No próximo domingo, dia 29 de novembro, a capital paulista recebe a visita de um ícone do hardcore melódico: Mr. Joey Cape. O vocalista que fez fama nos anos 90 à frente do Lagwagon – e ainda com as bandas Bad Astronaut e Me First And The Gimme Gimmes – se apresentará no Inferno (com abertura reggae/dub da Família Gangsters) a partir das 18 horas (no dia 28 é a capital paranaense que o recebe).

Além da banda The Playing Favorites, Joey Cape tem feito shows solo em formato acústico, inclusive seu primeiro álbum, Bridge, foi lançado no ano passado via Suburban Home Records nos EUA e Bad Taste Records na Europa. Antes de desembarcar no Brasil, Joey Cape conversou com a gente e contou um pouco sobre essa transição na carreira dele, falou um pouco sobre Bridge, sua filha Violet e o porquê dos Ramones estarem mortos…. Ou quase isso!

Entrevista: Joey Cape
Por Ricardo Tibiu
Tradução: Marina Melchers

No encarte de Bridge você diz que um disco acústico é um rito de passagem pra um compositor. O nome Bridge tem a ver com isso, de “te levar a outro lugar”? Após o disco acústico, qual seria o próximo rito?
Sim, exatamente! Eu não sei direito onde esse caminho leva, mas é legal tentar coisas novas!

Inclusive, o quê te levou a iniciar esse projeto solo e por que escolheu o formato acústico?
Bom, o formato acústico é muito confortável para mim, eu sempre escrevi música no violão. Eu não sei por que estou fazendo música sozinho, acho que é porque é mais fácil ser criativo quando você não precisa depender de tantas pessoas. E também é uma maneira fácil de manter a pureza das canções e a visão que você tem para qualquer uma delas.

Você acha que a crise na indústria fonográfica contribuiu para a qualidade baixa da música em geral onde tudo é muito mais visual que musical? Por acaso, The Ramones Are Dead aborda mais ou menos isso?
The Ramones Are Dead é sobre a falta de romance na música moderna. A procura era uma parte importante do processo antes da internet se tornar uma ferramenta para encontrar qualquer coisa que você queira. Eu não tenho certeza se a qualidade da música diminuiu, ela realmente parece mais saturada do que nunca. Geralmente quantidade significa menos qualidade!

Seria muito bobo de minha parte perguntar por que os Ramones foram os escolhidos pra ilustrar isso?
Eles eram uma obsessão na minha infância. Conseguir todos os LPs e a procura por um disco em vinil antes da disseminação dos telefones celulares e da internet eram um processo muito recompensador e legal às vezes. Eu vejo os Ramones, e muitas bandas punk antigas, como uma analogia para essa busca na minha vida.

Hoje em dia, qualquer um pode fazer download de um disco e deixá-lo perdido no computador ou deletá-lo, o que não acontece com o vinil. Tanto Bridge quanto I Remember When I Was Pretty, do The Playing Favorites, foram lançados em vinil – assim como o catálogo do Lagwagon. Você acha que essa é uma forma de levar sua música a quem realmente está interessado por ela?
Espero que sim! Sei que eu ainda prefiro vinil como formato porque amo a arte [do disco] e a cerimônia de tocar um disco.

Você grava suas músicas praticamente sozinho e produz, marca seus shows, através de seu blog no MySpace se comunica com produtores e pessoas interessadas em ajudar nas turnês e até “convoca” gente disposta a cuidar da banquinha nos shows. A vida na estrada é mais fácil sozinho que em banda?
Sim e não! É bom ter controle sobre cada decisão em relação à sua própria arte e eu adoro o contato direto com as pessoas que gostam da minha música, mas também é algo que consome muito tempo.

O encarte do CD traz uma foto com sua filha Violet, no fundo do estojo há um desenho feito por ela e em Canoe podemos ouvir a voz doce dela. Você costuma tocar suas músicas ao violão pra ela, mostrar bandas, enfim, de alguma forma envolvê-la com música?
Sim, mas ela está numa fase mais adequada à idade dela agora, é claro. Ela gosta de dance music de Bollywood, música eletrônica e dance music latina. Ela adora melodia, mas o violão é um pouco entediante para ela agora. Ela quer um tipo de ação que o papai não tem como fornecer [risos].

Boa parte das canções do EP I Think My Older Brother Used To Listen To Lagwagon, do Lagwagon, estão seu disco solo. Elas foram feitas para a banda ou já no formato acústico de Bridge?
Eu as gravei primeiro para o disco acústico. O EP foi lançado antes, mas foi gravado depois de meu disco.

Aliás, por falar no EP do Lagwagon, é inevitável perguntar: o quê seu irmão mais velho costumava ouvir?
Um pouco da mesma música que eu ouvia. Rock dos anos 70 e jazz fusion em geral. Meu irmão mais velho é um ótimo guitarrista. Ainda assim ele nunca gostou de punk rock. Mas ele ama Lagwagon. Provavelmente porque é melódico, mas também guiado por riffs de guitarra.

Em 2000, você esteve com o Lagwagon aqui no Brasil para uma turnê. O quê você lembra dessa turnê?
Não lembro de muita coisa… Isso foi há muito tempo!

No mesmo dia do seu show em São Paulo, os suecos do Entombed tocarão no Hangar 110, o mesmo lugar onde o Lagwagon tocou em 2000. Que tal?
Acho que isso não vai afetar muito meu show… Espero que não. Eu gosto do Wolverine Blues, é um bom disco!

Com a volta dos anos 80, algumas bandas ruins voltaram à ativa e — pior — as pessoas “se esqueceram” do quão ruim eram suas músicas… Você não tem medo que com a volta dos anos 90 o mesmo acontece com todas aquelas bandas medíocres de hardcore melódico que copiavam as mais bem sucedidas?
Sim, e isso é assustador. Eu não dou atenção a isso. Mesmo se é uma banda de que eu gostava, geralmente é uma grande decepção para mim!

Considerando que você geralmente toca algumas músicas do Lagwagon e do Bad Astronaut, o quê os fãs brasileiros podem esperar para este show? Alguma música que possa entrar em Doesn’t Play Well With Others?
Talvez eu toque uma música nova. Eu tento ficar nas coisas do Lagwagon em geral. Parece ser o que as pessoas querem ouvir, especialmente porque faz tanto tempo que estivemos no Brasil. Eu toco algumas do Bad Astronaut também. Às vezes as pessoas as conhecem!

Links relacionados:
www.myspace.com/highlightsounds
www.myspace.com/joeycape
www.myspace.com/theplayingfavorites
www.myspace.com/badastronaut
www.infernoclub.com.br
www.myspace.com/familiagangsters

Clique aqui e concorra a ingressos pro Joey Cape e pro death metal sueco Entombed, no Hangar 110 no mesmo dia!

Ruotsistahan tulee d-beat ja crust-bändejä runsaasti. Eräs näistä on aiemmin Wolfpackin nimellä tunnettu Wolfbrigade. Bändi on sen 14-vuotisen historian aikana ehtinyt hajotakin jo kerran vuonna 2004, mutta jo kolme vuotta myöhemmin oli prikaati taas kasassa. Bändi on ollut aina tuottelias ja tuon kolmen vuoden aikana olikin sen hiljaisin kausi, mutta vuoden 2007 jälkeen bändi on julkaissut jo kaksi albumia, joista toinen, Comalive, julkaistiin vuonna 2008, noin vuosi bändin uudelleen kasaamisen jälkeen. Tämä on ensimmäinen bändiltä kuulemani levy, satuin löytämään sen halvalla alkusyksystä.

Nimestään huolimatta Comalive ei siis ole livelevy. Musiikkinsa lycanthro punkiksi määrittävä Wolfbrigade veivaa perinteikästä d-beatia. Biisit eivät ole kovinkaan pitkiä vaan niiden pituus onkin yleensä minuutti tai kaksi ja ne ravataan läpi aika nopeasti. Pelkkiä raivonpurkauksia eivät levyn 13 biisiä (plus intro) sentään ole, sillä kitaroista vingutetaan melodisia sooloja runttauksen taustalla. Sooloilu ei missään nimessä kumminkaan nouse itseisarvoksi vaan se tukee bändin ilmaisua ja tuo tähän touhuun hieman persoonallista otetta. Kuunnelkaa vaikka Unknown Road esimerkkinä. Osa biiseistä kuuloista sellaiselta kuin Discharge (tai paremminkin Anti-Cimex) olisi niitä tehnyt, tämän huomaa varsinkin Skulls of Doomista. Mutta Wolfbrigade ei sentään kumartele pelkästään Dischargelle. Vaikutteita kuulee myös (ruotsalaisen) death metallin puolelta sekä jotkin riffit ovat kotoisin sahaavasta speed/thrash metallista, joten aivan geneeristä d-beatiahan tämä ei ole. Itse asiassa bändikuvassa bändin jannujen takana näkyisi jopa olevan Entombed-juliste.

Tuotannollisesti Comalive tuntuu omaan makuuni hieman liiankin steriililtä, onhan kitaroissa sitä säröä, äänimaailma on metallisen kylmä mutta samalla tämä tuntuu jotenkin… puhtoiselta ja steriililtä. Jäin itse kaipaamaan sitä genrelle tyypillistä visvaisuutta ja räkäisyyttä eikä tämä tunnu yhtä brutaalilta kuin vaikkapa myöskin ruotsalainen Skitsystem. Olen siis lievästi pettynyt, sillä odotin huomattavasti parempaa pakettia. Mutta en heitä pyyhettä kehään vaan hankin jonkin toisenkin Wolfbrigaden/packin levyn kunhan sellainen osuu eteen.

Aiheeseen liittyvää:
Victims – …in Blood

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Rocktower Festival Lübeck – The Easter Metalfestival 3. April 2010

On the 3rd April 2010, at 11 am, the Lübecker Musik- und Kongreßhalle and Treibsand will open their gates for the second Rocktower Festival Lübeck. The buzz starts on Friday with the metalmarket in the „Muk“ and warm-up Shows in Treibsand and Sounds.

MUK rocks. And this time it’s gonna be heavy! Now in it’s second year, the Easter Metalfestival will be raising the roof of the white house at the River Trave on Easter Saturday. Get ready for Hard Rock and Heavy-Metal fever. Thanks to the cooperation of „Treibsand”, this year we are able to present 19 national and international bands performing live. Two stages – two worlds: MuK meets Treibsand. Perfect conditions for the 14 hours concert marathon with top-class bands showcasing different styles of Metal and Hard Rock.

Appearing live are: Kalmah, Endstille, Finntroll, Powerwolf, Van Canto, Blitzkrieg, Raven, Cursed Anguish, Nastrandir, Entombed, Thunderbolt, Omen, Equilibrium, Asmodis, RAM, Roxxcalibur, Ruffians, The Devils Blood, The Rods.

The buzz starts on Friday in Lübeck with the Metalmarket in the MuK and warm-up shows in the „Sounds“ and in „Treibsand“. (More information to follow)

Festival starts: Saturday 03. April 2010 – 11:30 a.m. (Doors open: 11 a.m.)

Festival Tickets: www.metaltix.com . Advance booking: 42.90 € incl. all fees; Available from all known ticket agencies. Box office: 46.00€ incl. all fees.

Tickets for the warm-up show: 12 € direct from the box office or advance booking also available online.

For more information on travel possibilities, location and tickets: www.muk.de / www.metaltix.com / www.myspace.com/rocktower / www.rocktower.de

RUNNING ORDER 2010 :

Stage one:
 
11:15 – 12:00 Uhr Nastrandir
12:20 – 13:05 Uhr RAM
13:25 – 14:10 Uhr Ruffians
14:30 – 15:30 Uhr Kalmah
15:50 – 16:50 Uhr Blitzkrieg
17:10 – 18:10 Uhr Endstille
18:30 – 19:30 Uhr The Rods
19:50 – 20:50 Uhr Raven
21:10 – 22:10 Uhr Entombed
22:30 – 23:45 Uhr Equilibrium
00:00 – 01:15 Uhr Finntroll
 
Stage two:
 
13:50 – 14:35 Uhr Cursed Anguish
14:55 – 15:40 Uhr Asmodis
16:00 – 17:00 Uhr Thunderbolt
17:20 – 18:20 Uhr Omen
18:40 – 19:40 Uhr Van Canto
20:00 – 21:00 Uhr Powerwolf
21:20 – 22:20 Uhr The Devil´s Blood
22:40 – open End Roxxcalibur

Rocktower Festival Lübeck – The Easter Metalfestival 3. April 2010

Am 3. April 2010 um 11.00 Uhr öffnen die Lübecker Musik- und Kongresshalle (MuK) und das“ Treibsand“ ihre Tore für das zweite Rocktower Festival Lübeck. Und bereits am Freitag beginnt in Lübeck, mit der Metal-Börse in der „Muk“ und warm-up Shows im „Treibsand“ und im „Sounds“, der Ausnahmezustand.

Die „MuK“ rockt. Und dieses Mal wird’s richtig hart. Im zweiten Jahr erbebt das weiße Haus an der Trave am Ostersamstag im Hardrock- und Heavy-Metall-Fieber. 19 nationale und internationale Bands haben sich angekündigt. Sie spielen parallel auf zwei Bühnen: in der „MuK“ und im „Treibsand“, dem Veranstaltungsraum der „Alternative e.V.. Zwischen beiden Veranstaltungsorten liegen Welten aber nur wenige Schritte zu Fuß

Der vierzehnstündige Konzertmarathon mit hochkarätigen Bands aus verschiedenen Richtungen des Metal- und Hardrock beginnt am Sonnabend, dem 3. April 2010, um 11.30 Uhr. Tickets gibt es im Vorverkauf für 42,90 Euro, an der Abendkasse für 46 Euro.

Am Freitagabend stimmen warm-up-Shows im „Treibsand“ und im „Sounds“, An der Untertrave 81-83, auf das Marathonfestival ein. In der „MuK“ beginnt am Freitag die Metal-Börse mit Fan-Artikel-Verkaufsständen. (Weitere Infos folgen)

Kurzinfos:
2. Rocktower Festival Lübeck – The Easter Metalfestival
Sonnabend, 3. April 2010
Musik- und Kongreßhalle Lübeck und „Treibsand”, Willy-Brandt-Allee 9
Einlass 11 Uhr, Konzertbeginn 11.30 Uhr
Karten: www.metaltix.com . 42,90 Euro im Vorverkauf, 46 Euro an der Abendkasse

Weitere Informationen und Eintrittskarten:

www.muk.de / www.metaltix.com / www.myspace.com/rocktower / www.rocktower.de

 RUNNING ORDER 2010 :

Stage one:
 
11:15 – 12:00 Uhr Nastrandir
12:20 – 13:05 Uhr RAM
13:25 – 14:10 Uhr Ruffians
14:30 – 15:30 Uhr Kalmah
15:50 – 16:50 Uhr Blitzkrieg
17:10 – 18:10 Uhr Endstille
18:30 – 19:30 Uhr The Rods
19:50 – 20:50 Uhr Raven
21:10 – 22:10 Uhr Entombed
22:30 – 23:45 Uhr Equilibrium
00:00 – 01:15 Uhr Finntroll
 
Stage two:
 
13:50 – 14:35 Uhr Cursed Anguish
14:55 – 15:40 Uhr Asmodis
16:00 – 17:00 Uhr Thunderbolt
17:20 – 18:20 Uhr Omen
18:40 – 19:40 Uhr Van Canto
20:00 – 21:00 Uhr Powerwolf
21:20 – 22:20 Uhr The Devil´s Blood
22:40 – open End Roxxcalibur

Os traigo un video de la banda Sueca Entombed, es una canción que dedican “al Carcayu”, vamos a Lobezno, uno de mis personajes favoritos. El video es buenísimo, a mi me encanta, ósea es una mierda muy gorda, pero…ya me conocéis, es la puta hostia, aunque bueno esta hecho en el año 1993, cuando salió el disco de la banda homónimo a la canción. Bueno, que creo que este video resume el blog en apenas dos minutos, metal y frikismo.

Victims on crust punk-bändi Tukholmasta. Tutustuin bändiin suomalaisen levylafkan Combat Rock Industryn kautta, joka pukkaa pihalle Victimsin levyjä tätä nykyä. Olin vakuuttunut uusimmasta Killer-levystä, joten päätin sitten hankkia myös vähän vanhempaakin tavaraa. Victimsin toinen täyspitkä levytys …In Blood-levy oli kuulemma paras, joten luonnollisesti hankin sitten sen. …In Bloodia ei sitten julkaissut CRI, vaan Minneapolisin hurjat Havoc Records vuonna 2004.

Levyn kansi sitten on hyvinkin tyypillinen crust-levylle. Siinä on voimalinjoja ja niukasti värejä (tyypillisen mustan ja valkoisen sijaan musta ja liukuväri-oranssi), huhhuijaa kun on omaperäistä. Omaperäistä ei toisaalta ole Victimsin tarjoilema mättökään, mutta eipä se haittaa kun crustin ja hardcoren perusasiat ovat hyvin hallussa, joten tässä synkän kelmeässä valossa kansikaan ei vähennä pisteitä. Takakannen biisilistaa katsoessa tulee mieleen että bändillä on varmasti paljon raivoa ja paahtoa ulosannissaan. Biisejä onkin 18 ja ne vedetään kompaktisti alle puoleen tuntiin. Victims ei pussaa hellästi poskelle, vaan vetäisee nekkuun oikein kunnolla. Victims iskee samalla teholla kuin piriä vetänyt Ismo Laitela, vain kolme biisiä ylittävät maagisen kahden minuutin rajapyykin. Pituutta ei edes tarvitse olla enempää, sillä bändi murjoo sanomansa hyvin perille tässäkin ajassa eli keskimäärin minuutissa ja 30 sekunnissa. On levyllä toki hieman rauhallisempia biisejä, mutta niissä nopeuden korvaa murskaavuus ja epätoivoisuus, ne suorastaan runttaavat kaiken alleen.

Vuoden 2004 tsunamissa edesmennyt Mieszko Talarcyk on tuottanut levylle sopivan murean ja äkäisen äänimaailman. Välillä Victimsin runttauksesta tulevatkin sellaiset jyrät Motörhead ja Entombed mieleen. Vaikutelma Motörhead-vaikutteisesta poppoosta ei murene bändin logoakaan katsoessa, joka tosin taisi hävitä tämän levyn jälkeen. Muutama biisi on karjuttu ruotsiksi. Olisin mielelläni kuullut muutaman muunkin biisin ruotsiksi, alkuperäiskielellä kun kaikki kuulostaa brutaalimmalta ja paremmalta! Tätä edesauttaa se, että vokalistilla on massasta erottuva, rupinen ääni. Levy päättyy Victims in Blood Part 3-biisiin, Victimsillä on siis Victims in Blood-biisien jatkumo joka jatkuu lähes joka levyllä eli bändi on ehtinyt muodostaa jo perinteitäkin.

Ihan hyvä ja kuunneltava levy, mutta jotenkin …In Blood jää turhan latteaksi kaikesta ankaruudestaan huolimatta. Se jokin, joka saa minut kuuntelemaan levyä enemmän, puuttuu. Pidänkin Killeristä enemmän kuin tästä, mutta veikkaanpa että tämä on taas niitä levyjä jotka alkavat kolisemaan oikein kunnolla sitten kun sitä vähiten odottaa.

even as the original line-up is whittled away (they’ve never really been the same since cederlund jumped ship for disfear) and they record and tour less and less frequently and the rock and roll shit is sloughed off for a return to their harsher death roots, this swedish collective are still one of my allfuckingtime favourites. i can’t imagine my record collection without them. when wolverine blues came out i had all but walked away from this-kind-of-thing. think this and unsane’s total destruction kept my metal(ish) heart ticking round about my mid-teens. by this time i’d stumbled upon the gories, mazzy star and cordelia’s dad, the butthole surfers and minutemen, the sonics and fugazi and all that rough trade pop and american indie shite that forever warped me. which is the reason why there’s no fucking focus on here, careening around like a drunk on the sixty two bus at three in the morning between black metal, country, bedroom pop and everything betwixt and around the two.

anyway i paid far too much money on an amon amarth ticket (cheese, vikings and horn o’ plenty abound…) just so’s i could catch twenty minutes of entombed live in glasgow for i reckon about the twelveteenth time. t’was good. i’ve missed them over the last few years. but they miss uffe more i reckon. here’s some songs (with bob dylan and lee hazlewood covers) and some videos (one directed by troma’s lloyd kaufman no less)….

• the ballad of hollis brown
• to ride shoot straight and speak the truth
• come clean
• wolverine blues
• young man nihilist
• some velvet morning

myspace / entombed

of death, dying and the evil of all hallow’s eve… that probably just about says it all for you… The mix starts out innocuous enough and dissipates into some brutal listens that should really shake your spine and leave you quaking in your boots. Sadly, some band’s could be a complete catalog without much effort, making cutting it down to a track an artist interesting. Spook you if you don’t agree… feel free to add in the comments your faves for the list

“Black Sabbath” Black Sabbath from Black Sabbath
“Welcome To My Nightmare” Alice Cooper from Welcome to my Nightmare
“God Of Thunder” KISS
“Highway to Hell” AC/DC from Highway to Hell
“Halloween” The Misfits from ‘Halloween’ single
“Knife in your Guts” Gwar
“Dragula” Rob Zombie from Hellbilly Deluxe
“Nightmare Be Thy Name” Mercyful Fate
“Halloween” Helloween from Keeper of the Seven Keys, Pt. One
“Dungeons are Calling” Savatage
“Devils Child” by Judas Priest from Screaming for Vengance
“Halloween” King Diamond from Fatal Portrait
“Pure Evil” Iced Earth from Days of Purgatory
“The Haunting” Testament from the Legacy
“Am I Evil?” Metallica from Garage Days
“Belly of the Beast” Anthrax from the Persistence of Time
“Dead Skin Mask” Slayer from Seasons in the Abyss
“Scream Bloody Gore” Death from Scream Bloody Gore
“Death Certificate” Carcass from Heartwork
“Slaughter of the Soul” At the Gates from Slaughter the Soul
“Diva Satinaca” Arch Enemy from Dead Eyes See No Future
“a Devil in God’s Country” Lamb of God from as the Palaces Burn
“Bloodletting” the Haunted from One Kill Wonder
“the Devil has Risen” Unearth from III: in the Eyes of Fire
“No Sympathy (for the Devil)” Skinlab from Disembody: The New Flesh
“Like this with the Devil” by Entombed from To Ride, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth
“Blessed Black Wings” High on Fire from Blessed Black Wings
“Her Ghost in the Fog” Cradle of Filth
“Progenies of the Great Apocalypse” Dimmu Borgir from Death Cult Armageddon
“Demon of the Fall” Opeth from My Arms, Your Herse
“My Hope, the Destroyer” My Dying Bride from the Dreadful Hours
“You were but a Ghost in my Arms” Agalloch from the Mantle
“Fear of the Dark” Iron Maiden from Fear of the Dark
“Black Number One (the Little Miss Scare All)” Type O Negative from Bloody Kisses

and, although Diecide is WAY out of my listening, I’ll include the reference to them, if for no other reason than frontman Glen Benton might be a direct descendant of satan.

Did I miss anyone?

Resultatet från Entombed-plåtningen i lördags. Tyvärr blev det för stressigt och flummigt med bilderna på oss tillsammans med bandet den här gången, men förhoppningsvis gör vi om det mer organiserat alldeles snart.

Bilderna ovan ska iallafall ska iallafall upp på bandets nykommande hemsida och webshop!

Igår skulle jag göra en reklamplåtning för Entombed tillsammans med Micaéla Moberg. Var ute en halvtimme för tidigt så satte mej på ett café i närheten och köpte kaffe och kärleksmums.

Ganska mysigt ställe faktiskt. Tror det hette något i stil med “matcafé”, ligger på Norrtullsgatan mittemot 3 Liljor iallafall.

Sen blev klockan 15 och jag mötte upp Micaéla i studion.

Häj häj.

Lånade kläder från Weekday.

Camilla kom med sminket.

Johanna var också med, kul att få träffa henne!

I stort sett klara med mitt smink härå. Gillade verkligen sjaluppsättningen.

Johannas tur.

Micaéla satt så snällt och väntade.

När vi var klara runt 18 blev det dags att dra till plåtning!

Framme vid Fryshuset tog det ett tag innan vi fick tag på killen som kunde släppa in oss.

Massa hormonstinna hårdrockstonåringar utanför.

Väl inne fick vi jobba snabbt eftersom bandet strax skulle spela.

Sista fixet innan vi mötte upp pojkarna i Entombed. Här lämnade jag kameran eftersom jag ju trots allt skulle modella och inte plåta.

Hemma igen! Fick skynda skynda med taxi hem innan porten låste sej, med tjugo minuter tillgodo (hade ju tappat bort nycklarna som jag nämnde innan). När jag väl satt mej ner testade jag ringa Debaser där jag antog att jag tappat dem, och det visade sej att personalen hittat knippan! Glädjeskuttandes dit (eller okej, jag mådde ganska illa och hade whiplash-skador från Dia Psalma-headbangande i torsdags, men ändock) hämtade jag upp nycklarna och kunde åka hem och låsa upp porthelvetet. Nu ska jag bara byta ut det temporära låset till det gamla igen.

Fick med mej massa t-shirts från plåtningen.

Det var det! Bilderna Micaéla tog kommer så fort jag fått dem.

Bestämde igår med en polare att nu jäklars är dags för lite livemetall. Så jag har nu införskaffat ett stycke biljett till kvällens spelning på KB med dödsvikingarna Amon Amarth och dödslegenderna Entombed.

Det är inte varje gång som förbandet är det som man mest ser fram emot att se men så är fallet i kväll. Det ska bli grymt skoj att se Entombed live vilket jag aldrig gjort tidigare. Det känns som att det är upplagt för mycket headbanging och höjda djävulstecken.

Entombed – “Wolverine Blues”

Amon Amarth – “Guardians Of Asgaard (featuring LG Petrov)”

Today I found myself in another one of those funks, where the melancholy feelings just won’t subside. So, earlier tonight, I turned to music, Metal Music, to settle my thoughts, nerves and soul. I chose to listen to Entombed, Wolverine Blues. Released back in 1993, on Earache/Columbia Records, I find it startling that this album is around seventeen years old already. An excellent listening choice I made, Entombed was the Metal elixir and their album Wolverine Blues was the Metal prescription that served me right tonight. Entombed delivers their original style of Death Metal or Death N’ Roll with Wolverine Blues, it is as groove charged as it is sinister. With each listen, I can still hear some Thrash Metal being fused within Entombed’s songs on this album. In a Metal nutshell, Entombed covers some ground with Extreme Metal genres. This is one hell of a heavy and hard album, the righteous Metal remedy for curing my blues – let me tell you. Lyrically, there is no bashfulness to be found when it comes to topics and imagery on Wolverine Blues. The combination of the aggressive lyrics and Death N’ Roll charge makes this album sound like it belongs on top of the Metal heap in 2009.

Is Wolverine Blues the heaviest album I ever listened to? Honestly, no. However, this album is one of the most accessibly heavy albums I have listened to… where these songs are not entirely over the top yet they are light years from being mellow too. One song that is quite the enjoyable, extreme listen is Blood Song, with it’s vampire theme that explodes from it’s lyrics and haunting musical tension. My favorite song is Hollowman, it epitomizes the label – groove infested. The lyrics of Hollowman are intensified with messages of death, it reads like Death Metal poetry… if you will. How can an Extreme Metal loyalist like myself not adhere to songs that are titled Rotten Soil, Demon and Full Of Hell… this is the Metal escape I was looking for today, to be shaken back into shape, (courtesy of Entombed) and returned to my normal routine. Out Of Hand is another standout song for me on Wolverine Blues. L-G Petrov on lead vocals is viscous and brutal on Out Of Hand, his accentuating the lyrics only emboldens this songs message of societal distrust and disruption. L-G Petrov is tremendous vocally throughout Wolverine Blues, an unsung Metal legend who deserves any and all accolades that may come his way.

It is the cohesiveness of Entombed that makes Wolverine Blues sound so impeccably strong, all ten songs stand on their own. As this album comes to it’s close with Out Of Hand, I feel not just reinvigorated, I feel Metal empowered knowing that I can turn to Entombed during a personal funk void for a motivational punch in the arm. For seventeen Metal years this album has existed, it deserves to be heard and prescribed to the younger generation of Metal fans across the globe. I am hereby recommending this great album from Entombed to any fan of Metal that might be looking to get out of their own personal mind fog – let the escapism of Wolverine Blues serve you right like it did me today.

Entombed as they appeared on Wolverine Blues:

Nicke Andersson – drums, guitar

Lars-Goran Petrov (L-G Petrov) - lead vocals

U Cederlund (Uffe Cederlund) – guitar, tambourine

Lars Rosenberg – bass

Alx Hellid (Alex Hellid) – guitar

Wolverine Blues Track Listing:

1. Eyemaster

2. Rotten Soil

3. Wolverine Blues

4. Demon

5. Contempt

6. Full Of Hell

7. Blood Song

8. Hollowman

9. Heavens Die

10. Out Of Hand

Syrach- A Dark Burial

Napalm Records

Syrach have mainly been described as doom for their previous records, however “A Dark Burial” show they are able to stretch out into a slightly different sound. “The River’s Rage” has a similar groove to bands like Entombed, slightly more up-tempo but soon returns to the down tuned greatness of doom. It is fair to say that this album is more death than doom, many songs have a chugging, mid tempo riff yet it is interesting to see whether the Norwegians could use this versatility to their advantage. Kenneth “Ripper” Olsen vocal’s are dry and evil, but not too dissimilar to many others of the genre. Title track “A Dark Burial” probably reaches the darkest notes on the album, a dreary and haunting track to perfectly suit its name. With the doom scene being so underground, it is fair to see why Syrach are not the most prolific or particularly known bands out there, however the waves of emotion and musicianship through this album definitely proves they shouldn’t be buried and out of a chance.

Grupo: Entombed

Álbum: Left Hand Path

Año de salida: 1990

País: Suecia

Género: Death Metal

Variemos un poco la rutina. En los últimos días me he dedicado a poner básicamente discos y discos de black, así que toca cambiar un poco, y meterse un rato con algo de death. Y resulta que ese algo es realmente bueno, incluso para más de uno, el death metal de verdad empezó con este Left Hand Path.

Dejando de lado las opiniones subjetivas acerca de esto, Left Hand Path fué el primer LP de Entombed, sacado un año después de la creación del grupo y de la edición de una demo titulada But Life Goes On, y supuso el asentamiento del grupo como tal, consiguiendo uno de sus mejores trabajos al primer intento, que les sirvió para cimentar sobre él su estilo e ir remodelandolo poco a poco.

En sus inicios, Entombed contaba con Lars-Göran Petrov como vocalista y con Alex Hellid como guitarrista principal (son los dos únicos miembros que actualmente siguen en el grupo), a su lado Uffe Cederlund como guitarrista y bajista y Nicke Andersson como baterista y bajista.

Left Hand Path no es ningún trabajo modosito ni un tanto reprimido, desde el primer segundo su sonido nos invade con atmósferas agresivas, pero pesadas y un tanto lentas (cosa difícil de ver actualmente), con grandes partes solistas a cargo de la guitarra y un bajo expléndido, bien enfocado y constante, que vuelve una vez más a llevarse la mayor parte de la atención en sus partes más claras.

Esa alternación de riffs pesados y duros con solos o guitarras muy melódicas, le da un toque muy personal a este trabajo, y junto con las misteriosas y atractivas partes en las que aparecen efectos de sonido, creo que son lo más grande y apreciable del trabajo.

Las voces son bastante buenas, pero les un pequeño toque de contundencia y bestialidad que encontraríamos en vocalistas como Jörgen Sandström (The Project Hate MCMXCIX), Roberth Carlsson (Facebreaker) y algún que otro paisano más. Sin embargo, no dejan de tener ciertos toques así en canciones como Drowned, entre otras.

Pero de verdad, haciendo hincapié, lo mejor de este trabajo es esa característica que los hace variar su death metal de la vieja escuela, con pasajes más relentizados y con otros muy melódicos, a parte de la adición de efectos sonoros muy apropiados para las atmósferas que crean. Los solos desbordan, y aparecen continuamente, lo que es una razón más para enamorarse de este disco.

Poco más que decir, otra joya del death digna de memorizar en el blog, disfrutadlo.

Canciones más recomendadas: Left Hand Path, Drowned.

Tracklist

01. Left Hand Path (6:38)
02. Drowned (4:01)
03. Revel In Flesh (3:43)
04. When Life Has Ceased (4:11)
05. Supposed To Rot (2:03)
06. But Life Goes On (2:59)
07. Bitter Loss (4:23)
08. Morbid Devourment (5:25)
09. Abnormally Deceased (2:58)
10. The Truth Beyond (3:26)
11. Carnal Leftovers (2:58)
12. Premature Autopsy (4:25)

Duración total: 39:51

Página oficial de la banda:

http://www.entombed.org/

Link

http://rapidshare.com/files/65920263/1990_Left_Hand_Path.rar

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Finnish death doom act ABLAZE IN HATRED have posted a new song on their MySpace. The song is a cover of Entombed’s classic death rock song ‘Out of Hand’. The song is taken from the special version of Ablaze in Hatred’s 2009 released “The Quietude Plains” album.

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Death Breath

Sounding like old school Swedish death metal. Similar to early Entombed, Dismember etc. This guys manage to make hard brutal music that’s still catchy and fun.

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Hoi,

Zoals beloofd komt er, nu INDIE’D achter de rug is, een update van wat er zoal gaande is bij ons. Dat is heel wat.

1)Er zijn wat CD’s van Earache Records toegekomen. Meer dan de helft is ondertussen ook alweer verkocht, maar er blijft toch nog meer dan genoeg materiaal over. 8 euro per CD:

Brutal Truth – Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses
Carcass – Swansong (de originele versie)
Carcass – Heartwork (ook het origineel)
Entombed – Left Hand Path
Hate Eternal – Conquering the Throne
Neuraxis – Trilateral Progression
Spawn of Possession – Cabinet
Sleep – Sleep’s Holy Mountain

2)Na Basserk, Earache en Unique Leader hebben we nu ook een overeenkomst gesloten met RELAPSE RECORDS. Eind September zouden daar de eerste vruchten van zichtbaar moeten zien. Veel van het Relapse werk konden we ook al via Unique Leader krijgen, maar grote namen zoals Dying Fetus en Cephalic Carnage waren daar maar al te vaak uitverkocht. Bovendien biedt Unique Leader uitsluitend death metal aan.
Door deze rechtstreekse overeenkomst met Relapse zullen we binnenkort releases in stock hebben van onder andere Baroness, Bongzilla, Genghis Tron, Mastodon en Nasum. Uiteraard zullen ook de Relapse releases die we in het verleden, door de overeenkomst met UL, al aanboden, verkrijgbaar blijven.

3)De Frontal Noize-catalogus zal in de toekomst vooral worden uitgebreid met Belgisch werk. Zo zijn wij in gesprek met een aantal Belgische labels: Shiver Records (Suhrim, Thurisaz, Welkin, Axamenta, …), Funtime Records (The Sedan Vault, Campus, LostDepartment), Vlas Vegas Records (Hitch, Black Heart Rebellion, AmenRa, De Portables), Zeal Records (Tomàn, Confuse The Cat, Krakow).
Verder komt er ook een project om jonge bands kansen te geven. Daarover verderop meer.

4)Frontal Noize kan, met enige trots, bekendmaken dat het de exclusieve Belgische distributie zal doen voor de volgende releases van Useless Armor. Useless Armor is een Nederlands artiestencollectief van folk en indie artiesten. Vanaf November zullen wij door deze deal de EP “Veer” van Peter Matthew Kasen aanbieden voor 5 euro. In December komt er ook nog een album van Wild Dogs in Winter. Deze releases zullen door ons ook verdeeld worden bij een aantal CD-winkels, zoals JJ Records in Leuven, maar de goedkoopste manier om eraan te raken is simpelweg via onze mailorder.

5)Beginnende bands OPGELET:
Vanaf heden kunnen jullie via Frontal Noize jullie demo’s verkopen. Alle opbrengsten gaan naar jullie, wij nemen hier geen enkel aandeel op. Voorwaarden:
-Het gaat om een beginnende band, die nog geen label heeft
-Je stuurde ons een myspace, of gewoon wat mp³’s, en jullie muziek werd door ons goedbevonden
-Je kunt zelf de demo’s komen leveren bij ons in Roeselare, Kortrijk of Leuven.
Betaling gebeurt via overschrijving per 5 verkochte demos, of na 1 jaar als er nog niet zoveel verkocht zijn. Je kunt je demos op elk moment terug komen halen, en zal dan cash betaald worden voor diegenen die al verkocht zijn.

Dat is het zo ongeveer voor nu. Onze agenda ziet er dus ruw genomen als volgt uit:
Eind september: aankomst van de eerste stapel Relapse CD’s
November: Distributie van Peter Matthew Kasen’s EP
December: Distributie van de nieuwe CD van Wild Dogs in Winter

Groeten,
Het Frontal Noize Team

Con eso de que Disney comprará a Marvel y de que Entombed viene a Coatzacoalcos (We’re not worthy!!) les dejo la rola Wolverine Blues de su disco de 1993 del mismo nombre:

Y recuerden, no es la neta del planeta, pero es la del Ixtepan. Turtle Power!