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Black Metal Always Die
First single from the debut album of Dutch Black Metal duo DOODSWENS. They open up the cesspit of the human condition, giving voice to our bleakest emotions through old-school Black Metal like a freshly dug grave. Proudly expressing feelings of inner negativity and depression:
LICHTVREES will be released on the 3rd of December 2021 on SVART RECORDS
Dark Sings from The Finnish Countryside
Rural legend and outsider folk artist H.C. SLIM spent his formative years smoking cigarettes and playing his guitar, between distilling moonshine in an old empty factory in the Eastern-Finnish countryside. As an evangelical visionary and wayward preacher, H.C SLIM calls forth revelations of pastoral love and rustic abandoned buildings. His songs are both apocalyptic and illuminating, swelling between religious fervour and starless prophecies of biblical destruction. E.g.:
He had amassed quite a catalog of original songs he’s demoed on a tape recorder, deep in the Eastern Finnish countryside. Over the years cassettes and CDRs began to circulate with original copies selling for high prices before Svart Records drove out to his remote cabin to offer Slim a deal for his debut album.
New Shades in the Black
I think Black Metal got to dead end. The bands want to be more and more radical but just become more and more ridiculous. But there is a fistful of bands like the Swiss Bölzer, the American Liturgy (which is denied by the black metal community) or the Norwegian URARV who are able to bring new shades in the black.
For example the music of URARV is scattered with psychedelic moments and folk tunes. Often it reminds me of the Japanese noise rock band Zeni Geva. The band is headed by Björn Aldrahn Dencker (Dødheimsgard, The Deathtrip, Thorns). He said: The ideas and visions for Urarv started actually back in 2003 during a stay that I had at the local mental institution where I live. (…) We want to tap into uncharted territories to see what lies hidden under the rocks and dead horses and beneath the cold vastness of uncertainty (…) We’re travelling to remote regions of metal music and mental space with this music. Although our message is one of emotional putrefaction, we want to help listeners find a way through the black hole.
And this is the Sannhet i.e. the Truth:
from the new mini album ARGENTUM. It was recorded same time when the debut LP AURUM last year.
On The Road To Hellsinki
Finnish hard rock and roll blues trash raw soul duo
BLACK MAGIC SIX
new album CHOOSE DEATH out now on Svart Records
„It is mainly the acceptance of the death one way or another. Piece of rope, aging, liquor, loneliness and Pissed off. They are all going to die. Sooner or later.”
But sooner BLACK MAGIC SIX is on tour
Finland, Germany, Hungary, Denmark, Switzerland
in BUDAPEST at RNR666 PARTY on 28 APRIL
more Hungarian dates: 29 APRIL – SZOLNOK at legendary Tomi Büfé again!
30 APRIL – DEBRECEN
on the road to Hellsinki
hard rhythm and raw soul
by the infernal duo of Finland
BLACK MAGIC SIX
on their 5th station on the road to Hellsinki
new album Choose Death out on 7 April by SVART RECORDS
Anyway around 1:54 in the second composition Dance with Me Satan you can hear the Hungarian equivalent of its title with perfect pronunciation by Jukka! You can find a fine article about the relation of Finnish and Hungarian languages here.
BLACK MAGIC SIX AT RNR666 PARTY IN BUDAPEST ON 28 APRIL!
Tour dates
31.03. Finland, Turku
01.04. Finland, Jyväskylä
07.04. Finland, Helsinki
08.04. Finland, Kuopio
13.04. Germany, Kamenz
14.04. Germany, Ludwigsfelde
15.04. Germany, Quedlinburg
16.04. Germany, Berlin
28.04. Hungary, Budapest
29.04. Hungary, Pécs or Szolnok
30.04. Hungary, Pécs or Szolnok
11.-12.05. TBA (Switzerland/Germany)
13.05. Germany, Karlsruhe
03.06. FInland, TBA
More dates coming up soon. If you wanna book them send private FB message,
or mail to: janne. joutsenniemi (ät) livenation. fi
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THE JANE FONDA AEROBIC VHS?
I have found them just now, and I have to share
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THE JANE FONDA AEROBIC VHS?
Best Finnish indie pop synth punk from Kouvala. This song is a little bit long, and not so perfect, but there is something very important
from split EP with The Shangri Blahs on Blast Of Silence Records in early November
more songs UK Tour on 22-27 Oct
They live in a special place, because Kouvala has been founded just in 1.1.2009, when 5 cities merged into one. It is famous for its Soviet-like Brutalist architecture, and Verla factory, which was a mill community, and belongs to UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
Stream the new album from Finland’s THE ACHTUNGS
The Achtungs are back and … yes, they are still full of hate. As reticent frontman Joni Ekman said in a recent interview ‘I’d rather make a song called „Dogshit” than a song called „Song About My Feelings” – sounds promising, right?
The album has been released by Going Underground Records 02 June, 2015 and there are still some copies available. I think we should invite these bastards to destroy a Budapest stage very soon!
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The Brutal Blues
Some people say: it’s Howlin’ Wolf with Venom, others say: just like The Stooges, Dead Kennedys or AC/DC.
„We’re just playing blues. Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil at the cross of road 61 and 45 in Clarksdale. We have contracted with him at the corner of Fleminginkatu and Vaasankatu in Helsinki. We’re in Robert’s league.” As guitarist Robert Johnson made the biggest impression on blues music.
BLACK MAGIC SIX INTERVIEW
RNR666: When, where and WHY did BM6 form?
Yukka (g/v): Black Magic Six was found 2006, but we count our birthday form the first gig 14.2.2007 in Chemnitz.
Why we put up the band?
Maybe we were just bored, hehehe.
I heard originally a lot more people were going to play in the band. Would the band’s name really have been J- Tan & the Black Magic Six? And so would there have been seven of you in the band? How did you finally become a duo?
That´s true. Originally we had some dudes from Damn Seagulls, The Mutants and Disgrace playing in rehearsals, but pretty soon we realized non of these guys came to rehearsals. Then there was just me and Japandeer in rehearsal room. I went to local music store and bought distortion pedal and octabass pedal and the sound of BM6 was there.
Jukka, what’s the deal with your other band, the Disgrace? I found an issue of the Hungarian Metal Hammer zine from 91 or 92, and they were already writing about you! (They also wrote about Japa’s old band’s – Sweetheart – demo at about the same time)
Well, I started playing heavy metal when I was kid late 80s. We played grindcore & death metal couple of years and got bored pretty soon. We started to play straight punkrock until last year. The band ceased all activities January 2015.
This is the seventh time you are visiting Hungary, and you are playing here since your first album. How did you get to know people here?
We were counting sixth time, but you are probably right, ´cos we are old sods and it´s hard to remember what happened yesterday. The basic reason for our tourin’ was Myspace. When we put our music there 2006-2007 we got shit loads of response all over the world – also Pali from Hungary. People asked us to play all over the world, so we did – and still do that, even though Myspace is pretty dead.
What is the first thing that comes to your mind about Hungary? If I am not mistaken, besides Budapest you also played in Debrecen, Szolnok and Miskolc.
We haven´t played Debrecen yet, but gonna do that this Friday. First thing coming my mind from Hungary is the venue in Miskolc and how the guys did the load into the venue. It was in basement, there was a window about three meters high from the floor – and this tall guy took shaky ladder, and guys upstairs gave him big Marshall cabinets thru window – and this dude single handed took Marshalls in his lap, on shaky ladder and took them down one by one. That was scary shit…
You know Hungary pretty well (besides the region west of the Danube). How were these gigs outside of the capital?
Loved to play in Szolnok and Miskolc. Especially Tomi Pub from Szolnok is always in our hearts. Friendly people, good atmosphere, drunk and having a hell of a party!
You have a song called “Imre you are a punk’”about Imre Antal (RIP), the unforgettable Hungarian TV personality. What is the story behind this – how does a Finnish band know about Imre Antal?
from the Dark Side of Kalevala
30 MINUTES OF BLACK MAGIC
by Finnish power duo BLACK MAGIC SIX
1. Another Lie 2. The Past, the Present and the Future of True Heavy Metal pt.1 3. Suck the Poison Out 4. I Hate People 5. Beaver Killer 6. Homerun 7. Down by the Water 8. Kyllikki Saaren Murha 9. Total Dunkelheit 10. Huda 11. Doomsday Bound 12. The Past, the Present and the Future of True Heavy Metal pt.2
SHOWS IN HUNGARY THIS MARCH
26. BUDAPEST 27.DEBRECEN 28. SZOLNOK
„Plastic bag has only one message: DEATH”
„I do not have any idols anymore, and I am not really a ”fan” of anything – ok, maybe I am in some ways still a fan of Iron Maiden, but that is almost like an alchemical marriage – nor do I follow anyone, so in that sense I am in my own hermetic world, but obviously there have been many influential artists and bands for me – and to see something like Keiji Haino, Boris, Godflesh, or Melvins play live, still shake me mentally and physically.”
Finnish musician (and graphic artist) Albert Witchfinder has hardcore-punk, black, doom, death, drone metal and power electronics background. His bands’ names speak for themselves: Reverend Bizarre, Opium Warlords, Spiritus Mortis. He has started a new project with Vilunki 3000 from Kraftwerk-style electro band, Op:l Bastards. Originally it was Opel Bastards, but it would be changed on request.
strange ice cold minimal techno
Tähtiportti – Poikarakkaus
from debut self-titled album on Svart Records (Finland)
The original song from the 80s
„Maybe I was surprised twenty years ago, but now I am just very deeply saddened. I am disgusted when thinking of what people do to the forests, oceans, lakes, air, animals and plants. It is horrible and sad. We most definitely are living the Kali Yuga. I guess in the Mad Max – world we have other worries than ”where can I get that new Merzbow album?”
a good girl’s guide to bad music – The Achtungs
What if some crazy guys from the Finnish countryside (under the not so extraordinary name ‘The Achtungs‘) decide to play raw, shitty but even more intense garage punk than the good old Reatards? Well, if The Achtungs were only half as great as they are, they would still make their entry to my top punk records list of 2014 with their Full of hate LP (from Going Underground Records). Personally, I have always been fond of The Reatards but I think Jay Reatard’s songwriting skills were much more prominent on his later solo albums. So, what struck me about The Achtungs is that they preserve the overdriven garage punk sound but at the same time they manage to write really catchy songs – and by this I mean great and painful ones. In a quite thorough interview with singer Joni at It’s Psychedelic Baby he talks about the beginnings as simple as possible: ‘In the summer of 2010, I was really bored with the band I was in, Pill Poppers, and I wanted a band that sounded like The Reatards. So, I formed one’.
It probably makes no sense to tell any more about them….in case the concept ‘great songs with a ferocious sound’ does not impress you, then why are you reading this anyway? Haha. But seriously, give them a listen. I think both of their releases have already been sold out, so we can only hope for a reissue or something… but as long as we have such great bands around, there’s no need to worry about punk at all.
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There’s No God, Isten Is Here
Anthology of legendary Finnish metal fanzine ISTEN
804 page A4 hardcover book, 3 kilograms of heavy metal
will published by Svart Records (Finland). It’s in English.
„I craved life metal. Heavy metal for life. And “heavy”, for all you smart alecks out there, is not a prefix. Heavy metal is not even a genre. Heavy metal is a realm. Swear the oath. The Force is heavy metal. Mental Funeral is heavy metal. A Blaze in the Northern Sky is heavy metal. If it doesn’t work as heavy metal, it’s fucked, it fails, full stop.”
e.g. the Swiss Coroner in East-Berlin in 1990
ps: there’s no word Isten in the Finnish language, so they took a Hungarian dictionary, and seek out the equivalent of Jumala (God).