YOSUKE KONISHI, from record label to the pressing of LPs: a journey into the mysterious world of vinyls!
Yosuke Konishi, has played something in some bands, has also collaborated doing artworks, logos or production… but he is certainly much better known for being the owner of Nuclear War Now! Productions, a Texas based record company involved in multiple publications – several hundred in over twenty years of activity – of black metal, death metal and thrash metal records… music almost always played by underground bands, those bands that fuel the essence of metal with impetus and extreme fury. Now Yosuke has jumped into a new adventure: Helios Press, a brand new vinyl record factory! And not just for his own label… rather for the music world, which seems to being in desperate need of new facilities to press that black (or colored!) record, that object we music lover do love so much. But aren’t there enough vinyls already? Was another establishment really needed? Why? Well, we asked this to Yosuke himself! (Versione in Italiano QUI)
MH: Hello Yosuke. Glad to talk to you, after all we’ve done hundreds of reviews for the albums your put out with your label. Speaking about that, it’s been more than 20 years that this label is around, doing mostly extreme underground metal. In this market that keeps on changing , with costs and everything, in a time that everybody with a computer can put out one or two albums per year, with millions bands doing something every single days… how could your label last so long? I mean, as press, we receive way more communications, news and album press kit than what we can handle even in our wildest dreams, but out there also there’s way more music than what the public can humanly absorb and listen to! So, let’s talk about your new adventure, the Helios Press, a high quality record-pressing plant in Texas. Frankly I simply buy LP, I buy vinyls. My knowledge end there: is there really any big and rising need LP, to justify another pressing plant? I’ve heard the world needs more press pressing plants, but I don’t know why! (altro…)
(Les Acteurs de L’Ombre Productions / La Harelle) Nonostante i dieci anni di esistenza, i francesi Mòr non sono mai veramente entrati in studio, se non per questo loro primo album; in precedenza tanta gavetta dal vivo, demo, pure un live album, rimanendo fedeli al loro stile il quale unisce la violenza del black metal con una vastità melodica la quale trova spunti da molteplici fonti, tra queste il death melodico, il viking, pure ipotesi di folk, dentro un turbinio di sensazioni fisiche e sonore accattivanti, travolgenti, tra l’altro arricchite da un produzione sincera, carnale, capace di metter in evidenza tutti i suoni, ogni strumento… un po’ come se si trattasse di un live che si svolge davanti all’ascoltatore, un live che spesso attraversa momenti trionfali, epici, splendidamente marziali, capaci di ipnotizzare la mente stimolando la carne. 
