This Friday, Norwegian post-doomer aggressives Heave Blood and Die will unveil the first single from their upcoming full-length, Vol. II. The album has been given a Jan. 19 release date through Blues for the Red Sun Records, and the band, who released their self-titled debut through the same imprint last year, offer due lumber and metallic-hardcore-tinged scathe throughout “Brigade” to carry over until the New Year — one always appreciates these things around the holidays — so keep an eye out as we head into the weekend for it on the social medias or wherever you hear these things, since it’s a beater. Like it’s beating you. With fists.

Just in case it wasn’t clear what I meant.

The PR wire has release details. It seems kind of complicated and I think maybe the first part of the record is out Dec. 1? We’ll see, I guess.

Heave Blood & Die – VOL. II (Blues For The Red Sun) – New album out January 19th 2018.

Heave Blood & Die, from the cold white north, bring a soundtrack to the fast approaching doomsday. With a heavy guitar- and synth-driven sound, the new album blows a breath
of fresh air into the metal scene. VOL II is a truly interesting album from a band who continue to develop their special blend of doom.

They draw their inspiration from bands such as Converge, Sunn, Pallbearer and YOB. Echoes from the past may still be heard in the band’s sound, from Black Sabbath to Joy Division and Black Flag. Heave Blood & Die carries the torch onwards, mixing their varied taste in music with their doomy roots.

On their sophomore album Heave Blood & Die are able to convey their unique energy and catchy desperation. This concept album is released digitally in two parts: Part I: Daggers and Part II: Flowers. Completed and reinforced by fantastic original cover art, the music lets listeners into a cold and dark parallel universe.

VOL II is a dagger in your back and a flower on your casket, a smooth but heavy 45 minute ride that won’t leave you disappointed.

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There isn’t much audio to go on here for those of you not on Spotify, so you might have to just take my word for it. Tromsø, Norway’s Sunshine Reverberation have one track streaming publicly on their Soundcloud page that’s called “Be a Baby,” but I can’t embed it, and anyway, that doesn’t really do much on its own to summarize their plenty of punk, psych and garage rock as proffered throughout their self-titled debut, which is out later this month via the newly-minted Westergaard Records. I found a video of a Sept. 2016 hometown set on YouTube, but you have to turn it sideways to make it look right. The pickings are as yet kind of slim.

So I guess you can either believe me, use your Spotify if you have one (I don’t), dig into that Soundcloud track, or wait a couple weeks to check out cuts like the circa-’67 garage drawl of “Manipulation” and the bass-led drift of “Sun King II.” Sometimes life doesn’t provide instant gratification. Strange thought, I know.

The PR wire brings art and release info:

Smashing debut from Norwegian psych/garagerock band SUNSHINE REVERBERATION!!

Sunshine Reverberation is a garage punk band heavily influenced by psychedelia and krautrock creating a sonic space similar to artists like King Gizzard, Ty Segall, Thee Oh Sees and White Fence. And if you listen, you will also find echoes from Iggy & The Stooges and The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

The band was formed in the heart of Tromsø rock city in late 2014. Tromsø is far from everything, in the cold and dark northern parts of the Norwegian wilderness.

Sunshine Reverberation came together over long jam sessions in a furniture stores basement, where they found their unique psychedelic, fuzzy and melodic sound. From the start they have been perpetually broke and they’ve had to adopt a strict DIY ethos.

Sunshine Reverberation are calm, controlled and dreamy before they suddenly launch into noisy, fuzzy punk workouts. They are indeed a four-headed hydra: grinding, wringing and twisting every drop of acid out of rock’n’roll’s rotting corpse.

Their amazing self-titled debut album captures the unique sound of these Norwegian outcasts.

Tracklist:
Side A:
Rainbow Eyes (3:41)
Japanese Death Cult (4:12)
Be a Baby (3:39)
Golden Gate (2:10)
Manipulation (3:47)
Side B:
Leech Transportation (8:02)
Sun King II (4:38)
Trees (3:07)
Death (4:43)

The band:
Karl-Erik Djupnes – Lead guitars/ lead vocals
Erik Pettersen – Lead guitars/ backing vocals
Jon Dalbakk – Lead bass
Roger Jakobsen – Lead drums/ lead percussion

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Sunshine Reverberation, Live in Tromsø, Norway, Sept. 2016

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”

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Big-toned aggro-doomers Reptile Master will issue their debut long-player, In the Light of a Sinking Sun, on Oct. 23 via Blues for the Red Sun Records. The five-piece outfit hail from Tromsø in the north of Norway and before you’re assaulted with a barrage of cliches about how cold their sound is, I’ll go the opposite route and say rather that it’s magmic, a vicious roil no less brutal in intent than what Aussie destruction specialists Horsehunter made such a splash with earlier this year, and akin in its extremity to the drone-evil riffing that’s made Bongripper a household name among doomers.

I looked up how to say “thunder plod” in Norwegian. If you’re wondering, it’s “torden traske.” Good to know — especially as I’ve been given permission to host the title-track, “In the Light of a Sinking Sun,” for its streaming debut!

You’ll find the song under the PR wire info below. Thanks to the label for letting me host it:

Reptile Master In The Light Of A Sinking Sun (LP/CD/Digital) BFTRS 003

Debut album out October 23rd 2015

Filled with a passion for everything evil, Reptile Master from Tromsø / northern Norway is on a mission to spread the gospel of doom. With strong roots in both traditional heavy metal, post-metal and sludge, they create a new sound composed of the outermost extremes found in aggression and sorrow. Reptile Master, in cooperation with the label Blues For The Red Sun from Tromsø/Norway, now present their first full length album, which has recently been recorded and is expected to be released in October. The result is far from becoming a commercial radio hit. This is probably one of the most heavy and doomy records ever to be released from the dark north!

If you like Bongripper, OM, Indian, Thou or bigger bands like Black Sabbath, Electric Wizard or Sleep you probably will find something to dig on Reptile Master’s debut album “In The Light Of A Sinking Sun”.

Tracklist:
Hekseprosessen I
The Sorcerer’s Weed
Butcher’s Boogie
Verdict
From Crown To Dagger
Hekseprosessen II
Moon Ritual
In The Light Of A Sinking Sun

Guitar – Markus Kjelstrup Andreassen
Bass and vocals – Nicolay Tufte Østvold
Drums – Steinar Haugan
Guitar – Øystein Midtgård Johansen
Bass and vocals – Rolf Ole Rydeng Jenssen

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Reptile Master, “In the Light of a Sinking Sun”