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The Period Piece…
Man, there's a million ways to say it- but bottom line, I'm so freaking disappointed.

For Whom The Bells Droll…
Erik Skodvin has been responsible for releasing and creating some of the best ambient, noize, atmospheric music that Norway has seen for the past...

APE CLUB…
Naming a song after my current favorite alcoholic beverage is a good start.

Smelting the ore, keeping the core…
It is always a challenge to review music that you feel like you might have outgrown. My interest in metal started out in high...

Songs to Bury in a Dark Cellar…
Sometimes you sit in a bar, a song by Papa Roach or 3 Doors Down comes on the radio, you automatically begin to puke...

Moon Relay…
I am rarely (read: never) this excited about a new band from Oslo. Moon Relay feature veteran guitarist Daniel Meyer Grønvold (Jessica Sligter, Now...

Occulthura…
Unfortunately Bad Sounds can’t give the Dridmachine label a good review every time....

Torkelsen…
Some kind of cratedigging electro wizkid from the small town of Fredrikstad. Huh; who knew? Torkelsen is Kristian Torkelsen (Munn Til Munn Metoden) here...

Kråkesølv…
This band does really remind me of listening to a Jade Tree sampler ca. the year 2000. Musically like a less interesting Lukestar or...

Light on opiates, heavy on the sugar…
In the wake of a surprising breakthrough of a Norwegian band, you are bound to see a handful of copycat bands following in their...

El Doom & The Born Electric…
Partitioned from some of Oslo's oldest (whoops), I mean mature, cowboy-boot clad rockers, comes yet another re-fetishization of jazz and Seventies hard rock. Sometimes...

Santa Sangre…
Norway, nation famed for Black Metal and mountains, has struggled greatly in the past to produce decent psychedelic bands. Some bands have tweaked the...

No business like Alpine business…
Yr Royal Jetlag Gospel, the debut album from Alpine Those Myriads, is one of the true gems in my record collection. When it was...

BLACK HOLES AND BLACK STARS…
Being well trained at watching live formations of Okkultokrati over the years, their shows have varied between the truly mesmerizing to the slightly repetitive....

Dorks Rule…
I remember seeing Pilemil many, many years ago. In Drammen of all places. A bit shambly, endearing for maybe a second, but easily write-offable....

Oslo Noise-duo…
Beginning with a bass-drum-duo aplomb almost identical to Lightning Bolt's immortalized intro on Ride the Skies, our first encounter with Burning Motherfuckers' debut EP is a strange...


