Jack Press, Author at Distorted Sound Magazine

Hjelvik: Welcome To Hel

Imagine spending over a decade of your life on this planet pursuing the perils and traversing the trials and tribulations

With AS IT IS swapping pop-punk and pizza for mid-noughties emo and military drummer jackets in their quest to write

In a year that’s beared witness to the exilement of experiencing the euphoria of live music and the British government’s

We spend a lot of our times glued to the glittering, glistening glaze of a screen. Our eyes are always

Symphonic power metal, throughout the years, has become synonymous with sweeping orchestral structures and grandiose tales of epic adventures. You’d

As a civilisation, we’re sailing the seven seas of life through the stormiest of weathers in unprecedented times right now.

In July 2018, after eleven years of fronting the Norwegian black-n-roll pioneers KVELERTAK, a disillusioned and jaded Erlend Hjelvik not

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Superlove isn’t in the dictionary, but if it was, you can bet your bottom dollar it would be the word