#Besvärjelsen

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Pictured: Atlas, released in 2022

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Some pictures from this year’s Muskelrock Festival in southern Sweden. It was one of the most beautiful festivals I have ever been to, the location is an old amusement park from the sixties (Though it was a bit surreal seeing all these metalbands play on this psychedelically painted stage).

Some highlights were the gigs by Tyrann, Besvärjelsen, Tribulation and Jonathan Hultén an the relaxed atmosphere on the whole festival.

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Muskelrock 2023 - Dag 2, fredag

Ström   Besvärjelsen   Black Mask   Rapid   Spiral Skies   Shaam Larein   Wucan i Candlemass    

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Supergroup YOUNG ACID Unveil 3rd Single for ‘Murder at Maple Mountain’

~Doomed & Stoned~

By Billy Goate

We get a kick out of introducing you to new bands here at Doomed & Stoned, not that this band is really new per se.

Swedish punk rock supergroup YOUNG ACID are all set to release 'Murder at Maple Mountain' (2024) next month and today we reveal to you the third and final single, in the form of an intriguing new music video written and directed by Fred Burman (from Satan Takes A Holiday).

And what makes them a supergroup, you ask? Well, get a load of this line-up:

  • Mio Hällagård - Vocals (Greenleaf)   • Mio Stjernfeldt - Guitar (Grand Cadaver, Novarupta)   • Mio Wegeland - Bass (Domkraft)   • Mio Baier - Guitar (Besvärjelsen, Vordor)   • Mio Karlsson - Drums (The Moth Gatherer)

All of these bands we've introduced you to in these pages and on The Doomed & Stoned Show over the years. And if you like what any of them have to offer, particularly the vocals on Greenleaf, you'll find a lot to love here.

"Into The Depths" is a haunting number that takes us deep into the forests, dark streets, and solidary dwellings. Misty, stirring atmosphere, and sanguine guitars that waft and wail join with heartbeat drums and buzzing bass to set the stage for Arvid Hällagård's bittersweet vocals, making this one a must for late night drives along empty highways.

Young Acid's Murder at Maple Mountain, ten tracks in all, releases May 31st on Majestic Mountain Records pre-order here.

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SOME BUZZ

If you’ve ever wondered what would happen if you combined Greenleaf, Domkraft, Grand Cadaver, Besvärjelsen and The Moth Gatherer, chances are you would never have imagined anything quite like this.

Young Acid is a Vimmerby-based punk rock powerhouse that unites members of all previously aforementioned underground institutions into one blistering garage rock alliance. Packing raw guitar riffs, seismic energy, and a rebellious spirit, the quartet has already released two singles – ‘The Crust’ and ‘Run Boy Run’ – from their soon to be released debut album, Murder at Maple Mountain. With the latter song influenced by celebrated Swedish storyteller and Pippi Longstocking author, Astrid Lindgren.

Run Boy Run by Young Acid

With the band all donning the first name “Mio” in honour of Lindgren’s 1954 novel, Mio, My Son, the playful side of Young Acid is one that is as addictive as the fuzzy, blues heavy and inevitably grooving vibe of new single ‘Into the Depths’, which is premièring now over at Doomed & Stoned.

Voluminous in sound if not duration, clocking in at a punk-friendly thirty-four minutes, Young Acid is on a mission of their own making (their motto is “Nobody can ruin our day, ’cos we’re probably going to ruin it ourselves!”) but it’s one you don’t want to miss.

The Crust by Young Acid

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Project Metal Across The Pond (March 7th 2024)

On this week’s episode of Project Metal Across The Pond With Ell Yong, the bands that are on show: Farba Kingdom, wazzara, Varius, Wærloga, Metal Mirror, Ignitor, WINE GUARDIAN, The End AD, Woest, Nighthawk and Heavy Temple, Amy Tung Barrysmith, Mlny Parsonz, Besvärjelsen, Frayle, The Otolith, Doomstress Alexis, Deathbell, The Keening, Xael, XLIX, Xoth, Zac Crye, Zvijer, Arched Fire, Violet Sin…

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Besvärjelsen - Frost

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Besvärjelsen x Frost

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Some of my favorite album art of the year so far.

Mireplaner - A Mountain of Saola Hooves. Art by Jeanne Strieder

Archivist - TRIUMVIRATE. Art by Alex CF

Cave In - Final Transmission. Art by Aaron Turner

Besvärjelsen - Frost. Art by Peder Bergstrand

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I think several of these may qualify as obscure so I'm going to put an example song for all of them

- Shape of Despair (example song: Written in My Scars)

- Red Moon Architect (example song: Tormented)

- Shroud of Bereavement (example song: A Rose for a Dying Muse)

- Calliophis (example song: Liquid Darkness)

- Lethian Dreams (example song: Your Silence)

- Subrosa (example song: Wound of the Warden)

- Besvärjelsen (example song: All Things Break)

- Frayle (example song: Treacle & Revenge)

- Morgion (example song: Nightfall Infernal)

- Mourning Beloveth (example song: The Mountains Are Mine)

I like how we barely even talked about mainstream/well-known bands, we all collectively decided to just jump into obscurity.

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New Video: Swedish Heavy Outfit BESVÄRJELSEN Shares a Forceful Ripper

New Video: Swedish Heavy Outfit BESVÄRJELSEN Shares a Forceful Ripper @besvarjelsen @magnetic_eye @karldanielliden

Deriving their name from the Swedish word for “conjuring,” the Dalarna, Sweden-based heavy metal/heavy psych outfit BESVÄRJELSEN — founding members Staffan Stensland Vinrot (guitar, vocals) and Andreas Baier (guitar, vocals) with Lea Amling Alazam (vocals), Erik Bäckwall (drums) and Johan Rockner (bass) was formed back in 2014 by its founding duo of Vinrot and Baier, with the clear vision of…

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Tyranni - I Besvärjelsens Namn

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Bands List (Part 2: B)

Disclaimer: My passion and like for the respective bands does not mean that I support them outside of the music-world. I just like the songs, for whatever reason. Also, this took hours of research and mental exercises and checks through older lists I had made in the past, however I might be forgetting some bands, or might have accidentally put the same band twice (blame the human natural error). With this being said, let’s go! B: Batushka (with Krzysztof), Born to Murder the World, Bathory, Bloodbath, Blood for Blood, Be'lakor, Blut Aus Nord, Bongripper, Book of Black Earth, Borknagar, Born From Pain, Burzum, Belzebong, Bodysnatcher, Bongzilla, Blaze of Perdition, Black Tusk, Black Elephant, Bolt Thrower, Bell Witch, Beneath the Massacre, Benighted, Beyond Carnage, Behemoth, Baptists, Behexen, Baise ma Hache, Benthik Zone, Belenos, Beyond Sensory Experiment, Black Sun Aeon, Battle Dagorath, Bizarra Locomotiva, Blood of the Black Owl, Black Breath, Black Cobra, (The) Black Dahlia Murder, Brutal Truth, Beyond Carnage, Before the Rain, Barren Earth, Barren Canyon, Basalto, Blind Guardian, Blodørn, Barzakh, Bell Witch, Basic Torture Procedure, Behold the Slitted Carcass, Black Cilice, Bedroom Rehab Corporation, Bastard Corpse, Beauty Must Die, Be Fading Fast, Black Rainbows, Bastard Grave, Bastard Sons of a Judas Goat, Bitter Resolve, Bleak, Black Shape of Nexus, Blood Red Throne, Boar, Black Tongue, Bruise, Bastard Tongue, Beefrot, Before I Die, Before the Dawn, Below the Sun, Belphegor, Besom, Beskyd, Between Her Wicked Teeth, Besvikelsens Dystra Monotoni, Besvärjelsen, Birth of the Monolith, Bitter the Pale, Black .44, Black Acid Devil, Black Autumn, Bleak, Bleed from Within, Bog Wizard, Bong Prophet, Bosque, Bosse-de-Nage, Bowelism.

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Swedish Powerhouse Besvärjelsen Unveils New Music Video

~Doomed & Stoned Debuts~

I was a little late to the game in getting acquainted with Besvärjelsen, my introduction coming with last year's most excellent LP, 'Vallmo' (2018), but man am I ever glad I'm listening to them now.

Today, the five-member Stockholm band -- formed by members of Dozer, Greenleaf, and others -- are presenting us with a new single and music video, providing yet another great opportunity for us to get acquainted with their proggy doom-grounded rock style.

"When We Fall" will be releasing on an EP called 'Frost' August 9th on Blues Funeral Recordings as part of the Postwax subscription series. Don't miss our interview with Erik Bäckwall from the band below!

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What does the "Besvärjelsen" signify for the band?

I think the name was first conjured up at an early rehearsal as a fitting name to describe the music they were making at the time. Doomy, mysterious vibes with a healthy portion of Swedish folk music in the mix. Today you could say it represents a roadmap to the music we’re doing. And we can deviate from the path, because we still know where we are going.

Tell us about the song we're premiering today, "When We Fall" -- what is it about and how does the concept tie in with the music video?

The song is about searching for good when it feels hopeless, The difficulty in finding good people and not just surrounding yourself with stuff that drags you down. It doesn't really tie in with the video though. The video came out of an idea to make a simple video where all band members where present, since only two appeared in the previous videos from the last album. And we took it from there, we recorded it mostly at our rehearsal space and threw in some inspiration from Twin Peaks visually. About a guy who gets hooked on our music basically. The guitar riff was part of another idea at first but we deleted some stuff and fleshed this one out at one rare rehearsal. From there we wrote the drum parts, bass, additional guitars and vocal melodies.

This is now your second or third music video, I've lost count. How is performing for a music video different than a live performance?

It's pretty hard actually, to pretend you are playing (well, you are playing to some extent, but not audibly) but it's kind of fun as well. Playing live you have another edge and adrenaline as well before you go on stage and you'll get totally into the performance. Playing in a music video you're more concerned that it looks good or that it looks like you're playing the right notes.

We'd love to know something more about the new EP coming out on Blues Funeral Recordings! Tell us anything you like, whether it records the development of the songs, any themes that run through the album, or the recording process itself.

It was a bit of an undertaking, because we actually thought we'd be able to crank out some new tunes a bit faster than we did. We had started to play around with some riffs in April 2018 when we got the Postwax gig and promised to deliver a new EP by the end of the year. But we had a lot of gigs coming up as well as Holidays, vacations and what have you. So when we hooked up again (we all live quite a bit from each other, different cities, villages) in September we only had the skeleton for one song.

So we started writing and uploading ideas, trying out stuff back and forth and three of us actually met two times at the rehearsal space to try some stuff. But we shaped the ideas from that point on from our home studios and recorded the drums in late November in a professional studio in Borlänge, the guitars and vocals at Andreas’ home studio in N��s later on in December. I think we did the final mix early in January, delivered the record and in March we played the songs together the whole band for the first time. Lyrically the songs are about all kinds of relationships with other people and beautiful disasters.

Vallmo by Besvärjelsen

What does the band have in store for the rest of the year?

We have a couple of shows coming up (Krökbacken Festival, to name one) pretty soon and hopefully we'll do some more but we're all doing it by ourselves so it's a bit tricky sometimes, maybe we'll try to secure a booking agency to get out of the country and do some shows. Other than that, we're focusing on writing the next full length album, the follow up to last years Vallmo.

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Project Metal Across The Pond (May 21st 2020)

Project Metal Across The Pond (May 21st 2020)

On this week’s episode of Project Metal Across The Pond With Ell Yong, I will be playing: Hellgoat, The Watchers, Held In Secret, Gunner Lowery, Giuseppe Zaupa, Garden Of Sinners, Besvärjelsen, Lunarsea, Forlet Sires, 17 Crash, Quartzbed, Dark Waters End, Dead Asylum, Death Rattle, Decibel Demon, Dust Prophet, Entrapment, Eugenic Death, Evilon and Skid Row, and if I have time I will add more…