Nordic Spotlight
The best music and music festivals in Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands
EYEBOMBS by p u n e e sTampere, Finland’s Punees don’t need concrete imagery to make great songs. “Eyebombs,” their most recent single, depicts beasts, monsters, and ghosts against a wiry barrage of eighth-note guitar chords. The contrast between the song’s unignorable, minor-key but not quite melancholic stomp and the abstractions of its lyrics make […]
Daydreamer by The Age of Colored LizardsAlthough much of garage rock’s genesis can be traced back to the US and the UK, the past many years have often seen Nordic artists making some of the genre’s most compelling music. Case in point is Norwegian trio The Age of Colored Lizards, whose recent debut album Daydreamer is almost […]
Alter Ego by BerndsenTomorrow, Icelandic band Berndsen, fronted by magnetic namesake David Berndsen, begins its US tour (dates in the photo below) behind its just-released new album, Alter Ego. The LP is the band’s first in five years, though it’s released a small flurry of new tunes in the last two. “Alter Ego,” the new album’s […]
I Wanna Dance With You Again by Band of Gold The latest collaboration between Nina Mortvedt and Nikolai Hænglse — the Norwegian duo Band of Gold — is a shining, solid pop gem. I Wanna Dance With You Again is the band’s first single released since their debut album dropped in 2015 to many accolades from fans and critics […]
Sturle Dagsland by Sturle Dagsland We enjoyed multiple performances by otherworldly Norwegian duo Sturle Dagsland at SXSW 2017 last March, so we’re beyond thrilled to share their new single with you. Blossoming, a reverent and ethereal song, invokes the image of sprites and tree nymphs worshiping at the altar of firelight. It is ripe with the band’s talent of […]
On the eve of their 10-day tour in Canada, which starts tomorrow at Canadian Music Week in Toronto, Danish band The Foreign Resort officially released their latest single She Is Lost today. The song encapsulates the shades-of-grey, rearview mirror shimmer we love about their timeless sound, which is both modern and retrospective. In a recent Post-Punk Magazine […]
One of the more exciting developments of 2016 was the announcement of a new album by Dawn Of Demise. This Danish death metal outfit has slowed down their output in recent years, with their last album Rejoice in Vengeance arriving in the world in 2012. In that time, the band lost one guitarist (Thomas Egede who […]
Earlier today, we gave you our interview with Axel Holmgren and Fia Kempe of The Great Discord, part of what became a Swedish-centric edition of Metal Monday here at Nordic Spotlight. Well, we’re not done with the lithe lead singer for that band as she provided backing vocals for another track we’re featuring here on […]
What do you get when you combine the talents of two dudes from Oranssi Pazuzu with a couple of gents that play in Dark Buddha Rising? You get Atomikylä and you get one of the most syrupy and evil-sounding records of 2016. This Finnish supergroup released Keräily last week and it has been rewiring my synapses […]
In spite of all the issues that have been happening with their recent UK events, All Tomorrows Parties has long been responsible for some of the most amazing concerts and festivals in Europe and beyond. That’s only one small reason why you should be excited for what they have in store for music fans in […]