Tag Niklas Kvarforth
Fourteen years after their last full-length – and the only one I have any experience of – Sweden’s black/industrial pessimists Diabolicum return. That previous record ‘The Dark Blood Rising’ was from recollection (the CD resides across the open sea from… Continue Reading →
Warning, rampaging insects invading the cyber industrial zone! It would appear that PreEmptive Strike 0.1 have a bit of an infatuation with the Robert Heinlein penned classic Starship Troopers. It could be this or any other 50s B Movie feature… Continue Reading →
What a great album title and perfect use of alliteration, airing a complete sense of negativity and disillusionment in just a few words. It can only really mean that everyone’s favourite depressive Swedes are back with their ninth album. I… Continue Reading →
3 years since their last album, Benighted are back with a new guitarist in the form of Adrien Guérin and now departed bassist Eric Lombard on their seventh full length release. I should say that their style remains rather unchanged… Continue Reading →
With so many bands going for the numerical album title I cannot think of any that have included a ½? I’m sure there are some out there and somebody will write in but there is a reason behind Swedish band… Continue Reading →
Yes this is the Swedish Shining and they do have a proper album title this time round and have dispensed with the numerology. In case you were wondering though this is album number VIII. I had a very good insight… Continue Reading →
As far as depressive blackened textures are concerned there are few more adept at painting them musically than the Swedish band Shining. Perhaps for some the thought of approaching the music is too off putting as dwelling on the… Continue Reading →
Probably best known as the latest project featuring the talents of Nik Kvaforth, So Much For Nothing burst onto the scene earlier in 2012 with their debut album ‘Livsgnist’. When I reviewed it I stated it as a “downright exceptional… Continue Reading →