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We're back from Montreal and it has to be said that those 4 days have taken their toll on our poor bodies...

Soon enough we'll manage a recap of the whole festival as we've experienced, but for now we'll let images speak for ourselves.





ONE TRUE GOD
Preview off the forthcoming album "Drop The Mask"





Silly self interview, I haz it!





More sillyness than you can shake a stick at!





The unavoidable MUV UR DOLLY (it will soon be rotated out of our live setlist)





And finally CRACKED inclusive of stage invasion care of Caustic, Gothsicles, Grendel and more random ppl



ENJOY!

Last saturday, we were interviewd by DJ Chiaretta at Radio Città Aperta and we discussed about our new album, playing around the world, which is the best audience ever and the state of the industrial-cyber-ebm-whatever scene today.


We also presented the demos of two new songs during the interview... so you want to preview them, just go on and listen!

And here's also some photos taken during the interview, thanx to Venom... as you can see, we were all serious!!!

this weekend: LIVE @ DJ SET in our hometown, and since it's an Italian event, we'll just go for the Italian language here :)
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Questo venerdì saremo impegnati in consolle a Subbacultcha: Marko si occuperà di selezioni alternative e indietronic nel Rockstar Floor, mentre Marco si cimenterà con alchimie ebm, industrial ed electrogoth nel Unsafe Floor.

Questo il link dell'evento su Facebook, segnatevi!





Sabato invece saremo ospiti di DJ Chiaretta a Radio Città Aperta, per una chiacchierata di mezz'ora sul prossimo album e sui nostri prossimi progetti, e durante il quale presenteremo in anteprima assoluta anche due nuovi brani.
Potrete ascoltarci sull'88.9 Mhz in FM dalle 18.30 in poi, o su internet collegandovi allo streaming della radio, disponibile sul sito ufficiale.

Infine in serata saremo sul palco del Dissesto Musicale con un live vero e proprio, e anche qui aspettatevi nuove preview di quello che sarà il nostro prossimo lavoro!

Il locale si trova a Via Del Barco7 / Via Dorando Petri 3 (Tivoli Terme):



A seguire, dj set a cura di Freak, che presenterà anche il remix che Combichrist ha realizzato per il brano L'Erba Cattiva dei suoi Surgery, aiutato in consolle da BRK e Plus.

Questi i link dell'evento su Last.fm e Facebook: di nuovo, segnatevi!!!

Hello all!
This summer will be held here in Italy the first Moonlight Festival, a rare event for Italy, sadly known for the lack of interest in the industrial-ebm-goth scene and music.

There's a votation up on the festival's MySpace to select bands to play at the event, so please follow the links provided and vote for us!

This is mainly for our italian fans, but everyone is entitled to vote...
just follow the link and leave comment just writing XP8, after you friended the profile of course:

Moonlight Festival Blog (Italian)

Moonlight Festival Blog (International)


MOONLIGHT FESTIVAL
Electro, Gothic, New Wave
Summer 2009
Adriatic Sea - Italy
Free event, 3 locations
Confirmed bands:
Sex Gang Children
NEON
Spetsnaz
DIN [A] TOD
More to be announced...

STUDIO X just posted the remix they did for The Art Of Revenge on their MySpace profile:
go check it out, it's just amazing!



And while you are at it, check also the incredible remixes
these guys made for Straftanz and Memmaker!!!

The band is currently working on the last details for their fourth studio album, titled Drop The Mask.

The album is planned to be out in June, and it will feature collaborations with Daniel Graves (Aesthetic Perfection/Necessary Response), Marc Horstmeier (C-Drone-Defect) and Faderhead.

Full tracklist and album preview coming soon, while a special edit of the song I See Her will be featured in the second volume of the Kinetik Festival compilation, that will be available in May during the festival itself, where XP8 will play on the last day: for more informations on the festival please click here

The planned follow-up EP to The Art Of Revenge will not be released: unfortunately some of the remixes contacted could not deliver their works on time.
The remixes that have been completed will be released on various compilations this year: these are Our Time (Soman), The Art Of Revenge (SAM), Download Me (The Synthetic Dream Fondation), Juggernaut (Alter Der Ruine) and I.C.E. (Uberbyte).

A special mix of Juggernaut done by our friend Selene Riot (and with some help from his own alter ego NBK) can be found here for free download... enjoy!

Juggernaut (NBK vs Selene Riot Mix)

Yep, you heard it right...
...our first video ever already made it to a real music TV, and not just YouTube and the Internet.

Starting today, it's on the night rotation (from 8.00pm to 8.00am) of the Sky Network channel MUSIC BOX





This is a great achievement for us, and we want to thank you all for all the support... you too made this possible!!!

It is also possible to vote the video by sending a text message, and so making sure it gets even more airplay, but the rules for doing it are for the time being only in Italian.
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Per votare il video XP8 The Art Of Revenge manda un sms al numero 48472 con la parola BOX seguita da uno spazio vuoto e dal codice del video 070, così:

BOX 070

Potete leggere nel dettagli il regolamento qui, e tutte le info qui costi qui
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Some stills from the first airing ever:

XP8 - Ready2Go live in SF
High res Quicktime
Low res YouTube

Directed by Carlo Roberti
Produced by Solobuio Visual Factory
(c) 2008 XP8


We want to thank once again Carlo and Marco of Solobuio for the outstanding work, and everyone who helped us realising our first video ever, expecially the Surgery guys for being so helpful and great mates, and Karo for being the perfect protagonist for it.

Feel free to post this everywhere, blog about it, tell your friends to check it out and generally rave about how cool it looks!

A full hi-res, dvd quality version of it will be released soon in our upcoming EP, along with new songs and remixes from the album... stay tuned for a official announcement!

You asked for it... and finally it's here!!!

XP8 merchandise and t-shirts available on the SYNTH-TEC webstore at last!
Yes... the sister site to Vampirefreaks, ran by our beloved Jet ;)


Two items are online right now... check them here:

"IMPERFECTIONS" shirt

"JAPANOISE" shirt


Go get them now, and feel free to contact us suggesting which other items you might be interested in getting!

The official video trailer for THE ART OF REVENGE is live now!!!





The full video will be available in September, but we thought you all would have loved this little preview.
Stay tuned for the official release parties announcements.

Thanx to SOLOBUIO VISUAL FACTORY for the awesome work!!!

Everything Goes Cold and XP8 present:

THE SQUIDHEAD LIBERATION FRONT
featuring Battery Cage and Claire Voyant.
WHAT TIME IS LOVE?





Special thanks to batterycage and blinkingtears for their vocal stylings.


This project was the culmination of a night of mad partying during my visit to structurefall in San Francisco in February.
Then pi66y got to it.
Then we started playing it live, and all hell broke loose.

This is a free download, however if you like it, please click one of the donate links, depending on your preferred mix. Whichever band's version makes more money in the next two weeks wins, and gets to gloat about it and lord it over the other for all time. And I wouldn't rule out more stuff like this in the future, if it goes well!

And finally, a real announcement!
Not everything is fixed as you can see, but soon it will be :)



07-25-08 - TBA - El Paso, TX
07-26-08 - Atomix - San Antonio, TX
07-27-08 - Howling Wolf - New Orleans, LA
07-30-08 - Respectable Street - West Palm Beach, FL
07-31-08 - Pandora's Box - Orlando, FL
08-02-08 - TBD
08-03-08 - TBD
08-04-08 - Don Hills - New York, NY
08-06-08 - Altar Bar - Pittsburgh, PA
08-07-08 - TBD
08-08-08 - TBD
08-09-08 - TBD
08-10-08 - Falcon Bowl - Denver, CO
08-11-08 - Club Vegas - Salt Lake, UT
08-13-08 - The Fez Ballroom - Portland, OR
08-14-08 - TBD
08-15-08 - Das Bunker - Los Angeles, CA
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Feel free to add yourself to the gigs you are going to be at using last.fm... and keep looking for this topic as more dates gets confirmed!

A big thank you to all the promoters who are making this possible!

Ciao a tutti!!!

Come forse già saprete se avete letto i nostri recenti bullettin, stiamo girando in questi giorni il video per The Art Of Revenge, la title track del nostro ultimo album, con la produzione di SOLOBUIO VIDEO FACTORY - e vi consigliamo di visitare il loro sito per dare un'occhiata agli ottimi lavori che hanno già completato!



Stiamo cercando alcuni volenterosi per partecipare nella scena centrale del video, che verrà girata nei giorni 13 e 14 LUGLIO presso l'INIT (Via Della Stazione Tiburtina 133)

I requisiti sono i seguenti:

bella presenza
stile adeguato (fetish, pvc, rubber, latex, cyber, industrial OK)
voglia di rimanere sul set per ore e ore e ore (locale climatizzato, no worries :) )


Il video, una volta terminato, verrà promosso online (youtube, myspacetv, etc. etc.) e sulla tedesca Viva Zwei.
Verrà inoltre stampato in hi-res sul nostro prossimo EP, in uscita prima della fine dell'anno, insieme ad un making of / behind the scene feature.
Ogni partecipante riceverà una copia dell' EP in omaggio!

Insomma, se siete interessati... rispondete ;)

[ NEWS!!! ]


Wow guys... it's been ages since we did a proper news bullettin, but I guess it's that time once again.


So... drum roll...


* THE RUMOURS ARE TRUE!!! *

We are indeed coming to play in the US for the first time this summer, exactly from July 25th to August 15.
We'll support System Syn, and proper tourdates and poster will be posted soon by Clint and the BPM TALENT guys.
Stay tuned for more infos!



* THE ART OF REVENGE FINALLY AVAILABLE DIGITALLY *

For everyone who needs to get the music they want here and now, you can get our last album (and the previous one, too) at ALL the websites listed here:

IODA: INDIPENDENT ONLINE DISTRIBUTION ALLIANCE

To this pretty impressive list, there's another one to add: the newly launched VAMPIREFREAKS.COM MUSIC DOWNLOAD STORE, offering 320kbps DRM-free files too!

So... if you still to get our tunes, now there are really no excuses anymore :)



* "BUT, WHAT IF I WANT A REAL CD???" *

Plenty of options, and, suprise, you are even getting the sweet artwork we wanted on it - because let's face it, booklets ARE cool!

There's a list of the main store carrying our CDs, but here's some more:

www.target.com
www.dsbp.cx
www.crunchpod.com
www.metropolis-mailorder.com
www.stromingthebase.com
www.cdbaby.com
www.cduniverse.com


And yes, that does mean we scored a placement at Target! But no worries, we are not going mainstream... ;)



* AND FINALLY... VIDEO FOR THE ART OF REVENGE IS BEING FILMED!!! *

There's nothing much to say here... you will see it after the summer, but trust us, it's going to rock!

You surely read it all over already, but we want to remind you our albums are available at the store!

So click here and give us some support ;)







We also want to thank already those who got our music already: as we write this bullettin,
both The Art Of Revenge (album) and Juggernaut (song) are #1 in the sales charts!!!

Like a crazed anthropomorphic refrigerator rampaging through a county fair, destroying everything in its path, Everything Goes Cold is in effect. They will steal your food, eat your house, and throw a raging kegger in your girlfriend. That's right, you heard me. Raging.

Five years after the untimely and unseemly demise of the Dorkwave Industrial/Folk catastrophe that was See Colin Slash, front man Eric Gottesman (formerly of Psyclon Nine, sometimes Ayria, occasionally Caustic, and possibly Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians) returns with a confusingly lengthy EP of all-new music. Drawing heavy influence from classic American Coldwave and Industrial Rock bands as well as a diverse sampling of new Industrial styles, Everything Goes Cold's rich vocal harmonies and pounding rhythms have been described by the elderly as "Too loud," "Noisy," and "Obnoxious."

Having called in favors from practically every respectable musician he's ever met (and several he hasn't), Gottesman has assembled a motley crew of the best remixers from Industrial Music's past and present, spawning more than an hour of music. Reinforced with production by Italian EBM funboys XP8 and just a hint of cinnamon, "Prepare To Be Refrigerated" will blow your goddamn mind, or at least drench it in saliva.

Available June 23, 2008, from Sonic Mainline Records whereever Industrial Music is sold.
Brace yourself, and watch out for that fridge we mentioned earlier.




Free bonus remix by Electro-Industrial legend Out Out now available at www.everythinggoescold.com in the high quality lossless FLAC format, high-bitrate MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and 22khz MP2.
Preorder the CD while you're there, or we'll make you feel guilty about it later.





Everything Goes Cold - Prepare To Be Refrigerated - DBSON010

1. I've Sold Your Organs on the Black Market to Finance the Purchase of a Used Minivan
   
2. Abort
   
3. I Will Harness the Powers of Darkness to Destroy You
   
4. Fail
   
5. DEFROSTING
   
6. Fail (Bruise & Disco Mix by Hate Dept.)
   
7. I Will Harness the Powers of Darkness to Destroy You (Because You Made Me Title This Mix by Panic Lift)
   
8. Fail (Refrigerated Mix by SAM)
   
9. I've Sold Your Organs on the Black Market to Finance the Purchase of a Used Minivan (Except for the Stupid Skeletor Tattoo on Your Right Bicep... I Kept That Shit Mix by Boom of Society Burning)
   
10. Abort (Tinnitus is a Son of a Bitch Mix by off_ocus)
    
11. Fail (Everything Goes Electro Mix by Babyland)
    
12. I Will Harness the Powers of Darkness to Destroy You (Space-Beatbox of Destruction Mix by Embodi)
    
13. Fail (Life Failed Mix by Life Cried)
    
14. I Will Harness the Powers of Darkness to Destroy You (ROM isn't in the New Universe, Eric Mix by Caustic)
    
15. I've Sold Your Organs on the Black Market to Finance the Purchase of a Used Minivan (Trance-planted Mix by Epsilon Minus)
    
16. Fail (Never Survive Mix by Dismantled)

We are playing two shows this weekend in the UK:

30.05.08 @ Woolstock III (Leeds)
31.05.08 @ Slimelight (London)


For all the details, follow the links above to the last.fm pages of the events.

And here's the flyers:

Heya all!

I'm bringing a very limited supply of XP8 t-shirts along with me at the Wave Gotik Treffen this year, since a few friends asked me about it.

So, if any of you want one, just let me know!
First come, first served policy.
And right now, you can only get these at our gigs, so it's a good chance to get the shirt you always wanted right now ;)

Here's the designs:


sizes available: M + L + XL



sizes available: M + L



sizes available: S (tank top)