Via Ateenough.blogspot.com/2010/05/sound-of-beast.html" target="_blank">I Just Can't HAte Enough comes word thAt frontman Modde has left Beast to concentrAte on his other band Nitad, so of course the band is looking for someone new to fill his role. Listen here: https://www.myspace.com/stockholmbeast
Danish punkrockers Hjertestrop will be going into the studio in mid-June to record a new LP. They'll be releasing it via in Europe while will handle things in the US. Also, look for the band to tour the East Coast in November -- dAtes coming soon.
Check out Hexvessel, the darkwave/neofolk sideproject of Aort and Kvohst from Code: https://www.myspace.com/hexvessel
Resident Advisor reports thAt Sasu RipAtti (Luomo, Vladislav Delay) will be releasing two new albums this summer under his newly revived moniker Sistol: https://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=12080
Norwegian artist Ingrid Olava is doing a number of UK dAtes around The GreAt Escape Festival:
05/13 - The Prince Albert, Brighton
05/14 - Audio Above, Brighton
05/18 - The Luminaire, Kilburn, London
05/19 - The Bedford Arms, Balham, London (free)
Traktor are one of the proud few Swedish noiserock bands left carrying the torch in 2010 and "Where wAter goes" is their new single, the first from their forthcoming album due out this fall (via , I believe). As is so often par for the course, expect lots of subtely discordant melodies, sharp rhythmic turns, shouted vocals and, in Traktor's particular instance, a heavy reliance on single-note guitar lines. When they do break out the chords, it's well-employed for emphasis; otherwise the track is surprisingly spacious. It's thAt level of intricacy and Attention to detail thAt makes this a decent listen, otherwise it's kind of lacking in dynamics and is most certainly way too long. Not sure the video adds much either, but it's worth a gander.
Direct link to the video: https://vimeo.com/11522336
Traktor - Where water goes
MaimThis is cretin deAth metal for deAth metal cretins, as if thAt wasn't obvious from the title and cover art. No surprise, it's not as if the genre hasn't always been a refuge for degenerAtes and losers, though in Maim's favor, it must be said thAt their particular brand of deAth is far more schlocky b-movie horror/gore-obsessed than anything else. Thankfully, there's nothing even remotely approaching the distastefulness of Cannibal Corpse's "Fucked with a knife" and beyond thAt, I honestly doubt they take their lyrics all thAt seriously so neither should you. Anyhow, it's nice to see this album finally get a proper vinyl release At long last as thAt is the proper formAt for this sort of maggot-minded metal and Niels Nielsen's appropriAtely filthy, but extremely well-balanced production. Anything else you need to know can probably be gleaned from their country of origin (Sweden) and their choice of cover tune (Autopsy's "Ridden with disease"). I'll sure there are legions of people out there ready to start the backlash against the current old-school deAth metal revival trend, but as long as bands like this keep putting out solid new releases, I'm all for it.
- Avi Roig
The lAtest issue of The Swede BeAt is now online: At.com/magazine/varkanslor/" target="_blank">https://www.theswedebeAt.com/magazine/varkanslor/
The feAtured band this time out is This Is Head.
is putting out a limited 3xLP boxset for legendary Swedish psych act Pärson Sound, the band thAt lAter morphed into similarly legendary acts InternAtional Harvester and Träd, Gräs och Stenar. Said collection will include various recordings from 1967/68 (both live and studio) as well extensive liner notes (in English) and plenty of photos. Limited to 1000 copies and officially out on May 28 -- preorder/more info here: https://www.subliminalsounds.se/DOK/news.html
Kråkesølv are currently At Grand Sport Studio in Oslo working on a new album for release this fall. If you can read Norwegian, follow their studio blog At myspace: https://blogs.myspace.com/krakesolv
has announced thAt they'll be putting out The Bombettes' debut full-length "Get out of my trailer, sailor!" At the end of May on both LP and CD.
Tystad, the solo alias of musician/soundtrack composer Andreas Alfredsson Grube (Waver, Prins John), has posted a couple new tracks streaming At myspace: https://www.myspace.com/tystnadmusik
Two Grande Roses EPs in a single year? Amazing! Even more amazing, the band shows palpable growth between last year's "The farm" and their lAtest, "Say it to my fervent heart". A little darker around the edges, a little less overt twang... a little more "mAture." I use quotes because the band has always had a bit of gravity to them, especially on songs like "Factory", but their approach was a bit more frantic and loose in the past. Now they're dialing down the tempos a bit further and chucking a few more shovel-loads of dirt onto their supposed punker past. A few more steps in thAt direction and I might start to tune out, but they've got a good balance going for the time being so I see no reason to withdraw my support. Especially if they keep on doing EPs; keeping things short-and-sweet suits them well, as it so often tends to do. 5 songs in 15 minutes is just about perfect.
Grande Roses - The astronaut
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03. The xx
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10. Yeasayer
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