Rahypnos - Do We Want It? - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

A full-length offering of Sovereign's lethal blend of evil death / thrash is set to be unshackled via Dark Descent Records!Formed in Oslo 2018 AD, the band have three releases under their belts Iron Cast (single 2018), Sovereign (demo, 2019), and Neurotic (EP, 2020). Three years in the making, the time has finally come to complete the set with debut album Altered Realities. A monstrous masterwork of old school extreme metal ecstasy.InchAltered Realities is a product of an ever-evolving journey we have taken as a band, from our start in 2018 and culminating in the album's recording in early 2022,Inch reflects lead guitarist Tommy Jacobsen. He is joined in the band by former Nocturnal Breed band-mate Vidar Fineidet (guitar), alongside drummer Cato Syversrud, and bassist / vocalist Gravskjender.InchWe strive to push ourselves, both in terms of speed and technicality, whilst still keeping a groove and dynamic. Our approach to death / thrash is an interplay between fast-paced aggression and a slower, more groove-oriented feel. The lyrical themes of the album mirror events and unrest that happened during the time of writing and is in itself a journey.Inch

Råhypnos is back and releases their second full-length InchWhat is Real?Inch. The critics have associated their dark alternative rock to both dark wave, neofolk and shoegaze. Despite the fact that the new record has a more stripped-down singer songwriter approach, you immediately hear that it is Råhypnos. The album was recorded in a kitchen to try to create the feeling of sitting around the kitchen table and playing together and the sound is intimate and mostly acoustic.

Digipak. On Hammok's new album When Does This Place Become Our Scene, the Oslo trio's sophomore outing and first for Sargent House, their noise-rock, hardcore, and metal foundations expand into broader, more dynamic territory. Industrial textures, hip-hop-informed rhythms, synth-led passages, and progressive structures surface alongside classic punk urgency, revealing a band equally invested in abrasion and atmosphere. Produced by vocalist and guitarist Tobias Osland, the songs arrived in inspired bursts, even as the recording process proved painstaking. Tasked with refining and expanding their sound, Hammok tweaked and explored each track until it held all their competing impulses at once music that feels volatile and immediate yet dense with hooks and layered detail. True to it's title, When Does This Place Become Our Scene examines hardcore's lineage and social politics while widening it's focus to questions of belonging in an era shaped by the internet and hyperconnection. Balancing underground intensity with pop instinct, they arrived at an album equal parts scream-along cathartic and nod-along infectious.