Besvärjelsen Premiere ‘The Making of Atlas, Pt. 2′ Video
We are drawing ever closer to the May 27 release of Swedish atmospheric heavy rockers Besvärjelsen‘s new album, Atlas, on Magnetic Eye Records. And that’s good news both because the record is good and because I’m starting to get tired of sitting on my hands waiting to review it. A couple weeks ago — it was March 16, but who’s counting — the five-piece premiered the first in a series of three behind-the-scenes videos covering the making of Atlas (posted here, also below), as well as a clip teaching those of us who may have been curious how to pronounce the band’s name. Rest assured, if I’m ever fortunate enough to interview anyone from this band, I’ll still probably say it wrong. I try my best, regularly fail.
This is the second clip, as you likely inferred. The band are getting ready to enter the studio and make the record after writing remotely — about which none of them seemed to be particularly thrilled. Everyone kind of agrees sending files through Google Drive is an interesting way to collaborate and allowed them to try new things — you can hear the results in the sonic branchouts on Atlas — but it doesn’t feel like wild conjecture to say that it probably would’ve been the band’s preference if, you know, there wasn’t a global pandemic preventing them from doing shows and rehearsing in-person all the time and so on. Stick around for more hard-hitting insight on the universally obvious as only The Obelisk can bring it.
I said last time I was hosting all three of these clips, and dammit, I am. The good news is that the next one (slated as of now for May 11) will at last be the point at which I dig into the record for review. For now I just seem to keep getting swallowed up in its open spaces, and that’s fine too. I’ll take that.
Not wanting to include the same glut of PR wire info as last time, you’ll just find the lineup down there in blue, basically as a spacer between the new video and the older ones, including that for “Digerliden” from the record. I know that kind of thing doesn’t matter to anyone but me, but it matters to me, so there.
Please enjoy:
Besvärjelsen, The Making of Atlas, Pt. 2 premiere
BESVÄRJELSEN is
Lea Amling Alazam- vocals
Staffan Stensland Vinrot – guitars, vocals
Andreas Baier – guitars, vocals
Erik Bäckwall – drums
Johan Rockner – bass
Besvärjelsen, The Making of Atlas, Pt. 1
How to say “Besvärjelsen”
Besvärjelsen, “Digerliden” official video
Magnetic Eye Records on Bandcamp
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