>> 10/01/2008 <<
T'es pas vemue ici vérifier les dates avamt et tu t'es emcore retrouvé conne um com à um comcert sans le dermier article bomdage à la node ?
Q: Are We Tamtrum? A: We Are Tantrum!

>> 12/12/2007 <<
Q: Are We Tamtrum? A: We Are Tantrum!

De monbreux sites et autres papiers ammomcent emcore par erreur un comcert pour le 20/12/2007 à 21h00 à L'AMTIROUILLE de NOMTPELLIER... Va falloir emcore patiemter si c'est mos tromches que vous voulez voir et pas celles-ci.

>> 22/11/2005 <<
1993 - 20??

-On the words of a gypsy! There will be some serious stabbings for those who are announcing the split of TANTRUM. We got those emails in the trailer asking: “Is it true you guys broke up?”.
It’s not true, and even though we are soon to celebrate 100 years amongst us, there is still one youngster in the group. I grew a belly since “THE FRONTIER BURSTS INTO VIEW” but my cohort lost one. If I left my left ear in Germany last spring, the five remaining ones should suffice to make a new album and go on tour again. After that we will see if we finally say goodbye. Long live old men!

Daddy Gimenez bass with TANTRUM.

Paroles de gitans, va y avoir des coups de couteaux pour ceux qui à la lecture des derniers mails reçus dans notre caravane annoncent à nouveau le split de TANTRUM. Nous allons bientôt fêter 100 ans à nous trois, mais l'un de nous fait encore assez jeune. J'ai pris du bide depuis "THE FRONTIER BURSTS INTO VIEW" mais un autre en a sacrément perdu. Et si j'ai laissé mon oreille gauche quelque part sur scène en Allemagne au printemps dernier, les cinq restantes devraient suffirent à faire un nouvel album et quelques tournées derrière. Après ça on verra si on vous dit au revoir. Vive les vieux!

Daron Gimenez bassiste chez TANTRUM.

>> 25/07/2005 <<
A new t-shirt is available here.
"Spring tour 2005" screen print limited edition poster soon available on mailorder.

>> 17/09/2004 <<
11 new FuryFest'04 pictures by "mush". (see below)

>> 09/09/2004 <<
Hey guys,
Tantrum will start writing new material anytime soon for a forthcoming album and as a result won't be playing any live shows until March of 2005. Yeah, we can't write on the road, I know, that sucks.
Thanks!

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>> 09/09/2004 <<
Tantrum "The Frontier Bursts Into View" LP
9/10 - [Radar Swarm]
Fuck yes! Oh fuck, fuck, fucking yes! This French act unloads some pounding fucking monolithic excellence in the vein of the finer side of the Hydra Head camp (think Isis, Knut, and so forth - decidedly more the latter than the former), blending doomy, sludgy, rhythmic dirges with a more caustic and abrasive side - often with fucked up shifts and time signatures involved. And it punishes. The recording sounds like a million bucks with hugely resonant percussion, sick distorted bass, perfectly crunchy and forceful guitars, searing vocal screams, and a dead even mix with perfect cohesion and ample clarity. Holy shit, I love this. The songwriting fairly consistently sways to and fro with lots of changes, but it all makes sense and stays unified in the end, so despite the presence of copious amounts of dissonance it's very tangible and rhythmically massive. The bass tone really does play a huge part in making this stuff so oppressive, and I totally love the vocals as well, because they're just relentless throat scorching screams that aren't at all irritating. "Pale" is a little chunkier with some start/stop rhythms (not the groovy variety, trust me), but "Dead End" closes side A with a little more twisted melody (even vocally, hinting at singing) in the vein of a band like Burst or something like that, adding a technical nuance that really stands out and highlights how tight and accurate the playing is here. Side B opens with the repetitive instrumental "Suppose Control Can Increase", leaning in on a slight Godflesh influence different from most of the other tracks herein, and every damn bit as effective. Closer "Other Suggestions and So On" follows a few harsher cuts with a more openly melodic side using octave chords and slightly more streamlined chord progressions, slowing down to a nice crawl at times and letting the notes really ring forth. The LP comes on clear vinyl an amazing gatefold sleeve with a strict color palette (almost exclusively shades of blue and yellow) and a layout structured very much in the Hydra Head school of repeating textural patterns, complete with excellent use of subtle gloss overlay printing for the band name and some of the patterns on the outer cover. The lyrics fit the tone of the music perfectly, too: "We fucked up our lives and didn't even turn back to pick up what we left on the ground, We screwed up everything we touched, invariably, We didn't have enough humor for a single exception, We crawled toward the spring and we weren't thirsty at all, We forgot to live our lives and didn't even laugh when the party began…" To my great dismay my copy of the sleeve got ruined in a recent tropical storm when my roof decided to leak profusely, so thankfully I was able to get the LP cleaned up enough to play perfectly! I plan to buy another copy of this ASAP, as well as scoring the CD pressing, because this shit rules. The LP is limited to only 500 copies though, so act fast if you'd like to snag one, and I highly fucking recommend it. I'm so glad this showed up in my mailbox, because this band deserves a shitload more attention, and something tells me they're going to be criminally underrated unless someone steps up. So please, by all means, fucking check this out. Do yourself a favor… Man, I love this. Great, great work.
Running time - 37:00 (approximately), Tracks: 10
[Notable tracks: Pale, Dead End, Suppose Control Can Increase, Other Suggestions and So On]
http://www.aversionline.com/reviews/1711/

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