Set us Free

Fanzine
Nr. 1, 2009

PESANTEUR, SUIS LA LUNE, IF FOOTMEN

TIRE YOU, WHAT WILL HORSES DO?
livereview!

Interviews with among

others MELEEH

Albumreviews!
Interviews!
 Just a short
introduction!
Set us free fanzine started as a idea
when I was at a lesson in my school.
We had Graphic communation (directly
translated). I had finished all assign-
ments, so I got a extra one, to make a
frontside of a magazine. Since screamo
dominates my taste of music at the mo-
ment, and I just love music, the choice
was easy; a music magazine. The front
was made, and I got the highest grade.
Back then it was named Have Heart
Fanzine, but I switched name since I
didn’t want it to be mixed up with the
band that goes by the same name. I
hade some interviews, a little bit of re-
viewing material, a concert came at the
right moment, and all of a sudden I had
material for a smaller magazine. Since
I think magazines are to be read in
paper form I developed this fanzine to
be printed. I can’t afford this although,
but if I manage to I might print some
copies by hand. Anyways, I made it a
PDF on the internet instead. Mostly to
reach out to international readers.
So why do I do this? I love music.
How cliché it sounds, I want to do
everything I can for the music and the
scene, of the dying genre that is called
screamo. I want to lift forth the real
music, not medias massproduced MTV-
shit.
I hope you enjoy my fanzine.
I also apologize for any eventual spell-
ing mistakes.
/Emil Åstrand
Like, Editor?
Reviewing: Records
be facing Kaospilots straggling and
crushing soundwall, which is some-
thing of the best stuff I’ve ever heard
in modern screamo. It’s a hell of a
mix between fast and slow, dissonant
and harmonic, heavy and straggling,
and Kaospilot uses all of these ele-
ments with perfection. The song “Ad
Infinitum” is a abrupt break in the re-
cord with its slow and heavy groove,
which only shows that Kaospilot even
masters that element. A terribly cool
interruption that leads to the song
“Colossus” that ends the record in a
very beuatiful way.
Marat
“Songs From The Crypt”
Despite a pretty ugly recordcover, which
I, thank God, watched after the review,
these dutches actually delivers awe-
some, and perhaps a bit postrocky screa-
mo. It’s relatively slow, with a bunch of
monotone riffs, and unfortunatly pretty
lame screams. I Wouldn’t Be Caught
Dead Here was quickly getting to be one
of my favoritesongs of this record, the
song catches my interest already from
the start with the incredibly nice intro.
They also manage to squeeze in some
D-beat in that song, and for me, and old PDT
crustpunk, that is so fucking fun and “Död Mans Tacktal”
cool to hear. PDT is a swedish mariestadsband
which name I have no clue about
what it means. Anyways, “Död
Mans Tacktal” (roughly translated;
Dead Mans Thankyou-Speech) is a
onetrackdemo-looking record, or so it
looks. Nothing bad with that though!
PDT’s got the whole screamopackage,
they are what I would call a ocean of
emotions, with almost totally different
parts that is constantly following each
other all through the five minute long
song. It should feel wrong to review a
Kaospilot onesongrecord, but PDT pulls this off
superbly. The screams are although a
“Shadows” bit lame, but that’s pretty much all I
can say that is bad. On the back of the
Kaospilot seem to be like one of
cover there’s a serie of texts written,
the bigger bands in the Norwegian
which I assume are being screamed in
screamoscene, and here we got their
the song, but I can only follow with
second fullength “Shadows”, released
the first text, then I’m lost. Anyways,
2009. The record starts with “Lunar”,
PDT should really continue what
a track containing acoustic feedback
they’re are doing and I hope I will see
and ambient sounds. But soon we will
more of them in the future.
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out Europe (France, Poland, Swit-
L’homme Puma zerland...), they continue to hit the
“On Remplace Les Yeux Cassés” roads of the Old Continent. They
have shared the stage with numerous
bands such as Impure Wilhelmina,
Dominic (Sweden), La Quiete (Ita-
lia), Aussitot Mort (France).
L’Homme Puma released a first ten
track EP in June of 2007 on the label
Communication Is Not Words which
has been widely reviewed on the
web and in the paper press.
Diskography:
2009: On remplace les yeux cassés
(7”, 12”)
Formed in January of 2005, l’homme Communication is not words +
Puma is an instrumental trio that can Things get worse (both FR)
be described as ambient rock. With a 2007; 10 tracks EP
meticulous use of electronics (sam- Communication is not words (FR)
pling, speeches...), the Parisian combo 2006: 4 tracks split CD /w sugar-
crafts a sound that evolves from post town cabaret
rock to post hardcore, krautrock to Puzzle Records (FR), Desertion
noise or even dub. records (FR), Whosbrain records
After more than 50 concerts through- (Tyskland)
The Review:
The french l’Homme Puma takes us for
the sake of change on to a journey in
the universe of instrumental post-rock.
Or so it feels. Their weird mixtures
of rockriff, electronica and acoustic
guitars, and the typical post-rock riff
plus the melodies makes me really think
that l’Homme Puma is something above
the normal. Dialogues and speeches is
wildly sampled, and I think I recognize
a part out of Kubricks phenomenous
movie Full Metal Jacket on the song
“Surtout dans les coins”, which is
absolutely wonderful. If I should take
another example of how cool mixes
l’Homme Puma makes, then I must say
that the intro on “Catherine Deneuve”
is massive, crazy, and bloody heavy, to
then change to something completely
different. I’m already stunned, but the
eight track “Plaisir D’offrir” makes me
fall completely. I want to cry because of
its beuty. The whole record is just one
big earorgasm.

Sofy Major is a Noise Hardcore band stage with Boris, These Arms Are
from Clermont-Ferrand (France). Snakes, Amen Ra, or Lack, in order to
Sofy Major
They’ve been playing for 4 years, defend a sincere, ethic and powerful
“Maxi”
and toured twice across Europe (one music.
french tour and one Eurotour) play-
ing aproximately 60 to 70 gigs in six The Review:
different countries. The band released Screamo has slowly, but safely be-
three records : an eponym 12” red come one of my favoritegenres. The
transparent vinyl (CD version through energy, anxiety, and the rage is so
Arghhh! Rds), a 10” split vinyl with perfectly balanced and in the end it
One Second Riot (a noise band from becomes something so beuatiful. And
Lyon) and a 7” split vinyl released now when my latest star, Sofy Major,
by IFB Rds, only in the US with the has appeared in the picture it feels like
american band Her Breath On Glass. screamo forever will be with me.
Next release will be a tribute compila-
tion for the french noise band Tan- But enough about me. Sofy Major is
trum (also starring Knut, Membrane, a french Screamo-band that is very
and vocalist Bastiens shriek. It is so
Cortez...). right on, unlike alot of bands in the
beautiful that I want to cry, but at the
scene that rather build up their songs
same time so rough that I just want to
Getting their influence through heavy and doesn’t release the anger until the
bang my fist to the wall.
and noisy bands such as Barkmarket, end of the song. Sofy Major, on the
But I do not want to guide you in the
Neurosis or Unsane, the band wishes other hand, always manage to keep
wrong direction, or confuse you with
to convey the noise, rock and hardcore the same energy throughout their
saying that it’s too rough or too me-
heritage of their french predecessors songs, which results in a spray of rage
lodic. Read this last sentence and you
Condense, Hint and Portobello Bones. and melody, that always succeedes to
will know all you need to know.
walk hand by hand. That is probably
It is wonderful.
Evolving through calming atmo- the reason that makes me love Maxi,
spheres, epic music, thunderous and there is always a wonderful melody
Sam Nordmark
incisive songs, the band shared the beneath the rest of the nistruments,
(Translated by me, Emil.)
 Interviewing:
If Footmen Tire you,
what will horses do?
From left; Andreas, David, Rickard.
If footmen tire you, what will horses
do? is a pretty small screamoband
from Örebro, Sweden, which consists
of David, Rickard and Andreas. I felt
that a insight in the bands life was
required, so I made a little mailinter-
view with them:
- When I read the first blogentry;
We assure you we are alive it seemed
like you havn’t existed before? If so,
can you tell us a bit why you “took a
break”?
- No, we have never taken any break. That
blogentry was more like a confirmation
on that we really existed as a band and not
only had a myspace to air with.
- Why did you start playing music?
- It was a sort of impulse that made us cre-
ate a band, there was a interest for it, plain
simple. It turned out to be just that music
because we all listen to the same kind of
music and that’s why we have the same
inspiration sources and starting points
when we create our music.
- How would you describe your own
music?
- That’s a tricky question to answer, it is
very hard for us to describe or define what
we are doing with our band. It is up to
everyone else to decide.
All pictures taken from www.myspace.com/iffootmen
- I have seen that you are about to
release a new seven inch, how do you
think it will differ from the demo re-
leased in 2008?
- We already now at this moment that the
coming seven inch will be so incredibly
much better than the demo, on all levels.
First of all the songs are much better, and
more thorougly worked out; they feel
more like real songs that us ourselves
could listen to. We’re also going into a
real studio this time, which will most
likely contribute to the sound/produc-
tion on the seven inch so it will be much
better.
- With the title of the EP, called
“Viskningar och Rop” (Whispers and
screams), in mind, does this means that
the lyrics will be in swedish? What do
you think about the usage of swedish in
screamobands? Does it suit?
- No, but we had a vague idea about start-
ing singing in swedish, or at least blend in
swedish in the lyric. It didn’t turned out
like that, not this time at least, the lyric
will still be in english. The title will al-
though reflect the music and the lyric, and
then we all three think that it’s a fantasti-
cally good title! Otherwise it’s a pretty
good idea that can be performed well,
Amalthea and Anemone are two good
examples on bands that uses swedish lyrics.
- Is a fullength on the board in the near
future?
- That is also hard to say... We are working
on new material, and we have some ideas
about which way we’re going to go, but if it
turns out to be a fullength, a EP or a split, or
whatever, we will see.
- Something I’m really curious about,
what does your songwriting process look
like?
- Rickard writes the riffs, but we all works
on the music together in the rehearsal room.
We test different ideas we got and uses the
stuff that we ourselves think sound good.
We don’t try to force songs in a given form,
they are shaped under the writing process.
We all write the lyrics, it varies.
- Tell me a bit about how it looks on the
livefront! How much do you got booked?
Where and when if so?
- at the moment we got two gigs confirmed:
One in Stockholm with Suis La Lune and
Pesanteur, and one on a free-entrance festi-
val in Örebro with a bunch of other bands.
Hopefully there is more to come!
- How do you feel about gigs?
- It’s one the things that’s the biggest reason
we play for; to play live is absolutely the
funniest thing about playing in a band.
- And I can’t do nothing more than agree.
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MELEEH

The lads in Meleeh started up in the summer of Meleeh has so far released two fullength CDs; “Another Low.
2004, in their hometown Gävle, and was meant to A New Hollow” and “Heartland”, which were also released in
Japan. This year they’re working on a third record.
sound something like the punkbands that was from
- Can you tell us a bit about it?
there in the late 90’s, like Serene and Openmind- - We’re are about halfway through now perhaps. Five songs are
ead. Through many liveperformances, and a demo, in principle ready. It went slow for a while, but now things start
they got very much attention. Meleeh feels like one to roll pretty good. The goal is to release it under the coming
of the bigger bands in the swedish hardcore/screa- winter.
- Will you stick to the sound that you’ve had under the last
mo scene today. They took their time for a short
two records?
mailinterview: - You will absolutely hear that it is Meleeh but if you’re hoping
for a recurrence of “Heartland” then you will get disappointed.
- What was the key to your success? There is no meaning to release products that are copies of each
- The goal with the band was to play live and meet kids. We other. We have developed really fucking much during the last
have had the privilege to do more than we could have hoped for. two years and together pulled at the same direction. More united.
I think the answer is that we struggled like hell to get where we It sounds dark och heavy as hell. So if you like rough music you
are today. We have always believed in ourselves and never cared will get a nice fruitcocktail of hardcore and heavy metal.
about what others thought and said. It’s about the own feeling. - Tell me a bit about your sound!
To be satisfied with what you create. If you’re honest in what - Feels strange and extremely hard to describe your own sound.
you do it use to be appreciated by yourself as well as the listener. Traditional hardcore with guitarwalls and awkward drumbeats
If we’re big or successful is less important. perhaps?!
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MELEEH
The interview continues with us talking a bit about the live-
front of Meleeh:
- How did you got the hultsfredsfestival gig?
- They got in touch with our label and wanted us to play.
Short and simple.
- What are your expectations?
- Free entrance all days on the festival, and 5 new kids in the
audience that never heard or seen us. Sounds pretty reason-
able.
- How do you think this will benefit you more than that
you get a cool gig?
- No idea. The awesome thing will be that people that never
heard or seen us maybe pops by and like what they’re listen-
ing to. It may also perhaps give “rings on the water” that one
so elegantly express it.
- Do you have plans on more gigs or eventual tours? If so,
enlighten us!
- We will do some scattergigs this summer, check out www.
myspace.com/meleeh. No tours before the release of the new
record is planned.
The future is nothing that troubles Meleeh.
- We take day by day. The day we don’t feel for playing
together anymore we disband immeadiatly.
- What is your biggest goal with the band?
- To be honest in what we do and maybe be able to affect
directly or indirectly the kids to create bands, make them pep
up on things and that they learn to be open and honest against
themselves and other human beings. As long as you got a
good feeling you just should drive on like hell. When the
Meleeh in all pictures, taken from www.myspace.com/meleeh
spark is gone. Don’t think about it very much, just go on.
- To get on a totally different subject, what do you think
about todays swedish hardcore/screamo scene?
- You can say that the scene is pretty scattered. But there
are many good bands and many good people. Jesaiah for
an example. Another Year and The eight arms around you
to namedrop some. Jesaiah is soon releasing a new record
on the same recordlabel as us. Björn has been helping with
the recordings and he says it sounds awesome so we look
forward to that. They will hit through hard this year. Guaran-
teed.
- Do you yourself think that you help keeping the scene
alive?
- That’s not really something we think about. But of course
we contribute with something to it just like everyone else
that is involved. People is coming to our gigs and that is just
awesome.
And my last question will be the one that will round up this
interview, and Meleeh get to ask themselves a question:
- why does everyone think that Björn and Thomas look so
much like eachother?
- That is and remains a mystery.
So far Meleeh plays here:
27 June Summer in the city festival Finland, Turku
08 July Hultsfredsfestivalen Sweden, Hultsfred
Reviewing: Records
Suis La Lune sound they craft passionate
“Heir” and beutiful screamo in a
although traditional way, no
Suis La Lune has always time either. Teninch “Heir” bad with that, but now when
been a screamoband to rec- contains four songs and they’ve found their sound I
ognize Sweden with, despite already from the early start think that they should experi-
their french name, and they you can hear that this is Suis ment a bit more.
do not disappoint us this La Lune. With its peculiar

Serena Joy IV is a really beutiful spoken

“Ours will be a lonely battle” word song which ends in a as-
tonishing sing-along, and this
Serena Joy is a bit more ex- this band combines the best
puts an end to Serena Joy for
perimental band from Great elements out of screamo,
this time. This is a band that
Britain. This debutrecord postrock, and ambient. This
is really worth to keep your
contains four songs, Move- can only mean, that this
eyes on, so do it.
ment I-IV. In my opinion band kicks ass. Movement

My Own Private Alaska undescribeable. So interesting,

“Self Titled”
Piano, drums and screams?
This is something of the
weirdast and coolest stuff I’ve
ever heard in the screamo-
genre, and at the same time
so fucking good. The feeling
MOPA is delivering with the
piano in such harmony with
the screaming, together with
the rockhard background, is
and such a atmosphere, makes
this band one of the most in-
teresting bands in the screamo-
scene today. I am overwhelmed.
The favoritesong is “Will you
die for me (if I say please)?”,
which I can listen to over, and
over again.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep move your legs, but also to

“adacta/preface”
rock’n’roll screamo from
belgium, with chaotic och
swinging melodies and riff,
but also a whole lot of clean
singing, which they blend in
with screams in a very good
way. For an example, in the
song “Farewell...”, which
is my favoritesong on the
record, we can hear all of
these element. These guys
definetly makes you wanna
sing-along. Sweet basslines,
wonderful dynamics, every-
thing is nailed right where it
should be and the band that
took it’s name from a book
really knows how to get
things swinging.

Mr Willis of Ohio
“Eure Welt”
German screamoband, with a
sound that feels a bit french.
Fast intro in the style of Circle
takes the squares “Same shade
as concrete”, which gives
me expectations, but no, not
that chaotic. Many parts are
although pretty rough and
fast, and the band’s got a good
spirit. What I could complain
on is, that the guitarists distor-
tion would more fit a punkband.
It easy gets a chainsawfeeling
over the guitars as it sounds
now. But that is just a matter of
taste.

The Hope and the Failure lapse, which contributes alot to

“The Lights Are On But This Dance Never Ends” the feeling the album infuses.
Besides it is very slow, and
Again, a swedish band, cially the vocals are totally
gloomy all through. It’s heavy,
which has only released amazing. Not only that it
sad, and lifts the vocals up in a
this record. A shame it is. is a woman that screams,
exceptional way. Terribly sad
Extremely passionated she also sounds like she is
that they are disbanded.
screamo/emo, and espe- crying and about to col-
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Sixwaysplit
“Connections”
This is something I’ve never seen
before, a sixway split, released on
Moment of Collapse, and thats why I
feel this review demands half a page!
Arse Moreira opens the record with
a calm and nice introsång, to then
escalate in total chaos, and I think
that was what I liked most about this
band, the chaos brings my thoughts
a bit back to Index for Potential
Suicide. Even the songlengths re-
minded me of them, when all songs
except the intro was about 1 minute
long. What’s more is that they play
according to the traditional screamo-
pattern, but nothing wrong with that.
What I could want to change is the
vocals, it is really too low mixed,
you can’t really hear it.
Eucalypt, second band out plays a
somewhat alike Arse Moreira but
not that chaotic, they unfortunatly
recieved their lowmixed vocals too.
otherwise they have very beautiful
harmonics, and holds a good tempo.
A little bit thin drums although. But
very dynamic.
Swedish Amalthea is out next, and I
get happy. I personally love Amal-
thea, and on this record they seem to
have leaned more against screamo
than emo, which I thought they were
more like before. But that is just a
matter of taste. I really enjoy the
prominent bass. It feels good to hear
that one too sometimes. The vocals
are really good, and makes me think
of Do Androids Dream of Electric
Sheep, which is even better. The
cosy parts is incredible. Amalthea is
really the ultimate mix.
Over to Orbit Cinta Benjamin
who does more emotional screams,
which is pretty shrill, a bit same
style as The Saddest Landscape I
think. The sound itself is okey, many
light, monotone riff that are used
as harmonics. They also has a very
cool part with doublevocals, which I
really like.
Dodewaard surprises me as fifth
band, and I get happy because it was
a long time since I last heard those.
They play classic screamo with not
too loud vocals. Not very fast either,
some parts are very slow and heavy,
almost a bit sludgy.
French Hiro puts an end to this
sixwaysplit with a cautious song,
which mostly consists of a slow
and calm act, with a mild singing
voice. This passes later into a slow,
screaming inferno. It is a shame that
the soundquality is pretty shabby, but
this is definatly a band too keep an
eye out for.
Only good bands in this split, so I
command you: Buy for fuck sake!
Isaïah
“ils consomment, tuent et prient mais ne
pensent pas”
I can only say one thing; Wow.
French screamo at it’s best. What
you can complain on is that they
have a pretty thin guitarsound, and
that is perhaps why their overall
sound feels a bit lame on some parts, I’m going to be honest I don’t think it
but other than that, Isaïah got it all.
This is heavy, beautiful, slow, in-
creadibly emotionally loaded and I can
only wish that I understood french, I
think that would’ve contributed really
much to the entirety. They have a good
feeling for structure in their songs too.
I myself think that the bass sound is
awfully beautiful, but sadly it does not
sound very “bassy”. This could also
be a reason for their thin sound on
some parts. The ending song “Enfants
de l’apathie” is a perfect ending, the
ending part consists of a french mono-
logue blended with distant and ambi-
entlike guitarsounds, which rounds up
this record in a splendid way.
Dancing on Debris
... of our selfmade collapse
The german Dancing on Debris plays
screamo the slow way, and I feels at
some points very anxietyfilled. A mod-
erate straight speed is kept through
the whole record, with hoarse screams
in deutsch, that actually sounds good.
Thrashy but plump sound and the
typical mixture of calmer parts with
more speedy ones. What surprises me
in a positive way is the vague idea of
violin that I get here and then, on the
second song Nachtlied it comes at
both the beginning and the end, which
is awesome, violin in screamo fits so
extremely fucking well. The last song
Till the end is a 35 minutes long song
that almost only consist of something
that crackles, it sounds like if you’re
playing a empty LP or a tape. Here and
then some music comes although. It’s a
weird way to end a record with, and if
works very well. Overall a good band,
definetly worth to spend money on!
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HA R D
Got onto I for Us records on-
linestore, and damnit, they had a
packageprice - Eleven CDs for 15
euros! “Cool”, I thought, and made
a order. Then I thought; Why not
review this? So that’s what I did.
Here are some hardcorerecords,
mostly, other stuff may occur. I did
not had time to review them all
although, but I hope it won’t make
any bigger difference. First out is
The Process.
The Process
“Vultures of human decay”
The Process, which name I assume
they got from Franz Kafkas book,
opens their record with a heavy and
pretty slow, groovy part, and I think
for myself: Oh, how crustinflued.
And as I suspected, the stringinstru-
ment strike one last time and letting
the notes ring, and the drums thun-
ders alone, with the punks hallmark:
D-beat. this is the beat that continues
nearly throughout the record, with a
bit variations and quick fills, except
for the song “Vultures of Human
Decay”, where they tryout something
else. I love the sound The Process
got, the almost “canny” sound on
“Avsmak” makes me smile and think
that this is fucking cool. The lyrics
are anxietyfilled, but not as much
right on that much punk is, they
have formulated themselves in better
ways, which is a great bonus. On the
end, sadly, much falls. They really
build up to a climax, that is very
cool, and choses to finish it with a
slow fade. Euw is what I say. Finish
in a real way next time!
Revive
“Believes of an old past”
Revive is a french hardcoreband,
with a very hardread handwriting in
which they’ve written everything in
their cover with, including the lyrics
in the book, and that makes me stop
even try to read immeadiatly. It’s
just a small thing, but it surely bugs
me. However, Revive plays straight
hardcore in a bit newer way, they
are fast and swingy, and have a real
yummy snaredrum. The vocals are
not screams neither singing, but a bit
of a mixture, and the choruses occur
often. They are not very innovative,
but you cannot stop wanting to bang
your head when you listen to them.
The good thing about them is that
they do not play same stuff over and
over again, they give space for calmer
parts, like “Flavour of Shame” which
comes as a lovely break in the hard-
core chuggah. Track 11, Interlude, is
a beautiful instrumental piece with a
acoustic guitar. Definetly OK!
Gold Kids
“Self titled”
Gold kids is something that I’ve only
heard about a bit before, nothing I
listened very much too. But after
this self titled record I’m pretty sure;
really good stuff! The band creates
a very nice soundwall with alot of
powermute and fast drumming, but it
doesnt get to that point of heavyness
as Dead Swans that is coming after
this review. This might be perhaps
more easy-going hardcore, if you
now can say so. I’m although not all
happy with the drumsound, it sounds
a bit lame in some way. Thin perhaps.
Gold kids also uses alot of choruses,
very often in the refrains, which
makes their sound strive a bit more
to the oldschool hardcore like Sick
of it All or Blood for blood. Samples
occur sometimes here and then,
especially in the song “All those nice
dreams” is one cool part, where the
singer screams along with the sample.
A good band and a good record, I’m
all happy.
Dead Swans
“The Southern Blue”
Dead Swans is a bit like perfection
in person. I’m totally speechless.
It’s speedy, cool, chaotic, brutal, raw
fucking hardcore with influences
gathered from all around. Everything
from D-beat parts to fast solos can oc-
cur, but always in perfect harmony, or
disharmony. “Tin Heart” is the song
on the record that nearly makes me
laugh of happiness when I hear the
fantastically, rockhard chaotic intro.
I thank my lucky star that I bought
this record, and there will be more, I
assure you that.
 C
Reviewing: O R E
Records
HA R D this, I loose my interest after just a
Endzweck few songs. It could rely on that no
“The Grapes of Wrath song is different from the other, it’s
Japanese Endzweck does a classic; all the same on all songs. It doesn’t
sampled intro, then right on. It’s re- really work if you have a 12 track
ally good, powermuteriff and heavy long CD. So, Endzweck, open your
guitars which creates a soundwall minds and let your creativity flow.
together with the drums, and then You got the potential.
let other instrument be able to cre-
ate melodies and more. Their sound
brings my thoughts very much back
to Meleeh, which is very very posi-
tive. But what happens then? Despite

sidefringe. If we’re going to talk

When We Fall more about When we fall in the musi-
“We untrue our minds” cal way we can directly state that the
When we fall is something that I bright clear vocals kills everything
would rather not put on again. Unen- that is built up, the feeling and the en-
gaging, new-hardcore that makes me gagement, which makes me so bored
think about the typical “MTV-Emo” that I stop listening with the time.
that is played all over nowadays, When we fall should definetly find a
which sound so mainstream that I can own sound. Although I read on their
hardly believe it. They got everything myspace that they have dissolved.
that takes to draw small kids with Good or bad? Well. Your call.

on tape, and that just makes the feel-

Daggers ing in its entirety so much better. I
“Self titled” think that you should do like every-
Daggers, whom I have been friend one else, buy the fucking record, get
with on myspace earlier but not really it on the stereo and start practicing
listened to yet, made me wake up for up “The Windmill” before the next
real. This is incredibly wonderful, Daggers-gig comes to you.
speedy hardcore with a great access
to a bunch of hardcorejumps. Sick
vocals that makes me forget every
other screams I’ve ever heard before.
Besides the sound itself is fucking
trashy, like they’ve recorded the CD

Outrageous that makes me think “wow” at all.

“Self titled”
Outrageous plays som sort of coali-
tion between hardcore and crust.
D-beat and the regular hardcorebeat
ovarlaps each other all the time, but
there is still some space for more
calmer parts. In the song “Adrift”
there is, for an example a great load
of nice exchanges between differ-
ent parts. This is for me all good,
I’m happy, but there’s isn’t anything
Synopsis comes as cosy little break
in all the roughness, but it isn’t
quite enough. But if I am to choose
a favorite song it would have to be
“Endless”, because of the dynamics
in it. Overall a totally OK record,
and pretty good-looking that they’ve
chosen to only have one word as
bandname as well as song titles.
 Reviewing:
If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do?
Pesanteur, Suis La Lune
Live @ Smedjan, Stockholm, 16 May

Long have I wondered about the music phenomenon

known as screamo.
The image media and the public have of this genre is
make-up tears, drainpipe jeans and childish tales about
heartbreak stories.
Forget all that nonesense now. Don’t even think, just
do it. Imagine this instead, imagine Per Gessle summer-
hit”Här kommer alla känslorna” (roughly translated it
becomes Here come all the feelings) in physical form.
Hatred, love, sadness, joy.
All of this compressed in a single package, there you
have screamo.

The first band out was Örebro’s If Footmen Tire you, What Will
Horses for? that has a very similar sound to early Cult of Luna. But
I would never say that the band itself is a Cult of Luna 2, the band
has a stockpile of aggression that the octet from Umeå miss, and
they use it completely flawless. Quite wonderful melodic pieces
are almost always present and the aggression completly spews
from the speakers during songs like “Bound by a vow” and “I Have
Become ... Convincing.” After the gig, batterist David tells me that
this was their third gig ever. Third time’s the charm.
[8/10]
 If Footmen Tire You, What Will
Horses Do? Pesanteur, Suis La Lune
If the first band was Cult of Luna the second band, Pesan-
Live @ Smedjan, Stockholm, 16 May
teur, is definitely Converge. Never have I seen such a contact
with the audience and stage presence as the vocalist Joakim
exudes. It’s hard to imagine that this is the band’s first gig
since they seem to have complete control of everything. The
absolute best part, however, is undoubtedly the rythm divi-
sion, where the band has recruited a temporary bassplayer,
Ted as he is called. And the fact that drummer Robert plays
on an acoustic drum kit that gives the music an incredible
well-needed dept. As a final the band plays a cover of Indian
Summers “Angry Son”. With this cover I am sure, I am quite
sure that I have found something wonderful. I am sold, I’m
knocked out. I am speechless. [10/10]

During this evening there should have been two more

bands playing on Smedjan’s minimal stage, but tragically,
the third band, Meleehs, drummer Fredrik been affected by
a sudden disease and the band have cancelled their gig. Let
us hope for a quick recovery for Fredrik and his family.

Last Act suis la Lune will have to compensate for this loss.
But, should we be honest the band wouldn’t have to put
that much effort to heal our wounds. Imagine this evening’s
opening acts in a mad jam and you have Suis la lune, it is
pure mayhem in one moment, but so incredibly beautiful and
harmonic the next. This was the first time I’ve ever listened
to Suis la lune as a whole and I’ll probably never be able to
fully enjoy the band’s material on the CD, because of the
energy the band radiated on stage is not likely to be reflected
by using a audio card, a CD player or a needle. I think it
only can be experienced live. So please, please Santa Claus,
God, Jesus, Vishnu, Freya, Oden and Thor. Make sure that
this band is never forgotten.
[10/10]

Sam Nordmark

Every photo is shot by either Cecilia Curcija or Malin Andersson

 Participating bands
people, and distrobutions
BANDS MR. WILLIS OF OHIO WHEN WE FALL
www.myspace.com/mrwillisofohio www.myspace.com/whenwefall
DAGGERS
www.myspace.com/daggersband
THE HOPE AND THE OUTRAGEOUS
www.myspace.com/outrageoushc
REVIVE FAILURE
www.myspace.com/thehopeandthefail-
http://www.myspace.com/revivehxc L’HOMME PUMA
ure www.myspace.com/hommepuma
ENDZWECK
http://www.myspace.com/endzweck ARSE MOREIRA SOFY MAJOR
www.myspace.com/arsemoreira www.myspace.com/sofymajor
THE PROCESS
http://www.myspace.com/thepro-
cessswe AMALTHEA DISTROS
www.myspace.com/amaltheamusic
DEAD SWANS MOMENT OF COLLAPSE
http://www.myspace.com/thedead- HIRO www.myspace.com/momentofcollapse
swans www.myspace.com/hiromuzik
COMMUNICATION IS
GOLD KIDS EUCALYPT NOT WORDS
www.myspace.com/goldkids No contact info found. www.myspace.com/communicationis-
notwords

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www.myspace.com/suislalune http://www.myspace.com/orbitcinta-
benjamin
PESANTEUR SAM NORDMARK
San.Nordmark@hotmail.com
http://www.myspace.com/pesanteur- DODEWAARD
perdu www.myspace.com/dodewaard
CAROLINA CURCIJA
IF FOOTMEN TIRE YOU, sixtydollarbill@hotmail.com
ISAÏAH
WHAT WILL HORSES DO? www.myspace.com/weareisaiah
http://www.myspace.com/iffootmen MALIN ANDERSSON
blodnasir@live.se
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