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- Show No Mercy | Pitchfork
- Camping it up ‘for the ladyeeez’.
- The man who turned mere mortals into rock gods
- Hundreds of Fans Queue as Iron Maiden Tickets Go on Sale in Bulgaria

Show No Mercy | Pitchfork
Pitchforkmedia.com – Mar 7, 2007
Dimmu Borgir and other bands who use synthesizers have been around for a long time and the fact that they’re still controversial demonstrates the endurance of these rules. I find it hard to explain these rules without resorting to a very technical language that I must admit I don’t really master myself. “That’s why I work with bending these rules of what is admitted within and accepted as black metal in my music. Another example is the album 666 International where I played the keyboards. This album featured a lot of electronics and synthesizers. That is instruments that wouldn’t normally be accepted within the genre since black metal was traditionally in opposition to ‘stupid techno music. ‘ But electronic music has changed a lot since that and black metal has changed a lot since that in the sense that the sub genre of electronic black metal was constituted.

Camping it up ‘for the ladyeeez’.
Free with registration – Europe Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Mar 7, 2007
Camping it up ‘for the ladyeeez’. (07-MAR-07) Europe Intelligence Wire. Frontman Jesse Hughes with his well-groomed handlebar moustache is your ultimate.

The man who turned mere mortals into rock gods
Telegraph.co.uk – Mar 7, 2007
Visconti’s even temper and eagerness to please – particularly those pesky cats who insisted he partake of their cocaine supply – insulated him against the ego trips of his rock-god collaborators. The producer comes down firmly on the side of Bowie in the battle of the glam-rock behemoths seeing Bolan as a manipulative narcissist to Bowie’s noble artist. His most recent collaborator Morrissey is a cross between the two given to gnomic pronouncements such as this from his gushing foreword: “Bolan’s life ended with death. ” Did nobody tell him that that is how life tends to end? The tales are Pooterish at times for which Visconti can be forgiven: they add to a sense that despite the drugs and the binned relationships he remains as thrilled with the possibilities of music-making as he did the day he stepped off the plane. There is enough discussion of guitar pedals and 16-track consoles to please the most retentive muso – too much perhaps for the average fan – but Visconti is a record producer after all whose job is to make his too-human charges sound godlike using any means necessary. Pitching ideas for David Bowie’s 1977 album Low Visconti tells Bowie and the co-producer Brian Eno that his new piece of sonic kit the Harmonizer “fucks with the fabric of time”. Name another job bar Einstein’s where you can do that… The producer comes down firmly on the side of Bowie in the battle of the glam-rock behemoths seeing Bolan as a manipulative narcissist to Bowie’s noble artist. His most recent collaborator Morrissey is a cross between the two given to gnomic pronouncements such as this from his gushing foreword: “Bolan’s life ended with death. ” Did nobody tell him that that is how life tends to end? The tales are Pooterish at times for which Visconti can be forgiven: they add to a sense that despite the drugs and the binned relationships he remains as thrilled with the possibilities of music-making as he did the day he stepped off the plane. There is enough discussion of guitar pedals and 16-track consoles to please the most retentive muso – too much perhaps for the average fan – but Visconti is a record producer after all whose job is to make his too-human charges sound godlike using any means necessary. Pitching ideas for David Bowie’s 1977 album Low Visconti tells Bowie and the co-producer Brian Eno that his new piece of sonic kit the Harmonizer “fucks with the fabric of time”. Name another job bar Einstein’s where you can do that.

Hundreds of Fans Queue as Iron Maiden Tickets Go on Sale in Bulgaria
Sofia News Agency – Mar 7, 2007
Iron Maiden will headline this year’s edition of the annual Arena Music Festival organized by Sofia Music Enterprises. The band confirmed the show at the Lokomotiv Stadium last week. Iron Maiden will come to Sofia as part of its tour to promote its latest album A Matter of Life and Death which reached Nr. 4 on the UK album charts… Iron Maiden will headline this year’s edition of the annual Arena Music Festival organized by Sofia Music Enterprises. The band confirmed the show at the Lokomotiv Stadium last week. Iron Maiden will come to Sofia as part of its tour to promote its latest album A Matter of Life and Death which reached Nr. 4 on the UK album charts. Show organizers have already warned fans that in order to prevent large amounts of tickets hitting the black market each buyer will be limited to six tickets.