I *DO* have stuff in the works, so, don’t despair!

In the meantime, have a music post

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Apocalyptica are still on tour now somewhere in the world. They have been playing new songs live, and the videos found their way on the net…
Sacra and Beautiful (Youtube, opens in a new window)

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No new from Bloodpit, but Alarik has new projects, The Cloudycators (MySpace and Facebook) and Jalava (MySpace).
Antti and Pietu also have a new project, Ravín And The Deceivers. They have neither a MySpace or a Facebook, but you can try to find online where they might be playing =3

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Negative is still touring, and this Friday they’re at Nosturi in Helsinki. Pinkass and I are going =3 Yes, yes, I promise we’ll behave =3

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This is actually making my night. Speaking of night, Nightwish just posted the answers to the latest Nightmail. Dead gameboy batteries is a good justification for starting to read =)

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Personal recommendation: I got my hands on the new Poets Of The Fall album, Twilight Theater, and I love it. So does Pinkass. Marko recently has a throat infection and they had to postpone a few shows, but hopefully he’ll be back in no time

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Now this will be old news for some of you, but I have to write it anyway
Many months ago, our dear Pinky Sir Christus announced that he quit his band (I don’t actually remember which one it was – SnoWhite?) to work on another project.
And so he did!
A few weeks ago, a new band went public: The Salvation (Facebook, MySpace).
Now don’t get too excited, there’s no music posted yet.
BUT. It looks pretty serious. For one, the other guitarist of the band is none other than Jack Smack from Private Line. For two, they’re already signed to Hype Records. For three, their manager is Tommi Liimatainen himself, who, after seeing Kris’s course to hell during the old Negative days, must have had a damn good reason (other than, he’s a damn good guitarist) to take this up again.
They are set to record this summer, and though many are hoping, no plan for a Tammerfest appearance has been made so far. They do encourage you to contact the festival’s organization though.
To celebrate the new band, Tommi has offered the city of Turku many hundred of thousand euros to blow up one of the bridges over Aurajoki. Though it’s been decided in the past few days that the bridge, currently out of order as the sides have partially sunk, would be replaced, no word has been issued on what would happen to the old one.
How exciting. I went to Turku with a friend around Easter and we took pics of the bridge. We officially crossed a new line: bridge stalking.
Stay tuned.

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Finally, Uniklubi have been in the studios for a while now. You can follow their diary on the forum, in Finnish and in English.

                          

I mentioned the Bloodpit Intergalactic community to a friend – after converting her to their music, win – and she asked, “What is that, Bloodpit in space?”
And then I cursed cause I already have a long list of ideas D:

But! Here it is anyways. First original comic posted here

Btw, It’s BEER floating away from Paavo.

                          

Full credits to Caitlin/Dvine Insanity for this one!
You can see her version of the event HERE.

The idea: in the new Bloodpit song, “The Price To Pay” (to which you can listen HERE), Caitlin pointed out that the chorus sounded like he was saying ‘coat’ instead of ‘call’.

Interesting images ensued =)

Also, the t-shirt Aleksi is wearing is not related to the ‘inc’ of Closet Inc, but to Incredible Nothing, with who he plays. Check them out on www.inctheband.com =)

                          

Alarik had seem to be all thrilled by Commodore when they met. But he needed a little accesorizing… ;D

                          

I let you guess what happened.
Well, let’s just say that 3 of the Bloodpit guys (forever Bloodpit guys in my heart) got very… friendly with the sheep.
Deeper realisation sank in a bit later. Ahah.
But no, that’s not exactl how it happened. But it’s always funnier in here.
You know that.
That’s why you’re here.
Aren’t you?

                          

This is a feature in two parts, one for Close Inc and this one for Eurobands. Their simultaneous publication on their respective site brought me the most visitors within 24 hours so far in the Closet’s 4-year history.

Among the featurees, 3 characters from worlds foreign to the Closet: Cat Casino (who, I learned later, actually DID sport a flaming sunburn at the time) from Swedish goth band Deathstars; Josey Strandman, from Finnish band To/Die/For; and Big Boy, Swedish/German musician featured on Eurobands (about who I can’t find anything anymore >_>).

You can find Closet’s part HERE.

Link to original post on Eurobands

To/Die/For on MySpace

Deathstars’ website

                          

Matthau once said that Alarik doesn’t need to shave because no hair grows on his face anyway.
Now about that haircut…..