Dödsvarg's excellent album "Livet är en dödsorsak" is now available on CD via US label : https://rigidrecords.bigcartel.com/product/dodsvarg
There's also word that they'll be doing a new 4-song 7" in the near future -- more details when I get it.
DödsvargOne man army Jon Ekström is the sole creator of the material on here, having succeeded in constructing an album that flies in the face of classification. The songs touch on a variety of genres within the metal spectrum and are cemented together with an industrial punk mindset that allows "Livet är en dödsorsak" to progress with an authentic fluidity not often found on releases displaying so many influences. If there's one uniting factor on the album, it's the raw sound that Ekström has gone for. It's a sound at odds with the super-shiny productions usually found on albums that make use of such off-kilter material and also one that is more akin to the crust and sludge genres than any sort of math-metally algorithms. "Livet är en dödsorsak" takes quite a few spins before it beds in, but, given that chance, it's a refreshing -- if quite dirty -- collection of songs that don't give the slightest toss about convention.
- John Norby
Ex-Detektivbyrån member Martin Molin is going the opposite direction of Dödsvarg and is composing the music for the upcoming show "The Famous Swedish Project" (emphatically "not theater, not performance and not dance, but everything at once"), to be performed by PLAY Teaterkonst and set to premiere on February 6 in Göteborg. More info at Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/playteaterkonst
Apparently it now takes me a full week to dig out of the hole I got myself into by taking time off in December. So while it might not feel quite so timely anymore, I'm going to try and take the time to highlight a few of my top 10 mentions over the next little while before getting back into the Sisyphean task of keeping up with what's new. First: Dödsvarg. The band initially spurred my curiosity because they/he is ex-Detektivbyrån, but when you combine that with the descriptor "a mixture of Meshuggah and Skitsystem," I knew I absolutely needed to hear it. The album "Livet är en dödsorsak" doesn't disappoint either -- the music is crusty, mathy and totally pissed, but they missed one very important note of reference: besides Skitsystem and Meshuggah, Dödsvarg also reminds me a lot of "It's me god"-era Breach. This is not just a good thing, it's a great thing. Don't let Dödsvarg stay overlooked and underappreciated!
New Dödsvarg? I'm not entirely sure, but it sounds sick!
"Livet är en dödsorsak", the new album from ex-Detektivbyrån act Dödsvarg, is out now and available on Spotify, even in the US: https://open.spotify.com/album/4q10wZrTe2clF4Gl7H32rc
has posted an unmastered sample clip of tunes from the upcoming Dödsvarg record "Livet är en dödsorsak": https://www.dodsvarg.se/dodsvarg_sample.mp3
Turns out that the Skitsystem and Meshuggah comparisons weren't far off the mark at all, despite the Detektivbyrån connection.
I'm not sure exactly what this means, but apparently the estate of Ingmar Bergman have pre-listened to some of Dödsvarg's upcoming release and giving approval for the project to move forward: https://www.suiciderecords.se/news.asp?id=9
has announced the signing of Dödsvarg, a new act featuring ex-member(s?) of Detektivbyrån that they describe as "a mixture of Meshuggah and Skitsystem," so uh, yeah -- don't go expecting anything like what came before.
