Stonebreakers release second single! ‘Let’s Rock the Boat’ hails from the upcoming debut album It’s All About Rock n’ Roll (coming out 27 Sep).
This new track will make you wanna groove, drink copious amounts of beer and have a good time. It’s a powder keg rock-song with callbacks all the way back to Chuck Berry. Awesome guitar riffs, belting vocals and a solid groove guarantees a good time that should go well with a beer. ‘Let’s Rock the Boat’ is a party starter, and a good indication of what’s in store for the full album.
Release date: 30 Aug 2019
Produced by Ellery Daines
Artwork by Svein-Gunnar Johansen
We have conducted an interview with drummer and bassist from Ohmwork, Børge Bendiksen and Helge Nyrud. Ohmwork are on the verge of releasing their fourth album HorrorWorks on Rob Mules Records. A concept album that’ll be out Friday the 13th of September. Listen up!
Who are Ohmwork, and what is the story behind your band name?
Helge: I actually stole the name from GZR (a Geezer Butler album). It was short and it appealed to me at once. We had a long list of names and we landed eventually on Ohmwork (hope Geezer doesn’t read this…).
Børge: Ohmwork is a power trio. We have played together for seven years, and soon we will have four albums to our name.
You will release a single titled ‘Sleep Killing’ 16 August, tell us about it.
Børge: ‘Sleep Killing’ is the first and only single from our upcoming album.
Helge: It’s a song that Anders crafted from some old riffs we had from way back, if I remember correctly.
The album HorrorWorks will follow a month later (out 13 September). What can we expect?
Helge: Well, hopefully a band that’s evolving. We try to be better and keep things fresh. If you listen back to back to Storm Season and HorrorWorks, you will hear something has happened. We are not the same band in 2019 that we were in 2014.
Børge: The new album is a bit heaver than Alyssa Drone, I think. It’s been two years of great progression. Anders and Helge have come up with great riffs, and Anders has done an awesome job on the lyrics. The recording went smoothly and I think we have made a good album.
Anders L. Rasmussen in studio
Yngvar Mehus has co-produced, mixed and mastered your album, what is the story behind it?
Helge Nyrud in studio
Helge: Yngvar has been with us since ShadowTech (2015). He’s got to know us, and he knows how we want to sound. So, we got an understanding between us in a way. He comes up with alternative ways to do things, like: “Are you sure you wanna play it like that? How about just keep it simpler, straight forward like this?” So, that’s how he kinda got a producer role. He is heavily involved in the album. Not just the guy who is tracking us.
Børge Bendiksen in studio
Børge: This is the fourth time we work with Yngvar (ShadowTech, Mother City EP, Alyssa Drone and HorrorWorks). We really enjoy working with him in the studio. He understands how this style of music should sound like, and how we want Ohmwork to sound like. A great guy to work with!
Tell us about the cover art?
Helge: Made by Vegard Laupstad, the same guy behind the artwork of ShadowTech, which was great! He has done an incredible work on HorrorWorks too!
What’s in store for Ohmwork the next couple of months?
Børge: We will release a single this month. Around this time we will prepare and rehears a setlist for gigs in September-October. Among them a concert at Kulturhuset in Tromso 28 September.
Helge: Gonna be some gigs of course. Northern Norway, Trondheim and Oslo.
Talking about sound and style, tell us about your influences, bands you like?
Børge: I have been a fan of hard rock since I heard Thin Lizzy on tape when I was six years old. So, I like any hard rock/metal band from Thin Lizzy to Pantera. Drummers that have influenced me are Scott Travis, Brian Downey and Mikkey Dee.
Helge: 70’s and early 80′ always seem to suit us. But we try to make it sound “these days”.
Live photo by Hans Petter Skog & studio photos by Yngvar Mehus
Listen to Ohmwork’s mixtape below – a diverse and powerful stack of great rockers!
From the rainy Stavanger southwest of Norway, the melodic thrash/death metal band Sublime Eyes has constantly moved towards larger scenes and a larger audience. They have shared a poster with some of metal’s bigger actors – and no matter whereSublime Eyes play the audience are left with sore necks and a vitamin injection one has barely seen.
Rob Mules Records had a sit down with the guys in Sublime Eyes. They were calm, they talked. No headbanging.
Who are Sublime Eyes, and what’s the story behind your band name?
Sublime Eyes are a groovy and melodic death/thrash metal band from the rainy shores of Stavanger. The band was formed back in 2007 by guitarist Tom Arild and former drummer Remy as a pure melodic death metal act, but over the years the band’s sound has grown, and developed into the thrashing and shredding beast it is today.
The name “Sublime Eyes” are the eyes that sees everything, omniscient, all knowing.
Judge, jury, and executioner.
We are Sublime Eyes.
Your album is titled Corrocean and consists of eight tracks. In short, give a presentation of each track: how it came about, lyrics etc.
‘We Must Unite’ is the opener and fastest track on the album. In your face and to the point! It is about neglecting that what we do and how we act against mother earth. That she might just wipe us out one day.
‘Med Tiden Gror’ is our black metal song, or the closest we come to one on the album, and as you probably guessed by the title…it’s in Norwegian! The song describes when someone is lost and the only person that can help him is himself.
‘Dark Waves’ is the longest and last track on Corrocean. Epic melodic death metal. Shreddy guitars. Blastbeats. It’s all there. Epic is the keyword here. Dark waves is about people with depression and dark thoughts, but still tries to hide it behind a smile.
‘Follow The Brave’ is our anthem and sing along song. Melodic, groovy and thrashy with an epic chorus. It’s about being a strong person and learn from past mistakes. Leave the ones that bring you down and focus on what lays ahead.
‘King Of Suffering’ is a slower paced, crushing and BIG sounding song. It is about breaking out of an religion after being brainwashed your whole life.
‘Left In The Dark’. Thrashing, melodic and brutal! It’s a beauty! The song is about people that can’t stay away from drugs and gets left out by family and friends.
‘Ocean Cries’ is the slowest and most HEAVY track on Corrocean. Dark , ominous and heavy! Did we mention it is heavy? It’s about animal cruelty and how we let the ocean suffer for our own benefits.
‘Beneath the Black’ is probably the grooviest track on the album, and is about the hardship of being a failed pirate.
Lasse Lammert/LSD Studio has mixed and mastered your album. What is the story behind it?
Lasse Lammert is a world-renowned producer & engineer at LSD studios. A real wizard within the trade. He has worked with bands like Warrel Dane, Alestorm, Gloryhammer amongst others. He mixed & mastered our previous release “Sermons & Blindfolds”. He’s just a very chill and cool dude that knows what he is doing, and what he did on Corrocean is just amazing! A true metal wizard!
‘We Must Unite’. First single released 21 June.
Tell us about the cover art? Who is Costin Chioreanu?
Costin is a great artist from Romania who has worked with bands like At the gates, Einherjer, Leprous and Ghost just to mention a few. We saw some of his earlier work and just loved his style. Great guy and super easy to work with! The album art is inspired by the album title Corrocean and the music it self. The album title Corrocean is a play on words made up from Corrosion and Ocean. Some of the themes on the album is about the decline of the earth and mankind. How man keep polluting and destroying the planet. So the earth/sea is kind of “rusting”.
What’s in store for Sublime Eyes the coming year? Any tours planned?
The plan is to release Corrocean upon the world, tour and play as much as possible. Show everybody our new kickass music. We had a tour with Blood Red Throne and our label mates Deception earlier this year. We got some shows lined up at the moment, and the plan is to have a release gig here in Stavanger for the album, but we can’t give away too much details just yet. Just hang in there!
Can you tell us about your influences, bands you like?
Sublime Eyes started out as a pure melodic death metal outfit in the style of At The Gates, old In Flames and Dimension Zero. We still like those bands, but over the years as our tastes in music grew and the line-up changed, so did our music. For the better we think. We have a lot of music in common, and music we don’t have in common at all, but that’s a positive thing we think. The band is still developing because of it. Check out our playlist on Spotify, and you will get a better impression of the music we are into,
Band photo: Rebecca Eva Perry
Visit Sublime Eyes at Facebook. Below you can listen to their brutal and trashy mixtape!
The death metal outfit Sublime Eyes are ready to give you another taste from the forthcoming album Corrocean! ‘Med Tiden Gror’ is the second single coming out on Rob Mules Records.
Release date: 02 August 2019
Coverart: Costin Chioreanu
Check out more news on Sublime Eyes at their Facebook page.
