now

Getting a package from SKH Music is always exciting as I never know what to expect. Their latest package contained three new discs and I listened to the first couple and they were fairly good but the last disc I popped in was from the Minnesota band DOWNTREAD. I never heard of them but they did have a prior disc called “Without You Now” that featured a few tracks with George Lynch (LYNCH

now/sweden

Captain Black Beard made it’s live debut on the 31st of October 2009 and has since been playing most of the clubs in Stockholm. At the end of 2010 the band decided to pick it up a notch and record a full length album. Having been in talks with the biggest rock producers in Sweden – Chips Kiesby (Sator, The Hellacopters), Tobias Lindell (Europe, Mustasch), Patrik Frisk (Takida, Corroded) – the band chose to work with David Castillo (Opeth, Katatonia) who had already shown himself capable when working on the bands single “Rock Is My Life”.