This is the second album from the Swedish hard working band Frontback. It was actually released a week ago, but better late than never… To be honest, I never heard the first album, and when I listen to the first song of this new album Read More …
Category: Sweden
CRANNK reviews Pretty Wild and the album “Interstate 13”
Release date: May 31Label: Black Lodge Records The pressrelease states that “What defines Pretty Wild is their heavy melodic sound and well-crafted songs.“ And it’s hard not to agree with that statement. Pretty Wild is a kind of fresh 80:s hardrock combined with glam/sleeze and Read More …
The Moth Gatherer: Esoteric Oppression – Review
According to the record label “The Moth Gatherer is a band of varying genres, centered around atmospheric doom, sludge and post metal. Their prolific approach includes electric musical stylings, along with traces of melodic post-rock.” Id don’t know much about that really. I don’t really Read More …
Album review: ROULETTE: NOW!
Roulette was formed in 1985 in Sundsvall, Sweden. All members have great experience with other bands before. According to the record label and the bands FB-page, they play AOR. I fucking hate that label! For me, AOR = SHIT! Thankfully, there is only like 2 Read More …
Crea: Dwarves & Penguins
Crea is a progressive Linkoping-based (Linkoping is like the 5th or 6th largest cities in Sweden) rock band that has been around since 1988 led by founder-member guitarist and vocalist Peter Gren. According to the bio, Crea has never really been interested in sounding like Read More …
Royal Republic – The rescuer in my need
Actually, I don’t remember how I discovered Royal, but what I do know is that the gentlemen in Royal Republic saved me when I had to endured a hell of a winter in the small town Norrtälje, a two hour bus-ride from Stockholm. It was Read More …
Album review: Gloson – ”Grimen”
It’s kind of a funny little story how I found this band. One night, a couple of weeks ago I was listening to a podcast hosted by public radio in Sweden. It belongs to, in my mind, the best radio show in Sweden. Anywho, one Read More …
Album review: Pontus Snibb’s Wreck Of Blues – Too Late To Die Young
The front-man of Bonafide – Pontus Snibb, has just released his second blues-album with the trio Wreck Of Blues earlier this February. And we’re talking a real blues-rocket here! It’s genuine blues with some early, but melancholy ZZ-Top, spinning off to a down-sized version of Pontus Read More …
Strange Peps Music – Part 5 – Noice
Noice was a band that I discovered in 1980, when I was 9 years old! But they really made a huge impact on me, and I think that I’m still a musical product from that band! At that time in Sweden, there was kind of Read More …
Strange Peps Music – Part 4 – Straight Up
The feature “Strange Swedish Music” is a way for Peps to make people understand why Peps is Peps… There was once a band that got the idea that would play “fuck n’roll“… They were called “Straight up“. They lived for one album. It was called Read More …