Hårdrock på Svenska

Post by **DaN** » Thu May 31, 2007 10:40 am

You axed for it...
Well, at least Fucking Åmål did. Here's some old personal faves from the early years of the FWOSHM, all with vocals in Swedish. Most of the stuff fall within the Hard Rock/early "nwobhm"-cathegory, but still far from boring pub-rock I'd say. The metallic exception would be the superb JONAH QUIZZ demo (which I thought we'd already uploaded here, but apparently not).

CARTAGO - nattens skuggor (shadows of the night)
This one starts off like a pretty generic HR piece, but wait for those choirs. Not bad, eh?

DARK ICE - förödande tidevarv (disastrous times)
Quite an original song. Epic Melodic Hard Rock? Can't get enought of this one.

DREAM - mitt djup blir ditt djup (my depth becomes your depth)
Since everybody loved their single I uploaded a while back I guess you've been dying to hear this one, right?

Seriously though, this is one of the finest melodic HR songs I've ever heard.

GLORY - hjälp mig (help me)
No relation to the Swedish aor band. Sounds like NWOBHM c:a 79-80 and how can that be a bad thing?

JEREMIAH - bluff-stop
JEREMIAH - lost in lund
Great, heavy HR 7" from '79 - no more, no less.

JONAH QUIZZ - demo 83 (?)
Johan Langqvist's pre-CANDLEMASS act. One of the finest demos ever from this country.

SECOND HAND - jag vill ha (I want)
SECOND HAND - tunga droppar (heavy drops)
Maybe it's me who's been listening too much to this stuff, but despite the music being pretty standard HR I really like the songs for some reason. Could be the excellent vocals.

STORMWARNING - barn av gatan (streetchild)
A HEAVY Hard Rock-cruncher that may not be that special, but this band later morphed into COUNT RAVEN, so I figured some of you still would like to hear this.

TYFUZ - häng på (come on)
TYFUZ - arbetslös (unemployed)
The definition of Rare & Obscure. To this day I still only know of one copy of the single ('80) which I found many years ago in an old storage. I'm probably overrating this too for personal reasons, but Arbetslös is a great hardrocker.

UMEÅ SMALL BAND - det finns ingen hjälp att få (there's no help in sight)
UMEÅ SMALL BAND - kronofogden (the bailiff)
More driving, older nwobhmish stuff. Too bad their later singles went in the wrong direction

WAGABOND - this is life
WAGABOND - wagabond
A relatively new discovery on my part, and a real grower as well. Their theme-song is a real crusher, heavy as hell, almost epic stuff. Yeah, this is special shit for sure. The single was released in '79 and is pretty much unknown outside of Sweden.

http://rapidshare.com/files/34400196/ha ... a.rar.html

ARC · Post by **ARC** » Thu May 31, 2007 12:43 pm

Tack!

omen of hate · Post by **omen of hate** » Thu May 31, 2007 1:36 pm

Thanks a lot ! All these seem so great !

The Sentinel · Post by **The Sentinel** » Thu May 31, 2007 7:55 pm

Great, thanks

AxeCrazy · Post by **AxeCrazy** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 12:09 am

Thanks! Can't wait to check 'em out!

Fucking Åmål · Post by **Fucking Åmål** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 8:44 am

Howww!!!Jag älskar svensk metal.You must upload also that Jonah Quizz demo to hear Jonah Lanquist apart from his Candlemass work.

A question to the Swedes what happened to the gig with Johan Lanquist and Candlemass in Stockholm before some months?Silence everywhere.No live review,no comments,no encircling of Johan for infos about Johan Lanquist Arghhh.!!!

omen of hate · Post by **omen of hate** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 8:56 am

I've read a live-report in a french magazine, it seemed to be a hell of a show !!!

Here's the track-listing :

1 The Dying Illusion (Tomas Vikstrom)
2 Bewitched (Tomas Vikstrom)
3 Dark are the Veils of Death (Tomas Vikstrom)
4 Where the Runes still Speak (Tomas Vikstrom)
5 Ebony Throne (Tomas Vikstrom)
6 Well of Souls ((Janne Christofferson)
7 Black Dwarf (Mats Leven)
8 At The Gallow'sEnd (Mikael Akerfeldt)
9 Demonia 6 (Rob Lowe)
10 Samarithan (Rob Lowe)
11 Mirror Mirror (Rob Lowe)
12 Crystal Ball (Johan Langquist)
13 Demon's Gate (Johan Langquist)
14 Under the Oak (Johan Langquist)
15 Sorcerer's Pledge (Johan Langquist)
16 Witches (Tony Martin)
17 Bullfest (Tomas Vikstrom)
18 Solitude (Vikstrom/Langquist/lowe)

Let's hope, they will release the show on DVD !

The Sentinel · Post by **The Sentinel** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 10:37 am

That Jonah Quizz demo sounds really awesome, thanks again

omen of hate · Post by **omen of hate** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 10:52 am

My top-3 : WAGABOND( the 2nd tracks is awesome), JONAH QUIZZ, JEREMIAH.

Post by **DaN** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 10:50 pm

You know, together with those 2 SNÖFALL-songs this makes a pretty nifty "conceptual mix-CDR"...

So who will be the first to see the genious in the DREAM and DARK ICE cuts then?

tomas · Post by **tomas** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 4:12 pm

The Dark Ice track brings out my gay side ... haha

I actually like the track, which is weird!

Ernest Thesiger · Post by **Ernest Thesiger** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 12:22 pm

Listening right now. These Jonah Quizz tracks are huge. Everything leading up to JQ has been really nice foot-tapping stuff, but this... woah. Cheers!

\m/

mordred · Post by **mordred** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 3:41 pm

Fucking Åmål wrote:A question to the Swedes what happened to the gig with Johan Lanquist and Candlemass in Stockholm before some months?Silence everywhere.No live review,no comments,no encircling of Johan for infos about Johan Lanquist Arghhh.!!!

There have been lots of reviews and discussions about the gig on a lot of internet forums. Not on this one though. Seems that around here it is more relevant do discuss filth-obscure US kvlt metal and share piss-rare mp3's than to discuss a recent gig by something as shameful as a currently active band.

Anyway, the gig was great, apart from some problems with the sound and a forgotten lyric line or two. Johan Langquist was the guy most have waited for, and I don't think he disappointed anyone. His voice is still great, and he sang "Sorcerer's Pledge", "Under the Oak" etc. with confidence. He looked a bit nervous though and was not much of a frontman actually, but what the heck.

But that was not the only highlight. I personally was very excited about them finally doing some songs off the fantastic "Chapter VI" album, and they sure didn't waste any time. As the ligths went off and the guitar riff started the night I instantly knew it was "The Dying Illusion" and I was sent to heaven. What a song, what an opening! Tomas Vikström was probably the best showman of the vocalists they used, he was totally wild, all over the place. And they did "Where the Runes Still Speak"! I shit you not, I had tears in my eyes. Best Candlemass song ever? Damn close. Robert Lowe was great too, above all he did an awe inspiring rendition of "Samarithan".

Downsides? Well, Mikael Åkerfeldt singing "At the Gallows End" with death metal vocals was not the best idea ever. Tony Martin was not very good in "Witches", and the song is simply not strong enough to stand as an encore after 4 monumental cuts off Epicus closing the original set. Good thing "Bullfest" followed and was quite fun, and that the night was ended with dignity and power, when Vikström, Lowe and Langquist wrapped things up in "Solitude".

Rock Beast · Post by **Rock Beast** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 3:38 pm

DaN: Cool stuff from SECOND HAND !! You should upload the stuff from OVERKILL too (from the Rock Beast LP, even though its not in Swedish). Maybe upload it somewhere else.

doomedplanet · Post by **doomedplanet** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 7:50 pm

interesting hard rock "packet", JONAH QUIZZ I knew from an old upload of yours, JEREMIAH 7" is good solid hard rock, thank you. TYFUZ is excelent, interesting guitar fuzz on this.