NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND

Album: Crossing The Rubicon Label: afmusic (Danse Macabre) Catalog: [afm047] Releasedate: 05.2009

To make a long story short… Paolo Greco, former member and producer of Ecodalia’s Time Has Told album wrote and produced the songs for what was to become eventually NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND way before the band itself was formed. Once the music was conceived, the band starts to take shape in 2007 giving NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND the necessary stage presence. Yet every single detail, whether it be creative or technical, is carefully and deliberately carried out still under his supervision. Unlike so many other productions in this vein of so-called Industrial Rock or Electronic Rock, NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND’s tracks are not built merely upon a mediocre beat, a monotonous guitar riff and some yelled lyrics added to the recipe. NOT AT ALL! These are Songs (yes, with a capital letter) that have a lot of ear-candy: killer verses and real catchy choruses (why not?), simple structures with hooks and gimmicks left and right, and a production that given its quality must have surely been conceived to have international appeal. It’s as if CEVIN KEY (Skinny Puppy) or RHYS FULBER (Front Line Assembly) would have added exciting song-patchwork to rapid guitar riffs that will shake the legs of any KMFDM-fans. Immediately the violent opener “Phoenix Uprising” indicates the direction of an album that has what it takes to give a new impulse to the Industrial-Metal scene. Songs like “Game” or “Heaven in Hell” have a distinctive stamp on them which most musical comrades of Madrid-based NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND can only dream of. “Crossing the Rubicon” strikes a tension arch from trance to trash-metal without losing its target — vigorous Industrial Rock. This exciting spagat connects the best genre-ingredients of all times and catapults the energy of early NINE INCH NAILS into the present in a way no one else has in this millennium. Oh man, and what a feast of remixes…!!! The album has already created a buzz within the relevant circles of the scene way before the release — a full-house of genre-colleagues have loaded “Crossing the Rubicon” with a bunch of exciting alternative remixes: DIE KRUPPS, DAS ICH, William Faith (FAITH & THE MUSE), En Esch (ex-KMFDM, PIGFACE, SLICK IDIOT), Seb Komor (ex-ICON OF COIL, MELT), Adrian White (FRONT LINE ASSEMBLY, SILENT ALARM), and Ulf Häusgen (ex-THE FAIR SEX). Thus reaches this double-album the 20-track mark putting NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND at the spearhead of today’s dark-scene with one of the most extraordinary debuts of the last years. Make no mistake, NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND deliver the goods. The album title “Crossing the Rubicon” is a metaphor for deliberately passing a point of no return, especially when a business of risky consequences is at stake. This portrays precisely where NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND stand at present. The journey has began — only victory awaits to be fought for, at the other end of the Rubicon river.

More Info: www.myspace.com/enefeu | www.afmusic.de Tracklist:

1. PHOENIX UPRISING 2. WAR 3. BE LIKE YOU 4. ANOTHER TIME, ANOTHER PLACE 5. DIAGNOSIS 6. GAME 7. DEADEND 8. OUTTA HELL (A LONG HARD ROAD) 9. HEAVEN IN HELL 10. FRAUD 11. GREED 12. GAME [remix by Die Krupps] 13. GREED [remix by Das Ich] 14. WAR [remix by En Esch (ex-KMFDM, Pigface, Slick Idiot)] 15. DEADEND [remix by William Faith (Faith & the Muse)] 16. GAME [remix by Adrian White (Front Line Assembly, Silent Alarm)] 17. GREED [remix by MELT (ex-Icon of Coil)] 18. WAR [remix by Ulf Häusgen (ex-The Fair Sex) & Tim Schuldt] 19. DEADEND [remix by Matter] 20. GAME [remix by DIGITAL21]

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