Moloken
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Last Known Status: Active
Latest Moloken News
Below is our complete Moloken news coverage, including columns and articles pertaining to the band. Some articles listed may be indirectly related, such as side projects of the band members, etc.
Moloken Posts New Music Video Online
Sweden's Moloken has launched a music video for "Hollow Caress." Released as a single from their 2020 studio album "Unveilance of Dark Matter", "Hollow Caress" offers modern hardcore influenced metal combined with overloads of melodies and despair. The single is now available with a video, made by 3D artist Josefin Jonsson/ Pastelae. Besides the new video, Moloken also presents new shows in Scandinavia, dates below.
Kristoffer Bäckström Moloken on "Hollow Caress":
Hollow caress is a song about my feelings of constant defeat and trying to reach the surface but always knocked further down, making me drown mentally over and over again. But where there is death, there is new life. Some struggles are ment to be lost... it was the beginning of the end. More...
Moloken Announces Live Concert Stream
Moloken invites you to a live stream concert! On Saturday, May 23, 2020 starting at 6:00pm BST (1:00pm EST) the band will play their latest album "Unveilance Of Dark Matter" (2020) via Youtube, Facebook and Twitch.
Tune in at 1:00pm EST on May 23, 2020 at this location: https://youtu.be/ArUQiVEO2Ao
It will be a big show with props and a specially designed light show for this event only, streamed from the band's hometown Umeå in northern Sweden. Moloken was supposed to play a release show in April for their new album but had to cancel it due to Corona.
Keep an eye on the event page for regular updates: https://www.facebook.com/events/1163506430665995/ More...
Moloken Posts New Video Online
"Surcease" is the first single taken from Molokens fourth album "Unveilance of Dark Matter", set for release the 31st of January 2020. Released with a music video, the single is one of the shortest and most direct songs of the upcoming album, combining uncompromising modern hardcore influenced metal with overloads of melodies and despair. You can hear that Moloken is from Umeå, Sweden - there are a lot of influences from acts as Meshuggah, Cult of Luna and Refused.
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Since the dawn of time music has been a part of human history and itís the only language that has transcended every age. Of the few fortunate that channel one of humanities oldest forms of expression is the aging colossus Moloken. Born in the bitter cold of Ume in 2007 the band has walked their own path disregarding musical conventions and genres. To change, morph and evolve restlessly is in the very fabric of Moloken and the titan above us is still on a journey into the unknown. Music is their religion and it unleashes feelings that are only understood by the heart of those who listen.
Throughout the last 12 years the band has been fusing together influences from Death/Doom/Black Metal along with 70's progressive rock and Hardcore. The result is a unique blend of dark, moody and menacing music that manages to be both cerebral and crushingly heavy. The goal of the band has always been to create something of their own while acknowledging that they are standing on the shoulders of giants: ìBurn what we worshipped and worship what we burnedî. More...
Moloken Reveals New Album Release Date
Moloken has announced that they have put pen to paper with The Sign Records and will release their fourth album "Unveilance of Dark Matter" on the 31st of January. Moloken is a powerhouse that has fueled the North Swedish hemisphere for 12 years. The new album holds eleven tracks of progressive and uncompromising metal that establish the band further. The music is tainted by the North Swedish music environment and similarities can be found to other Umeå based bands like Meshuggah, Cult of Luna or Refused. Album artwork is done by the fantastic Costin Chioreanu that previously have worked with bands as Ghost, At the Gates and Mayhem. The first single "Surcease" is set for release the 8th of November.
Tracklist
1 - This Love Is A Curse
2 - Surcease
3 - Shadowcastle (Pt. I)
4 - No Ease, No Rest
5 - Hollow Caress
6 - Venom Love
7 - Repressed
8 - Lingering Demise
9 - Unbareable
10 - One Last Breath
11 - Unveilance of Dark Matter More...
Moloken Posts New Video
Moloken just released a new music video for "The Beginning Of The End," which can be seen below. The band comments:
"This song is indeed a very special song. It was first recorded as a demo track back in 2008 by me and our previous guitarist Johan Öman. Then it only consisted of 2 guitar tracks.
|It wasn't until the fall of 2013 when I had an epiphany to call Frida Johansson (folk musician from Umeå) and asked her to add violin since I had just presented to the band that we could use this song as the ending track of our new album. But it wasn't until when we entered Tonteknik Studio with Pelle Henricsson in february 2014 everything finally fell into place.
"Frida came by the studio heavily pregnany, laid down her track and didn't even spend more than 40 minutes in studio, and last but not least Patrik Ylmefors recorded the apocalyptic guitar loop that ended the song.
"The video was filmed way back in 1967 by my grandmothers brother Rolf. And its clear that the he was a creative and artistic person with an eye for image composition." More...
Moloken Headed Off Four European Tour
Swedish progressive sludge bringers Moloken will kick off a string of tour dates next month in support of the 2015 released "All Is Left To See" - out now via Temple of Torturous.
The journey finds Moloken trekking across Europe on a handful of headlining shows as well as six performances opening for Cult Of Luna. Dates begin on April 6th and run through April 16th with an included stop on this year's edition of Roadburn. This latest run marks the band's first trip to the United Kingdom and France.
4/06/2016 Alte Meierei - Kiel, DE
4/07/2016 DIY Cafe - Lille, FR
4/08/2016 The Chunk - Leeds, UK
4/09/2016 The Garage - Glasgow, UK *
4/10/2016 Sound Control - Manchester, UK *
4/11/2016 Islington Assembly Hall - London, UK*
4/12/2016 La Gaite Lyrique - Paris, FR *
4/13/2016 Le Grande Mix - Tourcoing, FR *
4/14/2016 Roadburn Festival - Tilburg, NL *
4/15/2016 Bambi Galore - Hamburg, DE
4/16/2016 Oden - Karlskrona, SE
*Supporting Cult of Luna More...
Moloken Posts New Video
Swedish progressive sludge act Moloken recently unleashed brand new full-length, "All Is Left To See," via Temple Of Torturous and available for full streaming here.
In conjunction with its release, today the band releases a new music video for the track "Seventh Circle." The clip was caught live while the band performed at Discouraged Festival in Umeå, Sweden in 2014.
"'Seventh Circle' deals with the painful acknowledgment that you have reached the end of a circle on your life path," explained the band of their latest psalm of sadness. "And in order to move on, you have no other choice than to dive deep into yourself, accepting your pain to be cleansed and reborn. All is left to see. There's a storm coming and Hell follows in its wake; my vessel capsized; waves come rolling and all is set loose. Beneath a raging light, into the darkness from whence I came..." More...
Moloken Posts "Subliminal Hymns" Video
A monolithic wall of dread and despair shrouded in sulfuric atmospheres and an overwhelming sentiment of desolation, Moloken's "All Is Left To See" centers itself around a lyrical concept called mörkrets kärna (Swedish for "darkness core"), and serves as a veritable soundtrack to falling into a pit of misery and paranoia.
Out now in Europe, "All Is Left To See" will see North American release on November 13, 2015 via Temple Of Torturous. The entire album has come online for streaming and can be heard right here. Today a music video for the track "Subliminal Hymns" can also be seen below. Moloken comments:
"'Subliminal Hymns' is about your subconscious talking so clearly that eventually you cannot neglect it. Different dreams and different scenarios that all ends with the same lines of words that repeatedly echo in your head. And you finally wakes and then it hits you. All is left to see, but this is just the beginning. Surrender to yourself, embrace the I, and experience the power. All is left to see. The video was caught in the moment while the band was recording live in the studio at Tonteknik recording in Umeå. The band invites you to an intimate video in all it simplicity, filmed with three cameras on one take. The result is a naked experience that both captures the band and also the surreal power in the song." More...
Moloken Streams Full New Album
"All Is Left To See" - the third long player from Swedish progressive sludge bringers Moloken - is now streaming online in its entirety.
A monolithic wall of dread and despair shrouded in sulfuric atmospheres and an overwhelming sentiment of desolation, Moloken's "All Is Left To See" centers itself around a lyrical concept called mörkrets kärna (Swedish for "darkness core"), and serves as a veritable soundtrack to falling into a pit of misery.
"All Is Left To See" is Moloken''s first studio offering in four years, recorded mostly live by Pelle Henriksson at Tonteknik Recording (Refused, Breach, Cult of Luna, Meshuggah, Entombed) and featuring the cover renderings of Costin Chioreanu (Bloodbath, Paradise Lost, My Dying Bride, Ulver etc). The album will officially drop in Europe on October 23, with North America getting the album on November 13, 2015. More...
Moloken Streaming "Subliminal Hymns"
"All Is Left To See" is the third long player from Swedish progressive sludge metal unit Moloken, due out on CD and digitally in Europe on October 23, 2015 followed by a North American release on November 13, 2015.
Centered around a lyrical concept called mörkrets kärna (Swedish for "darkness core"), the record serves as a soundtrack to falling into a pit of misery, depression and paranoia, dragging down loved ones and trying desperately to make sense of it all. Check out the new track "Subliminal Hymns" below. The full track listing is:
1. Subliminal Hymns
2. All Is Left To See
3. I Can't Hear You
4. Burst
5. Seventh Circle
6. Wreckage
7. I Dig Deeper
8. Beginning Of The End More...
Moloken Reveals New Album Details
Swedish progressive sludge/post metal collective Moloken will undrape a third full-length this fall via Temple Of Torturous.
Titled "All Is Left To See," the band's first studio offering in four years was recorded mostly live by Pelle Henriksson at Tonteknik Recording (Refused, Breach, Cult Of Luna, Meshuggah, Entombed) and boasts thirty corrosive minutes of some of the band's most eclectic compositions to date.
Expanding upon the harsh, dejected air of the 2009 debut, "Our Astral Circle," the eight-track "All Is Left To See" is a monolithic wall of torment and despair shrouded in sulfuric atmospheres and an overwhelming sentiment of desolation.
Centered around a lyrical concept called mörkrets kärna (Swedish for "darkness core"), the record serves as a soundtrack to falling into a pit of misery, depression and paranoia, dragging down loved ones and trying desperately to make sense of it all. Could this be the end? All is left to see...
1. Subliminal Hymns
2. All Is Left To See
3. I Can't Hear You
4. Burst
5. Seventh Circle
6. Wreckage
7. I Dig Deeper
8. Beginning Of The End More...