BURNING VIBES have released their brand new single “Dark Room”, available now on all the best music stores, on the Wanikiya Record’s Japanese store, on Crash Sound Distribution! A single full of energy and pure Rock!!!
The band tells: BURNING VIBES’ history has distant roots. It all started many years ago when Max “il Ninja” d’Amelio and Rob “the Train” Monza were still two teenagers, friends and rock music enthusiasts. Max on guitar and Rob on drums, they play in various Rock bands during the 90s and 2000s, increasingly refining their technique and a virtuoso and hammering style.
In 2014 they meet again and decide to resume a discourse interrupted many years before.
2017… It took some time to find a stable line-up, it is in this period that we start calling ourselves BurningVibes. We started making loud music!!! A Hard Rock Heavy Metal with Prog, Glam and Trash influences.
In 2020 Mark Rugghia joined the band, an expert singer with a voice with an ultrasonic extension and scratchy timbre, oxygen for our songs. Shortly after Mark’s arrival, the band was left without a bassist, hence the meeting with Mauro Savazzi, technical and gritty bassist, with a great Power rock attitude, and capable of merging with Rob to create a detonating rhythmic structure!
From 2022 Burning Vibes are reborn, stronger than ever… listening is believing!!!
Since their inception in 2006, THE HIP PRIESTS have released a mighty thirty 7” singles, four albums, two compilations and three EPs by various independent labels from all over Europe & the USA. Fiercely independent and tirelessly driven, the ‘Priests have preached their high energy sermon of misanthropy, hate and contempt across numerous tours of the UK, Europe and USA and made countless rapturously received festival appearances.
Gaining a richly deserved reputation as a white-hot live band, the last few years have seen the band’s popularity increasing further with them regularly playing alongside kindred spirits such as The Hellacopters, Gluecifer, The Good the Bad and the Zugly, New Bomb Turks, Dwarves and Zeke at both festivals and in clubs. Rave reviews pour in for every release, ranging from ‘a band on top of their game & steps ahead of any of their UK contemporaries’ to ‘if you’re in any doubt about how good these bad boys are then you need locking up’. After 16 years some bands would be taking it easy but in spite of a global pandemic, there was no let-up in their determination and activity. Their fifth, and by far their best full-length album – ‘Roden House Blues’ – was written, rehearsed, and recorded during this period and was released May 5th, 2023, via The Sign Records.
Rehearsed, recorded and mixed between the numerous U.K lockdowns in Roden House, one of Nottingham’s former lace factories where the Priests have their own space, and which spawned the album title. This is no Mississippi Blues but perhaps it makes more sense than you think: Howling laments, loss, self-reflection and revelation – alongside some recurring Priests lyrical themes: negativity, nihilism, rage and revolution. After 2019’s ‘Stand for Nothing’ the band were unsure whether they’d do another album – However, global lockdown inadvertently led to a renewed passion and realisation that, like Jagger said, ‘’what can a poor boy do’ – especially when feeling more lost in a world that increasingly resembles a dumpster fire. A few dozen demos were scrutinised of which, through a stricter than ever group consensus, 14 were recorded but then honed down, razor sharp, into the tightest collection of 11 low-fat, lean and mean banging tunes that could fit into 30 minutes.
11 glorious tracks of High Energy R’n’R, anthemic, adrenalised, sweaty, singalong, life-affirming Rock and Roll. Huge Choruses, colossal dual guitar rifferama, more hooks than a fishing shop, and one hell of an attitude. Punk? Garage Rock? Scandi Rock? Just know this…. They ARE The Hip Priests and YOU are NOT.
Play Loud or just don’t fuckin’ bother.
‘Roden House Blues’ is released on May the 5th and is available on all streaming platforms, CD, and in three color variants on vinyl; (1) black vinyl, (2) solid turquoise vinyl with solid white splatter, solid black splatter, and solid blue splatter, and (3) transparent/clear vinyl with transparent yellow splatter and transparent pink splatter.
After a series of epic, sprawling and headphones-friendly albums, June 16, 2023 will see Motorpsycho return with a short, reasonably pop-formatted and intimate album of mainly acoustically based songs. Yay! marks Motorpsycho‘s 31st album, and will be released via Stickman Records and in Scandinavia & UK through Motorpsycho‘s own label Det Nordenfjeldske Grammofonselskab. Coming as CD, and red and black LP vinyl edition, the pre-sale has just started at THIS LOCATION!
For once playing the game instead of trying to reinvent it, this 10-song album of tunes is clearly a reaction in some way to too much architecture and too many grand visions, and dials the music down to more comprehensive and digestible sizes than have been the band’s métier lately.
Motorpsycho have always been about the balance between hard and soft, electric and acoustic, big and small, light and shade … and now the time was right for a lighter touch to balance the scales. Yang to the Yin of earlier, more epic works (N.O.X., The Crucible, and Chariot Of The Gods), this is also an album that is relatively easy on the ears, and that actually works really well with a cup of tea at noon.
A first single, entitled “Patterns”, is now streaming online. A report from the darkest days of Covid (read a full and in-depth statement by the band about the making of Yay!HERE), this melancholy song combines Motorpsycho‘s trademarked dense guitar walls with naked lyrics sung with unusually great tenderness by someone who’s been there and understands the words. With a fantastic retro-futuristic neo-psychedelic production, this is a song to drown in. Listen to “Patterns”, now available on all digital streaming services HERE!
Yay! was produced by Reine Fiske and Lars Fredrik Swahn (Dungen, Melody’s Echo Chamber, The Amazing et al), and their production work brings a sweet Swedish psych edge to the album, giving it a lysergic tinge and charging what could easily have been a bit too ‘’backporchy” with an electric vibe that lifts it out of the often staid singer/songwriter genre, but still keeping the intimacy intact.
While as ever clearly drawing on inspiration from late 60s/early 70s heroes, Yay! is as indebted to earlier iterations of Motorpsycho as anything else, and will be recognizable to fans of vintage Motorpsychodelia as well as a breath of fresh air to newer Psychonauts that only ever heard the heavy progressive side of the band.
Keeping things unpredictable and weird since 1989, there is only one Motorpsycho. Yay!
German post black metal outfit HERETOIR have unveiled the new single ‘At Dusk’. Featuring Emily Highfield (SULDUSK) the song is taken from their upcoming mini-album “Wastelands” due on May 19th 2023 via AOP Records.
“Today we are proud to reveal ‘At Dusk’ feat. the magical voice of Emily Highfield of Suldusk. This song is very special to – it embodies the beauty that is still left in this world of pain and is a hymn for all that is worth fighting for”, comment the band about the song.
Combining the emotional and atmospheric elements of black metal with progressive rhythm-laden modern metal structures and the beauty of post rock and shoegaze, HERETOIR is a nostalgic, melancholic and soothing soundtrack in a mad world. Founded (in Augsburg/Germany) by DavidC. in 2006, HERETOIR conceptually and lyrically deals with existence, self-reflection, fears and dreams – life in all its facets. It is a musical universe set for the discovery of one’s deepest thoughts and the soul that rests in each of us.
The track listing reads as follows 1. Anima 2. At Dusk (feat. Emily Highfield of Soldusk) 3. Wastelands 4. Golden Dust – Live 5. Exhale – Live 6. The White – Live
Swedish Hard Rockers S.O.R.M release their brand new single “I Die For My Rock ‘n’ Roll” today, the first taste of the band’s highly anticipated debut album, which will be coming out in 2023 via Noble Demon. And oh boy – with the first single “I Die For My Rock N Roll” the Swedish trio already sets the bar high in S.O.R.M style! With a top-class guest contribution by none other than Nick Petrino, the guitarist of Dee Snider, the track offers pretty much everything the Rock’n’Roll heart desires and immediately makes you want more! Catchy melodies, memorable sing-alongs and the spirit of something that is more than just music! The track is accompanied by a brand new music video, which you can watch here:
S.O.R.M comments: “I die for my rock n roll. The song is a statement. Never give up on your dreams no matter what. Don’t let anyone make that decision for you. In the long run it’s not worth it. So remember, follow your dreams!”
About S.O.R.M:
Forming in 2017, S.O.R.M are a hard rock/heavy metal act from Lidkoping, Sweden. Shortly after the band’s inception S.O.R.M released the outstanding “Hellraiser EP” (2020, Noble Demon) and introduced the band to the world with the hook laden lead single and video clip “Gypsy Queen”. Confirming its place as an act capable of appealing to a wide heavy music audience through the bands merging of contemporary and traditional hard rock and heavy metal, S.O.R.M offered an appeal to fans of acts such as Grand Magus, GHOST and Night Flight Orchestra through to the icons of the genre, WASP and Judas Priest. In 2020 the band with the members Micke Holm (Guitar and Vocals), Johan Östman (Bass) and Robin Wernebratt (Drums) signed with the newly established label Noble Demon and joining acts such as Night Crowned, Dawn Of Solace, No Raza and Gomorra.
The band is currently preparing for the release of their debut album, due out in 2023 via Noble Demon. So keep your ears peeled for more news and tunes to follow soon!
S.O.R.M are: Micke Holm Johan Östman Robin Wernebratt
Grafting together the rough edges of grunge and neck-cramp grooves of proggy metal, with ‘Make Believe’SURPLUS gather up the last few scraps of human decency and reassembles the shreds into a world beyond recognition, beyond facts. This song encapsulates that unnamed feeling in your belly, that nagging voice in the back of your skull you can’t quite recognize. How do you escape a loop you built your whole world around?
Composed & written by Artturi Hautanen & Joonas Wigell.
Surplus is a Jyväskylä, Finland based two piece rock band founded in 2016. Following two EPs in 2017 and 2018, the duo released their debut record ‘Hindsight’ in 2020. The band scavenged shows where possible throughout the pandemic and released one single ‘Wannabe’ along with a music video. Make Believe is a sign of things to come for the band: Surplus is the best around and they show it.
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
