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Tentakel knows that music is a multisensory experience. The one-man arpeggio-driven psychedelic techno excursion provides an awe-inspiring score when brought onto the stage, and combined with visuals the audience is in for a treat. With a background in the legendary bands The Exorcist GBG and Uran, Tentakel’s creator Pontus Torstensson started working on his own music while waiting for band …

Arriving on the Swedish electronic scene with their debut album The Timeless Room in 2007, Lysekil two-piece Octolab picked up lots of attention for their high-energy, dancefloor-friendly melodies. Rising from the ashes of synthpop project Spektron, Arielle Andersson and Fredrik Lundvall Kindsäter combined elements of bubbly electronic sounds and harsh EBM basslines, and quickly gained a following in the scene, …

There are no secrets behind the closed doors of the rock star lifestyle. Notoriously fueled by sex, drugs, and rock and roll, we’ve seen many iconic bands and musicians fall victim to their vices and ultimately lead to their death or the demise of their bands. There are also bands whose ego simply got the best of them and they …

Three years ago we launched Messed!Up Magazine in Hamburg after a few weeks of planning. Ms Sis and the editor had done a few interviews together for other magazines but a lunch meeting in mid-January 2018 would change that – why don’t start something on their own they thought? Ms Anonymous (who wants to be anonymous for many reasons) worked …

After six years as band Swedish four-piece punk band Katthem finally released their debut album “Vackra Lögnerskor” last year. Though their influences are squarely fixed at the more classic end of the Swedish punk spectrum and its social or political commentary, just spend a few minutes with them and you’ll find that Katthem “goof around” the majority of the time, …

In 2014 Vita Bergen released debut album Disconnection, an ecstatic listen of ponderous party music, and quickly rose to the skies in the Swedish scene; the record was nominated for a Manifest Award and band members William Hellström and Robert Jallinder were on everybody’s lips. Five years and a second album later, the band have morphed into a solo project …