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NOVEMBER 2008

The anticipated self-titled TERMINATRYX album and
TERMINATRYX/NOSFERATU DVD
is now available
!


THE TERMINATRYX ALBUM


www.TERMINATRYX.com

The album features a dozen enthralling tracks of new breed Industrial-Metal,
defying all expectations coming from South Africa

order the CD on-line at:

www.ONEWORLD.co.za

www.KALAHARI.net
www.SUBTERANIA.co.za

(incl. international CD & T-shirt orders)

Full on-line download available soon!


THE TERMINATRYX / NOSFERATU DVD

www.TERMINATRYX.com

The TERMINATRYX/NOSFERATU DVD contains the 1922 silent vampire classic
with a new original soundtrack as performed live at the 2006 South African HORRORFEST
Film Festival screening, by TERMINATRYX and very special guests.
Additional material includes music videos, photo galleries, a short film and more.
The DVD cover is interchangable to feature either
TERMINATRYX or NOSFERATU


order the DVD on-line at:

www.ONEWORLD.co.za




SEPTEMBER 2008


TERMINATRYX / NOSFERATU DVD RELEASE

The release date for the TERMINATRYX / NOSFERATU DVD will be on Halloween
at the South African HORRORFEST (31 October)
.
The DVD will contain the full NOSFERATU feature film with the new, original live soundtrack
created for it by Paul & Sonja of TERMINATRYX together with their special guest
musicians Simon Ratcliffe & Sean Ou Tim (Lark), Francois Blom (K.O.B.U.S. & V.O.D),
and Matthijs Van Dijk (Dawntreader).
Other TERMINATRYX material will include music videos, Paul's short film imPERFECTION, photo galleries & more.


THE X FEST FILM FESTIVAL
Extreme Music Edition

26-28 September @ The Labia Theatre, 68 Orange Street, Gardens, Cape Town, South Africa

Exploding from the big screen > killer documentaries & movies on alternative music genres
including Metal, Industrial, Punk and Hardcore!

Tickets: R25 each - for booking info, e-mail: info@flamedrop.com

(line-up below)


Confirmed Line-Up & Screening Times:

Friday 26 September
8pm: HATED – GG Allin & The Murder Junkies

Saturday 27 September
2pm: STRAPPING YOUNG LAD Live at Download Festival
4pm: PUNK ROCK HOLOCAUST
6pm: EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN’s Liebeslieder
8pm: GET THRASHED – The Story Of Thrash Metal

Sunday 28 September
4pm: RAT SKATES – BORN IN THE BASEMENT
6pm: THROBBING GRISTLE – RE-TG Live
8pm: NEW YORK HARDCORE

CD Give-aways incl. the new SLIPKNOT, UNDEROATH, DISTURBED & MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE, all the STRAPPING YOUNG LAD albums, ARCH ENEMY, Metal compilations, + WildFire Tattoo & Piercing vouchers!

The Labia Theatre is a licensed venue and drinks from the bar can be taken into the cinema!

See website for movie details - www.XFEST.org



AUGUST 2008

The last weekend of September (26th-28th) the second X FEST Extreme Film Festival will rip a hole through the screen at The Labia Theatre (Orange Street, Gardens, Cape Town, ZA) - this time round it will be an Extreme Music Edition, with documentaries and movies related to Metal, Punk, Industrial and Hardcore Genres.
www.XFEST.org



JULY 2008


In August TERMINATRYX
will be supporting two international acts performing
live in Cape Town within a single week!

TERMINATRYX with SHEEP ON DRUGS
@ ROAR - Lower Main Rd., Observatory, CT
cell: 072 136 1833
dark.helmet@polka.co.za

TERMINATRYX with VNV NATION
@ The Goth Industrial Gathering -
Tafelberg Tavern, off Hope Street, Gardens, CT
www.subterania.co.za




Comment on the TERMINATRYX July 4th album launch performance
by Jon Monsoon:

"Oh yes, it was good! Kudos and max. respect to Paul & Sonja for pushing the boundaries a lil' further out, challenging the perceptions of what a 'live gig' is all about. (It was difficult to remain seated in the theatre as the music definitely leant itself to bodily gyrations of the extreme sort, still it was fun to see people rocking out in their chairs!). Closing song 'Siek + Sat' was brought to vivid life with awesome effect thanks to some simple yet damn effective visuals! This band definitely has many facets; what you hear recorded on CD is just one, live is another... and visually - yet another... sonically this band is next level.... Support them...!
Looking forward to seeing what they put together for the VNV Nation show!"


TERMINATRYX live with VNV NATION at the Goth Industrial Gathering - 22 August
Facebook Event


TERMINATRYX
album launch - CAPE TOWN
Friday 4th JULY @
The LABIA Theatre
68 Orange Street, Gardens, Cape Town
9pm / R30


Friday 4th JULY will see the official Cape Town launch of the long anticipated TERMINATRYX album at the legendary Labia Theatre - on stage and on the big screen!
This unique double feature will include a multi-media live performance by TERMINATRYX + a sneak preview of the forthcoming werewolf movie SKINWALKERS, two weeks before its official countrywide Ster Kinekor cinematic release.

Seats are limited for this once-off double feature spectacular - booking essential. Booking opens from 1 July at The Labia Theatre (021 424 5927) - or e-mail for more information (info@flamedrop.com).

TERMINATRYX CDs and merchandise will be on sale, and the first 10 CDs sold comes with a WILDFIRE Tattoo or Piercing Voucher.

The Labia is a licensed venue and drinks from the bar can be taken into the theatre.

The TERMINATRYX album was released by ENT Entertainment in May 2008 - if your record store does not stock it, demand it!
Distributed by IRIS - catalog # CDENT 010

Also available form indie stores like High Fidelity (JHB), Mabu Vinyl (CT) and on-line stores including:

www.subterania.co.za (incl. international orders)
www.kalahari.net
www.oneworld.co.za







JUNE 2008


New TERMINATRYX T-Shirt Designs
(printed by www.BadRabbits.co.za)


Order these shirts (and the TERMINATRYX CD) at:
www.SUBTERANIA.co.za





ADDITIONAL LIVE PLAYERS:

Patrick Davidson
(guitar)
pic by Brett Reynolds
Ronnie Belcher
(drums)
pic by Trevor Charles Miller



TERMINATRYX Interview

on FireAngelDesign.co.za

Check out the TERMINATRYX interview in the latest on-line issue of
FireAngelDesign.co.za



TERMINATRYX Live at ROAR
Friday 6 June
Lower Main Road, Observatory, Cape Town - upstairs from Gandalf's

A melting-pot of Metal from all corners of South Africa:

TERMINATRYX
Industrial-Metal
(Cape Town)

EREBUS
Black Metal
(Johannesburg)

CONTRAST THE WATER
Metal
(Durban)


Facebook Event Link



TERMINATRYX
Gauteng Album Launch Pix

For pix of the 30-31 May Gauteng album launch by Trevor Charles Miller, check out the TERMINATRYX
Facebook Group


and pix by Dr. Death at the
Zeplins Gallery



MAY 2008


TERMINATRYX ALBUM LAUNCH DATES
May - July 2008:

Please Note: The show at the Zeplin's Rock Shack has been switched to ZEPLIN'S THE CLUB

Flamedrop- & VanniePadaf Productions will host the co-operative Gauteng shows

Friday 30 May @ ZEPLIN'S THE CLUB - 384 Pretorius Street, Pretoria
(with RUNICA and PLASTICOMA, + DJ SINISTER JOE) - www.zeplins.co.za / www.runica.co.za
(Facebook Event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=17317446693)

Saturday 31 May @ Back 2 Basix at the edge of Melville, 167 Perth Rd, Corner Kingsway and Lancaster Road, Johannesburg
(with RUNICA and DJ SINISTER JOE) - www.back2basix.co.za
(Facebook Event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=13995004538)

Cape Town Album Launch - Friday 4th July @ The Labia Theatre (68 Orange Street, Gardens) – TERMINATRYX on stage and on the big screen in a double feature of a different kind!
The show will be followed by a special sneak preview screening of the new werewolf movie Skinwalkers, two weeks before its Ster Kinekor cinematic release! Limited seats - booking essential (booking will be open at the Labia Theatre 1st July – Tel: 021 424 5927 / or e-mail info@flamedrop.com for info
(Facebook Event coming soon)

• A pre-launch show will happen about a month before the Cape Town event on Friday 6 June with Contrast The Water (Durban) and Erebus (Johannesburg) @ ROAR (Lower Main Road, Observatory, CT).
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=14490291771
While not performing at the Metal 4 Africa Winterfest (Klein Libertas, Stellenbosch) on Sat 7 June, there will be a TERMINATRYX presence.

Updates will appear here and other profile pages.
CDs and merchandise (incl. T-Shirts) will be on sale at the shows.



WILDFIRE SPONSORSHIP

TERMINATRYX will be sponsored by WILDFIRE Tattoos and Piercing Clinics
Is there any other choice?




The TERMINATRYX album was released in May 2008 thru ENT!



TERMINATRYX album front cover featuring lead vocalist Sonja
Cover design by Paul


The long awaited TERMINATRYX album was released May 2008 release through ENT Entertainment, South Africa - distributed by IRIS (cat. no. CDENT 010)

a Flamedrop Production

TERMINATRYX (pronounced: "terminaytrix") – a new breed of South African music.

The TERMINATRYX sound is a unique one in the South African musical milieu with the combination of striking vocalist Sonja Ruppersberg and the music of extreme music veteran Paul Blom (V.O.D, F8, and SAMA winners K.O.B.U.S.) blending into an Industrial-Metal soundscape rarely found in this country.
In addition there are many musical elements subtly filtering through across the diverse songs, from Alternative-, Hard Core- and Punk flavours, to Electronic-, Dark Wave- and Gothic hints.

From the start TERMINATRYX never attempted to sound like anyone out there, developing an identity all their own with inspiration coming from cinematic moods rather than other musical references.

The undercurrent of the fusion-, symbiosis- and corruption of man & technology is illustrated and supplemented with subjects ranging from socio-political issues, individualism & independent thought, consumerism, a critical tirade in Afrikaans, a love song alternative, biological- and viral infection, alien visitation, instrumentals and more.
Reacting on the state of the world (and beyond), there is no mincing of words.

With a natural aversion to cheap commercial sentiments and a blind consumer society, TERMINATRYX is truly a unique South African audio adventure, looking at the world with a satirical eye as they take the listener through a juxtaposed range of sonic intensity and calm, merging technology with the organic in a David Cronenberg vs. H.R Giger trip.

Produced by Paul, the track elements were re-recorded in February 2008 at Flamedrop Productions (with many of the original segments recorded since 2003 retained).

All of the songs are original creations with Sonja and Paul also acting as executive producers.

Early March 2008 Paul entered Sound & Motion Studios to accompany Simon "Fuzzy" Ratcliffe across a 10-day period to mix the album. The final mastering was done late-March.

Fuzzy also guests on the instrumental track ABSINTHIUM with upright bass and a variety of exotic flutes, adding an organic emotional element to the predominantly electronically programmed backbone of the track.
Another guest includes original guitarist Tom Somers with lead segments on SLEEPWALKERS and WE COME IN PEACE.
Jenna Bird added a few well-placed bars of piano on SIEK+SAT.
A German nursery rhyme narrated by Christina Storm opens the song MIDNIGHT.

Exclusive audio samples of selected new recordings from the album (as well as demo versions) can be heard at these on-line destinations:

SIEK+SAT > www.MyNoise.co.za/terminatryx (the only Afrikaans song – translated: Sick + Tired)
VIRUS > www.MySpace.com/terminatryxxx
CONsume > www.ReverbNation.com/terminatryx
SLEEPWALKERS > www.LoadTheShow.com/show/TERMINATRYX
MIDNIGHT (music video) > www.YouTube.com/terminatryx

The album cover pictures were shot by Graham Abbott (of One Productions), with design, art-direction & post-production by Paul.

The video clip MIDNIGHT is included as an enhanced CD segment on the album (as well as a web link). The video features clips from F.W. Murnau’s silent German classic Nosferatu.
TERMINATRYX also created an original soundtrack for Nosferatu with collaborators from Lark, performed live to the screen at the 2006 South African HORRORFEST Film Festival (a DVD of which will be released in October 2008).

At the 2007 Fest they gave The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari the same mood-drenched treatment, while the TERMINATRYX live soundtrack for the 2008 HORRORFEST will be the legendary Häxan - Witchcraft Through The Ages (again with special guests – www.HORRORFEST.info )

The Midnight video clip (and others) are also at www.YouTube.com/terminatryx. Two versions can be found here, with either the new audio track or the older demo version.

Album launch shows are set for May 2008:

Flamedrop- & VanniePadaf Productions will host the co-operative Gauteng shows

Friday 30 May @ Zeplins Rock Shack - Centurion
(with RUNICA and PLASTICOMA, + DJ SINISTER JOE) - www.zeplins.co.za / www.runica.co.za
(Facebook Event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=17317446693)

Saturday 31 May @ Back 2 Basix at the edge of Melville, Johannesburg
(with RUNICA and DJ SINISTER JOE) - www.back2basix.co.za
(Facebook Event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=13995004538)

Cape Town Album Launch - Friday 4th July @ The Labia Theatre (68 Orange Street, Gardens) – TERMINATRYX on stage and on the big screen! Incl. a sneak preview screening of werewolf flick SKINWALKERS (two weeks before its theatrical release).

• A pre-launch show will happen a week before the main Cape Town event on Friday 6 June with HORROR CAST and others @ ROAR (Lower Main Road, Observatory, CT).
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=14490291771
While not performing at the Metal 4 Africa Winterfest (Klein Libertas, Stellenbosch) on Sat 7 June, there will be a TERMINATRYX presence.

Updates will appear on the website and other profile pages.
CDs and merchandise (incl. T-Shirts) will be on sale at the shows.

While Paul handled all of the album’s instrumentation, additional musicians will be incorporated for live shows, with a synched-up video projection accompanying the music set to give the audience a unique audio-visual experience.

TERMINATRYX:
SONJA: Lead & Backing Vocals
PAUL: Guitars, Bass, Drums & Programming, Keyboards, Backing Vocals
PATRICK: Guitar for live performances (from Mind Assault)
RONNIE: Drums for live performances (ex-Grämlich)

In a televised talent show-, and mock reality drenched commercial media decline, TERMINATRYX is not merely a breath of fresh air, but a long awaited new direction out to rattle the cage just enough to make a saturated public stand still and think, "hey, there's more to it than this..." - even if for only a moment.
But as we know, a moment can be a multitude of infinities - depending on the way you look at it.

Foreign distribution and licensing is underway.

For more info: www.TERMINATRYX.com

Contact / Press / Media / Hi-Res Images / Booking / Merchandise / Info : info@flamedrop.com

TERMINATRYX chooses WILDFIRE Tattoos & Piercing (www.tattoo.co.za)

TERMINATRYX Album Track Listing:

1. Venus Rising (2:17)
2. Consume (4:53)
3. Virus (4:05)
4. Midnight (3:31)
5. SleepWalkers (3:15)
6. Tabloid Android (3:18)
7. Symbionik (2:37)
8. We Come In Peace (3:42)
9. Up To You (2:57)
10. The Love Song (3:51)
11. Siet + Sat (3:52)
12. Absinthium (2:28)

Enhanced CD segment includes music video for Midnight and a web link.


MARCH 2008

Sonja accompanied Paul to Sound & Motion Studios to mix the song WE COME IN PEACE, with Simon Ratcliffe. As the session was wrapped, Sonja had a sharp pain in her side. Suspecting the pasta salad, they went home. Half an hour later Sonja was doubling up. Off to the ER - 4 hours and blood tests later, the doctor suggested she stay over-night and check out her appendix the next morning. Noon the next day she was in the theatre and the almost-ruptured appendix came out! It was a matter of hours. She recovered well, but it postponed the TERMINATRYX album launch plans by about a month.

THE X FEST FILM FESTIVAL

Paul & Sonja are the creators of the annual South African HORRORFEST, and expanded this concept into an additional film festival, The X FEST (28-30 March 2008), featuring a range of extreme, intense, independent and underground movies, including the only double feature screening in South Africa of Tarantino & Rodriguez's Grindhouse flicks Death Proof & Planet Terror, as well as Pervert!, The XXXorcist, Reefer Madness, Sick, Punk Rock Holocaust, Amateur Porn Star Killer and more. www.XFEST.org




> 2007 <

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Blog review by Something Wicked Magazine Editor Joe Vaz
Saturday, November 17, 2007:

Having missed last year's HORRORFST Finale of Terminatryx and Lark's original, live soundtrack to Nosferatu, I made damn sure I didn't miss this year's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. I'd only ever seen snippets of the film on YouTube and, like all 70+ year old black and white silent movies it looks cheesy, corny and quite silly. But all that changed on the 31st of Oct 2007. Watching a classic like Caligari in a darkened theatre with a live 21st Century soundtrack suddenly brings back the scale of this picture.

What a fucking masterpiece - instead of giggling at the screen I found myself suddenly entranced. Hanging on every (written) word. The score, composed and performed by Paul and Sonja from Terminatryx, Sean and Fuzzy from Lark, and The Crackpot Realist was beautifully pieced together, altogether haunting and kickass with a combination of acoustic and electronic sounds with vocal contortions supplied by Sonja and one of The Crackpot Realist's collaborators. What they manage to achieve is to completely revitalise this classic.

For the first time I found myself completely enthralled by a silent movie - marvelling at the stylistic approach to the film making, finding the obvious inspirations of such great genre directors as Tim Burton and Sam Raimi.
With their soundtrack they managed to make classic breathe again, resurrecting it for a new generation of film-makers to marvel at the magic of the silver screen.




For the 2007 South African HORRORFEST
members of TERMINATRYX and LARK (+ others to be confirmed) will be performing an original live soundtrack to the screening of the German classic The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari.
It will be the closing show of the festival which runs from 26 - 31 October (at the Labia Theatre, Orange Street, Cape Town).

For details and a list of the movies confirmed thus far, check out:

www.HORRORFEST.info
or
www.MySpace.com/SAhorrorfest



Sadly
WITCHFEST 2007
planned for Saturday 29 September, Pretoria, South Africa
has been canceled...

See www.witchfest.co.za for details



TERMINATRYX on KERRANG RADIO!!!

The demo version of the TERMINATRYX track CONsume will be played on Jason X's KERRANG RADIO show THE SLAB, together with a biog!!!

It goes out Sunday 3am-4am (3 June 2007), on DAB, SKY, Freeview and FM in the U.K.

From Monday it can be heard on-line at the link below:



http://www.kerrangradio.co.uk/goout.asp?u=http://www.whatson.com/goto/?type=radio&station=kerrang&show=a_the_slab



BATTLE OF THE BANDS & EA AMPLIFY
TERMINATRYX is not the kind of commercially slanted project to actively take part in "battle of the bands" concepts, but thought it may be fun to attach to both the Make Some Noise venture as well as the Electronic Arts Amplify project.

The choice to support Make Some Noise is due to the fact that they truly support South African alternative, underground and extreme music.
To vote for TERMINATRYX, sms BATTLE 136 to 36563 (in South Africa)
www.battleofthebands.co.za

The EA Amplify project was chosen because a band can win a track on a future EA Game soundtrack. We