Modern progressive metal band OBSIDIOUS is now releasing a behind the scenes look at the making of their latest music video for the song “Iconic.” The track is taken from the band’s upcoming debut album, which will be released via the label in early 2022. The video is available for watching via the official Season of Mist YouTube channel HERE!
OBSIDIOUS bassist Linus Klausenitzer comments: “The ‘Iconic’ music video reflects the different musical aspects and the intensity of the song perfectly. It was quite a challenge to shoot it with a singer that we still haven’t met because of corona restrictions. But in the end we were able to create a concept without making any unsatisfying compromises.”
June 30th, EUGE VALOVIRTA (Cyhra, Red Wolf) released his second solo album ‘Shooting From The Hip’, including 10 songs of guitar driven instrumentals from Van Halen – style 80’s rock, “Hillbilly” – chicken pickin’ fireworks to groovy metal and one ballad dedicated to all our absent friends.
Available on all major digital platforms. Listen / download the album: https://bit.ly/3u69oo0
Watch the playthrough music video of ‘Pasadena ’78’:
“All songs from the album are based on the song ideas I’ve written for a particular video about a certain amp, effect pedal etc. for my YouTube channel ( https://www.youtube.com/c/EugeValovirta230V ) except ‘A Song For An Absent Friend’ which I wrote to my grandpa and to my friend Alexi after they passed away. “
“I just love to play guitar and I hope this album brings good vibes & comfort to people like playing guitar always brings to me.”
“Pasadena ‘78 is my tribute to the late great Eddie Van Halen. Van Halen was founded in Pasadena and their first album came out in 1978 so the title comes from that. I tried to capture the mood of the carefree days of youth and the vibe of the classic 80s glam rock / hair metal and those endless Californian summers which we all just dreamed during the long & cold winters in Finland :-). Long live King Edward and his fantastic music.”
‘Shooting From The Hip’ tracklist:
Scary Frankie
Bogrenious
Pasadena ’78
The Bad Boy
This Box Is Too Small
The Flame Is Burning
Three-Legged Chicken
Uncle Joe
Young Forever
A Song For An Absent Friend
All songs written by Euge Valovirta All instruments by Euge Valovirta Recorded, mixed & mastered by Euge Valovirta at 230V Studio, Allschwil, Switzerland
Finnish ALASE have released an atmospheric single “Ajan kysymys”, after which the band will switch their lyrical language to English. The single will be released together with a music video made by Vesa Ranta‘s Kaira Films.
“Ajan kysymys” combines Alase’s main musical elements such as melancholy, modern atmospheric soundscapes, progressiveness and heavy riffs. The band will continue to work with guest vocalists, however this is singer Juha Tretjakov‘s third song with Alase.
Guitarist Janne Lunnas describes: “Working with Juha is fun and it involves creativity which clearly enhances the song through the vocal arrangements.” The song was recorded with session drummer Ville Aatsinki and it was a very straightforward process.
Janne describes the session with Ville: “Before the studio, Ville and I worked on the drum arrangements remotely and it went really smoothly. After less than two weeks, we went to studio in Tampere, and Ville nailed the song with just a few takes.”
Alase has the composition of the next song ready and its recordings will start soon. There are plans to release a single called “Unburden” in the fall.
Scandinavian multi-instrumentalist SYLVAINE has entered the studio to record the follow up full-length to 2018’s Norwegian Grammy nominated ‘Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone!’ The album will be released early 2022 by Season of Mist.
SYLVAINE comments: “You could definitely say that the creation of this 4th Sylvaine album has taken an unconventional path in many ways. After the realization of ‘Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone,’ I knew that making the next record was going to take a lot out of me. Little did I know just how much though, with 2020 bringing forth some of the most challenging times I have experienced so far in my life. It took me a while to gather everything and channel it into songs that would express all of these emotions I had been carrying around with me for some time.
“One thing was completely certain from the beginning of the process; Benoît Roux at Drudenhaus was going to be the person I brought the record to life with. It’s so important to work with people who just get what you are trying to communicate with your art, even without having to say a single word. That for me is Benoît. He just understands. Not to mention the human side, which is fantastic as well, something that becomes extremely important when spending so much time together for 2 months straight! I almost felt like a part of his family by the end, haha.
“The recording process was heavily prolonged compared to what we initially planned. Between the travel restrictions, everyone contracting Covid during the first weeks of the recording process and personal circumstances related to Benoît, we were forced to extend our time spent recording this album. If it wasn’t one obstacle making things complicated, there was another one just around the corner, waiting for us, haha…. But that didn’t faze me to be honest. I was just so grateful to finally be back in the studio, doing what I love the most once again. We spent just over 2 months in the end, recording and starting the mixing for this fourth album. It was an incredibly intense time, even more so being completely on my own for most of it. My drummer for the album, Dorian Mansiaux, also my on-stage drummer, was with me for the first days of the session, laying down his parts. I also have two guests on the album, that I’ll be revealing later on. I feel privileged to have all of these talented people involved with this record, making it even more special to me. Can’t tell you how excited I am to share this album with everyone – I put every piece of my soul into it. “
Last year, SYLVAINE was nominated for a Spellemannprisen, often referred to as the Norwegian Grammy Award, for the 2018 full-length ‘Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone.’ SYLVAINE is the very first woman ever to be nominated in the Metal category of the award since the Spellemannprisen’s inception in 1972.
‘Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone’ can be streamed, downloaded, and ordered HERE.
A strong duality between worlds. A balance between the beautiful and the harsh, serenity and chaos, between an outside and an inner world, between our human life and the spiritual origins.
Norwegian multi-instrumentalist SYLVAINE deals with the extreme range of emotions this human existence has to offer, as a result of being in constant conflict with oneself and struggling to adapt to this place we call our own. The project serves as an emotional catharsis for the artist, revealing the eternal longing for something more residing within its melodies, capturing the feeling of being trapped and restraint by the human form.
After a year of playing selected, successful concerts around Europe together with her live band, like the European tour with Austrian post-metal outfit HARAKIRI FOR THE SKY and a headlining tour in Russia/Ukraine tour, SYLVAINE once again entered the renown Drudenhaus Studio in France during autumn 2017 to start the recording of her new creation, “Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone”. Together with recording and mixing engineer Benoît Roux and her two session musicians, Stephen Shepard and Stéphane “Neige” Paut (ALCEST), SYLVAINE pushes the duality between beautiful and extreme even further on her third album, bringing the concept behind the project to new heights. The album mastered by Jack Shirley (DEAFHEAVEN, OATHBREAKER) at Atomic Garden in San Francisco (US).
Still serving as the sole composer of both music and lyrics, producer and musician of most instruments herself, SYLVAINE takes the sound of her sophomore album “Wistful” (2016) and develops it into a more mature and contrasted form on “Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone”, all while trying to communicate the essence of her project, which remains the same as always before.
Now enter the cold and icy world of “Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone”, and let yourself be enveloped by its pressing despair.
Detroit Freak Rockers, THE LUCID FURS, have revealed new details about their upcoming album, entitled Damn! That Was Easy, slated for a release on October 29, 2021 via Argonauta Records!
Since their debut in 2017 and the highly acclaimed, latest album No God? No Problem, released in 2019, THE LUCID FURS have performed over 100 out of state shows, invading music venues to wash minds with their heavy blues rock concoctions. The band‘s live performances build up with a big, head bang energy, winds down to sultry blues, then blasts back into hard rock with a dash of funk you can’t help but dance to. Their upcoming album won’t make any exception as the first single proves, today THE LUCID FURS have released the heavily grooving track Pull The String. Vocalist Karen O’Connor says: “Pull The String essentially means fuck around and finding out. Whether that be pushing buttons and getting knocked down for it or examining yourself from another perspective and coming to a revelation.”
The band’s talent and soul of the blues is immediatly evident, driven by a vibrant 70‘s vintage vibe, THE LUCID FURS is an extraordinary rock experience – and their new album Damn! That Was Easy may be the perfect soundtrack of your summer! Listen to the first album single, Pull The String, right here:
THE LUCID FURS are a collaborative songwriting team. Their songs embody a culmination of each member’s early influences; ranging from rock classics like Alice Cooper and Heart, to Chicago blues like Howlin’ Wolf and Buddy Guy, to the era of alternative rock groups like Soundgarden and Queens Of The Stone Age. Their friendship extends beyond the band, creating an authentic vibe of camaraderie that you can feel in their sound off and on stage. Despite the tour hiatus brought on by Covid, THE LUCID FURS have stayed focused. Taking that time to record their new album, out as LP, CD and Digital formats on October 29, 2021 through Argonauta, and with a hopefully busy touring schedule to follow in the not so distant future.
Damn! That Was Easy is now available to pre-order atTHIS LOCATION
After releasing their sophomore album, Etemen Ænka, earlier this year – and landing on the worldwide charts for their efforts (#43 in Germany, #65 on the UK Indie Charts!) – DVNE has now announced a European co-headlining tour with labelmates DÉLUGE. Kicking off in September, this will be the first run of shows in support of Etemen Ænka, before the band heads to the UK for an appearance at Damnation Fest, followed by a trek with Bossk in the winter.
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