While they are currently on their first-ever US tour, with first career headline shows as well as in support of ALKALINE TRIO, yesterday, September 13, 2024, Norwegian desert rockers SLOMOSA released their brand new studio album “Tundra Rock” in its entirety! Available via Stickman Records, you can order your copy of this must-have banger at: https://www.stickman-records.com/shop/slomosa-tundra-rock/
A brilliant new music video for the band’s latest single “Red Thundra” is now premiering here:
SLOMOSA were formed in Bergen in 2017. Driven by their passion for catchy songwriting and groovy riffs, the band has embarked on a unique journey that blends stoner rock, grunge and hardcore into their signature blend, dubbed “tundra rock”; a northern twist on California desert rock.
Since their sudden appearance on the scene with the self-titled debut album in 2020, SLOMOSA have hit the ground running with frenetically-acclaimed festival appearances and relentless tours with more than 130 shows in twenty countries alongside bands such as Orange Goblin, Elder, King Buffalo, Sasquatch or Stöner. Their explosive live performances have earned them an enthusiastic fanbase, both nationally and internationally. SLOMOSA‘s music has even captured the attention of rock greats like Tool guitarist Adam Jones, who recently shared his enthusiasm for the band on his social media, or Kyuss legends Brant Bjork and Nick Oliveri, who have expressed their love for SLOMOSA‘s sound and riffs. With a steadily growing fanbase from all over the world, more than 10.000,000 Spotify streams alone, a busy touring schedule throughout the UK and Europe, featuring recent shows with heavy weights Fu Manchu in Oslo, an upcoming European run with GREENLEAF andtheir current US tour, the future is definitely bright for the band between the seven mountains.
Their much-acclaimed new studio offering “Tundra Rock”, out tomorrow on Stickman Records, was produced by Eirik Marinius Sandvik at Polyfon Studio and Marinius Studio, and was mastered by Jørgen Træen. The cover artwork was created by Elsa Enestig. Order“Tundra Rock”HERE!
10 Years and Mascot Records have announced an October 11 street date for the band’s digital EP titled INNER DARKNESS. They have also revealed the lead single 10 Years (feat. Conquer Divide), “The Optimist” to accompany the announcement. Watch the video HERE.
In addition to featuring three previously unreleased songs and three well-received singles, the Inner Darkness EP includes a version of the hit “The Optimist” with guest vocals by Conquer Divide’s Kia Taylor, who skillfully trades off lines with 10 Years singer Jesse Hasek.
The chemistry between the two singers and the bands more broadly was there from the start. When they first met on a Zoom, guitarist and producer Brian Vodinh recalls, “We talked about touring and recording and basically nerded out and hit it off really well. Then, we mentioned the idea of a collaboration, which is where everything started.” Hasek adds, “We thought it would be fun to give it a new twist since it has been out there for a while. Kia’s name came up and I’ve always enjoyed female vocalists and I thought it would be especially cool to inject her voice into our style of music. She had the right vibe and a great attitude and she really went for it. It was a fun, painless process and it came out even better than I expected it to.”
The complete EP track listing includes “The Optimist” (feat. Conquer Divide), “Gravity,” “Rise,” “Speechless,” “I Remember,” “The Trench,” and “The Optimist.” While 10 Years will continue to tour through the end of the year and into 2025, the band has no intention of waiting another four years before releasing the follow-up to Inner Darkness. In fact, there are more than a dozen nearly finished songs waiting for Vodinh in his home studio. With no strict deadline and no studio bills to pay, Vodinh constructed frameworks for about 70 songs over the past two years. The greatest challenge was deciding which six would make the cut for Inner Darkness.
“There was such a massive catalog of built-up material we went through – great demos that have everything on them except the vocals — that it was really hard to come up with the right songs that flowed together in the right way,” Vodinh says. “There are a dozen other songs that are really strong and just need to be finished up, and we kept going back and forth, bouncing from one song to another for all eternity to try to figure out what to use. In the end, we used the ones Jesse felt the best about vocally, but there’s plenty of great stuff left to work with.” A full-length studio album is planned for release in 2025.
The band 10 Years has enriched the musical lives of a global fan base for over a quarter century. And as they approach the release of their 10 th studio album, they celebrate the milestone of surpassing a quarter billion cumulative streams across all platforms. Their repertoire continues to connect, while also being discovered by a new audience of many who were just being born when this career began. 10 Years is Jesse Hasek (Lead Vocals), Brian Vodinh (Guitar, Backing Vocals), Matt Wantland (Guitar), Chad Grennor (Bass) and Luke Narey (Drums).
10 Years released three new singles between late 2022 and early 2024 – “The Optimist,” “I Remember,” and “Rise” – and earned more than 27 million streams for their efforts (“The Optimist” alone garnering 16.5 million plays).
The new repertoire is driven by the inspiration of introspection, aggression, and isolation. Singer Jesse Hasek shares, “I’ve always used music as a tool to express my inner feelings, and I can get dark, especially considering our last album came out right before the pandemic, and then the entire world shut down and everyone was stuck. But I think it’s healthy and to dig deep within to release those feelings of negativity instead of holding onto them. It’s like working out. When you work out, you get sore, but then you get stronger. There’s a soreness and pain that comes from digging into this stuff, but nothing feels better than coming out on the other side.”
Since forming in 1999, 10 Years have quietly pushed themselves and modern rock towards evolution. Building a formidable catalog, the group’s gold-selling 2005 breakthrough The Autumn Effect yielded the hit “Wasteland,” which went gold, infiltrated the Billboard Hot 100, and clinched #1 at Active Rock Radio and #1 on the Billboard Alternative Songs Chart. They landed three Top 30 entries on the Billboard Top 200 with Division [2008], Feeding the Wolves [2010], and Minus the Machine [2012]. In 2017’s (how to live) As Ghosts marked a reunion between Jesse, Brian, and Matt and achieved marked success. Not only did the album bow in the Top 5 of the US Top Hard Rock Albums Chart, but it also yielded the hit “Novacaine.” The single ascended to the Top 5 of the Billboard US Mainstream Rock Songs Chart and has now tallied over 45 million streams, across all DSPs. The cumulative total for all track streams from repertoire on how to live (As Ghosts) exceeds 74 million plays. Along the way, they sold out countless headline shows and toured with everyone from Korn, Three Days Grace. Deftones, and Stone Sour to Chris Cornell and Linkin Park. The band’s most recent studio album is titled Violent Allies, and was recorded with GRAMMY® Award-winning producer Howard Benson [My Chemical Romance, Halestorm, Papa Roach]. The record has amassed over 50 million streams.
Despite the many accolades that they’ve received over the past decade, Oceans of Slumber have never rested on their laurels. The Houston heavies have come to redefine the Southern Gothic by casting their tales of hope and despair against an ever-shifting backdrop of progressive metal. While it was produced by their long-time collaborator and GRAMMY nominee Joel Hamilton, the band’s sixth album and first for Season of Mist expands their vision to dark, cinematic new heights.
“A vengeful prog metal monster that needs to be heard”, Metal Hammer writes in a four-star review.
Where Gods Fear to Speak was released yesterday, Friday, September 13, and you can hear all ten monumental songs by listening to the full album stream on the Season of Mist YouTube channel.
Oceans of Slumber defy any and all conventions. Where Gods Fear to Speak opens with more of the sultry, doom metal headbanging that the band’s long-time acolytes have come to expect, but the album’s spellbinding title track breaks entirely new ground. Punishing blast beats and a blackened torrent of melodic tremolo picking collide with powerhouse cleans, a skyrocketing guitar solo and synths that swirl like the aura of a mystical planet.
So what are we to call this otherworldly occurrence?
“Dark cinematic metal” says the band’s maestro Dobber Beverly. Underground metalheads will always recognize him as the drummer for grindcore legends Insect Warfare, but Dobber is a classically trained pianist who composed every grand note on Where Gods Fear to Speak. “We’ve taken the raw and heavier direction of our last two albums and elevated it to the scale of a blockbuster IMAX movie”.
Staying true to Ocean of Slumber’s irreverent musings, Where Gods Fear to Speak takes more inspiration from The Handmaid’s Tale, The Dark Tower and Cormac McCarthy than it does Opeth. Each song acts as another gripping plot twist along a narrative arc that’s part science fiction, part western gunslinger with a heavy dose of post-apocalyptic romance. Lead single “Poem of Ecstasy” splices together an album’s worth of stand-out moments into its own mini-epic, cutting from a moonlight piano sonata to outlaw country, doom-laden power metal and what can only be described as “dystopian grindcore”.
“I’ll do everything to stay by your side” frontwoman Cammie Beverly belts, her cleans pushing back against the charging blast beats like a force field.
Performing such a radical play on extreme metal requires a talented cast of characters. Dobber’s Necrofier bandmate Semir Ozerkan adds heat with harsh backing vocals and warm but bruising bass fills, while co-guitarists Alex Davis and Chris Kritikos roar through Where Gods Fear to Speak like a sandstorm. The album also gets a lift from two special guests. Moonspell’s Fernando Ribeiro casts his big bad shadow over the chugging, rumbling “Run From the Light”. Amidst a spirited tug of war between distorted tremolo picking and folksy acoustic strumming, “Prayer” is visited by gothic angel Mikael Stanne of Dark Tranquility.
Even with all that talent on display, Oceans of Slumber still cede the spotlight to their leading lady. Cammie has always possessed one of the strongest voices in metal. Even though the album was recorded a cool 8,000 feet above sea level in Bogotá, Colombia, the grueling altitude couldn’t stop her bottomless belt from scaling the slippery crush of “The Given Dream”. But Where Gods Fear to Speak has her flexing a guttural new muscle.
“I’ve always wanted to do death growls”, Cammie says. “Where Gods Fear to Speak presented the perfect opportunity. Mixing harsh vocals in with my cleans speaks to the internal struggle between pleasure and pain that’s at the heart of this album”.
If the Oceans of Slumber’s impromptu cover of Chris Isaak’s “Wicked Game” is the doomed end credits score to Where Gods Fear to Speak, then “Impermanence of Fate” is the album’s climactic finale battle. “I know my name and what it means / and what I have to say”, Cammie sings with all her might as the band rise up behind her with the jaw-dropping magnitude of a tidal wave.
“Every time you make a new record, you think it’s the best”, Cammie and Dobber say, “but Where Gods Fear to Speak easily has some of the best songs we’ve ever written. It sounds like an energetic, pissed-off band, with enigmatic storytelling and all those magical things”.
On Where Gods Fear to Speak, Oceans of Slumber remake progressive metal in their own dark, cinematic image.
Tracklist 1. Where Gods Fear to Speak (6:25) [WATCH] 2. Run From the Light (5:15) 3. Don’t Come Back From Hell Empty Handed (8:28) 4. Wish (3:53) 5. Poem of Ecstasy (6:33) [WATCH] 6. The Given Dream (3:36) [LISTEN] 7. I Will Break the Pride of Your Will (5:27) 8. Prayer (5:03) 9. The Impermanence of Fate (6:20) 10. Wicked Game (5:26) [LISTEN]
To celebrate Where Gods Fear to Speak, Oceans of Slumber are playing an album release show for their hometown fans. They’ll be joined at Houston’s Scout Bar by their friends in Anova Skyway, Dyer Infernum and Metropolis Burning.
“Crowds really took to the new songs when we were on tour earlier this year with New Years Day and Lacuna Coil”, Dobber says. “We’re excited to play more songs off the album for the very first time during what’ll be our final show of the year”.
Where Gods Fear to Speak Record Release Show Saturday, October 19 – Houston, TX @ Scout Bar [TICKETS]
Later this month, the band are saddling up with their fellow Houston heavies in Necrofier for a fiery performance at Metal Injection Festival.
“We are thrilled to celebrate Metal Injection’s 20th anniversary at this year’s festival”, says Cammie. “We’ll be sharing the stage with amazing bands like Jinjer, Converge, God Forbid, 3 Inches of Blood, Hanabie, Cave In, Rivers of Nihil and our good friends in Necrofier. We can’t wait to rock out with you and hit the streets of New York City”.
Metal Injection Festival Sunday, September 22 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Monarch & Meadows [TICKETS]
More than a decade has passed since the release of Oceans of Slumber’s Aetherial debut album, and a lot has changed. After recruiting Cammie Gilbert (now Beverly) in 2014, the Houston, Texas crew’s trajectory took a natural, upward tilt, fueled by the hugely positive response received by second album, Winter (2016). Masters of dark-hearted brutality and gritty, melancholic song craft, Oceans of Slumber transcended the usual genre limitations, favoring a progressive and boundary-less approach. With each successive record, the combination of founder, drummer, pianist and chief songwriter Dobber Beverly’s brooding, dynamic onslaughts with Cammie’s charismatic presence and elegant, sonorous vocals garnered widespread acclaim and an international fan base. Monuments to a restless creative spirit, the band’s third and fourth albums, The Banished Heart (2018) and Oceans of Slumber (2020) raised the stakes ever higher.
Nobody said it was going to be easy, however. Buoyed by the praise of critics and the love of increasingly rabid admirers, Oceans of Slumber proved true to their progressive reputation when they released fifth full-length Starlight & Ash in 2022. Although still palpably drawn from the same well of dark and daring influences that had informed previous records, the new songs were pointedly bereft of the crushing metal tropes and elaborate song structures of old. Instead, Oceans of Slumber stripped things to an ornate and earthy take on gothically-inclined songwriting and melancholy modern prog. Starlight & Ash was praised in metal and prog media, but drew the ire of the band’s big label paymasters, who were rather unimaginatively hoping for more of the same. Reaching an impasse, band and label parted ways, leading to Oceans of Slumber’s newly-forged relationship with the notoriously open-minded Season of Mist. Now armed with a brand new studio album, Where Gods Fear To Speak, these intuitive radicals have gone where they will be understood.
“The thing is, we never said we’re never going to do something heavy again,” shrugs Cammie. “People panic when a band puts out an album that does something different. It was a weird time. It came during a time when our music was different from everything else, and I think the record was a bit lost on some people – people that mattered in our realm. The fans got it, and it was received really well, just not by the label!”
“Starlight should’ve been an easier way for us to branch out to a different audience,” adds Dobber. “But the label didn’t care and we didn’t try to capitalize on it. With Where Gods Fear To Speak, every time you make a new record, you think it’s the best, but there’s a couple of songs on this record that are definitely the best songs we’ve ever written, easily. There’s an energy to them that’s palpable. It sounds like an energetic, pissed-off band, with enigmatic storytelling and all those magical things.”
Recorded in Bogota, Colombia, in 2023, Where Gods Fear To Speak is a multi-faceted entry into Oceans of Slumber’s burgeoning legacy. Many of the melodic and textural elements that made Starlight & Ash such a revelation are still present, but scabrous brutality and complex, cultured arrangements are back with a vengeance. With Cammie’s astonishing vocal blend of vulnerability and abominable power, these songs are the best possible showcase for a band on an unerring mission to win the world over.
“I think Cammie is the best singer in America by far, but if she’s at such a top level and we still can’t break through, that just means that if we want to stay where we are, we’ve got to work harder!” Dobber admits, candidly. “We know how good we are, and how good the music is, but it doesn’t pay off for us all the time and the new record reflects that. It’s aggressive, it’s aggravated, but it tells a story. The closing song, “Impermanence Of Fate” – that’s the tag. It means that what you have it isn’t a fatal flaw or a mortal wound, and you can change things and work around these setbacks. So a lot of this record is fight songs.”
A colossus in both conception and execution, Where Gods Fear To Speak eschews the usual modern metal sounds in favor of an overwhelming, wall-of-sound production. As songs like the thunderous title track and the grim and sprawling “Don’t Come Back From Hell Empty Handed” cast their meandering, malevolent spells, every instrument leaps out with laser-like clarity, and the vast, emotional heft underpinning Dobber and Cammie’s lyrics is brought rivetingly to the fore. Meanwhile, standout gems like “The Given Dream” and “Poem of Ecstasy” showcase Oceans of Slumber’s still-evolving core sound, with soaring melodies and jaw-dropping dynamics that casually blur the boundary between the accessible and the avant-garde, while basking in the brooding glow of Cammie’s unique voice. Produced in collaboration with esteemed studio guru Joel Hamilton at Audovision Studios in Bogota, it emerges as a self-evident labor of love for all of those involved.
“We did the most extensive pre-production demoing that we’ve ever done for this record. Everything was finished, the vocal lines were 98% done in advance,” Dobber notes. “Then we got into the studio and I threw curveballs at Cammie to piss her off and get her to land these certain vocal sections. There has to be some element of this that is created in the moment. It’s not magical otherwise. I did all the synthesizers and orchestrations at home, but then we recorded the rest of it at the studio in Colombia. Joel’s done a lot of work with big hitters, but also with Neurosis and bands like Sleepytime Gorilla Museum. So when I said we were going to make a heavy record, I wanted it to sound like all hell’s breaking loose. We wanted a very natural production and for everything to be as organic as it could be.”
From the doom-laden opening chords of “Where Gods Fear To Speak” – released as the album’s first preview single, and revealing Cammie’s feral death growls for the first time – to the dying, desolate embers of grand finale “Impermanence Of Fate”, the new Oceans of Slumber album is simply the most immersive and fascinating piece of work the band have made. As added intrigue, guest stars Mikael Stanne of Swedish melo-death legends Dark Tranquillity, and Moonspell’s iconic frontman Fernando Ribeiro lend their vocal talents to “Run From The Light” and “Prayer” respectively. Steeped in the oppressive atmospheres of doom, death and gothic metal, but rendered using a spinning kaleidoscope of progressive musical shades, Where The Gods Fear To Speak idly defies categorization, while strenuously redefining the artistic formula that Oceans of Slumber have spent so many years refining. Meanwhile, these songs paint such vivid pictures that it comes as little surprise that Where Gods Fear to Speak is a certified concept work, with a cinematic streak a mile wide.
“This album is a dystopian western or a post-apocalyptic survival movie, somewhere between The Handmaid’s Tale, The Dark Tower and Cormac McCarthy,” states Dobber. “The whole idea is that Where The Gods Fear To Speak is a movie, and we’ve written the soundtrack. If the world was taken over, like in movie The Book Of Eli, and Gary Oldman had found the Bible and the true power of it, and he was wielding the power of the lord over everybody, those people that were maybe just into their traditional spiritualism or people that were not religious at all, they would be the defectors, so the record is written from the viewpoint of the defectors. The ending credits are our version of “Wicked Game” by Chris Isaak. We wanted to take it back to when the music in movies set the tone for everything.”
Wildly evocative and bulging under the weight of its countless razor-sharp melodies, Where Gods Fear To Speak proves that Oceans of Slumber will not let the occasional setback put them off their creative stride. Both the heaviest and the most sophisticated record they have made yet, it covers all bases to deliver an emotional, life-affirming musical journey like no other. Some people will love it. Others may not. But what is abundantly clear is that Oceans of Slumber remain a formidable force to be reckoned with, and When Gods Fear To Speak may be their masterpiece.
“We just hope to grow the band. We’ve had a problem with reaching the next level, but I’m hoping this record makes the difference, and people just give us a shot,” Dobber concludes. “The band is great and it’s tight, and Cammie is such a great performer. When people really get to see the real thing in front of them, which they don’t a lot of the time, it just works, intrinsically. There’s just a natural response to it. So if we can get in front of the audiences we should, then we’ll win them over and the band will grow. That’s all we want. It’s a mechanism for survival at this point.”
Lineup Cammie Beverly – vocals Dobber Beverly- drums, piano Semir Ozerkan – bass Alex Davis – guitar Chris Kritikos – guitar, synth
Recording Audiovision Studios in Bogotá, Columbia Assistant engineering at Audiovision by Deyra Castillo and David Dueñas Piña
Production Produced and engineered by Joel Hamilton Mixed by Joel Hamilton at Studio G in Brooklyn, New York Additional engineering by Chris Kritikos Assistant engineering by Justin Termotto
MOLDER has shared a new single, titled Bursted Innards, from their forthcoming third album, Catastrophic Reconfiguration. Catastrophic Reconfiguration will be released via Prosthetic Records on November 8, and Bursted Innards follows the Joliet, IL death metal band’s recent Invoking Decay US tour.
Speaking on the new single, Aaren Pantke (vocals / guitar) comments: “Those that have seen us live in the last year should be familiar with this one. This is actually the first song we wrote for the new record and the first new one we started “testing” live. This one is indirectly about my frustrations with being on the road. Balancing “real life” on top of “living the dream”. Being so fed up I could just explode. But what if I did, in a literal sense? Please just excuse the mess…”
The writing process for Catastrophic Reconfiguration included guitarist Carlos Santini for the first time, who brought more of a rounded and dynamic sound to the fold. Despite the new addition, finding time to write was the biggest challenge for the band, mainly due to their rigorous rehearsing and touring schedule for Engrossed, which included runs with Exhumed, Enforced, Jungle Rot and Fulci on top of festival appearances including Maryland Death Fest, Milwaukee Metalfest and Volcanic Strike Hawaii in Maui, to name a few. “Respect to those that tour full time, hold down jobs, and still find the time to be inspired enough to get it done!” remarks Pantke. “That said, we did get it done, it just took a little bit longer than we’d have liked! Once the ball got rolling, it stayed rolling”
Part of the refining of the new album meant going back to a more DIY approach to recording, with this time being done mainly at home with recording engineer, Matt Aguilar. Tracking in our basements injected a vigorous feeling back to the band. “Everyone annihilated their tracks in a matter of hours! Which for us is unheard of,” says Pantke. “This was easily the most prepared and comfortable we’ve ever been while cutting a record, and we owe a lot of that comfort to Matt.” The only setback the band faced was when Pantke broke his nose in an unfortunate incident right before he was set to record his vocals. Once completely healed, he nailed his takes and the tracks were sent off to Greg Wilkinson (Autopsy) at Ear Hammer Studios for mixing and mastering. “Greg was incredibly professional and a joy to work with. It was incredible working with someone so prestigious who so understood what it was we wanted to achieve. Total respect and absolute support to him!” exclaimed Pantke.
The resulting 10 tracks don’t stray too far from the band’s oozing, blistering sound. As usual, it’s chock full of Pantke’s riffs and agonized howls, but that’s not all. It still includes nauseating bass runs from Dominic Vaia, pounding drum performance from Kyle Pooley and mind melting leads from Carlos Santini. Proving their dynamics as a band haven’t deteriorated but have just been given more life. “You can still expect this to be a Molder record,” states Pantke. “Just musically and sonically better than the last! We simply wanted a shorter, nastier, and more professional sounding record than what we’ve done before.”
For the art, which has always been arranged by Pooley, he brought Mexican oil painter, Julian Felipe Mora Ibañez to the group, which they all agreed would be perfect. “The art concept for this record sort of follows the same as Engrossed in Decay, but this time rather than a death through decay, it’s a rebirth in it,” remarked Pantke. “We wanted it to pay homage to the works of Mental Funeral or Dark Recollections, amongst other things of course, but those two references definitely shine through on this particular piece. As far as colors go, we really wanted it to by a nice companion piece to the last record, without completely repeating it.”
Catastrophic Reconfiguration tracklist: 1. Catastrophic Reconfiguration 2. Pulped 3. Overdue Burial 4. Frothing 5. Masked in Mold 6. Bursted Innards 7. Rapidly Exsanguinated 8. Corpse Copulation 9. Brain Boil 10. Nothing Left to Ooze
MOLDER is: Aaren Pantke- Vocals/Guitar Carlos Santini- Lead Guitar Dominic Vaia- Bass Kyle Pooley- Drums
Ever since they emerged with one of the genre’s most important – and imposing – milestones in 1993, Mörk Gryning have stood as a shining example for the raw and timeless spirit of Swedish black metal. Not even a 15-year hiatus could slow this band’s unbridled fury from igniting the underground.
Now that they’ve returned, Mörk Gryning are more active than ever. Today, the band are announcing their seventh album. Fasornas Tid pays a brutal homage to the scene’s raw ferocity and ageless spirit with a dystopian symphony that’s driven by an insatiable hunger for self-destruction. Lead single “Tornet” will test even the most battle-tested metalhead’s with its blackened passage through psychological hell.
Fasornas Tid is out December 13th on Season of Mist.
“Tornet” storms ahead with unbridled fury. Featuring savage guest vocals from AVSLUT’s C, the lead single off Mörk Gryning’s new album seethes with the venom of death metal and melodic black metal. Meaning “The Tower” in English, the song symbolizes the ultimate torment, with the band rising to test the very threshold of suffering.
Tracklist: 1. Intro (1:13) 2. The Seer (4:03) 3. Tornet (3:59) [LISTEN] 4. Fasornas Tid (3:34) 5. Before The Crows Have Their Feast (4:26) 6. Savage Messiah (4:37) 7. An Ancient Ancestor Of The Autumn Moon (4:11) 8. Black Angel (3:38) 9. Barren Paths (1:52) 10. The Serpent’s Kiss (4:19) 11. Det Svarta (3:19) 12. Age Of Fire (4:48) Total runtime: 44:04
Mörk Gryning was founded in Stockholm, Sweden in 1993 by Goth Gorgon and Draakh Kimera. Two years later they released their debut album “Tusen År Har Gått” (1995), recorded and mixed at Unisound Studios, by legendary producer Dan Swanö and released by No Fashion. The album is one of the milestones of the ‘90s Swedish Black Metal scene.
The group returned to action in November 1996, working at Sunlight Studios together with Tomas Skogsberg and Dismember’s Fred Estby to craft the “Return Fire” album. Over the following years, three more albums were released, for example “Maelstrom Chaos” with new guitarist Avathar, a scene veteran, recorded at the legendary Grieghallen Studios Bergen, Norway.
Ever since the debut album, “Tusen år har gått…”, Mörk Gryning has refused to follow in the footsteps of others and walked their own paths – something which is made very clear on the 2003 release “Pieces of Primal Expressionism”, an experimental and heavy progressive release recorded at Dug Out, produced by Daniel Bergstrand. After a couple of years of touring and festival performances, the band was put on hold.
Returning to the scene again in 2017, the band performed an exclusive live show in Stockholm playing all the songs from the debut album and some other songs from the back catalogue. This ended in releasing the 4-song live record called “Live at Kraken”. During the pandemic the comeback album “Hinsides Vrede” was released to much critical acclaim with many of the songs today being the backbone of their live shows. A new album is scheduled for release in 2024 and the band is more active than ever.
Line-up: DRAAKH KIMERA – Lead Vocals, Guitar GOTH GORGON – Bass, Backing vocals, Lead Vocals on “Det Svarta” S-L – Lead Guitar, Backing Vocals C-G – Drums AEON – Keyboards, Backing Vocals
Recording Studio: Wing Studios, Stockholm, Sweden
Production Credits: Produced by Sverker Widgren & Mörk Gryning Mixed & Mastered at Wing Studios, Stockholm by Sverker Widgren
Guest Musician: C of AVSLUT on “Tornet” & “An Ancient Ancestor Of The Autumn Moon”
With the worldwide excitement around the recently announced European tour, GRAMMY®-winning, progressive music titans Dream Theater are announcing their 40th Anniversary Tour 2024 – 2025 leg for North America.
The tour will be An Evening With Dream Theater and will be the first tour of North America since drummer Mike Portnoy’s return to the lineup joining vocalist James LaBrie, bassist John Myung, guitarist John Petrucci, and keyboardist Jordan Rudess. The tour is scheduled for 30 cities across the United States and Canada and kicks off on February 7 in Philadelphia, PA and runs through March 22for the band’s hometown show in New York City. The tour will make stops in Nashville, Los Angeles, Toronto and Boston among others.
Dream Theater will be performing classics and fan favorites from their catalog in what promises to be an unforgettable evening of music. More information on all tickets and VIP packages can be found at https://dreamtheater.net/tour/.
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