This is the first video taken from 'Rosary', produced by Le Studio & YVRO Production

Patrick CODENYS (FRONT 242) is finalizing the post-production of the 'Rosary' album.

You can listen to some extracts on the pressbook page.

We are aiming at a release early 2007. Stay tuned for more information ...

PARADE GROUND
ROSARY
PARADE GROUND / TotalFMR

Autre reformation de l'underground belge des années 80, Parade Ground nous honore du premier jet de son nouveau et seulement second album 'Rosary'. Le précédent et unique 'Cut Up' remontait à 1988. Là où d'autres ont décider de coller au son électronique actuel, Jean-Marc et Pierre Pauly restent fidèles au son cold-wave / post punk de leurs débuts, le tout agrémenté de quelques machines discrètes. Musicalement plus proche d'un Killing Joke première époque ou d'un Trisomie 21, que d'un Front 242 desquels Parade Ground avait toujours gardée l'ombre bienveillante.

Sur les 15 titres prévus, nous n'avons pu en savourer que 7 , mais c'est suffisant pour nous plonger dans un voyage aux confins de la folie humaine, de l'enfermement psychiatrique. Oubliez le très new-wave 'Strange World', Rosary nous ramène les pieds sur terre avec le desespéré 'Snail's Burial' qu'illustre une guitare saturée de lamentations. 'Naked' est sa douce comptine amère noyée dans une nappe de synthé poisseuse; 'Breath' qui prend comme épinde dorsale une petite mélodie funèbre ... Un monument d'angoisses torturées qui prend aux tripes.

Olivier Camus

PARADE GROUND
ROSARY
PARADE GROUND / TotalFMR

Other reformation from the eighties Belgian underground, Parade Ground honor us with the first rough sketch of its new and only second album 'Rosary'. The previous and unique one 'Cut Up' dated back from 1988. Where others have decided to stick to today's electronic sound, Jean-Marc and Pierre Pauly remain faithful to the cold-wave / post-punk sound of their first steps, the whole of it being ornamented with some discreet machines. Musically closer to a first era Killing Joke or a Trisomie 21 rather than a Front 242 from which Parade Ground had always stayed in the benevolent shadow.

From the 15 titles planned, we have only been able to enjoy 7 but that was enough to make us dive for a trip to the confines of human madness, of psychiatric confinement … Just forget about the very new-wave 'Strange World', 'Rosary' brings us back to earth with the desperate 'Snail’s Burial' illustrated by a guitar saturated with lamentation; 'Naked' and its bittersweet melody drowned in a sheet of sticky synth. 'Breath' which makes its backbone out of a little mournful melody … A monument of tortured anguish that touches the soul …

Olivier Camus

7 - PARADE GROUND
Windfall (Unreleased)

Let there be no doubt about it; Parade Ground doesn't revive to deliver us a déjà-vu new-wave, 'Windfall' is a pure introspective torture. Did we have to wait until 2005 to see post-punk become so cryptic? Certainly Parade Ground has the answer to it ...