Let´s have a look to one of the " younger bands " in the billing of this year´s Kings of Black Metal Festival - billing. Alsfeld - germany april 22. / 23. 2016 and read how the press see the band and why we´ve booked them on the billing !
There is no American black metal band active today that's better than Yellow Eyes."
- Metal Injection
"Yellow Eyes achieves black metal perfection."
- Noisey
"Yellow Eyes have created a metal masterpiece that stands alone on its merits"
- Steel For Brains (in regards to Sick With Bloom, Gilead Media, 2015)
YELLOW EYES
(USA – Gilead Media)
New York City-based black metal band Yellow Eyes was formed in 2010 by brothers Will and Sam Skarstad upon moving home from the Czech Republic. With 5 releases, including 2 full-lengths, Yellow Eyes have honed their distinctive style: off-balance, highly narrative songs that swing wildly between fanfare and dirge-- all of it unsettling, all of it with an emphasis on fluidity and unusual voicing.
They record their material themselves in an isolated cabin in the woods of northwestern Connecticut, allowing their surroundings to seep into the music.
The band's latest LP, Sick With Bloom, was recorded straight to a reel-to-reel tape recorder over the course of a week in May 2015 in a remote cabin in Connecticut and was released on Gilead Media on December 11th, 2015. From the hallucinogenic title track ("They placed six spotlights dimly shining / Making amber of the brine / Black seeds and blinded shrimp held in the cones…") to the cruelty of "Fallen Snag" ("I thought the elders leaning in had maps, kinetics, ancient bole / But now I see their wooden faces mo
PRESS
"Yellow Eyes may be the best representative of the scene's future…It's melodic and accomplished and adventurous in ways that fully capture the imagination and ear--and in ways that separate it from the output of just about every other USBM band today."
- Stereogum
"NYC black metal squad Yellow Eyes continue to grow and improve by leaps and bounds—no small feat when even your earliest output is as great as theirs."
- Pitchfork
"It is the new standard"
- MetalSucks (in regards to Sick With Bloom, Gilead Media, 2015)
Want to buy a ticket after reading this and see Yellow Eyes together with Taake, Archgoat, Acherontas, Primordial, Desaster, Ketzter, Svartidaudi, Inferno, Nazghor, Dodsengel, Misthyrming, Nawaharjan, Valkyrja, Arvas, Lychgate, Stahlsarg, The Ruins of Beverast and many more
50 % of the campground Tickets are sold now ! If you want to use the festival campground, make sure to buy your tickets soon ! Orders by email to burningstage@aol.com are comission and shiping cost free ! At this email you´ll get the best price for original hard tickets too ! Daytickets are available too at this email adress !
A short preliminary report from German LEGACY mag! Tickets for each day and both days are still available:
If you also need a campground ticket: Hurry up, there are only a few left!
BANDS ON KINGS OF BLACK METAL 2016:
Bands on stage 2016:
Taake
Primordial
Archgoat
Dødsengel
Nazghor
Acherontas ( special setlist 1997 - 2007 )
Nawaharjan
Lychgate
Ketzer
Desaster
Misthyrming
The Ruins of Beverast
Saturnian Mist
Stahlsarg
T.O.M.B.
Valkyrja
Arvas
Inferno
Drowned
Yellow Eyes
Svartidaudi
Here's the day schedule for KOBM Festival 2016!
Day 1 - Friday, 22.04.2016
Primordial
Nazghor
Acherontas (special early days and best of new stuff show)
Lychgate
Stahlsarg
Arvas
Inferno
Drowned
Svartidauði
Ketzer
Day 2 - Saturday, 23.04.2016
Taake
Archgoat
Dødsengel
Nawaharjan
Desaster
Misþyrming
The Ruins of Beverast
Satunian Mist
Total Occultic Mechanical Blasphemy
Yellow Eyes
Valkyrja
Ticket orders are possible by email to:
burningstage@aol.com
Please send us your full adress and amount of tickets you´ll need with your mail.
Tickets are also available at:
www.reservix.de
www.metaltix.com
www.apostasy.de
Ticket presale prices Kings of Black Metal 2016:
Ticket price 2 day pass 01.01. - 20.04. : 61,50 € + no other costs
Saturday one day pass: 37,50€ + no other costs
Friday one day pass: 35 € + no other costs
