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Dark Lightning – The Demons We Create
Album | 06/12/2024 | Evernight Records
54:13 | 12 tracks | CD/Digital
Symphonic Metal / Dark Metal
Braunschweig, Germany
Lower Saxon sextet Dark Lightning introduces their listeners to the battleground where the roughest and most merciless fights are taken out: the human soul. On a dozen tracks and almost a full hour, the band from Braunschweig tells of endless struggles with inner demons, and the constant up and down of darkness and light. The Demons We Create is Dark Lightning’s first longplayer, and on their bandcamp profile you can even buy the physical album in a bundle with the selftitled EP for a very good offer. Music-wise, the band really comes up to their name as they present a sonic thunderstorm of symphonic, dark, and melodic metal. Classical themes clash with heavy riffing and create powerful electricity.
SMIRK – SMIRK
EP | 03/10/2024
27:01 | 3 tracks | CD/Cassette/Digital
Sludge / Noise Rock
Glasgow, Scotland
Here is half an hour of complete deconstruction of linear and stern conventions of music. Glasgow’s SMIRK take inspiration from doom, sludge, harsh noise, jazz, and sheer madness, stir everything up in a hot pot, and serve them with a secret psychedelic ingredient. Whatever you believe in, this collection of experimental noises wil give you food for new thought. The most interesting thing about the EP SMIRK is that despite its unconventional and avantgardist phenotype, it is indeed catchy and somewhat meditative. Thus, enjoy the sedative power of this beautiful sonic collapse.
Acht Eimer Hühnerherzen – Lieder
Album | 21/03/2025 | Kidnap Music
35:01 | 14 tracks | Vinyl/CD/Digital
Acoustic Punk / Indie Rock
Berlin, Germany
Lieder (German: Songs) is the fourth longplayer by German nylon strings punk protagonists Acht Eimer Hühnerherzen (German: Eight Buckets Of Chicken Hearts), and hereby the trio proves that they are from from stepping back or retiring. Bene Diktator, Herr Bottrop, and Apocalypse Vega present a perfect alloy of (half) acoustic radio-ready Indie Rock and a resilient punk rock attitude. Thus, their songs reach a broad audience from subculture to pop culture, and spread their cynical and humourous messages all over. Lieder is a beautiful collection of songs that deal with life and other nuisances of the post-modern world. Acht Eimer Hühnerherzen present upbeat and activating sounds for everyone who is tired and fed with this world that is spinning way too fast. Here is the soundtrack for turning off your phone’s notifications, granting your mind a little holiday, and maybe dancing a bit (if you want to).
We will dance again
Mia Schem
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