Escape from boredom

Dream Theater, ‘Images and Words’ (1992)

Well, not that bad, but…still, not my cup of tea

Kvelertak, ‘Meir’ (2013)

Simply great!!

Quoting Rolling Stone:

….Metal in the 2010s is almost absurdly balkanized, a sea of disconnected subscenes. Think of Kvelertak as the genre’s loutish, lovable unifiers, smashing through metal’s stylistic barriers, Kool-Aid Man–style, and bringing the fun back. These hard-touring Norwegians – whose name means “Stranglehold” – started strong with their self-titled 2010 debut, but their second LP, Meir (“More”), felt like a benchmark for contemporary metal as a whole, an album that playfully, raucously muddied lingering distinctions between mainstream and underground styles…

Gojira, ‘From Mars to Sirius’ (2005)

Finally something that did not hurt my ears and what I will be playing even more in the future.

Sunn O))), ‘Monoliths & Dimensions’ (2009)

…and I have started to regret the “no skip”-rule. I quote Rolling Stone:

“I would never claim that Sunn O))) is a jazz band, but I think there are elements of jazz, if it’s not the tone, it’s the theories and the openness,” Sunn O)))’s Greg Anderson told The Wire. While no one will confuse Dave Brubeck with Sunn O)))’s signature roar – wall-rumbling slabs of drumless, heavily amplified electric-guitar drone – the open-ended platform allows the avant-metal duo to collaborate and experiment with ease.

This album was way out of my league…I now listen to David Bowie’s “Heroes” just to wash my ears…

Evanescence, ‘Fallen’ (2003)

Once upon a time…I bought this album and then I actually gave it away, without replacing it with a new one. Won’t now either.

…according to Rolling Stone. I’ve decided to listen to all 100, not allowed to skip songs, must listen to the whole album from start to end.

Album #100 Avenged Sevenfold, ‘City of Evil’ (2005)

Enjoyed the last song, apart from that…not my cup of tea.

…their whole catalogue now available … https://listen.tidal.com/artist/8405

So now I can default back to not only AC/DC when the “new” music is nowhere to be found or no good.

Yesterday together with Anders, Espen, Roy and Sverre – Anvil live at Oak Metal Club. Some might have seen the documentary “Anvil: The Story of Anvil” (a sequel is actually soon to be released according to blabbermouth.net). So we headed to Oak, just a 5 minutes drive from where I live to see Anvil live. And concert at Oak is something special – just see how close we where to the band

Enthusiastic crowd

Legs in front of me

The campfire outside of the concert hall, Josteins garage.

Today, 47 minutes of rock’n roll, the new album Nattesferd by Kvelertak. Quite ok, I think I need to give it a few more times of playthrough before it really gets under my skin.

Brett Anderson did say when he was a guest at Skavlan that he still did believe in the concept of an album, not just single songs. So to follow up I have now listened to Suedes new album Night Thoughts. Enjoyable, but not totally my cup of tea.