Sculptor alias SPACEBRAIN oder mit richtigen Namen René M. Hamel genannt, steigt bei der Band SKITLIV als Bassist und Video/Stage-Designer ein. Sculptor hat schon einige Stagesets für MAYHEM erstellt und mit Maniac dem ehemaligen MAYHEM-Sänger und heutigen Frontmann von SKITLIV zusammengearbeitet, somit scheint einer guten Zusammenarbeit nichts im Wege zu stehen.
Hier die Message der Band:
» Sculptor René M. Hamel , whose extraordinary stage sets were a prominent feature of Mayhem’s performances, has joined their former vocalist Maniac in his new Doom Black Metal project SKITLIV. Aside from designing SKITLIV’s stage sets, Hamel, better known by his working name SPACEBRAIN, will also be in charge of designing the band’s videos, and, surprisingly, has also taken on the role of bass player.
Commented Hamel: “I very much liked the concept that Maniac had in mind for SKITLIV, and when I happened to bump into him in Elm Street this summer he mentioned that his bass player was having to leave due to commitments to his own band, and asked if I knew of a bass player. I did what anyone else would do when faced with such an opportunity: I lied, and said that I could play bass. I rehearsed together with the band for three months, and it all worked out really well, and decided to stay. Maniac and I have the same crazy ideas and I am taking those ideas and transforming them into stage and video design”.
Oslo-based Hamel, whose sculptures have been described as “… more of the same nightmarish world which Hieronymus Bosch once painted, but in Hamel's version we find the basic subject in our fear for what Man is about to transform himself into - not in any chastising Deity”, recently debuted his full human-sized sculpture Höllen Engel (Hells Angel) through a special MySpace page HERE
SKITLIV are due to play six dates with GALLHAMMER on their upcoming European tour, and will be using some of SPACEBRAIN’s new stage designs on the tour.«
Den Flyer zu Tour mit der japanischen Girlband GALLHAMMER könnt ihr auf der MySpace-Seite der Band bestaunen.