March 20th, 2009
SPINEFISH
FOOL’S PARADISE REVISITED
Jamendo download
This is a collection of songs from 2003 to 2007, and available free from the url provided, so I’d advise you check these Russian Goth/Industrial/Whatever merchants out because they have more than a fair few ravishing moments.
‘Intangible’ is a bewitching intro with mysterious but crisply inviting words over chiming, shimmering synth, then some guitar intercedes in the pleasantries to keep ’Daydream Diary’ rotating with linear energy, requiring tougher vocals from our chanteuse who narrows her eyes, and there’s a rich commercial attraction here as well with a brightly inquisitive chorus.
‘More Than…’ is just as moody but inventive in its simplicity where they allow such an empty sense of everything, with poetic streams of words and a sense of ease, but this is truncated sharply. ‘…All Pain And Laughter’ cascades over tumbling percussive spirals and a tugging swoosh of sound but again this stops short. ‘Guardian Angel’ is soft gothy pop spread out and full of thorns.
‘Aeons’ heats up with plinky percussion and a dour synth wash as a backdrop, like a saucy ambient take on Mission Impossible. ‘Eyes Of Grief’ is subdued but warm and lush, and beautifully interesting but again we have a switch to the starker, stiffer ‘Embrace Me’, skilfully edgy atmospheric music with more deviously delightful singing. ‘Fool’s Paradise Revisited’ has a maudlin traditional air but they quickly introduce the modern pain and confusion. ‘My Spirit’s Flight’ is gothic rock with icicles, and develops naturally as a melancholic attack. Musing fragrantly, ‘Vortex Interlude’ is quite wonderful transporting until some hideous guitar desecrates it, ‘Salvation’ does the doe-eyed Gawf Rock thing, and ‘Shattered 21’ gets to build in a deceptively echoey fashion, the synth a light snow storm, the sounds seeping away from you as you try to make sense of it all, but it’s like someone has whispered you a secret as you’re slowly waking and it will remain forever lost.
Haunting stuff, this.
http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/31430
Taken from http://mickmercer.livejournal.com/925902.html
March 15th, 2009
Music To Die For, the fifth book by the British Goth biographer Mick Mercer, is out.
“It is 624 pages long, containing individual entries on 3,581 different bands, from 70 countries, with 183 photos. It covers bands from the beginning of these scenes to the present day and wherever possible contains full line-up details and discographies as well as unusual facts revealed by many of the bands. This is the biggest guide ever printed about the underground scenes in which Goth, Post-Punk and all things noir co-exist with equal splendour.”
Spinefish is obviously in it.
Myspace page
Purchase the book
March 14th, 2009
Read the interview with Spinefish in the Orel underground magazine entitled Vestnik Podzemelya (in Russian).
Download the magazine
February 2nd, 2009
United Gothic Underground, a free to download compilation of gothic rock/new wave artists featuring Spinefish, is out! Spinefish participates with the track Fool’s Paradise Revisited. Other bands in this compilation are: Tenebre, The Red Crayon Aristocrat Club, False Faces, Christabel Dreams, The Trespass, Venus Mourning Dress, The Silence Industry, Soror Dolorosa & Noctiflora. So it’s time to “open a bottle of red wine and enjoy these underrated bands.”
Download United Gothic Underground
February 1st, 2009
Valentine’s Heart, “a compilation for a (nec)romantic day” is finally released. It includes 12 songs from Ekleipsi artists. Spinefish participates in the sampler with the track Cold that is, in fact, a new version of Act 3 from the album Vortex. The compilation is available for free download.
Visit the release page
Download Valentine’s Heart
And as the press-release says: “In the sweetest day of the year, this time you’ll have something… different!”
January 27th, 2009
Spinefish are participating in another interesting compilation. It is called 10 Songs for free download - Vol.4: United Gothic Underground. As you can see, almost everything is there in the title. The sampler will be released in the beginning of February by Skeksis86, a Myspace netlabel project.
January 26th, 2009
Catch us live at Tales From the Dark Festival that will be held in the club Respect, Orel on February 7. Spinefish will share the stage with some remarkable local bands including Dark Screamer (dark metal), Lycanthropy (black metal), In White Embrace (melodic-death metal), Mysterial (black-doom metal), How To Perform Deepthroat Fellatio (brutal death/grindcore) and Ректальный Сипъ (grindcore). The show promises to be really mighty. It starts at 18:00 pm.
January 23rd, 2009
We have been invited to take part in the Valentine’s day compilation that will be published by the Italian netlabel Ekleipsi in February. It will include the “best tracks about the dark side of love and romance”. For this sake we are preparing an exclusive version of one of our songs specially for this mix. Stay tuned!
January 1st, 2009
Greetings! We are glad to say that we offer one more option for you to get instantly to the music of Spinefish. Now you can listen to and download our albums with pretty good quality and for free through Plays & Downloads. A kind of New Year’s present for all our fans. Enjoy!
December 24th, 2008
Howly Night, a free digital X-mas compilation by AFmusic and Zorch Factory Records, is out today.
“23 more or less known bands with mainly previously uneleased tracks are on ‘Howly Night’. With the first track ‘Dead End’ from Dorcel the listener get trapped into a wonderful melancholic world, which is mainly the undertone on all tracks of this compilation.
Besides already well known acts like The Search, Curious or Camp Z especially the new names are setting the highlights on this compilation. An example for this are ‘Ghost In The Snow’ from (((S))) and ‘Game’ from Notes From The Underground. Everybody who likes the styles of music pointed in the beginning should see ‘Howly Night’ as a commendation. Music for cold winter days that warms heart and soul.”
The compilation is available for free and legal download.
Download from AFmusic
Download from Zorch Factory Records
Enjoy the music and Merry X-mas!
