Art Rock Show – AVKRVST – Waving at the Sky (Week 50)

AVKRVST werd in 2020 opgericht door Martin Utby en Simon Bergseth. De twee vrienden en muzikanten groeiden samen op en spraken af om een groep te vormen wanneer ze ouder waren. En zo geschiedde. De jongemannen hadden geen enkel idee of plan bij het maken en schrijven van hun muziek. Uiteindelijk was het resultaat een stel nummers met als basis alles waarnaar ze luisterden. Nu brengen ze hun twee plaat uit.

Zachary Nathanson van Echoes and Dust: “It’s been two years since Norway’s own AVKRVST had unleashed their 2023 debut album The Approbation on the InsideOut label. This is a band that took admiration of progressive metal from the realms of Porcupine Tree, Opeth, Mew, and King Crimson to a whole other level of the genre that keeps the fires burning, more than ever. That and their follow-up album Waving at the Sky, a conceptual story, inspired by a tragic family story with dire consequences in rural Norway.

The album cover does bear some striking resemblance to the movie poster of 2017’s psychological horror gem, Mother directed by Darren Aronofsky, starring Jennifer Lawrence, Ed Harris, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Javier Barden. This album isn’t for the faint of heart, this is an album that takes you right to the heart of the tragedy that’s about to unfold. And once you realize what is going on, there’s no turning back. (…)

You don’t know what’s about to happen. But as it segues into ‘The Trauma’, all bets are off. Believe me, this is AVKRVST’s approach to write an alternate soundtrack for the psychological horror 2017 gem Mother! And it gets the temperature levels, boiling up to set up the nightmare that’s about to unfold. You can imagine the band were watching this film for inspiration during the recording sessions on their second album to get an idea of the story.

And to be allowed to bring in Haken’s Ross Jennings into the forefront by bringing in this galloping arrangement behind ‘The Malevolent’, the fiery, turned unexpected changes on this song becomes a nightmarish sequence by walking towards the midnight sun. So, it is great to see this Norwegian band making more darker and heavier themes to continue with the subject matter and see what will happen in the years to come.”

Naast AVKRVST (Waving at the Sky)), Earthside (A Dream in Static), Sieges Even (Paramount), Haken (Aquarius), Caligula’s Horse (Rise Radiant) & VOLA (Live From the Pool).

• Thursday/Donderdag 12.00 – 24.00
• Friday/Vrijdag 12.00 – 24.00
• Saturday/Zaterdag 12.00 – 24.00