Showing All "Kvelertak" Posts
May 21st Comment
Words like "party metal," and "beer metal" come to mind when talking about Kvelertak, Norway's black 'n' roll export, but a more accurate descriptor would be "sweat metal." Or, if we we're really… Read Story »
May 3rd 5 Comments
You know this was a good week for music videos when 4Minute made a K-pop video with dancing zombies in it, one where they fight the dancing zombies by spraying hairspray at them, and it didn't even… Read Story »
Apr 26th 1 Comment
Like Bad Company and Minor Threat before them, balls-out Norwegian metal ragers Kvelertak have named an absolutely kickass song after the band itself -- an always-appreciated way of laying out… Read Story »
Apr 11th 7 Comments
We've written a lot about Kvelertak over the last month or so -- Tom named their new album, Meir, Album Of The Week a couple weeks back, and I shared some of my thoughts on it here, when we streamed… Read Story »
Mar 26th 16 Comments
I love a lot of underground metal, but I'm a pretty bad underground metal fan. Underground metal, less a scene or even a single genre and more a vast interconnected web of global subcultures, doesn't… Read Story »
Mar 22nd 4 Comments
Increasingly, this is a weird column to write, since the list of things that fall under "music video" parameters includes big-budget extravaganzas, weird little no-money larks, clips of people's… Read Story »
Mar 20th Comment
Around this corner of the internet, Michael has long been touting the Norwegian metal band Kvelertak, and with good reason; their combination of big, dumb hooks and all-out speed-freak mayhem is a… Read Story »
Mar 18th 7 Comments
Outside of maybe Ghost (now Ghost BC) and/or Deafheaven, no heavy band's sophomore album comes this year with more anticipation or conversation than Meir, from Norwegian black 'n' roll band… Read Story »
Feb 8th 14 Comments
A whole mess of great videos this week, from some unexpected places as well as the expected ones. When Flatbush Zombies release an excellently hallucinogenic rap video about dropping liquid acid in… Read Story »
Feb 5th 3 Comments
As I said a couple weeks ago, when we first heard Kvelertak's "Bruane Brenn":
Kvelertak's forthcoming sophomore album, Meir, made our list of 2013's 50 Most Anticipated Albums, and it would… Read Story »
