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Hailing from Stockholm, This Gift is a Curse plays a combination of hardcore and sludge with great influences from the occult black metal-scene. Spanning from slow, epic sections to faster, energetic parts, the songs show a great
diversity both in musicianship and creativity.
Even though the four members originated from different cities, an accidental
meeting by Jonas A. Holmberg and Johan Nordlund in the late summer of
2008 led to the birth of This Gift is a Curse.
The two had just moved to Stockholm and while talking noticed that they had
a lot of in common ideas surrounding music making. They instantly recruited
Lars Gunnarsson and Patrik Andersson witch seemed to share their view of
what that could be, the circle was completed and has been spinning since then.
Due of all the members have been part of different constellations before, such
as Seven Nautical Miles from Piteå/Sweden(Sound devestation records) and
Grizzly Twister from Gävle/Sweden (Midmarch records, Gävle, big influensers on the now classical Gävle sound: Meleeh, Children of fall, Gadget,
Serene, In ruins of, etc), entering the hardcore / heavy music scene again felt
like a natural step. Many acclaimed shows have been performed and many
are yet to come as the bands reputation as a great live act spreads rapidly. A
live experience that could be best described as a dark “natural force”. Like an
emerging black storm of noise and tension, a swelling cloud that will sweep
you over and suck you in to the mist…
An demo recording took place quite early and five songs were put on tape in
the bands rehearsal hall. But since the band grew more comfortable with their
goals and their personal evolvement in both taste and musical preferences, the
five songs felt outdated only a couple of months later, thus This Gift is a Curse
decided to enter a professional studio to record something more representative.
In march 2010 the band entered the legendary Sunlight Studios (Famous for
recordings & productions with bands like: Entombed, Katatonia, Tiamat, Dismember, Disfear, Centinex, Refused etc) for a one week recording with Tomas
Skogsberg what later came to be their selftitled debut-EP.
The selftitled debut-EP comes in a nice looking Digi-pack with amazing artwork from F. Lindblå.
The Ep will be released all over Europe on October 14th by Discouraged
records (Moloken, Abandon etc) and distributed by Soundpollution (Scandinavia), Code 7 / Plastichead (England), Clear spot / Bertus (Benelux) and
Recordheaven in the rest of Europe.
TRACKLIST
THE BIG SLEEP
DEATH TO YOUR HOMETOWN (PT.III)
ALTHEA
VOULETS DREAM
BAND MEMBERS
Jonas A. Holmberg -Vocals
Lars Gunnarsson-Bass
Johan Nordlund-Drums
Patrik Andersson-Guitars&Voc
WEBSITES
www.myspace.com/thisgiftisacurse
www.discouragedrecords.com
www.myspace.com/discouragedrecords
RECORDLABEL
Discouraged records
DISTRIBUTION
Scandinavia-Sound pollution
Releasedate 2010-10-14