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    Release date September 1st, 2023

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    Praised for their ability to incorporate more than just one style and genre in their music, drawing inspiration from a great variety of bands and artists, VAK’s upcoming album The Island is something to look forward to! The album will be released in September 2023, featuring eight new tracks developing VAK’s distinctive sound even further.

    Tracklist

    Passport
    Panorama
    Sewer Café
    Q&A
    Speed of Light
    The Map
    Bodies
    Melody Junkie

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    Release date September 1st, 2023

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    Praised for their ability to incorporate more than just one style and genre in their music, drawing inspiration from a great variety of bands and artists, VAK’s upcoming album The Island is something to look forward to! The album will be released in September 2023, featuring eight new tracks developing VAK’s distinctive sound even further.

    Tracklist

    Passport
    Panorama
    Sewer Café
    Q&A
    Speed of Light
    The Map
    Bodies
    Melody Junkie

    Includes unlimited streaming of The Islands via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.     ... more
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about

VAK continue to challenge and intrigue with their fourth, and most lengthy single so far.

With Bodies, VAK drags you on a journey into the deepest and most obscure corners of the human dissociative mind, where reality meet dreams. To a place where your habits are patterns paved for you and not by you.

If we act by impulse and routine, where is the free will?
Do we react to nature, or are we merely subject to it?

Melodic - yet devastatingly heavy, and fueled by riffs, powerful drums and an enchanting and electrifying energy, Bodies make up a truly a theatrical and vibrant soundscape and truly full fill VAK´s role as a modern and progressive sludge band.

It is a 7-minute-long song that seem to pass in 3.
Join in on the day-dream that drag you through these long summer nights.

VAK states:
“The song ‘Bodies’ is about how the city is a platform for managing and controlling the population, as the masses of bodies. In this view, city planning is about transporting human flesh and livestock smoothly. But what kind of blockage or blood clot would be needed? And what would it sound like? Maybe like the end riff of this song.”

lyrics

Lyrics:

Easy to consume
More than enough
Flesh to move around
Fast track methods

Masses for review
Chew on your neighbors' bone
Meat packs in the queue
Wait by the cone

Masses for review

Bones and other waste
Grind into mince
Chopping for us all
For the future

Masses for review
Pile up all the meat
Load into the fire
Prepare a side dish

Masses for review

credits

from The Islands, track released June 14, 2023
VAK: Jesper Skarin, Anders Bartonek, Patrik Engström, Robin Skarin, Tobias Alpadie
Songwriters: VAK
Producers: VAK

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VAK Stockholm, Sweden

The Sound of VAK is hard to grasp. Jesper Skarin (front man-vocals, bass) "We would be happy to tell people how we sound, but it`s tough. When five guys like us with different inspirations collaborate in our democratic fashion, the outcome is unpredictable and not reducible to single styles" ... more

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