Danish hard rocking outfit NeoStatic are thrilled to announce that their debut album ‘Overpowered’ is now on the way to press. The album will be released on vinyl and via the usual streaming services very soon. You can see the cover right here:
‘Overpowered’ was produced and mixed in Copenhagen, Denmark, by legendary producer Flemming Rasmussen (Metallica, Morbid Angel and many more).
“We recorded with Flemming in the past when we did some demos and a few songs for Spotify in a slightly different constellation,” shares NeoStatic guitarist Jesper Lysgaard, “and we loved the atmosphere in the Sweet Silence studios as well as Flemming’s style. As the opportunity to record a full album arose, there was little doubt in our minds that he’d be our choice.”
Played music forever
Although NeoStatic are a fairly new band, three-fourths of the band have been mates and active musicians since the late 80s. Guitarist Jesper Lysgaard and drummer Hans-Henrik Sørensen have played together since 1989 in different combos, both hard rock/metal and pop rock, and have released a number of demos and official singles.
“Yeah, we’ve played music forever!” laughs Sørensen, “it’s a passion for us, and will probably always be part of what we are. Jamming with the guys and putting music together is just an incredible process. Always has been, always will be.”
The NeoStatic line-up is comleted by Guillem Junca, a young, Spanish bass player who shares the rest of the band’s love for vintage, analogue sounds and a combination of 70s and 90s music, as well as singer and rhythm guitarist Jesper Skou Vinther who has been a friend of Lysgaard and Sørensen since always.
Sponsor behind album
“Overpowered” is not the typical tale of an album release. The recording was sponsored by a local business man and his wife who are ardent vinyl freaks. “I still find it surreal that someone actually offered us money to send out an album,” offers singer Jesper Vinther, “but we are extremely grateful that our sponsors have faith in our music and us as a band.”
NeoStatic draw upon a plethora of inspirational sources when they write their music. From the primordial tones of English hard rock conveyed by Led Zeppelin and the godfathers of metal, Black Sabbath to the alternative scene during the 90s, represented by e.g. Sound Garden, Helmet, Deftones and Faith No More, the four-piece have taken all of these and made their own hard rocking cocktail.
Stay tuned for “Overpowered”!
Tracklist:
1. Rotten
2. Troll
3. Broken Road
4. School Yard Rules
5. Bonds
6. Rebellion
7. Good Day Good
8. Power Soak
9. Offended
“Overpowered” will be available via Gateway Music, https://gatewaymusic.dk/
Follow NeoStatic on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NeostaticBand/
]]>Since 2007, the death metal five-piece around the Jensen brothers, vocalist Scott and bassist/backing vocalist Bjørn, have released a string of consistently strong albums. I’ve always been totally happy with their material throughout the years, but I must say that this latest release is one step up.
First it has to be said that Dawn Of Demise sound like themselves on Into the Depths of Veracity. Even if they lean heavily on the New Yorker death metal scene and have sworn their allegiance to Suffocation from day one, their sound is recognisable a mile away and has been from the beginning. Stylistically, there are no surprises to be found on the new album.
The gutteral roar from Scott Jensen is just as uncanny as it has always been, and the interaction between his bear grunts and his brother’s backing vocals works like a charm and offers the listener great variation.
Back to the step up. It has a lot to do with two factors:
1. Drummer Bastian Thusgaard has gone from great to amazing. Simple as that. His expanded sphere of experience has done wonders for the young man and his surroundings. Soilwork is now on the CV, and his talent has also raised the bar for them. This is certainly also the case for Dawn Of Demise where the underlying structure of the songs has become even sharper.
2. The production quality has gone up one notch since The Suffering (2016). The sound is clearer, sharper, but still with the warmth and fullness that is charateristic for great death metal.
Otherwise, this is simply Dawn Of Demise, but beefed up to stage perfect. Can’t help loving it. Don’t miss this one, death metal boys and girls.
Here’s the title track from Into the Depths of Veracity. The kind of mid-tempo crusher I’m completely in love with. Enjoy!
]]>NEOSTATIC draw upon a plethora of inspirational sources when they write their music. From the primordial tones of English hard rock conveyed by Led Zeppelin and the godfathers of metal, Black Sabbath to the alternative scene during the 90s, represented by e.g. Sound Garden, Helmet, Deftones and Faith No More, the four-piece have taken all of these and made their own hard rocking cocktail.
The album will be released on vinyl and via the most common digital platforms.
More news will follow soon!
]]>The track was released earlier today along with a YouTube video. It will be available as of tomorrow via your nearest streaming service.
Watch the video right here:
LIVLØS and the other two bands on the bill will play eleven dates in their native Denmark.
These are the dates:
REDUCED TO FLESH DK TOUR 2019 – with HateSphere and Xenoblight
28.02 – København – Hotel Cecil
01.03 – Helsingør – Kulturværftet
02.03 – Aalborg – Studenterhuset
08.03 – Aarhus – Radar
09.03 – Svendborg – Spillestedet Harders
15.03 – Odense – Kansas City
16.03 – Esbjerg – Konfus
22.03 – Sønderborg – Sønderborghus
23.03 – Vejle – Bygningen
29.03 – Kolding – Godset
30.03 – Silkeborg – Kedelhuset
The live setting as opposed to studio albums have always been HateSphere’s force, although I must say that the band’s latest outing, Reduced to Flesh, toggles that notion slightly.
To put it in a word, the album is a hammer.
Why? Because things come together in a way I haven’t felt they’ve done for HateSphere before.
The constant of the album is no different from the past albums: the merciless thrashing beat draws the red line. But what is slightly different this time is that Pepe and the gang have taken the song writing one notch up.
I don’t know if maturity is the right term, but the fine intro to the album, the surprising chorus for ‘Ruled By Domination’ and the church organs used in ‘Lethal Mistakes’ contribute to taking things to a level where I don’t think HateSphere have been before. And they score pretty high on the groove-o-metre, by the way.
There’s a new level of coolness with this album, simple as that.
Vocalist Esben ‘Esse’ Hansen deserves a couple of words, methinks. Esse joined eight years ago, following in the footsteps of powerhouse performers Jacob Bredahl and Jonathan ‘Joller’ Albrechtsen, and some thought they would be hard acts to follow. They were, but Esse did well, although he wasn’t as agile on stage.
The thing is, though, that Esse has grown to be the voice of HateSphere and he certainly cements that position with Reduced To Flesh with an impeccable vocal performance. What the attentive listener will notice is that Esse has developed his little tag, similar to Thomas Gabriel Fischer’s ”urgh” and Barney Greenway’s ”uh”; Esse has his ”blah”, and he does that oh so well. The ultimate expression of spite, right there.
“How sad it must be to be you”, the chorus goes for the tune ‘Petty’. Nope, I’m happy as a geezer with this one, lads. Killer stuff.
]]>With solid experience and proficiency, NP Nielsen – known from among others The Kandidate and Disrule – is ready with his first solo outing, under the name NP At The Banishing Point. The self-titled debut contains 14 sharp tracks, in which lovers of uncompromising rock music will delight. The vocals, songwriting and the riff is at the forefront in this mix of hardrock, heavy metal, punk and stoner rock.
The album is out digitally and on cassette tape through Tonewood Tapes. It was mixed and mastered by Jacob Bredahl at Dead Rat Studio. He and NP play together in The Kandidate, where NP handles the drums.
NP At The Banishing Point is available on most streaming platforms and can be found on facebook:
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5FDNjVZBJfhZWWNQarkVYr
- Bandcamp: https://npatthebanishingpoint.bandcamp.com
- Facebook: www.facebook.com/NPAtTheBanishingPoint
- YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCLAiG6nBvxQM50yBs1_QxVA
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Where the Danish quartet focused more on melodic death with a tendency toward the epic mid-tempo songs in the past, the pendulum has swung in the general direction of black metal or at least blackened death – without losing the huge, melodic razor riffs.
There are now exactly two songs, Last Dawn Duet and World at Its End, were the tempo has been taken down from full throttle – and the latter even with an acoustic guitar intro. The rest of the album hammers away in a stately and masterful manner.
In my humble view, Crocell cement their position as one of Denmark stalwart metal bands with this album. The Aarhus band manage to place themselves firmly between the death and black camps and deliver an outstanding quality of music.
Relics is brutal, dark and fast and so fookin’ metal. Check it out.
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