![]() ![]() The other guys got super excited about this new band, but I had gone weary of the whole thing and felt that I needed to get out of the toils of a band for a while. We developed a very hard working band ethos there, but when the steam sort of run out of Marulk a few years back we decided to form a heavier band as a side project, and that became Monolord. My previous band Marulk was a boogie rock trio with Esben and Thomas of Monolord and we played together for five years. ![]() Do any of your other band members have previous experience in other bands?ĭanne : Well, I've played for 20 years, so there have been lots of bands during the years. Danne Palm (Bass & Vocals) was kind enough to find me some time out of his busy work schedule to have a chat on facebook and here we have Cities Of Mars in the words of one of it's members.ĭave : Ok So Firstly the obvious stuff Who’s in the band and who plays what?ĭanne : Me - Danne Palm, bass & lead vox, Christoffer Norén, guitar & vox, Johan Küchler, drums & vox super stoked to have three vocalists!ĭave : Yeah it works well when i listened to the ep on headphones it sounds amazing on “Cyclopean Ritual”ĭanne : Seems no musicians sing any more? Back in the day, every band had several singersĭave : yeah i notice a lot of instrumental music in the "heavy" scene these days or most bands seem to take a vocalist rather than handle it themselvesĭanne : Indeed, the whole instrumental doom scene ain't for us.ĭave : no me either I'm always waiting for the vocals to kick in!!!ĭave : I know you have some previous experience in the “heavy” scene as a member of the earliest incarnation of Monolord the sound of COM is not too dissimilar from Monolord so how did you come to leave Monolord and form COM? Especially as you co - wrote the title track (and my personal favorite) from their first album. #ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT ALL SYSTEMS GO 3 RAR HOW TO#In fact it made such an impression I decided that the first interview in nearly 3 years of this blog would have to be These guysĬities Of Mars : L-R Christoffer, Danne, Johanīased round a concept of the many legends and tales surrounding the planet Mars the lyrical themes are as interesting as the music is amazing! they have recently released a 2 song digital EP and both of the songs are phenomenal, First I have to say the sound is immense for a debut offering produced by Esben of Monolord who is someone who knows a fucking heavy riff or 2 with his own band he's really done these guys music proud! Opener "Cyclopean Ritual" begins with some eerie guitar strumming whilst this introduction is short it certainly sets the mood and is a stark contrast to the utterly crushing main riff which is enough to make anyone with the remotest interest in heavy music just snap their neck to it if you are not at the very least nodding your head with a look of sheer happiness on your face when that kicks in there is something WRONG with you!!!! What i find great about this band is they have a real sense of how to use their titanic riffage to best effect there's enough twists and turns within the song to stop it from just being one solid riff fest and shows a real maturity in songwriting though when you read the interview below the reasons why will become apparent! Second track "The Third Eye" is another stormer with it's stop start verse riffing and a vocal melody that reminds me a little of The Sword, that's another thing that i love about this band the vocals are just great, managing to sound on the one hand full of anguish and desperation and yet still hold a memorable melody to them! I've found myself humming both of these tunes which for music this heavy is no small thing! I would usually be gushing a hellavu lot more about a band this good but I think it's best that instead of my usual spiel you should read the interview below. ![]() I recently joined a group for stoner/doom music on facebook and with 26,000 members there's always tons of stuff to check out, I don't know why in the avalanche of recommendations from members I decided to check these guys out but I'm glad I did it's not often I hear something that impacts me immediately but this had that effect, within seconds of the first riff kicking in I knew these guys were gonna be something really important. Cities of Mars are a new 3 piece band from Gothenburg, Sweden playing some of the heaviest Stoner/Doom/(Insert genre here) I have heard in a long time, Whilst that opening line may have some of you rolling your eyes, as even though I'm a HUGE fan of the genre even I have to admit there's a lot of stale 100th hand Sabbath rip offs out there these days and it's getting a lot harder to find the real gems, however in this case, these guys are definitely one of them. ![]()
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