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Black Space Riders Post New Video for “Space Angel (Memitim)”

Posted in Bootleg Theater on May 27th, 2014 by JJ Koczan

Somewhere between Killing Joke and Pink Floyd, maybe? I don’t know where the sonic terrain in which Germany’s Black Space Riders reside, but I know they don’t share it with many other bands. The Muenster five-piece released their third album, D:REI, at the end of January and have a new video for the track “Space Angel (Memitim)” from it. The song captures the group’s jammier, exploratory side, and while the video is an edit of the track, since it only cuts down the original 10 minutes to a little under nine, there’s still plenty of time to get a feel for the cosmic vibes Black Space Riders are honing.

Accordingly, the video crosses through a range of tripped-out visual effects. The band itself doesn’t actually appear, but there’s plenty to look at besides with the various swirls and constant forward-moving feel carrying you through. As the band states, they edited the track to catch the “shortened attention spans” of YouTube viewers. I guess we’ll see if cutting a minute off does the trick, but it’s a cool groove anyway, and however long they want to make it last, there’s little that’d make you want to turn it off once you put it on. I can’t account for the fickle realities of media in the age of instant gratification, but “Space Angel (Memitim)” is worth taking the time to get lost in.

As you can see by clicking play below. Enjoy:

Black Space Riders, “Space Angel (Memitim)” official video

An epic Space-Rock-Track taken from BLACK SPACE RIDERS third studio-Album “D:REI”.

This is an edited version, the intro was cut shorter matching to the shortended attention span of most YouTube-listeners (with – of course – the exeption of YOU!!!!)

The visuals and video-animations were created by our friend Blood Meridian (lost in space!).

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GIVEAWAY: Win a Vinyl Copy of Black Space Riders’ New Album, D:REI

Posted in Buried Treasure on March 4th, 2014 by JJ Koczan

Leave a comment on this post and make sure your email is included in the box asking for it to win a vinyl copy of Black Space Riders‘ new album, D:REI. The giveaway will go until Friday, at which point I’ll pick a winner at random and notify that person via email. The record is 180g black double-vinyl and also includes the CD version of D:REI, which tops a full 78 minutes.

I like, whenever I’m able, to do giveaways. Free stuff is an automatic win, and in the case of Black Space Riders, all the better that someone gets acquainted with their far-ranging space metal. Their material has proven to be widely varied over the course of their two prior albums, and this one, which was released by the band in January, certainly follows suit, running a spectrum from driving riffs to ambient drones and always managing to keep a flow from song to song and a consistent level of intelligence throughout the varied atmospheres of their work.

The title D:REI, aside from hinting at the German word for “three,” stands for “Defiance,” “Ruins,” “Escape” and “Beyond” (presumably that’s a translation thing), the subheading under which each side of the 2LP arrives. Black Space Riders‘ ethic has to-date leaned toward the conceptual and narrative, and their third outing only pushes further, as you can hear on the Bandcamp player below.

Take a listen and leave a comment to enter into the giveaway. Good luck to all, and thanks for your continued support of this site. Black Space RidersD:REI is available now as an independent release from the band with distribution from Cargo Records in their native Germany. More info at the links under the player.

Black Space Riders, D:REI (2014)

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Black Space Riders to Release D:REI on Jan. 24

Posted in Whathaveyou on December 17th, 2013 by JJ Koczan

True, they may have started out talking about stoned bikers in space on their 2010 self-titled debut (review here), but by the time they got around to 2012’s Light is the New Black (review here), things became much more complicated. The band’s third album, D:REI, is a double-vinyl and each side is subtitled representing a letter in the acronym title, so I guess it’s probably safe to assume that trend toward complication continues unabated. Fair enough.

“Drei” is also “three” in German, so the name of D:REI works on that level as well. The album is due out Jan. 24, and the band has premiered the track “The God-Survivor” in a new lyric video that accompanied the following announcement on its trip along the PR wire:

New album by BLACK SPACE RIDERS soon

“D:REI”, the new album by Germany´s BLACK SPACE RIDERS is going to be released on 24 january 2014. The album contains almost 80 minutes of new music. The band just shared the coverartwork and the tracklist with their fans.

We have decided to keep our independency and all our rights, meaning the album will be released under our own label BLACK SPACE RECORDS. It will be distributed by Cargo Records Germany and different national distributors and mailorders in other countries as well as by ourselves.

We will play three exclusive record-release-shows in Germany:
24.01.2014 Münster / Gleis 22
30.01.2014 Hamburg / Hafenklang
31.01.2014 Köln / MTC Cologne

More tourdates in spring will follow soon.

Tracklist:

D : Defiance
1. Stare At The Water
2. Bang Boom War (Outside My Head)
3. Rising From The Ashes Of Our World

R – Ruins
1. Give Gravitation To The People
2. Way To Me
3. Temper Is Rising
4. The God-Survivor

E – Escape
1. I See
2. Leave
3. Space Angel (Memitim)

I – Beyond
1. Major Tom Waits
2. Letter To A Young One
3. The Everlasting Circle Of Infinity

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Black Space Riders, “The God-Survivor” lyric video

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