Nordic Spotlight
The best music and music festivals in Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands
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 […]
One of the Nordic bands that were unfamiliar to us but that we fell quickly head over heels in love with was a batch of theatrical rockers known as The Great Discord. Like their compatriots in Ghost, this group works in a lot of pop pomp into their thick mix of guitar grind with the […]
Released just a few days ago, the latest release from one-man doom metal project Sol has been haunting our brain ever since. The Storm Bells Chime struggles with the past, particularly a childhood marked with tragedy and despair, and how that shades everything that happens in your future. And it does so with a variety of […]
Late last year, a trio of labels—Black Plague, Metallic Media, and Symbol of Domination—joined forces to make sure that the debut self-titled album by Auðn was still in print after the initial run of copies was snapped up by black metal fans the world over. For any of you who missed this LP the first time […]
You read that correct: we are co-sponsoring—with the wonderful people at Soundcontrol PDX—the upcoming Portland performance by Suma, the Malmö-based metal outfit that trucks in heavy, monstrous sound, happening on January 19th at Panic Room. The band is coming to town to lay down some tracks for a new album with the illustrious Billy Anderson […]