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Helldorado

Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway | INDIE

Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway | INDIE
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"Nora Lee reviews"

http://www.plattentests.de/rezi.php?show=3377&danke=1&gegeben= (8/10)
http://www.soundslike.be/reviews/?reviewID=879 (4/5)
http://www.foutraque.com/chronique_disque.php?id=2015
http://www.intro.de/review/Helldorado/The+Ballad+Of+Nora+Lee
http://www.adecouvrirabsolument.com/balladofnoralee.htm
http://www.popmadrid.com/node/4499
http://rock.samaratoday.ru/relisy/06-99.asp
http://www.netzmagazin.ch/136/hoeren/324.html
http://www.gaesteliste.de/review/show.html?_nr=6134
http://www.velvetmusic.nl/shopping/product_details.php?id=338634
http://www.kulturnews.de/kn/platten_rezi.php?id=5612
http://nordische-musik.de/musiker.php?id_musiker=666
http://www.velvetmusic.nl/shopping/product_details.php?id=338634
http://www.altcountry.nl/recensiesokt05.html#helld
http://www.rotefabrik.ch/portal/kalender/event.php?id=983
http://www.geocities.com/kurtodrome/radio/radio89.html - European Press


"New reviews"

Links and some quotes from the European press

FRANCE
http://www.froggydelight.com/froggydelight.php?article=1411&onglet=
http://www.adecouvrirabsolument.com/helldorado.htm
http://www.popingays.com/article1146.html

GERMANY
http://www.gaesteliste.de/review/show.html?_nr=4978
http://www.indigo.de/unser_programm/titel/5196/
http://www.nordische-musik.de/musiker.php?id_musiker=666
http://www.skug.at/index.php?Art_ID=3062
http://www.evolver.at/?story=1456
http://kulturserver-graz.at/kalender/2004-12-01.1837.e
http://www.soundportal.at/?site=music/storiesdetailed&nr=690
http://www.intro.de/review/Unten/Mit+Daniel+Decker+In+D%fcsseldorf

DENMARK
http://www.kick.dk/index.php?s=artist&artistid=88
http://www.soundvenue.com/musikanmeldelse.asp?id=1043
http://www.lowcut.dk/015_lc/livereview/norge.asp

AUSTRIA
http://www.salzburg.com/sn/wochenschau/artikel/1313567.html
Norwegen, ein amerikanischer Traum
Kann schon sein, dass wir gelernt haben, dass es in Norwegen keine Wüsten gibt. Blödsinn. Es gibt sie. Und die Mythen des Wilden Westens haben es auch geschafft herüber über den Teich. Also muss man sich nicht wundern, dass vier Retter des Westens aus Norwegen stammen. Sie heißen Helldorado und legen (ein in ihrer Heimat schon zu Jahresbeginn) hochgejubeltes Debüt vor: "Director's Cut" (Glitterhouse/Hoanzl). Flirrende Gitarren, hypnotisches Schlagwerk, dezente Bässe, Kakteen und unendliche Weiten sind zu spüren. Die Hitze schleicht sich über perfektes Songwriting ein. 16 Horsepower haben aus dem hohen Norden schwere Konkurrenz bekommen und der Gun Club würdige Nachfolger.bef

SWITZERLAND
http://www.ziischtigmusig.ch/archiv/archiv_index.html
“Helldorado“ weckt das Gefühl von brennender Sonne im Nacken, knirschendem Sand zwischen den Zähnen, salzigem Geschmack auf den Lippen, zittrigen Fingern am Abzug einer 45er, kreisenden Geiern am stahlblauen Himmel, ein doppelter Whiskey auf nüchternen Magen, der Geruch von Speck und Bohnen, Schiesspulver, Leder und Schweiss. Eine Wüstenlandschaft als Kulisse für ihr erstes Album. "Director's Cut" löst alle Versprechen ein, die uns die vier Norweger mit der 2002 veröffentlichten EP "Lost Highway", gegeben haben. Eine Band, die das grosse Drama nicht scheut, die es in fiebrige Melodien kleidet und Geschichten von verbotenen Versuchungen und Betrug erzählt. Alles klingt nach Hetze, Hitze und Gefahr. Manchmal erinnert das an melancholischen Depri-Blues, manchmal an von grausamen Streichern begleitete Morricone-Soundtracks, manchmal an sich fast überschlagenden High-Speed-Punk-Rock'n Roll mit Referenzen bei Iggy Pop, Jon Spencer's Blues Explosiion oder 16 Horsepower.

So wagemutig wie “Helldorado“ hat schon lange niemand mehr in der Genrekiste gewürfelt. Das Ergebnis ist kraftvoller, intensiver, schwermütiger lauter Rock mit Anleihen beim Desert. "Norwegen und kein Ende" mag der Glitterhouse-Fan stöhnen. Aber was will man da noch sagen, wenn man eine solch grossartige Band entdeckt? "Iha" vielleicht?

ITALY
http://www.rootshighway.it/outtakes/helldorado.htm

NETHERLANDS
http://www.dvhn.nl/Index/0,5481,,00.html?sHoofdUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dvhn.nl%2FPagina%2F0%2C7109%2C26-1-2038-4207-988191-1268--%2C00.html

UK
http://www.mixtaper.com/features/bestof2004detail.aspx?mixid=409
Expect to see this band in quite a few lists and mixtapes in the years ahead, if they don't end up in jail for a murder on a deserted stretch of highway. Get past the cliched band name and you will find Nick Cave's "Murder Ballads" rewritten by Ennio Morricone and members of the Cramps, The Gun Club and 16 Horsepower, only better. Vocalist Dag Vagle owes more than a little to David Eugene Edwards in style and delivery,  yet still manages to make the songs his own.

http://www.sundaylife.co.uk/features/story.jsp?story=598760 (THE BELFAST TELEGRAPH)
HELLDORADO - Director's Cut (Glitterhouse): This is an aptly named album by this excellent Norwegian outfit - their echoey, gothic take on rock'n'roll drips atmosphere and attitude, and would be perfect soundtracking some Quentin Tarantino flick.
Blood Shack's clattering tale of lust and vampirism sets the mood, and the other 11 tracks are filled with epic quantities of murder, deceit, guts, gore, hellfire and brimstone, all of it leavened with a dark, twisted sense of humour.
There's also more than a hint of Nick Cave in Dag S Vagle's songs and voice, and in a fair and just world, Helldorado would find similar amounts of fawning press coverage and sales. Some chance. - European Music Press


"Selected quotes"

These are all pulled from the Norwegian press

“…an explosive and dark brew that will separate the men from the boys…Helldorado will be on the list of this years most impressive Norwegian bands. Definitely”
Espen A Hansen, VG (5/6)

“In fact “Directors Cut” has become a record so sublimely filled with wonderful moments that it has even overwhelmed us who have followed the band both in concert and on EP previously, who know what the quartet stands for…The most deserving 5 points on the scale ever…”
Elisabeth Bie, Stavanger Aftenblad (5/6)

“…a rare delicacy! I proclaim “Director`s Cut as the best record of the year so far; independent of genre or nationality”

Espen Hovelsen, Puls
“…a work that shouldn’t be ignored when status is drawn up in December. Yes, I know that it’s still February….”
Glenn Fagervik, Utropia

“Dark and dust laden rock with desperation, bullets and gunpowder”
Adresseavisen (5/6)

“…an optimal diesel mixture by Helldorado”
Bjørn Erik Dahl, Finnmarken (6/6)

“…a rockin record that takes your breath away…with choruses as expansive and breathtaking as the desert sky at night, and songs full of cactus sharp hooks”
Helge Olav Svele, Rogalands Avis (5/6)

"so lick the salt, drink the tequila, bite down on the bitter lemon and live out the uneasy rock`n roll dream”
Groove.no (6/7).

“Welcome to a world where men have diesel in their veins and women only exist to die. A place where the sun always burns your neck and vultures circle above you. This is Helldorado’s domain”.
Henrik Salthe, Spot.no (5/6)
- Norwegian Press


"Live Reviews"

Avisa Tromsø - 6/6
”..Helldorado started the concert with a song so phenomenal, I couldn’t believe it was true… and the concert continued that way.”

Stavanger Aftenblad 6/6
” Helldorado is painting black soundpaintings with a brush dipped in sin, anxiety and melancholy.”

Nordlys – 5/6
”Helldorado hit me somewhere in between my heart and my head.” ”painful pleasure”

- Various Norwegian Press


"Glorious spectacle of a rock´n roll band"

”In times like these, when pretentious blowhards from England are posing as the biggest thing in rock since the discovery of electricity, and we are bombarded with successively more intense barrages of mediocre neo-metal from practically every corner, it's a damn fine thing we have bands like Helldorado.

Helldorado brings back the refreshingly glorious spectacle of a rock'n'roll band equipped with two guitars, bass, drums, vocals, and - not least - a wellspring of melodies to shame even the most gifted songwriters of our times.

After a celebrated EP (featuring a brilliant mix of live and studio material), a subsequent victory lap around Norway, tours on the continent and several jaunts to the UK, their long-awaited full-length debut, "Director's Cut," is finally upon us - and by Speedy Gonzalez's lusty hot jets, what a freaking great record it is!

From seductive and splendid ballads that Eugene Edwards will doubtless try to steal royalties from, to thundering, husky rock that can self-confidently stand back to back with the Gun Club's finest moments.

Despite displaying considerable range, the sound remains uniquely Helldorado, an impression which is only strengthened by Dag Vagle's distinctive vocal signature, along with a rhythm section and a back-up guitar whose technical gifts make the highly decorated engineers of NASA look like fumbling stumblebums.

The undersigned has long been of the opinion (and will repeat as necessary) that Helldorado is one of the Motherland's absolute best bands - something I will bellow into the ears of whatever award juries I can get close to, amplified if need be by a turbocharged megaphone the size of a pregnant tuba.

I recommend the album for cultural rehabilitation - give it to people in essential need of basic decent musical taste. Doing this ten times constitutes an act of such fundamental goodness that it entitles you to dedicate the rest of your life to decadence and debauchery without fear of any consequences.
I dig Helldorado.

In the name of rock,
Egon Holstad – Authorized rock’n’roll-dealer
Tromsø Kill City, Norway.
- Egon Holstad


Discography

Lost Highway - minialbum (CD & vinyl) - CCAP019/020
Directors Cut - album (CD) - CCAP029
The Ballad Of Nora Lee (CD) - CCAP040
Sinful Soul (CD) - CCAP085
Bones In The Closet (single 7") - CCAP140
Bones In The Closet (CD / vinyl) - CCAP164

All releases also available for digital streaming and download

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Helldorado´s new album "Bones In The Closet" will be released internationally 17. April 2013 (CD, vinyl, digital). Scroll down for information about distribution and promo partners

Helldorado is a fantastic live band and their gigs are legendary. Combine their abilities as a live band with their natural coolness and a bunch of rocking tunes that other bands would kill for, and you have a success in the making. So get into your 65 Chevy, a few bottles of Whiskey, grab some good looking, mini-skirts wearing girls and drive through the night, waiting for what will happen.

The new album is vintage Helldorado: It oozes of sorrow, sin, sex and pain. The band evokes the burning sensation of the sun on your neck, with sand grinding between your teeth, lips thirsty for the double whiskey, churning your otherwise empty stomach with the smell of bacon, beans, gunpowder, leather & sweat drifting pass like a tumbleweed, as a shaky finger fondles the trigger of a Colt 45 under the silhouetted vultures circling the clear blue desert sky.

They draw on a strong tradition of combining blues, country, rock and hardboiled crime. Murder, prison, crime, confession, remorse and punishment runs like a dark stream from the music of Johnny Cash, Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, Nick Cave and Stan Ridgeway among others. Helldorado brings this tradition into the new century by giving you the music, colours, smells and atmosphere usually connected with the image of southern USA and Mexico

As on their previous albums Helldorado presents cinematic music inspired by Morricone and Tarrantino, epic and dramatic murder ballads, Americana, and Rock Noir with a flare for B-movies ala Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill! Horn sections are added like habanero peppers to an open wound. Under the open sky, and across hot desert landscapes, the faithless characters of Helldorado’s world burn holes in our souls.

Promo Agencies: Prescription PR for UK, Snowhite for Germany, INK Music for Austria, Lautstark for Switzerland, CCAP for Norway, Netherlands TBA,
Booking: Vibra Agency (Europe)
Physical distribution (CD and vinyl): Musikkoperatørene (Norway/Scandinavia), Cargo (UK, G/S/A), Music & Words (Netherlands). More territories TBA