Tragic Black - The Decadent Requiem

TRAGIC BLACK #Salt Lake City,Utah -United States#

Genre: Deathrock



Band Members: Hex- Guitar, Seputus - drums, vISION - vocal, Vyle - Bass.
Influences: Dreams, Chartreuse, Mushrooms and bands like; Bauhaus, Alien Sex Fiend, Christian Death, The Misfits, Skinny Puppy, David Bowie, Specimen, Malign, and Virgin Prunes.
Sounds Like: A mixture of goth, deathrock, punk, industrial, glam and darkwave.


Tras varios discos autoproducidos, varias apariciones en recopilatorios y muchas actuaciones en directo, los estadounidenses Tragic Black nos ofrecen su primer trabajo para Strobelight Records. Hubo gente que les acuso de ser una banda deathrock que copiaba a otros artistas, pero con ‘The decadent requiem’ han demostrado que ni lo uno ni lo otro. La influencia de algunas bandas deathrockeras es evidente y está presente en gran parte de los temas que componen el disco, pero otros muchos géneros musicales tienen cabida en su música ya que en sus temas encontramos elementos de estilos tan diversos como el industrial, el punk, el psychobilly, el metal o el gothic rock, eso sí, sin llegar a abusar de ninguno de ellos. Por otro lado, Tragic Black está consiguiendo con el paso de los años alcanzar un sonido bastante personal que les diferencia de muchas bandas del panorama oscuro actual.

Han mejorado en la composición de los temas, las melodías de guitarras han progresado (pese que en algún momento aislado siguen sonando un poco perdidas) y la programación de las bases está mucho más trabajada además de poseer más fuerza que en sus primeros trabajos. La voz de Vision es uno de los elementos característicos de su música, sonando en ocasiones muy cercana a la de vocalistas de grupos como Sex Gang Children o Virgin Prunes y en otros momentos con registros más cercanos a los de un cantante de una banda de metal, pero en ambos casos llena de pasión e intensidad . La producción es mejor que en anteriores grabaciones aunque todavía puede mejorar, lo que les ayudará conseguir un mejor acabado en sus canciones. La gran mayoría de los temas aparecieron con anterioridad en ‘The sixx premonitions’ y ‘Burnt black’ (en directo), aunque personalmente echo en falta una de mis favoritas, ‘Die nacht’.

Como temas destacables podemos mencionar la muy pogueable ‘Suburbian dystopia’, con un sonido bastante más punk que otros cortes del disco, ‘Mad hatter’ deathrock de corte más clásico donde destaca la potencia de las bases, ’Lost time’, preciosa canción algo más calmada donde melodías de sintetizador y piano llevan el peso del tema hasta que una guitarra termina por explotar hacia la mitad del mismo volviendo finalmente de nuevo a la calma o ‘Parasitism’ trepidante y genial pieza de marcado carácter psychobilly.Por último señalar que además de las 14 canciones el disco incluye tres videoclips.

‘The decadent requiem’ supone un paso adelante en la carrera musical de Tragic Black que han decidido no estancarse dentro de los sonidos oscuros más ortodoxos aportando originalidad y calidad a su música, junto a grandes dosis de dramatismo y locura. Probablemente sus mejores trabajos estén por llegar, pero este disco no hace más que afianzarlos dentro de la escena deathrockera.



Tragic Black - 'The Decadent Requiem'
[01] In-toxic-Nation (The Doom Generation)
[02] Circuit 3
[03] Surreal Catharsis
[04] Suburbian Dystopia
[05] Incinerate
[06] Mad Hatter
[07] Lost Time
[08] Fading Echoes
[09] Faith In Decay
[10] Elegy
[11] Smeared Eyes
[12] The Decadent Requiem (The Awakening)
[13] Parasitism
[14] Holding Hands

ed2k Link:
Tragic Black - The Decadent Requiem -2006.rar


http://www.tragicblack.com/
http://www.strobelight-records.com/
http://myspace.com/tragicblack


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Two New Trae Videos!

Peep this the um, world premier of sorts of the two new videos from the only rap album I was able to listen to in it's entirity in one sitting this whole past year.

Trae feat. Yung Joc - In the Hood


Trae feat. Z-Ro - No Help



Both these songs jam. "No Help" might be my pick for jam of the year. If I did things like pick jams of the year and such.

Another Fine Milestone for our Fine Nation

U.S. Imprisons More People Than Any Other Nation


By James Vicini, Reuters

WASHINGTON (Dec. 9) -- Tough sentencing laws, record numbers of drug offenders and high crime rates have contributed to the United States having the largest prison population and the highest rate of incarceration in the world, according to criminal justice experts.

A U.S. Justice Department report released on November 30 showed that a record 7 million people -- or one in every 32 American adults -- were behind bars, on probation or on parole at the end of last year. Of the total, 2.2 million were in prison or jail.

According to the International Center for Prison Studies at King's College in London, more people are behind bars in the United States than in any other country. China ranks second with 1.5 million prisoners, followed by Russia with 870,000.

The U.S. incarceration rate of 737 per 100,000 people in the highest, followed by 611 in Russia and 547 for St. Kitts and Nevis. In contrast, the incarceration rates in many Western industrial nations range around 100 per 100,000 people.

Groups advocating reform of U.S. sentencing laws seized on the latest U.S. prison population figures showing admissions of inmates have been rising even faster than the numbers of prisoners who have been released.

"The United States has 5 percent of the world's population and 25 percent of the world's incarcerated population. We rank first in the world in locking up our fellow citizens," said Ethan Nadelmann of the Drug Policy Alliance, which supports alternatives in the war on drugs.

"We now imprison more people for drug law violations than all of western Europe, with a much larger population, incarcerates for all offenses."

Ryan King, a policy analyst at The Sentencing Project, a group advocating sentencing reform, said the United States has a more punitive criminal justice system than other countries.

More People to Prison

"We send more people to prison, for more different offenses, for longer periods of time than anybody else," he said.

Drug offenders account for about 2 million of the 7 million in prison, on probation or parole, King said, adding that other countries often stress treatment instead of incarceration.

Commenting on what the prison figures show about U.S. society, King said various social programs, including those dealing with education, poverty, urban development, health care and child care, have failed.

"There are a number of social programs we have failed to deliver. There are systemic failures going on," he said. "A lot of these people then end up in the criminal justice system."

Kent Scheidegger, legal director of the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation in California, said the high prison numbers represented a proper response to the crime problem in the United States. Locking up more criminals has contributed to lower crime rates, he said.

"The hand-wringing over the incarceration rate is missing the mark," he said.

Scheidegger said the high prison population reflected cultural differences, with the United States having far higher crimes rates than European nations or Japan. "We have more crime. More crime gets you more prisoners."

Julie Stewart, president of the group Families Against Mandatory Minimums, cited the Justice Department report and said drug offenders are clogging the U.S. justice system.

"Why are so many

people in prison?

Blame mandatory

sentencing laws

and the record

number of

nonviolent drug

offenders subject

to them," she said.

Morons.