Third single coming this Friday! ‘The Merchant’ will be released on all digital platforms 24 May!
Cover art by Kim Holm
Logo and design by Jobert Mello at Sledgehammer Graphix
‘The Merchant’ by Deception
‘Grimalkin’ by Deception!
‘The City’ by Razorbats
Razorbats are back!
Razorbats will release the track «The City» as a radio single 19 April, and follow up with a 7″ vinyl release 7th of June. It contains a highly potent double dose of addictive rock-euphoria in the form of Razorbats «The City» and «Summer of Head», backed up by two tracks from the Canadian band Sick Things.
Razorbats will tour clubs and festivals in Norway and England in April through June in support of the release. A music video is also in the pipeline sometime in May.
Cover art by Benjamin Liam Boyle
‘Penitential Psalm’ by Deception
Release date: 1 March 2019
Cover art by Den Unge Herr Holm
Logo by Sledgehammer Graphix
First of several tracks that will be released as singles from the forthcoming album Epidemic (due in August).
Q&A with Stonebreakers
Stonebreakers are ready to launch “Boogie Swing” on Rob Mules Records 15 Feb. In that regard we had a nice little chat with the foursome from Tromso.
Who are Stonebreakers, and what is the story behind your band name?
Stonebreakers consist of four regular guys from the high north who love straight forward rock’n roll. There’s nothing fancy-pancy about us and we like to keep things simple. The name «Stonebreakers» reflects the hard working attitude we put into our music.
Your single is called «Boogie Swing», tell us about it.
«Boogie Swing» is a catchy little number based on a groovy guitar lick backed up by a steady rhythm section. It has a feelgood atmosphere which makes you wanna move and groove.
As for the lyrics, we’ll leave that for the listener to interpret. The same goes for the song title. It is what it is.
Ellery Daines has produced and mastered your single, what is the story behind it?
Ellery came from New Zealand to Tromso last year and has been hanging around Kysten studio learning how to become a producer.
A few months back he announced online that he was looking for local acts to practice his production skills on, so we volunteered.
We spent two days in the studio and he did a great job with the technical stuff, planning the sessions in advance and the production of the three tracks we laid down. They sound really, really good. Ellery is a great guy to work with and he has definitely helped us to refine our sound.
Tell us about the cover art?
Our cover art consist of minimalist design and photos from our gigs, which we hope will provide a visual shorthand to identify us, as we release more singles leading up to the first album. The photo for the cover of «Boogie Swing» is taken by Øyvind Aronsen.
What’s in store for Stonebreakers the coming year?
First of all it’s the digital release of «Boogie Swing» which we hope will get a good reception out there and bring us some new fans.
Second, and maybe most importantly, we’ll hit the studio again mid February to complete work on our debut album set for release in September. We’ve got seven or eight songs ready so far and maybe we’ll throw in a brand new one as well.
Third, we’d like to do more gigs. We’ve got a slot at RMR’s annual rock show in February and will play Prelaten and Bastard Bar in march. That’ll be great fun. We hope we can benefit from our deal with RMR and get the chance to bring our rock’n’roll manship outside Troms. So if there are anyone in charge of booking bands to suitable venues, or bands looking for a support act reading this, we’re ready. We’d also very much like to play Bukta. That would be awesome since it’s our local rock festival and we all relate to it in one way or another.
Finally we’re constantly working on new material to develop our sound and style.
Talking about sound and style, tell us about your influences, bands you like? What are Stonebreakers “built upon”?
It’s no secret that we’re big fans of old school rock’n roll and hard rock. It should be fairly easy to see and hear the influences from especially early AC/DC. We’re trying to bring back the badass, old school rock‘n roll sound and feel you find on albums like «High ‘N’ Dry» by Def Leppard or «Back in Black» by AC/DC. The rawness in attitude and sound from that era is what we’re looking for, and trying to recreate.
Having said that, our sound and style is also shaped by our individual taste in music which ranges from extreme metal via grunge and stoner to straight boogie-rock. Naming all the bands we listen to would take forever, but if there’s distorted guitar to be found we’re likely to be on board.
Photo by Øyvind Aronsen
Listen to their mixtape below. Several catchy rock numbers to get your feet moving.
Endolith with new single!
Endolith present the second single “Ichthys” from their upcoming sophomore album! The album will be a concept album on the extinction of all non-avian dinosaurs 66 million years ago, and this second single deals with the sea-dwelling ichtyosaurs …
Release date: 7 Dec 2018
Cover art by Endolith
“Alle Mann Alle” by Veislakt
Watch out! Veislakt gives you an early Christmas gift by releasing “Alle Mann Alle” as a single. It’s a digital release, but it comes with a “B-side” too. Why not? Included is the cool track “Blod I Manesjen”.
Release date: 29 Nov 2018
Cover art by Good Things Design
Me And You Va-Va-Voom!
New band signed on Rob Mules Records – Me And You Va-Va-Voom!
Coming from Høyanger, a band with an odd but spectacular name will soon amaze you with untraditional, cool as hell hard rock music! Kicking it off right away, new single “No Days Off” will be released 14 Dec on Rob Mules Records. Album is due in January.
Go to Instagram and take a peak at Me And You Va-Va-Voom: Me_and_you_va_va_voom
Cover art by Daniel Longfellow
New track from Vederkast!
Vederkast – Reflections Linger
5 Oct 2018, on all digital outlets.
Vederkast is set to release the second and last single from their new album, And In The Abyss They Sleep. The single named ‘Reflections Linger’ explores relations between people in a challenging situation, and though the word «ballad» is not a correct description, the sound is massive, melodic and emotional.
The song was, like the rest of the album, recorded live at the small village of Bleik on Andøya Island, surrounded by majestic mountains and the mighty sea. This made the recording process really special and definitely created a unique atmosphere in the music. Members from the local brass band also contributes on the single.
Cover art by Marni Kruse
Pre-order And In The Abyss They Sleep here! Release 16 Nov.
Q&A with Veislakt
Veislakt is soon coming out with their anticipated third album, ‘Sandnes Undergrunn Circus & Kabaret’. It will be released September 7. We’ve been touch with René Undem; vocalist, rhythm guitarist, song writer and commander in chief. Here’s what he had to tell us.
Who is Veislakt, and what is the story behind your band name?
Veislakt is a quartet from the Stavanger area in Rogaland, Norway. Playing a hybrid of punk, hard rock and hardcore, singing in Norwegian. Consisting of me on vocals/guitars, Mads Arild Hamre on guitar/vocals, Stian Askeland on bass and Tommy Utsola on drums. It startet out as one-man-band by myself at the very end of 2012, releasing an EP in 2014, before it altered into a five-piece band just after that release. Afterwards we put a debut album out in 2015 titled ‘Litium & Went Smågodt’, and a second album in 2016 titled ‘Fumar Mata’. Right afterwards Fredrik, one of the guitarist quit to pursue other musical ideas, and I took over the guitar duties while still doing vocals. A drummer who played with us at an early stage came up with the name Veislakt while we were discussing the idea of taking English song titles and directly translate them into Norwegian. Even though ‘Roadkill’ wasn’t a song title, we translated it into Norwegian. Viola! Veislakt was born and we stuck with it.
Your album is titled ‘Sandnes Undergrunn Circus & Kabaret’ and consists of eleven tracks. In short, give a presentation of each track: how it came about, lyrics etc.
This is a concept album, and every song tells a story of what is happening when a circus is coming to town.
1. ‘Sandnes Undergrunn Circus & Kabaret’: This is mainly a song about welcoming the audience to the circus during the opening parade.
2. ‘Alle Mann Alle’: This song is about working the audience before it all starts.
3. ‘Franz, Frank & Han Andre’: This song is about three sea lions’ performance where two of them do a soccer penalty shoot out, while the last one is the referee.
4. ‘Klovnene’: This song is about three Russian clowns, brothers and alcoholics doing some very realistic slapstick humor with iron rods. There will be blood in the sand.
5. ‘Øynene’: This song is about how kids and their families witness the acrobatics high up in the air.
6. ‘Blod I Manesjen’: This song is about the lion Nelson, getting tired of his lion tamer, and kills him during the show. And at this moment the audience thinks it’s all an act.
7. ‘Lyse Dagen’: This song is about the aftermath after the murder of the lion tamer, and how the circus director feels that the show is about to go under.
8. ‘Skammen’: This song we take you backstage of the circus and show how violently the elephants gets treated.
9. ‘To Alkoholiserte Russere’: In this song we move back into the circus again where there are three jugglers showing off, while a strong bearded woman is doing the act with them. She even lifts a cow. Two of the Russian clowns are in love with her and starts fighting over her, while they are really intoxicated in the backstage area.
10. ‘Tro & Håp’: In this song we tell the story of how everything is starting to go to the hell. We got a knife thrower who hits his living target, and people are starting to get uncomfortable.
11. ‘Inferno’: In the last song the fight between the two Russian clowns have escalated and they trip over a bottle of Vodka that goes into the aggregate and a fire bursts out. There’s panic all over the place. People run over each other, the animals get loose, and of course the tent burns to the ground.
Arvid Tjelta has mixed and mastered your album. What is the story behind it?
He’s been a old close friend of the band, and he knows his stuff. Easy dialogue, and a lot of skills in that man.
Tell us about the cover art? Who is Michael Myklebust. Stian Askeland is behind the layout, how did that come about?
The cover art is designed by Michael Myklebust at GoodThings Design. We just told him what the album was going to be about – then he just made it. The layout is done by our very own bass player, Stian.
What’s in store for Veislakt the coming year? Any tours planned? New album in the horizon?
We’re booking some gigs at the very moment. Gonna be some touring all over Norway this autumn. We’re pretty psyched about presenting our new album to our audience while we are on the road.
Can you tell us about your influences, bands you like?
Most of the bands we love knows how to build a song up that includes some progressive stuff in it, but mainly let it be more about the songs than showing off their techniques and stuff like that. Mainly it is all about creating a good show for the audience.
Photo by Sivert Wergeland
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Listen to the mixtape of Veislakt!