Nathrakh post for the group

How do all.

As you're probably aware from the posts by Laverty and Shymond, Nathrakh are touring again. Needless to say, those of you that have experienced that rolling juggernaut of bile soaked aural hatefuck will be doing anything within your means to say "I'm seeing them again." Those of you that haven't been fortunate to come face to face with the assault that is Anaal Nathrakh, i cannot envisage a greater sonic evening for you to do this than attending the forthcoming Damnation Festival. It's available from very reputable sources that their set will be the one not to miss, let alone the festival as a whole, which has grown into one of the highlights of the musical year. I wholeheartedly advise you beg, borrow and raid your piggy banks to get to this event.

Those of you who haven't heard or investigated the line-up so far can get more information here

http://www.damnationfestival.co.uk/zine

Whereupon you will also see a couple of little ol' bands listed called earthtone9 and The Dillinger Escape Plan, the former playing once more after an extremely long hiatus. These guys were the first bands i ever saw live and the ones that cemented my insatiable desire to see as much music as possible. To just have these three aforementioned bands on one ticket would be enough to make me travel abroad for a gig, so for those Nathrakh fans salivating over the Damnation line-up in far away countries, get thee'sen ower to the north.

Also, there's an extremely diverting interview with Mr Dave Hunt on the Damnation website expounding on The Lucifer Effect and its use as inspiration for the track, the resonating issues of what causes evil within people, whether its a cognitive element or a hereditary one and generally on the state of humanity as a whole,something which is always diverting. He is a intelligent force and well worth a read if you're at all interested in finding out about Nathrakh ethos and direction.

It also has a link to a video lecture delivered by the author of the Lucifer Effect, its content being more eloquently delivered by Dave and the proponent of the idea, Philip Zimbardo.

http://www.ted.com/talks/philip_zimbardo_on_the_psychology_of_evil.html

There is other live dates peppered throughout Europe for those that are unable to attend the Damnation Festival, check the group feed for the dates.

Also, in conclusion, you might have spotted that Nathrakh are playing with MAYHEM in December. However much i wish this could have been a Halloween gig (the connotations being too perfect, pigs heads on spikes on Halloween would have really tickled my black metal gland) this is happening on the 18th December, which is the day after my birthday so im self hijacking the event for my own ends (though nobody else will know this, thus making me a lonely purveyor of metal) but, all that aside, this gig is an amazing development, Mayhem being arguably the most important and relevant band in Black Metal...although if i remember rightly, it was pointed out to me that the E Channel or MTV2 did a 100 most shocking moments in music and the murder of Euronymous by Varg Vikernes aka good ol' Count Grishnackh (he seems more of a cartoon character to me these days, which belies his actual wickedness)...anyhoo, this countdown placed this event at something like number 67, right next to Shitney Peer's shaving head incident??? So it seems that the ignorance of Black Metal and associated culture by mainstream media (everywhere apart from the Scandinavian Countries) is well and truly going strong when hair cutting is considered as shocking as murder/necklace creating from skull shards.

Just bloody come along, Mayhem have found themselves in a truly important renaissance and their live performances are following suit. Throw Dragged into Sunlight with Anaal Nathrakh into the mix and you have the best singular gig of the year. Be there. Here's the link for the facebook event

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=128062003911234

That's all for now, im sure the other admins have any other answers to more in-depth questions you might have.

Look left, look right, look left again!! Words to live by.