Fir Cone Children – Firconium

Rise from your grave! *Wooshy magical sounds*

33a – Saperavi

Closing out this little excursion into the Georgian music scene, we will take a listen to the album that started my interest of the Georgian language and music, 33a!

Oh, and so sorry for the loooong wait between the reviews, I’ll try to not keep you in the wait for so long.

ივერია – ივერია (Iveria – S/T)

Now, I do not confess to have the greatest knowledge about the progressive rock music of the 70’s. Still I do like listening to the classics whenever they play on the radio or when a friend plays a song. And the influence and impact it had on the music timeline is undeniable, and as far as I know, almost every country that got in contact with the American super groups tried for themselves to emulate the style, with some more successful results than others. The countries that were behind the Iron Curtain of the time had a bit more trouble to try their hands on this new music genre. Still, there were the bands that somehow got a green light to record and release an album, influenced by the “capitalist super groups”, and ივერია(Iveria) was one of those bands!

Octis / Ocrilim – Ocrilorx-1

This is a quite fun 7″ I found in a box of mixed, unknown albums, behind the counter of a local records store. And before you now, my astute and lovely readers, I will to the best of my abilities recreate the entirety of the Octis and Ocrilim’s split 7″ record.

*Clears throat*

Dun-dunnnnn… BZBZAFDBSABBZBZBABSBZBXJBDSZXBBZAJBKBFDKW!!!

*Next track*

Dun-dunnnnn… BSBBZBXZBBJSBKBWJBDZBBZBBSKABDXBKZBXJSB!!!!

*Repeat 34 times*

Thank you, thank you!

Ryan Garbes – Shit Education

Time for something a little less pretentious and somewhat more musically interesting; time for some experimental, psychedelic, art, noise rock.
What?! Don’t give me that look, I’m totally cereal, guise! Come on!

Sebastian Melmoth – In Ruins

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Headache, check. Piss-poor weather, check. Energy gone, check. Overall mood, gloomy, check. Sebastian Melmoth – In Ruins, perfect.

Ak’chamel – Thrower of Sickness

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Sorry, yet again for the long impromptu lack of posts, got a bit burned out and didn’t feel like writing anything here. Wait, I’m not sorry at all for not posting anything, this is my blog and I can do what ever I want, it’s not like I’m getting payed for doing this! Chaos rules this world and I should get more in touch with nature and please Eris by doing what the Hel I want! Fnord and hot dog buns on Fridays!!

…Ak’chamel is good and you should listen to it…

Overmars – Born Again

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Overmars is a quite interesting metal/sludge/doom/electronic/among other elements of different genres band, from Lyon, France, which formed in 2001 and have released a bunch of splits and two full-length. Born Again was released on the now defunct label Appease Me…, which has released some editions of Blut Aus Nord: The Work That Transforms God, Thematic Emanation of Archetypal Multiplicity and the first releases of Monolithe’s albums. It’s a shame the label has closed but fortunately Debemur Morti became the new home for Blut Aus Nord. Born Again has also been released as vinyl on the label Bipolar Dictatorship and as digipak on Crucial Blast.

Overmars consist of three stable members (and a bunch of other members), one of which is a member of another band called Veuve SS, which is a small, decent punk/hardcore band with a quite nice sound to them. But I won’t talk about them (not yet at least…).

Vanligt Folk – S/T EP

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A couple of weeks ago I was visiting our fine capital city of Stockholm for a live performance of Death in June, which was absolutely fantastic! Douglas P. put on a wonderful show, as always, and the crowd was great and almost everyone sang along to the hits and had a lovely time. The variety of people who were attending was very interesting to see; from the “hard core” synth-goth with 4″ boots and leather trench coat, to the more involved hipster, and the true old-school industrial who’s been around and seen the revolution first hand. But my favorite was a guy from northern Sweden, wearing an old German camo-coat and sporting an extensive knowledge of extreme music that was just up my alley! He was just a swell guy and even Douglas P. seemed to think so, giving him a horned plastic helmet with the totenkopf on a rainbow patch!

But I digress, this post isn’t about people who listen to pretentious neo-folk, it’s about Vanligt Folk…

Svarti Loghin – Skog

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What sounds and music do you think of when you think of the deep misty forests of Dalarna? Murky, calm, introspective rock, with perhaps a hint of folksy Swedish sounds and an air of Swedish “lagom”-ness, perhaps? Well, I for one, do not think of mediocre, bland “soul-full” clean vocals and American style country/blues, which is sadly partly what I got with Skog… Sometimes less is not more and sometimes a depressive black metal band should stay as far from Americana as possible.