MUSIC YOUR NAN WONT LIKE ISSUE #28 MARCH 2013

Nessah VendettabACK wITH a VENGENCE

Walking The DeadResurrected Release The Bats Who Let the Bats Out?

The Vaders Join The Dark Side

Nine Inch Nails Pinned Down For

A New AlbumRammstein From Germany

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C o n t e n t s

Features14- Release The Bats

Who Let the Bats Out?

20- Rammstein From

Germany With Love

22- Nine Inch Nails

Pinned Down For A New Album

16 Nessah Vendetta

The Frustrated New Romantic Returns and He’s Angrier than

Ever

NEWS4- Reading

New acts released

6- Rob Zombie

New film ‘The Lords of Salem’ in the making

7- The Sewer Bats

Talks about last Year’s World Tour

8- HIM

10- Claire Voyant

Live Reviews

11 Walking The Dead

The Camden Boys Rises Again for a Brand New Album

13 The Vaders

The Sci-Fi Enthusiasts Takeon a Darker Tone

29- Cain Killed Abel

Electric Ball Room Camden

30- Marilyn Manson

Brixton O2

31- Whitby Goth Weekend

Bands Old and New

Gig list

33- Siouxsie and the Banshees

35- The Cure

37- Fields of the Nephilim

38- The Mission

39- Sisters of Mercy

26- Top 10 Goth Rock Albums of All Time

27- Album Reviews

Albums

Where Are We Now?

The new album, entitles ‘Feed Me Paradise’, is said to be as experimental as the last

one. The 80’s Goth rock influenced Rock Star will be touring this year on a roller-coaster ride throughout Europe with the German Industrial Gods that are Rammstein. We caught up with Mr V and asked for his thoughts on his return to music:

What made you return to making music?

Well, I never really left...Yeah, I stopped making new songs and doing world tours and all. But once you become a rock star, you stay a rock star till you drop.

Okay, so what made you want to release the new album?

always wanted to, just I was going through a lot of s*** at the time. My best friend died of a heroin over-dose which made me feel pretty guilty as I could have helped stop her... I wasn’t getting any better, just mouning and sitting up in my Lon-don apartment wallowing in self pity, so I decided to get a hold of myself and not let her die in vein. So I got out my note pad and began writing. At least now I had a personal story I could actually write about.

I’m sorry to hear that. Where did the title for ‘Feed Me Paradise’ come from?

Oh a lighter note, haha!...I had just finished listening to my idol, Alice Cooper, when I began writing. And I had ‘Feed My Frank-enstein’ going round in circles in my head still. As I wanted to write about my friends drug incident, I thought the idea of using the idea of food consumption a good metaphor for drug con-sump-tion. I’ve al-ways been a fan of Alice in Wonderland, and the drug connotations that go along side it. I wanted to toy with the idea of Alice taking drugs and going on this drug trip into her own ‘Wonderland’. So, I put two and two together and came up with the title ‘Feed Me Paradise’. The song it’s self is about a little girl’s adventures in a world she at first views as paradise, but ends up crashing down on her.

What new sounds have you been playing with for the new album?

Gawd, what haven’t we been play-ing around with?... I cant stick to one genre, I love everything. I listen to anyone from Black Sabbath to Lionel Richie, Slipknot to Cyndi Lauper. With ‘Unleaded’, which is about war in the Middle East, we looked to ‘Killing an Arab’ by The Cure, and I loved the fusion of Arabianmusic, and punk.So me and my guitarist, Nick, we blended Ara-bian style music with a dark, bassy Gothic-Rock and made something quite wonderful. We also played with a blend of Jazz and punk, for ‘The Dark-ened Trail’. We’ve got quite a funky

style for ‘Obey!’. And for ‘The Meaning of Life’ we’re going for a Psycho-

billy style. The tune is pretty much a dark punk cover of ‘Jailhouse Rock’, with crude lyrics about Sex, Drugs and Alcohol over the top of it. For ‘The Meanign of Life’, we’re going for a Psychobilly style. The tune is pretty much a dark punk cover of ‘Jailhouse Rock’, with crude lyrics about Sex, Drugs and Alcohol over the top of it.

Hopefully that’ll be the one that our

B A C K W I T H A V E N G E A N C EAfter a 5 year gap the love child of Marilyn Manson

and Siouxsie Sioux the Antichrist himself Nessah Vendetta is back with a brand new album

“I LISTEN TO ANYONE FROM BLACK SABBATH TO LIONEL RICHIE, SLIPKNOT

TO CYNDI LAUPER.”

fans will be singing along to the most, it’s certainly the most enjoy-able one for me to sing. I like to sing it in an Elvis style.

You always put on a proper stage production. What do you have planned for this year?

Now, that’s a secret! But I wanna have actors dressed up, maybe as Zombies and s***. That should be cool. Oh, and I’m touring with Rammstein, so expect fire...lots and lots of Fire...

Are you worried about touring with Rammstein?

No, more like DEAD EX-CITED!! But Till (Lindermann-Lead singer of Rammstein) is a trained Pyrotechnician, so I’ll try not go p*** him off too much, I would rather keep my eye-brows, thank you very much! But no, I’m not worried. I’m more surprised that I’m tour-ing with one of, if not the greatest, live bands ever. I used to be a greasy haired working class Lon-don boy who’d listen to these guys on a cheap MP3 player powered by dying batteries, now I’m going round the whole of Eu-rope with them!

Where did the name ‘Nessah Vendetta’ come from?

Aha…funny story this. I never thought my real name was ‘rock star’ enough. I was talking to a friend of mine called Vanessa for suggestions on a band name, and as a joke she told me to call it ‘Nessa is Awe-some’. As I’m a fan of Marilyn Manson and Alice Cooper, I like the idea of using a woman’s

name for a rock star, so I used ‘Nessa’, but with an ‘H’ on the end. ‘Nessah’ means pure or holy.