April 7th, 2010

Hellfest is the place to be this year – with only 20,000 people a day attending the grounds are intimate and the bands intense. This year sees classic headliners Alice Cooper, KISS, Motorhead and Twisted Sister right alongside some truly groundbreaking, genre-defining, underground bands: Immortal, GODFLESH, Sigh, Carcass and Atheist. There is something for everyone… a focus in this year’s band selection is desert rock with Weedeater, Mondo Generator, Brant Bjork and the Bros and even a reformed, edited lineup version of Kyuss! Small town France is a hospitable place to take in such a show, amidst the wine fields and misty clouds. And for the thrashers of the bunch we’ve got Overkill, Annihilator, Exodus, Sepultura and the masters of it all… Slayer. Get your ass on the plane, red wine in hand, and see more bands in week than you’ll see in your hometown in years.

-ERIK LINDHOLM

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April 1st, 2010

April 14th will be Scythias official CD release party at the Media Club (695 Cambie Street, Vancouver BC) with a medieval theme.

Kooznetz will be opening the night as well as Marching Mind and Titans Eve.

Claymore designs will be showcasing some custom chain mail pieces on the Morrismore Models who will be dancing during the musical performances as well.

So come one come all to ye olde mead hall for minstrels and wenches. ‘Twill be only ten pieces of silver!

myspace.com/thorgenhellhammer

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March 25th, 2010

UNTIL THE LIGHT TAKES US, now showing at the CALGARY PLAZA THEATRE
(1133 Kensington Rd NW)
www.theplaza.ca

Until the Light Takes Us is a feature length documentary chronicling the history, ideology and aesthetic of Norwegian black metal. The film explores every aspect of the controversial movement that has captured the attention of the world.
This is black metal as seen through the eyes of those who created it, of those who live it, of those who are at the center of the story of black metal.

SHOW-TIMES
Advance – Thurs. Mar.18 @ 10pm

Week # 1 – Mar.19 – 25:
Fri @ 5:00 & 11PM
Sat @ 11PM
Sun, Mon, Tues, Wed & Thurs @ 9:30.

Week # 2 – Mar.26 – Apr.1:
Fri @ 9:45.
Sat @ 2:00 & 9:45.
Mon,. Tues @ 9:00.
Thurs @ 11:15PM.

Final Show – Sun. Apr.4 @ 11:15PM.

www.blackmetalmovie.com

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March 25th, 2010

2010 Vancouver International Burlesquefest Presents:
Rosie Needs A New Brain

Don’t miss the beautiful and fascinating one-woman showcase of Rosie Needs a New Brain; a journey through burlesque and disability, compassion and discrimination, illusion and reality, and the spirituality behind it all. Debut staging: Friday May 7, 9pm at 254 East Hastings Street, Vancouver BC.

Rosie Delight is a burlesque artiste. Unfortunately she is a burlesque artiste with a problem. Rosie has a demon inside her brain and it is slowly taking over her body, robbing her of her beauty, her ability to control her movements, to tolerate music, sound and light, to perform or even live like a normal human being. As she faces the bleak possibility of living out her days hiding in a cave with earplugs in, Rosie filters her current experiences through the lens of her past, the people who surround her and the isolation that is slowly enveloping her.

Rosanna Wijenberg, aka Rosie Delight, has been a burlesque and performance artist in Vancouver for over 10 years before being recently diagnosed with a very rare, progressive and disabling neurological movement disorder. She has performed with Fluffgirl Burlesque, the Ultravixen Peepshow, Empire Burlesque and Screaming Chicken Theatrical Society. Currently she is enjoying the life of a solo performer and sometime small show producer, director and playwright, including the fabulous Cinco de Murder staged last year to a very enthusiastic, sold out audience. Never pigeonholed she has straddled the worlds of classic, comedic, gore and artlesque and tends to stun people with her beautiful costumes and clever burlettas.

Both raw and spectacular, bitter and beautiful, this show will fuse art and burlesque in a new way, with dancing, yelling, magic, neuroscience, comedy, blood, tragedy, striptease, drama, back-up dancers, singing, small explosions, implied nudity, crying, infotainment, utter joy, brain surgery and possibly some puppetry all wrapped up in one 45 minute time slot with one very magnetic performer.

The 2010 Vancouver International Burlesquefest runs May 6-9, 2010. For more information go to: www.vanburlesquefest.com or contact crystalprecious@gmail.com

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