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For the first time, I'm not posting my end-of-year roundups in full here. Each artist (or album in this case) is tagged where possible, but the full writeup is on my website (linked).

Full writeup here: http://www.amodelofcontrol.com/reviews/?pg=2011gig

During 2011 I saw an awful lot of live sets. At a rough count, around about 125 (including supports and festivals) - and I saw a few bands more than once, in particular Front 242, who I saw four times in four different countries. Like the albums list, a few that might have made it in a normal year ended up being missed off this list. It was a good year for live gigs, and I only saw a few duds. So my quality filter is definitely improving...

Featuring (in alphabetical order): Absolute Body Control, And So I Watch You From Afar,Blindness, Clock DVA, dEUS, Front 242, The Hives, Killing Joke, Mind.In.A.Box, Modulate, Amanda Palmer, Pankow, Pop Will Eat Itself, Pulp, Senser, Terrorfakt, The Twilight Sad, W.A.S.T.E. …

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Rock-A-Rolla back issues are available to order now! Issue 32 features:

Boris, A Storm of Light, Bill Gould( Faith No More) & Jared Blum, Killing Joke, Across Tundras, End of Level Boss, Tombs, Indian, Master Musicians of Bukkake, Le corbeau, Hey Colossus, mombu, Knifeworld

Plus album reviews: Agoraphobic Nosebleed/ Despise You, And So I Watch You From Afar, Alva Noto& Ryuichi Sakamoto, Asva, The Axis of Perdition, B.I.L.L., BATILLUS, Blanck Mass, bong, Bob Rutman’s Steel Cello Ensemble, Carlton Melton, Rhys Chatham, Matthew Cooper, CM Von Hausswolff, Enablers, Cut Hands, Dark Castle, Deafheaven, Esmerine, Gentlemans Pistols, Gang Gang Dance, Gangpol & Mit, gypsyblood, Bill Gould & Jared Blum, Gum Takes Tooth, Infinite Light Ltd, Hecker, Christina Kubisch, Goran Kajfes, Gridlink, Joe Lally, Jesu, Larsen, The Last Hurrah!!, Daniele Luppi, Efrim Manuel Menuck, Mountains, Krallice, Maybeshewill, The Melvins, MIsty Range…

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Rock-A-Rolla back issues are available to order now! Issue 28 features:

Swans, Helmet, Richard Youngs, This Heat, Wino( Saint Vitus, Premonition 13, The Obsessed, Spirit Caravan), beehoover, Her Name is Calla, The Secret, Cuzo, Lawrence English, U.S. Christmas
Plus album reviews: BXI, Action Beat, Altar of Plagues, Chris Abrahams, Aleppo Pine, ANBB, Afrirampo, The Antikaroshi, Cephalic Carnage, ARP, Steve Bates, Black Anvil, Black Mountain, Barn Owl, Black Sun, The Blood of Heroes, Cindytalk, The Body, Eric Chenaux, Crippled Black Phoenix, d_rradio, Dungen, Envy, End of a Year, Fops, Filter, Fire in the Head, Grinderman, Git some, Killing Joke, Hawkwind, Humanfly, Islaja, Heirs, Kellermensch, Man’s Gin, Zola Jesus, Labirinto, Carla Kihlstedt, Les Savy Fav, La Otracina, Monkey Puzzle Trio, Torche, Brian McBride, No Age, Nymph, Oceansize, Oval, Unearthly Trance, Phonophani, Benoit Pioulard…

Man.Machine.Industry previous album White Trash Devil In A Jesus Christ Pose (2010) featured a guest appearance of Patrik Wirén (Misery Loves Co) who performed a track called "Almost Gone".

MMI invited two new guests while working on the newest Lean Back, Relax And Watch The World Burn album (to be released in February 2012).
A cover version of "Eighties" by Killing Joke will be performed by Jens Westin who is better known from a heavy rock band Corroded. They received a lot of positive feedback for their track "Age of Rage" and also thanks to touring with Avenged Sevenfold.

The other guest is Ronnie Nyman (vocals in Swedish hardcore band Always war) who appears on "To a Blood Red Sky" song. This track will be released as the first video/single from the new album in January 2012.

Source: http://www.industrialrock.net/php-files_en/news.php?readmore=249

Tags: news, fabrykamagazine, industrial, metal, industrial metal

Il 2012 sarà l'anno dei Killing Joke, tra live album, nuovo album in studio e tour europeo. Per saperne di più, leggi qui: http://loudnotes.blogspot.com/2011/11/2012-lanno-dei-killing-joke.html
post punk, industrial

Mostly taking note for myself since I go through so many and often forget albums until a year or two later BUT if you stumbled across this, no one's stopping you from checking these out as well.

I'll probably make this a list of my all-time favorite albums and keep adding on to it.


As of late (this year, 2011):

Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise (2011)
strange and delicious textural slow-burning electronic.

The Caretaker - An empty bliss beyond this World (2011)
haunting crackling dusty ballroom music drifting along the dark corridors a la the ending scene of The Shining.

Smith Westerns - Dye It Blonde (2011)
go on, make fun of me. i'm a sucker sometimes for bittersweet nostalgic pop.

Diva - The Glitter End (2010)
see review, because it describes it so much better than i can attempt to: http://drownedinsound.com/releases/16380/reviews/4143167

Poitier - VALIDITY (2010)
some good wholesome old fashioned catchy hip-hop.

Coil - Black Antlers (2007)
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