Bizarrekult from Oslo, Norway released their new opus with Season of Mist. This opus contains 8 beautiful songs of melodic, visionary progressive black metal with many nods to old school Norwegian black metal like in perfect mix of aggression of raw melodic black metal and clean sung atmospheric melodies, almost out of body ethereal in ‘Du Lovet Meg’. I can’t resist the impression of doom and sludge influences I hear in slow but effective ‘Kongen’. The title song is kind of post black metal, almost cold in space atmospheric masterpiece of work. What sometimes bothers me with bands of this genre that they have too few songs and too long songs on one opus, but fortunately this is not the case here. This one is just the right length and so various to make this a listening pleasure. Eerie and gothic like melancholy turns into blasting almost bombastic black metal hymn in ‘Hvis Jeg Bare Kunne…’, this one being my personal favorite of this opus. Vocals are screamed, but more like anguished sad screams than extreme torture. I recommend for you to listen to this opus in whole total, not partly, because only then you will get the picture of this masterpiece.
Norwegian scene is thriving and pulsing with super bands and Fights from Oslo are definitely one of them. They released new single called Five AM for you and check it out!
FIGHTS is a punk rock band from Oslo, Norway, with influences from the good old scandirock.
With hard drumming, catchy riffs, heavy bass and screaming vocals they are determined to prove those who thinks that rock has died – wrong. The themes in their songs spans from lonely guys who gets high on asbestos and deadly flying fishes.
“Five AM” is their difficult second single. But with even harder riffs than before, and a message to all of those caring so much about everything to relax a little, – well, it might not be that difficult at all. “Five AM” is about the fact that few good things happens after midnight, but it can be healthy and good for you to get away sometimes and care less.
Norway is not only home for black metal, but also good punkrock. Wet Dreams from Oslo are garage punk band and I listened and reviewed their new self titled record, that is out via Black Pop Records, for our zine.
What immediately comes to mind when the album starts is dirty rock n roll production of the album, bass being distorted, guitars tuned up and the vocals sounding like distorted or singing with some effects on, like in the song Bad Boy. The album contains 10 songs in harsh punk garage style. What I was reminded of while listening to the music of Wet Dreams is an Australian band called Clowns. This music somehow reminds me of Clowns, but a bit slower and more rock n rollish. This whole garage punk thing is really not my cup of tea, so even 60-ies influenced songs like Beautiful passed me by without me noticing or being very deligthed with the music. There are also some blues influences like in Blueslata, but still, somehow, this album just doesn´t work out for me. Unfortunately this band is just not my cup of tea.
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