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(new video-melodic punk)ABANDONED BY BEARS DELIVER NEW VIDEO “SO FAR GONE”

“So Far Gone,” the track that kicks off ABANDONED BY BEARS highly anticipated album is here today. The bands third studio album, Headstorm, is set for worldwide release on August 24, 2018 via Victory Records. To coincide with the release, the Swedish punk crew will be serving up old favorites alongside their new tunes on the inaugural Headstorm Tour, kicking off August 24 in Chicago, IL.

Bassist Gustav Eriksson explains the track’s meaning, “This is about coming to your senses after you’ve gone down the wrong path in life. Whether it is a major life changing mistake or just a small thing to anger you, ‘So Far Gone’ elaborates on how these circumstances make you feel lost and out of place in your current situation. Visually, we wanted to show an interpretation of the lyrics with the slightly funny side of an 80’s adventure movie.”

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Fronted by the dual vocal combo of Leon Ekelund and Fredric Andersson, ABANDONED BY BEARS is rounded out by guitarist Jacob Devinder and Max Fahlman on drums. The band released The Years Ahead in 2016 under Victory Records and spent a quarter of that year in the US touring ever possible corner. They returned in 2017 for another taste of America before closing out the year with their first ever tour of the UK.

Due to popular demand, ABANDONED BY BEARS will spend two months circling the US for the first tour supporting Headstorm, starting August 24 in Chicago. The tour ends in Nashville on October 25 and “fans can expect a good mix between the last album The Years Ahead, the new one and even some older, deeper material,” promises Eriksson. “We’ve put together a good set that will appeal to everyone and can’t wait to showcase it. Other than that, we look forward to seeing old friends and faces, make new ones and have a good time like always! Americans are always very friendly and welcoming so we’ll probably end up needing surgery on the muscles of our faces to fix the mile-wide grins!”

Pre-order packages for Headstorm are available now and include an instant download of “Headstorm” and “So Far Gone.” The full album will be available everywhere August 24, 2018.

(record review)FREDAG DEN 13:E-“Dystopisk Utsikt”(EveryDayHate)

Time for some crust punk hardcore to grace the pages of this zine. Namely, Fredag den 13:e, Swedish band from Gothenburg. This is their new album out on EveryDayHate and I listened and reviewed the record for this zine.

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The album contains 11 songs of melodic crusty punk hardcore with catchy melodic Gothenburg styled riffs, mixed with d-beat and dirty punk n roll influences. The melodic opener “Plagad av ljuset” only opens up towards more dirty punk n roll styled “1984”. The lyrics are in Swedish language and I don˙t understand what they are about. But the band speaks about waking up the conciousness and stepping and looking beyond the mirror, so it is alright. I usually easily get bored when listening to such records because crusty punk is not my cup of tea, but this one is good because its melodic and catchy in all this brutality, so it kinda reminds me of their countrymen Myteri who played in my hometown couple of years ago and I loved their set. So, if you are a fan of such hardcore punk, go get this record you won`t regret it! Top songs: “Salj mig licka” and “Ar du hora eller gud”.

7,5/10

Links: Bandcamp- https://everydayhate.bandcamp.com/album/edhfucks88-dystopisk-utsikt-12lp

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(record review)URSKOG-“Evig Vinter”(Ididit)

From the northern Swedish marshes comes Urskog, and this is their new release and I listened to it and reviewed it for this webzine.

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This band was started in 2013.as the brainchild of one Anders Persson who is the creator of all music. The record contains two songs. The music of Urskog is some sort of hybrid patchwork of melodic death metal, thrash metal and sludge. This is dark stuff but also a lot of catchy melodies in the guitar structures of the songs give some hope to the listener that things are not all that darkened. The lyrics to the both songs are in English, so I can´t understand what is being sung but the infosheet says that the lyrics deal with man corrupting nature and how the nature will take it´s revenge one day upon humanity. This is a decent release and I am sorry that this is a one man band, because I would love to hear this material being played live.

7/10

Links: https://www.facebook.com/Urskog77/

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