Monthly Archives februari 2013

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The electronic legends are back 15 years after their last visit.
The German legends and genre shapers return to Roskilde Festival. Their last concert in 1998 is still semi-mythical amongst fans of all kinds of electronic pop.

KRAFTWERK (DE) return to Roskilde Festival with their special 3D show, which has carried away London’s Tate Modern as well. This concert is one of few chances in Scandinavia to see the Germans who serve up a futuristic bouquet of their biggest hits on our Orange Stage.

3D glasses for the audience
Roskilde Festival hands out glasses to the audience so that everyone gets the right visual space age sensation worthy of the future-minded computer sounds. We have loads of them so that everyone can experience the influential band the best way.

Genre-shaping cyborgs
The le...

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Stor Rock n´ Roll fest på The Tivoli!

Rock n´ Roll kungarna Quireboys med den dansglade Spike i spetsen intog Helsingborgs hamn denna kyliga lördagkväll. Men innan Quireboys (även kallade London Quireboys) sjösatte The Tivoi så fick Bai Bang och Conny Bloom tina upp publiken.

Det var ett tag sedan undertecknad besökte Tivoli så till min förvåning så hade Tivoli gjort en ombyggnad och fått ett rejält ansiktslyft. Den nya planlösningen är suverän och lokalen känns mycket luftigare och trevligare att vistas i. Baren har flyttats till väggen mittemot scenen och soffgrupper på båda sidor om scenen.

CONNY BLOOM
Först ut ikväll var Conny Bloom, känd från funkiga Electric Boys...

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In May 2010 the world of Hard Rock / Heavy Metal lost one of its most talented stars, with the passing of Ronnie James Dio. During his career he sang for Rainbow and Black Sabbath, as well as his own eponymous band (Dio). With his incredible vocal range he sang some of the real classic songs in rock and metal.

Several of his albums were re-released last year in Deluxe Edition form (‘Holy Diver’, ‘Sacred Heart’ and ‘Last in Line’), and now it’s the turn of ’Dream Evil’. As with the other Dio Deluxe editions, it comes with an expanded booklet with notes by Malcolm Dome and is endorsed by Ronnie’s widow Wendy.

As well as a re-mastered version of the original album, like the other Deluxe editions, this one features a bonus CD with extra material...

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London band Turbogeist are releasing a 5 track EP in March, and will be following it later in the year with their debut album. Musically this EP is quite tricky to pin down. There’s a good helping of rock, a strong punk influence, some metal – a really good mix in other words.

The EP features 4 Turbogeist songs as well as a cover of The Wipers song ’Up Front’. It’s a short EP, with a running time of less than fourteen minutes, but that’s down to most of the songs being between 2 and 3 minutes long. The short songs help give the EP a fast punk feel with songs following on quickly from each other. It’s more of an old-school punk sound than a modern pop-punk sound, and that suits me just fine – I think the EP sounds great.

The band’s website and facebook page list the band members by fir...

Posted in Gig/Festival Reviews

Mayhem öppnade med ”Deathcrush”.
Sammanhanget är torftigt, jag fryser och har skitont överallt för det finns ingen mat eller värme och jag har stått på ett jävla kallt betonggolv i timmar. Jag hatar detta. Men när Mayhem öppnar med ”Deathcrush”. Då blir den här människan mjuk i sinnet och snäll. Atilla verkar lite arg och tycker att ”A Time To Die” bör tillägnas alla religiösa ledare och jag håller med. Men det är inte det som är poängen med Mayhem . Mayhem finns här och nu för att snutiga Stavangerungar ska kunna säga att de har sett dem. Mayhem finns för att tanter som jag ska kunna säga att jag har sett dem en gång till. Mayhem finns för att vi ska ha en kontinuitet, För att vi ska förstå vad Black Metal en gång var och vad den är och vad den kommer att bli...

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Torsdag 24 januari.

Att anordna en tredagars festival i slutet på januari i Stavanger i Norge är ett ganska ovanligt initiativ. Att göra det för första gången och boka band som Mayhem, Arcturus, Gehenna, Negura Bunget och Dimension F3H är ytterligare en bedrift. Mannen som står bakom detta heter Marius Steffenssen och har en rolig förklaring till sitt ambitiösa projekt.
-Det började med att jag ville spela på lite större konserter med mitt band ”Saints in Sin” men ingen ville förstås boka oss så då började jag arrangera spelningar själv där jag satte in mitt band som support. Verksamheten växte successivt och så föddes idén till en festival.

Det är väldigt länge sedan jag kallade något så enkelt för festival...

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Manchester band The Goddamn Electric formed in January 2010, and released their debut EP in late 2011. Now at the start of 2013 they are releasing their debut album – Snake Bite. The band are named after the Pantera song of the same name, and the album is either intended to sound wild, or it’s named after their favourite drink.

The band look like they’re going to have a good year with the release of their debut album, festival appearances already confirmed at Hammerfest, Scarfest and Les-fest, gigs with Massive Wagons and Jettblack, an album launch show and who knows what else is still to come.

Until I was sent the album to review I must admit I hadn’t listened to them at all...

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Some new sounds, unknown face, young talents rocked the stage of Babel in Malmö last week. Participated at a band contest, showed for the audience, how various could be the real music at all. I was just wondering why there is not that much people interested in upcoming, or simply unsigned bands. Most of these concerts was interesting, feelingful, and exciting. Just an advice- listen to them!

„Competition called Emergenza, formed as a music festival for upcoming bands. In the early 90s were a bunch of musicians and their bands together and organized a one-day festival on the outskirts of Rome, Italy. The festival was such a hit of that year after organizers were inundated with requests by the band that wanted to play...

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Angel Air/Border

Super groups are not a newly coined phenomenon. 1976 saw the rise of WIDOWMAKER, a band with plenty of rock pedigree. The lineup sported Steve Ellis on lead vocals, previously of LOVE AFFAIR and a solo career and guitarist Ariel Bender (real name Luther Grosvenor) of SPOOKY TOOTH, MOTT THE HOOPLE and STEALERS WHEEL fame. Today we would rank Bob Daisley (ex CHICKEN SHACK, ex. RAINBOW, ex. OZZY OSBOURNE, ex. URIAH HEEP, ex. GARY MOORE etc. etc.) and former HAWKWIND guitarist Huw Lloyd Langton at least as high. Drums on the album come courtesy of Paul Nichols (later on with IPANEMA KATZ) and some keyboards were supplied by Zoot Money, who played with a lot of Brit rock royalty.

This album is filled with cozy 70´s rock, often rather slow but at the same time mesmerizing...

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Magna Carta/Border

A band consisting of a progressive metal band´s vocalist, a renowned blues rock guitarist and a former drummer of a latter day American progressive rock band, would that suite anyone? Why not, as it is dUg Pinnick, Eric Gales and Thomas Pridgen who are at work. All members seem to have had their say in creating this album, and I very much like their individual styles. The info sheet promises a mix of KINGS X, THE ERIC GALES BAND and the MARS VOLTA, serving as a bas to attract fans of as diverse acts as CREAM, STEVIE RAY VAUGHN and TOOL!

Opener “Collateral Damage” is seventies groovy blues which is intriguing and has a distinct black sound to it, but it still only serves as a teaser of things to come...