BLACK MARK PRESENTS...

The Man From The Moon - Rocket Attack

The Man From The Moon has come up with a creative and exciting symphonic rock album. He takes us on an inspirational musical journey and adventure through many different moods. In focus as always is of course some amazing guitar work. With many philosophical messages and insights the songs deal with the way TMFTM sees the world and his own life. Turn it on, turn it up and enjoy!

Check out a sample track from Rocket Attack here:

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Jennie Tebler's Out of Oblivion - Till Death Do Us Part

Jennie Tebler is an enchanting and magical Swedish vocalist. She has the ability to reach your heart and soul with her lyrics. During 2005 and 2006 she released several emotional singles in Europe which garnished praise from melodic rock and metal fanbases. During that time she hooked up with three new members that now form Jennie Tebler's Out of Oblivion on this, the band's debut full-length release for the world. Till Death Tear Us Part is an intriguing and addictive journey through all of metal's spectrums. Brilliant and unparalleled, you have never heard this before.

Check out a sample track from Till Death Do Us Part here:

http://www.blackmark.net/img/4Pack/Jennie-Tebler-Out-Of-Oblivion.mp3

http://www.myspace.com/jennieteblersoutofoblivion

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NOCTURNAL'S GOT A SHIRT

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BPR018 NOCTURNAL (POLAND) "Unholycraft-Blood for Glory of Satan" T-Shirt. Available in size – M, L & XL. $14.00 / $19.00

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RE-BONDED BY BLOOD

Guitarist Gary Holt of the veteran San Francisco Bay Area thrashers EXODUS has issued the following update:

"While anxiously awaiting our return to Europe for the festival run, we have been quietly working on the 'Bonded By Blood' re-recording in our time off. Rob [Dukes, vocals] is currently doing vocals in New York, Lee [Altus, guitar] is doing his solos and I have some touch-ups to do on July 4th. Everything sounds crushing! Guitars are brutal, Tom's [Hunting] drumming is sick, Rob sounds heavier than ever. I am totally stoked. While working on this, I have been securing the talent for the 25th anniversary version of it, the Paul Baloff trubute. Nine different singers. Can't name names right now, but people have been more than willing to participate.

"Next up is Tidal Wave [festival in San Francisco], then beer and sun in Europe. This sitting-at-home shit sucks; I need to be on the road!"

EXODUS recently extended its recording agreement with Nuclear Blast Records, whom Holt called "the greatest label in metal."

The band's brand new album, "The Atrocity Exhibition: Exhibit B", is due out later this year.

EXODUS' video for the song "Riot Act" was directed by Jon Schnepp of "Metalocalypse" (on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim) for Schneppzone Inc. The clip, which made its TV debut in December on MTV2's "Headbanger's Ball", can be viewed below.

"Riot Act" comes off "The Atrocity Exhibition: Exhibit A", which sold 3,600 copies in the United States in its first week of release back in October 2007, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The CD was recorded at Sharkbite Studios in Oakland, California with producer Andy Sneap (MEGADETH, MACHINE HEAD, NEVERMORE, ARCH ENEMY).

SILENCER VINYL UPDATE

All is received from AKR and we start shipping during the week and it should not be too long until you receive your package. Note that in some cases we have been forced to send your stuff divided into two packages due to the extra high postage rates for oversized packages.

We also would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for the unbelievable patience and for simply showing good manners during these immense delays. Exactly ZERO immature nonsense emails have been received throughout the months you have been forced to wait and that’s almost too good to be true.

Thanks from the Diagnose: Lebensgefahr family;

Kris, N, P, P, M, TUX.

In other, though very much related news: Silencer - Death - Pierce Me is now out on cassette, limited and hand numbered to 500 copies and available from here.

The tape is fully pro-printed and prices including postage are as follows:

Europeans: 6 Euros

Rest Of The World: $9

Sweden: 50 kr

Payment options:

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Note to Swedish buyers: Överföring till konto är att föredra inom Sverige. Vill du fortfarande använda Paypal så tillkommer en avgift på 4% av totalsumman.

Kris Galas,
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THE DIGITAL BITS REMINISCES OVER LASERDISC

[Editor's Note: YES, we know that Mark made a slight mistake in the text below. As HUNDREDS of you have pointed out, laserdisc's early competitor wasn't Discovision but rather RCA SelectaVision CED (which used a physical stylus to read discs encased in plastic sleeves or cartridges). Discovision itself was an early trademark of laserdisc used by MCA. Nevertheless, a lot of people clearly enjoyed the piece, so thanks for all your responses on it.]

Lasers are cool! Whether it's Auric Goldfinger trying to interrogate James Bond on a metallic slab in Switzerland or Dr. Evil trying to take over the world using a giant "l-a-s-e-r," these narrow and powerful beams of light have always been the stuff of sci-fi legend. So that's probably what made the seeming successor to the videotape so very cool when it first hit store shelves: it wasn't called a Movie Disc or Cinema Disc, it was called a LASER disc... and it used, what else, a laser (insert quotation mark fingers here) to read information off a shiny metal disc and present images of crystal clarity with superb surround sound and display movies in their original aspect ratio (this should not be confused with Magnavox's Discovision system of the late 70's which did not use a laser and was, all things considered, pretty lame).

Well, this year marks ten years since the unheralded demise of laserdisc, an anniversary you are unlikely to read about anywhere else. But I thought it might be worth the time to recite the final eulogy to this dearly departed format. You see, laserdiscs unlike today's DVDs were what retailers call a niche format. You couldn't find it in the corner supermarket or at Walgreen's. It required visiting speciality retailers and, often, roadtrips to visit stores hours from your home to procure the latest films on the big, shiny disc. But that's what made it cool.

Unlike my man Barack Obama, I am an elitist and proud of it. There was something special about being an owner of a rarefied format that only .001% of the United States population owned (and, by the way, I have no idea if that statistic is right and have absolutely no way of verifying the truth so we'll just go with it for now). But for those of us who did, laserdisc was something special.

Like records, they came in giant oversized packaging so the art was often stunning. In fact, some of the most prominent reminders of this antiquated format only exist in my house in framed laserdisc covers that are mounted on my living room wall alongside some of my favorite LP covers. Take that, 8 Track!). Laserdisc was really the first time you could actually play movies in their actual aspect ratio (only Woody Allen had previously mandated that Manhattan be released on videotape in its OAR of 2:35 with gray bars along the top and bottom of the screen).

It's easy now to forget the impact laserdisc had on the miniscule amount of us who owned them with DVD's being so ubiquitous. Now you can pretty much get any movie you want on disc for less than a sandwich at Quizno's. But back then, the best of the best, could cost you well over $100 (which probably helps explain why I don't own a house today). These were the Rolls-Royce of laserdisc: the Criterion box sets. Starting with the unparalleled Close Encounters and continuing with such superb releases as Seven and Brazil, Criterion was the benchmark for the format.

One of their first discs, King Kong, introduced audio commentaries to the world and later discs featured hours of bonus material including storyboards, which could be analyzed frame by frame (It's also worth noting that audio commentaries were also a lot more fun. Since the market was so small, studio lawyers rarely censored what filmmakers said, unlike today where legal departments pour over every minute of content and often take a scissor to filmmaker commentary that doesn't get the legal stamp of approval).

One of laserdiscs biggest drawbacks was they could only hold an hour of information on each side so longer movies often spanned several discs and some sets even more when they were recorded in the CAV format which allowed you to still pause and speed search. Laserdiscs felt important because of their girth, they didn't feel disposable, but rather archival. Like members of a really geeky secret society, laserdisc owners would converge at annual sales and spend thousands of dollars enlarging their collection.

I have fond memories of the annual Evolution Laserdisc sale in Woodland Hills and the insanity of Pioneer's Warehouse Sales in Long Beach which always felt like retail stores on the day after Thanksgiving. Everyone would rifle through the racks realizing they were part of a small coterie of obsessives who shared a similar passion. It was all very civilized, albeit absurd, as you would hear friends yell to each over the din, "Hey, I got myself a copy of Looker, you need one?" "No, but if you can find a copy of Sorcerer, let me know." Laserdisc fans were cinephiles who took their filmgoing very seriously.

The inane titles that would top the VHS lists rarely, if ever, were bestsellers on laserdisc and could often be found dramatically discounted on sales racks. In the age of DVD and E-bays, this kind of thing sounds positively antediluvian, but the reality is it was quite special as you spent hours on line waiting for the doors to open, swapping stories, and talking film with other connoisseurs (a/k/a geeks) in the hopes of filling in the gaps in your collection, knowing that this might be the only time during the year to procure the most eclectic and rare of the tiles you sought.

It all changed with the arrival of DVD. Some of us attempted to fight the inevitable death of laserdisc by decrying DVD as an inferior format, but it was a silly argument. DVD was clearly better with a far more reasonable retail price, storage space and instant mainstream appeal. When Robert Burnett and I were making Free Enterprise we refused to even acknowledge the existence of DVD, instead extolling laserdiscs incessantly throughout the film which was already in its death throes, a decision which dates the movie worse than any other decision we made on that film.

The death of laserdisc came quickly with the releases slowly dwindling to a trickle and then ceasing altogether as DVD replaced them. No longer a niche product, DVDs could be found virtually anywhere and with the growth of the internet, any title can be acquired at anytime of day almost instantly from anywhere in the world. I still own a few laserdiscs which haven't made their way to DVD, but I rarely play them, but I can't quite part with them either... they remain an elegant reminder of a more civilized age. And as a friend once said in explaining why so many laserdiscs in his collection remained unwatched and in their original shrink-wrapping, "Sometimes it's just enough to know they're there." Amen, brother.

Mark A. Altman is writer/producer of Free Enterprise, one of the last films ever released on laserdisc - as well as numerous other film and television productions and is founder of Geek Monthly.

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THE AUTOPSY CONCLUDES...

FUNEREAL MOON - Satan's Beauty Obscenity

Autopsy Kitchen Records proudly announces our new signing/collaboration with Mexico's ambient/occult/black metal project Funereal Moon! Funereal Moon have been creating Satanic audio blasphemies in this world since 1993 with the debut release of their Prayers Of The Crystal Tablet Of Beli demo cassette. They have had a unique approach to the dark arts from their very inception and it has only grown phenomenally over the decade since. We first became familiar with Funereal Moon's mysterious presence with their 1997 vinyl only release Grim...Evil.... Soon after that release the band all but disappeared from this planet with only 2 very limited "commemorative/best of" CDs containing a scattering of new tracks being released in a span of almost a decade!

Funereal Moon eventually returned from absolute obscurity however and began recording full time once again much to our own pleasure. We decided to approach the band about doing a re-release of Grim...Evil on CD format and in the end we got much more than we bargained for...Funereal Moon have made Autopsy Kitchen their new home for all obsessive intents and Satanic purpose in life...The first collaboration is fully recorded and will consist of a re-release of the tracks from the previously mentioned Grim...Evil LP as well as the first new Funereal Moon recordings in years: Satan's Beauty Obscenity. Following this release, the aptly titled brand new full length recording Bringer Of Evil will also materialize to assist in your pain and pleasure as Funereal Moon have done for us all these years.

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THOU - Peasant

Every now and again the rare occasion arises that you come across a record clearly created by fanatics that simply can't help but stand apart from the crowd. Fanatics that have deep roots in nothing else but bashing out the most grim yet beautiful sounding doom... doom isn't the genre here, doom is the atmosphere. Eyes peer beyond shadows and blood flows beneath footprints. The world is not as vast as the mind. Reality suffers the consequence and we are it's slaves.

Peasant is Thou's 2nd full length after their debut LP Tyrant and both LPs were summoned in their hometown of Baton Rouge, LA which many here in the states consider the home state of that true soulful doom vibe somewhat akin to Motown via Detroit. Unlike many bands of the ilk, Thou doesn't just simply plow over you with riff after unbearably crushing riff over the duration of the album but choose to riff over your soul track by track with more venom per ounce than is likely healthy by any standard. Needless pain and suffering are all around you, Thou are not the answer... they are the alternative. No true pleasure can ever be experienced without a healthy dose of pain. Look no further. Presented in a deluxe 16-page booklet and each copy will come wrapped in a specially designed vellum strip. Hear THOU on our online mp3 player now.

See THOU on tour now!

Thou are currently touring the United States until July 19th and you'd be a fool to miss a chance to see them live if they come anywhere near you!

06/19/2008 The Tomb - Madison, WS w/Black September, SFN
06/20/2008 Hot Jams Records - Chicago, IL w/Against Empire, Riotous, La Armada, Black September
06/21/2008 The Borg Ward - Milwaukee, WI w/Black September, People Again
06/22/2008 The Haunted Kitchen - Lawrence, KS w/Samothrace, Stull
06/23/2008 Panther Country - Denver, CO w/Catheter
06/24/2008 The Myrtle Morgue - Boise, ID
06/24/2008 The Boquet - Boise, ID w/Maladie, Teenage Kicks
06/25/2008 The Blvd. - Spokane, WA w/Doom Lit Sky, Behold, Merrick Diaries

Thou w/Leech
06/26/2008 Dog City, the Artist Formerly Known as Camp Nowhere - Seattle, WA w/This Time Tomorrow, Marrow
06/27/2008 some place in the woods - Seattle, WA w/Drakul and Irony [Directions: http://noladiy.org/thoutour.html]
06/28/2008 519 Puget St. - Olympia, WA w/Die Young, The Separation, This Time Tomorrow, Ancient Head
06/29/2008 Pauls to Wall's House - Portland, OR w/Book of Belial, Kudzu, Ealdath
06/30/2008 The Burial Grounds - Salem, OR w/Wildboar
07/01/2008 Will - Eugene, OR - Will w/Skaarp
07/02/2008 The Yellow House - Arcata, CA
07/03/2008 The Scorge House - Oakland, CA w/Fell Voices, Anchient Forrest
07/04/2008 Gilman - Berkeley, CA w/Black Cobra, Times of Desperation, Lid Toker
07/05/2008 Thrillhouse Records - San Francisco, CA w/Drowning With Our Anchors
07/06/2008 Santa Cruz, CA w/Fell Voices
07/07/2008 On top a Cliff (in the mountains) - San Luis Obispo, CA [Directions: http://noladiy.org/thoutour.html]
07/08/2008 Biko Co-Op - Isla Vista, CA w/Die Young, Lie & Wait
07/09/2008 The Smell - Los Angeles, CA w/Dangers, Lake of Blood
07/10/2008 The Relax Bar - Los Angeles, CA w/Funeral Pyre, Lake of Blood
07/11/2008 AWS Outdoors Arena - Rowland Heights, CA w/Aghast, Giuda
07/12/2008 The Che Cafe - La Jolla, CA w/Fell Voices, Destroy All of Them
07/13/2008 The Tribe - Pumpkinville, AZ w/Altar of Earth, Do Tremble, Fall Silent
07/14/2008 Albuquerque - w/Adobe Houses, Ronoso
07/15/2008 The OKC Infoshop - Oklahoma City, OK w/Stasis Death
07/16/2008 The White Swan - Houston, TX w/Dissent, PLF
07/18/2008 The Big Top - New Orleans, LA w/Haarp
07/19/2008 in the Spillway - Baton Rouge, LA w/Fiya, Barghest
08/01/2008 Cave 9 - Birmingham, AL w/This Time Tomorrow, The Helm, Peter Young

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PRETTY DAMN COOL ARMAMENT SALE AT REGIMENTAL RECORDS

We are currently having a $5 CD / $4 MCD Sale.
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NEW KRIEG SONG "PHOTOGRAPHS FROM AN ASYLUM" UP!

The first in four years, from their forthcoming split with Caina!

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