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INSAMMER one of Sweden’s most promising metal bands releases new album ‘Black Art’!

Swedish rockers INSAMMER has released a new album called ‘Black Art’. A masterpiece of 11 tracks of total guitar and drums madness, filled with moments of relentless energy throwing back to their punk and rock roots to visionary moments of modern alternative.

INSAMMER vocalist Vika says: “Our third album ‘Black Art’ is a powerful and strong statement of the modern world. We spent almost a year in the studio during pandemic period, we wrote over 40 songs and had to choose from them. We took 11 tracks of pure rock vibrations with excellent lyrics to rock the house. For the first time in our career, we truly put it all out there. The album’s lead single, “Black Art”, is about dark times on the internet and hard situations on the political stage. We are all in the process of transformation”.

‘Black Art’ track listing:

1 Prophecy

2 Fly Away

3 Black Art

4 World Wide Web

5 No One Is Saving You

6 Endless Sky

7 Vampires

8 Guardian Angel

9 What a Gift

10 Vikings

11 Forgive a Girl

About the band:

INSAMMER is one of Sweden’s most promising metal bands, combining dark, pulsating Nordic grooves with Eastern European lyricism and melodic romanticism. Their live shows throb with emotional energy; Vika’s voice ranges from a whisper to a full-throated growl, melding with the instruments as verses explode into churning, hypnotic choruses and pounding, crowd-mesmerizing riffs. The group calls their sound transfusion metal, a heavy mixture of alternative rock and nu metal, which evokes the shifting musical styles and feelings that pour over them and infuse their performances.

The band was created in Stockholm by vocalist Vika and guitarist Dennis Wise, whose collaboration began at a music institute in Uppsala, Sweden. The name InSammer was inspired by The Door Into Summer, a science fiction novel by Robert Heinlein. The current lineup also features virtuoso guitarist Oleg Izotov, bassist Nikita Simonov, and world-class drummer Alex Karpukhin.

(recka) Sabaton – The War To End All Wars (Nuclear Blast)

Sabaton sam otkrio sasvim slučajno prije nekih 15-ak godina kada sam jedne večeri gledao onu metal emisiju na Z1 čini mi se koju je vodila Branimira iz Darkendome, tada su prikazali spot 40:1 i odmah sam se zaljubio u bend i nekoliko godina poslije ih i gledao 2010.na odličnom koncertu u Zagrebu sa Alestorm kao predgrupom. Ovi Šveđani su izdali svoj deseti studijski album. Imali su promjena u postavi benda, ali konstanta su vokal Joakim koji je nekada svirao klavijature u počecima benda i basist Par koji drže ovu ratnu mašinu u funkciji i konstantnom napadu.

Kada kažem napad, to je upravo to, Sabaton, za one koji ne znaju, svira war metal, u biti melodični, himnični power metal sa ratnom tematikom i tekstovima, melodičnim gitarskim riffovima, refrenima kao stvorenim za pjevanje uz njih na koncertima i sve to začinjeno Joakimovim grubim, ali melodičnim glasom koji savršeno paše i pjeva sve bolje kroz godine, kao staro vino. Kao i na prošlom, tematika ovog albuma je uglavnom Prvi svjetski rat i klaonica bitaka koje su se dogodile u tom mračnom dobu ljudske povijesti. Na ovom albumu Sabaton ponovo ima omjer bržih i poletnijih pjesama, kao i onih sporih teško kotrljajućih himni koje podsjećaju na tenk koji gazi sve pred sobom u deset pjesama ovog albuma. Meni osobno su uvijek više pasale brže pjesme, pa su mi Stormtroopers, The Unkillable Soldier recimo među favoritima ovog albuma. Mada, Soldier Of Heaven je također odlična, pjesma koja govori o borbama u Alpama, pa i na području Tolmina, Boveca i Kobarida u Sloveniji gdje se održavaju Metal Days festival i Punk Rock Holiday. Uvijek mi je taj aspekt Prvog svjetskog rata bio nekako najzanimljiviji i najviše ga volim proučavati. Race To The Sea je sporija stvar, ali govori o belgijskom otporu nadbrojnijoj njemačkoj invaziji, a još jedan od favorita ovog albuma meni je Lady Of The Dark, nekako tipična Sabatonska himna. Zasigurno meni jedan od kandidata za top deset albuma 2022.