Sweden’s premier female fronted metal band! The Murder of My Sweet is a Swedish cinematic metal band founded in 2007. The music is inspired by movie score, film noir storytelling and bands like Queen, E.L.O and Genesis
Debut album “Divanity” Released 2010.01.20 in Japan, 2010.01.29 in Europe and 2010.02.09 in USA Single #1 “Bleed me dry” Released 2009.11.13 Reached #14
Biography
Since the release of their debut album “Divanity” in January 2010, and the single that pre-ceded it in 2009 (“Bleed Me Dry” – which reached No. 14 in the Swedish National Singles Charts), female-fronted rock/metal band
THE MURDER OF MY SWEET have become amongst the biggest hopes on the European scene. Their individual, easily recognizable and high value sound, has touched the lives of many fans and with its mix of modern, groovy, hard rock, beautiful melodies, and progressive, cinematic flair. The band, led by singer Angelica Rylin, has secured a remarkable fan base already, far from the shores of Stockholm, where the band was formed in 2007; the name inspired by the 1944 ‘film-noir’ “Murder, My Sweet”.
Now though it’s time to confirm and expand on the success of “Divanity” – which, given the quality of the new album, “Bye Bye Lullaby” should be a formality.
THE MURDER OF MY SWEET have combined all their strengths and improved in every department. Rylin’s passionate vocal performance breaths new soul into every song, and all tracks on “Bye Bye Lullaby” have their individual strength meaning that it’s somewhat difficult to highlight individual songs especially. With 13 tracks, the whole spectrum and repertoire of this wonderful band can be celebrated: “Idolize” and “Kind Of Lousy” are just two tracks whose melodies you won’t get out of the head for weeks, but “I Dare You” stands out too, with its hypnotic groove. The ballad “Meant To Last Forever” is pure emotion, and with the completion of 6-minute epic “Phantom Pain” the band delivers the perfect successor to their song “Death Of A Movie Star” (such an important part of the “Divanity” album). “Unbreakable” (the first single) will be accompanied by a video clip in late May.
Singer Angelica remembers the creative process:
”Bye Bye Lullaby” has been a long time coming. We wrote nearly enough songs for two full albums and had to carefully choose these thirteen to truly represent the new, updated The Murder Of My Sweet. This album includes performances from close friends Jesper Stromblad (who you all know from In Flames), Fredrik Akesson (from Opeth) and Peter Wichers (from Soilwork), so it’s a really brave record. The major difference for me is the variation in the songs; we’ve taken them down a darker path, as well as on a more commercial path. It’s unorthodox maybe, but since there are so many female fronted bands out there, we felt that this combination had never been tried before, and would be breaking new ground, which is way more fun.”
Composer and drummer Daniel Flores adds:
“Who doesn’t like huge variety and impact created with sound? Small fragments of sonic whispering, say mixed with soulful performances? With this new line-up, my imagination had no limits and you will surely be hearing an even bigger cinematic soundscape than you all grew to love on “Divanity”!”
The new lineup, to which Daniel refers, now includes, alongside himself and singer Angelica, new guitarist Christopher Vetter and new bassist Teddy Westlund.
The curtain rises on “Bye Bye Lullaby” on May 25th – a special album from a particularly special band. Please welcome: THE MURDER OF MY SWEET!…….
Discography
Angelica Rylin -O-Graphy
The Murder of My Sweet * Divinity
January 28th, 2010
The Murder of My Sweet * Bye Bye Lullaby
May 25th, 2012
Angelica * “Thrive”
November 29th, 2013 in Europe and December 3rd, 2013 in North America.
The Murder Of My Sweet * Beth Out Of Hell
August 21st, 2015
The Murder of My Sweet * Echoes In The Aftermath *
Hard cover with metallic print / 72 full-colour pages / A4 format (30 cm x 21 cm).
The book covers 10 festival editions (2008-2016) in 10 chapters (all in English) and features:– 190 comments and stories from musicians (about ca. 150 shows). – Over 260 professional live photos. – Over 230 off-stage / party pictures submitted by fans. – Photo tribute page to the musicians who played at KIT and passed away. – Interview with the organizer, Oliver Weinsheimer. – Introduction by Bart Gabriel (Gabriel management, Skol Records), Stefan Glas (Rock Hard magazine, Underground Empire fanzine) and Tom Gattis (Tension, Wardog, Ballistic).
Since our favorite favorite alternative metal band Bad Seed Rising disbanded in July 2017, we needed a band who ranked number 1 World-wide in this category, and I found them through Serendipity, via a Far From Fiction/ Doll Skin/ One-Eyed Doll Concert for the Metro Detroit / Windsor, Canada market.
I actually signed up for Doll Skin Street Team work!!!
Anyhow everyone wondering is Doll Skin in the big leagues of The Runaways, Betty Blowtorch, Jack•Off•Jill, and Barb Wire Dolls and the likes…!!!
Fuck yea, and oh yea, this is the real deal, punk rock to the bone!!!
Sydney Dolezal is a lead singer around 90% of the time, but when Doll Skin uses the two guitar attack, the Dolezal/Snowden guitar team rules!!!!
The standout thing about Doll Skin, is the KILLER guitar tone, a total wall of sound, from Guitar Hero Alex Snowden,
and the original timbre’ and tone of Vocalist Sydney Dolezal, you know a Doll Skin right away, instant recognition…!! The Rhythm Section of Nicole Rich • Bass and Meghan Herring • Drums is bombastic, and always played to perfection….!!! And I wanted to point out the fact that Alex Snowden plays stunning leads as a lead guitarist….metal to the bone and metal to the core…metal all the way, a perfect mixture of all her influences….!!!!
My favorite favorite song on this punk rock classic is “Let’s Be Honest”….while being honest, yes they are superhero rock stars, and the music will always make your day!!!
The song-writing for songs such as “Family of Strangers”, really helps Doll Skin, pull-a-way from the pack, and into top rankings/ratings. You can go through my last 15 year history here and elsewhere, and see we give very little coverage to this style, since it is covered better elsewhere, but here there #1 ranking for there category at KICK ASS METAL will be this way for decades to come.
Since Doll Skin won the 2017 album of the year for the heavy hard rock/alternative metal category, for the Album “Manic Pixie Dream Girl”…there was a huge jump artistically between the debut and the successor. A huge part of ranking bands is seeing them KICK ASS and take names and no prisoners. Not only does, Doll Skin have talent, passion, charisma, but the stage is there natural environment where they excel. I can NOT over-state the importance of how killer Alex Snowden’s guitar tone is….!!!
Rock Fans /Punk Rock who like the music KICK ASS with all killer and no filler, songs and with one of the coolest down to earth cover albums of the decade, I wish more bands would do this!!!!! Makes Doll Skin “In Your Face (Again), the first version of this album was on Cargo Records, but this is the real version!!!!….. Hopefully this will be inprint for years to come, spread the good word of mouth on Doll Skin…..because the whole discography fucking RULES!!!!
I also wanted to add the Doll Skin video “Let’s Be Honest” is one of our favorite video’s of all-time a top 10, because each band member, plays the part of each other and the instruments… something every band should do…… Oh and by the way, I see on the bands Wikipedia page that they are described as a wild cross between, The Donnas (LEGENDS), The Go-Go’s (LEGENDS), and one of our favorite bands of all-time one of our favorite favorite bands of all-time The Runaways (LEGENDS), and trust me on this, Doll Skin are in the same big league as those bands, there in nothing wrong in this world with being compared to 3 of the greatest bands of all-time!!!!! And Doll Skin, have tons of various influencesthe ear will pick up on….giving Doll Skin its own one-of-a-kind unique easy to identify sound…with Alex Snowden A WALL OF SOUND !!!!!
And as of November 10th, 2017….true fans can send fan mail the olde school way, pre April 15th, 1995 !!!!!! This is the real way !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Doll Skin Biography
Sydney Dolezal – Vocals | Alex Snowden – Guitars | Nicole Rich – Bass | Meghan Herring – Drums
2016 was a big year for Phoenix, AZ Rock quartet Doll Skin. Afte…r touring the country with their very first EP, “In Your Face” vocalist Sydney Dolezal, guitarist Alex Snowden, bassist Nicole Rich, and drummer Meghan Herring went on to defy the odds and destroy expectations, showing the world that rock has no age requirement.
Even though the band went into their collective career as teenagers, they emerged as a touring rock act, hitting the road and lighting up stages in 2016 with the likes of Dead Kennedy’s, Hellyeah, Escape The Fate, Stitched Up Heart, Fire From the Gods and more, appearing on Shiprocked 2016, and included many headlining stints. The release of their debut full-length 2016’s IN YOUR FACE (AGAIN), produced by Megadeth bassist David Ellefson, showed the world what they were all about.
After meeting at the Phoenix SCHOOL OF ROCK in 2013, the fledgling band came to the attention of Ellefson, who took them under his wing, and together they began a sonic assault on the West Coast, playing shows with Social Distortion, DRI, and many more, and set out to work on their Ellefson produced debut studio release.
The band topped off the year with an appearance in AP Magazine’s 2016 list of “7 of the Best Rising Bands Under 21”and will start 2017 off on an equally high note as they to release their sophomore LP “Manic Pixie Dream Girl” on EMP LABEL GROUP on June 16th, 2017, along with playing the first week and a half of 2017 VANS WARPED TOUR dates.
Doll Skin (Phoenix, Arizona) —- LET’S BE HONEST WRITE-UP!!!!
Doll Skin “Manic Pixie Dream Girl”
2017 HARD ROCK/ ALTERNATIVE METAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR, in that category….KICK ASS METAL IS A GOTHIC METAL/ AVANT – GARDE / DEATH METAL-age publication….!!!! ….Doll Skin needs to be championed by every serious music publication, and not just hard rock/alternative rock publications…..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Doll Skin “Manic Pixie Dream Girl” 2017 KICK ASS METAL Hard Rock/ Alternative Metal album of the Year – WINNERS —-let’s be honest DOLL SKIN FUCKING RULES !!!!!! Doll Skin as one of the greatest live rock bands of all-time, must be seen live to experience the KILLER GUITAR TONES and FACE MELTING Bombast the bands has to offer, I have been watching all the video’s and it occurred to me, since the bands has one of the best live sounds and vibes these days in modern hard rock and heavy metal, the video’s are awesome, but live this is where the bands excels, like all World-Class Musicians, not only does Doll Skin know there stuff music wise on the virtuosity side, Doll Skin are top-notch song-writers, so top-notch they pull away from all the 117,000 contender bands in the rock and metal genres, and have there distinctive one-of-a-kind sound and are coming into there own, to where I can tell it is Doll Skin, just based on a chord, a single note, or just hearing the vocals of World-Class Vocalist Sydney Dolezal. The band does have distinctive enough sound which they can call there own, even if there influences are obvious. Doll Skin makes serious KICK ASS music, and as a live band, are one of the most confident bands on stage I have seen in along-time, and of course each band member has perfect stage presence, and everyone has tons of charisma…..!!! I only seen them live once, on Ocotober 10th, 2017 with Far From Fiction and One-Eyed Doll, it was a 10 song set, and it left a forever indelible mark on my psyche…..the bands has enough of a killer guitar tone and the KICK ASS factor to put them in the alternative metal category…..they are way too metallic, and have to much talent to be only the rock and roll category….!!!! I bet if they let us flip through there record collection, ie each band member hold up there top 15 MOST KICK SS ALBUMS OF ALL-TIME there will be Black Sabbath/ Motörhead/ albums/ Led Zeppelin albums in that……there is no doubt in my mind on that fact !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Do I make you feel awkward?
Does it look like I care?
Got no filter to show for
So helpless standing there
Take your words, and take your torch
And throw them in the nearest street
[Chorus]
Let’s be honest, I’m a superhero
Let’s be honest, I’m gonna save the day
Let’s be honest, don’t need no drama
No dramatic display
[Verse 2]
Do I seem a little strange?
Does it look like I care?
You and I are so different
But it’s okay ’cause I wear cute underwear
Throw your rage, and throw your hate
Throw them away, away from me
[Chorus]
Let’s be honest, I’m a superhero
Let’s be honest, I’m gonna save the day
Let’s be honest, don’t need no drama
No dramatic display
[Bridge]
(I’m a superhero
I’m a superhero)
Don’t try to run
Don’t try to scream
[Chorus]
Let’s be honest, I’m a superhero
Let’s be honest, I’m gonna save the day
Let’s be honest, don’t need no drama
No dramatic display
Let’s be honest, I’m a superhero
Let’s be honest, I’m gonna save the day
Let’s be honest, don’t need no drama
No dramatic display, hey, hey
NOT ALL SUPERHERO’S WEAR CAPES SOME WHERE T-SHIRTS AND RIPPED JEANS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THE 2017 HARD ROCK/ ALTERNATIVE METAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR WINNERS Doll Skin (Phoenix, Arizona) for the timeless masterpiece “Manic Pixie Dream Girl”
Doll Skin are
Sydney Dolezal * Lead Vocals and 2nd Guitars, on some songs !!!
Alex Snowden * Guitar Legend
Nicole Rich * Bass
Meghan Herring * Drums
Sydney Dolezal – Vocals | Alex Snowden – Guitars | Nicole Rich – Bass | Meghan Herring – Drums
2016 was a big year for Phoenix, AZ Rock quartet Doll Skin. After touring the country with their very first EP, “In Your Face” vocalist Sydney Dolezal, guitarist Alex Snowden, bassist Nicole Rich, and drummer Meghan Herring went on to defy the odds and destroy expectations, showing the world that rock has no age requirement.
Even though the band went into their collective career as teenagers, they emerged as a touring rock act, hitting the road and lighting up stages in 2016 with the likes of Dead Kennedy’s, Hellyeah, Escape The Fate, Stitched Up Heart, Fire From the Gods and more, appearing on Shiprocked 2016, and included many headlining stints. The release of their debut full-length 2016’s IN YOUR FACE (AGAIN), produced by Megadeth bassist David Ellefson, showed the world what they were all about.
After meeting at the Phoenix SCHOOL OF ROCK in 2013, the fledgling band came to the attention of Ellefson, who took them under his wing, and together they began a sonic assault on the West Coast, playing shows with Social Distortion, DRI, and many more, and set out to work on their Ellefson produced debut studio release.
The band topped off the year with an appearance in AP Magazine’s 2016 list of “7 of the Best Rising Bands Under 21”and will start 2017 off on an equally high note as they to release their sophomore LP “Manic Pixie Dream Girl” on EMP LABEL GROUP on June 16th, 2017, along with playing the first week and a half of 2017 VANS WARPED TOUR dates.
Management: David Ellefson – ellefsondavid@aol.com / dollskinmgmt@gmail.com
Band email: dollskinband@gmail.com
Booking: alex@arteryglobal.com
…..”Let’s be honest, I’m a superhero” FUCK YEAH Besides being superhero’s Doll Skin are ROCK STARS AND ALTERNATIVE METAL LEGENDS proper. Doll Skin are the real deal, and could be the most important alternative metal band of the last 30 years……where does Doll Skin go in your serious metallic record collection….file between the best of The Runaways and The Donnas……just find your favorite two albums and throw some Doll Skin in heavy play list rotation…..!!!
IF YOU ONLY BUY ONE FUCKING ALBUM IN YOUR LIFE…………IT HAS TO BE A DOLL SKIN ALBUM !!!!!
Doll Skin “Manic Pixie Dream Girl” KICK ASS METAL’s 2017 HARD ROCK/ALTERNATIVE ALBUM OF THE YEAR….FUCKING ESSENTIAL…WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU STILL READING THIS FOR………….!!! RUN TO THE RECORD STORE
Charly Bliss features World-Class Vocalist Eva Hendricks
Charly Bliss
Brooklyn, New York
“Guppy”
Release Date
April 21st, 2017
1oo out of 100 BLOOD DRIPPING SKULLS
FUCKING ESSENTIAL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PERFECT ALBUM FROM ONE OF THE WORLD’S GREATEST BANDS OF THIS DECADE, CENTURY AND OF ALL-TIME
TOP 100 Grunge Albums of all-time
….awaiting genre classification from the band….editor
TOP 100 ALBUMS OF 2017 ROCK
TOP 100 ALBUMS OF 2017 ALL-GENRES
KICK*ASS*METAL HALL OF FAME ALBUM
CHARLY BLISS KICK*ASS*METAL HALL OF FAME INDUCTION DATE
APRIL 21ST, 2017
Whoa f@cking killer debut from Charly Bliss…..Was not a 1st day buyer I worked 14 hours a day that day, but on International Record Store day. April 22nd, 2017…the clerks at the legendary Dearborn Music now at 22501 Michigan Avenue, Dearborn, Michigan… was playing this album, at the correct volume levels….136 decibels and all knobs to the right….loud und proud. Hear this album that way !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the way albums were meant to be played @ maximum volumes !!!!
Those who know this publication we cover all KICK ASS and BAD ASS artist no matter the genre were a heavier version of the webZine Sonic Cathedral and Metal Maidens. Also as a heavy metal publication were are a specialized press for Heavy Metal albums with Keyboards. This album does have some KICK ASS Keyboard playing, and the band has a World-Class Vocalist in Eva Hendricks!!!
How World-Class is this album….file between Heavy Rotation between
Otep “Smash the Control Machine”and Poison Garden “A Victorian Garden”
ABOVE OTEP
BELOW POISON GARDEN
As a 1990’s Death Metal age based publication. There is NOTHING RETRO about Charly Bliss, they push the sonic envelope in all the right places, in all the right ways !!!!!!!!!!!!
KICK ASS happen a band equals or excells past there predecessors, this album is pure SONG WRITING GENIUS !!!!!!!!!!
Below is from a webzine called the Ringer
Lindasy Zoldaz
“All right, this song’s about my therapist — it’s called ‘Ruby’!” Eva Grace Hendricks announced, exuberantly, from the stage of the Mercury Lounge a couple of weeks ago. And with a mighty kick of her Doc Marten, she and her band, Charly Bliss, launched into a gritty-sweet ode to falling apart and shelling out the copay to be glued back together — one of the best songs on the Brooklyn band’s uniformly excellent debut album, Guppy, out Friday. “Ditch me, gone to see Ruby, keep me afloat on call,” Hendricks sang in her grungy, helium-sucker voice, while out of the bridge sprang the kind of so-cheesy-it’s-actually-glorious guitar solo that reminds you it has been way too long since you listened to the Blue Album. While riffing, Hendricks and lead guitarist Spencer Fox leaned into each others’ backs and struck one of those exaggerated rock poses that a Van Halen cover band might do; bassist Dan Shure then joined the human pile-up and almost knocked them over. These guys were having fun, and the energy was contagious: The packed room pogoed ecstatically, including, I was pleased to note, two men who’d fatefully wandered in off the street, having never heard of Charly Bliss nor “seen live music in New York City.” “What does the band sound like?” one of them asked me right before they went on. By the end of “Ruby,” I had found the words to answer this question and had texted them to several friends in all caps, “CHARLY BLISS SOUND LIKE IF A COOL GRRRL HAVING A TEMPER TANTRUM FRONTED NIRVANA AND LET’S BE HONEST THAT’S WHAT KURT WOULD HAVE WANTED ANYWAY.”
So let it be known: Charly Bliss are a great live band. That’s not always enough, though, and not every band can capture the energy of its show on a record — the fact that they’ve done it the first time around on Guppy makes it extra special. There’s no filler here, just 10 ramshackle pop songs — rough around the edges but so well constructed that they stick in your brain like fresh bubblegum. Hendricks, 24, writes the lyrics, and she’s described her approach as trying to convey “this overgrown teenybopper feeling.” The effect is wonderfully unsettling. Her words create an atmosphere of macabre and unruly girliness — like a Lisa Frank tableau in which one of the unicorns is smoking a joint and does not realize he is bleeding. “I laughed when your dog died, it is cruel, but it’s true,” she sings with mock innocence on a track called “DQ.” “Does he love me the most now that his dog is toast? Ooo-oooh!” Hendricks has described her band’s vibe, correctly, as “generally positive people saying super dark, fucked-up things.”
The members of Charly Bliss have known each other for a long time, and it shows. Hendricks’s brother Sam is the drummer, and Shure is their childhood friend; Shure introduced the siblings to Spencer Fox when they all went to see the indie band Tokyo Police Club about a decade ago. You can tell from both their stage show and every one of their music videos that the people in this band are actually friends, with shared reference points and senses of humor. This is an undervalued quality in a band.
When they released their first EP, Soft Serve, back in 2014, Charly Bliss made a video for each of its three songs, and the clips are odes to doing more with less — they’re obviously super low-budget, but they capture the band’s personality so well that their homemade quality becomes part of their charm. My favorite is “Urge to Purge,” which finds the band performing in swimsuits and inflatable inner tubes, the house band at a fever-dreamed Under the Sea–themed prom:
Almost three years have passed since Soft Serve, which in young-upstart-punk-band time is enough for fans to have wondered if that debut full-length was ever coming at all. There was a reason for the delay: They’d recorded a whole first version of their album and then scrapped it because they weren’t completely satisfied. I’m glad they took the time. Guppy is a huge leap forward from Soft Serve, and a statement from a band that’s more confident and serious than they used to be, though they have retained their signature playfulness and sense of humor. (See: the “Ruby” video, which features the band playing on a fictitious Between Two Ferns–grade public-access TV show. Hendricks plays the host, “Tiff Pappleby.”)
Hendricks’s voice is a wild, one-of-a-kind instrument, and the great difference you can hear from Soft Serve to Guppy is the way she’s come to wield it with force and control. It’s a candy-coated falsetto with a sneering, sarcastic sheen. “You say that I make you feel like a man,” she sings at the end of opening track “Percolator,” with enough of an expressive sonic eye-roll to make the line absolutely withering. She’s got one of those voices that toys with how close sweet is to sour, and how femininity exaggerated and embodied to an extreme is its own kind of gruesomeness — which is to say, punk as fuck.
Something about the tone of Fox’s guitar combined with the grumbly low-end of the rhythm section recalls a very specific moment of mid-to-late-’90s alternative rock, and of a small collection of power-pop bands that should have been way more famous than they got to be: Superdrag, the Rentals and even, to some extent, Veruca Salt. (Fittingly, Charly Bliss got to open for them in 2015 on their reunion tour.) Everything collides in harmony and there is no dead weight in this band: Songs like “Gatorade” and the distortion-drenched slow-dance closer “Julia” swell with a cresting energy coming from all four corners of the stage.
But Charly Bliss are not all fun and games; you do not get to dedicate a song to your therapist without expressing some kind of vulnerability. One of my favorite moments on Guppy is the chorus of “Glitter,” a pretty but melancholy song on which Hendricks asks a boyfriend, “Am I the best, or just the first person to say yes?” It’s a simple but terrifying question that anyone in a relationship has probably wondered at one point or another; Hendricks’s bandmates draw out its pathos with some harmonized “oohs” and “ahhhs.” Just because it’s sweet doesn’t mean it can’t sting. Guppy is like this, at its best: a big block of sugar whittled down into an ice pick, aimed straight at the heart.”
This is a bio from the bands official website
WHO IS CHARLY BLISS?
If it’s true that listening to just the right record at just the right moment can psychically transport you to some other time and place, then Charly Bliss—an NYC band responsible for having crafted some of the finest guitar-crunched power pop this side of an old Weezer record with a blue cover—can pretty much turn any space into an adult-friendly version of your old teenage bedroom, a candy-scented safe space for extreme fits of happiness and angsty teen-level explosions of romantic ennui.
Though Charly Bliss has been a band for over half a decade, the path that led to their first full-length record, Guppy, has been anything but straightforward. As the story goes, the band officially started when frontwoman Eva Hendricks and guitarist Spencer Fox, both just 15, crossed paths at a Tokyo Police Club show in New York City, but the ties within the band go much deeper than that. “It’s kind of insane and hilarious,” says Eva, “Sam is my older brother, so obviously we’ve known each other our whole lives, but all of us have been connected to each other since we were little kids. Dan Shure and I dated when we were in our early teens and he and Spencer went to summer camp together. Dan and I broke up years ago, but eventually he’ d become our bass player. The reason we all get along so well has to do with the fact we share this ridiculous history. We are all deeply embedded in each other’s lives.”
After spending years playing shows in and around New York City, the band eventually released an EP (2014’s Soft Serve) and scored opening gigs for the likes of Glass Animals, Darwin Deez, Tokyo Police Club, Sleater-Kinney, as well as a touring spot for their own musical forebears, Veruca Salt. Even though the band had amassed a sizable fanbase and a reputation as a truly formidable live act, the goal of making a full-length record proved to be a fraught series of false-starts. Given their propensity for making hooky, ebullient pop songs, the band often felt out of step with what was happening around them in Brooklyn. (“We weren’t weird in the right ways,” says Sam). They eventually set about recording an album on their own—and then recording it twice—before figuring out what had been staring them in the face the entire time. “We basically had to come to terms with the fact that we are, at heart, a pop band,” recalls Spencer. “Before, it was always trying to decide which of the songs would be more ‘rock’ and which would be more poppy, but we eventually realized we needed to meet in the middle, we had to create an ecosystem where our loud, messy rock sounds could co-exist with these super catchy melodies and pop hooks. It was really about realizing what we’re best at as a band.”
The ten tracks that make up Guppy, Charly Bliss’ sparkling full-length debut, show the band embracing all of their strengths—a combination of ripping guitars and irrepressible pop hooks, all delivered with the hyper-enthusiasm of a middle school cafeteria food fight. That every track is loaded front-to-back with sing/shout-worthy lyrics and earworm melodies is a testament to the band’s commitment to the art form of pop songwriting. Opening track “Percolator” sets the tone—all power riffs and yo-yo-ing melodies playing against Hendricks’ acrobatic vocals, which veer from gentle coo to an emphatic squeal:
I’m gonna die in the getaway car! I would try but it sounds too hard! It’s a vibe that carries throughout Guppy, a record that shares an undeniable kinship with 90’s alt-rockers like Letters to Cleo and That Dog—bands that balanced melodicism, sugary vocals, and overdriven guitar turned up to 11. It’s an aesthetic that Charly Bliss both embraces and improves upon in tracks like “Ruby” (“We actually wrote the guitar solo by sitting in a circle and passing the guitar around, each of us adding our own notes,” says Fox) and “Glitter”, the record’s first single. “I wanted to make a song about being romantically involved with someone who makes you kind of hate yourself because they are so much like you,” says Hendricks, “A fun song about complicated self-loathing that you could also dance around your bedroom to—that kind of sums us up as a band, actually.”
“Pop music can actually be very subversive,” she continues. “The lyrics that I’m most proud of on the record are me existing both in and out of this overgrown teenybopper feeling—feeling like everything I was going through was the most extreme thing that had ever happened to anyone ever. The songs are often about being totally in the throes of this stuff, but also being able to step out of it and make fun of myself. It’s possible to write songs that really get at all of these dark feelings while also just being really fun to sing and dance to. You can be serious and also sing about peeing while jumping on a trampoline.”
Guppy is a record that doesn’t so much seek to reinvent the pop wheel so much as gleefully refine it. “People forget sometimes that expressing joy is just as important as examining despair,” says Shure. “People need joy, especially right now. We’re all about writing tight pop songs, but also giving people this super enthusiastic release. These songs are kind of the sound of expressing something that you can’t really contain. These are songs you play really loudly when you need to freak out.”………Lindasy Zoldaz
CHARLY BLISS IS
EVA HENDRICKS,
SAM HENDRICKS,
SPENCER FOX,
DAN SHURE
below is from rediscover music webzine !!!! I know bands hate when the press try to genre and sub-genre every bands on the planet, but I found this article to be well written!!!!!
Charly Bliss – Bubblegum Grunge
From: New York, USA
Genre: Bubblegum Grunge
The purveyors of “Bubblegrunge” photo by Joanne N. Bailey-Boorsma
Bubblegum grunge?! That’s Charly Bliss. A quartet from New York who, despite being relatively new kids on the block, are already stirring up a following in their home town and around, having recently nailed a support slot for Sleater-Kinney in Brooklyn and in July 2015 released their debut offering, a 3-track single entitled Urge To Purge. Their pop harmonies and grungy guitars are a clean and refreshing change from the electrobeat indie-pop synonymous with (especially female-fronted) Brooklyn bands of the past few years. Vocalist Eve Hendricks’ sweet and squeaky voice protrudes through the fuzzed out rock with seemless fluidity, a result which will have Billy Corgan fans popping at the seams and Britpop enthusiasts reminiscing of the days when Kenickie were flying the female flag of credible pop-rock.If the Pixies had overdosed on bubblegum then we may have had these sugar infested pop medodies a few decades earlier, however patience has paid off and Charly Bliss have stepped up as the embodiment of deliverence. As to how big they can blow their bubble, only time will tell as the band expect to have their debut LP finished in the near future.
The band released a video for each of the three tracks, dubbed the Soft Serve Trilogy, one of which you can check out below… So grab that pack of bubblegum and chomp away to the best thing since… well, bubblegum.
Building a record collection is not the rock science everyone makes it out to be, buy this album, and add 99 other albums that resonate with you…..!!!!!!!!!! based on your personal aestehtics based on what you want out of music…..myself AUTHENTICITY IS THE KEY…something that can never be taught…. Charly Bliss is the real deal !!!!!!!!
Scatha hails from Rio de Janerio Brazil and were Founded on June 9, 2005 and these major ragers inspirations are the following heavy metal hero’s —- Testament, Exodus, Pantera, Kreator, Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax, Sepultura, Slayer. And the new album Scatha “Take The Risk” is unleashed on Planet Metal on April 4th, 2017….!!! in digital format and the CD will be released later in the year.
Scatha came together at the end of 2004 when Cíntia Ventania (Bass) met Julia Pombo (Guitar) and started a metal band. In mid 2005, Cynthia Tsai Yuen (Drums), Paula Leão (Guitar) and Rebecca Schwab (Vocal) joined the band, forming the first official lineup.
Scatha had their first show at the legendary “Garage”, a well known venue in Rio de Janeiro – Brasil. The band had a couple of songs (Breaking proofs and Own War) ready for this first gig. The performance was a big hit. The public loved them. They loved the energy and music of five young girls rocking out on stage, playing good old fashioned heavy thrash. After that, the band kept gigging in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo region. Always surprising the public, and continually stirring up curiosity about the band.
In 2007 Scatha welcomed Angélica Burns into the band as the new vocalist, and soon after released the 5 track demo “Keep Thrashing!” Featuring all original songs with English and Portuguese lyrics. the demo really showed the bands diversity.
Years went by, but they didn’t give up the dream to record an album. In 2016 a new vocalist (O Lenhador/The Lumberjack) joined the lineup and the band recorded their first full length album called “Take the Risk” in April 2017.
Diamanda Galás has two new splatter platters aka albums, which will be unleashed on PLANET METAL on March 24th, 2017
Listen to spine-chilling renditions of “O, Death” and “All the Way” off her two upcoming new albums, due out March 24
The uncompromising, immortal vocalist, composer, and avant-garde goddess Diamanda Galás has never really been inactive, per se, but the past several years have borne witness to a considerable uptick in activity from the dame of darkness… Running through her mile-long list of accomplishments and incredible career itself would take more time than we’ve got, given that the end times are right around the corner, but her Wikipedia page alone is a treasure trove (and you’ve got the same Google I do). Suffice it to say, she’s legendary—and if you’re ever graced with the opportunity to watch her perform, then trust me when I say that you’re going to want to drop everything and make it happen, because watching Diamanda Galás perform feels like watching God.Following a busy 2016, Galás has just announced that she’ll be releasing two (!) new albums this year, her first new recorded material since 2008.
Her new studio album, All The Way, will be a collection of radical re-workings of traditional and jazz standards (including tunes from Thelonious Monk and Johnny Paycheck), while the live album At Saint Thomas The Apostle Harlem was recorded during the 2016 Red Bull Music Academy Festival and features a litany of what Galás calls “death songs” sung in Greek, Italian, German, and French.
According to a press release, she’ll be touring across North America and Europe with a similar setlist this spring (so remember what I told you in the first paragraph). Listen to her spine-tingling renditions of “O, Death” and “All the Way” below, and look out for both albums on March 24, coming courtesy of Galás’s own ….!!!! Intravenal Sound Operations.
While going through the news cycle for finding the top 100 heavy metal albums and music album of 2017. I came across Psychedelic Witchcraft. Keep in mind we are a publishing/ media company a news service, but when it comes to our own record reviews, top 100 albums of a year, or top 100 albums of all-time and write-up’s.
Always keep in mind we never feature any band that is called “retro”. Because we are always l@@king for the best of the best in World-Class Heavy and World-Class Music. Bands who put there own indelible mark on there supreme immortal art of the highest order.
Without any hesitation I just let the KICK ASS METAL readers know when we do our GREATEST HEAVY METAL ALBUMS and GREATEST ALBUMS OF ALL-TIME LIST….Psychedelic Witchcraft for sure will be on that list. First things first. We just want the band to catch a proper buZZZZZ . For those who appreciate, KICK ASS and BAD ASS music, featuring a World-Class Vocalist. and Psychedelic Witchcraft has the one-and-only. Virginia Monti.
If your a life-long reader of Metal Maidens webZine , and Sonic Cathedral webZine since day 1 of those publications. Then you know why this World-Class band with it’s World-Class Vocalist is feature here!!!
Hall of fames and altars of World-Class music indulgence are built around such albums as Psychedelic Witchcraft “Magick Rites and Spells”
We will be playing this one LOUD UND PROUD, and this album will easily survive the test of time.
L@@king at the bands influences and inspirations, under the artist we also like section of there official Facebook presence.
All the Kick Ass Metal staff’s favorite artist are there.
So when I say this album will easily fit in between the top 10 albums of all-time, such as Lucifer “Lucifer I” and Coven “Witchcraft Reaps Souls and Destroys Minds” and ” Blood Ceremony “Lords Of Misrule”….just get ready and do EVERYTHING IN YOUR POWER TO ADD THIS TO YOUR RECORD COLLECTION and if you live with in a 24 hour travel time to see this band live do so !!!
MORE THAN ESSENTIAL
Psychedelic Witchcraft RULES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There official facebook presence has this for a biography
Psychedelic Witchcraft was born by the hands of the ancient gods of Blues and Doom . Living through the imaginary of Occult and Witchcraft, with psychedelic colors and emotions. Inspired by the sounds and the pictures of an almost lost Era.
Psychedelic Wicthcraft is a project made by Virginia Monti……witchy singer and guitar of this project.The heart of all comes from the heavy psych sounds of ’70s Blues and Doom and is inspired by the colors and emotions of an almost lost Era.
Tamara Marla has been performing on stages since she was just three years old. She grew up performing in various musical theatre productions and choral ensembles, and studying dance and many musical instruments. She has performed across the globe in places such as Ireland, Germany, Czech Republic and Carnegie Hall in NYC. Most recently she has been performing in various bands including Bride Stripped Bare, The Detroit Riot and Nobody & the Dead Men. For more information visit tamaramarla.com.
Influences
Jack White, Karen O., Alison Mosshart, Idina Menzel, Sheryl Crow, Kristen Chenoweth
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