Drott is comprised of Arve Isdal, from Enslaved, Ivar Thormodsæter, of Ulver, and Matias Monsen. With their varied musical background ranging from metal and jazz to classical music, the group, established in 2020, released their self-titled EP in March 2021. The first full-length album, ‘Orcus’ was released in the Autumn of the same year, and they have now followed it up with this second offering to the metal gods.
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When you emerge from the shadow of an iconic band, albeit some four decades afterwards, you are always going to be judged by your previous time served, with your subsequent efforts compared with what went before. It has happened to multiple acts, and it will happen to many more, just as it undoubtedly has happened with Richie Ramone, an artist who took his time to re-emerge into the critical public spotlight and now presents us with his third solo album.
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Guy Bailey, co-founder of the ÜK rock institution that would become known as The Quireboys, has died, after a short illness.
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To say that Über Rock and The Hip Priests have history, a long history, would probably rate as one of the most stupendously stupid understatements of this or any other year. As long-time readers will be more than aware, we have been champions of the self-styled “most prolific band you’ve never heard of” since the site’s early days, and both ourselves and the band virtually grew up together. Despite being forced (like most of the rest of us) to slow down due to the Covidications of the past few years, the Priests have released an humungous amount of material during their 15+ year career, with their bathtub-filling count standing at something like three EPs and more than a couple of dozen singles – a count to which we can now add this, their fifth full-length album.
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In the spring of 2021, Nordvis received a demo from a young Swedish black metal duo. The cover letter stated that the material had been written with Nordvis in mind – and that they were the only label to receive it. While such tactics are not unheard of among bands fishing for a record deal, any doubts about the validity of this claim were dispelled upon first listen. Clearly, Blodtår were a Nordvis act even before their collaboration was formalized.
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