ElectroDeath made a performance at House of Blues, Las Vegas last Friday and MTV filmed the pocket show and even interviewed the band while they were preparing themselves to perform. This special is part of the announcement of the band’s upcoming world tour ‘The World Domination’.Footage of atomic bombs blowing up in the desert, red alert sins and an marching army are showed in the led screen panel at the back of the stage. This short video introduces the concert as ‘The World Domination’. The stage is very simple, there’s only the led screen on the back of it, also there’s two tables with ElectroDeath’s official DJ duo called ‘ElectroLightz’, responsible to accompany the band on tour. The first song has a siren inspired introduction, following the video presentation, it turns out to become a song of the girls new album ‘Began’. Moments after the introduction of the song, Magie and Lilly enter the stage holding microphones and waving to the crowd with the other hand, the same time they start to sing the first lines of the song.
Magie is wearing a beige sexy short dress which shows her legs, Lilly is wearing another sexy short dress, but her dress is red and tighter than Magie’s one. The girls are very sympathetic the whole performance, while they perform the song they keep going to the edge of the stage to touch the fans hands, and so they keep smiling at them and waving and blowing kisses to them. The high energy of the song’s beats and the crazy inviting lyrics of it, puts everyone in the place to dance, but there’s not dance routine for this song, the girls only jump, not that much high because of their high shoes, and also they shake their hips just to make the crowd scream even louder than they were screaming. The picket show is sold out, there’s no space in the crowd, the fans almost can’t move, but they seem to be having a really good time.
The Scene changes to a interview MTV did with the girls when they were at the Palms Cassino Hotel waiting for the performance at the night. The girls are wearing simple clothes, very different from usually they wear when they’re at the stage. First I said hello to them and we got ready to make the interview.
MTV: What’s the best part of going on tour?
Magie: The crowd! Just the opportunity to see people connecting with your emotions through your music, is the best experience anyone can have. It’s just very gratification to feel the crowd energy and everyone screaming for you, and cheering for you and having fun, that’s the highlight man.
Lilly: Magie said everything, we wait till we can going on tour, I only think we release albums because of the tour. You know you’ll need new material to hit the road, so our main goal when we’re producing an album is the touring.
MTV: You girls have done amazing concerts throughout out your career, your last tour, was one of the largest tours of 2011, what do you plan to surpass it?
Magie: WICCA tour was part of the last album we had, so it was a concept based on songs we had written for that album, now we’re totally focused on a new sound and a new concept, so this tour will be completely different of the last one we made. And most of all, it’s our first tour without Julia,, which will be a huge change for us. We’ve been doing this for like 12 years now and we have been doing this together as a trio, so everything in this new era is different for me and Lilly. It’s a whole new level of experiences.
MTV: Do you think, people will attend the tour even knowing Julia won’t be there?
Magie: I really can say that, it’s hard because I know that we have fans that like our song mainly, but also there’re fans that like us a person, so we have Magie Lena’s fans and Lilly Stuart’s fans and also Julia Volkova’s fans, so maybe her fans won’t be there supporting us, but in fact I really don’t know what will happen.
MTV: How do you choose the set list of the tour?
Magie: We try to balance old songs with new songs. But the concert is about the new album concept, which is sweet but bitter songs and we also took our first single’s video as a visual to this new tour, so most of the songs are from this new album, but also we cannot forget the hits, we try to make them sound new for us and for the fans, so we remix them and also we make mash ups.
Lilly: This time we heard our fans too, songs that they wanted to see us perform, lots of them twitter us about it, it was very cool, they helped us a lot.
The show continues with ‘Uncontrollably’, the up-tempo high energy beats of this song keeps up the mood of the last performance, Magie and Lilly seem to be having a blast with this song, in case you forgot this was the second single from ElectroDeath’s hit album ‘The Sun Will Rise’ originally wrote by Julia Volkova. This performance is also simple like the first one was, here the girls perform a free style dance routine, with most of the steps taken from night clubbers, the crowd enjoys so much this song and also the light effects of this performance which is based on multi-color lights making the whole stage look like an amusement park. The vide at the led screen on the back of the stage, consist of footages of the song’s music video plus psychedelic visual effects.
By the end of the last chorus of the song, glitter, paper and balloons are thrown over the girls and the audience, seconds after it the stage gets totally dark.
MTV: Tell us about the new album, what impressions do you want your fans to get from it?
Magie: That life is not always sweet as a candy, it can be bitter sometimes, we try to balance that on the album, you’ll listen to ‘Began’ and you’ll feel happy and liberated but then you have ‘Don’t give a Fuck’ which will tell you to act safe and to not expose yourself to much.
Lilly: While we was working on this album, we were experiencing different electronic styles and sounds, so melodically the whole album is this mixture of house beats and dub step, which are very different from each other. So you’ll get to hear cool and fresh sounds, but the hardcore urban ones are still there too.
MTV: You girls worked with mISTER_b and DJ Cloud as producers for this album, how was working with them?
Magie: DJ Cloud at the time was a kind person, he worked with us basically on the house beats of the songs, he’s a very ambitious person, I have to confess that it was a surprise for me, when we first met him, he was with Cinzia and I have to say he was a different person, but that is another story I’m gonna get into, I just can say that he’s very professional and focused when he’s working. mISTER_b is a fantastic shy guys! He’s incredible, visionary and we’re so glad that he accepted our invitation to work with us and somehow we were responsible for his mainstream debut.
MTV: Can you guys tell us what will be your next single? Because only two singles were released from ‘Bittersweet’ so far, and you announced that you already filmed a video for this upcoming single.
Magie: I think now we can, it will be the song ‘Lies’. We performed it at Field Trip and Total Annihilation, and the audience was very receptive to the song. It’s was hard for us to decide what song should be the next single, but our managers and fans were telling us that it’s a very cinematographic song, so we did this video with a very special friend of us.
The dubstep beats starts introducing ‘Lies’, a song from ‘Bittersweet’ supposed to be the third single of the album. The girls enter the stage followed by three male dancers, and they’re not holding their microphone anymore, now they’re with earphone so they can move and dance the song’s routine. The whole performance is based on the dance steps of the song, which are a mix of street dance and ballet with several interactions among the dancers and the girls, it’s like a simulation of a dramatic relationship breakup. Lights are green and the video showed at the led panel is about guns and bullets and blood.
At the end of the performance, the girls kill the three dancers by throwing them into holes that were opened on the stage, and right after it the next song starts.
‘Holy Annihilation’ is another dance step routine performance, this time three military dressed female dancers enter the stage to join Lilly and Magie, and they also are bringing military jacket to the girls, so they wear it as part of the performance. The dance steps of this performance are bit more elaborated and complex then ‘Lies’, the female dancers got to perform some acrobatics steps but Lilly and Magie did not perform the complex movements, maybe because they have to sing the song. The visual of the stage in this song consists of the official music video of the song displayed in the screen and the purple lights over the girls and their dancers.
MTV: How do you girls choose the themes of the videos from your songs?
Magie: I don’t know, we kind of visualize everything when we’re writing the song. I’m always thinking about what crazy stuff we can do to feed our fans with good visual stuffs from us. I have to admit that once we took this visual side to our song, we cannot run from that anymore!
Lilly: It happened with ‘Don’t Give A Fuck’, we released a simple video for it, but people was asking us if we would make a real music video for the song like we did with Holy Annihilation, so we had to film a new video. But it went becoming one of our best videos ever!
MTV: Will we see some crazy stuffs at the ‘Wolrd Domination Tour’?
Magie: Of course, I mean we’re thinking about bringing zombies to the stage, and using some 3D effects like we did on ‘WICCA’, but this will be a very long tour, we have so far like 80 dates to be announced and our managers are really pushing us to make at least 100 dates, so we have to keep people interested on it. We have to make surprised for them every new song.
Time to perform ‘Don’t Give a Fuck’ and guess who’s back from the dead? The boys the girls killed when they were performing ‘Lies’, they’re back as zombies, and at first they come scary the audience but soon the girls enter the stage to perform the song, and in a very Michal Jackson inspired dance routine, they add a very different meaning to the song itself.
There’s the ‘zombified’ music video playing in the led screen and the lights are red, the girls are still wearing their earphones due to the focus on the dancing, but the choreography is not that hard, even in parts the whole crowd can get their hands up and follow Magie and Lilly’s lead to a certain move in the choreography. It all looks very interesting to watch.
MTV: When you look back to when you girls first appeared and you look to now, do you feel satisfied to what you accomplished?
Magie: Yes, I don’t regret anything, even the breakdown I had, it was only for me to become stronger. I loved the way we started and the way we choose to follow to become famous. Sometimes it’s hard to think about the past, because there’re lots of things I miss so much, thing that won’t never comeback! But I’m so glad at the same time that Lille and I and even Julia, we’re still doing our thing, we’re still here, we still have our families and friends, that makes everything worth!
Lilly: I love our story, it’s beautiful just the way it is, everything we did, every person we met, I remember the first we were in an award show and we got to know really famous people, it was the best experience ever! I’ll never regret what we did, and I’d do everything again.
MTV: To finish our interview, how are your hearts girls?
Magie: LOL, mine is fine, quiet, it belongs to this tour, to my fans to my family… I’m single now, but I’m fine.
Lilly: it belongs to my husband of course! We’re now two years married, I’m so happy for that!
MTV: Thank you so much for doing this, I love your music, and I have to confess I loved you last video! Keep doing it girls!
Magie: Thank you so much, I hope we’ll see you on our tour.
Lilly: Thanks you so much!
The final performance of the night, is the smash hit ‘When Your Heart’s Not Open’, the girls are alone again in the stage, there’s no dancers with them for this last performance and they’re again holding they microphones at hands, it’s a light performance compared to the hardcore dance performances of this concert. The girls only stand in the stage while footage of peaceful places are showed in the led screen and blue dim lights illuminate them. The crowd went insane after noticing what song it was, there’s some modern dance steps the girls perform, the ones from the original choreography of the song the girls were used to perform at the WICCA Tour.
In the final strophe and chorus of the performance, fake snow falls down at the stage, making the whole performance look like a winter night. To finish the song the girls left the stage among a gross fog that was used to cover the whole ground and back of the stage, so it looks like they disappear, and the song kept playing till it fades and it starts to roll the credits.
Set List
1- Began
2- Uncontrollably
3- Lies
4- Holy Annihilation
5- Don’t Give A Fuck!
6- When Your Heart’s Not OpenFirst 50 DatesEurope / First Leg1. September 2 – Copenhagen – Denmark - Parken Stadium
2. September 4 - Cologne - Germany - Lanxess Arena
3. September 5 - London - England - Twickenham Stadium
4. September 8 - London - England - Twickenham Stadium
5. September 9 - London - England - Twickenham Stadium
6. September 11 - Manchester- England - Manchester Arena
7. September 15 – Dublin - Ireland - Aviva Stadium
8. September 17 - Amsterdam - Netherlands - Ziggo Dome
9. September 18 - Berlin - Germany - O2 World
10. September 20 - Paris - France - Stade de France
11. September 22 - Hanover - Germany - TUI Arena
12. September 24 - Zurich - Switzerland - Hallenstadion
13. September 26 - Antwerp - Belgium - Sportpaleis
14. September 27 - Milan - Italy - Mediolanum Forum
15. September 29 - Nice France - Stade Charles - Ehrmann
16. September 30 - Barcelona - Spain - Palau Sant Jordi
North Anerica / Second Leg1. October 6 - New York City – USA - Madison Square Garden
2. October 7 - New York City – USA - Madison Square Garden
3. October 11 - New York City – USA - Madison Square Garden
4. October 12 - Boston – USA - TD Banknorth Garden
5. October 15 - Toronto – Canada - Air Canada Centre
6. October 16 - Montreal – Canada -Bell Centre
7. October 18 - Montreal – Canada -Bell Centre
8. October 19 - Chicago – USA - United States United Center
9. October 22 – Chicago – USA -United Center
10. October 23 - Vancouver – Canada - Canada BC Place Stadium
11. October 26 - Oakland – USA -Oracle Arena
12. October 27 - San Diego – USA - Petco Park
13. October 30 - Los Angeles – USA - Dodger Stadium
14. November 1 - Los Angeles – USA - Dodger Stadium
15. November 2 - Paradise – USA - MGM Grand Garden Arena
16. November 4 - Paradise – USA - MGM Grand Garden Arena
17. November 6 - Denver – USA - Pepsi Center
18. November 8 - Denver – USA - Pepsi Center
19. November 9 - Houston – USA - Minute Maid Park
20. November 11 - Detroit – USA - Ford Field
21. November 12 - Philadelphia – USA - Wachovia Center
22. November 16 - Atlantic City – USA - Boardwalk Hall
23. November 18 - Atlanta – USA - Philips Arena
24. November 20 - Miami – USA - Dolphin Stadium
25. November 22 - Mexico City – Mexico - Foro Sol
26. November 24 - Mexico City – Mexico - Foro Sol
South American / Third Leg1. December 2 – Medellín – Colombia - Estadio Atanasio Girardot
2. December 4 - Rio de Janeiro – Brazil - Parque dos Atletas
3. December 5 - São Paulo – Brazil - Estádio do Morumbi
4. December 9 - Porto Alegre – Brazil - Estádio Olímpico Monumental
5. December 13 - Buenos Aires – Argentina - River Plate Stadium
6. December 15 - Buenos Aires – Argentina - River Plate Stadium
7. December 19 – Santiago – Chile - Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos
8. December 22 – Córdoba – Argentina - Estadio Mario Alberto Kempes