A season of Encounters

Compact Disk Dummies had from their very beginning the intention to get their audience on the dance floor, and that remains a mantra set in stone even with new album "The Signal." Forward singles "There's No Sex Without You" and "fomo" already suggested the best and struck a chord with radio and audiences alike, who came out in droves to cheer the band on the festival fields of Werchter and Pukkelpop during the summer of 2023.

"The Signal" is the third full-length album after "Silver Souls" (2016) and "Neon Fever Dream" (2020), which appeared during a Corona-short-lived period that the brothers were still able to bend a bit to their will thanks to inventive online campaigns. There was no sitting still in the meantime. In February 2023, they gave another crazy party at Vooruit, dropped a docu on VRTMAX, followed later that year by another sold-out concert in the main hall of Ancienne Belgique. But looking backwards for long is not for the Dummies. As one of Belgium's most compelling live bands, they are ready to play two sold-out Roma's in Antwerp, a series of Dutch clubs and your festival summer in 2024 ́to introduce their brand new album. The signal cannot be ignored: time to bang!

The albums of The Bony King of Nowhere always emerge from an urgent "now" in Bram Vanparys' life. He then pours these into a collection of songs, just as his great examples Nick Cave, Mark Hollis and PJ Harvey do.

In 2018, he released 'Silent Days,' an album that was showered with starred reviews and awarded an MIA. This success was followed by the corona period and a creative drought that would last two years, resulting in persistent self-doubt. A difficult point in the career of an artist who never wants to repeat himself. The need to reinvent himself after the success of 'Silent Days' was greater than ever, but the road to a new sound was long and at times grueling. The result: 'Everybody Knows,' still the sixth album from The Bony King of Nowhere.

Corruption. Paranoia. Blackmail. A circle of violence and retaliation. A tangle of deceit and fear. The inescapable tentacles of the underworld. Bloody debts settled. Traitors betrayed. Revenge calls, when the law isn't enough....

Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats are one of the most eccentric bands of the post-Sabbathian realm. With a sound variously borrowed from classic doom, psychedelia, garage rock, underground, and occult heavyness. Proof of this is their latest record NELL' ORA BLU. A particularly cinematic record, inspired in part by the dark magic of the Italian Giallo film movement, but also drawn directly from Kevin Starrs' own grimy and fearless imagination. An entirely unique listening experience that thumps and screams with gruesome intentions.