2021

Washington Dinah: Very best of... 1956-62 [Digipack / 3 CD]

Hyllade Bror Gunnar Janssons senaste skivsläpp är hans tyngsta och hårdaste hittills. Men, paradoxalt nog, också det mest smäktande vackra. Likt en svit rör sig albumet från känslosamma stråkpartier till tunga riff, och ibland uppstår tillfällen då allt verkar vilja spricka sönder. <br/>Med sitt nya album Faceless Evil, Nameless Fear berättar Bror Gunnar historier om bestialiska mord, sjukdom och konsekvenserna av korrupta polisers handlingar (bland andra finns Kapten Klänning och George Floyd med). Men också om stark och oförstörd kärlek. Han pendlar mellan allas vår verklighet och sitt eget mörka universum. Musiken, som är mindre blues än tidigare, andas post-grunge, stoner och post-blues på ett sätt som för tankarna till White Stripes, Kyuss och Jimi Hendrix.

Anna Gréta: Nightjar in the northern sky 2021 [Digipack / CD]

With 2018's Cobra Speed Venom, the band reached the same lofty heights as their 2002 landmark release, Crowned In Terror, but they were primed and ready to write its successor. "It surely set the bar up high for a follow up," Olsfelt explains.<br/>Having celebrated their thirtieth anniversary in 2020 [their first eight years spent as Crown Of Thorns], The Crown have proven themselves one of the most enduring forces in death metal. They further up the ante with Royal Destroyer, a record that sets a new standard for the genre.<br/>Together with legendary producer Fredrik Nordström, the band tracked the resulting 10 songs at Gothenburg's Studio Fredman. "We push ourselves to the limit, really trying to make everything as good as it can get, trying to make every song as impactful as possible," Olsfelt states. While he believes that people need to hear the album themselves to be able to accurately describe it, Olsfelt also asserts that The Crown have achieved something that makes for a "continuous whole" - while being diverse. "We have some of the most intense stuff ever!"<br/><br/>BONUS TRACK(S)

"Of their many accomplishments, Rivers Of Nihil's most impressive feat is making listeners reconsider what death metal can be" - Kerrang!

Bohuslän Big Band: Chasin' the bird 2021 [Digipack / CD]

Landgren Nils Funk Unit: Funk is my religion -21 [Digipack / CD]