Blood
and gore all over the place, smelly feet in a car with closed windows,
and as if that wasn't enough, there are roadies crawling through grotty
attics, interspersed with wild parties, plenty of drugs and tons of
alcoholic beverages - somehow you can't make up your mind which of these
countless choleric excesses of a wonderfully and thoroughly uncivilised
cohabitation you'd most like to have been a part of.
Thrash metal act ASSASSIN
were there all the way, which is why they will probably be the last
survivors of the human race when Planet Earth plunges - as predicted -
into the abyss this coming winter. Mind you: should Armageddon really
materialise, they at least had a good time. Where? In Frankfurt and
Hagen, in Lichtenfels and Bochum, in Hamburg, Berlin, Munich, but also
... wait for it! ... in Osaka (!). March 2010 saw eight cameras witness ASSASSIN conquer that Japanese city, pulling out all the stops at the True Thrash Fest.
Not only were ASSASSIN's
two shows caught on camera, but also the every-day madness this chaos
squad lives with. So should the world not come to an end after all, you
will be able to watch all this and much more on double DVD, out January
29th in North America on Steamhammer/SPV. Chaos and Live Shots is the title of that footage (which is anything but confidential), presenting a thoroughly anarchistic band.
Well
how about this one: why is guitarist Michael Hoffmann pulled across the
poker table like that? Or: why does drummer Bj�rn Sondermann smash up
his ... hmm ... well-kept Honda van? Why do the phones of the other band
members ring all the time so they can't ever seem to get down to some
serious meditation? And why does this damn mobile have to ring when
they'd much rather cheer on their favourite football team, Fortuna
D�sseldorf, at the stadium?
Find answers to all these essential questions on Chaos and Live Shots,
plus bizarre anecdotes and wild film sequences from the career of this
five-piece thrash band from Germany. 'Uncle Tom' Angelripper has his
say, and the guys from Violent Force and Deathrow also were called upon
to talk about their memories, complemented by comments from original
Assassin drummer Psycho Danger (the name says it all!), the band's first
manager, and various ex-bassists. And in between, there are lots of
hard-as-nail thrash metal tracks courtesy of ASSASSIN.
Chaos and Live Shots
is pretty extraordinary. But Assassin wouldn't be Assassin if the band
hadn't ignored all conventions when they got down to putting together
the material. Chaos And Live Shots is brilliantly chaotic and wonderfully alive - which we already mentioned above .....
A trailer for the DVD can be viewed HERE.
DVD content / packing:
2 DVDs in a Digipak + 40 page booklet + exclusive voucher to enter the competition for a FERNANDES Tremor Bass guitar
DVD 1
Exclusive
interviews with many well known artists and insiders of the German and
international Thrash Metal Scene such as Tom Angelripper (Sodom), Harris
Johns (cult producer) and many others. Complete Band documentary
sidelined by specials and background information on the bands history.
DVD 2
Full ASSASSIN live Show - Osaka 2010
+ Specials / 5 Bonus Songs
LINE-UP:
Robert Gonella - vocals
Michael Hoffmann - guitars
J�rgen "Scholli" Scholz - guitars
Joachim Kremer - bass
Bj�rn "Burn" Sondermann - drums
For More Info Visit:
http://www.assassin-online.de
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