The metal band Bloodlit, hailing from Borås, was formed in 2009. A couple of years later they released the EP “Take What’s Mine” and earlier this year the full length album “Dead On”. Well, I should I also mention that I got a press release today announcing that the band has made the official song for their hometown’s hockey team Borås Hockey: “Lions (Fight Under Pressure)“. Think about that, to see the home audience headbanging to heavy metal just have to give some extra fuel to the team.
“Dead On” is a great metal album, full of heavy, raw metal, in which they blend smooth melodies and some influences from classic hard rock from the seventies and the eighties, but without compromising with the weight and the roughness in their rock sound. Add to that a good singer in Mladen Milojkovic and a great drive in the music and you get a band on their way of carving out their own sound in the metalrock stream. Here are two songs, where “God of Clay” may be my favourite from the album.
The rock band Killerball had a somewhat intense festival Summer where they performed at both the new Bråvallafestivalen as well as at Hultsfredsfestivalen among others, but now they seem to be busy in the songwriting chamber for the rest of the year. Meanwhile we can enjoy their latest single “Hype”, with the music video they released some months ago.
I wrote about the etablishment-kicking and normcritic band Könsförrädare earlier this year when they released their first single “Death to Stories“. About a month ago they released the debut album “Curse All Law” produced by Mattias Alkberg, a nicely messy, confronting and varied album that offers smooth melodic choruses as well as noisy, irregular indie rock in the spirit of Sonic Youth.
Earlier this year The Australian band Alex Watts & The Foreign Tongue announced a remix competition for their single “Warned”. The winner was the Swedish producer Lars Rosenblad with his interesting remix which takes the song to an entirely different place, with verses that breathes of Bowie in the ambience and which cracks up in an almost power ballad-sounding chorus. Quite far away from the orginial with it’s Crowded House-vibing arrangement. Listen here below to both versions.
Mankind, hailing from Stockholm, has released this garage-vibing single and video “Blood, Sugar”. Interestingly the song is produced by Gordon Raphael, mostly known for his productions of The Strokes early albums. It’s a great video too, made by Johan Stolpe, which you can see here below. The band has earlier released the EP “New Bag”, which certainly also is worth a listen, also with a garage sound but with a more sixties vibe to them, like if they were fetched from one of the “Nuggets from the psychadelic era”-albums. I’d love to hear a debut album from this interesting band, which they’ve spoken about before, but I haven’t seen any schedule for it yet.
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