Baron Bane – “By the Waves”

February 2, 2015 at 4:21 pm

Baron Bane

Baron Bane is finally back with new recordings. First up is the single “By the Waves” and the aim is a new album later this year. It’s a fascintating song where ominous, pulsating synths meet beautiful piano and song melodies, frenzy meet tranquility like if there was a battle between the two. In the end it becomes rather dramatic and grand-sounding, and I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a film somewhere looking for a soundtrack just like this.

Baron Bane’s site – on Facebookon Spotifyon Wimp

Death By Toaster – “That’s Life”

December 18, 2014 at 3:20 pm

Death By Toaster

The Swedish/Icelandic rock trio Death By Toaster released the EP “That’s Life” now in December. The EP is the first in a series of four EP:s, each containing three songs which all together will form the content of the debut album, to be released on the 1st of June next year. The second EP is out on the 16th of January. Listen here below to two of the tracks which I would describe as a mix of alternative rock and melodic hard rock.:

Death By Toaster’s site – on Facebookon Spotifyon Bandcamp

Xanima – “Prototype: Homo Sapiens”

October 28, 2014 at 3:07 pm

Xanima

The band Xanima, hailing from Stockholm, released their second album earlier this year: “Prototype: Homo Sapiens”. Partly they describe their music as progressive rock and artrock, which also feels like the foundation of their music, but is a long way from describing what it’s about. Here’s a darkness and mystique, almost like it was fetched from goth rock and to some extent new wave, and, particularly, a great deal of grand drama channeled through the charismatic singer Jade Ell. It’s a powerful album with thirteen tracks that serves us almost an hour of music, and it’s one of those albums that grow as you more and more get into their special atmosphere.

Xanimas site – on Facebookon Spotifyon Wimp

Catching up – Rock with The Good Morning Spider, Chirping, Sentimental Pet and Hunt

June 13, 2014 at 4:47 pm
The Good Morning Spider

The Good Morning Spider

The Good Morning Spider – “Outergalactic” – album

I showed you some of The Good Morning Spider, hailing from Malmö, in February. In the end of March the excellent debut album”Outergalactic” was released, an album full of psychadelia influences and laidback, creative rock. Here are two songs:

Chirping – “Lux” – EP

Indierock from Chirping on the EP “Lux”. The song “The Abyss“, which I presented in the Autumn, is joined by three new songs. Here’s “Canary Wharf”:

Sentimental Pet – “Evil Mind”

Alternative rock from Sentimental Pet:

Hunt “Reset My Bones” (featuring Andrea Gibson)

The band Hunt, hailing from Göteborg, with the postrock-vibing song “Reset My Bones”. The song is based on a poem by Andrea Gibson, a poem she recites in the song. Video by Mats Udd.

Wednesday rock with Danmarck, Vindstyrka12, Supralunar and Magnus Bergman

May 14, 2014 at 5:02 pm
Vindstyrka12

Vindstyrka12

Danmarck – “ole ola”

Richard Ahlgren and his Danmarck continue to deliver great, intense rock tracks. Here are the two latest ones, “ole ola” and “ali Khan”, where he thanks Wilco, new wave and Pearl Jam’s “Olé” in the subtexts to the first song.

Vindstyrka12 – “Ser jag er igen” – video

Vindstyrka12 is a band from Göteborg, led by the singer and songwriter Jon Lyster. As a taste of the upcoming album “För det du vet att du älskar” (release in June) they have released the single and video “Ser jag er igen”. And it’s hard to miss Jon’s anger in this song, a song that was written after he got robbed on his way home from a pleasant night out on the town. This is not only about the contempt for other people from the muggers themselves, but also about a chilly society where we shut our eyes and turn away from what’s happening right in front of us on the street. The song becomes a raging rock protest with a clenched fist against this. To me Jon is a new, fresh voice I’d love to hear more from.

Ironically the video was taken down after only a few days on Youtube. Youtube stated that the content was too violent and threatened to close Jon’s account, but he has uploaded the video again, as you can see below.

Supralunar – “Nine Candles” – video

The trio Supralunar have released a couple of singles while we’re waiting for their debut album, which is said to be scheduled for release in the Autumn.  We’ve heard the excellent “People Like Us” before and here’s the second one “Nine Candles” with a video that well reveals their sources of inspiration, as they dress themselves through the history of rock.

Magnus Bergman – “En riktig djävul”

This year Magnus Bergman celebrates 15 years as an artist and a few days ago he released the album “MB15” with 15 previously unreleased songs from his career between 1999 and 2014. Some of them come from his diligent song production last year, , but he serves us plenty of other samples from his career like for example this pop-pearl from 2005, “Duellera” and the newest track, the bluesy “En riktig djävul”. The last mentioned song will also be a part of his sixth solo album, to be released in the Autumn.

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