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Rockhospital.com’s preeminent musical buffet is back! If you thought you had enough of Dr. Steel’s ramblings last year, welcome to a new nightmare. You see, when he began this Thrash Feast in ’09 a slew of impressive releases had just poured in from all over the world begging to be scrutinized. We’re already two months into 2010 and surprise, surprise: solid efforts from everyone’s favorite genre continue to flood Dr. Steel’s playlist. Whupping unholy ass for this installment is Overkill’s impressive 16th studio outing, “Ironbound.”
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What an amazing time for sitting down and taking a shit at work. I took up my iPhone and went to my email, and poof “Cinderella too Sweden Rock Festival”, awesome as “shit” (so to speak).
So on Thursday this week I will be buying the ticket, I won’t miss this band, not ever.

Well yes, another hardrock act will be doing their debute in the Swedish Eurovision Song Contest (Melodifestivalen, whatever) and it’s (as some of you might know) the band Crucified Barbara. Personally, I think they have a good chance with the song “Heaven or Hell”, a ballad with the Barbara touch that you are craving for. So let us vote the shit out of these girls, and hope they will go to Globen. If you want to listen to a preview of the song, go to svtplay.se (I don’t know if it works for people outside of Sweden, comment about it if it doesn’t)

I also think that you can follow the contest for anywhere in the world through their live broadcast @ svtplay.se/v/1866917/melodifestivalen/deltavling_3

A week or so ago, I got the chance to see the Backyard Babies live in Paris. After having announced they would be on an “indefinite hiatus” after this tour, this gig kind of felt like “the last gig”. Are they breaking up? That’s what everyone was asking each other.

The band played songs from all the albums, from “Fill Up This Bad Machine” and “Electric Suzy” from their debut album (Diesel & Power) to songs from their last one (Backyard Babies), like “Abandon” and “Nomadic”, as well as their version of “Babylon” (cover from Faster Pussycat). It was a long and diversified set.

After this awesome gig, I waited around to ask singer Nicke Borg the question everyone wanted to ask. First time, he just looked and said “Ahn, I don’t know… I don’t know.” Second time, he said there were some plans for after the tour.

“There will be some things happening, but nothing I can really say now. Nothing with the Backyard Babies, anyway.”

In an interview, Nicke had said he wanted to “pick up on everything I left. Ideas, projects, song writing partners and stuff that has nothing to do with music. I don’t have a special plan. I’m finishing my home studio and just want to get off the road and pick up where I left.

For many years, my life was a band. Just now, last couple of years, I felt I needed to realize it was just a band. Now my life is my life and my band is what I do. It’s been great, but these days it’s not my whole entire life.”

This statement is a little in contradiction with what guitarist Dregen said a while ago: “if the hiatus lasted for a year, that would be an absolute maximum”.

“We don’t speak with each other about that.” – said Nicke. “Dregen is gonna work with music, he’s a musician.”

Unfortunately, I couldn’t get anything from the guitarist, so the question remains: will they break up? Anyway, let’s hope not!

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After a long winter it’s time to burn considerably on Walpurgis Eve and May Day with ROCK! To this two-day festival, you don´t need to worry of bad weather or campsite! Under roof, near the metro and buses located in Alvik you will find the “old printing company” where Stockholm Rock Out is held for the first time on April 30 and May 1. In addition to great bands, there will be bars, shops, tattoo artists and more. Stockholm Rock Out is an initiative by Chris Lemon from Badmouth.
CONFIRMED BANDS:

FOR ALL INFO, PLEASE VISIT:
Tickets: tickster.com
Web: sthlmrockout.com
Myspace: myspace.com/sthlmrockout

PROMOVIDEOS:
KEEL: youtube.com/sthlmrockout#p/a/u/2/we0Ulv1HtrM
BulletBoys: youtube.com/watch?v=iis2Vh_ZN5s
Steelheart: youtube.com/sthlmrockout#p/a/u/1/zy0STZpBmOk
Nasty Idols: youtube.com/sthlmrockout#p/a/f/0/ilFpXY-vs2g
Vains of Jenna: youtube.com/sthlmrockout#p/a/f/1/VJJ_0VijYmQ

And more coming soon!

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