018-05-03T08:38:18+01:002021-01-25T07:56:11+00:00Q&A with Occult Black Metal Zine<p>Occult Black Metal Zine asked us a few questions. Find out our plans:</p>
<p><a contents="http://occultblackmetalzine.blogspot.co.uk/" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="http://occultblackmetalzine.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://occultblackmetalzine.blogspot.co.uk/</a></p>Bad Princess Productionstag:www.badprincess.net,2005:Post/52123362018-05-02T00:41:59+01:002019-10-26T10:13:39+01:00Posthuman now on Spotify<p>Finally...</p>
<p><iframe allow="encrypted-media" allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="380" src="https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/4itJgA0iMErzBIfsovTiNj" width="300"></iframe></p>
<p><a contents="https://open.spotify.com/artist/5RyYn1KxlDvN4zssKucI4x?si=cA3bck6PRc-aYJHDUBFekQ" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/5RyYn1KxlDvN4zssKucI4x?si=cA3bck6PRc-aYJHDUBFekQ" target="_blank">https://open.spotify.com/artist/5RyYn1KxlDvN4zssKucI4x?si=cA3bck6PRc-aYJHDUBFekQ</a></p>Bad Princess Productionstag:www.badprincess.net,2005:Post/52114162018-05-01T14:55:51+01:002019-10-03T11:06:37+01:00Video trailer<p>Void have released a video trailer for their upcoming show supporting Scuorn.</p>
<p>Click to view it.</p>
<p><iframe allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/o5oupyWmttI" width="560"></iframe></p>Bad Princess Productionstag:www.badprincess.net,2005:Post/52112802018-05-01T13:02:30+01:002023-12-10T17:01:39+00:00The Third Album<p>Writing of the third VOID album nears completion.<img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/230332/cdef50c64a88fe28890e6811614f1988e128ccd4/original/void-3rd-june-flyer06-bg.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsIm1lZGl1bSJdXQ==.jpg" class="size_m justify_right border_" /></p>
<p>The concept does not deviate from previous releases, rather it is distilled and magnified, becoming more determined in our ongoing quest to subvert the standards and limitations of the album format. Inspired largely by T.S.Eliot's "The Hollow Men", one of the most quoted texts in history, and by the art of other masters who have in turn taken inspiration from the same, this new material is the most far reaching and epic VOID have yet to create.</p>
<p>The boundaries between tracks are blurred to the point of becoming irrelevant, musical styles becoming intertwined, simultaneously familiar and new.</p>
<p>Dødheimsgard's Vikotnik has described it thus:</p>
<ul> <li>"I like when notes translates into story and you really manage it here. Every twist and turn seems natural and as part of a whole. A narrative or a score if you will. I am excited about this release. Gave me the feeling of the 90s. Not in regards to the content itself, but in the manner one approaches ones work. The total disregard for conventions and bringing the art itself in focus. Just beautiful."</li>
</ul>
<p>A highly regarded name producer is in discussion to record the album. A talented visual artist who has exhibited at the Saachi gallery has provided the accompanying art. To be announced soon!</p>
<p>VOID are about to approach their label of choice to negotiate a deal. Please support the band by liking our posts and telling your friends about us!</p>
<p>#theunsearchablevoid</p>
<p>@theunsearchablevoid</p>Bad Princess Productionstag:www.badprincess.net,2005:Post/52112422018-05-01T12:10:07+01:002018-05-01T12:10:07+01:00The Unsearchable Cassette<p><a contents="" data-link-label="unsearchable riches" data-link-type="page" href="/unsearchable-riches" target="_self"><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/230332/92693e44065e0fa5295bc7c4ca9ae366ae3c3a2c/original/turo-void-tape-website1.jpg/!!/b:W1sic2l6ZSIsImxhcmdlIl1d.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></a></p>
<p>Our Cassette EP "The Unsearchable Riches of Void" is finally out on general release.</p>
<p>Self-produced and released through Bad Princess Productions, The Unsearchable Riches of Void showcases the most ferocious side of the band, cutting black metal with Grind and Hardcore influences in the music and overlaying it with a wild and avante-garde vocal style.</p>
<p>The music for these four tracks was recorded not long after the second album that was released on Duplicate records in 2011, however with the untimely death of lead singer Ben Lowe, they remained unfinished. It wasn't until 2017, when current vocalist Levi LeBlanc stepped up to the plate to obliterate any doubt that the band would continue, that the Unsearchable Riches of Void were fully uncovered.</p>
<p>A headline show in June of that year followed, with Shrines, Bloodwork and FZV in support, accompanied by an ultra-limited run of cassettes that sold out in moments, leaving no copies for press or promotion. </p>
<p>Finally "The Unsearchable Riches of Void" cassette is back in stock. <a contents="Buy it direct from us here" data-link-label="unsearchable riches" data-link-type="page" href="/unsearchable-riches" target="_self">Buy it direct from us here</a>, or if physical copy isn't your thing, you can download it for free.</p>
<p>You can also head over to <a contents="Bandcamp" data-link-label="" data-link-type="url" href="https://ukvoid.bandcamp.com/album/the-unsearchable-riches-of-void" target="_blank">Bandcamp</a> if you prefer, where all our official releases are listed, but be warned, the download is only free here at <a contents="Badprincess.net" data-link-label="unsearchable riches" data-link-type="page" href="/unsearchable-riches" target="_self">Badprincess.net</a></p>
<p>Hurry while stocks last!</p>11:19Bad Princess Productionstag:www.badprincess.net,2005:Post/52112392018-05-01T11:51:01+01:002020-04-20T08:23:02+01:00Void return to the stage<p> </p>
<p><img src="//d10j3mvrs1suex.cloudfront.net/u/230332/dfe27eb04944de1662cfc0baff5ac599188e0e1d/original/scuorn-void-shadowthrone-disturbia.jpg/!!/b:W10=.jpg" class="size_l justify_center border_" /></p>
<p>You are invited to join us on Sunday May 20th at Nambucca London, in support of Scuorn on the final date of their Parthenope UK tour, with Shadowthrone and Disturbia. </p>
<p>Void will be presenting, for the first time, material from our new album. </p>
<p>With: SCUORN, Shadowthrone, Disturbia</p>Bad Princess Productions