Presenting: Keep Rising
New Swedish hardcore by way of featuring members from Meleeh, Gadget and In Ruins Of. Digital files are available now, the 7" version will be ready on July 22.
Label: Black Star Foundation
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will be doing a 7" with Gävle hardcore act Keep Rising, a new-ish band featuring members from Meleeh, Gadget and In Ruins.
Pg.lost - Key (teaser)
Check out a quick teaser clip for the upcoming Pg.lost album "Key", due out May 4 via .
New Pg.lost in May
has announced that Swedish postrockers Pg.lost will be releasing their new album "Key" on May 4. In other news, look for the band to tour Asia (Malaysia, Thailand, Hong Kong, China, Korea, Japan) in March with a European tour to follow in May.
New 7" EP from Atlas Losing Grip
A new 3-song 7" from Atlas Losing Grip featuring acoustic versions of two tracks off their excellent "State of unrest" album plus one unreleased cut, due out November 25 via .
Abandon to perform "The dead end"
Swedish doom act Abandon will reunite for one night only to perform their posthumously-released masterpiece "The dead end" in its 100+ minute entirety with friend Ufuk Demir (of the similarly-minded/also-awesome Walk Through Fire) filling in on lead vocals for passed away vocalist Johan Carlzon. It all goes down August 25 at Pustervik in Göteborg and will correspond with the long-awaited 3xLP release of said album from .
New Atlas Losing Grip now streaming
The new Atlas Losing Grip album "State of unrest" is now available for full streaming + preorder: http://blackstarfoundation.bandcamp.com/album/state-of-unrest
The official release date is May 28 via and if the samples I've heard are any indication, this is gonna be a stellar album. Really excited to hear it myself!
Jeudah album now streaming
has posted Jeudah's new album "While we sleep" for full streaming at Bandcamp: http://blackstarfoundation.bandcamp.com/album/while-we-sleep
As mentioned before, Jeudah is the long-distance collaboration project of Jan Jämte (Khoma) and Kristian Karlsson (Pg.lost, ex-Eskju Divine).
Atlas Losing Grip spring tour
Atlas Losing Grip will be heading out on an extended European tour to support the release of their new album, due out in May via :
03/30 - Logo, Hamburg (GER)
03/31 - tba, Hannover (GER)
04/01 - Roots Club, Mönchengladbach (GER)
04/02 - Ant Attack Festival, Dillingen/Saar (GER)
04/13 - Wild at Heart, Berlin (GER)
04/14 - Zimmer 04, Regensburg (GER)
04/15 - Backstage, München (GER)
04/16 - Overdrive Festival, Kapfenberg (AUS)
04/17 - Arena, Wien (AUS) w/Millencolin
04/18 - Orto Bar, Ljubljana (SLO)
04/19 - Lazzaretto, Bologna (ITA)
04/20 - Palazzo Granaio, Settimo Milanese (Milano) (ITA)
04/21 - tba
04/22 - tba
04/23 - tba
05/12 - Villa, Rotenburg (GER)
05/13 - Volxbad, Flensburg (GER)
05/14 - tba (GER)
05/15 - Panda Bar, Ulm (GER)
05/16 - Kulturcafe, Mainz (GER)
05/17 - tba (BEL)
05/18 - The Frontline, Ghent (BEL)
05/19 - Sojo, Leuven (BEL)
05/20 - Sputnik Cafe, Münster (GER)
05/21 - Das Zentrum, Menden (GER)
05/22 - tba (GER)
Atlas Losing Grip to Black Star Foundation
has signed the excellent Swedish melodic punk act Atlas Losing Grip and will be releasing the band's new album "State of unrest" on May 28. Listen to some tunes at Bandcamp: http://atlaslosinggrip.bandcamp.com/
Jeudah - The edge of the world
Jeudah, the long-distance collaboration of Jan Jämte (Khoma) and Kristian Karlsson (Pg.lost, ex-Eskju Divine), now have a sample tune online: http://jeudah.bandcamp.com/track/the-edge-of-the-world
Look for the band's debut album "While we sleep" to be released sometime around March/April via .
Black Star Foundation confirms two December releases
will release both Preacher & the Bear's "Suburban island" and Yersinia's "Efter oss syndafloden" CDs on December 8.
Black Star Foundation signing bonanza
Swedish label has signed three new bands: long-running screamo revivalists Suis La Lune, Uppsala crust-metallers Yersinia and indie/folk act Preacher and the Bear. BSR will first reissue Suis La Lune's 10" EP "Heir" and will follow with full-lengths from the other 2 later this year.
Pg.lost
In never out
Black Star Foundation
Pg.lost have always impressed me -- their first effort, "Yes I am" is as solid and engaging a debut record as I know, followed quickly by the lengthier, though less intricate "It's not me, it's you!", which, despite my criticisms, remains a fantastic foray into the world of postrock. That said, this most recent effort is perhaps their crowning achievement. "Yes I am", while a stunning record, feels more like an EP than an album; "It's not me, it's you!" occasionally used sledgehammers of sound where previously they had weaved elaborate melodic threads; but on "In never out", Pg.lost get it just right -- the building, anthemic qualities of "Yes I am" are paired faultlessly with the heavy, driving relentlessness seen on "It's not me, it's you!". Whatever worries the opening track's minimalist darkness gave me at first were easily dispelled by the detailed and layered, but just as heavy, "Jura", one of the album's finest moments. Now, after almost a week with "In never out", it's hard to imagine the album starting any other way, even if the majority of the record has more in common with the haunting, stratified second track. Even though those initial thrills that course through my brain upon hearing damn fine postrock have subsided somewhat, I'd still recommend "In never out" to friends interested in heavier, more distortion laden postrock just as readily as I would Mono's "One step more and you die" or Explosions in the Sky's "All of a sudden I miss everyone". Pg.lost deserve to have their name and their achievements, especially "In never out", mentioned in the same discussion as artists and albums of the caliber cited above.
- Lars Garvey Laing-Peterson
Holmes - The strangest calm
There's a new single from Holmes available for free download/streaming: http://holmes.haleri.se/album/the-strangest-calm
Look for the band's new album "Have I told you lately that I loathe you" to be released on June 18 via .