BLESSINGS UNLEASH ‘BLODTSTRÄNGEN’: SCANDINAVIAN NOISE ALCHEMY AT ITS MOST FEROCIOUS
A few weeks after the sonic shrapnel of their singles “Strings of Red” and “No Good Things” left listeners breathless, Gothenburg’s Blessings return with the full payload: ‘Blodsträngen’ — their most unhinged and uncompromising record yet, out now via Pelagic Records (Burst, Glassing, HIPPOTRAKTOR, LLNN, Norna…).
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Translating to “The Bloodline”, Blodsträngen doesn’t just pick up where 2021’s criminally overlooked Biskopskniven left off — it blows the door off its hinges. The volatile urgency of At The Drive-In. The bone-crushing ferocity of Converge. The filthy nihilism of Trap Them. The brooding tension of Young Widows.
The primal heaviness of Breach, the apocalyptic density of Old Man Gloom, the unhinged swagger of The Jesus Lizard, and the claustrophobic menace of Unsane — all fed through a grinder of modular synth chaos, feedback squalls, and rhythms that hit with the force of collapsing buildings.
Blessings fine-tune their deliberately dissonant assault while casting their net wider than ever for influences — from avant-garde electronics to the darkest corners of hardcore and post-metal. The result? A wild, disorienting, yet strangely cohesive record that somehow marries grotesque bass tones, euphoric synth swells, and blast beats worthy of sonic warfare.
There’s no manifesto here, no tidy narrative. Blessings leave interpretation wide open, inviting you to lose yourself in the sheer volume, the chaos, the community of playing disgustingly loud music together in a room. This is not background noise. This is a challenge, an invitation, and a dare.
For those chasing the bleeding edge of heaviness — the kind that doesn’t just knock you off your feet but makes you question where the floor even is — ‘Blodsträngen’ is waiting.
