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The Swedish heavy rock scene is on fire! Troubled Horse consist of Jens Henriksson (drums) and John Hoyles (guitar) who were original members of Witchcraft, and Ola Henriksson (bass) who is currently also in Witchcraft. John Hoyles is also currently in Spiders. The band’s secret weapon is vocalist/guitarist Martin Heppich, who’s songwriting distinguishes the band in sound and style from their peers.
You can tell Heppich pours a lot of heart and soul into these songs, which almost sound sweepingly romantic, until you listen to the dark, creepy, tragic lyrics that would get you in big trouble if you try to slip them into a mix for a love interest.
They pull off catchy uptempo songs without resorting to any doom clichés, keep those hooks coming and end up with what might be the surprise smasher for 2013.
Troubled Horse has finally gathered their best tunes from a 10 year period and put em down on a record called “Step Inside”
From Gothenburg, Sweden, hails vintage hard rockers Horisont. With their mix of the early 70′s heavy rock/metal and NWOBHM they have found their own genuine sound. Their debut album was released in 2009 by Crusher Records and have since then been out touring heavily. In 2011 they were signed by legendary Rise Above Records and are now ready to face the crowd with new material.
“HORISONT rocks harder than a ten ton bag of lead rock salt. And ‘Second Assault’ will blow your balls off” – Rockthought.com
Last week the Roadtrip force was strong in Vienna.
Unsurprisingly Jex Thoth´s show was yet another triumph, overshadowing the most instense in today´s Stoner Doom and Psychedelic Rock.
“Blood Moon Rise” is their first LP in five years and is a serious indicator for 2013 being Jex Thoth´s year.
It will be released on June 15th via Sweden´s I Hate Records.
Kyuss need no introduction to whoever is reading this. It´s no secret that both the Garcia Plays Kyuss and Kyuss Lives! shows at Arena went down extremely well, so it´s time to embark on another Roadtrip To The Valley.
After a legal dispute over the Vista Chino´s old band name, Brant Bjork, John Garcia & Nick Oliveri & Bruno Fevery are currently recording new material in anticipation of a 2013 release.
Brant Bjork was asked about what´s in store for his old new band and their cherished fan base from around the world.
“There’s always relief when conflict is resolved and people can just let go and move forward. That’s where we’re at and we feel great. It’s always unfortunate to experience differences with specific people, but we feel great as a band. We’re really, really excited to move forward into the future and focus on what it is that we do, which is play music.”
That being said, spanking new material has already surfaced:
Aluk Todolo conjures rabid obsessive rhythms and abyssal disharmonic guitars, subliminal spiritualist vibrations and bizarre, magick summonings.
Aluk Todolo’s “Occult Rock” is wonderfully thought provoking, always enthralling, and trance inducing, so they achieve exactly what they set out to create. You can read, work, relax, or run to this music, and it really would fit the scene just fine.
“For better and worse, audacity is an essential aspect of Aluk Todolo. After all, for the bulk of the last decade, the French trio of black metal veterans has attempted an unwieldy mission– to set the dark sounds of their past to the typically kaleidoscopic expanses of krautrock. That task actually seems feasible for a band with enough gumption to lift its name from an ancient, ritualistic religion practiced by a third of the people in a mountainous region of Indonesia, or an act that insists its music is a way to leave he world behind. “The requested conditions to play our music,” drummer Antoine Hadjioannou said in a 2007 interview, “is to get in a trance and forget everything… when the musician finally disappears behind the forces he does summon.” - Pitchfork
One man project Lussuria form the US East Coast is at home in a cursed place. A bombed out city that echoes Italian Horror-Soundtracks from the 70s.
“Seamless sound collage taking you through all the various rooms in the house. While blindfolded you reach for things familiar but everything feels different in the dark.”
Formed by drummer Rafa Martinez (ex-16, ex-Acid King) and guitarist/vocalist Jason Landrian (ex-Cavity), Black Cobra catapulted themselves onto the scene in 2001 with their ravenous, upbeat and ultimately unique style of punk/hardcore-fueled sludge metal.
Black Cobra´s almighty fourth full-length album, “Invernal” is their most honed and diversified material to date, and will tear your face off completely.
Recorded at Converge guitarist Kurt Ballou’s God City Studio, the album propelled the most diversified and matured songwriting from the duo to date forward with incredibly thunderous production, the theme to the entire record based on a post-apocalyptic trek to a nuclear infested and mutated Antarctica, inspired in part by the treks of English researcher Ernest Shackleton. The band perpetually toured through the years surpassing their 600th show mark in 2012 since the release of their debut LP Bestial in 2006.
In the great Canadian spirit of loss and heart ache, the downer foursome known as BISON b.c. have managed to scourge their rotting brains desperately puking out new psalms of suffering.
From the west coast melting pot of shit and failure; in a country based on terrifying distance and lonesome, stoic suffering comes Lovelessness; not portraying the death of love or the lack of the same. Rather it attempts to map out the pathetic and desperate pursuit of love, which in itself becomes violent like a cancer, an assault on anything that is good in the world. A heartfelt repulsion towards anything that could bring pleasure, because with happiness we suffer truly – the wanting of more. Gluttons! Pigs to the trough! Lead us to treachery! Lead us to solitude!
Årabrot is a Norwegian noise-rock band from Haugesund, Norway.Since starting out in 2001, Årabrot’s main core has been Kjetil Nernes (songwriter, guitar and vocals) and Vidar Evensen (drums and visuals), and in recent years noise artist Stian Skagen has been a regular on-and-off member of the band. Collaborating with producers such as Billy Anderson (Melvins, Neurosis), Emil Nikolaisen (Serena Maneesh) and Steve Albini (Nirvana, High on Fire) the band has released three full-length albums and a grotesque bouquet of singles and EPs.
Årabrot is about to represent for this generation what the sum of Melvins, Birthday Party and Swans was to the generation before them; a source of pleasure from both auditory and moral excesses. The band’s foundation is noise-rock, but has strong elements of industrial music and noise.
In Årabrot there is also a dramatic component few other bands in history possess: histories are told and emotions are laid out in a way that’s closer to the compositional techniques of experimental film and theatre than traditional song structure. Last but not least they are drawn to the lyrics that combine elements of two of the most stimulating works of human kind: The Bible and Pornography.
Asteroid is doing what they do best and that means fuzzed out psychedelic space rock, combined with exceptional songwriting that brings out their dual vocals to the maximum. Asteroid is by many considered to be one of the top Swedish rock acts today and this statement has never been more true than it is right now.
Parasol Caravan crank their amps up to 11 and play heavy rock with stoner and psychedelic elements. They are a dirty soundbastard between Black Stone Cherry and Kyuss with never ending groove, fat guitar riffs that have no mercy with your neck and incredible whiskey soaked vocals that get under your skin.
Since the end of 2009 the four piece is rocking as many stages as possible and honoring their idols of the past without losing touch with the modern rock scene.
The TV Buddhas, currently based in Germany, but originally from Tel Aviv, have been playing their own blend of alienation drenched garage-punk for the past five years, first as a duo and later as a trio. Their music is reminiscent of The Wipers and Dead Moon, with a heavier, Stoner guitar sound, and minimalistic drumming played on a stripped down kit. The band consists of husband and wife Juval Haring and Mickey Triest, and sibling Uri Triest.
Since leaving Israel in 2007 they have released numerous tour CDRs and cassettes, 2 LPs, an EP and a 7 inch record on both the Austrian label Trost, and the German label Staatsakt, all in the midst of intensive touring, sometimes playing over 200 shows a year.
Their latest offering “Band In The Modern World” features five new songs, oozing with Wipers/Husker Du influenced overdrive. The EP was recorded in just less than an hour on their last winter tour in Europe, in a small studio in the city of Graz, and was later mixed by Steve Fisk, who produced the Beat Happening and worked with the likes of Nirvana.
The EP will be released by TROST Records, of Vienna
Robotra is a three-piece lo-fi indie rock band from Austria. They create delightful melodies, just to bury them under tons of distortion and fuzz, guitar and bass effects.
Miami has earned its fair share of notoriety over the last 30 years, but most of it has been nothing to brag about: The Liberty City Riots, the Mariel Boatlift, and the Cocaine Wars of the early 1980s recast the formerly sleepy beach town/retirement colony as a lawless urban hellscape crowded with pimps, powder queens and cutthroats, where liquor-store shootouts, revenge bombings and police corruption threatened to drown the tourist trade in an ocean of blood, booze, and yayo. But now the peace-loving citizens of Miami finally have something they can hoist high as an enduring emblem of cultural and civic pride (besides KC & the Sunshine Band, Gloria Estefan and 2 Live Crew, obviously) …
Enter Torche, the four-pronged Floridian Riff Colossus that has steamrolled its way across the international underground. Their blissed-out power-grooves, triumphant vocal harmonies and cosmic resonance within is variously hailed as “stoner pop,” “thunder rock,” and “doom pop”.
“Never let it be said that bong-rock types hate hooks,” Spin magazine announced. “Torche set their guitars on ‘dirge,’ work their vocal harmonies, and say amen to Foo Fighters’ riff-o-matic preaching.”
“At long last, we know what life would be like in a parallel universe where the Melvins became a pop sensation instead of Nirvana,” Revolver magazine added.
Their latest full length Album Harmonicraft isi Torche in their most unfiltered form and the result is a collection of songs that prove that heavy music can be progressive without being predictable. From the relentless groove, the melodic grandeur and sinister syncopation of Harmonicraft stretches toward the sonic stratosphere and illustrates that the band are growing tighter and more powerful with each passing release.
Prototyper are 100% Rock (1% Stoner/Sludge/Doom; 99% badass).
Right from the beginning Prototyper did their own thing, without aiming for any particular genre … just with one goal in mind: to blow your heads off with big guitar riffs, mighty drums, thundering bass and gnarly vocals on top of it all. Keeping an eye on the dynamics, they may also include some calmer and moody moments for good measure, if a song needs just that.If you must put a label on it … let’s call it … Rock. It’s raw, heavy, loud and sleazy … everything you want in trusty old Rock’n'Roll, right?
Prototyper released their first (self-titled) EP in 2012, which earned them support-slots for well-respected international bands like Crowbar, Karma to Burn and Been Obscene.
They are currently working on their first full-length album and playing shows whenever they can.
