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Wolfheart feat. The Malavita Antisocial Club


Žánr:

Metal, Death Metal, Progressive Metal

Založeno:

2015, Wiener Neustadt

Současný label:

Wolfblood Productions

Sestava:

Wolfgang Süssenbeck - vocals, keys
Jaroslav Lukac - guitars
Alessandro Vagnoni - drums, bass

Odkazy:


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Wolfheart feat. The Malavita Antisocial Club

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Biografie

General:
WOLFBLOOD PRODUCTIONS is the label by Wolfgang Süssenbeck, on which the last album of the band DARKSIDE, "Inferno" and the debut of the project CITIZEN X - "Satanation" were published. Besides this upcoming release there are still more releases planned for this year, including the debut album “The Fail Decade” of melodic thrashers ANGRY NATION, which is expected for the summer.

Releases of WOLFBLOOD PRODUCTIONS:

WBP001 DARKSIDE - Inferno (2013)
WBP002 CITIZEN X - Satanation (2014)
WBP003 WOLF HEART feat. THE MALAVITA ANTI SOCIAL CLUB - Morphean Empires (5/2016)
WBP004 ANGRY NATION - The Fail Decade (6/2016)



About the person:
Wolfgang Süssenbeck, born in 1965, can justifiably be referred as an icon of the metal scene in Wiener Neustadt. He earned his first musical spurs in the early 80s in the punk band LADEHEMMUNG, 1984 he founded his first band, METAL DAZE. This was followed by another band from Wiener Neustadt, DECEIVER ,before he joined DISGRACE in 1988, a lineup of musicians from Wr. Neustadt and Enzesfeld / Lindabrunn, which could easily be called a precursor to the band DARKSIDE, the actual main band of Wolfgang, in which he has been active since 1992. With DARKSIDE "Sü" has released a total of 6 albums worldwide and has done 5 European tours (among others as support of MOONSPELL, THERION, SIX FEET UNDER, VADER, MORTICIAN, SINISTER a.m.m.) and completed more than 500 shows. Besides DARKSIDE, Sü was also active in Vienna´s thrashers DEMOLITION , with whom he has also released two albums, and has played several European tours (among others with TESTAMENT, DEATH ANGEL, SUSPIRIA). Countless festival appearances and single shows with bands like SLAYER, MEGADETH, ANTHRAX, AMORPHIS, MORBID ANGEL, PAIN, ATROCITY and many more complete the picture.



WOLF HEART feat. THE MALAVITA ANTISOCIAL CLUB

Wolfgang Süssenbeck, keyboardist and mastermind of the Lower Austrian death metal veterans DARKSIDE has recorded his first "solo" album. "Sü" has participated in several projects in recent years, for exampl, together with DARKSIDE bassist Peter Böhm he took part in the project CITIZEN X and recorded an album and several cover versions of artists such as MEGADETH, KING DIAMOND and KRAFTWERK with guitarist Milos Dolezal under the moniker of WAVES. He also contributed some vocals for the HOLY MOSES album "Agony Of Death". He is currently working together with his fellow musician Walter Oberhofer on the first album "The Fail Decade", which operates under the band name of ANGRY NATION. How the new album “Morphean Empires” came together and who else is involved, can be found in the following press release:

Wolf:
The realization of some kind of "solo" album has always been one of my dreams for about 30 years, I think. Since my skills are really limited to programming in terms of songwriting, I decided to ask some musicians / friends of mine to join me in this endeavor. The most important people in this project are Jaroslav Lukac, who has already cooperated on the last DARKSIDE album by providing some phenomenal solos and Alessandro Vagnoni who has recorded the drums and the bass for this production, as well as the album was mixed in his PLASTER RECORDING STUDIO in Italy. Jaro wrote most of the songs for "Morphean Empires" and is also responsible for the mastering, which has completed the sound in NEGATIVE TUNES studio in Slovakia.
Like on the last DARKSIDE album, vocals were again recorded in SHAARK STUDIO in the Czech Republic, supported by my longtime fellow musician Peter Böhm, who has provided invaluable assistance in the arrangement of vocals. The album has a playing time of about 100 minutes, and sometimes you run out of good ideas, so I am very grateful to Peter that he has taken time to support me.

A few words about the two main musicians of MALAVITA ANTISOCIAL CLUB:

Jaroslav Lukac: (guitar)
Jaroslav Lukac is a guitarist from Slovakia, where he has his own studio, NEGATIVE TUNES, where he produces various bands, records music, mixes and also does mastering. Jaro was part of several bands such as FAUSTINO or XXXX, before he formed his own band with RECODE THE SUBLIMINAL, a band that has recently released its debut album “The Cost Of Every Man”. Jaro was also a part of the line-up for the last album of DARKSIDE, "Inferno", to which he has contributed most of the guitar solos.
Shortly after the recording of the lastest album of DARKSIDE Jaro asked me, if I could sing on a song that he had written for a solo project, and so "Rites Of The Apocalypse" was born. This song was added and rearranged for "Morphean Empires", because it would have been a shame not to use it, also because it was the first song that we made together, which resulted in the end resulted in me asking him whether he would be available as main composer for the WOLFHEART project. I am very pleased that he has agreed to do so, because with his addition we were able to greatly expand the musical spectrum of the album. Of course, his influences are very different from mine, for example, but the resulting mix of influences and different approaches to things sounds very original. Of course, the fact that Jaro has his own studio brought in many other advantages, also with regard to the final product.

Alessandro Vagnoni: (drums, bass)
Alessandro is a very experienced drummer from Italy, where he also runs his own studio, the PLASTER RECORDING STUDIO. Alessandro is / was part of numerous bands and projects like RESURRECTURIS, DARK LUNACY, INFERNAL POETRY, BOLOGNA VIOLENTA, TAPEWHORE and many others.
I have come to appreciate Alessandro when he stepped in as a drummer for DEMOLITION for some shows on the recommendation of our former guitarist. Later we worked together on a project called MARGINALIA, which unfortunately never saw the light of day, before I asked Alessandro to manage the drums for the DARKSIDE album "Inferno" and finally, to mix the album. Alessandro also played some concerts together with DARKSIDE. I am very happy that Alessandro has joined our project because certainly his experience as a musician, arranger and studio engineer has had a major impact on the development and prosperity of "Morphean Empires". As part of the mixing and mastering process, the mutual support of the two studios has impacted very positively on the realization of the final product.

Other contributors:

Björn Goosses (Killustration.com):
Killustrations is an award winning design studio, founded by the German artist Björn Goosses and passed.
Specifically located in the field of digital image processing, Killustrations uses a variety of techniques to create unique images between playful morbidity and colorful surrealism. The interdisciplinary work of Killustrations extends from cover art on merchandise design to corporate identity and logo design and usually uses a mixed media technique between imaging and photography.
I met Björn during a European tour with DEMOLITION in 2008 when we were supporting DEATH ANGEL. Björn accompanied the crew for some dates in Germany and the Netherlands and has impressed me from the start by his communicative, friendly easy-going nature. After searching a fundamental alternative to the last few DARKSIDE artworks for "Morphean Empires" I asked Bjorn if he could imagine to work for this project. I only had a very general idea for the imaginary concept for this album, so I decided to give him more or less a free hand for the draft because I think that creative people can achieve their best results only when there are no creative restrictions and conditions, that would limit them in their work and vision.
It was a very cool thing to work with Killustrations for the artwork for "Morphean Empires". I was relatively undecided about which direction to go for in the beginning and I must admit, he really delivered a great job! The artwork translates the main theme of the album very expressive in an inimitable way.

Joachim Luetke:
I am friends with Joachim for many years and so it was more likely that we would work together on a project someday. I had a very unusual idea of how to implement the basic tenor of the album to the bandpics and Joachim took up this idea and of course he fulfilled my ideas much better than I could have ever imagined, through his artistic understanding. I think he just had as much fun to work on implementing the photos as we had doing them.

GUESTS:
I am really happy to be able to introduce Thomas Schmoll, a guitarist from Wiener Neustadt, who has made talk about himself as a successful DJ doing remixes and mesh-ups, but who is actually rooted in the metal scene. He has kindly contributed the song "Plutonian Democracy" , a more classic orientated track, which craves a lot of its power thanks to its dense atmosphere and the clear, structured arrangement.

Secondly, my longtime friend and fellow musician Walter Oberhofer has agreed to track the solos of the song "One World Conspiracy" for us. Our first joint musical steps were taken already almost 30 years ago, starting with DECEIVER in 1986 and later with DISGRACE 1988-1990. Even more , I am pleased to have included yet another old companion in one of my projects following the appearance of Otto Jezek , who was the guitar player for METAL DAZE, on the last DARKSIDE album. Our musical collaboration will go even further in the future, more about that soon!



The name for the band is WOLFHEART FEAT. THE MALAVITA ANTISOCIAL CLUB. Why, one might ask?

MOONSPELL are an excellent band and have been friends of mine for many years, actually since we were on tour together for the first time in 1998, when I was allowed to accompany them as a member of DARKSIDE, supporting the Portuguese wolves on their Sin / Pecado European tour together with THERION. My first name had been involved in various word games during this tour, among others in connection with their breakthrough album "Wolfheart". Therefore, I have decided to take this nickname for myself, even as my thanks and appreciation, both for their great work and for our friendship, and finally, as a tribute to these guys!

Most of you may have heard of The Buena Vista Social Club. The Buena Vista Social Club was the name of a members club in Havana, Cuba in the 1940s, and a band of the 1990s, an album, a film that would revive all the musical spirit of the original Havana Club again, that now is already closed for decades. The original Buena Vista Social Club for dancing and musical activities, was a popular place for musicians in the 1940s to meet and to play together. In the 1990s, nearly 50 years after the club was closed, inspired his popularity, a recording of the Cuban musician Juan de Marcos Gonzalez and American guitarist Ry Cooder revived the fame of the club with traditional Cuban musicians, some of whom were veterans, having played in the club in the heyday of his actual existence.

So where's the connection?

"Mala Vita" is an Italian term for crimes. But it may be understood as a kind of counterpoint puncture for the term "Buenavista" in some aspects. In the use of the italian word There is a kind of indication to my Italian roots in the use of the italian word. The album also includes a song called "Parthenopean Shores", which deals with the historical background of the city of Naples, Italy. We have also used some well-known melodies, reminiscent of popular Neapolitan music, in this song.

"Antisocial" is not only a way of life, but also one of my favorite metal songs from the early eighties, which was originally recorded by the French band TRUST and later revised by the cover of the American thrash metal pioneers ANTHRAX and thus brought to greater recognition. "Antisocial" is what I would personally call a lot of governmental decisions, politics in general, so-called "religious authorities" and some of the so-called NGOs ...
The "Social Club" is somehow a reminder of the first years with DARKSIDE for me. Not only that we rehearsed a lot at that time back then, we also spent a lot of time together beyond that, so the band was a sort of "Social Club" for us, I would say.

"Malavita Antisocial Club" is also very strong idiom for the lyrical themes I have tried to deal with on the album. The main basic themes are conspiracies, conspiracy theories, the impact of criminal organizations, mass slavery and many other issues that I have occupied myself with during the last 30 years, mainly through reading books on these subjects, but also because of my interest in different aspects of politics, history and spiritual issues of all kinds.

On the other hand: The "Malavita Antisocial Club" stands for a number of cool guys who have decided to lend me their talents as songwriters and musicians as well as for making themselves available to make come true my dream, which I am very grateful for.

"Morphean Empires" - realms that are subconsciously constructed or planted in the human head, without being really aware of it - could not just stand for empires of sleep, empires of dreams, but also for the empires of the subconscious. For me, it does not only have a lot to do with propaganda, mind terrorism and mass hypnosis, but also with the fact that from the day we are born we begin to die. All of us try to achieve something in this life that makes it unique, perhaps dedicated to something special, not to be like everyone else - but in death we are all equal, no matter what everyone has done throughout his life, which successes someone has achieved or not. The realm of death is the most powerful idea that we all have in our minds. We live with it every day, and there is no escape. Thoughts on how this issue affects our lives and thoughts can also be found in the texts.
"Morphean Empires" therefore is the title we have chosen for our first album, alliegedly for several reasons. Daily moving questions that bombard us through the media constantlyall over the world, but which are also additionally fueled by social networks and not only that they make clear to us how small our world has become, but also show how dependent most of us really are, addicted to this constant drip of unconscious manipulation, like slaves, willingly fed by their constant tries to conquest of the privacy of our brains, we all suck corrupt information at the putative warmth of its breast. False identities, fake profiles, false ideologies and false information - all this ultimately leads to a false and fake life ...

The amount of information has become an insoluble problem for individuals and makes it almost impossible to decide which information is useful or useless. At the next level, we should be able to decide which information is true or which is wrong. However, due to the mass of misinformation and uncontrollable content, it is rather a neverending story and a hopeless overload of the individual and society, which in my opinion is part of the plan ... a trend reversal with respect to the so-called "Human Budgeting". Did the rulers in past centuries try to keep the little man away from information, research, culture and knowledge, we can see almost the opposite of it today. People are drowning in information, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, but in the end, however, it leads to the same result as centuries ago. The desire of those in power to a degenerate electorates that only too willingly will accept the "goods" offered to them in the supermarket of information, regardless of the consequences. One of my favorite quotes derives from lyrics dated 1994 which bears the following impressive expression: "... and in the depths of your heart, there is nothing but fear ...."

For me, this has to do much with propaganda, opinion terrorism and mass hypnosis, but in the end it would be too easy to look for the responsibility only at instances of the media and the politics, because the whole machinery workes much more subtle and diversified. Each of us should be able to decide whether he/she believes a lie, or if one prefers to lie to himself, so that he/she can think of certain information in connection with its own standards of how to think and how to behave, and tob e able to accept them in a better way.
In times where conflicts smolder throughout the world, executives, whose thinking should be based on secular rationality, rather seem to be wanting to make three steps back in evolution, by declaring war on intelligence and the academic discourse. As if a giant magnet was about to withdraw the world's population to the Middle Ages, when religion was everything and the individuals as such did not seem to exist. While traditional „thought-limiters“ seem to lose influence, the most extreme manifestations never before experienced just influx, specifically those who inject racism and have intolerance, bigotry, elitism and worship of imaginary friends written on top of their agenda, creating imaginary scapegoats which should assume responsibility for the people´s actions, so that everybody will be able to live in peace, but always trembling in sight of the end ... because the final verdict awaits ....

In fact, THAT judgment will come, if you are stupid enough to believe these horror stories of millennia old desert death cults that have been created solely for the purpose of suppressing people, to make them dumb, deaf and blind towards others outside of their belief and finally, to kill. The originators and the conservators of these contemptuous belief systems would like to depersonalize people, they discourage their needs and enslave them in mental and emotional bondage ...

WOLFHEART feat. THE MALAVITA ANTISOCIAL CLUB began as my solo project, but now it has become an ambitious band project of three musicians who have decided to throw their creativity and versatility in a pot and create a very unique metal album, consisting of various shades and colors, with the help of their musical visions, as proof that even in the center of Europe good metal can be made without sucking up to every trend and without having to fall back on local atmospheres and influences or pragmatism.

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