Fuzz-science fiction rockers Skraeckoedlan are set to do the
international release of their debut album ‘Äppelträdet’ (The Apple Tree), the
12th of October. Since its initial release 2011 in Sweden, ‘Äppelträdet‘ have been a
gem hard to find. When the album was first released it reignited and marked the
start of the modern Swedish stoner scene. The record will be released through
The Sign Records and comes available on CD and vinyl with world wide
distribution.
Äppelträdet is available for pre-order HERE
Originally recorded in 2010, in Truckfighters’ Studio
Bombshelter, the album will once again see the light of day this fall, when it
returns as a 180g transparent green vinyl housed in a single sleeve cover with
updated artwork. A CD version with the original artwork will also be available,
both versions featuring the ten seeds that grow to be the Apple Tree.
Also emerging anew are Skraeckoedlan themselves. While still
singing in their native tongue, telling stories about mythological beings and
cosmic wonders, having just come out of hiatus the band recently made the
transition from quartet to trio. The as of now three-piece shares the following
words concerning the reprint:
“The reissue of Äppelträdet is, in a somewhat allegorical
sense, a celebration of what has been and to a certain extent of what still is,
but it also serves as a kind of bridge to what will be. These are our roots and
they grow deep.”
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Biography:
Heavy riff power trio Skraeckoedlan are telling tales draped
in metaphor. Fuzzy stories buried in melody are cloned into a one of a kind
copy of an otherwise eradicated species. Previously found only in Sweden, this
cold blooded lizard have once again started to walk the planet that we know as
earth. The extinct is no longer a part of the past. Skraeckoedlan is the best
living biological attraction, made so astounding that they capture the
imagination of the entire planet.
The dinosaurs are believed to have made their first
footprints on our earthen floor some 240 million years ago, during what is now
known as the Triassic period. Indisputable behemoths and apex predators amongst
them, they wandered freely and soared sovereign, ever evolving as the impending
Jurassic and Cretaceous eras unfolded. Then, 65 million years ago, it stopped.
Be it by asteroid or volcano, the dinosaurs’ fate became one shared with most
species ever to inhabit our pale blue dot, extinction.
While Skraeckoedlan translates into something like dinosaur,
an analogy better drawn is perhaps one to the great lizards’ descendents, the
birds. In their flight there is a, quite literal, escapism to be found. A vital
ingredient, encapsulating the bands very being. Although escape, it should be
said, not necessarily in the sense of shying away but rather as a recipe for observation
and introspection. A kind of fleeing of everyday worries in benefit of larger
and hopefully more profound queries A
bird’s-eye view, if you will.
“Our music is, in addition to good fun riffery and hard
hitting drums, the very lens through which we watch life”, the band
collectively states. “Meaning that to a degree music is ever present. It’s how
we explore and how we tell stories our words can’t comprehend. It is
uncertainty and apathy, anger and frustration, joy and euphoria and all the heartfelt
beauty that’s to be found in the process of creating.”
Quite a few million years later than their reptilian
namesakes, Skraeckoedlan is leaving their own footprints in earth’s soil,
albeit not as physically grand. Their self proclaimed fuzz-science fiction rock
is an homage to the riff, vehemently echoing throughout the ages like that of a
gargantuan Brachiosaurus striding freely. Equal in weight to the deafening
heaviness of a Skraeckoedlan melody, these long-necked colossals further
possess in their very defining feature the weapon needed for a complete experience
of such melodies. Although strong neck or not, once in concert heads will,
regardless of intent, be moving along.
Through their natively sung lyrics Skraeckoedlan invites us
to partake in a world of cosmic awe inhabited by mythological beings and
prehistoric beasts, like the immense havoc wreaking reptilian awakening from
its slumber in the polar ice caps, featured on the debut full-length
Äppelträdet (The Apple Tree), or the reclusive great ape Gigantos, solemnly
wandering his mountain as one of several entities on the follow-up, Sagor
(Tales). Against backdrops like these, underlying themes of the aforementioned
big picture-nature are being explored, much in the spirit of, and hugely
inspired by, great minds such as Alan Watts and Carl Sagan, fantastic creatures
in their own respective rights. Since Mr. Sagan has been briefly referenced at
the outset, it is Mr Watts, musical adventurer as he was, that will begin to
play us out:
“The more a thing
tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.”
Still far from going extinct, releases old and new just
around the corner and eras untold waiting to be explored, a statement that
rings painstakingly true, as Skraeckoedlan closes with a similarly mannered
reflection:
“Our volcano has yet to erupt, our asteroid has yet to fall.
When our end, whatever form it may take, inevitably comes, it is with the
utmost gratitude and curiosity that we’ll return to the cosmos, hopefully to be
kept in its thought.”
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