1.    Imaad Wasif signs with Viva Hate Records // tour in September/October

We’re very proud to announce the signing of US artist IMAAD WASIF.
Wasif is known for having been part of the live band of the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s and for his work for the “Where The Wild Things Are” OST along with artist such as Karon O (YYY’s), Bradford Cox (Deerhunter) and “Little” Jack Lawrence (The Raconteurs, Dead Weather).

His new post modern psychedelic rock album “The Voidist” is going to be released in Europe on October 22nd.
Imaad Wasif on the road:

18-09-2010 Leffingeleuren Leffinge Belgium
19-09-2010 Incubate Festival Tilburg Netherlands
21-09-2010 Jagerklause Berlin Germany
22-09-2010 Klub 007 Prague Czech Republic
23-09-2010 Brut Vienna Austria
24-09-2010 Reeperbahn Festival Hamburg Germany
25-09-2010 Zikametz Festival Metz France
27-09-2010 Steinbruch Duisburg Germany
28-09-2010 Das Bett Frankfurt Germany
29-09-2010 Le Kab Geneva Switzerland
30-09-2010 Dynamo Toulouse France
01-10-2010 Glazart Paris France
02-10-2010 Ekko Utrecht Netherlands
03-10-2010 Corsica Studios London United Kingdom
05-10-2010 Captain’s Rest Glasgow Scotland
06-10-2010 The Corner Manchester United Kingdom
07-10-2010 The Hope Brighton United Kingdom
08-10-2010 Patronaat Haarlem Netherlands
09-10-2010 Trix Antwerp Belgium

2. Pelican 10xLP Wooden Box – first impression and further details

The “PELICAN WOODEN BOX” contains the following albums:
Pelican – What We All Come To Need
Pelican – Ephemeral
Pelican – City Of Echoes
Pelican – March Into The Sea
Pelican – The Fire In Our Throats In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw
Pelican – Australasia
Pelican – Untitled

Pressing info:
150 copies on white vinyl
350 copies on black vinyl

PELICAN 10-YEAR ANNIVERSARY DATES:
Oct. 23rd                        Chicago, IL                        The Bottom Lounge
Oct. 30th                        Los Angeles, CA            The Troubador

1. Pelican 10xLP Wooden Bo to be released (10 years anniversary)

Chicago’s instrumental masters PELICAN are celebrating their 10 years anniversary in October this year.
PELICAN 10-YEAR ANNIVERSARY DATES:
Oct. 23rd                        Chicago, IL                        The Bottom Lounge
Oct. 30th                        Los Angeles, CA            The Troubador

Due to this we’re glad to announce a huge 10xLP Pelican Wooden Box containing all of their full lengths albums and EPs limited to 500 copies.

Keep checking frequently.
Further information can be found at:
Pelican homepage
Brooklyn Vegan

2. Der Weg Einer Freiheit shows (w/ Black Dahlia Murder and others)

Dont’s miss Der Weg Einer Freiheit playing at:
13. Aug 2010      20:00 Colos Saal w/ The Black Dahlia Murder, Despised Icon     Aschaffenburg    
18. Aug 2010     20:00 Feierwerk w/ The Black Dahlia Murder, Despised Icon     München    
30. Oct 2010     20:00 Kunstverein w/ Mardrom, Seed Of Damnation Nürnberg
26. Nov 2010     20:00 Moritzbastei w/ TBA     Leipzig     
27. Nov 2010     19:00 Zentrum Scharnhorst w/ Agrypnie,… Dortmund

Statements, Interviews:
„Ein BM-Album voll Energie, Wut, Verzweiflung, Melancholie, Melodie und Härte, dass so, gerade im deutschsprachigen Raum, noch nicht existierte (…)Empfehlung an alle, die BM mögen, ein Muss für alle, die BM lieben.“
Schwermetall.ch

Nein, es ist nicht übertrieben bei “Der Weg einer Freiheit” vom besten Debütalbum im Black Metal seit Wolves In The Throne Room‘s “Diadem Of 12 Stars” zu sprechen.
Vampster.com

Interviews
vampster.com (GER)
metal.de (GER)
metalnews.de (GER)
stormbringer.at (GER)
metal-mirror.de (GER)
metalshock.wordpress.com (ITA)

3. Pintandwefall tour in september
Come around and join us – Pintandwefall is gonna kick your ass, check out their review at laut.de

4. Viva Hate Records shop to be outsourced in September
As we want to make you guys happy with our products and due to the all trouble you had with us we decided not to handle the store by ourselves anymore. There’s just a lack of men power.
In September a new store is going to be launched and a partner is taking care of daily business.
Also – soon, you will be able to send us your opinion about what needs to be changed.
Again we apologize all delays, problems, etc. it wasn’t our intention.
Still we hope you like our releases.

For you Germans, here are some quotes from Magazines:

„Im Spannungsfeld zwischen Hives, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Long Blondes und Operator, Please findet sich mit Leichtigkeit noch ein Eckchen für die unbedarften Dehnübungen von vier unverschämt schamlosen Rock-Novizen, die einem einen unerhörten Minihit nach dem anderen um die Ohren hauen.“
MUSIKEXPRESS 08/10 – 4 Sterne

„Rotzrockig und schräg kommt das zweite Album der finnischen Mädels-Combo daher. Die Songs sind eingängig, die Texte erfrischend anders…Frechheit siegt und macht Lust auf mehr!“
GUITAR

more:
Sally’s Speed Dating
Concert News

Pintandwefall on the road!
08.09.2010 Hamburg – Grüner Jäger
09.09.2010 Berlin – POPKOMM
10.09.2010 Cottbus – Gladhouse
11.09.2010 Bremen – Schwankhalle
13.09.2010 München – Ampere Cafe
14.09.2010 Hannover – Cafe Glocksee
15.09.2010 Leipzig – Moritzbastei
16.09.2010 Stuttgart – Keller Klub
17.09.2010 Frankfurt a.M. – Nachtleben
18.09.2010 Köln – Lichtung

We’re proud to announce that  our beloved all girls band PINTANDWEFALL from Finland is playing at this year’s POPKOMM, one of the world’s biggest music congresses taking place in Berlin.

AND – the girls are coming over to Germany for a 10 Days tour:
“Hongkong, Baby!” Tour 2010
08.09.2010    Hamburg    Band of the week@ Grüner Jäger
09.09.2010    Berlin     POPKOMM
10.09.2010    Cottbus    Gladhouse
11.09.2010    Bremen    Sitzdisko@Schwankhalle
13.09.2010    München    Ampere Cafe
14.09.2010    Hannover    Ruby Tuesday@Cafe Glocksee
15.09.2010    Leipzig    Moritzbastei
16.09.2010    Stuttgart    Keller Klub
17.09.2010    Frankfurt a.M.    Nachtleben
18.09.2010    Köln    Lichtung
Presented by laut.de, ox fanzine/live gigs.de, whiskey-soda.de

Meanwhile PINTANDWEFALL put out a new summer EP which can be downloaded for free from their home page…

2.   Der Weg Einer Freiheit to play with THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER, first statements

Germany’s new black metal hope DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT is playing two shows with THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER and DESPISED ICON:
13. Aug 2010   Colos Saal w/ The Black Dahlia Murder, Despised Icon     Aschaffenburg    
18. Aug 2010   Feierwerk w/ The Black Dahlia Murder, Despised Icon     München

Also here are some first German statements if you care:
„DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT verstehen es, ergreifende Gitarrenmelodien und ein hohes Maß an Intensität in facettenreiche Song-Strukturen zu verpacken.“
Legacy 11/15

„Deutscher Black Metal lebt!”
Metalnews.de 6,5/7

„Bereit für eine kleine Sensation? DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT liefern ein ungewöhnlich durchdachtes und vor allem intensives Album ab.“
metal.de 9/10

“Hochinnovativer und melodischer Black Metal, der DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT wahrscheinlich jetzt schon zum meistbeachtetsten Newcomer des Jahres macht.”
Stormbringer.at

3.   God Is An Astronaut shipment
During this week we finally shipped all God Is An Astronaut – Age Of The Fifth Sun LPs, we hope all of you are getting their copies very soon.

4.   Agalloch slipmate pictures
As we promised we’re sending you pictures of the box and what’s part of it… please check out the fully printed slipmat, it looks amazing.

1. Agalloch box
2. Der Weg einer Freiheit/God Is An Astronaut shipment

1. Agalloch box

english below:
Aufgrund von unvorhergesehenen vertragsrechtlichen Fragen in Bezug auf 2 der für die Agalloch geplanten Alben, die außerhalb unseres Einflußbereiches lagen, waren wir bis Anfang dieser Woche, seit Beginn des Anbietens der preorder nicht befugt die Alben zu pressen.

Es mussten rechtliche Fragen zunächst geklärt werden, mit denen wir vor Beginn nicht gerechnet haben.

Dadurch erhalten wir erst kommende Woche die test pressings der beiden betroffenen Alben, wodurch sich der Versand der Alben um 3 Wochen verzögert.

Es tut uns sehr, sehr leid, sind aber gleichzeitig froh, dass diese Veröffentlichung letzten Endes statt finden wird.

Wir halten Euch auf dem Laufenden und werden Euch mit Fotos “füttern”.

Vielen Dank für Eure Geduld!

english:

Due to unforeseen legal questions we hadn’t been allowed to press two of the albums who were supposed to be part of the Agalloch Box from the date of the beginning of the preorder. There was nothing we could do about it at this point.

Now everything is clear and the testings of the two missing albums are going to be here next week.

For this reason, the shipment of the Agalloch box is not going to start before the week of June 21st.
We highly apologize -  but are happy that this box finally can happen.

It’s worth it!
We will keep you posted with pics of items of the Wooden box.

2. Der Weg einer Freiheit/God Is An Astronaut shipment

Meanwhile we started shipping the ltd.CD cover albums and shirts and the God Is An Astronaut also now finally is being shipped during the next days.

Also – the Der Weg Einer Freiheit ltd. covers still didn’t arrive.
We expect them to be here at the end of the week.

We highly apologize all the delays and again appreciate your patience. We are sure that you’re going to like the result.

It contains, long time sold out albums, never before released vinyl editions and NEVER BEFORE released live material.

- Agalloch “Ashes Against The Grain” 2xLP
– Agalloch “The Mantle” 2xLP
– Agalloch “Of Stone, Wind and Pillor EP and unreleased live material”  LP (both never released on vinyl before)
– Agalloch “Pale Folklore” 2xLP

Plus:

- A 54 pages booklet with pictures, lyrics and infos designed by John Haughm and with pictures taken by Veleda Thorsson
– A fully printed slipmat
– A new alternate artwork based on the original arwork painted by Fursy ( Alcest)
– A massive handnumbered wooden box with burned AGALLOCH logo and details inside
– A total amount of 7 records which have been sold out for years now or haven’t even been released before!

All albums on thick 180g vinyl!!!

This box is a 100% mailorder only!

You can now preorder the ltd. vinyl version of the new
GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT album “AGE OF THE FIFTH SUN”.
The LP is going to be released through Viva Hate Records in collaboration with Pelagic Records.

There are three different versions:
1. ltd. 100 version on yellow vinyl
2. ltd. 200 version on orange vinyl
3. regular black vinyl version

The LP version contains one exclusive vinyl only track “Paradise Remains” and is coming on thick 180g vinyl.
release date: May 7th

Also available for preorder is the debut album of DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT who are participating on a bunch of Wolves In The Throne Room shows in May.
DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT are also proud to be part of the “Stay Brutal” Metal Sampler (Sony Music with bands like Immortal, Behemoth…, release date: April 16th).

You can check out their exclusive track RUHE on myspace (the track is also going to be in their debut album).

We have these versions of the album available for preorder, along with the standard CD and LP :
1. ltd.200 limited handnumbered edition CD version with special cover artwork.
2. ltd.100 LP version on white vinyl (180g vinyl) with printed innersleeve.
3. ltd. DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT shirt designed by ThornyThoughsArtwork