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PHOTO REPORT: HARDCORE SUPERSTAR


Photo Report: Hardcore Superstar – September 27, 2018 – Turku, Finland

Photography by Serena Solomon

HARDCORE SUPERSTAR

INTERVIEW: Northward (Norway/Netherlands)


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Floor Jansen and Jørn Viggo Lofstad

Interview by Carina Lawrence / Dark Art Conspiracy

 

NORTHWARD, is the hard rock project from well-renowned musicians Floor Jansen (Nightwish) and Jorn Viggo Lofstad (Pagan’s Mind), who will be releasing their debut self-titled album on October 19th, 2018 through Nuclear Blast.

The project sees a step away from both musicians normal style and approach and is a very diverse album. It was during the ‘All Star Jam’ at Progpower USA Festival in 2007, when current Nightwish singer Floor Jansen and Pagan’s Mind guitarist Jorn Viggo Lofstad first performed together on stage for some cover songs. Their mutual love for hard rock bought them together and they composed an album quickly after in 2008 but due to their other music commitments that album was put on hold until now, with the release being ten year’s later after it was first made. Floor seized the opportunity to get the project back on track in 2017 when Nightwish took a break and luckily it was time, so 2018 will finally see the release of their anticipated musical side project Northward.

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NORTHWARD – release lyric video for ‘Get What You Give


NORTHWARD, the hard rock project from masterminds Floor Jansen and Jorn Viggo Lofstad, will release its debut self-titled album on October 19th, 2018. After recently releasing their first single ‘While Love Died’, the duo unleash their second powerful single ‘Get What You Give’ today, including a lyric video. Continue reading NORTHWARD – release lyric video for ‘Get What You Give

Desertfest, Antwerp October 12-14, 2018 Preview


Desertfest, Antwerp 2018 Preview

12-14 October, Trix, Antwerp, Belgium — The time and place to be for one of the greatest doom, psychedelic, sludge, stoner and heavy rock highlights of the year.

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VREID Premiere Third Track “One Hundred Years” From Upcoming Album “Lifehunger”


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Vreid photo by: Havard Nesbo

Norwegian Black ‘N’ Rollers VREID premiere third track “One Hundred Years” from their anticipated  upcoming album  “Lifehunger” .

“Lifehunger” is set to release on September 28, 2018 via Season Of Mist and you can pre-order it here: http://smarturl.it/VreidLifehunger

Stream “One Hundred Years” below,

VREID comment: 

Soon we can finally unleash «Lifehunger». We are so damn satisfied and proud of this album, and thank you for the fantastic response for the 2 first singles. There are much more to come, the album have a lot of variations with instrumentals, a very different track in «Hello Darkness» with Addi from Solstafir on guest vocals and some brutal stuff of course. But now we present you what I think is one of the absolute highlights of the album. The song «One hundred years» is one of these songs that you do in you’re career where you feel that every puzzle matches, and everything just ads up. Its hard do describe it, and frankly the magic of music can never described so I wont even try. I have had this feeling a few times before with songs such as «Pitch Black» and «Solverv» to name a few, and this is the feeling I always chase as a composer. Lyrically this songs is completley inspired by the words and the myth of the spectacular Knut Hamsun. Some things are eternally.   

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