Archive 2006

Dec2006

What a year - and we even accomplished our goals as outlined last January:
- Our new album, Th' Eternal Wedding Band, was released in September and is available in mailorders and shops the world over. Very kind and supportive reviews have been written by people we don't even know personally.
- Our split CD-EP with Painwork, The End Of Pain / Days Of Sorrow, was released in March. One or two of these rarities might still be available.
- Two international compilations, Nighthawk Compilation I (Micro-Phonics, Germany) and Heavy rendez vous Vol.II (NLM, Italy), featuring a Pÿlon track each, were released in January and in February, respectively.
- We even played a concert at Aarau's w3nk. And that was after two and a half years without any live shows!

Unfortunately, this satisfactory feeling we enjoy at this time has its downside as well:
Tinu (d, v) feels that this is the ideal time to leave Pÿlon in order to be able to spend more time with his young family.
Matt and Jan are very sorry that this decision was taken. On the other hand, we decided to have the best time possible while we still play together and the three of us wish to end this line-up with our densest concert plan ever: with TWO concerts in early 2007!

So come and party with us at the Excruciation album release show, which, incidentally, will be our first show since TEWB was released:

13.01.07 - Dynamo / werk21 , Zürich
w/ Cerperus, shEver, Forgotten Chaos, Mirko Massaker, Excruciation

If you enjoy that and would like the very last of 'Matt-Tinu-Jan' Pÿlon, join us and Norwegian doomsters, Syrach:
27.03.07 - Rock-City , Uster (ZH) w/ Syrach

We would be honoured if you were to show up in Zürich and in Uster in order to rock away these two nights with us!

Well, and then we'll be looking for a drummer. Can you help us find him?

Nov2006

The HONOUR! We are invited to open for Excruciation on the night of their CD release! - Truly a night for the sickos loving doom, death and mayhem.

Not to mention that them good ol' Candlemass had the very same dungeon tremble in 2002 …!

Whilst Th’ Eternal Wedding Band is distributed by Non Stop Music of course, we are grateful to have the support of another mailorder / distro:

• psycheDOOMelic in Österreich und Ungarn.

If you live in either of those countries or if you're into doom altogether, do something good for many people including yourself in ordering Th’ Eternal Wedding Band there. The pros and cons thereof may be evaluated by glancing at the reviews the album is getting; this includes the opinion of Germany's largest print magazine, Rock Hard.

 

mp3 by Pÿlon pop up here and there:

• mx3.ch
  myspace.com/pylondoom
  endmix.com  (excellent download shop with sample excerpts!)

Oct2006

Update (13Oct2006):
Big talkin' - small fry: the album release concertwas cancelled.
What bothers us is that we didn't get to act as divas and call the show off but that the event was simply insufficiently organised.
We ARE sorry.

Sep2006

Short, simple and great:

Th' Eternal Wedding Band is available now and will be distributed by NonStopMusic.

Please order it from QLR's Swiss Metal Mailorder .

An album release party is not scheduled yet - but if any band out there would like us be their support act in October / November, … well, we might just celebrate together!

Aug2006

(this is a biggie!) 

 Pÿlon "in" Russia
We are honoured beyond belief that Igor Grachev dedicated an article in his new Encyclopedia of Gothic and Doom Metal to Pÿlon!
There's a chance of us getting a copy of this compendium into Switzerland ... to show our grandchildren.

 Pÿlon live(s)!
After constantly brooding in our rehearsal room for 2 ½ years, we did it again: we brushed the dust off our instruments, rehearsed twice and gratefully followed Hellvetica’s invitation (along with Pentaslave) for the aptly-named „From The Depths“ show at Aarau’s very own WENK club.
Read the story & view the pictures of a great night out.

Th’ Eternal Wedding Band
We have laid the mastering process of TEWB, our forthcoming album, into the diligent hands of Emanuel Kneuss of Trinity & Thunder X vocal fame. We are “listening forward” to the results.

endmix.com
If you’re into legal downloads, endmix.com is the place for you! If you search for Pÿlon, you can get our split EP there.

MySpace
Along with many other QLR bands, we now also have a spot on MySpace … check out "Falling Into The Sun"!

Jul2006

The mastering is underway.
Matt is taking a few days off, Tinu is changing houses and Jan is submerged in science. That must be the blues kicking in shortly before the termination of a long and arduous project such as an album release.
In the meantime, Th'Eternal Wedding Band spins round and round and round in our CD players and we'll sit ourselves down to finishing the mastering in a cinch next week. And then, finally, we'll get to make noise together (and at the same time) once again.

Jun2006

Recording is finished!
In the next weeks, we'll throw out what's too much, we'll mix and master - all done at Shadowland Studio -, aiming for an August release of Th'Eternal Wedding Band.

May2006
Ah, the months fly. We’re flapping our wings a bit slower though, hanging in mid-air like an ugly, dishevelled, skinny bird. The drums are long-finished, and the guitars as well as the bass are just wrapping up, so we’re starting to mutilate lyrics, press a few keys and doodle a couple of notes on the old hollow stick. One number was dropped from the tracklist because it wasn’t quite up to p…, er, I mean “it will be the Japanese bonus track.” Yeah, right.
Oh, your question was why the recordings are taking so ridiculously long? – Well, that’s a serious question meriting a serious answer: we’re discovering more and more Cubase features and we only do so once a week for three hours. Worse than the living dead, innit?
23May: A small step for mankind, neat news for us: in today's cozy Tuesday night meeting, we completed the recording of lead and backing vox. What follows now is an interim mix before keys &c. are added. You may resume being excited now.

Apr2006: No, not a single new compilation to be presented this month!
But the drum tracks for another two songs are in the box, most guitar and bass tracks are laid down as well, so now we’re just waiting for the orchestra to come in.
Did I say ‘orchestra’? – Sorry, I meant that Sven will have to sit through us singing and trying to get instruments to work we don’t actually know how to play.
Sounds like fun though, doesn’t it?

Mar2006: Voilà - we give you …

Days Of Sorrow, our brand-spankin’-new three-track CD single! At a mere ten minutes playing time, it’s as short as a regular doom song, but this one contains our current compilation tracks, Anaconda, 2046 and Checkmate 64, fine, swift stoner tracks … and somebody said something about Danzig, too. But all of this is only half the truth!
	We are honoured to share this split CD with Painwork, three fine lads from Yverdon-les-bains who seem to like their share of the Sisters Of Mercy every once in a while. Four of their fine tunes open the CD and edge their way into your memory. – They got me, in any case, they did!
Did you think we were done already? – Wrong guess! The Nighthawk Compilation Vol 1 from Germany has just arrived! Eight bands from Germany and eight bands from Switzerland let rip on this beauty; amongst them are many old friends you oughta remember from HEAVY METAL NATION and HEAVY METAL NATION II, including Corwen, Ex-ortation and Pÿlon with 2046. From true to death metal, from hard rock to thrash to doom - everybody gets what they want!
The meek sneak into the Media section whereas the bold hit the Swiss Metal Mailorder !

Feb2005: YESSS! We’re on the brand spankin’ new Heavy rendez vous Vol.II compilation! Just imagine: the first one came out in 1986 … this means it was a nasty LP while this comes as a pretty, shiny CD. ;-)
We’re grateful and proud to rage away with excellent groups from Hungary, Germany and Italy. Find more information on Heavy rendez vous here .
And for your blackening eyes, there are new and bizarre wallpapers in the media section.
Of course, the page header is new as well ... still four guys in the picture ....

Jan2006: Everything renewed? - Well, a wee overhaul certainly wouldn't hurt pylon-doom.net. - Let me see into the matter.
In any case, the new logo is hung up neatly, the links are weeded out a bit and perhaps the new year will see me posting a pic every now and then.

So, will 2006 be the best year ever and forever?

Difficult to say, but if nothing less, Pÿlon intend to clean out the closet this year, so you may expect all of the following:

•   Anaconda will be released on Heavy rendez vous II, a compilation conceived by Italy's
    LM Records / Crotalo edizioni musicali .
    In the meantime, Corwen and Ex-ortation will pound away on the twin compilation,
    Obscure rendez vous.
•   The Nighthawk Compilation Vol.1 by Micro Phonics  Saarbrücken (D) comes rumbling in
    with 2046.
    On this one, we are joined immediately by Corwen and Ex-ortation.
•   The End Of Pain / Days Of Sorrow is a split CD we share with Painwork.
    Painwork play gothic rock and will present four of their songs whilst Pÿlon add three stoner
    rockers, namely our current contributions to the compilations.
•   TEWB, the second Pÿlon album ought to be finished and released by summer.
    A number of the current songs will however be kept in the shade for the follow-up EP and
    the third album. Hence, TEWB will be more of a doom ROCK album, whereas its sibling be
    all of DOOM rock.
•   Gigs? – Oh, come awn, we're still Pÿlon!

So, what do you think - are in with us for another one?

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