Tickets for The Hellacopters' last ever gigs are available at www.luger.se/biljetter now. Get your ticket now or regret it forever.
Union Square play at Bandit Unsigned Party at Harry B James, Stockholm, tonight. Doors open at 9pm.
Watch this space for this and much more within a near future:
Cult of Luna - Eternal Kingdom album review
Slipknot - All Hope Is Gone album review
Clutch live at Klubben gig review
Union Square live at Harry B James gig review
27/08/2008
17/08/2008
Rock and Roll is Dead! All Hail Rock and Roll!
Being a girl from Sweden moving to Berlin in a month I obviously got tickets to see In Flames live in Berlin on the 25th of October. In Flames are amazing live and they are one of my favourite bands ever. After The Hellacopters that is. I have no doubt I would win any Biggest Hellacopter Fan Competition ever and am devastated at the fact that they are leaving us.
So I was thrilled to hear that the Kings of Rock n Roll are doing one last club tour here in Sweden, ending it with their final concert at Debaser Medis in Stockholm. I would so grab a flight home for that occasion alone.
But the thrill was soon exchanged for terror when I realised that that concert is on the 26th of October. The day after the In Flames gig in Berlin. WHAT DO I DO?! I am seriously contemplating getting the first damn flight from Berlin to Stockholm that leaves after the In Flames gig. In fact I will. There is no way I'm missing the heartbreaking event, the funeral, the end of an era, the thankyou-we-will-always-love-you that that gig will be.
Talk about a kick ass weekend, I can't wait for it but at the same time I don't want it o happen. I know it will end in tears.
(The Hellacopters also play Berlin on the 29th of September. Get in!)
So I was thrilled to hear that the Kings of Rock n Roll are doing one last club tour here in Sweden, ending it with their final concert at Debaser Medis in Stockholm. I would so grab a flight home for that occasion alone.
But the thrill was soon exchanged for terror when I realised that that concert is on the 26th of October. The day after the In Flames gig in Berlin. WHAT DO I DO?! I am seriously contemplating getting the first damn flight from Berlin to Stockholm that leaves after the In Flames gig. In fact I will. There is no way I'm missing the heartbreaking event, the funeral, the end of an era, the thankyou-we-will-always-love-you that that gig will be.
Talk about a kick ass weekend, I can't wait for it but at the same time I don't want it o happen. I know it will end in tears.
(The Hellacopters also play Berlin on the 29th of September. Get in!)
11/08/2008
Rachmanite demo review
Rachmanite manage to make a lot of noise, considering the band consists of only two people.
Tom (guitar) and Podge (drums) had both long been deeply involved in the Sheffield heavy music scene in various ways, when they decided to start playing together two and a half years ago. Many hours of practising and several amp problems later they played their second show ever at the Ninehertz Alldayer at the Underworld in London this summer.
Together with bands such as The Mirimar Disaster and Flatlands they are creating a Sheffield-sound, the way At the Gates and In Flames created the Gothenburg sound back in the day. A sound which all bands share without sounding anything like each other, a sound that is far from the Arctic Monkeys or Bring Me The Horizon.
Their debut demo consists of 4 powerful tracks, full of doom-heavy riffs, smoky melodies and repetitive bravery. For a newbie like me a first listen to the demo can make it seem dull, monotonous and grey but soon the different shades of grey shine through, and how they shine.
It is a brave debut, it is intelligent, different and moody but nowhere near the emo-moodiness you get a lot of these days. Going from black to white and back to another type of grey they remind me of my worst PMS mood swings, only darker. And they manage to pull it off in one flow, sweeping me off my feet as they do it.
It is a demo full of emotion, the drums manage to stir up a storm just to seconds later create an almost calming beat, sending me into a kind of trance, a dream world underwater bubble outside which a battle is being fought.
Starting off slow and heavy at times, like in beautiful Stockholm, and ending in a firework of rage and riffs, as they do throughout, they do have similarities to bands such as Cult of Luna but have somehow managed to create their own mysterious sound.
Happy Ending is a song with some of the heaviest riffs and a lot of potential, although personally I think that a vocalist could have helped this particular track. But it is hard to put Rachmanite’s music into words, and as Tom reveals, this is part of why so far they have no vocals.
A two and a half year long struggle has ended in a brilliant demo, now we can only wait and see what the next release from the newest addition to the Sheffield scene will bring.
Rachmanite’s demo is available for listening and downloading at www.myspace.com/rachmanite
If you like the Sheffield sound check out:
The Mirmarar Disaster
Flatlands
The humble hoax
Actioneer
65daysofstatic
Other duos currently doing well are Deathfromabove1979 and Swedish Johnossi.
Tom (guitar) and Podge (drums) had both long been deeply involved in the Sheffield heavy music scene in various ways, when they decided to start playing together two and a half years ago. Many hours of practising and several amp problems later they played their second show ever at the Ninehertz Alldayer at the Underworld in London this summer.
Together with bands such as The Mirimar Disaster and Flatlands they are creating a Sheffield-sound, the way At the Gates and In Flames created the Gothenburg sound back in the day. A sound which all bands share without sounding anything like each other, a sound that is far from the Arctic Monkeys or Bring Me The Horizon.
Their debut demo consists of 4 powerful tracks, full of doom-heavy riffs, smoky melodies and repetitive bravery. For a newbie like me a first listen to the demo can make it seem dull, monotonous and grey but soon the different shades of grey shine through, and how they shine.
It is a brave debut, it is intelligent, different and moody but nowhere near the emo-moodiness you get a lot of these days. Going from black to white and back to another type of grey they remind me of my worst PMS mood swings, only darker. And they manage to pull it off in one flow, sweeping me off my feet as they do it.
It is a demo full of emotion, the drums manage to stir up a storm just to seconds later create an almost calming beat, sending me into a kind of trance, a dream world underwater bubble outside which a battle is being fought.
Starting off slow and heavy at times, like in beautiful Stockholm, and ending in a firework of rage and riffs, as they do throughout, they do have similarities to bands such as Cult of Luna but have somehow managed to create their own mysterious sound.
Happy Ending is a song with some of the heaviest riffs and a lot of potential, although personally I think that a vocalist could have helped this particular track. But it is hard to put Rachmanite’s music into words, and as Tom reveals, this is part of why so far they have no vocals.
A two and a half year long struggle has ended in a brilliant demo, now we can only wait and see what the next release from the newest addition to the Sheffield scene will bring.
Rachmanite’s demo is available for listening and downloading at www.myspace.com/rachmanite
If you like the Sheffield sound check out:
The Mirmarar Disaster
Flatlands
The humble hoax
Actioneer
65daysofstatic
Other duos currently doing well are Deathfromabove1979 and Swedish Johnossi.
07/08/2008
Backyard Babies - new album review
Swedish Backyard Babies release their new album on the 13th of August and I have been hoping, no praying, for it to be something more like Stockholm Syndrome (BMG 2003) and less like People like people like us (SONYBMG 2006). The latter in all fairness having been one of the dullest records ever released by a band with so much attitude.
And after a listen through the new material I can say that I am not only relieved but ecstatic; the new album is one big knock out, a punch in the belly for those who had stopped believing, it is amazing. First single Fuck off and die, a fiery tune with sing along potential and a pretty cool video sets the mood for the rest of the album where Nomadic shines the most with powerful riffs and Dregen and Nickes voices trigging each other towards a strong yet catchy chorus. I can already image being surrounded by a massive crowd shouting the words back at the tattooed foursome when they perform this one.
Where were you is another kick ass song with that familiar Backyard sound that I love so much and which can be found throughout almost the entire album. There are however a couple of songs that stand out from this certain sound. My personal favourite, Abandon is believe it or not a slow song full of hurt and emotion, sung with painful bitterness that hits me right in the heart. Final song Saved by the bell, despite smelling a bit of Guns and Roses, could well become a classic and is good ending to a CD that I think many will agree with me has saved Backyard Babies. It has saved them from becoming another great band that continued for all eternity into boredom, because this album is everything but boring. The Backyard Babies are back and there's no way you're going to miss it.
Album release date: 13/8/2008 Until then the album in its entirety can be heard on www.myspace.com/backyardbabies
And after a listen through the new material I can say that I am not only relieved but ecstatic; the new album is one big knock out, a punch in the belly for those who had stopped believing, it is amazing. First single Fuck off and die, a fiery tune with sing along potential and a pretty cool video sets the mood for the rest of the album where Nomadic shines the most with powerful riffs and Dregen and Nickes voices trigging each other towards a strong yet catchy chorus. I can already image being surrounded by a massive crowd shouting the words back at the tattooed foursome when they perform this one.
Where were you is another kick ass song with that familiar Backyard sound that I love so much and which can be found throughout almost the entire album. There are however a couple of songs that stand out from this certain sound. My personal favourite, Abandon is believe it or not a slow song full of hurt and emotion, sung with painful bitterness that hits me right in the heart. Final song Saved by the bell, despite smelling a bit of Guns and Roses, could well become a classic and is good ending to a CD that I think many will agree with me has saved Backyard Babies. It has saved them from becoming another great band that continued for all eternity into boredom, because this album is everything but boring. The Backyard Babies are back and there's no way you're going to miss it.
Album release date: 13/8/2008 Until then the album in its entirety can be heard on www.myspace.com/backyardbabies
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