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While The Rain Is Falling Down: Schiedam hard rock band Black Nazareth are tremendously electrifying on icy ‘Cold As Stone’

Posted on 12 April 2021

Returning with their fourth rambunctious single, Black Nazareth send our anxious minds into a slippery spin on the chilly roads within the mountains of doom, as they run quickly to get out of the pouring rain and strange darkness with ‘Cold As Stone‘.

Black Nazareth is a vigorous Schiedam, Netherlands-based indie rock n roll four-piece act who always bring the hardness through their powerful soundscapes and driving energy, that shows you their dedication to smashing windows that can’t take the strength, of their movie-like songs.

”The name Black Nazareth comes from the nickname of their hometown Schiedam. Distilled from these grounds, these four rock veterans will bring to you their new band. Black Nazareth stands for a hard workin’, hard partying, and hard rock n rolling pack of dogs soon to crank you speakers with some powerful, melodic, dynamic and pounding heavy tracks to fill your days, and most of all: your nights”.- Black Nazareth

You feel an echo brewing in your apprehensive mind as you transport yourself into their cinematic single with such creepy atmosphere, as they light a fuse to get away from the ghosts of the night, that are coming closer towards you with a freaky energy that is knife-like.

This is a band that swerves into the dark road to grab you away from danger, as their music has you reaching for that asthma pump, your breath shortened and not sure of what to do next.

‘Cold As Stone‘ by the band from a distillery town that is known for having the biggest windmills in the world, Black Nazareth rage in with a song that has you holding on tight to get out of whatever frosty situation you find yourself in. This is a thundering effort from a band with all the hallmarks of a top class rock outfit, that give it their all on this dynamic new single.

Stream this full-blooded track on their Spotify and see more via IG.

Reviewed by Llewelyn Screen

The Sign of Leo releases single The Global Fight

Posted on 27 April 2020

Netherlands-based band The Sign of Leo have dropped their latest piece ‘The Global Fight’, infusing that Indie Rock sound pulling sounds from the 70’s and 80’s Rock scene, to create this catchy piece.

Starting off with that powerful hum that ends abruptly, as the strings collide together on the electric guitar and the heavy tap on the drum begins to seep through. Whilst having that synthesized keyboard sound that gives it that 80’s sound.

Adding in the upbeat clash of the tambourine that plays in the distance, alongside the heavy riffs on the guitar as the instrumentals have their time to shine, going back and forth with the heavy sound to the more synthesized essence.

The vocals have that raucous tone to them, making sure that they’re loud and high-pitched so that they manage to power through the instrumentals, as the rhythm does tend to overtake the vocals in terms of pitch and pace. But everything comes together in an impressive way, it all flows and is in tune with one another. Always keeping the volume loud to give it that real Rock sound.

Check out The Sign of Leo’s single The Global FIght by heading over to Spotify now.

Review by Karley Myall

Windstil, the sound of two worlds colliding beautifully

Posted on 4 January 2018

If this is the sound that is created when the Old World meets the New, then it really needs to happen more often. Windstil is the result of American Mid-West cool meeting European sophistication, a delicate blend of trip-hop beats and ambient electronica, of space and sound, of jazz eclecticism and pop minimalism. The result is a joyous, slick and laidback song, as they themselves state, “one foot on the ground and one hand in the sky,” which is the perfect summary of the music they create.

Their latest song remembertouch expertly balances ambient washes with melancholic electronica (melantronic?) haunted, lucid dreamscapes with noirish, post-pop depth, neon futurism with subdued and ancient primal undercurrents and warped dance floor heartbeats with cinematic grandeur. Anyone who can do that all in the space of five minutes is someone you need to keep on your musical radar.