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The best releases are those that I’ve listened to for hours and hours and hours, and I still keep coming back. It just happened to be five tapes this time. It’s not a hipster thing, it’s a “great music”-thing.

Tusen År Under Jord – Sorgsendömet Fobos (Hibiskofon)
This is the best stuff I’ve heard in years. When listening I think of really old black and white movies, surreal landscapes, dense forests in the north and inbreds worshipping elder gods in claustrophobic caves. This is sincere emotional melancholy, without asking for help or understanding. It just looms and breathes on its own. Twisted strings, weak organs and disturbing darkness lies ahead. Listen to this excerpt.
Dusa, another nice freak, was the first one to release a cassette on this promising small label. Make sure you check him out as well. It’s amazingly good stuff.

D.Å.R.F.D.H.S. – S/T (Funeral Fog Records)
The strange name Dard Å Rajn Från Det Hebbershålska Samfundet reads like a tribute to my favourite Swedish author Nikanor Teratologen. I got a bit worried when I realised this, cuz most of the times tributes to the man are childish rubbish. Not this time. This tape is a true masterpiece.
I’ve been stuck with old Cold Meat Industry CD:s and Segerhuva/Abisko tapes for so long I kind of got bored with the whole thing. I haven’t kept track of this ”new” wave of brilliant dark electronic stuff that’s been flooding the market. I still don’t keep track, so I just listen to this tape over and over again. It’s that good.
I’d say the foundation of D.Å.R.F.D.H.S. is a mixture of dark dirty ambient, experimental dub/techno, industrial soundscapes and northern isolationism. Listen here and make up your own mind.
I just got a hold of their brand new release, Det Stora Oväsendet LP (Clan Destine Records), as well as an additional 12” featuring five remixes of the album tracks. First spin = awesome shit from the vaults of Kågedalen/Blåsut. Get it. Now.
Also, make sure you check out Varseblivning (Blodörn) by Isorinne, one of the members of D.Å.R.F.D.H.S. (the other member being Varg).

Rite – Se menniskan, hatet, hånet
I wrote about Rite in 2011, being totally blown away by their very first songs. Since then they’ve kept me updated by regularly sending new stuff, and I’ve been blown away every time. This is black metal the way it’s supposed to be: genuinely original, spiritual darkness with religion as base. ”The feeling evoked by the art is everything”, as I wrote back then. This outstanding tape is no exception. This is divine black metal art. Listen.

Irkallian Oracle – Grave Ekstasis (Bolvärk)
Ritualistic death metal in the vein of the Australian cuckoo-clock freaks known as Portal, minus the technical exercises. This is doomlike, primal and grinding, and a bit more varied than Portal. Some stuff makes me think of Archgoat and Blasphemy, which is a very good thing. Apparently, this is a Swedish band, which makes my jaw drop even further down the spiral. This is Iconoclasm.

Kungens Män – Hissmusik (Ljudkassett!)
Shameless self-promotion. My band’s first release. Very happy with this one. And since April 2013 we’ve released one live album and five more concept albums (we’ll do one album a month for a whole year)… It’s that easy when you do 100% improvised stuff recorded straight to a wav-file in the rehearsal room.
If you think psychedelic, lenghty trips with a lo-fi vibe sounds interesting, check us out on Spotify, Bandcamp, iTunes and YouTube. It’s all for free.
Thanks.

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Other releases that I found interesting (marked in red = a must!).
Probably missed out on tons of good stuff, as usual.

Altaar – S/T
Arckanum – Fenris kindir
Autopsy – The Headless Ritual
Barn Owl – V
Beastiality – Ancient Bell Chimes
Anders Björler – Antikythera
Black Sabbath – 13
Black Trip – Goin’ Under
Bremen – S/T
Coffins – The Fleshland
Dead Soul – In The Darkness
Diskonto – Diskontinued
Earthless – From The Ages
Enforcer – Death By Fire
Föllakzoid – II
Ghost – Infestissumam
Ghostface Killa – Twelve Reasons To Die
Girls Names – The New Life
Gnod – Chaudelande
Ill Bill – The Grimy Awards
Inquisition – Obscure Verses For The Multiverse
In Solitude – Sister
Jacob Kirkegaard – Conversion
Klotet – Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Uppsala
Kongh – Sole Creation
Low – The Invisible Way
Machetazo – Ruin
Miljoner Döda – Ingen väg ut, bara ner (I’m not sure if this is a 2013 release, and I don’t really care. You should check them out.)
Mogwai – Les Revenants
Monachus – Below
Mordbrand – Unmake
my bloody valentine – mvb
Anna Norberg – Darkness/Dance With Death
Obliteration – Black Death Horizon
Ocean Chief – Sten
The Oscillation – From Tomorrow
Oscillotron – Eclipse
Parasit – Välj din egen bödel
Pest – The Crowning Horror
Pentagram (Chile) – The Malefice
Portal – Vexovoid
Psychic Ills – One Track Mind
Pyramido – Saga
Quasimoto – Yessir Whatever
Serpent Omega – S/T
Terra Tenebrosa – The Purging
Tormented – Death Awaits
Tribulation – The Formulas of Death
Usurpress/Bent Sea – Split 10″
Varg – Misantropen
Verminous – The Unholy Communion
Voivod – Target Earth
Watain – The Wild Hunt
White Hills – So You Are… So You’ll Be
Chelsea Wolfe – Pain Is Beauty
Yuri Gagarin – S/T
Ättestupa – Musik för tomma rum

//The end

Just a quick update about the band I’m playing in.
On Friday May 17th we did our very first show, opening for Masters Musicians of Bukkake at the f.a.n.t.a.s.t.i.c. Truckstop Alaska venue in Gothenburg, Sweden. Great people, great sound, great atmosphere… The perfect place for anyone to do a gig, really. From now on we can only expect a downward spiral in our career… It was that good.

The full concert is up on YouTube with amazing sound quality and amazingly poor picture quality.

More stuff here:
Spotify – Two albums available for your listening pleasure.
Bandcamp – Transportkatalogen, a digital release available for free (or name your price).
Soundcloud – A whole bunch of songs not available elsewhere. Free downloads as well.
Facebook – Photos, exclusives, merch and more.
Ljudkassett – Great tape label! Support.

The art of shameless self-promotion!
We have a new band called Kungens Män. Improvised psychedelia, or something like that. Listen to some rehearsals on our Soundcloud page and if you like it, check the Facebook page for more stuff. Thanks!

2012 brought a whole bunch of good albums, but very few that really fucked me up the way I like it.

When checking Pitchfork, The Wire or whatever shit that’s hot right now, I realize I’ve only heard three or four albums on their lists. Maybe that’s a good thing…

The albums listed with cover art are those that seriously messed with my mind, i.e. they are insanely good. The rest is also well worth your attention. Check them out!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aesop Rock – Skelethon
Blacastan – The Master Builder Part II
Bombs of Hades – The Serpent’s Redemption
Burzum – Umskiptar
Bäddat För Trubbel – Värdighet
Can – The Lost Tapes
DC The Midi Alien – Avengers Airwaves
Dead Can Dance – Anastasis
Deathspell Omega – Drought
Degial – Death’s Striking Wings
Dinosaur Jr – I Bet On Sky
Goat – World Music
Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!
Grand Magus – The Hunt
Graveyard – Lights Out
Julia Rovinsky – Dark
Katatonia – Dead End Kings
Marduk – Serpent Sermon
Massgrav – Still The Kings
Master’s Hammer – Vracejte konve na místo
Meshuggah – Koloss
Missbrukarna – Zooma in en zombie
Necrovation – Necrovation
Neneh Cherry & The Thing – The Cherry Thing
No Future – Jämtländska mord
Nominon – The Cleansing
OFF! – OFF!
Roc Marciano – Reloaded
Sabbath Assembly – Ye Are Gods
Spiritualized – Sweet Heart Sweet Light
Storm Corrosion – S/T
Swans – The Seer
The Brian Jonestown Massacre – Aufheben
The Soft Moon – Zeros
Tiamat – The Scarred People
Unsane – Wreck
Usurpress – Trenches of the Netherworld
Witch Mountain – Cauldron of the Wild
Woven Hand – The Laughing Stalk
Year of the Goat – Angel’s Necropolis
Änglagård – Viljans öga

Sketch & Smoke – Bomb & Burn
Mix #05 made on January 10, 2013

Aphrodelics, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Gotan Project, St Germain,
Waxolutionists, Tosca, Walkner Möstl, Urbs’N’Chaos VS Headhunter, Spacelink…

Getting Closer To God In A Tight Situation by Mattias Indy Pettersson on Mixcloud

 

 

Sketch & Smoke – Bomb & Burn
Mix #04 made on October 16, 2011

The Terror Show, Farflung, Audionom, Lucifer’s Friend,
Roky Erickson, The Beatles, Jex Thoth, White Hills…

What Space Was Like Before by Mattias Indy Pettersson on Mixcloud