Swiss Bands

 

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Anyhoo, we love these guys! - Go and check them out! ... We love those best, by the way, who link to this page in return.

What to do on the weekend? - upcoming gigs !

 

 

Anxiety
Anxiety

 

Apokatastasia

Pure genius. These guys don't look left or right and do their own thang. Metal? - Yes. Prog? - Yes. Song structures? - Well, here it gets tricky for the occasional listener. Five-minute songs of choruses and verses and a guitar solo? - NO!
And if the band's name is quite a mouthful, their lyrics definitely aren't. What good are lyrics anyway, if there is hardly any singing? - Oh, and did I mention that the cello is the central part of their compositions? Go and see them first chance you get!

 

Corwen
Corwen

Corwen is a breath-takingly amazing band of jacks-of-all-trades - be it doom, punk-thrash, nu metal, and a bull's balls full of idiosyncrasy - we're proud to be label partners with Corwen for the release of their first album!

 

Dark Sign

Oh no, Richu and the boys (& the gal) didn't take up music only yesterday: Switzerland has a prog band par excellence who'll strut its stuff on a perfectly-produced EP. But check out the band's home page where they offer another onslaught of carefully composed and orchestrated spheric tunes. And this reads ROCK, mind you!

 

DividingLine

DividingLine may have undergone a line-up change and opened for the Elements of Rock festival on the side, but you still had better hold your breath what they'll come up next! Top notch melodies and classy arrangements will not be lost!

 

Dragonflys

Grand goth rock, performed by the kindest of people will send you dreaming of sorrow and joy. Dragonflys were already offered a world-wide deal for their forthcoming album! That's what you get for putting the MP3 of "Through The Night" onto your website!

 

Draven

A fan club? - Sheesh, any band can get a fan club: take a web master without a real job, and add assorted family members and girlfriends. Well, draven have a HATE club! Apparently, there are even people walking the streets sporting the 'Anti Draven Front of Lucerne' t-shirts!


 

HellveticA

Hellvetica  

Hungry young men - 'tallica and Earth fans before the Lord. Last seen handling a chainsaw at an out-of-doors gig in the Argovian forests!

 

Majesty Of Silence

MOS is the one Argovian black metal band known to blackies throughout Switzerland.
Just one problem: they "are" not black!
PeterChrisPeter couldn't care less about Old Nick and his consorts of fallen spirits. Instead, their lyrics very much deep-scan the human mind, the vastness of human emotions and the human awareness of existence; thus they celebrate joy and sorrow, bliss and oblivion in the most careful ways. - And that may very well entail the inclusion of a recorder ('Blockflöte') as featured on "Through Eternity".
In the course of 2005, their third album will follow 'darkness has no end' and 'but there's a light' into every Swiss metal fan's mind collection of cherished albums.

 

Morbus Gravis
Morbus Gravis

Hailing from Lugano, Ticino, this five-some really lets loose on stage! The string section may be the ultimate posers as well, but their mixture of hardcore, thrash and death metal annihilates! Technically stupendous and lightning fast, it is rhythms rather than melodies Morbus Gravis celebrate. But on no account will you be able to look or listen away as you'll first stare at their fretboards in disbelief ... and then simply let loose yourself!

 


Neospastics

Giving the masses what they never knew they wanted: that's Neospastics to you. And although their first album may strike a slightly more melodious note than their demo, the splendor of songs such as "The 77th Divinity" and "Arrival Openmind" is merely reflected on a different mirror. Definitely no reason to question the fantastic decision of Nuclear Blast.
Drummers looking for a break: be there or be square. Otherwise, I bet, Pablo and Nadja won't shy away from programming the tracks of the forthcoming album!
And for you of the cinematographic trade, in Neospastics, there lies a stepping stone for you as well - check out their news page!

 


Palmer

 

Definitely sheer monstrous power and danger, Palmer are in to take over the Swiss metal scene, if we may believe their own words!
Another example of a healthy spirit in a healthy body, of tight song-writing and a top notch production that'll close in on you, left, right, and centre. - And when their EP appears to come to an end, there is even more: Steve's I-sh!t-ye-not top-notch music video to "Who Am I" promises we shall see more of his work on the screen soon enough!

 

Punish
Punish

Highly technical death metal from what must be one of Switzerland's prime bands in the genre. Don't think something's wrong when you enter a venue when they are playing and absolutely nobody moves in the hall: people are reduced to an open-jawed mass of inanimate flesh when Punish shred as though for their lives, reluctant to aid the unwistful headbanger by sticking to simple 1-2-3-4 rhythms.

 

Pyracantha

Pyracantha

High-energy death/black metal even the vilest forces of nature's brutality cannot stop!

 

Requiem

You want death metal? And it must be exquisitely innovative? - Praise this day, for you have found it here in Requiem! Hold on tight as their third album in four years is upon us! Temporarily in their ranks: bass player Giuseppe Cirotti of Ex-ortation fame.