Well, 2011 is no more and we think it´s time to summon up what we have done this past year.
First of all our second album SALT was released on CD by
TotalRust and on LP by
Mourningwood Records (yes, they are based in Göttlaborg). We thought it was a kinda good record and some critics agreed with us as you can read
here and
here and
here and
here and
here and
here and
here. The Swedish lifestyle magazine Close-Up placed us #39 on the list of the best records of the year, a true effort. This past year Salt was our only release so enought about that.
As for shows we counted them a few days ago and we are kinda sure that we performed live 23 times the past year. The first show of the year was at the Malmö Hardcore Fest which was a blast. Herätys and Hårda Tider both delivered some amazing hardcore entertainment and we think that we did so as well. The next two shows was our release shows for Salt, these two shows took place in Göteborg and Stockholm. In Göteborg we finally got to do a show together with SKITKIDS, one of the best bands ever according to me and it was a total blast. I Stockholm we got to play at Grundbulten, one of the nicest places we have played in Sweden. Thanks alot for helping out with that show you fine folks of bulten!
In June we made our only real tour this year. Only one tour/year sucks and we will try and make that up this year instead. More about that later. Well, in June we went to Germany, France, England, Holland and Belgium for 15 shows. We had a joyful time indeed and we wanna say thank you to our good friend/comedian Floppe Flopp who joined on us for these shows.
In August we played Örebro, a show that was put on by the geniouses at
de:nihil. The show was great but even better was the rest of the night at Calle of
Kvoteringens place. Calle is mental. The day after that we went to Kungen in Sandviken to play the Ta Livet i Dina Egna Händer festival. Good place, good folks, good show, good money! The money was so good that we all could eat at Max the day after and pay with our business card for Långsam Rock AB.
The three last shows of the year was in Helsingborg, Malmö and Copenhagen. In Helsingborg the stage was small, in Malmö it was big and in Copenhagen it was smokey. We had a good time.
And 2012, what´s gonna happen with PYRAMIDO?
First of all we´re off on tour on Tuesday. We will go to Stockholm, Oslo, Karlstad, Göteborg and Malmö together with
Gadget and
Lock-Up. These are the dates:
3 Jan - Stockholm, Debaser
4 Jan - Oslo, John Dee
5 Jan - Karlstad, Rockbaren
6 Jan - Göteborg, Sticky Fingers
7 Jan - Malmö, KB
There will be merch, bring MONEY!
We have three releases coming up. When they will be out? No idea, but hopefully soon!
1. Split 7" with Union of Sleep. Released by Hell Comes Home.
2. Split 7" with Usurpress. Released by Plague Island.
3. Split LP with Amarok. Released by Orcawolf Records, Boue Records, Psychic Assault and Vendetta Records. We are gonna record the songs for this record in February. What the songs will sound like? Look at the picture below and get a hint!
Other plans? Yep. In April we will go on a ten day tour from the 5th of April to the 14th of April. It´s not fully booked but this is what it looks like at the moment:
5/4 - TBA
6/4 - Cologne - AZ
7/4 - Metz - On a boat
8/4 - Bremgarten - KuZeb
9/4 - TBA
10/4 - TBA
11/4 - TBA
12/4 - Darmstadt - Oettinger Villa
13/4 - TBA
14/4 - TBA
Stay tuned for more updates on this scheduele. Also, if you live in Germany/Switzerland and wanna book us, just send us a mail at info@pyramido.org.
In May we will play the
Heavy Days in Doomtown Festival in Copenhagen! The line-up is starting to look kinda cool, check it out!
Ok folks, that´s what our plans look like right now. I hope that we will do at least one more tour this year, either in the summer or later on in the autumn. If it was up to me we would do one in the summer and one next autumn, I´ll see what I can convince the other suckers in the orchestra to do.
So, take care. Stay tuned for more news. Thanks ALOT to EVERYBODY who helped us out IN ANY WAY this past year. It means alot to us! Below you will find some "Best of 2011" list from us. Enjoy!
Hugs!
/PYRAMIDO
Ronnie
Good shit:
Anatomi -71 - Från primat till reptil
Craft – Void
40 Watt Sun -
The Inside Room
Graveyard –
Hisingen Blues
Den Stora Vilan -
S/T
Terrible Feelings –
Impending Doom
Ursut - Dårarnas Paradis
Tonbruket - Dig it to the end
Dna´s list:
some random stuff from 2011 that was yummie:
40 watt sun - the inside room (patrick walker is the man! easily the best record of 2011)
melancholia (mindfuck!)
black swan (terror!)
k sluggah & kg boom - antivirus (boom bap from the dirty south of sweden)
juicy j + dj scream - blue dream and lean (when i listen to this i feel like a complete moron. and i guess that´s the beauty with this mixtape)
zomby - dedication (loner music)
liturgy - aestethica (not as good as the first record, but you can´t have it all. still, beautiful stuff)
the borgias (tv-series, the sopranos meets the vatican kinda)
bon iver - bon iver (crooked and fragile. most of the time this doesn´t sound like anything else)
ride for revenge - under the eye (finnish wierdness. more kraut than kraut)
bonnie prince billy - wolfroy goes to town (the worlds mustigaste moustache. "quail and dumplings" is one of my all time favourites)
haunted trails - ranger (upcoming tape. the best thing you will hear during 2012)
this is england 88 (as good as the rest of the series, and with that i mean SUPER!)
roffe ruff - barrabas (if henrik möller was a rapper and came from majorna in gothenburg it would sound like this)
stuff i listened to a lot, not from 2011 though:
rusted shut - rehab
koopsta knicca - da devils playground
electric funeral - make noise not war ep
sade - soldier of love
main - hydra-calm
rhythm & sound - the versions
count vertigo - i´m a mutant
sham 69 - the punk singles collection
godflesh - love and hate in dub
gangsta pat - deadly verses
DanArne:
Good music from the year 2011:
ULCERATE -"The Destroyers Of All"
CRAFT – "Void"
TERRA TENEBROSA – "The Tunnels"
AUTOPSY – "Macabre Eternal"
GÖSTA BERLINGS SAGA – "Glueworks"
TRAP THEM – "Darker Handcraft"
40 WATT SUN – "The Inside Room"
GRIDLINK – "Orphan"
LITURGY – "Aesthethica
BRUTAL TRUTH – "End Time"
Viktor:
1. panda bear - tomboy
2. 40 watt sun - the inside room
2. destroyer - kaputt
2. real estate - days
2. puro instinct - headbangers in ecstacy
2. bonnie prince billy - wolfroy goes to town
2. peaking lights - 936
2. wolves in the throne room - celestial lineage
2. smith westerns - dye it blond
2. ducktails – ductails III: arcade dynamics
2. sun araw - ancient romans
Wendel:
He wouldn´t recognize a deadline if it hit him in the eyes.
