Mad About Rock

Electronic alt rock/metal act Weesp hail from Minsk, Belarus and have been delivering their crushing and energetic music since their inception in 2008. In 2015 they finally unleashed their debut album 'The Void' which featured the likes of Cory Brandan from Norma Jean and highlighted them as a band to firmly watch. Luckily their anticipated sophomore release 'Black Sails' is soon to reach our shores and they have already given us a taste of what to expect with some teaser videos (you can view below, with more on the way soon). I caught up with bassist Dmitry (Mi) Budko after their recent tour to discuss their history, the new album and more... Can you tell us about your formation in 2008? We all met together a long time ago, in school years. WEESP was formed in 2008 in Minsk, when we have released our first EP album, it was called Ep2008 vol 1 (volume one) and consisted of only 3 tracks. The second volume never came out. In fact, there were about 10 tracks,...

Photo credit: Konsta Lemettinen Heart Tide has released a visualizer for a brand new track ''Medicate''. Arguably showing a glimpse of the heavier side, this is the tenth single released and the last this year. Speaking about the song: ''Medicate is absolutely the most ambitious thing I've ever written'' Samu Hietainen explains. ''I knew it was going the be the last song released so I wanted to make it feel like the last song on the record. A great build-up and lots of valleys and peaks. Production-wise I spent the most time on it. Obviously when a song is six minutes long, there are so much details you can work on and obsess over. In the end I do feel extremely satisfied with what the song became. I think it's massive.'' Medicate and the other nine singles released so far will be on Heart Tide's first ''mixtape'' called Vulnerable, which will come out on December 1st. Pre-orders will be available o...