It seemed like such a great idea and for a while it was, but at some point the pigs started walking on their hind legs. Using Animal Farm as a metaphor for the collapse of PledgeMusic might not be a perfect way to explain what happened for countless reasons, notwithstanding the perfect allegory that the book already is, but there are parallels. That is, if you unfussily consider the farm to be the big bad music biz and the musicians to be the exploited animals. And as many execs might […]
THE AFTERDEATH EP
It’s 104°F as I write this, that’s 40°C which for many people in the world might seem normal except that we are in the Rheinland in Germany where temperatures like this are unprecedented and records are being broken across the continent. We are about to leave for an equally scorching England where in the month of August Dare and I will start mixing some MOAT tracks from the second album ‘Poison Stream’ for a 2020 release and think about writing sessions for a future Noctorum album which might appear anywhere […]
NEW YORK MUSIC DAILY – THE AFTERLIFE REVIEW
“Summer, Germany, then it’s gone” – four more days here before returning to England for August and Noctorum writing sessions as well as an imminent digital EP release of unreleased tracks from The Afterlife and two covers, plus the sad truth about PledgeMusic – all will be revealed very soon. In the meantime, we were just sent this amazing review of The Afterlife. Ciao for now Marty
Noctorum’s THE AFTERLIFE makes four (!) BILLBOARD CHARTS
If someone had told me that Noctorum’s latest album The Afterlife would make four Billboard charts in the first week of release I would have said there’s more chance of me growing old. But the facts speak for themselves. Still, somehow Billboard have deemed it unnecessary to place the album cover in its appropriate box next to its chart position? Am I going mad or would that not be an essential and important thing to do for the sake of the magazine’s presentation and the artist’s profile? Next, you will […]
RELEASE DAY!
Still in love with The Afterlife? The scent of roses is dissipating into the ether, the blood pumping through your heart is slowing, the last tacky Valentine’s Day card lies discarded on the bed. What now? For those of you that didn’t hear the new Noctorum album The Afterlife before today, February 15th is the official release date and it is now available to order and stream if that is your poison. GET THE LP | GET THE CD The reaction from those that ordered the album in advance has been […]