We are now leaving on a tour that will encompass 6 countries in approximately 40 gigs. Booking has been made by Open The Road Agency. There you can get updated and more datailed info on dates and places…

SEE US LIVE OR ROT IN HELL

The new Apokalyptic Raids album Vol. 4 – Phonocopia is finally out on CD now! It comes with a free poster!!!

New pro quality t-shirts also available:

The online store will still be updated, but you can order via contact@apokalypticraids.com

The digital download version can be bought on CDbaby. (Everyone who buys the digital version will receive the full album artwork with lyrics and photos. Just get in touch via email!)

The new album’s cover finally disclosed!

It is called “Vol. 4 – Phonocopia” and the concept is explained as follows:

pho´no.graph, n. [phono- + -graphy.] an instrument for recording,
for reproducing, or for recording and reproducing speech, music and
other sounds.
+
cor´nu.co´pi.a, n.; pl. -PIAS (-az). [L. cornu copiae horn of plenty.]
1. The horn of Almathaea, or horn of plenty, an emblem of abundance.
2. An abundance. 3. A receptacle shaped like a horn or cone.

Nosso baterista Márcio Cativeiro comprou um estúdio de gravação e ensaio, que receberá o Apokalyptic Raids!

O estúdio fica em Icaraí, Niterói, e para marcar ensaio ou gravação o contato é (21) 2711-9506.

Ele será melhorado em vários aspectos, mas é MUITO BOM para começar!!!

Ficamos extremamente satisfeitos com este grande passo dado no caminho do profissionalismo, pois há 3 anos não podíamos imaginar algo assim!

Vejam!!!

Our drummer Márcio Cativeiro has bought a rehearsal/recording studio. It is now the new home of Apokalyptic Raids!

It will be improved in a lot of ways, but it is VERY NICE to start with!!!

We are greatly pleased with such a major step in a professional path, a step which we couldn’t even imagine 3 years ago!

Check it out:

The mastering job is over now.

As the audio is finished, and the cover art is done, we now turn to finishing the album insert.

One track from the new album, “Victim o’Velocity” is already available on Myspace ! It will appear also on the Lucifer Rising magazine CD as well.

A teaser of all the songs from the album is available on our home page. Just click on “sound”. Sorry, IE required.

Please let us know what do you think…

(Portuguese version)

A masterização do álbum novo está finalizada!

Agora que  áudio está pronto, e a capa também, estamos terminando o encarte…

Uma música do novo álbum, “Victim o’Velocity” estará na coletânea da revista Lucifer Rising e já se encontra no nosso myspace.

Uma amostra de todo o álbum se encontra na nossa home page, basta clicar em “sound”. Precisa ser no IE…

Digam o que acharam!!!

(This post is for vintage guitar freaks!)

I got a new guitar!

It has P-90 pickups. That’s what made the Tony Iommi sound in the first 6 or 7 Sabbath albums. Everyone is used to humbuckers or the thin strat style singles these days, but the P-90, also known as “soapbar” because of its rectangular shape,  is a thick single pickup with a unique sound.

There goes a picture of it in detail:

And another picture of my study room showing all my current equipment set for experimenting with tones. I have been using just the STL, the wah wah and the GT2, since 2003 or 2004 .

- Portuguese version -

(Este post é para apreciadores de guitarras e efeitos vintage!)

Tenho uma guitarra nova!

Com captadores P-90, aqueles que fizeram o som do Tony Iommi nos primeiros 6 ou 7 álbuns do Sabbath. Todo mundo hoje em dia está habituado com captadores simples fininhos, estilo fender strato, ou duplos (humbuckers). Mas os P-90 são captadores simples porém gordos, com um som único.

Notem na foto a ponte fixa. Esta guitarra é estável pacas!

E na outra foto meu quarto de estudo, mostrando todo o meu equipamento atual, montado para experimentação com timbres. Aqui, aparecem a guitarra nova, a mais antiga e a antiga, além de alguns boosters e distorções. Na prática, eu tenho usado apenas o STL, um wah-wah e o GT2 desde 2003 ou 2004.

This interview appeared originally on Evil’s Best Fanzine from Israel. It was done by our best friend in the middle east, Sergei “Werewolf”. Thanks to him and Frank Stöver for this one!

We have opened the Onslaught gig in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, one week ago! Great gig produced by War (The Host) and Open The Road Agency. Carlão, the best sound tech around, who has worked with many old classic bands from Brazil, did our sound board. The sound was so good!!!

These pics were taken by our friend Fernando Fabiano, thanks for your support!

Na home page clique em “store” e veja nossa nova loja virtual.

Estaremos disponibilizando para venda online o catálogo do Apokalyptic Raids, CDs, LPs, 4 modelos de camisetas e muitos outros títulos de distribuição, e até acessórios e instrumentos futuramente.

A loja aceita pagamento via PagSeguro, que é garantido pela UOL e permite pagamento via boleto ou parcelamento em até 12x no cartão de crédito.
Quem preferir depósito em conta pode continuar mandando seu pedido por email como sempre.

For you overseas, this is about the our web store, acessible on our home page. Sorry, but the store is fully available only for brazilian folks for the time being. We’ll be working on an international version some day, but you still can browse the stuff and get in touch via the email adress contact@apokalypticraids.com to get the prices + postage and get instructions on how to pay easily and safely using paypal.

A major update was uploaded on the new site. Now we have an audio player, side links to youtube, myspace, orkut, metal archives and lastfm.

To do list:

New songs preview – soon!!!

Band members profiles

More photos (on this blog) – in progress!

Bio in English

Gig history

Media section with logos and banners

Web store

Upcoming gigs – in progress!

Suggestions accepted… Thanks!

Thanks “underground freak” Fenriz! Here’s the link…

Darkthrone official myspace

We have noticed that many blogs feature our albums with links for downloads, for which we do not receive any payment.

Such links usually do not feature links to our site or myspace, a band bio or photos, like a fanzine would.

Funny as it is, we are an independent band and we produce all our stuff ourselves. Consequently, we do make a living on our album sales, contrary to what is commonly said, that bands do not get enough pay from records. We do get all our pay from album sales.

The fact is that we are in big trouble when downloads are so widespread. Also, we can not be against technology, that would be pointless. But I’d also like to point out that the drop in CD sales in the last 2 years punishes the smaller bands more severely.

So we have decided to adopt a policy that would be good to our real fans, and on the other hand be up-to-date with the way things have become. We have to receive payment for the music we play and record, in one way or another, if we are to make more of it.

We are asking for it directly from you, the decent Apokalyptic Raids fan. If you did not buy a physical copy, but instead downloaded one of our albums, heard it and liked it, and if you feel a connection to our message, you are kindly urged to use the button below to send us US$5 per album via Paypal. That is exactly what we would get from an album sale, manufacturing and shipping costs discounted.

In exchange for that, you’ll receive files containing full album art, high quality mp3, photos, lyrics, whatever comes with the physical album, as well as the invaluable feeling of doing the right thing.

Music is art. Giving your support is priceless.

 

Temos notado que muitos blogs tem links dos nossos álbums para download, pelos quais não recebemos pagamento.

Tais blogs normalmente não tem links para nosso site ou myspace, um release ou fotos, como um zine.

Por incrível que pareça, somos uma banda independente e produzimos nós mesmos nossos álbums. Conseqüentemente, vivemos de vendas de discos, ao contrário do que se diz por aí, que as bandas não ganham com discos. Praticamente tudo o que nós temos são vendas de discos.

O fato é que com a disseminação dos downloads, temos um grande problema. Por um lado, não tem sentido ir contra a tecnologia. Mas gostaríamos de dizer que a queda no mercado de CDs nos últimos 2 anos pune mais duramente as bandas pequenas.

Assim, decidimos adotar uma política que seja boa para nossos fãs de verdade e por outro lado seja atual com o estado de coisas. Precisamos receber pela música que tocamos e gravamos, de uma maneira ou de outra, com o que vamos produzir mais música.

Estamos pedindo diretamente a você, o fã decente do Apokalyptic Raids. Se você não comprou um CD ou LP, mas em vez disso baixou um dos nossos álbums, ouviu, e gostou, e de alguma forma se sente ligado à nossa mensagem, pedimos gentilmente que nos doe R$5 por álbum baixado. É exatamente o que ganharíamos por disco, descontada a fabricação e o frete. Entrem em contato pelo email contact@apokalypticraids.com

Em troca, você receberá o álbum completo em jpg e mp3 de alta qualidade, com todas as fotos, letras e tudo mais que vem no disco original, e a impagável sensação de fazer a coisa certa.

Música é arte. Seu apoio não tem preço.

In order to keep the band growing more and more, we have started a campaign to get some suppliers. Their links are on our home page…

Until the present moment the list is

Sonar drumsticks: they provide great drumsticks (Slaughterer claims he couldn’t break them) and the stuff can have custom logo/signature. So now we have our own drumsticks.

BMA racks: they do light weight aluminium cymbal racks, so now Slaughterer can use all his cymbals without having to carry around a lot of single stands.

Meteoro Amplifiers have a lending system that can provide us with their best amps when we have gigs in their influence area. Their tone can be very close to a Marshall stack…

Carlito straps does great quality customized leather straps for our axes.

AMR has granted us some bonus hours because we have been recording our stuff there for quite some years now, including 3 AR’s albums and also Necromaniac’s production of Farscape (2 albums and 2 eps), Diabolic Force, Atomic Roar and Flagelador.

We are still searching for some other suppliers and news will be presented as each deal is closed.

In our recent attempt to get our web presence up-to-date (our sound remaining the same, ça va sans dire), we have decided to replace the old and battered web site by this new one.

The domain/e-mail address apokalypticraids.com was long needed too.

The solution we are implementing features this blog you now read, that hopefully will take care of updates more frequently, and a web store in 4 different languages and 3 different currencies.

We are still working on a new myspace and a possibly a youtube channel.

Here’s a video of last year’s Roça’n'Roll festival (approx. 4.000 people):

We are still working on our new album. It is delayed due to the hectic recording schedule at AMR. We have been doing our albums there since 2003, so it will be worth the wait.

We are still trying to find a proper cover art. The “Phonocopia” concept is completely developed. We just need some one to do it in the appropriate style.

The new album will be a co-operation with some labels. As we all know, the CD market is on a crash, but we need to expand. This time the intended print run is 2.000 copies for a start. So, the only way to grow the way our new album demands is to unite some 4 or 5 brazilian labels with whom we had good relations. The exact names will be here as soon as the list is definitive.

We did record a lot of outtakes and we intend to release some EPs and split releases soon.

First, there is a long-planned split CD with Farscape. It will feature 5 or 6 tracks by each band, some cover versions, some unreleased tracks. They were recorded some years ago as outtakes from our previous albums. On this CD, Pedro Rocha plays the drums both for Farscape and for us. Bass is taken care partly by A. Aguinaga (from our first 2 albums) and by Hellpreacher.

Equally long awaited is the split 7″EP with Nordic Mist, on Hell’s Headbangers.

Hell’s Headbangers is also to re-release our first 2 albums on LP as well.

There is also a split with Atomic Roar on the make. We call it the AR-AR split. Our bass player does the vocals on Atomic Roar, and the remaining members are Farscape members.

More split releases will be out, and info will be published here as soon as they are confirmed…

The new Apokalyptic Raids site is still under construction, but it starts to take form.