Vineyard Worship

Places of Worship signals trumpeter and composer Arve Henriksen's return to Rune Grammophon and furthers his collaboration with both Jan Bang and Erik Honoré. Here his experimentations with sound, space, and texture offer listening environments that reflect various sacred spaces the world over, hence its title. While these tracks are impossible to separate from the influences of Jon Hassell's Fourth World Music explorations or the more murky moodscapes of Nils Petter Molvær, they are also more than a few steps removed from them. Henriksen never separates himself from the environmental information provided by his natural Nordic landscape. The lush, wild, and open physical vistas of its geography provide an inner map for the trumpeter and vocalist that amounts to a deeply focused series of tone poems.

Anthrax fans have had no choice but to be very patient waiting for the arrival of the group's tenth studio album overall, 2011's Worship Music. Doubling as the first Anthrax studio album since 2003's We've Come for You All and the first with singer Joey Belladonna since 1990's Persistence of Time, Worship Music was also recorded once before with singer Dan Nelson, and was to be released in 2009. After the group parted ways with Nelson shortly before the album's projected release, Belladonna was welcomed back into the fold, and all the vocals were re-recorded…

It has been 8 long years since the last record, and Hypocrisy fans can feel the itch. Worship is 11 tracks of precise, ferocious musicianship. Commonly inspired by the fusion of the modern and the ancient, Hypocrisy has once more found a way to combine innovative ideas with classic sound in order to deliver something metalheads can enjoyably consume with awe and brutal vigor. Hypocrisy is Peter Tägtgren (Lead Guitar & Vocals), Mikael Hedlund (Bass Guitar), and Reidar “Horgh” Horghagen (Drums)…

Entre 1994 et 1998, l’absence de tout nouvel album studio de la seule chanteuse samì (de Laponie) qui bénéficie d’une renommée internationale, Mari BOINE, alimentait les plus inquiètes interrogations. Et ce n’est pas une simple compilation (Radiant Warmth) dont le contenu reprenait des pièces de ses albums Goaskinviellja (Eagle Brother) et Leahkastin (Unfolding) qui était de nature à nous rassasier (surtout quand on sait qu’un album live autrement pertinent, Eallin, est sorti à la même époque, mais n’a pas été diffusé en France). Et voici que Bálvvoslatjna (Room of Worship), son cinquième opus, paraît sans crier gare pour rasséréner nos consciences.