Another year, another spring. The world might still be burning, but at least the sun has graced the north with longer days and shorter nights.
Sänka Dig was initially intended for KNOGJÄRN‘s previous album “Mera Bedövning”, but it never really fit in. Somethings in life just need a little more time before they fall into place.
So, after letting it rest for a while, Knogjärn chose to have another look at Sänka Dig and this time they managed to weld into perfection. Now, one year after “Mera Bedövning”, Knogjärn is finally ready to release this little feisty beast, with an accompanying music video!
Look at is as little gift for the loyal fans to enjoy in the spring sun, while our guys are working on their next album, giving blood, sweat and tears.
On Sänka Dig, Knogjärn comment: “You know the feeling of talking to deaf ears. The frustration of trying to help someone who refuses to listen. Sometimes the only thing you can do is “let go” and let karma do its job. This song puts into words the emptiness you feel when you’re witnessing someone ruin their own life and all you can do is watch”
CREDITS Sänka Dig is written by Knogjärn and recorded and mixed by Oscar Nilsson in Crehate Studios. Master by Thomas “Plec” Johansson at Panic-Room Productions. Artwork by Carl Stjärnlöv
FFO: Everything raw, heavy, and hard.
ABOUT KNOGJÄRN With its explicit Swedish lyrics and an emphasis on the “Hard” in Hard Rock, the unique sub-genre of Swedish Hard Rock is something you’ve got to love.
Knogjärn are a band with their heart and soul buried deep within this genre. Their take on melodic hard rock combined with heavier elements from hardcore and metal makes Knogjärn into the perfect music to shake of yesterday and move into the future with.
Pumping up the listener and turning everyone into a true Swedish Hard Rock fan.
Since the start in 2015, Knogjärn has delivered nothing but sonic raging anger with an unapologetic, IN-YOUR-FACE attitude. The foursome drops super-charged records, but they hit even harder when on stage: “We want you to like our live performance even if you don´t like our music”, the band states. Their records are the testimony that Knogjärn always give 100%! Hard’n’heavy riffs with raging vocals and explicit lyrics speak beyond their vernacular, beloved by their ever-growing crowd of fans.
KNOGJÄRN: Kim Eriksson – Vocals Markus Hurtig – Guitar Rasmus Sörbom – Bass Johan Hidén – Drums
Rock singer, artist manager and mental health advocate Kiara Laetitia returns from a six-year hiatus, during which she explored various creative avenues, including organizing a virtual music festival and writing a book. The artist’s comeback single is an acoustic cover of Linkin Park’s historic track ‘In The End’ – a song that held significance for Kiara during her battles with panic attacks and depression.
Stripping back the glitchy, distorted aesthetic of the original, Kiara’s rendition is performed over an emotionally charged piano accompaniment paired with a delicate vocal performance that fills the atmosphere with vulnerable delivery. As the track progresses, Kiara’s confidence steadily crescendos, growing to a powerful final chorus, wrapped with elegance and passion.
Kiara shares a comment on the track, “I’ve always loved In The End since day one when I found the video on MTV. It wasn’t an easy moment for me, I was living at home with my parents, panic attacks were so bad I could barely leave the house and no one could understand what I had. Chester’s voice immediately gave me goosebumps, I felt like it ripped my soul in pieces but at the same time it gave me hope. In The End to me is the battle with my demons”
As an artist, Kiara’s highlights have come in the form of 2007 album The Last Gate and 2013 solo EP ‘Fight Now’, both of which topped the charts at #3 on the Japanese Rock & Pop charts and #15 on Amazon Music Italy, respectively.
In 2014, she embarked on a new venture, founding record label and artist management company, Musicarchy Media. Under Kiara’s guidance, bands have shared stages with acts like Steel Panther, Backyard Babies, The Pretty Reckless, and Skindred, touring extensively across the USA, United Kingdom, Spain, France, Germany, and Russia.
In 2019, Kiara published book ‘NEVER GIVE UP The Real Secrets Of The Music Industry’, offering advice to independent musicians. The following year, Kiara created Online Female Fest, the first all-female virtual festival in its genre. With artists from three continents, four hours of music and over fifty thousand impressions, the festival showcased performances from notable figures like Share Ross from Vixen and two-time Grammy nominee Lacey Sturm.
American grindcore outfit Full of Hell will release their brand new full-length Coagulated Bliss on 26th April via Closed CasketActivities – and today they unleash the title track together with a new music video directed by by Will Mecca.
Dylan Walker comments: “This song is a lyrical summation of the record as a whole. Seeking the unattainable. Drowning in it.”
Spencer Hazard adds: “Dave and I wrote this song with a band like Today is the Day in mind. Noisy guitar and jazzy drums but a riff that gets stuck in your head.”
Full of Hell burst forth with incredible force from the small, dagger-shaped city of Ocean City, Maryland, 15 years ago. Over five full-lengths, five collaborative full-lengths, and countless splits, EPs, singles, and noise compilations, they’ve evolved at extraordinary speed, their music becoming more complicated and technical without ever slowing down or losing its soul. Everything on a Full of Hell album feels like a blur: smears of guitar, harsh noise shaken like gravel in a bag, singer Dylan Walker’s snarl and bite carrying him into outer space or into the core of the earth. They’re coiled, interlocking, impossible to penetrate, and they move with alarming speed.
They have now reached terminal velocity. Having created their own context, they’re now able to walk around within it, to survey its terrain, to visit far corners and see who’s nearby. Their forthcoming album, Coagulated Bliss, sounds like Full of Hell, but it’s nothing like any Full of Hell record that’s come before it. These songs are trimmer, less freighted with anxiety, more interested in opening up than speeding away. Its bile is sometimes funnelled into traditional song structures. It never shies away from the extreme harsh noise, unrelenting spirit, and pitch-black sadness of previous Full of Hell records; if anything, the leanness of these songs makes them feel even heavier. Nevertheless, there are tracks here you might find yourself whistling hours after listening. It’s an extraordinary and unexpected evolution in sound for a band who made their name on rapid metamorphosis, and it’s the logical endpoint of everything Full of Hell has covered so far. “I wanted to try to take every aspect of what we’ve done from previous releases and integrate it into this one,” guitarist Spencer Hazard says.
These songs feel huge, totemic, groundshaking. Take the album’s first single, ‘Doors to Mental Agony‘— which premieres today alongside a music video directed by Erich Richter— which sets up a circle pit, then blasts it apart with a grindcore chorus, and slides away on a slanted riff.
Coagulated Bliss was written and recorded shortly after Full of Hell completed When No Birds Sang, their collaborative album with Nothing. Working with the Philadelphia shoegazers gave Full of Hell new insight into the emotional and artistic power of classic pop songwriting, and to the importance of following a song where it wants to go. “That was a good experience of learning how to find what actually services a song,”Hazard says. “Even with Roots of Earth Are Consuming My Home, even when we’ve had an extreme grindcore influence, I still wanted it to be catchy.”Walker also cites the band’s work with The Body for helping him to “recognize that there was value in pop music.” Accordingly, Coagulated Bliss features some of Full of Hell’s strongest songwriting: Gone is the frenetic flailing of Garden of Burning Apparitions and Weeping Choir; in its stead is a richer, thicker sound, one that’s considerably less ornamented—and somehow heavier than ever.
While the focus on songwriting already makesCoagulated Bliss the most grounded album in Full of Hell’s catalogue, it’s also the first Full of Hell record that tries in earnest to reflect the world around it—not in some broad, monotony-of-evil way, but the everyday horrors of life in small town America. Three of the four members of the band were raised in Ocean City. Hazard and Bland still live there, while Walker is located in central Pennsylvania and bassist Samuel DiGristine relocated to Philadelphia. “The American dream is small towns,”Hazard says. “But anyone that’s grown up in a small town realizes it’s just as f*cked up in a small town as it is in a big city—if not more, because it’s more condensed.”
Walker’s lyrics have always framed their suffering with what he calls “fantastical, metaphorical sh*t,” but on Coagulated Bliss his writing is clear and direct. The album’s title is meant partly to reflect the idea of the over-pursuit of happiness leading to misery—whether in addiction, greed, or anything else. “Your happiness is just out of reach and you don’t know why,” he says. “Too much of this bliss, you think you’ve found your endpoint, but it’s really just this small, tiny, little thing that’s going to ruin your f*cking life. And that could be anything.” The album’s viciousness and Walker’s clear reading of the world around him might scan as misanthropy, but it comes from a place of disappointment that’s driven by a deep love for people and life and the world. “There’s not a lot of anger, to be honest,” he says. “I’ve never felt anger when we’re playing, ever. It feels like electricity that’s built up in my body that has to get out. But I feel more profoundly sorrowful than I ever do anger.”
The world may be in a constant state of bitter flux, but Full of Hell have never sounded more at home in it. “We’ve shed any kind of ‘do we belong in this space, what do people expect of us,’”Walker says. “The joy is in the pursuit.” The loosening of their grip on the direction of their music has made it feel paradoxically closer to the bone. “People tend to burrow themselves so deeply into things they love,”Walker says. “It’s too much of a good thing, and it almost cheapens it.” By paring back their sound, Full of Hell aren’t just finding a new way forward: They’re proving that a little bit less of a good thing can add up to so much more.
See Full of Hell on the road in April and May across North America with Dying Fetus.
Coagulated Bliss was recorded at Developing Nations in Baltimore by Kevin Bernstein, mixed by Taylor Young at The Pit Recording Studio in Van Nuys California and mastered by Nick Townsend of Infrasonic Sound in Los Angeles California. Full of Hell is Spencer Hazard (guitar/electronics), David Bland (drums/vocals), Samuel DiGristine (bass/sax/vocals), and Dylan Walker (vocals/electronics/lyrics), with new guitarist Gabriel Solomon joining following the album’s completion.
Horror Doom Metal from Melbourne Australia ZOMBIE HUNGER have released their new video ‘Mask Of Satan’ from the band’s self-titled debut album. Watch the video below.
ZOMBIE HUNGER stated:
Our music is inspired by classic horror films and literature, and all the greats of metal and doom, including Black Sabbath, Candlemass, Pentagram, Saint Vitus, Trouble and Reverend Bizarre.
The ZOMBIE HUNGER disease began with founding members, Patient Zero and Coffin Queen, on FRIDAY the 13th, August 2021. Soon after, Graveborn, Wormfeast and Skineater were brought into the horde, but the low availability of brains during covid forced us to lay low and bide our time… But, once the streets and music venues were full again, we were finally unleashed!
Since 2022 we have played many gigs across Melbourne, including two DOOM in JUNE festivals, and the upcoming SUNBURN FESTIVAL in Canberra. From the beginning we have made a name for ourselves for delivering entertaining, ghoulish, high energy performances.
Our debut album – ZOMBIE HUNGER – released on March 22nd, 2024. The album is available for purchase on Bandcamp, along with all the usual streaming places. A short-run CD release will be sold on Bandcamp, too, for our fellow physical media maniacs!
Italy-based electronic metal project MASTER BOOT RECORD (MBR) will return to European stages in the fall for a full tour! Check the full routing below.
MASTER BOOT RECORD is helmed by technologist/producer/songwriter Victor Love (AKA Vittorio D’Amore). Founded in 2016, Love fuses heavy metal and synthesized electronic music to fabricate a sound that exists in a singular category of its own. The live shows see D’Amore taking the stage along with guitar virtuoso Edoardo Taddei on lead guitars and technical death metal drummer Giulio Galati and features stunning retro-visuals in a journey into demoscene, crack scene, and retrogaming.
Comments Love: “We are very excited to return to Europe this fall to spread the code after the great success of our previous tour! We’ll revisit many cities where we’ve already performed, as well as explore new ones, as we continue to expand our touring plans in collaboration with Doomstar Bookings. With a new album expected to release just before the tour, we will introduce a fresh setlist that includes new songs along with classics from our discography. Additionally, we plan to enhance our visual shows with more hardware, computers, cathode TVs, and a load of floppy disks to be thrown at the end of each show!“
MASTER BOOT RECORD European tour 2024 18 OCT – FR – MARSEILLE – LE MOLOTOV 19 OCT – FR – PARIS – BACKSTAGE BY THE MILL 20 OCT – FR – NANTES – LE FERRAILLEUR 22 OCT – UK – LONDON – ACADEMY 2 23 OCT – UK – MANCHESTER – SATANS HOLLOW 24 OCT – UK – GLASGOW – CATHOUSE 26 OCT – IR – DUBLIN – GRAND SOCIAL 28 OCT – UK – BRISTOL – EXCHANGE 30 OCT – NL – EINDHOVEN – EFFENAAR 31 OCT – NL – AMSTERDAM – MELKWEG 02 NOV – DE – COLOGNE – CLUB VOLTA 03 NOV – NL – LEEUWARDEN – NEUSHOORN 04 NOV – DE – HAMBURG – LOGO 06 NOV – DK – COPENHAGEN – STENGADE 07 NOV – SE – GOTHENBURG – VALAND 08 NOV – NO – OSLO – GOLDIE 09 NOV – SE – STOCKHOLM – KOLLEKTIVET LIVET 12 NOV – DE – BERLIN – GRETCHEN 13 NOV – DE – DRESDEN – CHEMIEFABRIK 14 NOV – CZ – PRAGUE – KASARNA KARLIN 15 NOV – CZ – BRNO – KABINET MUZ 16 NOV – HU – BUDAPEST – TURBINA 17 NOV – AT – VIENNA – SZENE 18 NOV – CH – MONTHEY – PONT ROUGE 19 NOV – CH – ZURICH – EXIL
Make sure to check out the brand new upload of a full live show from Winterthur in late 2023 below.
MASTER BOOT RECORD‘s most recent studio offering, Personal Computer, was released in 2022 on Metal Blade Records. Personal Computer serves as Love’s eighth full-length album since emerging – as an 8-bit ghost – from the bulletin board system (BBS) scene in 2016. A symbolism-rich mélange of intensely ornate yet driving digital orchestrations, don’t call Personal Computer synthwave, or whatever new-fangled term is being used to describe MASTER BOOT RECORD‘s masterful videogame-like scoring. To put it simply: this is metal done with a synth.
Notes Love, “The main elements include chiptune, demoscene, and video game music, thrash/death metal and some black metal as well as classical and symphonic patterns and progressive structures. But everything is programmed and done with synthesizers.”
The result, influenced as much by classical baroque music, Bay Area thrash, and Commodore 64 games, is a frenzied mashup of what logic suggests should be disparate sounds, but in the hands of MBR, make sense, taking the listener in unexpected and always thrilling directions, smashing through genre walls.
Coming out on April 26 is ” Garrison Lane” the brand new single by guitarist Emiliano Tessitore! A new musical adventure for the artist, who already boasts an extraordinary resume, including collaborations, studio work, tours, etc.! The single, will be available on all the best music stores worldwide, on Wanikiya Record’s Japanese shop and within their showcase on Crash Sound Distribution!
More about Emiliano Tessitore:
Guitarist for Vinnie Moore (UFO), Uli Jon Roth (Scorpions), Mark Boals (Y J Malmsteen), Doogie White (Rainbow, Alcatrazz) and the original band Stage of Reality. Guitarist and author together with Titta Tani (Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin, DGM, Necrophagia) of the band Ehfar.
Guitarist of Trial Of Dreams, Tribute Band Dream Theater.
In 2022 he composed his first original instrumental album “Complex Melodies for Simple People” with guests such as Nick Johnston, Vinnie Moore, Atma Anur, Mike Lepond and Leo Margarit.
A Modern Rock guitarist, he is the director of the Modern Music Institute office in Rome.
On tour with Vinnie Moore in 2018, 2020 and 2022 in Europe. On tour with Uli Jon Roth in 2019 in Europe. On tour with Mark Boals in 2019 in Europe. On tour with Doogie White in 2022. Played with Kee Marcello (Europe), Edu Falaschi (Angra), Nathaniel Peterson (Twin Dragons) and opened for bands such as Angra, Vinny Appice, Haggard, Blind Guardian.
Co-organizer of events such as Paul Gilbert Masterclass, André Nieri Masterclass, Reb Beach in concert and live interviews with international artists such as, Micheal Angelo Batio, Vinnie Moore, Joel Hoekstra, Ryan Van Poederooyen, Bumblefoot, Joey Tafolla, Cristina Scabbia and many others. Collaborator for Mezzabarba Amplification, Jaketto Picks and Ernie Ball Strings brands with Algam Eko.
THE ROCK ALCHEMIST – Italian Rock Band from Turin with a strong sonic identity that blends modern rock with progressive, hard, alternative, and pop elements!
Kimmo Kuusniemi’s SARCOFAGUS return with a Historic 2010 Concert Video Premiere on YouTube! Click image to watch the video
Metal Shock Finland (World Assault ) 