With well-produced, doom-groovy, stoner/sludge Swedish metallers VAK were highly praised for their previous albums! And on September 1st, via Indie Recordings, VAK are back with their highly anticipated third album “The Islands”.

VAK is often noted for their ability to incorporate more than just one style and genre in their music, drawing inspiration from a great variety of bands and artists. The band is known for their exhilarating and dynamic soundscape, where elements from sludge, progressive metal and synth are flawlessly mixed together. 

VAK states:
“With this album, we have continued to develop our multifaceted version of what has been called our style of progressive sludge. We wanted it to result in an almost unbearable tension between the powerful and sludgy dimensions and the progressive aspects. We are very happy with the album, although the writing and recording turned out to become a very lengthy process. 

Lyrically, the album engages in conflicting visions of the city of Stockholm and its “Islands”, both presenting fundamentally critical aspects and winkling out hopeful notions of the city, and thereby mostly, and literally, focusing on underground dimensions of the city, such as ideas of sewer cafes and underground cinemas.”

ABOUT
VAK from Stockholm, Sweden consists of experienced musicians, who fuse seemingly uncompromising genres into a new and powerful blend. Their last album “Low Wind” got rave reviews.

UK Magazine Zero Tolerance wrote that it was;
“one of 2019’s contenders for best stoner metal album! […] It’s one thing to pack an album full of crushing riffs, memorable hooks, and passionate performances, but VAK truly evoke a unified togetherness that beams throughout”, while Metal Temple (UK) gave it a 9/10, stating that; “VAK is its own unique breed, one that has hints of the past but is focused solely on the future.”

Praised for their ability to incorporate more than just one style and genre in their music, drawing inspiration from a great variety of bands and artists,

VAK’s upcoming album “The Islands” is something to look forward to!

BAND MEMBERS
Tobias Alpadie – Guitars
Anders Bartonek – Drums
Patrik Engström – Guitars
Jesper Skarin – Bass, Vocals
Robin Skarin – Keyboards

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VAK continue to challenge and intrigue with their fourth, and most lengthy single so far.

With Bodies, VAK drags you on a journey into the deepest and most obscure corners of the human dissociative mind, where reality meet dreams. To a place where your habits are patterns paved for you and not by you.

If we act by impulse and routine, where is the free will?
Do we react to nature, or are we merely subject to it? 

Melodic – yet devastatingly heavy, and fueled by riffs, powerful drums and an enchanting and electrifying energy, Bodies make up a truly a theatrical and vibrant soundscape and truly fullfill VAK´s role as a modern and progressive sludge band.

It is a 7-minute-long song that seem to pass in 3. Join in on the day-dream that drag you through these long summer nights.

Listen to the single: https://orcd.co/vakbodies

VAK states:
“The song ‘Bodies’ is about how the city is a platform for managing and controlling the population, as the masses of bodies. In this view, city planning is about transporting human flesh and livestock smoothly. But what kind of blockage or blood clot would be needed? And what would it sound like? Maybe like the end riff of this song.”

ABOUT
Well-produced, doom-groovy, stoner/sludge Swedish metal band VAK were highly praised for their previous album “Loud Wind” (2019).

UK Magazine Zero Tolerance wrote that it was “one of 2019’s contenders for best stoner metal album! […] It’s one thing to pack an album full of crushing riffs, memorable hooks, and passionate performances, but VAK truly evoke a unified togetherness that beams throughout”, while Metal Temple (UK) gave it a 9/10, stating that “VAK is its own unique breed, one that has hints of the past but is focused solely on the future.” Praised for their ability to incorporate more than just one style and genre in their music, drawing inspiration from a great variety of bands and artists, VAK’s upcoming album is something to look forward to!

BAND MEMBERS
Tobias Alpadie – Guitars
Anders Bartonek – Drums
Patrik Engström – Guitars
Jesper Skarin – Bass, Vocals
Robin Skarin – Keyboards

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Swedish experimental metallers VAK are ready to deliver more mesmerizing sludge with their second single “Sewer Café”.

As always VAK delivers top tier experimental metal.
Sewer Café is a technically intriguing and musically challenging track, where VAK plays around with sonic elements in the very outskirts of the sludge genre. Resulting in a short yet adventurous track built on melodic rhythms and an underlying disturbing pulse.

Listen to the singles here: https://orcd.co/sewercafe

VAK states:
“The tricky track ‘Sewer Cafe’ mobilizes our melodic force and is an example of how far down our heaviest riffs are able to dig. We wanted to give the listener the sensation of helplessly falling through the soil, and into the forgotten catacombs of the city underground. And here waits another surprise: a concealed cafe with various offers and the possibility to speak your mind without fear of betrayal!”

ABOUT
Well-produced, doom-groovy, stoner/sludge Swedish metal band VAK were highly praised for their previous album “Loud Wind” (2019).
UK Magazine Zero Tolerance wrote that it was “one of 2019’s contenders for best stoner metal album! […] It’s one thing to pack an album full of crushing riffs, memorable hooks, and passionate performances, but VAK truly evoke a unified togetherness that beams throughout”, while Metal Temple (UK) gave it a 9/10, stating that “VAK is its own unique breed, one that has hints of the past but is focused solely on the future.” Praised for their ability to incorporate more than just one style and genre in their music, drawing inspiration from a great variety of bands and artists,
VAK’s upcoming album is something to look forward to!

BAND MEMBERS
Tobias Alpadie – Guitars
Anders Bartonek – Drums
Patrik Engström – Guitars
Jesper Skarin – Bass, Vocals
Robin Skarin – Keyboards

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