Amebix - Knights of the Black Sun

 Since we can not quite agree on a common list for this year's top 10 albums, it will be a list from each one of us on the same day, one list position in the morning and same in the evening, it will generate a lot of music here at the Tune Of The Day during these days. This year's list has been really difficult to tie together, started with a Top 50 and was sift hard, ended up that I had to go on the most listening records and many that in the beginning was obvious was removed. Right or wrong, judge youreselfs, hard as hell, I must say.

We start by presenting the positions outside the Top 10 that I, Stones have, that is 11-20 just like last year.

Top 11 - 20 on Tune Of The Day

11. Ghost Brigade - Until Fear No Longer Defines Us
12. Wooden Shjips - West
13. Hong Faux - The Crown That Wears The Head
14. In Flames - Sounds Of A Playground Fading
15. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
16. Pyramido - Salt
17. In Solitude - The World, The Flesh, The Devil
18. Black Country Communion - 2
19. Amebix - Sonic Mass
20. Blood Ceremony - Living With The Ancients

Today I pick a song from an album that has grown a lot recently, but unfortunately it has got too little playing time in order to stretch higher and pinch a position in the Top 10. This band is actually quite new to me (Thanks Tom for the tip), Ive heard the name mentioned a lot over the years, but I have to admit, didnt really find out more about them, it has just passed me. This record is actually really good and I recommended this highly.

Amebix are an English crust punk/heavy metal band. Formed as "The Band with No Name," Amebix's original run was from 1978 to 1987, during which time they released three EPs and two full-length LPs. The group has reunited as of 2008.

By being one of the first bands to blend anarcho-punk and heavy metal music, Amebix are often cited as one of the key bands that helped to create the crust punk style. Such notable bands as Sepultura, Neurosis and Deviated Instinct have paid homage to the band.

Todays tune "Knights of the Black Sun " is the first single from the latest release "Sonic Mass", released in 2011




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Switch Opens - Express Death

 

Switch Opens from Stockholm, Sweden started out in 2000 as Fingerspitzengefühl. They made two albums for Kooljunk Communications, “Fingerspitzengefühl” in 2004 and “Happy Doomsday” in 2006, and decided to continue as Switch Opens in 2008. The band has done extensive gigging on their own, but also supported bands such as Neurosis, Scars On Broadway and Entombed. The band has earned a reputation as an adrenalized live act, crushing everything in their way. Switch Opens signed to GMR Music Group in October 2008 and the self-titled record was released in Scandinavia in September 2009 and in the rest of Europe in the end of October. In January 2010, the album won P3 Guld, the Swedish national radio music awards, in the Rock/Metal category. In May 2011, the band changed label once again. A new album is scheduled for release early 2012 on Transubstans Records.

 Skull painted by Slusk

The Skull is from Switch Opens T-Shirt Design and this is included in Slusk's massive project

 "666 Skulls" check it up!

Switch Opens will play at Strand in Stockholm on October 4th (Today). They will be joined by In Solitude and it is a release party for the film about the history of Swedish heavy metal, called Så jävla metal (So Fucking Metal). Since Micke is going to Sicily to study the occult at the Aleister Crowley Abbey, Tobias Alpadie from Gordon Fights will fill in for him.

Todays tune "Express Death" is taken from Switch Opens self titled album.

Sound only!



Live Clip from Debaser Slussen, Stockholm, Sep 17, 2009



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In Solitude - Serpents Are Rising

In Solitude is a Swedish Heavy Metal band from Uppsala. With their debut album in the trunk and a new in the pipeline, these brash youngsters stood on stage at The Strand to warm up the crowd before it was time for Ghost (which we wrote about yesterday) there is no doubt that these boys can play, classical heavy metal were delivered in the best possible way. The young fox fur-wearing frontman Pelle “Hornper” Åhman doesn’t use as much facepaint as his fellow brother in Ghost and he use no ecclesiastical dresses, he use a more straightforward rock and roll clothing. Overall it was good performance. This was the first time I heard them live, made ​​me crave more and it ended up that I went home with their debut album on vinyl in under my arm.

Uppsala sons signed earlier this year a global deal with Metal Blade and has just been in Nicke Andersson (Hellacopters, Entombed, Imperial State Electric) new studio Gutterview Recorders in Stockholm. Together with producer Fred Estby (Dismember, Death Breath, Carnage, Necronaut), they crafted, what might can be a real good metal album, I heard a few tunes and it sounded really good. If i get my hands on the full album i will do a review of it here or on WeRock.

The band's current lineup is as follows:

Hornper - Vocals
Niklas Lindström - Guitar
Henrik Palm - Guitar
Gottfrid Åhman - Bass
Uno Bruniusson - Drums

Here is some pictures from the gig:

Todays tune "Serpents Are Rising” is taken from their upcoming record "The World. The Flesh. The Devil” is out 5/24 via Metal Blade. You can pre-order it now. The band’s playing their first US show 5/28 at Maryland Death Fest.




In Solitude "Serpents Are Rising" by Metal Blade Records

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More info @ Official In Solitude MySpace

No Spotify yet, will update as soon as it arrives.

Ghost - Here Comes The Sun

Ghost is a Swedish heavy metal band formed 2008. The band was hyped up in 2010 partly because of members' choice to appear behind the masks without giving their identities. The group claims to be sent by the devil to the commercially viable rock collecting souls for him. The debut "Opus Eponymous" was nominated for a Grammy in 2011 in the category hard rock.

Ghost is booked for the Getaway Rock Festival, Sweden Rock, Metal Town, and Roskilde festival in summer 2011.

Rumors claim that the members should be established persons in Stockholm death/black metal scene, who they are we leave unsaid. :)

On Friday the 13th it was time for me and my friend to witness "Ghost" Live when they did visit the Strand here in Stockholm together with In Solitude and Stench.

Devil himself must have had a finger or two when Ghost was created, with their down-smoked legacy of seventies Black Sabbath and classic doom metal.

They messes for their new initiates fans, like a pope in the church and that this is a dark well-played manifesto for an hour is no doubt. They played the new album and included the bonus tune from the latest record, the Beatles’ cover "Here Comes The Sun" and ends with the entire body of Christ.

Both me and my friend are happy with Ghost’s effort at the Strand and we are trying to get out from the explosive-filled concert hall with a smile placed higher than usual. We run into some known faces like Leif Edling (Candlemass) and David Isberg (Opeth), we are told the guys in the Ghost has been living in the rehearsal studio for three weeks before this gig, that this would become such a good gig as possible.

Here is some pictures from the gig!

Todays tune ”Here Comes The Sun” (Beatles cover) is the Bonus track from the album ”Opus Eponymous”



Live at the Strand, May 13, 2011



More info @ Ghost Official MySpace

No Spotify link on this one.