Helsinki-formed outfit Green King’s debut album, Hidden Beyond Time (The Sign) encourages you to Travel Back In Time, to the NWOBHM – in a good way. It’s all expertly done, all great fun, and, as a long-playing calling card, introduces a quality band that obviously have a grasp of several genres while strongly suggesting there is much more still to come.
I’ve always pictured the Stockholm-bound The Riven as the Swedish version of Thulsa Doom – similar vibes, similar undertones, and similar upbeat resonances. The RIven, as far as I observe, has always been influenced by the sounds from the golden age of classic rock; the 1970s and 1980s. Their sounds are genuinely hard-hitting, sharp-shooting, and they appear to be the kind of sounds that would make you want to headbang as the exciting memories in your head replay themselves in retrospect whilst you listen to them. In terms of genre classification, they might pass as heavy blues rock with progressive, psychedelic, and classical influences and a strong emphasis on menacing riffs as well as vigorous vocals.
Swedish Rock dynamos The Hawkins will release their brand new album Silence Is A Bomb releases this week, September 4th, via The Sign Records! To celebrate Ghost Cult is streaming their album in full right here at the site! The for their second full-length, the band continues to ply their classic rock influences their high octane delivery for furious, catchy songs with great vocals, and ripping riffs. Check out Silence Is A Bomb right now! Continue reading
Badass Progressive Stoner Doom band Volcanova will release their debut album, Radical Waves this week via The Sign Records. Ghost Cult is bringing you the full album stream right now so you can try before you buy, like a free nug from your dealer of some new good shit. With their mash of old school Doom influences, mixed with proggy modern metal bands, it is a winning combo, sure to set your ears afire. Jam out to Radical Waves now! Continue reading
Sweden’s soulful throwback rockers Dictator Ship are releasing their new album, Your Favorites, tomorrow, April 17th via The Sign Records. Your Favorites was recorded in a small cabin in Värmland, Sweden, engineered by band member John Sijbren Leonard using only lo-fi aesthetics and gear to achieve that old-school sound. If you love the primal scent of raw rock with no B.S. Like classic proto-punk rock bands such as MC5, The Saints, The Stooges, The Sonics and more, you will love Dictator Ship! Jam out to all of Your Favorites right now and pre-order it too! Continue reading
CB3 (aka Charlottas Burning Trio), and expansive space-rock outfit hailing from Sweden’s Malmo, recently released their new album, Aeons and delivered another healthy dose of accessible hazy instrumental jams. This, their fourth album, which was partially funded through Kickstarter, is the band’s first with The Sign Records. It sees them continue their eclectic mix of spacy psychedelic rock sprinkled with moments of jazz and occasional stoner riffs. Continue reading
It’s time to it’s time to get Lucified again! A few months back we brought you news of the badasses in Lucifer Star Machine, their last video and single for ‘The Void’, and their upcoming new album The Devil’s Breath due out on April 3rd, 2020 via The Sign Records. Now they are bringing forth their new video, for the track ‘Baby, When You Cry’. Much more stylized with the bands’ performance interspersed with a suspenseful story with a surprise ending, this video rips! Check it out now at Ghost Cult! Continue reading
Ghost Cult is proud to present the new crazy video from Lucifer Star Machine for their track ‘The Void’! Raging with old-school punk fury, the track comes from the bands’ forthcoming new album, The Devil’s Breath, due out on April 3rd, 2020 via The Sign Records. The album has a huge sound, with tight, catchy and killer songs! Check out the clip for ‘The Void’ and throw down right now! Continue reading
Scandinavian dark Stoner Heavy Metal band Nocturnalia are releasing a new single this week, on September 13th, ‘Come Alive’ via The Sign Records. The track is their second single from their forthcoming new album III: Winter, due out on November 11th. It will be released by The Sign Records in November 2019. With members from esteemed underground bands such as Night, Forndom, Oblivious, and Year of The Goat, the band has grown bolder sonically in the course of their four previous releases (two singles and two albums). We’re stoked to bring you the debut of their new lyric video for ‘Come Alive’, an expansive, heavy track, with a myriad of influences galvanizing all their hard work. Check it out!Continue reading
Ghost Cult is stoked to bring you the new single from Swedish Heavy Metallers Hot Breath! Their track ‘Still Not Dead’ is a Trad-feeling headbanger of a song that comes straight out of of the 1980s! This high energy band is not wasting time or riffs, they just make killer songs and seem to be having a good time doing it! Check out ‘Still Not Dead’ right now! The track comes from their debut self-titled album, due out on 18th of October via The Sign Records.Continue reading