Interested to hear where the self-titled debut from Norway’s Heave Blood and Die goes. The Tromsø five-piece are newly signed to Blues for the Red Sun Records, and the album will be out April 29. As you can find out for yourself in the advance streaming track “Draugen” below, they’re kind of hard to pin down aesthetically, and that track has a brooding kind of intensity to it, but it never quite explodes or rages, so I’m curious to find out what the rest of the LP goes, particularly as there are some aspects of the artwork and their presentation that seems to lean toward hardcore, and they shout out hardcore as an influence in their PR as well.

Though of course, hardcore can be just as subjectively defined as anything else. Again, the album is out at the end of April. If you’d like to get introduced, have at the following:

Heave blood & die – heave blood and die (LP/CD/Digital) BFTRS 006

Debut out April 29th 2016.

Northern Norwegian stoner/doom band Heave Blood & Die are about to release their debut “Heave Blood and Die” on April 29th 2016.

Behind the snowy mountains of Northern Norway, under the light of a sinking sun, there is a town called Tromsø, where you will find a stoner/doom band called Heave Blood & Die. A gang of 20 year old boys who’ve created a dark, winterized and raw-sounding album, ready to show it about. A new sound is created with deep and mossy guitars, growls of a troll and screams from a wolf. On their debut album you will find a wide specter of songs. Inspired by groovy 70s rock, super heavy soul rotating riffs and hardcore – they create their own sound of dark, doomy and dirty tunes. The result is far from being a possible radio-hit, but on the other hand it is one of the heaviest and coolest albums released by a band from above the polar circle.

The band gets their juice from other classic bands like: Neurosis, Sleep, Kyuss and Red Fang.

The self-titled debut album was recorded and mixed by Jonas Sivertsen (Kys-ten Studio Tromsø), mastered by Njål Lie (NFL Produksjoner) and produced by Rolf Ole Rydeng Jenssen (Reptile Master).

Tracklist:
Side A:
Neurotic I 4:39
t RATS 1349 8:21
Krokodil 5:06

SIDE B:
Desert Green 3:34
Blues Machine 5:55
Draugen 6:22
Neurotic II 5:14

The band:
Karl Pedersen – bass/vocal
Mads Ystmark – guitar/vocal
Jonas Helgesen Kuivalainen – guitar/backing vocal
Kenneth Mortensen – drums

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Heave Blood and Die, “Draugen”

https://soundcloud.com/hbdtromso/draugen/s-38vH1