In The Fumes
Copenhagen, Capital Region, Denmark | Established. Jan 01, 2015
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A breath of fresh fumes.
Copenhagen’s newborn baby In The Fumes breathes new life into the music industry circa 2015.
If you catch yourself fighting the urge to rage against all of the mainstream pop music and ironically talentless talent shows plaguing television stations, then we might have something here that you’ll find reassuring. The kind of music that feels like home, if you will, for those of us with a rebellious soul and a mind of our own.
With a sharp tongue and zero inhibitions when it comes to political awareness, In The Fumes has easily become one of the best musical conceptions 2015 has and will see. With an identity literally adapted amidst the fumes (bandmate Pater Lehmann was painting his guitar with some toxic paint while listening to Imaad Wasif when the band name was coined), the crew consists of Sune Bjerg on the drums, Steven Ardilso on the bass and Peter Lehmann on guitar and vocals. In June of this year the Denmark-based alternative hard rock trio’s edgy and well communicated lyricism officially reached the states. A style built off of an aggressive rock base and architected with dynamic rises and falls in both directions of the musical spectrum, the group’s musicality has as many dips and turns in it as the world’s current uprising generation.
A Breath of Fresh Fumes.
Mallory Biggerstaff
Nov 15, 2015
Alternative, alternative rock, Copenhagen, Denmark, Editor: Molly Shores, Hard Rock, In The Fumes, Mallory Biggerstaff, Small Men
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A breath of fresh fumes.
Copenhagen’s newborn baby In The Fumes breathes new life into the music industry circa 2015.
If you catch yourself fighting the urge to rage against all of the mainstream pop music and ironically talentless talent shows plaguing television stations, then we might have something here that you’ll find reassuring. The kind of music that feels like home, if you will, for those of us with a rebellious soul and a mind of our own.
With a sharp tongue and zero inhibitions when it comes to political awareness, In The Fumes has easily become one of the best musical conceptions 2015 has and will see. With an identity literally adapted amidst the fumes (bandmate Pater Lehmann was painting his guitar with some toxic paint while listening to Imaad Wasif when the band name was coined), the crew consists of Sune Bjerg on the drums, Steven Ardilso on the bass and Peter Lehmann on guitar and vocals. In June of this year the Denmark-based alternative hard rock trio’s edgy and well communicated lyricism officially reached the states. A style built off of an aggressive rock base and architected with dynamic rises and falls in both directions of the musical spectrum, the group’s musicality has as many dips and turns in it as the world’s current uprising generation.
Their recent and only single to date, “Small Men,” turns a mirror on you that you may not have otherwise gazed into. With strings of lyrics that are hard to tune out and a video that’s just as difficult to look away from — seemingly innocent headshots of various politicians morph one by one into somewhat creepy, perhaps even borderline evil, grins and expressions — this band definitely gets your attention. These three guys clearly have had enough of political bullshit, sheep-like obedience and remaining drugged by the fumes of civilization. Most of us have, after all; we just don’t make videos vagrantly illustrating it while singing words of civil rebellion.
But that’s what makes a musician or band intriguing and defiant, is it not? Pushing boundaries, perking up some ears whether it be of interest or ready criticism, potentially rubbing someone the wrong way, and even being somewhat disagreeable. The artists that make up In the Fumes have mastered a difficult tightrope balance of desensitized willingness to please everyone and the calloused skin it requires to insist on working outside of the music industry box.
Black sheep of the world unite! This band is the opposite of generic and in an entirely different category from mainstream. It may, in fact, blaze a trail of genre of its own. - Mallory Biggerstaff
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Still working on that hot first release.
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"In the fumes" saw the light of day june 11th 2015 when we posted the first video on Youtube. Tired of the politicians election promises we decided to creap out their faces and have a little fun with their appearence.
The name came about when Peter were painting his guitar with some toxic paint and listening to Imaad Wasif's Wanderlusting. Because of a lack of a gas mask Peter found that this name was fitting for a band.
The band is currently a trio but does not necessarily remain so but for the moment it consist of Peter Lehmann vocals, Sune Bjerg drums and Nicolai Lerche guitars
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About “In The Fumes”
“In The Fumes” is an alternative hard rock group from Denmark based in Copenhagen. The band has come to life as a direct result of the endless line of “talent” TV shows and commercial pop music that seems to overflow the media these days.
“The more I hear all the commercial pop on the radio the faster and harder I want to play ”
Peter Lehmann, In The Fumes
“In The Fumes” are best described as a band with High dynamic energy full of swirls and swing. Explosions of raw power next to soothing melodies. A crisp new band with a sharp political tongue.
The pedal to the metal with open windows that gives you a fresh breath of fumes if you will.
“Viewed from one angle "In The Fumes" provide a perfect snapshot of the publics tastes. From another they provide arguably the most 2015 record imaginable .An express dispatch for the underclasses. They are that musical endangered species. Razor -sharp social commentary and endlessly quotable, while musically communicating a sparse sense of fracture & collapse, with a deep rich static under glow. Nothing short than a stunning deluge”
Jackson Cooper, Riviera FM
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