The Albums Of The Year!

Posted on 02/01/2016 by pnille61

A few days into the new year 2016 it feels necessary to put in a few words on the passed fantastic year 2015 of heavy metal and hard rock stemming from the metalsouth region. Numerous good albums have been released and highly effectful gigs are still fresh in memory.

Albums we would like to give honorable mentions to are 3 albums related to the metalsouth region, 1 album related to the northern part of Sweden and 2 US origin albums. Please, find the listing below first and foremost as highly recommended listenings and not as a serious attempt to make technical-or classifying analysis. It’s all about the feelings, but one album still, we feel, with a little stronger sense!!

The Sword, High Country, US (Razor & Tie Recordings LLC, 2015).

The Sword has become us very warm at heart since the gig at KB, Malmö, together with Black Temple. The albums still grows by each listening.

Clutch, Psychic Warfare, US (Weathermaker Music LLC, 2015).

The album is highly listed in most Swedish Metal press and even the highest in some. The only pain is connected to our missing out of their tour passing by Copenhagen and Gothenburg. We hope for another chance towards the summer.

Refused, Freedom, SE (Epitaph Europe, 2015).

Swedish hardcore from Umeå. The album is an absolute must and the variation from song to song creates curiosity and the moment of surprises are many. A top album, which makes us book their coming gig at KB, Malmö, on Feb.26, 2016.

Hatesphere, New Hell, DK (Massacre-records, 2015).

A really close an great encounter when supporting Soilwork at KB, Malmö. The album gives us joy and a wish to go back in the bands career. A great live band with many humorous connections to the audience.

Soilwork, The Ride Majestic, SE (Nuclear Blast Records, 2015). Fantastic and goes without saying another masterpiece from band with roots in Helsingborg, Glumslöv and Landskrona (can it be more metalsouth…?). Earlier mentioned the great gig at KB, Malmö, together with T.A.N.K. (FR) and Hatespere (DK).

Black Temple, It All Ends, SE (Razzia Notes, Century Media, 2015).

Last, but not least in our listing comes this phenomenal first album under the Black Temple name. The band has successfully toured heavily with The Sword and Swedish metal giants In Flames. Both events are covered at this blog.

We have during 2015 seen great concerts like AC DC at Friends arena, The Sword, Soilwork, Black Temple, Hatesphere and T.A.N.K. at KB Malmö. Danko Jones was angry at The Tivoli, Helsingborg, for the closing down of the club. Devil You Know, Papa Roach and Five Finger Death Punch played at the Tap 1 in Copenhagen, the same evening as the Snow Ball Xmas Beer introduction.

‘It’s all about the feelings’ and strong feelings we have from this year, but we would like to put forward Black Temple as the ‘hardest working band of 2015’, with its roots in this region and with the ‘best album of the year’, ‘It All Ends’. By this we would like to see the band at more occasions and at festivals coming up during 2016. We take the opportunity to congratulate Black Temple of taking part at the ‘MetalTown 2016 Indoors festival’ on March 12, 2016, at Trädgår’n in Gothenburg!! 2016 has all the great possibilities to be a great heavy metal year!!

KB sold out!

Posted on 05/11/2015 by pnille61

October 23, 2015, and KB, Malmö is sold out! Melodic death metal giants and legends In Flames from Gothenburg, Sweden, and Black Temple, Helsingborg, Sweden, revisits KB as yet another successful support. On August 28, 2015, Black Temple and The Sword from Austin, Texas, gave the Malmö audience one of the best performances there ever experienced.

Anders Fridén, who started his singing career in Dark Tranquility in 1989 is singer in In Flames since 1995. Dark Tranquility also gives good memories from KB and can be read about below at metalsouth. The co-operation with Black Temple is only natural since Black Temple’s album release It All Ends was done via Anders Fridén’s Razzia Notes, which is a sub label to Razzia records (Century Media).

The floor at KB was so full of enthusiastic metalheads that when my best pair of ear plugs dropped on the floor they could never be found again. To start looking would be a risk not worth taking.

Black Temple performs with intensity and in comparison with the gig two months ago the touring with In Flames has given even more spectactular scene effects and the performance is even tighter. With this development Black Temple deserves to very soon be on the big scenes and arenas. They should soon be a natural choice for the bigger festivals. Why not at Sweden Rock the summer of 2016??

In Flames are professionals and with correct location in the club the sound becomes really good. Many of the songs are so well known that Anders Fridén can hand over the singing to the floor.

Merchandise: Black Temple T-shirt, SEK 200 (EUR 21), which we consider as really priceworthy. The text ‘These woods have always been here in here I can’t grow old’ fits well with the motif of black dark woods. Also attractive are the vinyl textile bags to carry home the vinyl ‘It All Ends’ or to be used for a university student for literature.

Black Temple on tour!

Posted on 14/10/2015 by pnille61

Easy post…Black Temple is on the Europen part of its tour together with melodic death metal giants In Flames (Gothenburg) and the dates are listed below. What can we say than just…get your tickets. We will meet up at a sold out KB, Malmö, SE, on Friday 23/10/15.

And by the way…the album ‘It All Ends’ (Razzia Records, 2015) gets really good reviews. Check out, for example, Close-Up Magazine (177 Oktober 2015) which talks about excellence and a real taste of temptation for coming albums. Really good luck from metalsouth and see you soon at KB!!

European Tour w/ IN FLAMES

13.10.2015, Pakkahoune, Tampere, FI

14.10.2015, Logo, Turku, FI

15.10.2015, Lutakko, Jyväskylä, FI

16.10.2015, Rytmikorjaamo, Seinäjoki, FI

17.10.2015, Jäähalli, Oulo

19.10.2015, Flygeln, Norrköping, SE

20.10.2015, Garden, Linköping, SE

21.10.2015, Appollon Folkets Hus, Trollhättan, SE

22.10.2015, KB, Malmö, SE

23.10.2015, KB, Malmö, SE

24.10.2015, Conventum Congress, Örebro, SE

25.10.2015, Katalin, Uppsala, SE

27.10.2015, Luleå Enegri Arena, Luleå, SE

28.10.2015, Idun Teatern, Umeå, SE

30.10.2015, Nöjesfabriken, Karlstad, SE

31.10.2015, Scandic Hallen, Hammar, NO

01.10.2015, Konserthus Ztlitz, Stavanger, NO

03.10.2015, Maritim Hall, Haugesund, NO

04.10.2015, USF Verftet, Bergen, NO

05.10.2015, Studentersamfundet, Trondheim, NO

06.10.2015, Gasklockorna, Gävle, SE

07.10.2015, Folkets Park / Teaterladan, Huskvarna, SE

08.10.2015, Train, Aarhus, SE

10.11.2015, Effenaar, Eindhoven, NL

11.11.2015, Zeche, Bochum, DE

12.11.2015, Le Splendid, Lille, FR

13.11.2015, Le 106, Rouen, FR

14.11.2015, L’ Autre Canal, Nancy, FR

15.11.2015, Z7, Pratteln, CH

17.11.2015, L’Usine, Geneva, CH

18.11.2015, Posthof, Linz, AT

19.11.2015, Batschkapp, Frankfurt, DE

20.11.2015, Hellraiser, Leipzig, DE

Black Temple and The Sword – it’s all about feelings!

Posted on 31/08/2015 by pnille61

We hoped for an evening out of the extraordinary and what we got was magical!!

Black Temple is delivering a tighter performance every time we see them. They are fun to watch and sound waves delivered demand ear plugs, but it would be a shame not to take the opportunity to get fist punched in our stomachs reminding us how very alive we are. Jonas humbly gave tribute to The Sword for having Black Temple as support, but at the same time an established world class band as The Sword should feel really good in having such an excellent support. One guy standing beside me firstly commented that this is good stuff and one song later screamed out loudly his happiness and appreciation towards the stage. Everyone present was not only warmed up for the Sword, but was also put in high and happy moods. A great show and a big congratulations to the album release ‘It All Ends’ (Razzia Notes/Century Media, 2015), which was brought back home by many of us. Black Temple also challenges us music consumers by releasing it firstly as vinyl. My old record player had to be adjusted a bit the next morning (what was it now 45 or 33 speed??), but now the feeling is there! Analysis of the album will follow.

The first encounter with The Sword was at Metaltown in Gothenburg in 2013. I must confess that I was uneducated and lacked knowledge in order to catch this band along with all other performances those days. Before this gig I had several really good moments with their albums Age of Winters (Kemado records Inc, 2006, debut album) and Apocryphon (Napalm Records, 2012). I was prepared and after the fantastic show of Black Temple the super syncronized pure metal stoner performance followed of the band from Austin, Texas. Every start, every pause, every note, every song were in complete sync like never heard. We were proud to be at KB this evening!

The Sword are: John D. Cronise (guitar, vocals), Kyle Shutt (guitar), Bryan Richie (bass guitar) and Santiago ‘Jimmie’ Vela III (drums).

We have been to KB, Malmö many times, but this evening the sound was better than ever, the performance better than ever and the feeling was greater than ever!! The Sword’s recently released new album High Country (Razor &Tie, 2015) will be purchased instantly and discussed here later.

Thanks to Black Temple and The Sword, which by the influence of Helsingborg, Skåne, Sweden and Austin, Texas, US magic was created – It’s all about feelings!!

Friday August 28, 2015 – It all comes together!

Posted on 27/08/2015 by pnille61

Black Temple 1

I have a feeling that work tomorrow will be light, fun and easy. This will be the day when it all comes together!

Black Temple is support to The Sword at KB, Malmö, starts at 7:00 p.m. The Band releases it’s second record ‘It All Ends’ (Century Media Records 2015). We have tickets and we will buy records!!

http://www.blacktemple.se

https://www.facebook.com/blacktempleswe

Tickets at:

https://www.biljettforum.se/sv/event/sword-1

The Sword just released a new album ‘High Country’ on August 21 (Razor & Tie, 2015) and Soilwork will also release a new and praised album ‘The Ride Majestic’ on August 28 (Nuclear Blast, 2015).

It will be a just fantastic Friday and we hope to see many good metal friends at KB, Malmö. The ticket price is only SEK 250 and we cannot see a more priceworthy Friday evening event! 3 great album releases with a definite follow up later by metalsouth.

Upcoming events creates happiness!!

Posted on 16/07/2015 by pnille61

Metalsouth is proud to list a couple of upcoming events, which will be covered.

AC/DC at the Friends Arena in Solna/Stockholm on Sunday July 19, 2015.

AC/DC established in 1973 the year when it all started. After the latest Black Ice Tour in 2009/10 I saw them three times. In Paris, in Gothenburg and in Stockholm. This time the intention is to also give our daughter the right schooling. The two sons had a heart thrilling experience together with my sister, brother, myself and 54.000 more in Gothenburg in June 2009. Now even my wife is forced to take the basic course in the right kind of music. Rock or Bust!!

Soilwork release of a new album ‘The Ride Majestic’ (Nuclear Blast Records) on August 28, 2015.

Black Temple release of a new album ‘It All Ends (Razzia Notes Scandinavia Century Media Europe) on August 28, 2015. Also being support to The Sword at KB, Malmö, on the same day.

Danko Jones and band plays at the Tivoli, Helsingborg, on October 16, 2015.

Black Temple supports Melodic Death Metal Giants In Flames from Gothenburg at KB, Malmö, on October 23, 2015. The support will be on all Scandinavian dates of the In Flames Tour! Magic!! We’re sure it will not end by this…the sky’s now the limit, guys!!

Soilwork plays at KB, Malmö, and kicks off the new tour on November 27, 2015.

The listed events are all covered by metalsouth in presence and listening, which will mean a few more and hopefully interesting posts.

…there is also a rumour that Entombed A.D. will play in Gothenburg and Stockholm in January 2016…

A hectic, but very thrillling fall of 2015 followed by a great start of 2016.

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