Daily Peaks
Daily Peaks · 14.03.2025
Oops, they did it again. King Garcia have now released their second fantastic song, which sounds unmistakably like King Garcia, but is far more dynamic in terms of rhythm, volume, and mood. The song winds its way through a rather reserved mood at the beginning and builds to a real banger towards the end, still seasoned with the slight melancholy that the clarinet exudes as the lead instrument. And it does this more than any human mood, as it has a range of around four octaves, whereas the human...
Daily Peaks · 27.02.2025
When a band manages to express great emotions with few chords, and when a band manages to switch from progressive and jazzy start to an epic song, and only two minutes have passed, then we know that a top-class album is coming our way in April. The seven-minute appetizer "The Third Sleep" is a compact mixtape whose vocals swing back and forth between Marko Saaresto from "Poets of the Fall" and Feargal Sharkey and which ends with a nearly three-minute instrumental part that would be just as...
Daily Peaks · 21.02.2025
'In the Ashes' is the brilliant debut album from Swedish heavy rock and metal merchants TEMPLE OF DISCORD, led by Wytch guitarist Mattias Marklund. Dark and brooding, yet radiant with multifaceted appeal, 'In The Ashes' explores a wide range of genres including classic heavy metal, alternative rock and grunge, dark folk, and progressive rock. Marklund's vocals are intense and heartfelt, taking the instrumentation into uncharted emotional territories while constantly hovering on the brink of...
Daily Peaks · 20.02.2025
The Polish post-metal/post-rock band Traces to Nowhere released the highly acclaimed album "Lost Tribe" in 2024. They now present the album "Live at the Church," recorded in an abandoned evangelical church in Wielbark. Traces to Nowhere plays a blend of post-metal, post-rock, and industrial, with inspirations from the more widely understood alternative genre, even with a touch of trip-hop. Traces to Nowhere's songs are primarily heavy, multi-layered compositions enriched with melodic vocals....
Daily Peaks · 15.02.2025
If you look at the tags, you will agree that QOTS´s drumming on "You think I ain´t worth a dollar, but I feel like a millionaire" starts this song, same for the riffing. But after this the original Greek part starts with a clarinet part and a more polyphonic rhythm which will replaced by the already known QOTSA part. And again the is dodging between Greek folk and progressive Rock and folk. A fantastic song on which you can dance a Chasapiko and bang your head.
Daily Peaks · 04.02.2025
If you look at a map, you can see that Greece is closer to the Orient in terms of music and culture than to Europe. The Greek band "Naxatras" manages, like no other band, to effortlessly bridge the gap between western, progressive music of the 70s and oriental music, in this case Turkish music. "Numenia" is based on a fantastic bass line, the 4/4 time of the Tsifteteli - the traditional Greek women's dance - which gives the rather stomping, western 4/4 time a less static note. Somehow I wonder...
Daily Peaks · 02.02.2025
If you ever planned to travel to Seattle to hear your favorite 90s music or even meet a band there, you can save yourself the trouble by listening to the Tacoma based band "Fifteen Stiches" or buying their records. A best of 90's cross-section, starting with raunchy punk, grunge, glam rock, groove metal à la "Pantera", packed into compact songs with an average length of 2-3 minutes. Many thanks to the band for packing all these styles into different songs and not writing 15-minute prog rock...
Daily Peaks · 31.01.2025
Maison Dieu hailing from Ancona, Italy and they sound like a jam between Karma to Burn´s riffing and drumming and Electric Wizzard´s riffing with Jex Thoth on vocals. Actually a lot of reasons to buy the record or their merch. The lyrics are a hermetic poem that speaks of the dialogue between the plant from which the song takes its name (Mandragola) and a person who tries to uproot it to extract the magical properties derived from the root, which is known to be shrouded in countless stories,...
Daily Peaks · 27.01.2025
When Scandinavian bands sing in their native language, whatever music they're playing takes on a slightly sinister, dark aftertaste. It was different with Abba, where the songs sung in Swedish sounded like children's songs, even though they were about heartbreak, separation and betrayal. "Pakten" is an irresistible banger in terms of style, but because the individual syllables of Swedish don't quite fit the beats, this song takes on a very individual direction. You feel like you're trapped in...