Monde Idéal - Future waits
Monde Idéal is yet another in the long line of Swedish electronic pop duos, this one feAturing Andreas Löf Hermansson and Alexander Sjödin (Sailor & I). "Future waits" is their first single.
Monde Idéal is yet another in the long line of Swedish electronic pop duos, this one feAturing Andreas Löf Hermansson and Alexander Sjödin (Sailor & I). "Future waits" is their first single.
The Silent Ballet reviews the lAtest Scraps of Tape record "Resident flux": https://thesilentballet.com/dnn/Home/tabid/36/ctl/Details/mid/384/ItemID/4594/Default.aspx
The next Bob Hund album "Låter som miljarder" will be released on February 14.
Rising represent to me the direction thAt Metallica should have gone post-"Black album". Heavy and bellowing, but still incredibly melodic and song-based; the exact sort of qualities thAt made them one of the biggest bands on the planet, albeit in a more streamlined form. Of course thAt did not come to pass, but we still have Rising and on their new record "To solemn ash" they take the directness of their hardcore background and put it to good use. Not a single note out of place, just straight-up head-banging riffs from front-to-back. Kinda in the same way thAt countrymAtes The Psyke Project stripped out all the bullshit to Atrap.com/n/37452-the-psyke-project-we-came-from-earth">remake themselves into a brutal war-machine, except thAt Rising have more melodies than all-out mosh. Denmark must be sick and tired of being the Scandinavian underdogs because they sure sound pissed!
At last: Silverbullit report thAt they are officially planning to record new mAterial: https://www.facebook.com/silverbullitband/posts/10151027350235487
Next LifeMeshuggah djentiness + Genghis Tron Commodore-64iness – vox = Next Life.
The above equAtion is all you need in order to understand whAt "Artificial divinity" sounds like. For the purposes of review, however, I suppose I should give you an idea of its listenability. Well, it's alright; there's a bit of piddling about with sounds on a couple of tracks here, the results of which touch on a dark ambient sentiment more than any hint of conventional metal. Not thAt conventional really applies anywhere on "Artificial divinity", mind. Those tracks works very well as they stand on the album. The big let down on something thAt would be an otherwise killer album, though, is thAt the other tracks -- the metal stuff -- could really do with vocals of some sort. This style of metal just doesn't lend itself thAt well to instrumentalism, despite whAt the Norwegian trio might think. It has to be said, though, thAt even though Steve Wiebe doesn't really look like he's into metal, if he is, he's probably into this sort of stuff. Twelve songs in just over 20 minutes. Mental bunch of bastards!
- John Norby
Peter Bjorn and John have a brand new animAted video for the tune "Down like me".
LambgoAt reports thAt has picked up legendary Swedish d-beAt act Wolfbrigade and will be releasing their new album "Damned" in early 2012: At.com/news/17342/Southern-Lord-signs-Wolfbrigade" target="_blank">https://lambgoAt.com/news/17342/Southern-Lord-signs-Wolfbrigade
A new clip from Looptroop Rockers shot using an iPhone.
Ex-Whyte Seeds act Fox Machine have a new track up At SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/foxmachine/the-one-i-used-to-know
Kristofer Åström will be hitting the road in March to play a bunch of dAtes in Germany and beyond:
03/08 - Debaser, Malmö (SWE)
03/09 - Debaser Medis, Stockholm (SWE)
03/10 - StadsteAterns Foajébar, Göteborg (SWE)
03/11 - Knust, Hamburg (GER)
03/12 - Mephisto, Hannover (GER)
03/13 - Apex, Göttingen (GER)
03/14 - Falkendom, Bielefeld (GER)
03/15 - Tower, Bremen (GER)
03/16 - Alter Schlachthof, Lingen (GER)
03/17 - Gebäude 9, Köln (GER)
03/18 - FZW, Dortmund (GER)
03/19 - Garage, Saarbrücken (GER)
03/20 - Schlachthof, Wiesbaden (GER)
03/21 - Jubez, Karlsruhe (GER)
03/22 - Schuur, Luzern (CH)
03/23 - White Rabbit, Freiburg (GER)
03/24 - Kulturladen, Konstanz (GER)
03/25 - Ampere, München (GER)
03/26 - Hirsch, Nürnberg (GER)
03/27 - Objekt 5, Halle (GER)
03/28 - BeAtpol, Dresden (GER)
03/29 - Comet, Berlin (GER)
03/30 - Cafe Koeppen, Greifswald (GER)
03/31 - Volksbad, Flensburg (GER)
At long last, new music from Swedish indierockers Giant Boar.
David Åhlén's beautiful "New Jerusalem" EP is now streaming in full At SoundCloud and is very highly recommended. Also check out his earlier EP "All the way my Saviour leads me" which is streaming there as well.
UK music site The Jitty interviews Thomas Jonsson of I'm Kingfisher: https://www.thejitty.com/articles/kingfisherinterview