I’m on record declaring Sunny Day Real Estate’s How It Feels To Be Something On as the best album of 1998. Does that statement stand up to scrutiny? Probably not, but it feels right whenever I’m listening. SDRE LP3 is a stone-cold classic, a record everyone who loves ambitious, arena-scale, artsy-but-accessible rock music should be…
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(On March 13th FDA Records released Eulogy to Blasphemy, the fourth album by the Swedish death metal band Gluttony, and that motivated Zoltar to arrange the following interview with founding member and guitarist Anders Härén.) Considering the rather ‘modern’ (for lack of better terms, as this had probably more to do with the average age […]
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Einar Solberg of Leprous is set to release his upcoming second solo album ‘Vox Occulta’, on April, 24th, 2026. A bold, heavy and symphonic statement, the album was recorded in collaboration with the much-sought-after Norwegian Radio Orchestra.
On this new podcast Einar talks about his new album Vox Occulta, writing for an orchestra, the surprise cover of Take On Me & more.
Check out the podcast on these services:
Apple • Spotify • Amazon • PodBean • YouTube
The album sees Solberg taking a deeply personal approach, having been an avid fan of classical music and soundtracks for more than 20 years. The lyrics are personal as well, and they make ‘Vox Occulta’ something of a thematic follow-up to ‘16’. Where Solberg’s solo debut revisited the death of his father and his past struggles with anxiety, this set is a warts’n’all portrait of himself and how he views the world in 2026.
Einar is pleased to present a new track titled ‘Vita Fragilis’, a song created a alongside the aforementioned orchestra. The video gives a glimpse behind the scenes at the orchestra recording the parts, and you can watch it now here:
As well as the beautiful orchestration, Einar is joined by drummer Keli Guðjónsson (Agent Fresco), violinist Chris Baum (Bent Knee), guitarist Pierre Danel (Novelists) & bassist Jed Lingat, as well as guitarists Ben Levin (ex-Bent Knee) & John Browne (Monuments). The album was mixed by Adam Noble (Nothing But Thieves, Biffy Clyro) & co-produced with David Castillo.
‘Vox Occulta’ will be released as a Limited CD Digipak, Gatefold white/black 2LP & a very limited Gatefold transparent red 2LP, as well as digitally.
Pre-order now here: https://einarsolberg-artist.lnk.to/VoxOcculta-Album
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Sufjan Stevens is a man of mystery, and little bits of his lore seem to surface in the most unpredictable ways. In 2016, for instance, the Dallas actor and musician named Marc Rebillet posted about finding an unreleased 1998 album called Stalker in Stevens’ dumpster. (We interviewed Rebillet, naturally.) Now, a Penn State undergrad has posted on TikTok about the apparent discovery of a Stevens poetry chapbook called Piss Poems.
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“Of all people, you survived/ When no one else could stay alive/ You know you should be dead/ But you’re alive instead.” So begins “Of All People,” the new Foo Fighters single. The band debuted it in a taping of the Irish TV show Other Voices back in February; the episode finally aired this week,…
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