The Graviators - Druid's Ritual

 

The Club "Püssy a Go Go" stood for last weekend's club night at Debaser, Slussen here in Stockholm. Offered a delicious cream cake of three bands, as Asteroid (which you could read here on the blog earlier this week), The Graviators (today's tune) and Abramis Brama (Tomorrow).

Asteroid, a band that I thought sounded pretty okay, a real old school jam band with the 70´s century characters. However, I was a little surprised by The Graviators performance, a band that I actually had looked forward to see and they behaved really well live. Was a little disappointed when my favorite tune "Roller" from the album was not played live. But at large it was really, really good, great classic hard rock with a little stoner feeling. I have their debut album on the shelves which I like alot, a record which has one of the year's most beautiful cover design. I purchased their latest 12' split single that they have done with Brutus, a long and intimate tune.

The Graviators was formed deep in the woods of southern Sweden in 2009, with a vision to write and record music inspired by the sounds of the great rock ‘n’ roll groups of the 70's. With a mix of heavy, yet melodic riffs, that will take you on a trip back in time, when bands like Black Sabbath and Pentagram took heavy rock to new heights, The Graviators caught the ear of Swedish label Transubstans who signed them in early 2009. On December 11th, The Graviators self titled debut hit the stores. Their first music video, for the song Back to the Sabbath, was shot by renowned music video director Thomas Tjäder who have made videos for In Flames and At The Gates. The band was featured with the track The Magician, which also appeared on the vinyl release, on the Planet Fuzz compilation Cowbells & Cobwebs.

In 2010 Dutch label Clear Spot/ Headspin records released the album as an exclusive double splatter vinyl. The artwork for this vinyl release (and the 2nd press of the album on CD) was made by the incredible artist Vance Kelly.

In December 2010 they had the great honor of supporting the American doom legends Saint Vitus on their European tour, which took the bands through eight countries.
2011 will see the release of a vinyl split with label mates Brutus, a 14-minute epic called Druid’s Ritual. On the 16th september 2011 The Graviators enterd the studio in Malmö. And record like in the good old days (Analog recording) And hopefully mixing and mastering we'll be finished November/December. Music video we'll be out to. The album we'll be out February next year.

Here is some pictures from the gig:

Todays tune "Druid's Ritual" is taken from the 12' split featuring Norwegian/Swedish 70's hard rockers Brutus and the Swedish cornerstone of doom; The Graviators.






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Asteroids - Silver Leaf

It was Saturday night and me and Stones was heading out, NOT WORKING!!!! Just having a ball and listen to some good music.


We were headed towards Debaser, Slussen and Astroid, Graviators and Abramis Brama. All of em good heavy rock. Astroids are more to hard rock blues jam band and Graviators heavy metal stoner...mayby, and Abramis Brama heavy 70´s rock.



Asteroid is a Swedish band and were formed in Örebro in 2003. They are influenced by bands like Captain Beyond, Pentagram, Black Sabbath and November but also younger and heavier bands such as Kyuss, Corrosion Of Conformity and Big Elf.

I can say they really rocked!!!



The members is:
Robin Hirse on Vocals & Guitar
Johannes Nilsson on Vocals & Bass
Henrik Jansson on Drums

Here is some pics that Stones took.

Okey Lads here is Asteroids!

Peace, Thetania



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CSS - City Grrrl (ft. Ssion)

 

CSS recently visited Sweden on their current tour. CSS, I have actually got acquainted with them earlier, can not remember if it was on the Accelerator festival or was it on the Way Out West festival, anyway. The band actually has a Swedish bassist on tour and made a nice impression during the day, when it was time to get up on stage after the Swedish "Du Pacque" warmed up, it was in full gear right away, the singer "Lovefoxxx" stepped up with a big black wig and sparkly arm/hand rhinestones, big pants that after a while were torn off as well as the wig. During the show she lost more clothes and in the end she just stood there in the top and a short pants. Not that the music spoke to me, but the performance was great, live they are very good at.

CSS is a Brazilian rock band from São Paulo. CSS formed in September 2003, consisting of a group of friends. The band was labeled as part of the explosion of the New Rave scene. Their songs are in both English and Portuguese. CSS is an abbreviation for Cansei de Ser Sexy, literally "I've grown tired of being sexy" in Portuguese. (Their name was taken from a reported quote by Beyoncé, who allegedly declared that she was "tired of being sexy".)

Todays tune "City Grrrl" is taken from the bands latest and third studio album "La Liberación"



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Pain - Dirty Woman

 

Today we'll look at Heavy Metal act "Pain" (typeset as PAIN) who was the main act on the "Griståget" (Pig Train) ended the evening at Debaser. With lots of gadgets on stage so it looked very nice. All stage accessories should illustrate the latest record which I thought they succeeded quite well. But it was not just stuff on stage, but also on the premises, the gig was going be recorded for an upcoming Pain - DVD

But it was not just stuff on stage, but also on the premises , the gig was going be recorded for an upcoming Pain - DVD

Raubtier that opened really strong before it was time for the Pain. Mr. Tätgren and CO did a brilliant gig, tagged, eager and really wanted to give everything to satisfy the "Stockholm" audience who were already was well heated up what's required by Raubtiers warming up show.

It was a real hit cavalcade of music from Pain's catalog, the one thing I could point out on this evening was that I missed the PYRO, but to use Pyro inside on Debaser is not something you do.

Pain is known to use quite a lot of the pyrotechnic during their gigs. For those who do not know, so actually the band Pain a true (real) pyro-technicians, David Wallin (drummer) which both rigging the pyrotechnic and shoots it off under the show through his specially built pyropad which is part of his drum set (Actually this is very cool to see) can not really come up with any other drummer who does something similar to this, so this is probably quite unique. During the gig did the bassist "Andre Skaug" from Clawfinger jumped in and tore off a couple songs, what killer ride it became as he came in, he rushed around as a lunatic on the stage.

I can tell a small detail which was kinda funny, when the band bus arrived at the venue and the band members tumbled out from the bus,, then it popped out a issued a "groupie", well that was probably a bit exaggerated but anyway, it was quite a well known musician who knows the bands and followed on for a couple of gigs. He had obviously been drinking a bit to much the night before and passed out, which made that a couple of the band members had amused themselves to apply makeup on him, so he looked quite funny when he came out from the bus :)

Todays tune "Dirty Woman" is taken from the the seventh album "Only Live Twice" was released, on 3 June 2011.



Setlist:

01 Let Me Out
02 Dancing With The Dead
03 End Of The Line
04 Dirty Woman
05 Zombie Slam
06 Psalms Of Extinction
07 Suicide Machine
08 Nailed To The Ground
09 It's Only Them
10 Great Pretemder
11 I'M Going In
12 Monkey Business

Encore:
13 Have A Drink On Me
14 Supersonic Bitch
15 Fear The Demon
16 Same Old Song
17 Shut Your Mouth

Photo by Michael Johansson

Photo By Michael Johansson

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Raubtier - En Hjältes Väg

For over a week ago, Debaser, Stockhom got a visit of Pain & Raubtier who made their last and final gig on the "Griståget tour" (Pigtrain tour). The name of the tour is a celebration of Pain and Raubtiers old heroes. The name "Griståget" (Pigtrain) was a tour collaboration in 1993 between Eddie Meduza and Svullo. The name was a travesty of "Rocktåget" (Rocktrain).

Toys, Toys, Toys, it was something that popped up everywhere when the Raubtiers stuff came up. Radio controlled airplanes, tanks ... a whole fucking toy shop ... haha. To spend one gig days pay in a toy store is pretty crazy, there is probably no one else who does this besides just Raubtier. A bit crazy, but really wonderful guys, you know one of those few.

Their performance was really good, extremely good response from the audience who sang along to every line of text, shaking their fists and shouted right where it would be, in other words, a perfect band to warm up before the main act.

During their gig did they got accompanied on stage by the band Pain, André Skaug (bassist from Clawfinger), Pär Sundström (bassist from Sabaton) and Joakim Broden (singer from Sabaton), resulting in a huge boost to the audience and Raubtier.

A little funny detail was at Changeover when Raubtiers gadgets should get down from the stage and Pains stage be prepared, there was one of the members of the Sabaton (no names mentioned) in the way all the time, all the time is well to exaggerate, but it was kind of funny when we ran into each other all time, at one point I thought he fitted well to will the first camouflage holder (Rabutier had two large cammo nets hanging over the scene), it was a very interesting sight, suited well with Sabaton :-)

This time I was unfortunately unable to photograph the gig, so you simply have to make it with my before the gig pictures and then i have some pictures from the festival photographer Jasmin Wikström.

Stage Gadgets

Toys!

Soundcheck

Photo by Jasmin Wikström © Festivalphoto

Todays tune "En Hjältes Väg" taken from their second album Skriet från vildmarken - 2010. Its a kinda cool "Viking Video" were the hero is played by Martin "E-type" Eriksson.



Talked with Hulkoff during the day and he told me some secrets about next year, one thing was about an upcoming tour...

The band have had some trouble to find the perfect bas player, but it looks like they have finally find the perfect match.

Current line up is:

Pär Hulkoff - Vox, guitar
Mattias "Buffeln" Lind - drums
Jonas Kjellgren - bass, background vox (bass player nr 5)

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Cover Art by Ajay Sahu


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Graveyard - The Siren

Last night it was time for some live music again the Club Pussy A Go Go stood for entertainment and offered a trio of bands from Gothenburg ie, Top Hawk Horisont and Graveyard. That hyped Graveyard was the given the card was clear from the outset. Though this time, I was most curious about the band Horisont who also got to yesterday as today's tune.

A brief summary of the evening, in a over crowded Debaser Medis here in Stockholm. Where the queue wriggled as far as the sight could see. A little bizarre. First up was the Rock-Boogie band Top Hawk that I actually have never seen live or more accurately never heard of. Top Hawk offered a funky groove built on the keyboard riffs ala 70's. Well played Boogie Rock that entertained.

Top Hawk

Top Hawk

Then it was time for Horisont to step up and unleash their face of to the creation. Their classic blues rock really get the legs to shake loose, the lead singer Axel Soderberg swayed on stage as Ozzy does. The band was really tight live and I liked what I saw and heard. When their song "Night Rider" was played it became a hell of a boost and the audience, at least those who stood next to me went bananas. A really fun thing is that when certain songs performed in Swedish. Can only say, well done Horisont. It will be really exciting to follow their journey and to hear their next album. Was in fact really hungry for purchasing a Horisont t-shirt but realized it was a bit empty of cash in my pocket.

Horisont

Horisont

Horisont

Last out was the Graveyard this may seem tough when Horisont made an awesome warm up. Sure, but the Graveyard is experienced at this point, maybe a little too experienced. Graveyard is really tight and well played and rocked like hell on stage. A good gig but not the best. I liked their gig at the Kägelbanan related with the record release that one was really good. But hell thats me, the audience liked what they saw and heard, and it lifted a bit when the hits was played. Like the tunes "Ain't Fit To Live Here", "Hisingen Blues" & "Satan's Finest" This gig is still better than approved (normal) and I was really happy when I went home after all. Can only thank Pussy A Go Go for an awesome night and thanks for the poster:)

Graveyard

Graveyard

Graveyard

Read the review of the Graveyard gig at Gaffa here!, made ​​by fellow blog colleague "Tomasz Swiesciak".

Now I look forward to the next club night with Pussy A Go Go when it gets to an whole evening with three really cruel acts, more about that in the future here on Tune Of The Day.

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Todays tune "The Siren" taken from Graveyard second full length studio album Hisingen Blues. It was released on the 25th of March, 2011. The video clip is Live from Bonnaroo 2011. Enjoy!



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