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#MECFS
Hab erfahren müssen, dass bei einem guten Freund aus Skandinavien (Freundschaft aus meinem ERASMUS Auslandsstudium, fast schon 20 Jahre her) ME/CFS diagnostiziert wurde.
Das trifft mich emotional grad sehr! 😭

Ein zuvor sehr aktiver und sportlicher Mensch. Nach längerer Pause versucht er derzeit wieder etwa 10 h pro Woche zu arbeiten. 🙏

Damit muss ich wieder daran erinnern:
die Grenze zwischen voll leistungsfähig/arbeitsfähig zu krank/verletzt und damit nicht arbeitsfähig, vielleicht sogar auf Pflege angewiesen, ist sehr viel kleiner als man meist denkt bzw. nie daran denkt.
In diesem Fall war es eine Viruserkrankung wie sie praktisch alle regelmäßig erwischt, teils sogar mehrmals jährlich! (Schnupfen, grippaler Infekt, Influenza, Corona,...).

Aber bitte DENKT IMMER DARAN, wenn wieder mal Konservative Politys was zu Krankenstand, Sozialhilfe/Bürgergeld/Mindestsicherung (oder wie auch immer das benannt wird) oder auch Arbeitslosengeld von sich geben - derzeit oft und fast immer menschenfeindlich / hasserfüllt. 🤬

#viralerInfekt #Viruserkrankung #Viruserkrankungen #postviraleSyndrome #Corona #Covid19 #PostCovid #Influenza #Arbeitsfähigkeit #arbeitsunfähig #Krankenstand #Krankenstandstage #arbeitsfähig #ChronischKrank #ChronischeErkrankung #Sozialhilfe #Mindestsicherung #Bürgergeld #Arbeitslosengeld #Konservative #Menschenhass #ÖVP #ÖVPGameOver #CDU #CDUGameOver #CSU #CSUGameOver #Klassenkampf #TaxTheRich #EatTheRich

#mecfs #viralerinfekt #viruserkrankung #viruserkrankungen #postviralesyndrome #corona

Jürgen 🌗🪐🌌 🇦🇹 @[email protected] · 2026-04-07 · 15:48 UTC

#MECFS
Hab erfahren müssen, dass bei einem guten Freund aus Skandinavien (Freundschaft aus meinem ERASMUS Auslandsstudium, fast schon 20 Jahre her) ME/CFS diagnostiziert wurde.
Das trifft mich emotional grad sehr! 😭

Ein zuvor sehr aktiver und sportlicher Mensch. Nach längerer Pause versucht er derzeit wieder etwa 10 h pro Woche zu arbeiten. 🙏

Damit muss ich wieder daran erinnern:
die Grenze zwischen voll leistungsfähig/arbeitsfähig zu krank/verletzt und damit nicht arbeitsfähig, vielleicht sogar auf Pflege angewiesen, ist sehr viel kleiner als man meist denkt bzw. nie daran denkt.
In diesem Fall war es eine Viruserkrankung wie sie praktisch alle regelmäßig erwischt, teils sogar mehrmals jährlich! (Schnupfen, grippaler Infekt, Influenza, Corona,...).

Aber bitte DENKT IMMER DARAN, wenn wieder mal Konservative Politys was zu Krankenstand, Sozialhilfe/Bürgergeld/Mindestsicherung (oder wie auch immer das benannt wird) oder auch Arbeitslosengeld von sich geben - derzeit oft und fast immer menschenfeindlich / hasserfüllt. 🤬

#viralerInfekt #Viruserkrankung #Viruserkrankungen #postviraleSyndrome #Corona #Covid19 #PostCovid #Influenza #Arbeitsfähigkeit #arbeitsunfähig #Krankenstand #Krankenstandstage #arbeitsfähig #ChronischKrank #ChronischeErkrankung #Sozialhilfe #Mindestsicherung #Bürgergeld #Arbeitslosengeld #Konservative #Menschenhass #ÖVP #ÖVPGameOver #CDU #CDUGameOver #CSU #CSUGameOver #Klassenkampf #TaxTheRich #EatTheRich

#mecfs #viralerinfekt #viruserkrankung #viruserkrankungen #postviralesyndrome #corona

Jürgen 🌗🪐🌌 🇦🇹 @[email protected] · 2026-04-07 · 15:48 UTC

#MECFS
Hab erfahren müssen, dass bei einem guten Freund aus Skandinavien (Freundschaft aus meinem ERASMUS Auslandsstudium, fast schon 20 Jahre her) ME/CFS diagnostiziert wurde.
Das trifft mich emotional grad sehr! 😭

Ein zuvor sehr aktiver und sportlicher Mensch. Nach längerer Pause versucht er derzeit wieder etwa 10 h pro Woche zu arbeiten. 🙏

Damit muss ich wieder daran erinnern:
die Grenze zwischen voll leistungsfähig/arbeitsfähig zu krank/verletzt und damit nicht arbeitsfähig, vielleicht sogar auf Pflege angewiesen, ist sehr viel kleiner als man meist denkt bzw. nie daran denkt.
In diesem Fall war es eine Viruserkrankung wie sie praktisch alle regelmäßig erwischt, teils sogar mehrmals jährlich! (Schnupfen, grippaler Infekt, Influenza, Corona,...).

Aber bitte DENKT IMMER DARAN, wenn wieder mal Konservative Politys was zu Krankenstand, Sozialhilfe/Bürgergeld/Mindestsicherung (oder wie auch immer das benannt wird) oder auch Arbeitslosengeld von sich geben - derzeit oft und fast immer menschenfeindlich / hasserfüllt. 🤬

#viralerInfekt #Viruserkrankung #Viruserkrankungen #postviraleSyndrome #Corona #Covid19 #PostCovid #Influenza #Arbeitsfähigkeit #arbeitsunfähig #Krankenstand #Krankenstandstage #arbeitsfähig #ChronischKrank #ChronischeErkrankung #Sozialhilfe #Mindestsicherung #Bürgergeld #Arbeitslosengeld #Konservative #Menschenhass #ÖVP #ÖVPGameOver #CDU #CDUGameOver #CSU #CSUGameOver #Klassenkampf #TaxTheRich #EatTheRich

#mecfs #viralerinfekt #viruserkrankung #viruserkrankungen #postviralesyndrome #corona

Jürgen 🌗🪐🌌 🇦🇹 @[email protected] · 2026-04-07 · 15:48 UTC

#MECFS
Hab erfahren müssen, dass bei einem guten Freund aus Skandinavien (Freundschaft aus meinem ERASMUS Auslandsstudium, fast schon 20 Jahre her) ME/CFS diagnostiziert wurde.
Das trifft mich emotional grad sehr! 😭

Ein zuvor sehr aktiver und sportlicher Mensch. Nach längerer Pause versucht er derzeit wieder etwa 10 h pro Woche zu arbeiten. 🙏

Damit muss ich wieder daran erinnern:
die Grenze zwischen voll leistungsfähig/arbeitsfähig zu krank/verletzt und damit nicht arbeitsfähig, vielleicht sogar auf Pflege angewiesen, ist sehr viel kleiner als man meist denkt bzw. nie daran denkt.
In diesem Fall war es eine Viruserkrankung wie sie praktisch alle regelmäßig erwischt, teils sogar mehrmals jährlich! (Schnupfen, grippaler Infekt, Influenza, Corona,...).

Aber bitte DENKT IMMER DARAN, wenn wieder mal Konservative Politys was zu Krankenstand, Sozialhilfe/Bürgergeld/Mindestsicherung (oder wie auch immer das benannt wird) oder auch Arbeitslosengeld von sich geben - derzeit oft und fast immer menschenfeindlich / hasserfüllt. 🤬

#viralerInfekt #Viruserkrankung #Viruserkrankungen #postviraleSyndrome #Corona #Covid19 #PostCovid #Influenza #Arbeitsfähigkeit #arbeitsunfähig #Krankenstand #Krankenstandstage #arbeitsfähig #ChronischKrank #ChronischeErkrankung #Sozialhilfe #Mindestsicherung #Bürgergeld #Arbeitslosengeld #Konservative #Menschenhass #ÖVP #ÖVPGameOver #CDU #CDUGameOver #CSU #CSUGameOver #Klassenkampf #TaxTheRich #EatTheRich

#eattherich #taxtherich #klassenkampf #csugameover #csu #cdugameover

Jürgen 🌗🪐🌌 🇦🇹 @[email protected] · 2026-04-07 · 15:48 UTC

#MECFS
Hab erfahren müssen, dass bei einem guten Freund aus Skandinavien (Freundschaft aus meinem ERASMUS Auslandsstudium, fast schon 20 Jahre her) ME/CFS diagnostiziert wurde.
Das trifft mich emotional grad sehr! 😭

Ein zuvor sehr aktiver und sportlicher Mensch. Nach längerer Pause versucht er derzeit wieder etwa 10 h pro Woche zu arbeiten. 🙏

Damit muss ich wieder daran erinnern:
die Grenze zwischen voll leistungsfähig/arbeitsfähig zu krank/verletzt und damit nicht arbeitsfähig, vielleicht sogar auf Pflege angewiesen, ist sehr viel kleiner als man meist denkt bzw. nie daran denkt.
In diesem Fall war es eine Viruserkrankung wie sie praktisch alle regelmäßig erwischt, teils sogar mehrmals jährlich! (Schnupfen, grippaler Infekt, Influenza, Corona,...).

Aber bitte DENKT IMMER DARAN, wenn wieder mal Konservative Politys was zu Krankenstand, Sozialhilfe/Bürgergeld/Mindestsicherung (oder wie auch immer das benannt wird) oder auch Arbeitslosengeld von sich geben - derzeit oft und fast immer menschenfeindlich / hasserfüllt. 🤬

#viralerInfekt #Viruserkrankung #Viruserkrankungen #postviraleSyndrome #Corona #Covid19 #PostCovid #Influenza #Arbeitsfähigkeit #arbeitsunfähig #Krankenstand #Krankenstandstage #arbeitsfähig #ChronischKrank #ChronischeErkrankung #Sozialhilfe #Mindestsicherung #Bürgergeld #Arbeitslosengeld #Konservative #Menschenhass #ÖVP #ÖVPGameOver #CDU #CDUGameOver #CSU #CSUGameOver #Klassenkampf #TaxTheRich #EatTheRich

#mecfs #viralerinfekt #viruserkrankung #viruserkrankungen #postviralesyndrome #corona

John Griogair Bell @[email protected] · 2024-06-11 · 15:17 UTC

“Cain sired evil cunning man-killers banished from heartlove born in hatred giants and fiends jealous man-eaters long without penance.”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2024/06/11/cain-sired-evil-cunning-man-killers-banished-from-heartlove-born-in-hatred-giants-and-fiends-jealous-man-eaters-long-without-penance/

#banished #book #born #cain #cunning #dragons

Jacopo Ranieri @[email protected] · 2026-01-06 · 05:23 UTC

Da legnetti o semplici pneumatici, le creature della mente che si posano sotto il cielo del Nord Europa
https://www.jacoporanieri.com/blog/?p=43697

#arte #sculture #statue #creazioni #autori #personaggi #estonia #Finlandia #scandinavia #svezia #strano #divertente #parcheggio #gomme #pneumatici #legni #tasselli #plastica #materiali #animali #ritratti #comunicazione #ecologia

#arte #sculture #statue #creazioni #autori #personaggi

Jacopo Ranieri @[email protected] · 2025-12-10 · 05:22 UTC

I molti record di Rogfast, tunnel norvegese che trafiggerà il fondale marino del fiordo
https://www.jacoporanieri.com/blog/?p=43544

#strade #viabilità #trasporti #norvegia #scandinavia #settentrione #europa #luoghi #installazioni #infrastrutture #veicoli #sottosuolo #scavo #traforo #tunnel #collegamenti #progetti #nazioni #svincoli #fondale #fiordo #costa #paesi #viaggi

#strade #viabilita #trasporti #norvegia #scandinavia #settentrione

Andy Arthur - Threadinburgh @[email protected] · 2022-11-22 · 15:58 UTC

The thread about Leith shipping owners; industrial whaling, the penguins of Edinburgh Zoo and “Homes for Heroes”

Today’s auction house artefact is a painting of the handsome steam & sail ship SS Windsor of Leith off of Flushing in 1874 by Carl Ludovig Weyts (1828-1875), a Dutch artist. She carries the house flag of George Gibson & Co., a big name in Leith shipping that principally served the Low Countries trade. The Windsor was initially employed on the Leith to Antwerp run and was last noted in newspapers in 1899 when she landed the crew of a French hospital ship, St. Paul, who had been rescued off of Iceland after their ship ran aground and had worked their passage back to Leith.

Windsor of Leith, Capt T. Fulton, Passing Flushing, 1874

George Gibson & Co. was set up by the man of that name in 1820, he had previously been the general manager of the Leith, Hamburg & Rotterdam Shipping Co. His company acquired its first steamer, the Balmoral, in 1850.

An 1886 advert for Gibsons lists nine steam ships in service. Alongside Windsor there was the Abbotsford, Amulet, Anglia, Kinghorn, Mascotte, Osborne, Talisman and Woodstock all serving Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Ghent and Dunkirk from Leith. The naming of their vessels borrowed from the lore of Sit Walter Scott (this was a common fad at the time in Scotland) and their advertising played heavily on links to their principal destinations in the Low Countries, the illustration below shoing the flags of Belgium and Holland and people in national costume. .As late as 1964 the company was still advertising weekly sailings to Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Antwerp and Dunkirk from Leith.

George Gibson & Co. advert

There is an example of the George Gibson house flag in the collection of the National Maritime Museum, the colours below have darkened and the lower bar of the flag was blue as it was based on the national flag of the Netherlands.

House Flag of George Gibson & Co., 1950s, © National Maritime Museum

Gibsons were formed into a limited company in 1916 and on the death in 1920 of the last family owner of Gibsons, a joint parent company was formed, Gibson Rankine Line, with the interests of a number of other Scottish commercial shipping companies; J. T. Salvesen & Co. of Grangemouth, James Rankine & Sons of Glasgow and P. S. Nicoll of Dundee. This formalised a cooperation agreement for advertisement of services and sharing of traffic between these companies that had been in place since 1895. In turn, Gibson Rankine was acquired by the Anchor Line conglomerate in 1972 and had ceased to exist as a distinct subsidiary by 1976.

J. T. Salvesen of Grangemouth was founded in that port in 1843 by Johan Theodor Salvesen, the third son of the Norwegian shipmaster Thomas Salvesen (1787-1853) of Kristiansand. Johan Theodor first founded a business in Leith with a local partner, George Vair Turnbull, in 1846 as Salvesen & Turnbull. The business imported timber for pit props and railway sleepers and grain for distilling from Norway, sending coal and iron back from Scotland in return. They also dealt in Norwegian salted herring, a trade that returned healthy profits.

J. T. Salvesen house flag

Johan Theodor’s younger brother, Salve Christian (known as Christian), was brought over from Norway to help in this business and would take over in Leith, his elder brother running the Grangemouth business. The house flag was a red field with a white-bordered blue diamond in its centre and a white “S” centred within that. Johan Theodore died in 1865, the Grangemoth company passing on to his sons. Christian left the partnership with Turnbull in 1872 and set up on his own in Leith as Christian Salvesen & Co., focussing on trade between mines he owned in Norway and Leith, via Stavanger. His house flag was a Norwegian cross set in a diamond in the middle of a white field.

Christian Salvesen house flag

In 1883, Christian delegated control of the company to his eldest sons Edward T. and Theodore. By the turn of the 20th century the company was sailing between Leith and many Baltic and Scandinavian ports, to as far east as Malta and Egypt. They had also become heavily involved in supplying the North Atlantic and Arctic whaling stations in Greenland, Iceland and the Faroes. In 1904 they moved directly into whaling, setting up a shore base at Olnafirth in the Shetland Islands. The company’s whalers would travel up to 200 miles into the Atlantic in the hunt for whales, which they continued to do until 1929.

Processing a whale carcass at Olnafirth. © Shetland Museum & Archives

A depression in the global shipping industry early in the 20th century saw whaling become an increasingly important part of the business, and its profits kept the company as a whole going. In 1907 they ventured into the South Atlantic whaling by setting up a station in the Falkland Islands, In 1909 a subsidiary of the company, the South Georgia Company, founded the port of Leith Harbour in South Georgia as a station closer to the whaling waters. It would become the largest of the seven such stations in South Georgia and Salvesens would eventually go on to become the single largest whaling company in the world.

Some of the Salvesen fleet at Leith Harbour, South Georgia. The factory ship Southern Opal is closest, with at least 8 whale catchers behind. © Edinburgh City LibrariesStripping whale carcasses at Leith Harbour, with the hut encampment of the “town” behind. CC-by-NC-SA 2.0, Edinburgh University Centre for Research Collections

Salve Christian Salvesen died in 1911. Up until 1914 the company’s funnels had been painted red, white and black stripes, but this proved to be too close to the colours of the Imperial German flag. When Salvesen’s steamer Glitra was sunk 14 miles off of Stavanger in October of that year by a U-boat they switched to the red, white and blue of the Norwegian flag. These new colours can be seen below on the preserved whale catcher Southern Actor, now a museum ship in Sandefjord, Norway.

Southern Actor in 2014, the worlds last surviving, functional steam whaler. CC Tore Sætre, @toresetrephoto

After WW1, Salvesens purchased the former Royal Mail steamer Carmarthenshire and had her converted into a whaling factory ship – the Sourabaya – with a stern ramp up which carcasses could be hauled, to be disassembled and processed on board. The factory ships could accompany the whale catchers directly to the hunting grounds and made the whole process more efficient; the whalers had shorter journeys back and forth to the factory ship rather than always back to the shore base, and the partially processed whales could be transshipped to the shore base for final processing and packing. The Sourabaya was used as a cargo ship during WW2 and was sunk by a German U-boat in the middle of the Atlantic in 1942.

The Sourabaya, Salvesen’s first stern ramp factory ship. PD, source Vestfold Fylkesmuseum Digitalt bildearkiv

Salvesens shipping losses during WW2 were particularly heavy for the size of the company. Seven of their ten tramp steamers were sunk; they lost sixteen from their fleet in total, from the 876 ton Glenfarg up to the 12,000 ton factory ship Salvestria. The Salvestria was lost within sight of Leith, bringing a cargo of processed whale blubber all the way from the South Atlantic; she hit a German mine off of Inchkeith in July 1940 and went down with ten of her crew; 5 British and 5 Norwegian. Nine of the company’s whale catchers that had been requisitioned for naval service would also be sunk. After the war, Salvesens began to made good their war losses and return to the South Atlantic whaling. They started by buying up war surplus naval corvettes – a type of vessel built on the hull of a commercial whale catcher and which was easily converted into one.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/scottishmaritimemuseum/48126941931/

Whale catchers were small vessels and did exactly what it said on their tin; they caught up with the whales and caught them by harpoon. They had no facilities for processing the carcasses, which were towed to the factory ships or places onshore like Leith Harbour. The company’s post-war factory ships were enormous, the Southern Venturer was one of two 15,000-ton monsters complete with helicopter, landing pad and hangar. These were built in 1945. We can now look back on this industrial whaling with the horror it deserves, but this was a big and profitable business in depressed economics of post-war Britain.

Southern Venturer, from the Salvesen Archive and Edinburgh University. Note the whale catchers, one alongside and the other in the distance, and the whale carcass being towed into the ship through the stern hatch.

But the company faced a problem of its own making; the extreme post-war modernisation of its whaling fleet was producing ever-diminishing returns; as they had become more efficient, the whale populations were ever more reduced. In turn, the whalers had to hunt further and further for longer and longer to try and find whales and it was ceasing to be a profitable venture. Salvesens now had an about turn in attitude and became a proponent of whale conservation; their whaling assets were sold in 1963 and the company’s “southern capital” at Leith Harbour was abandoned by 1965.

The rusty remains of Leith Harbour, South Georgia in 2007. PD – Markabq

The company was not without a replacement income stream for whaling however, they had been hedging their bets and had also dipped their toes into the Atlantic whitefish business. Again they turned to industrialisation and would revolutionise the industry in the early 1950s when they developed the first stern trawler freezer factory ships. These both trawled for the fish and also processed and packaged it for sale and kept it frozen so that they could be at sea for much longer periods. The first of these vessels was Fairtry I of 1952 and was the brainchild of Sir Dennis Burney who had approached Salvesens in 1948 with the idea. He had been experimenting with the concept and Salvesens quickly saw the potential, buying both his prototype trawler Fairfree and his business. Their experience in factory whaling ships and knowledge of the Nordic demand for fresh white fish made this a common sense business decision.

The revolutionary Fairtry I, built in Aberdeen for Salvesens in 1952

But once again, the company’s heavy technological investment started to produce diminishing returns. As the whales had disappeared so too did the once seemingly infinite shoals of Atlantic cod and haddock. With trawling now waning too, the company survived once again through reinvention and diversification. They moved away from traditional coastal shipping and focussed themselves in specific sectors such as bulk carriers, managing colliers for the Central Electricity Generation Board and in the North Sea oil offshore service industry. On land they moved into containerised distribution, frozen food and storage – all head-quartered in Leith and Edinburgh. I can clearly recall their lorries around town when I was young, carrying the house flag once sported by the company’s ships.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/88738529@N02/16044987670/

In 1986 the company listed itself as Christian Salvesen PLC on the London Stock Exchange and by 1989 took the decision to exit the shipping business entirely to concentrate on logistics and distribution. In 1997 it left its spiritual home Bernard Street in Leith behind for the East Midlands and Northampton. They did at least leave their flagpoles behind! This building at one time also co-housed the Norwegian Consulate.

Christian Salvesen’s former HQ on Bernard Street in Leith

Salvesens are now long gone from Edinburgh and Leith but they have left us behind a few reminders of their presence. The famous penguins of Edinburgh Zoo for instance were first brought back from South Georgia by Salvesen’s ships alongside 4 seals. They were captured by the Coronda in 1913 and arrived in Edinburgh on Sunday 25th January 1914.

Edinburgh Zoo King Penguins, CC-by-SA 3.0 SeanMack

On the banks of the sterile river basin of the Water of Leith, now cut off from the sea and shipping, a Salvesen’s harpoon gun is a bit of a curiosity and a reminder of Leith’s dubious role at the forefront of the 20th century whaling industry.

A whaling harpoon gun from a Salvesen’s ship, now a curious heritage objet on the banks of the sterile river basin of Leith CC-by-SA 3.0 Kim Traynor

The Salvesen family lost a number of sons and nephews in WW1 and after the war Edward T. Salvesen – by now Lord Salvesen – became involved in the Scottish Veterans Garden City movement; a scheme to build “Homes for Heroes“. In Trinity in Leith the SVGCA built a small housing scheme for injured ex-servicemen named Earl Haig Gardens (no comment on the appropriateness of that name.) on land that had been gifted by the Salvesen family, formerly part of the gardens of Salve Christian’s house of Mayfield . Plaques over the doors of some of the cottages commemorate the lost Salvesen men and relatives of some of the other benefactors.

Earl Haig Gardens2nd Lt. Eric Thomas Smervell Salvesen, died 23 April 19172nd Lt. James Harvey Bryson, died 20th October 1918Major James Norman Henderson, died 28th June 1915Earl Haig Gardens and memorial tablets

At Kaimes Crossroads the Edinburgh Ladies Committee of the SVGCA, led by Lady Salvesen, built a row of neat modern cottage houses for disabled ex-servicemen, with ELC plaques on the pediments.

SVGCA cottages at Kaimes Crossroads

Lord Salvesen died in 1942 but his family remained involved in the SVGCA. After WW2 they again helped finance the construction of SVGCA ex-servicemen’s housing, this time in Muirhouse. Salvesen Gardens is a pleasant little cottage housing scheme again laid out along Garden City sorts of lines. If you stroll around you will find commemorative or benefactory plaques by most doors.

Salvesen Gardens at Muirhouse, note the commemorative plaques.

And next to Salvesen Crescent are the former Lighthouse keepers cottages for the Forth shore station, built in 1951 for the Northern Lighthouse Board. These housed the keepers and their families who served the lights of Bass Rock, Bell Rock, Inchkeith, Fidra and the Isle of May. As the lights became automated these were later used as retirement housing for ex-Lighthouse keepers before being gradually sold into private ownership. This is really one of the most charming little bits of social housing Edinburgh has to offer. Small but perfectly formed and with a style that evokes the NLB‘s lighthouse keepers cottage style.

Salvesen Crescent, former Lighthouse keeper’s family housing

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Skandinavian @[email protected] · 2026-04-13 · 16:09 UTC

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Slow Club Freiburg 🐢❤️🌈 @[email protected] · 2025-10-25 · 00:01 UTC

RONG KONG KOMA + LÙLÙ
Pop-Colère + Power-Pop Bliss

01.11.2025 | 21:00 Uhr
Eintritt 14 € / Ermäßigter Eintritt 12 €

Vorverkauf: https://rausgegangen.de/events/rong-kong-koma-lulu-0

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Verspielt und tanzbar, punkig und hart zugleich. Die fluﬃge Instrumentierung erzeugt eine durchweg positive Grundstimmung, während der kratzige Gesang von Sänger und Multiinstrumentalist Sebastian Kiefer RONG KONG KOMA erdet und die Band meilenweit vom Mainstream rückt.

So entstand ein erstes Album, das mühelos mit den Polaritäten des Lebens spielt. Eine Band, auf deren Konzerten Raum entsteht für Wildes und Zärtliches gleichermaßen. Songs, die beim ersten Zuhören durch Einfachheit bestechen, bei genauerem Hinhören jedoch ungeahnte Komplexität und Dynamik entwickeln. Jeder Song klingt wie mitten aus dem Leben gegriﬀen, als wären sie Narben und jeder Ton ein selbst erlebter und nur halb überwundener Schmerz.

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LÙLÙ
Power pop [Lyon/Marseille]
„Liebeslieder für unruhige Herzen und Glam-Rock-Juwelen für Träumer. “
Die Allianz Rhône/Bouches du Rhône präsentiert LÙLÙ (ausgesprochen „Loulou“), eine brandneue „Supergroup“ aus Mitgliedern bekannter Bands der Musikszene von Lyon und Marseille (AVIONS, Irnini Mons, Egdar Suit, Pogy et les Kéfars).

LÙLÙ lässt sich sowohl von der aktuellen Power-Pop-Szene (Alvilda, Sheer Mag) als auch von der der 70er Jahre beeinflussen und erlaubt sich Ausflüge in den skandinavischen Punkrock (Masshysteri, Teini-Pää) oder der Hardcore-Szene (Chubby and the Gang, OFF!), während sie gleichzeitig einen Blick auf den italienischen Pop der 60er Jahre, die Girlgroups von Motown oder den Pop des Brill Building (Lesley Gore, The Chiffons) wirft
und so die Wissenschaft des Hits mit zeitlosen Emotionen verbindet.

Bandcamp: https://allocestlulu.bandcamp.com/album/l-l

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Tabletop Sentinel @[email protected] · 2026-04-27 · 19:23 UTC

If the Yule Cat went after wargamers for their pile of shame, the hobby would be wiped out by Boxing Day. Luckily it sticks to the rules: new pants on Christmas? you live. Legendary Games Nordic Monsters - 80+ creatures
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Angry Metal Guy @[email protected] · 2026-02-23 · 20:51 UTC

Necrofier – Transcend into Oblivion Review By Creeping Ivy

Houston’s Necrofier first came on my radar when they played the 2024 Decibel Magazine Tour with Hulder, Devil Master, and Worm. Sadly, I missed their opening set, but gladly, I caught a recording of it on YouTube.1 Their raucous, crowd-pleasing performance compelled me to check out their recordings. At 36 minutes, debut Prophecies of Eternal Darkness (2021) is a lean, mean barrage of melodic black metal, while Burning Shadows in the Southern Night (2023) ups the ante with 47 minutes of stronger, more polished material. Necrofier’s (lone?) star seems to be on the rise since Decibel 2024, as their third album arrives on the mighty Metal Blade Records. Also on the rise are the band’s ambitions; Transcend into Oblivion spreads three three-songs suites and an eponymous closing track across a hefty 59 minutes. Everything is bigger in Texas, sure, but bigger doesn’t always mean better (or good).

Perhaps due to their sweltering abode, Necrofier draws black metal sustenance from the shivering environs of Scandinavia. Dissection is certainly an immediate reference point, if they excised the excursions into folky melodeath. Necrofier’s preferred melodicism swirls as a maelstrom of mobile power chords by guitarists Bakka and Semir Özerkan, propelled by the dexterous drumming of Dobber Beverly.2 The influence of Watain also feels present, especially since Bakka’s rasp sounds quite a bit like E. And early Emperor reigns here as well, before they fully unbound Prometheus. Violins, synthesizers, and harpsichords are felt more than heard outright, balancing a sweet spot production-wise à la Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk. On the unfortunate side of the production is bassist Mat Valentine, who gets lost in the shuffle. Nevertheless, Transcend into Oblivion consistently delivers quality black metal that is melodic but dangerous.

Transcend into Oblivion by Necrofier

Transcend into Oblivion progresses as three suites, each comprised of three songs. Together, they narrate a ‘Luciferian Night of the Dark Soul’: a spiritual awakening incites torment that ultimately engenders rebirth. Individually, they mostly play out as a collection of thematically-linked songs. “Fires of the Apocalypse, Light My Path” immediately kicks the door in (“Fires…I”) before kicking the door in again (“Fires…II”) and again—”Fires…III” is the strongest of the trio, but the listener begins wondering why these songs are presented as holistic units. The “Servants of Darkness, Guide My Way” trilogy comes closest to reaching suiteness. “Servants…I” starts with one of the album’s gnarliest trem riffs, “Servants…II” cools things down with an extended acoustic passage, and “Servants III” delightfully dips into doomy Middle-Eastern territory before black-metal blastoff. As for the “Horns of Destruction, Lift My Blade” triumvirate, it adds variety with d-beats, chunkier riffs, and a gong, but it feels like more of the same this deep into the album. There’s no real filler amongst the suites, but there aren’t any thrilling peaks either.

Keeping with their spiritualism, Necrofier nests numerology into Transcend into Oblivion, punctuating its three-song threesome with three instrumentals. For the most part, they effectively break up the black metal action. On the heels of the opening “Fires” suite, “Behold, the Birth of Ascension” conveys the onset of (re)birth pangs. Repurposing a melody from “Fires…III” with creepy bells and macabre piano, it cleverly inverts the typical function of an interlude, segueing out of a song rather than into one. More in the typical interlude camp is “Mystical Creation of Enlightenment.” Its Spanish-sounding acoustic plucks make for a soothing shift out of the savage “Servants” suite, while its ending modulation prefigures the ornery onset of the “Horns” suite. Oddly enough, it’s the eponymous instrumental that feels superfluous. “Toward the Necrofier” concludes the album with ominous space synths, incantatory spoken word, and tribal rhythms. “Horns…III,” however, ends with its own climax and a piano denouement, which makes the final instrumental feel like a coda to an album that doesn’t need more closure.

“Toward the Necrofier” does function as a serviceable springboard for a second spin of Transcend into Oblivion, an album which I ultimately recommend. It makes sense that Necrofier would cap off a work about rebirth with an eponymous song distilling the more unique elements of their sound. While Necrofier don’t fully realize their conceptual ambition, Transcend into Oblivion is sweet stuff regardless, demonstrating lots of promise for future outings. Black metal zealots of all stripes should strongly consider messing with these Texans.

Rating: 3.0/5.0
DR: 8 | Format Reviewed:256 kbps mp3
Label: Metal Blade Records
Websites: Bandcamp | Instagram | Facebook
Releases Worldwide: February 27th, 2026