HELVETETS PORT album !!

[Metal Knight]

HELVETETS PORT - Exodus To Hell
LPHRR 042, lyric sheet, poster, limited to 750 copies, 100 x green vinyl + patch, 200 x clear vinyl, 450 x black vinyl

Witchfinder (Tomas) - Lead Vocals & Guitar
K. Lightning (Kongo)- Lead Guitar & Vocals
Inquisitor (Philip)- Bass Guitar & Vocals
O. Thunder (Oscar)- Drums & Percussion

Track list:
-The Shogun
-Killers In The Sand
-Dying Victim Of The City
-Helvetets Port
-Diamond Claw

-Fly By Night
-Killed By A Reaper
-Huvudlös Gestalt
-Djävulens Triangel
-Exodus To Hell

Helvetets Port is a relatively new band from Sweden. Along with such acts as Portrait or In Solitude they fly the flag for traditional Heavy Metal in their home country. The actual history of the band goes back to 2000/01. Tomas, alias Wicthfinder, had just formed a group together with his mate Erik Sjödin. That was when he still lived in his hometown Skellefteå. The name of the band was Brute Force and Helvetets Port still play a couple of old Brute Force compositions today. There is also a strong connection between Helvetets Port and Portrait, as drummer Oscar (aka O. Thunder) explains: "After Christian Lindell (guitar) had left Helvetets Port in 2003, he went on to form Portrait. And Philip, our current bass player, was the singer in Portrait up until just recently." Helvetets Port is bascially a Gothenburg band, with Tomas, Oscar and Kongo all living there and only Philip being based elsewhere (namely Kristianstad). According to Oscar, the current Swedish HM scene is very small but also very active: "All over Sweden it's mainly an everyone knows everyone thing and we have a good amount of eager-hearted people arranging concerts, playing in bands, writing zines etc. A good thing for an underground scene, I think. The fan base has grown a lot; five or six years ago there were virtually no 'obscure 80s metallers' around. The bands that exist now have kind of their own niche in music and if there's any competition, then it's a healthy one. Although, people tend to put a label on all 'new' bands that play some form of Metal that is sounding rather traditional, as being 'true 80s Heavy Metal' and we don't think that's the case most of the time. Most bands have something that sets them apart from the pure heavy metal style of Witchkiller, Grim Reaper etc. We're not saying it's a bad thing, but to us there aren't many Heavy Metal bands here. But since most of the members of these bands have the same influences and listen to the same bands, there's naturally understanding and cameraderie." The four members of Helvetets Port are dedicated headbangers themselves and you might have seen them at festivals like Keep It True or Headbangers Open Air: "Yes, we all try to attend those Heavy Metal events but missed a few the last year or two. To play live must be a priority goal for every band. If we ever get the opportunity to actually play on stage at one of those festivals, this wil be a dream come true."
The first two real live gigs Helvetets Port ever played were in their hometown of Gothenburg, followed by a concert in Uppsala. "That's correct", states Oscar. "But our very first gig was a very small one in Arvika, which was planned just a couple of days beforehand. The best gig so far was the one in Gothenburg, we were a more rehearsed band at that time and the crowd was perfect. We're back in the rehearsal room now and have more rehearsing time than ever before, our next gig will be a stormer." The band also played the "Headbangers Against Disco 4" in Berlin in December 2007 but Oscar does not think they were that good on the day: "It was a nice try, but not very many people showed up at the club. Our performance was sub-standard, to say the least. We hadn't had time to rehearse very much. It was a so-so experience, but it would be nice to play in Germany again."
With "Exodus to Hell" High Roller Records is proud to release the first ever Helvetets Port longplayer, of which Oscar has the following to say: "Roughly you could say that five songs are midtempo and five are uptempo. Two are sung in Swedish, six in English and two mixed. Half of the songs are as old as, or even older than the "Metal Strike" 7", but now recorded for the first time. The songwriting is pretty much like the 7", a little quirkier sometimes. And the recordings are heavier and have much better production." Before "Exodus to Hell" Helvetets Port had two other releases, the "Metal Strike" CD-R from 2004 and the mentioned "Metal Strike" single from 2007 on Iron Bonehead. Oscar speaks: "The CD-R demo was never printed in any way, we made a few ones for friends around that time but most of them were destroyed during a festival because of our own negligence and the rainy weather that year. So if people are looking for that CD-R, they might as well start looking for ghosts or UFO's. The 7" was recorded in 2005 but not released until 2007, it was a limited edition of 500 copies and sold out fast."
That Helvetets Port are Metal fans through and through shows the respect they have for old bands from their own country. They even contacted some of them personally: "We've hung around with bands like Torch, Axewitch, Overdrive and Tryckvåg at concerts, and played live together with Torch in France by the way. We've also had, and have, internet contact with bands like Zone Zero, Hydra, Heavy Load, Lezlie Paice, Wizzard, Parasite, Rubycon and so on. The most talk has been with Zone Zero and Hydra (a band that only appeared with one song on one compilation album but who might reform soon)."
Matthias Mader (Iron Pages)

[metal militia]

les liens :

http://www.myspace.com/helvetetsport

http://www.helvetetsport.com/

on les avais vu le 19 janvier 2008 au sweden metal attach festival à la boîte à musique de Wattrelos.
Qu'est ce qu'on s'était poilé!
bon après musicalement, ça casse pas des briques. ils veulent nous faire revivre les 80's; belle intitiative, mais avec eux , c'est la 3ème zone du heavy des 80's qu'on revisite.

bel effort visuel bien kitsch en tout cas!

[A.W.]

Pas encore l'album mais j'avais bien aimé le ep!

Par contre, je comprends que certains n'accrochent pas du tout...

[A.W.]

Allez voir leur nouveau clip sur myspace, ça vaut le détour

Musicalement, ça me fait penser à du Heavy Load !

[Everflow]

On voit un vinyle de Heavy Load dans leur clip 100% 80's en effet, l'influence est palpable jusque dans le look, et comme par hasard ils sont suédois eux aussi. Mais ce sont les faces B rejetées de Heavy Load alors.
'fin c'est mignon tout plein et ils sont passionnés donc c'est l'essentiel, même si je trouve le résultat très pauvre, pour être gentil.

[A.W.]

J'accroche à mort

...comme quoi, les goûts et les couleurs...

[Yama]

J'avais complètement adoré leur concert au Scandinavian Metal Attack.

C'est clairement euuuuhhh pas la première zone on va dire , mais en fait je crois que le groupe me plairait moins si c'était mieux et mieux joué.

Là, c'est bon comme un film de zombie tourné à la main et assumé à fond, bon comme du gros tord-boyau distillé à la maison qui arrache la gueule et rend aveugle, bref, c'est BON.

J'espère le trouver au KIT !


De toute façon des mecs habillés comme ça sur scène il me FAUT leur LP, obligé !

[Tony Le Pouilleux]

Je n'ai pas encore écouté le clip, mais disons que la chanson manque de pep. C'est comme si Heavy Load avaient oublié de prendre leur Nescafé.

[A.W.]

Bon c'est clair que c'est moins énergique qu'un Enforcer!

Faut rentrer dedans quoi...je n'ai pas aimé la première que j'ai écouté non plus, mais ils ont un truc de plus que les autres je trouve...

[Nathagnôle]

Enfin, c'est surtout de la pose et pas grand chose dans le slibard. Je les ai vus à Wattrelos pour le SCANDINAVIAN METAL ATTACK, et je m'attendais à franchement mieux. Tant, qu'à pousser le délire vestimentaire à fond, je m'attendais à un peu de vie et d'excès sur scène.... Que dalle, juste des guignols déguisées, avec un putain de balai dans le cul pendant tout le set. Aucune présence scénique, aucune communication avec le public.

Le ep m'avait plu dans le sens où ça sonnait comme du sous METALUCIFER/sous HEAVY LOAD, et que c'est tellement cliché que j'ai apprécié aussi pour l'humour. Mais après les avoir vus, ils n'ont pas l'air de connaître l'humour, et c'est dommage.

J'apprécie Philipp, le bassiste, qui chantait dans PORTRAIT, et je trouve qu'il gâche son temps et son talent dans ce groupe.

[Nathagnôle]

la vidéo de la mort qui tue!!! A mourir de rire!

[Metal Knight]

Terrible !!

[Nathagnôle]

je savais que tu aimerais!!!

[Hellion]

Je viens de tomber sur cette vid et m'appretais a la poster ici même !
Complètement ENORME Ce clip !
y'a même une pub pour le commodore C64 dans le tram non ?
Vraiment excellent.
Bon Musicalement, c'est un poil moins drôle... Il s'en faudrait de peu que j'adore... Mais non.

[Holy Cross]

ils sont dans le même label que nous

c'est ultra kitch

[franang]

putain les moustaches pourrit qu'ils ont !!!! on dirait une serie de starky et hutch ahahah

[brother of steel]

Eux ils ont l'attitude... bien oldschool comme il faut

[sgt_toxic]

Ouai mais l'album c'est pas trop ça, mis à part quelques morceaux. C'est dommage parce qu'en voyant le clip, je m'étais dit que ça devait être bien patate...mais sans plus au final

[Hellion]

ils sont dans le même label que nous

c'est ultra kitch

Ouais j'ai vu ca, va falloir vous mettre au niveau en ce qui concerne moustache frange et lycra !