https://youtu.be/i3OVJI-aNB8?si=9mmB_NqL5YoBVEwF

La meva #CançóDelDia per al divendres 29 d'agost és aquesta de #TheNightFlightOrchestra #Helsingborg #HardRock #ClassicRock #AOR 🛩️!

Dieses Album ist ein Grower. Hatte unser Redakteur nach den ersten Durchläufen noch gedacht, „Da wär´ mehr drin gewesen!“, musste ich dieses Urteil schnell revidieren. NIGHTHAWK bieten auf ihrem vierten Output Classic Rock in Reinkultur. Und welcher Sänger wäre besser dafür geschaffen als Björn Strid, Frontmann von THE NIGHT FLIGHT ORCHESTRA?
#nighthawk #thenightflightorchestra #classicrock

https://www.burnyourears.de/reviews/genres/rock-hard-rock/54590-nighthawk-six-three-o.html

Die schwedischen Retro-Rocker NIGHTHAWK geben mit „Home Tonight“ einen coolen Vorgeschmack auf ihr kommendes Album. Mit an Bord: gleich drei Mitglieder von THE NIGHT FLIGHT ORCHESTRA. #classicrock #thenightflightorchestra #nighthawk

https://www.burnyourears.de/news/54510-im-nachtflug-modus-nighthawk-mit-neuer-single.html

Ce soir, sur MUSinc, c'est l'ami Jarod qui vous propose une très belle interview !

Attachez vos ceintures, on part en voyage
avec The Night Flight Orchestra !

https://youtu.be/TRvO0RTcRMs?si=GZGaqmWbREIhJ3xj

#TheNightFlightOrchestra #Soilwork #BjornStrid #Metal #Metalhead

Nite – Cult of the Serpent Sun Review

By Steel Druhm

The wise and worldly Don Dokken taught me long ago that one should never unchain the night. Growing up, I’ve done my best to live this crucial truth. Unfortunately, no one ever told me what to do about Nite, the odd heavy metal project birthed by members of Dawnbringer, High Spirits, and Satan’s Wrath. Their 2020 Darkness Silence Mirror Flame debut was an intriguing mash-up of classic 80s and trve metal with a decidedly blackened edge courtesy of vocalist Van Labrakis (Satan’s Wrath). Their enthusiastically retro sound borrowed heavily from Mercyful Fate, Iron Maiden, and of course, Dawnbringer, but sometimes the fit between the music and the vocals didn’t work. They smoothed things out somewhat for 2022s Voices of the Kronian Moon, but nagging issues still held them back. Now third platter Cult of the Serpent Sun is upon us, and they haven’t tweaked their sound so much as honed it into a more imposing weapon. Does that portend good things for those who dwell in the Niteside eclipse?

I’ll say this for Nite: they’re determined to stick to their original concept and find ways to make you love it. While I’ve always enjoyed the core of what they do, the extraordinarily one-note black metal rasps by Van Labrakis were a huge drag on the material. The vocals haven’t changed on Cult of the Serpent Sun, but Nite’s ability to write compelling song with a fuck ton of excellent guitar parts has finally allowed them to overcome the vocal shortcomings. The album plays out like a collaborative jam session between Mercyful Fate, The Night Eternal, Grand Magus, and Dawnbringer, and the guitar work is lusty, mighty, and glorious from start to finish. Cuts like “Skull” throw so much Grand Magus-esque guitar splendor at the wall that you can’t resist gobbling up everything that sticks, and Labrakis’ rasps now add character instead of sounding out of place. “Crow (Fear the Night)” is an impossible song to dislike. The stellar guitar work from Scott Hoffman (Dawnbringer) and Labrakis is out of this world and exactly what makes metal so damn intoxicating. Just listen to all the cool, badass shit they do throughout the song and feel your back hair grow in appreciation.

Elsewhere, “The Last Blade” manages to blend the hard rocking energy of early 80s act like Keel and Y&T with trve vintages like Dawnbringer and Grand Magus for a wild ride into nostalgia. “Carry On” sounds like The Night Flight Orchestra showed up to help In Solitude and/or The Night Eternal add 80s radio rock energy to their typically Mercyful Fate-worshipping material. It’s just an uber-cool tune that gets you fist-pumping and air-guitaring in equal doses as Manowar look down upon you approvingly from their Airbnb at Crom’s Mountain of Steel. The high point is the ginormously epic closer “Winds of Sokar,” where all the honor and valor of Bathory’s Viking era bleeds forth over you in a red geyser of grandeur. You WILL love this song or be judged harshly at the gates of Valhalla by me or some other ape-like security goon. So what are the downsides? A few songs go for mood over hard rocking, and though nothing is skippable, “The Mystic” plays out like a lost piece to the soundtrack to Conan the Barbarian, and it’s too restrained despite its ample machismo. “Tarmut” suffers a similar handicap, with atmosphere superceding badasserey. At a very lean 36 minutes, Cult is a quick, vital listen, though it may take 2-3 spins to fully implant its hooks. Once it does, though, there’s no going back.

Cult is a guitar-lovers wet dream. Hoffman and Labrakis hold nothing back and go deep into the heart of classic metal for an endless series of cutting riffs and shining harmonies. The riffage ranges from edgy, to melodic to heroic, and you will hunger for more, no matter how high they stack the fretboard buffet. Nearly every song features exceptional guitar work and memorable pieces, and the spirit of metal’s golden age lives loudly in the writing. Oh, the sweet, sweet jammage! Van Labrakis’ vocals are the same monotone snarl as before, but somehow, he seems less of an impediment and injects the right amount of oomph to the songs. Would Nite be better with an actual singer? Yes, but three albums in, this is the Nite show, and it’s improving with every release. An additional hats off to the slick drumming by Patrick Crawford, who drives the songs right through your fucking head with propulsive kit thumps.

I expected to be whelmed by Cult of the Serpent Sun and report that I loved the music but not the vocals. I do love the music, and now the vocals don’t bother me as much. This is a very entertaining slab of retro metal that spans multiple genres, and it has truly great moments that I’ll be spinning for a long time. It also exudes a level of coolness that’s hard to resist. Maybe it’s okay to unchain the Nite? I better ask Donny first, though.

Rating: 3.5/5.0
DR: 6 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
Label: Season of Mist
Websites: nitemetal.com | nitemetal.bandcamp.com | facebook.com/nitemetal
Releases Worldwide: March 14th, 2025

#2025 #35 #AmericanMetal #CultOfTheSerpentSun #DarknessSilenceMirrorFlame #Dawnbringer #GrandMagus #HeavyMetal #HighSpirits #Mar25 #MercyfulFate #Nite #Review #Reviews #SatanSWrath #SeasonOfMistRecords #TheNightEternal #TheNightFlightOrchestra #VoicesOfTheKronianMoon

Mit ihrem siebten Album „Give Us The Moon“ greifen THE NIGHT FLIGHT ORCHESTRA nach den Sternen. Lest hier unseren Bericht vom gefeierten Konzert der schwedischen Retro-Rocker in München - und Fotos haben wir auch mitgebracht! ✈️🛩️🕺 #thenightflightorchestra

https://www.burnyourears.de/live/54459-the-night-flight-orchestra-in-muenchen-galaktisch-gut.html

 DEMNÄCHST!
*Zusammenfassung 14.02. bis 17.03. für Nürnberg

Gernotshagen
14.02.2025 Nürnberg / Golden Nugget

Manowar
14.02.2025 Bamberg / Brose Arena

Orden Ogan
14.02.2025 Geiselwind / Eventzentrum Strohofer

Orden Ogan, Angus McSix und All For Metal
14.02.2025 Geiselwind / Eventzentrum Strohofer
16.02.2025 Geiselwind / MusicHall Geiselwind

Brat
15.02.2025 Nürnberg / Löwensaal

Hämatom
15.02.2025 Geiselwind / Eventzentrum Strohofer

Napalm Death, Crowbar und Full Of Hell
15.02.2025 Nürnberg / Löwensaal

The Hahas and the Blablas
19.02.2025 Fürth / Kunstkeller o27

#Bamberg #Brat #BroseArena #EventzentrumStrohofer #Furth #Geiselwind #Gernotshagen #GoldenNugget #Hamatom #Hirsch #KunstkellerO27 #Lowensaal #Manowar #MusicHallGeiselwind #NapalmDeath #Nurnberg #OrdenOgan #TheHahas #TheNightFlightOrchestra #SteelFeed #SteelFeedSoon

 DEMNÄCHST!
*Zusammenfassung 14.02. bis 17.03. für München

Any Given Day und The Narrator
14.02.2025 Ingolstadt / Eventhalle Westpark

Béton Brut
14.02.2025 München / Kafe Kult

Distant
15.02.2025 München / Feierwerk

Manowar
15.02.2025 München / Zenith, die Kulturhalle

The Night Flight Orchestra
15.02.2025 München / Backstage

Actors
16.02.2025 München / Rote Sonne

Lion's Law
17.02.2025 München / Backstage

Rise Against
17.02.2025 München / Zenith

Rise Against, L.S. Dunes und Sondaschule
17.02.2025 München / Zenith

Bullet for My Valentine
18.02.2025 München / Zenith

#Actors #AnyGivenDay #Backstage #BetonBrut #BulletForMyValentine #BulletForMyValentineTrivium #Distant #EventhalleWestpark #Feierwerk #Ingolstadt #KafeKult #LionSLaw #Manowar #Munchen #RiseAgainst #RoteSonne #TheNightFlightOrchestra #Zenith #ZenithDieKulturhalle #SteelFeed #SteelFeedSoon

The Night Flight Orchestra – Give Us The Moon Review

By Mystikus Hugebeard

As the youngest writer currently staffed at and embarrassing the great AMG lineage, I glean real pleasure at the irony of me reviewing The Night Flight Orchestra (NFO). I mean, NFO is basically “Hey the 80’s called, they want their music back” whereas I’m smack in the later part of “only 90’s kids remember this,” blessedly not part of the “skibidi” generation by a couple of years. Pimply little scamp though I might be, I fucking love NFO, which just goes to show that all ages are vulnerable to the raw magnetism of that slick, sexy 80’s sound. Pumping synths, dancing guitars, bodacious vocals, and big n’ burly mustaches; that’s what I’ve been comin’ to NFO for since 2017’s Amber Galactic, and I’m happy to say that in Give Us The Moon, NFO gives more of exactly what I want, and what all of you damn well should want.

Anyone who’s heard NFO before already knows what to expect on Give Us The Moon, but allow me to break it down for any newbies who, having never heard NFO, have probably never felt joy a day in their life: NFO plays extremely fun rock n’ roll pulled straight from the 80’s, characterized by infectious energy, memorable choruses, and the killer vocals by Bjorn “Speed” Strid.” An arbitrary but fun trend I’ve noticed in determining the quality of an NFO album lies in how hard a respective album’s third song goes. In the past we’ve had iconic jams like Amber Galactic’s “Gemini,” Sometimes The World Ain’t Enough’s “Paralyzed,” and Aeromantic’s “Divinyls.” Give Us The Moon earns its place alongside these albums with the instant classic “Like The Beating of a Heart” (since I don’t count the scene-setting intro song). The synth intro bursts into a deliriously funky synth/guitar line, leading into a verse where the drums maintain a momentum that keeps your head nodding like clockwork. Then the chorus explodes with an unforgettable melody, the kind where you can’t help but try and sing along despite not knowing a damn word. It’s fun, it’s exciting, it leaves me with a stupid grin; it’s NFO, baby!

The entirety of Give Us The Moon basically feels like a smorgasbord of the many hats (or aviators, I guess) NFO wears with extreme style. You’ve got tracks that ooze with romantic camp (“Paloma,” “Runaways,” “Way to Spend the Night”), straightforward rock n’ rollers (“Stratus,” “Melbourne, May I?”), or songs that dial up the funk to reach critical funk (“A Paris Point of View,” “Miraculous”). The album’s first single, “Shooting Velvet,” is a particularly kickass tune with a lethally catchy chorus and a tasty guitar solo I wish was about four times as long. “Paloma” is an instant winner as well, with a dramatic escalation of big guitar chords and synths sounding like the climactic catharsis of that scene in the romance movie where they finally smooch. The consistently high quality of Give Us The Moon’s tracklist makes it exceptionally easy to just throw on without a second thought and before you know it an hour has passed.

Speaking of an hour passing, if I were to complain about anything in Give Us The Moon, it’s that it does feel just a little long. Even though there’s never really a point in Give Us The Moon where I feel compelled to skip, I do struggle to retain some tracks like “Miraculous” or “Cosmic Tides” even after several listens. Furthermore, I’m a little torn on Give Us The Moon’s closer, “Stewardess, Empress, Hot Mess (and the Captain of Pain). In addition to it’s ultra tubular title, it’s a dynamic and adventurous track that unquestionably ends the album on a high note. But I find it lacks the staying power and hyper-catchy hooks that enamored me to practically any of NFO’s previous closing songs. But as basically anyone who’s reviewed NFO before me has expounded upon, NFO at their worst is still pretty damn good.

Give Us The Moon is everything I want from an NFO record, and was a blast of excitement after I was a little underwhelmed with Aeromantic II. Once Give Us The Moon is over, the only thing I’m thinking is a resounding “fuck yeah, dude.” It’s the product of a band who has nailed their sound and songwriting down to an extremely sexy science and is bound to contain a couple of favorite tunes for any NFO fan out there. And if this is your first NFO album, I’m glad to be the one to deliver joy unto you for the first time.

Rating: 3.5/5.0
DR: n/a | Format Reviewed: Stream
Label: Napalm Records
Websites: official | facebook | bandcamp
Releases Worldwide: January 31st, 2025

#2025 #35 #Aeromantic #AeromanticII #AlbumOrientedRock #AmberGalactic #GiveUsTheMoon #HardRock #Jan25 #NapalmRecords #Review #Reviews #SometimesTheWorldAinTEnough #SwedishMetal #TheNightFlightOrchestra

NEW #INTERVIEW

On the day of the release of the new album from #TheNightFlightOrchestra, #GiveUsTheMoon, I sat down with frontman #BjörnStrid and talked about this new record, the first #album recorded and released since the passing of guitarist, #DavidAndersson.

#MusicJournalism #Blog #Writing

https://mickbirchallreview.blogspot.com/2025/02/interview-with-bjorn-strid-of-night-flight-orchestra.html