Bisoul Recommends

As it should be known, Bisoul Promotions stands for darkness through art, in whatever media it is presented. Henceforth, we take pleasure in presenting this section of others' productions that interest us and that we would gladly recommend.

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• Scroll down or click here to be directed to our dark events calendar on the Maltese islands.

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PS: The views expressed in these articles are purely of their author. Bisoul Promotions accepts no responsibility for anything one might disagree with.

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TWISTED, A Fairytale Halloween 29 October 2005 @ Naasha Dungeons, San Gwann
A The Guild Malta event
Entrance: FREE Theme : For one night there will be no such thing as happily ever after

Following last June's ABSINTHIA, The Guild return with this hauntingly inspired Halloween party. And indeed the inspiration behind this party is something truly twisted.

G. K. Chesterton once wrote : "A fairy tale is a tale told in a morbid age to the only remaining sane person, a child". Hence one is left to wonder what was before the tale, and what made the adults less sane. Through dark enchanting music from Peter Murphy, the Banshees, Fields, Xymox and the like, the Guild Malta shall take you to discover the sexual violence and cannibalism behind the origins of tales like Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, The Sleeping Beauty & the like. Just as an example, Little Red Riding Hood's red cloak represented puberty in line with being a classic 17th century sign for a "working girl".

So get ready oh all ye gory goths (yes she will be there too) to dress morbid for this Samhain night out, as Snow White, Hensel & Gretel , & the Wizard of Oz shall all be walking & flying in & out of the Naasha Dungeons to bring you all the perversions that were not narrated to you when you were younger. On top of that, there is a reward for the two mostly creative costumes, so who knows maybe someone will dare to dress up as the Big Bad Wolf and remind all the inspiration behind the red cloaked bitch girl sent to serve in the forest --- which on a personal note, helps me not refrain from remembering DYSMENORRHEA's "Bloody Tears of the Big Bad Wolf" - maybe an uncalled for pun here but for once I am allowed to be perverse :) So come on all, make it a point to be at TWISTED to indulge yourselves as perverse drinks shall be served all night!

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SANTA SANGRE, 16 October 2005 8.30pm @ Antalex, bottom of Strait Street, Valletta
A Westside Films night at the movies
Entrance: LM1 on pre-booking

A rare chance to see Alejandro Jodorowsky 's superb surrealist masterpiece SANTA SANGRE.

Alexandro Jodorowsky (born February 7, 1929, in Tocopilla, Chile to Ashkenazi Jewish parents) is an actor, director, producer, composer, mime, and comic book writer. Most known for having directed a handful of esoteric, surreal and shocking films, he is also a New Age spiritualist, and one of the world's leading researchers of the Tarot.

Also one of the creators of Panic Movement, Jodorowsky once said, "Most directors make films with their eyes. I make films with my testicles." Hence, one might easily say this is a unique film recommended for connoisseurs of the offbeat!

Antalex (that roughly fits about 50 people) has been chosen to make for a warm screening cosily among friends, so book early on westsidefilms@yahoo.co.uk not to be disappointed.

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SPIN CD Launch, 01 July 2005 9.00pm @ Remedy NightClub, Paceville
Entrance: FREE on purchase of LM4 CD or LM1.50

Having been absent for a while from the live front yet nonetheless busy on revamping their totally user-friendly website and more than beefy soung, this Friday is the return of SPIN live and launching their 2nd mini-CD, followed by an after-party by Nik & Spank, both among fave DJs at Bisoul's own latest events.

The entrance fee to this good night out is only LM1.50 but for a mere LM4 upgrade one may also get hold of SPIN's 2nd mini-CD which modern metal sound with that tentalising industrial sampling just smashes and smashes like a bulldozer rolling over the remains of a post-war field and crushing any signs of survival spot on!! This is the feeling tracks like Destruction Unit and Feed your Mind bring forth to one's imagination - just what it would be like..... what would be of us then..... whereabout will we end if there is survival?

Add to that top-notch industrial, EBM and IDM sessions from the DJs in the after-party and one got the best recipe for a killer vibe till the very next morning.

Be there or get spinfected.....

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ABSYNTHIA, 28 June 2005 9.30pm @ Naasha Dungeons, San Gwann
A The Guild Malta event
Entrance: FREE Theme : celebrating the visionary properties of Absynthe

After a long hiatus, art celebrants and mates from The Guild return with this free-entry event that seems to going to be holding quite a vibe in store. The theme in question is the decadent opulence of the Art Deco Years as the Green Fairy sneeks out of the magic bottle in a fight against Nosferatu and his Comrades sneeking out of the NaaSha Dungeon walls. Add to that Bisoul sponsor www.gorygoth.com selling anything from Absinthe related to Alchemy rings and opulents to magic crystal balls for those who by whatever spell/ vision/ imagination may dare look into their future, or inhale the fume of their fiery present.

Onto the musical side of things, while The Guild are more known for Goth EBM Industrial themed parties, it is cool to note that they too have dared venture into other fields as for Absynthia, they shall be feasting us with dark ethnic music going onto ambient and ethno-electro surely for those with a desire to dance later into the night. I am sure that who may have attended previous Guild parties will be more than convinced that this change would be a more than welcome alternative as after all variety is the spice of life.

Last note from our side is to suggest patrons to dress up in their most extravagant way and to bring along your own special glass to pour the divine elixir into. Remember you shall be watched by fairies, goblins and crystal balls..... while celebrating this night in style.

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ROTTING CHRIST, 18-19 March 2005 7.30pm @ Signals Live Venue, Tal-Qroqq
An Extreme Noise Promotions event with support bands SLIT and MARTYRIUM & guest DJs
Tickets: Friday welcome party FREE, Saturday Live Concert LM5 from venue

Here they come for the metal community, one of the seminal bands from the Greek black metal scene along NECROMANTIA, VARATHRON and the like, finally in Malta --- the one and only, the legendary ROTTING CHRIST!
Including 2 members from the original line-up from back in 1987, and being one of the first non-Norwegian acts to have had interest from now dead Euronymous of Deathlike Silence fame, RC have gone a long way from performing with underground jewels like EMPEROR, SAMAEL and ANCIENT RITES to opening for MEGADETH and BRUCE DICKINSON and other heavyweights like DEICIDE and CANNIBAL CORPSE, but above all to have Mille Petrozza himself appear as guest vocalist to KREATOR's own Pleasure to Kill/Flag of Hate medley performed by RC to an avid large festival crowd in Germany!!! Not to mention when they supported VENOM, an experience to mention as this was a heavy inspiration/aspiration for RC members since they were kids and started playing music in the first place!!!

Having done the roster with such label names like OSMOSE and UNISOUND and having flirtered with a logo change for a while, ROTTING CHRIST are now back in their blackest form signed to CENTURY MEDIA and ready to play Malta supported by no other than Malta's blasphemest export MARTYRIUM, as well as SLIT. Be there for this Feast of the Grand Whore which shall also feature Bisoul's own NecroGool, Nik from DMM & QueenVamp as guest DJs!!!

Meanwhile visit the Exiled Archangels here!!!

 

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Drakula - The Musical, 4-6 March 2005 7.30pm @ St James Cavalier www.sjcav.org
A Curtain Raiser Theatre Troupe presentation directed by Patrick Vella
Tickets: Lm4 opening SOLD OUT,  Lm7 thereafter
Special late night spooky show Saturday 5 March 10 pm

Bisoul supporters need no introduction to Bram Stoker's seminal gothic work Dracula, itself inspiration to countless movies and theatre productions!!! Now a rock opera by composer and librettist Don Linke, Patrick Vella (ex-heavy metal vocalist turned theatre graduate) snaps on his dentures and dons his cape as he directs a dance of the vampires, promising the audience a flight to its worst nightmares, an evening in St James Cavalier's globe transformed frosty gargoyle land!!!
For this production,  not-so-heavenly music by Abigail Brown and her Bat Boys is enriched with gore special effects & prosthetics, and replicas of 19th century weapons & Victorian late 1800's costumes -- all  the way from America and the UK to give 'Drakula' in Malta the touch it needs. For more information, a promo video clip and booking that is going faster than a fang attack, take your ride to Transylvania from here....
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The Fall of the House of Usher, 18-20, 25-27 February 2005 7.30pm @ St James Cavalier www.sjcav.org
An M.A.D.C. production directed by Frederick Testa
Tickets: Lm3.50 opening, Lm5 thereafter

A shot at the stage at Steven Berkoff’s adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s gothic short story “The Fall of the House of Usher”, this chilling tale of decay takes the audience into another world through gesture, mime, narration, music and light.

The twisted passion of Roderick Usher for his ghostly sister Madeline is masterly captured through Testa's direction, the actors’ bodies creating and replacing the props and furniture, and the audiences’ imagination adding to this ultimate experience. The actors are the house and its decaying fabric, and they speak as the stones and the memories that are etched into the wall of the moldering ancestral house reflecting Usher's inner decay and chaos...... for more info and booking click here.
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This Electronic Music 21 August 2004 @ Selmun Barracks, Selmun
An Eerie Promotions event

An underground activity grouping together a number of subcultures with an affinity to electronica!!! Brought to you by Kudos, the industrial/electro DJs also known as Eerie (featuring with a set @ Bisoul's own fReeZe), this is a gathering under the moonlight where music enthusiasts are invited to bring their bongos and percussion instruments to invoke a spiritual climax, from which Eerie's own DJs will spring to a serving of electro, dub & reggae. Once things start going crazy in the electro room, DJ Gool shall then infect the wild survivors & as-at-then unsuccessful pussy lovers with the most hybrid of twisted PsyTrance and a good solid dose of EBM (Electronic Body Music for those who are not so acquianted pffff).
The venue for all this shall be the abandoned army barracks at Selmun, so come on all, grab your torches and ammunition as Bisoul & Eerie are gonna blow your mind!!!!
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