SILVER (NO)
Friday February 26 @ Jyväskylä, Lutakko +Saralee
Saturday February 27 @ Helsinki, Bar Loose
Sunday February 28 @ Tampere, Klubi +The Blanko, Suicide Love Boat
Tickets:
Jyväskylä: 6 EUR / Jelmu members for free. pre-sale: www.jelmu.net
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SILVER (NO)
Friday February 26 @ Jyväskylä, Lutakko +Saralee
Saturday February 27 @ Helsinki, Bar Loose
Sunday February 28 @ Tampere, Klubi +The Blanko, Suicide Love Boat
Tickets:
Jyväskylä: 6 EUR / Jelmu members for free. pre-sale: www.jelmu.net
Helsinki: 10 EUR, pre-sale: Tiketti / 12 EUR door
Tampere: 7 EUR, pre-sale: Klubi, Epe’s, Swamp.
SILVER: Wolf Chasing Wolf
One dark Norwegian winter night back in 2001 I had my first experience with Silver. They had been touring England for a couple of weeks and were back in Norway to complete their Zoom tour. The venue obviously was too big considering the crowd of 30, and my expectations were low. But as the band entered the stage my jaw dropped. The energy! The vigour! The melody! The attitude! I was stunned. This band was tight like Joey Ramone’s Levi’s jeans, furious like Lemmy without his morning JD, as fast as it was furious, still as cool as The Fonz. I had no idea this species existed in the flora of Norwegian rock’n’roll.
“Wolf Chasing Wolf” is Silver’s third album. Under the influence of dystopic 19th century German and Russian philosophers and poets dead either from syphilis or alcohol abuse, the songs on this album reflect anxiety and terror combined with a sincere wish to make a difference, to shake things up.
Silver has had their commercial ups-and-downs, but they’ve seen wide acclaim in the Norwegian underground punk rock scene for a decade. The band’s debut album “White Diary” of 2004 marked a breakthrough in Norway with very good reviews and national radio airtime. This led to excessive touring around Europe, the United States, and Japan, as well as appearances at festivals across Scandinavia, such as at the Roskilde festival in Denmark and the Quart festival in Norway. Subsequently, the band went to the US in a somewhat naïve hope of connecting with some great producer and making a grandiose second album on American soil, but returned back home ambivalent of the entire record industry, disillusioned and bitter, dismissing an entire album only to record their much more dark and angry “World Against World” in one hectic week in 2006.
Two and a half years have passed and finally “Wolf Chasing Wolf” is out. This time the band has spent a lot more time in the studio further developing and refining their very original musical style. Partly staying true to their trademark sound with unexpected turns of guitar chords, aggressive lead vocals and infectious choruses, and partly ploughing new fields, adding to the compact punk rock sound influences from the nineties hardcore-scene as well as nodding in the direction of black metal.
In order to make this a full-fledged gut-punching, brain-wrenching live experience the band has decided to add an extra guitar player, welcoming their long time buddy and Silver fan Øyvind Kaasa to the line-up. In addition Jonas Thire (ex. Amulet) now attends to the battery, giving the band a ready, steady drive and additional routine.
“Wolf Chasing Wolf” affirms Silver’s position as one out of very few interesting and original, clear-minded acts to come out of the Scandinavian fog of delusion and self-righteousness, a real kick to the groin on blind conformity, homogenization and consumer mentality. Pick up your life and do something with it!
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