PROCOSMIAN FANNYFIDDLERS – INTERFERENCE NUMBER 9 2012
Jun 20, 2012 21:38
Progressive Rock
Band Procosmian Fannyfiddlers Info: Interference Number 9 Years: 2012 Info: Norway Style: Eclectic Prog Tracklist: Mp3 320kbps Info: 109 Mb
PROCOSMIAN FANNYFIDDLERS is a seven-members collective formed in 1995 in Trondheim, Norway. They're providing a delightful exploration of folk, medieval music,avangarde, tinged with heavy music and what not - often with humourous spice. The members are: Geir Venom Larzen (drums, guitar, keyboards, vokal), Erik Andås (bass, vocal, keyboards), Ole Peder Teigen (Keyboards, vocal), Øyvind Eriksen (vocals), Heidi Larzen (vocals), Mette Jensen (lute(?)), Fløyte (vocals, keyboards) and Bente Marit Ekker (violin).
As you can imagine, this populous flock is capable of real energetic bursts and cacophony - all that intertwined with some really great melodic lines. If you are looking for quirkiness of GONG, stepping in all possible various directions, including punk, this is the band for you.
After 4 appreciated US Tours, with +100 gigs in Scandinavia and the US, airtime in Swedish, European and American Radio and various endorsements deals, and after releasing much appreciated album “Until We Are Dead” (2009), OUTSHINE now focus on upcoming new album “Addiction” set to be released June 6th 2012.
OUTSHINE (Gothenburg, Sweden) entered Grand Recordings Studio in Gothenburg, Sweden fall 2011 to record their new album “Addiction”. The album is produced by Svein Jensen (M.A.N., Sister Sin, Hide The Knives, Troublemakers, Devilicious etc) and Jimmy Norberg (Outshine, Dead Tree Music artists, etc). The album is mastered by Göran Finnberg (Meshuggah, Opeth, The Haunted, In Flames etc).
The Offspring have debuted the title track / first single from their upcoming ninth album ‘Days Go By’ and it’s what you’d expect from these perennial Warped Tour rockers. Potent melodies, singalong choruses, big power chords, frontman Dexter Holland’s signature nasally vocals and a summer-appropriate energy.
While the Offspring have delivered their share of well-constructed but kitschy novelty songs (‘Pretty Fly (For a White Guy),’ ‘Why Don’t You Get a Job’ and ‘She’s Got Issues’), ‘Days Go By’ is gimmick-free. It’s a bit more contemplative, lyrically and comparatively speaking, as Holland ponders the then and the now. Overall, it has the bouncy rock vibe of a Foo Fighters tune with the added sprinkle of the Offspring’s American punk rock flavor.
Jonathan Schnitzspan of ForTiorI has released a new album, titled 'Sloan', which is available for streaming and for "name your price" download from his Bandcamp page. Listen below. The release is accompanied by an announcemnet video, watch it below as well. A track, titled 'Implicating the future', was posted earlier.
The name Per Fredrik "PelleK" Åsly may not be familiar to U.S. metal fans. He is the vocalist for UK-based band Damnation Angels, and the US-based band The Anabasis. According to his bio, his musical career started in 2009, where he entered the talent-show "The X Factor" on National TV in Norway. This TV show was broadcasted for millions of viewers in Norway. PelleK showed Norway how to sing power metal songs, more than anything and also to try and introduce the Norwegian people to power metal (in some areas) "unheard of" music genre. Despite competing against the more than 12,000 pop and poprock singers, PelleK ended up top 12, and went on to the final rounds on live TV, singing Italian and German power metal songs. From there, he was signed to Liljegren Records / Doolittle Group, home to ReinXeed, which explains why Tommy ReinXeed produced “Bag of Tricks” as well as played on the album, also featuring guest appearances from Marit Børresen, Tommy Karevik (Seventh Wonder), Anders R.S, Oliver Hartmann (At Vance & Hartmann) and Amanda Somerville (Avantasia,Trillium).
Xenia Dunford & The Eastern Exile – Lonely Streets 2012
Jun 16, 2012 22:28
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I've never been much for the singer/songwriter genre, male or female. It's often too introspective and eclectic fare, both lyrically and musically. So here's Xenia Dunford, a transplant, or better an Eastern exile, to California from Boston. She offers five of her songs on her EP Lonely Streets.
It's rather light fare, with Dunford leading with vocals and electric piano. It's quiet, too. I've spun it twice, and almost fell asleep both times. Even the country liveliness of Best I've Ever Had couldn't rouse me like a 5-hour energy drinks. Frankly, the songs are also rather melancholy, almost depressing. I'm not so sure if it's the texture of the music or the lyrics, or both.
IN EXTREMO is without any doubt the band which is must be seen live. I would say at least once in life, but after the first time you probably would die to see it once again. For years they prove the reputation of one of the best bands as well as one of the best live-bands. And the fact, that ‘Sterneneisen (Live aus Siegen)’ is the sixth live-album of the band speaks for itself. For seventeen years that the band exists, thousands of people all over the world enjoy their concerts, even in China, where IN EXTREMO played some years ago within the “Year of Germany”. Chinese public was so excited that police had to worry a lot, as if the revolution would start any minute.
Gentlemen of Distorted Sound – Bone Idol (EP) 2010
Jun 16, 2012 15:43
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Gentlemen of Distorted Sound claim to play groove-laden hard rock, and for once a band’s self-description provides a fairly accurate summary of the bands output. The five songs on this EP all have a reasonable groove and could be described as rock of the hard variety. They’ve got an amusing mascot in the form of a skull with a native American head dress who is also sports a monocle and cigarette holder; and provided you don’t try and take the band too seriously, this is a pleasant and varied listening experience.
The band can all play, which is always an encouraging start. There’s a solid rhythm section which locks down an effortless groove and keeps things chugging along nicely, a smattering of guitar heroics, and Gareth Nugent’s vocals offer a decent blues howl with plenty of power in the upper registers. They’re tight but not mechanical and the whole thing has a Black Sabbath-style swing to it which keeps the classic rock vibe going throughout.
2012, Great things come out of Sweden, not just ABBA and this album is one of them. Founded by ex-Prime Sth drummer Kasper Lindgren and featuring the vocal talents of Tobias Gustavsson, Coma (guitar), Henrik Edenhed (Bass) und Kasper Lindgren (Drums), all of them experienced and very successful songwriters and producers in Sweden. They already shared stages with ALICE COOPER or DEEP PURPLE and proved to be one of the hottest Swedish rock bands these days. Opener 'Monster' is just that, a monster of a song complete with a hook to die for. Singer and guitar player Tobias Gustavsson mentioned 70's and 80's hard rock and grunge as their inspiration source.
To get an idea of Ash Gray and the Girls sound on their debut disc, Born in the Summer, one could simply consider the cover art and the album title. The former echoes the art of the late Sixties, and the latter refers to 1967, 'the summer of love,' when Haight-Ashbury became the center of the Hippie universe.
If that's not enough, here's a third clue: Ash Gray covers 'Bus Stop,' The Hollies hit from 1966. It's symbolic of his influences, having grown up in the UK and weaned his parent's Sixties record collection.Born in the Summer is rich with the folk to psychedelic styles that permeated the music scene of the counter-cultural revolution. Measures of Eastern intrigue fill many songs thanks to the presence of a Sitar. Where 'the Girls' come in is as his harmony vocal support for Ash Gray.
