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DECEMBER 2016

TERMINATRYX "ONTVLUGTING" Music Video [ Directed & Edited by Paul A. Blom ] Terminatryx was honoured to oblige when asked to adapt a poem from the rich oeuvre of legendary South African poet Ingrid Joker, for a tribute album linked to the 50th commemoration of her tragic death (by suicide) in the mid-1960s. Terminatryx chose “Ontvlugting” (Escape), and reveals a different side to the band, but the trademark sound and mood is definitely in tact (while perceived as a touch milder than expected, still filled with impact as it drives towards its climax). This is the band’s third Afrikaans song. Compiled by Ingrid Jonker’s daughter Simone and her husband Ernesto Garcia Marques, the tribute album is titled “Die Kind Is Nog Jonger” (The Child Is Still Younger), and contains 36 diverse artists of various genres, including South African legends, alternative stalwarts and also international acts (some performing English translations).  The album has only garnered high praise in the press, the 5-star review in www.WatKykJy.co.za singling Terminatryx out as “next level” and doing the passionate poem more than justice. The album was released by Flamedrop Productions and Sound Action, and is available on double CD, limited edition vinyl LP and download (from all reputed stores incl. iTunes, CD Baby, Amazon mp3 etc.)  CDs and vinyl can be picked up at stores across South Africa, or ordered on-line at www.loot.co.za and www.raru.co.za More details on the album, its background and all the artists can be found at www.flamedrop.com/ingridjonker Such is Ingrid Jonker’s impact that Nelson Mandela praised her and read from her poem “Die Kind” (The Child) during his address at the opening of the first democratically elected parliament in 1994. For the ocean themed music video to this darkly melancholic song, Terminatryx incorporated selected scenes from a short film made by drummer Ronnie and his BlackMilk partners Thomas Dorman (also a regular Terminatryx photographic collaborator), Leon Visser and Este Kira. This short film is titled “Onrusbarend” (Unbearable), and won a Shnit award. See the full short film at www.youtube.com/blackmilkproductions

NOVEMBER 2016

TERMINATRYX
Live at GANDALF's 17th BIRTHDAY
+ Launch of the new "ONTVLUGTING" Music Video
at ROAR, Sat 26 Nov, 299 Lower Main Road, Observatory
(R40 entry)



Join the 5-band line-up of Terminatryx, OhGod, Soldier, Black Moscow and Ethyl Ether
upstairs at ROAR to celebrate Gandalf's 17th birthday!
The Terminatryx set will co-incide with the band's launch of the new music video for the adaptation of the
Ingrid Jonker Afrikaans poem "Ontvlugting" (from the tribute album "Die Kind Is Nog Jonger")

RSVP & event details: www.facebook.com/events/1678754105772579

DJs, drink specials & merch on sale (incl. Ingrid Jonker tribute double CD & vinyl LP)

OCTOBER 2016

Paul & Sonja's live movie soundtrack project
THE MAKABRA ENSEMBLE
performs a new live soundtrack to silent classic
VAMPYR



Saturday 29 October 2016 at the South African Horrorfest 
8:45pm, Labia Theatre, 68 Orange Street, Gardens, Cape Town

This year's live soundtrack performance by The Makabra Ensemble will be for the amazing 1932 French-German classic VAMPYR.
One show only!
To avoid disappointment, book at: http://qkt.io/8D6Zf1

Resident Makabra members Sonja Ruppersberg, Simon Ratcliffe, Matthijs Van Dijk and Paul Andre Blom will be joined by special guest musicians Ronnie Belcher (of The Damned Crows & Terminatryx) and Nerine Dorman (A Murder). 
This will also be the customary HorrorFest Halloween dress-up event and the HorrorFest market will be outside the theatre from noon until 9pm.
All updates at:
www.facebook.com/SouthAfricanHorrorfest

www.horrorfest.info

JULY 2016

TERMINATRYX
Self-Titled Debut Album
8th Anniversary



The week of July 4th we're celebrating our self-titled debut album's 8th anniversary!
And we're making it available for free download ths week.
(Always keen on the unconventional, on July 4th, 2008 TERMINATRYX had the Cape Town launch
for the album at the Labia Theatre cinema! The music / movie double feature show had the band's
live performance followed by a special pre-release screening of werewolf movie Skin Walkers).
Thanks to everyone who'd been on this ride with us for 14 years(!), as well as newcomers (and the haters for proving that we're doing something right, getting under their skin!).
As a token of our appreciation, head to terminatryx.bandcamp.com/album/terminatryx and pop in a $0 at checkout. Limited downloads, so get your ass over there!



TERMINATRYX
"Siek + Sat"
Music Video



In 2008 TERMINATRYX shot a music video for the Afrikaans song "Siek + Sat" (Sick + Tired)
from the self-titled debut album.
For various reasons at the time, the video was shelved for release (see below) and only used
as a live performance backdrop.
Now, 8 years later (2016), it is being released for the first time...

The song is a stream of consciousness tirade on some of the aspects of life on planet earth
that can rub you up the wrong way (in one of SA's very expressive languages, Afrikaans). 
In order to illustrate this, Terminatryx co-founder and video director Paul wanted to have
this fury materialise in the video. He devised a simple but effective method, having the band perform
in front of green flames, but when the chorus kicks in, the fire turns red together with
the band members erupting into alter egos of disdain. 
For this effect the talented duo of Clinton Smith and Daleen Badenhorst of Cosmesis transformed
Sonja, Ronnie, Patrick and Paul with practical make-up application, including painted veins
and black-out contact lenses - yes, half a decade before Die Antwoord :)

2008 was still very much a pre-HD era, the video shot in SD DV, Paul wasn't happy that the
great make-up work by Clinton and Daleen got diminished by the less than perfect video quality.
On top of this, it was Paul's first attempt at editing green screen shot footage
(to key in the flames and band members). The less-crisp quality led to a lot of bleeding and interference. 
While the video did get screened as an opening clip before Paul & Sonja's Makabra Ensemble
live movie soundtrack performance of Nosferatu at the Oppi Koppi music festival
(and a few other film festivals like the SA HorrorFest), it was never 100% satisfactory.
So, it got shelved and only used as part of the live video backdrop to synch up
with the song when performed. 

But, now that the self-titled TERMINATRYX debut album (where "Siek+Sat" features)
is celebrating its 8th anniversary, we thought it was time the video got dusted off
and revealed to the wider public for the first time.
Looking back at it again after many years, it is actually far less terrible than the fog of memory recalls(!).
Enjoy!

Behind the scenes photo gallery: 
www.terminatryx.com/gallery2009_sieksat.htm

JUNE 2016

INGRID JONKER Tribute Album
"Die Kind Is Nog Jonger"
(The Child Is Still Younger)

It has been a long and winding road to get this landmark compilation album released.
Check out the TERMINATRYX adaptation of Jonker's poem "Ontvlugting" right here:

Legendary South African poetry icon and literary giant Ingrid Jonker committed suicide
50 years ago by walking into the ocean at Three Anchor Bay, Cape Town.

Her daughter Simone and husband Ernesto selected 36 artists to adapt Jonker's work
in whichever way they felt inspired.
The result is an amazing double album of varied artists paying tribute by breathing
new life into her timeless words.

When they struggled to get record companies interested, Terminatryx
co-founder Paul Blom stepped in to make it a reality (having listened to all the incredible
tracks and feeling it cannot be shelved). With a crowd funding campaign
and an indie release via Paul's Flamedrop (and Ernesto's Sound Action),
the collection was launched 3 June on double CD and download
(the limited edition vinyl LP set for July).

Downloads :
iTunes > purchase here
CD Baby > purchase here
Also available at all other download stores.

Order double CDs at :
Raru.co.za > order here
Loot.co.za > order here

Indie Walk-In Record Stores :
High Fidelity (Killarney Mall, Johannesburg)
 Mabu Vinyl (Gardens, Cape Town) 
Music Moods (Pretoria & Centurion) 
Revolution Records (Obs, Cape Town) 
Top CD (Menlyn, Grove & Kolonnade, Pretoria)
and soon at Musica stores
& more to be announced.

Book Stores:
Kalk Bay Books (Cape Town)
and at Exclusive Books branches soon

More stores announced soon.

All info on the project, Ingrid Jonker, artist details & more at
www.flamedrop.com/ingridjonker

MAY 2016

PAUL GUESTS ON "BUILD YOUR SCENE" PODCAST



Paul was one of the guests on the latest Build Your Scene podcast
"Aggressively Non-Exclusive", talking about his involvement in the SA alternative scene
over 3 decades, with music & film festivals, incl. as Terminatryx co-founder,
V.O.D Voice Of Destruction drummer & South African Horrorfest co-creator.
The other guest on the non-Metal electronic side is Grimehouse! 
"Alternative" comes in many shades, so open your mind and listen to this excitingly
diverse episode right here: https://soundcloud.com/buildyourscene/s02e04 
(do spread the link like a virus!) 
And head over to like the V.O.D, Terminatryx, Build Your Scene and Grimehouse pages at: 
www.facebook.com/ Terminatryx
www.facebook.com/ VoiceOfDestruction
www.facebook.com/ buildyourscene
www.facebook.com/ Grimehouse

Music on the show includes
V.O.D, Terminatryx, Grimehouse, 
Bombs And Issues, Riddlebreak, The Alpha Sequence, Reverse the Sands

WORLD GOTH DAY 2016

To celebrate World Goth Day, TERMINATRYX made a download of the
"SleepWalkers" iRONic remix available for free.


TERMINATRYX REMYXES & MUSIC VIDEOS

We've decided to keep TERMINATRYX live shows selective and minimal for 2016.
In stead we'll be focusing on getting all the songs from the "Shadow" album remixed,
and finish some music videos we still have on the backburner.
Exciting updates coming soon!


And in May we watched the mighty Iron Maiden live in South Africa!
Here are unique shots of Ed Force 1 over Cape Town's Table Mountain ! >

http://ironmaiden.com/news/article/aces-high-on-the-ground

APRIL 2016

WACKEN METAL BATTLE SOUTH AFRICA 2016:

Bands across the country battle it out to win the chance to represent SA
at the legendary WACKEN OPEN AIR Metal Festival in Germany.
TERMINATRYX vocalist Sonja will be one of the esteemed judges.



All details, venues and dates at :
www.facebook.com/Wacken-Metal-Battle-South-Africa-438360109633125

MUSIC VIDEO FOR TERMINATRYX AFRIKAANS SONG
"ONTVLUGTING" IN PRODUCTION
(released late-May)






FIRST TERMINATRYX SHOW FOR 2016:

1 April
THE RITUAL
(ROAR, Observatory, Cape Town)



Line-Up:

TERMINATRYX
DEVILSPEAK
MEGALODON
ANIMUS FALL

9pm / R40 Entry

MARCH 2016

TERMINATRYX LIVE VIDEO RELEASED

On 4 March 2015 TERMINATRYX supported iconic Industrial legend Al Jourgensen's MINISTRY on their first ever
South African tour (hosted by Witchdoctor Productions, at Carfax, Johannesburg).

It had been 6 years since Cape Town-based TERMINATRYX toured up North (Gauteng area), so the band took the opportunity to get South African alternative legend Paul Riekert (of Battery 9) on stage with them. The TERMINATRYX debut album got a full remixed version in the shape of "Remyx v1.0" (2011), and Paul chose the band's first Afrikaans song "Siek+Sat" (translated: "Sick+Tired"). So a live version of this track was the perfect choice with which to include him on this auspicious evening for guest backing vocals.  Battery 9 are South African Industrial pioneers and hadn't played live for years (since band member Huyser Burger's sad, untimely death) - So it wasn't just a thrill to have Paul on stage with TERMINATRYX, but also get him back in front of people who hadn't seen him there in a while. This live clip of the "Siek+Sat" remix was edited from a fan shot video and includes a cool range of photographs. Thanks to everyone coming out to support, many flying in from all over South Africa for this one night only event. (The SlashDogs were also on the bill) Produced & Edited by: Paul Blom (for Flamedrop Productions) Shot by: Sophia Engelbrecht Photography by: Christelle Duvenage Photography, Henry Engelbrecht, Chris Acheson Photography, AGS Photo, Leigh Taylor Photography, Adaze, Royal Lens Photography, Muhammed Valiallah, Shaughan Pieterse

PAUL ON iSTART2 RADIO SHOW


 Terminatryx co-founder Paul was on the iStart2 Challenge show (Radio Today Johannesburg)
chatting about the fantastic upcoming double album Die Kind Is Nog Jonger - A Tribute To Ingrid Jonker 
(with 36 artist adapting the brilliant poems of Jonker). The Terminatryx adaptation of "Ontvlugting" will make its debut
alongside tracks by Inge Beckmann, The Sighs of Monsters, Stefan Strydom & Gert Vlok Nel.

Stream it at:


The album has a crowd-funding campaign attached with great perks - www.igg.me/at/ingrid-jonker 
All album details at www.flamedrop.com/ingidjonker



INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY GIVE-AWAY



Happy ‪#‎InternationalWomensDay‬ !
But, the fact that they project gender equality to only happen around the year 2133 is ludicrous!!
Basic respect, equal pay & treatment should be a total given...
So, ‪#‎PledgeForParity‬ and on 7 March grab a F R E E download of our Terminatryx track SCARS (we all bare them in one way or another) - enter a zero value and get the song at: https://terminatryx.bandcamp.com/track/scars
- www.facebook.com/Terminatryx 



TERMINATRYX MEMBERS PLAY THE BLUES

Thursday 10 March members of Terminatryx will be partaking in something different to the norm at The Mercury Live - CTN. Drummer Ronnie is hosting The Bluestown Sessions: Swamp Blues playing in the Swamp Blues band. Vocalist Sonja's other band with Nerine (the acoustic) A Murder will open the evening (with Terminatryx' Paul joining them on bass for the first time). 
In addition, Sonja will join the Swamp Blues band to guest on a few classic songs.
Check it out: www.facebook.com/events/843085595813625

FEBRUARY 2016

TERMINATRYX ON A BANGER FILMS DOCUMENTARY!



Part 1 of Sam Dunn & Banger Films' spotlight on South African Metal incl. an interview with Shaughan Pieterse of Witchdoctor Productions and live performance clips by Terminatryx, AGRO, Theatre Runs Red, SacriFist, Demogoroth Satanum and The Drift, plus local metal fans like Jamie, Josie etc.
Terminatryx is very proud and honoured to have been included in this.
Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKRTgFKmTwA



NEW TERMINATRYX SONG ON ITS WAY


The next Terminatryx recording is a song contribution for the amazing 36 track Ingrid Jonker tribute compilation album "Die Kind Is Nog Jonger" (The Child Is Still Younger). Jonker is one of South Africa's most acclaimed poets, and her daughter is spearheading this musical tribute 50 years after her mother's suicide.
The TERMINATRYX track is an adaptation of Jonker's poem "Ontvlugting" (Escape).
Check out the crowdfunding campaign with very cool perks attached >www.igg.me/at/ingrid-jonker (incl. a sample video of all the songs). Head down and be one of the first to back this great project!
Site: www.flamedrop.com/ingridjonker
Group: www.facebook.com/groups/769739696398867

Samples of all 36 tracks:



TERMINATRYX INTERVIEW IN
BATTLEHELM MAGAZINE (Sweden)



Read the article here:
http://battlehelm.com/interviews/terminatryx

JANUARY 2016

SONJA WINS AWARD

Happy new year all! Some good news to kick off 2016:
TERMINATRYX vocalist Sonja was named 2015 VOCALIST OF THE YEAR
at AUDIO INFERNO's AFRICAN ROCK MUSIC AWARDS!
Thanks to all making it possible and congratulations to all nominees.
See all categories here






TERMINATRYX
Live at Geraas Plaas
New Year's Eve
(Riversdale, Zoutpan)



Tickets at Computicket
Early Bird: R120 / Regular: R150 / Gate: R200

Main Stage: 

Terminatryx
Silence Thieves
WolfRiver
Voidgrip
The Insomniac Diaries
Khemical Krypt
Red Tape Rebellion
LadyAxe 
The Alpha Sequence
Imperial Destruction 
Bloodbarf
Bokgot
Spectral Realm 
The Fallen Prophets 
DevilSpeak 

Hosted By: Imperial Destruction

Event Link: www.facebook.com/events/624726167669005

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