THE UNBORN FEST promotes alternative sounds on Terceira Island
THE UNBORN FEST festival this year opens doors to internationalization with the participation of the Dutch DEEM INDEX on the first night of an event that takes place on 25 and 26 March at the Centro Cultural e de Congressos de Angra do Heroísmo. With the indispensable partnership of the local council, the event also includes performances by four regional projects and the collection of undifferentiated goods destined for animal protection association «Recomeço».
With a decade of experience, DEEM INDEX travels for the first time to Portugal for a single date, where the premiere «Vain // Void» will set a performance in which the melodic side of death metal, popularized by bands like IN FLAMES and SOILWORK, will address the best memories to gender lovers. Without, however, terminate their creativity in a single spectrum, the quintet of Arnhem ensures diversity throughout its repertoire, with approaches to thrash metal, New Wave of British Heavy Metal, modern metal and even glam rock. As a result, these features give them a hybrid personality able to approach various public and avoid some stereotypes, as evidenced by some of the reactions of the international press: "It’s death metal for those that don’t do death metal."
Aiming to promote artists outside the mainstream circle, with special attention to Azorean projects, and at a time when the author of music lacks the necessary support in the regional circuit, the organization of THE UNBORN FEST is also in a position to advance the participation of HUMAN HATE on the second night of the event. The Azorean project is the creation of Tiago Alves and Nelson Leal who in 2013 decided to adopt a more extreme language in a personal curriculum that until then was limited to the more harmonious musicality of ANOMALLY. Initially contemplated to be a studio project, the two interpreters did not resist the lure of performing it live and with the EP «Chapter 13 - We Came For Blood» became winners of 2014 Angra Rock Contest. Since there, its formation stabilized with the collaboration of Luis Brum [ANOMALLY], Bruno Moniz [ART CAPITAL] and Nuno Costa [SANCTUS NOSFERATU, STAMPKASE] and promises a new record this year, with the audience of THE UNBORN FEST to be able to check out some of these new songs on 26 March.
THE UNBORN FEST was held for the first time in 2015 with the participation of Azorean projects ANOMALLY, WEPARASITES, PALHA D’AÇO, ART CAPITAL, MUFASA and ABUTRE SUICIDA. The boldness of the initiative involves enhancing cultural diversity, alternative arts and the interaction between musicians and audience from different generations. The organization moves in an attempt to regain some of the old tradition, in which various forms of musical expression marked the Azorean cultural agenda, a scenario conducive to creating free, spontaneous and evolutionary. The contingencies of the economic crisis gave rise to a monopolization of the market, accentuating the differences between popular art and alternative arts, thus closing up the siege of the originality and irreverence. True to the motto "Art begins where Imitation ends", from the celebrated British playwright Oscar Wilde, the organization of THE UNBORN FEST undertakes thus strive for difference and encourage the principle of art as individual emancipation process and properly fearless of merely capitalist interests. Combining this appeal to the fulfillment of our civic duties, the THE UNBORN FEST is proud to be able to contribute to social causes and regional artists provide adequate opportunity to develop a proper and constructive thoughts.
