xoxo, Vlad 🦇 [Weekly Mixtape 43]

Amy Turk • Iron Maiden • Might • Grave • Bathory
Celestial Sword • Dead Space Chamber Music • The Angelic Process
Snogard • Ancestor (Cuba) • Darkthrone • Marduk • Entombed

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Swedish Death Metal Round Up 2015

2015 marked 20 years since I first embarked down the Left Hand Path (well, I started with Clandestine, but still). Since I first became obsessed with it, Swedish death metal has seen its share of ups and downs - including fickle public tastes turning from one regional scene to another and then back again. But the country remains the most reliable source of high quality heaviosity. And as much as I bemoan the dearth of originality and creativity currently plaguing the scene, I remain quite helplessly drawn to every band that comes out of it.

Grave in Singapore, 3.26.2013

With festival season gearing up in Australia, we're getting more and more American and European bands stopping off in South East Asia on their way back home. Earlier in March, Sick of it All tore up the Black Box something fierce; and at the end of the same month Grave stopped by Singapore on a rare South East Asian tour (the band actually played Singapore once before back in 2008, as numerous tour shirts from that night attested).