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Hellfest interview + clips

admin — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:04:17 +0000

A nice flashback from last summer at Hellfest, interview with Ida and Mia + some live clips (the guitars are extremely low in the beginning but it’s getting better closer to the end, maybe the sound staff wasn’t awake yet, we played 11 in the morning!! :-D But the crowd was awake for sure, thousands of rockers in front!

We hope to be back at Hellfest soon again, with the new album!

Check out the clip here: ARTSCENICS CRUCIFIED BARBARA AT HELLFEST >>

UK review on Youtube

admin — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:57:08 +0000

We had a blast in the UK last weekend, sorry for the late update but we are bisy bees, working hard on the finishing touch of the new album so please forgive us! :-)

Here are some reviews from the gigs for those of you who missed it! PS The “french merch guy” mentioned in this Youtube review is actually our mighty french/UK booking agent so don’t mess with him in the merch stand :-D
Review from Bilston YoureviewUK >>

/CB

Berlin Live at ZDF Kultur from January 7th

admin — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 01:39:24 +0000

Watch the trailer from our visit and performance at Berlin Live, ZDF kultur channel, January 7th together with Bullet and Gamma Ray
Click here to watch trailer >>

Watch the whole show with all 3 bands, including Killed by death played together with our friends Bullet -from 2 stages! – Enjoy a really cool rock show, at a crazy cool venue!
Click here to watch the show >>

New french tour dates in March/April

admin — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:32:28 +0000

Some more dates has been added to the French tour in March.

FRENCH TOUR * Spring 2012
March 23rd St Lo – Le Normandy
March 24th Vauréal (95) – Le Forum
March 25th Pagney Derrière Barine (54) – Chez Paulette
March 27th Strasbourg – La Laiterie
March 28th La chaux de Fonds – Bikini Test (switzerland)
March 29th Annecy – Le Brise Glace
March30th Les Menuires – Full Metal Contest
March 31st St Jean de Védas (34) – Secret Place
April 1st Toulon – Omega Live
April 3rd Toulouse – Dynamo
April 4th Seignosse (40) – Les Bourdaines
April 5th Vannes – Echonova
April 6th Compiegne – Ziquodrome
April 7th Terville (57) – Le 112
April 8th Montbelliard – Ateliers des Môles

UK dates in January 2012 confirmed

admin — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:23:44 +0000

We’re happy to come back to the UK again!

January 28th Bilston, Robin 2 -> TICKETS
January 29th Skegness Rock and Blues Festival

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Past tours in the UK: 2006 w/ Motörhead + Clutch, 2008 w/ Backyard Babies.
We also played Hard Rock Hell festival some years ago, and the song Danger Danger on our latest album is actually a result of the obviously very inspiring after show party. So with all these FUN live experiences with great bands and crazy people in mind you can tell that we have high expectations of these new upcoming adventures!

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To see more tourdates for 2012 go to the Tour page

A few pictures from the last month.

admin — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:01:28 +0000

We’re really happy about the upcoming album and we hope you’re gonna like the songs as much as we do. Right now Mia is recording the lead vocals and everything is starting to fall into place. The drums, bass and guitars were recorded in Gothenburg but the vocals are recorded here in Stockholm. As you can see below the song booth is really glamourous. But the lack of walls doesn’t seem to bother the happy hummingbird.

It’s been a long and rocky road to get here. First you have to climb the high song writing mountain; coming up with ideas, rejecting them, coming up with better ones and chose which ones that get to live. Then you enter the studio and there’s the next barrier to cross. The big scary ocean of performance anxiety…

Though it’s not always a bed of roses, there’s always fun along the way. Here’s a cute picture of Mia on a very creative day:

And here’s my lovely ladies having a (well, a few…) well-deserved beer after a long day in the studio:

On sunday we go back to the wonderful Music-A-Matic studio in Gothenburg to record additional guitars, backing vocals and to check if they’ve put our wonderful piece of art up on the wall.

The best part is that all the hard work of making this album will be greatly rewarded when we get to see you guys on tour next year!

Peace and good night my friends.

Love/Klara

French tour dates confirmed in March-April

admin — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 22:03:00 +0000

We are proud to announce our first tour dates for 2012, in France!

March 23rd St Lo – Le Normandy
March 24th Vauréal (95) – Le Forum
March 27th Strasbourg – La Laiterie
March 29th Annecy – Le Brise Glace
March30th Les Menuires – Full Metal Contest
April 1st Toulon – Omega Live
April 3rd Toulouse – Dynamo
April 4th Seignosse (40) – Les Bourdaines
April 5th Vannes – Echonova
April 6th Compiegne – Ziquodrome
April 7th Terville (57) – Le 112
April 8th Montbelliard – Ateliers des Môles

More tour dates for 2012 will be announced soon!

Studio update – lead vocals almost done!

admin — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 21:44:55 +0000

We spent the whole last week recording lead vocals. I’ve been screaming the shit out of that expensive microphone, and during one song I was close to both faint and puke at the same time, hehe.. and my right thigh has a large bruise, because I’m “keeping the beat” by beating myself hard on the leg (unconsciously).

But I don’t want to mislead you with this summary, we are not making a death metal album :-) But I have really killed the last “female” touch I once had(?) in my voice, it’s pretty rough these days!! We’ve got the heavy stuff, the melodic and (a lot of) rock’n'roll stuff, amazing quality gear (Mesa Boogie, Ampeg, Yamaha, Sabian…), extremely professional producer and sound engineer, and the most important part; gRRRRReat songs! No bad reviews in the world could wipe the smile off my face ’cause I’m so proud of what we’ve done so far with this album, and it already sounds great even though it’s not even close to done. And one of the reasons why we choose to work with Chips is because he don’t want to mess up the sound. We want it to sound REAL. Far away from the modern, over-produced metal and rock of today…

..so as you can hear, I have a very good feeling about this :-) And I really hope you will share this feeling too once you get to hear it! It won’t take long ’cause we want to bring the new album with us when we start touring – in March! More info coming soon!

Tomorrow we will continue with the lead vocals, I have 4 songs left to record. My voice is still in good shape even though I’ve been pushing it a lot last week and started up with a cold. So, time to go to bed and dream about the release party…

Sweet dreams!
Cheers / Mia