USU pres: SEK [Record Release "Wallensteins Garage"] + SOWA + Knight Fish

SEK return with their new album "Wallensteins Garage"! Unlimited Sonic Use presents: SEK [Stoyan/Edert/Kazzer] - Berlin | Exile on Mainstream Records (Members of Elder, Gavial, Gaffa Ghandi) stoyanedertkazzer.bandcamp.com/ Genre: Historian Oriented Rock / Psychedelic Prog Stoner Rock FFO: Pink Floyd, Motorpsycho, Electric Moon, Hawkwind For four years, SEK have been simmering beneath the surface of Berlin’s underground music scene. After two DIY cassette releases, the trio now breaks through with Wallenstein’s Garage, their first album on vinyl – a debut that is equal parts concept album, historical meditation, and expansive psychedelic rock journey. The album draws its inspiration from the Thirty Years’ War (1618–1648), one of Europe’s most devastating conflicts. Fought largely across the territories of present-day Germany, the war began as a religious conflict between Protestant and Catholic states before evolving into a prolonged political struggle involving most of Europe’s major powers. It left vast regions depopulated and reshaped the political landscape of the continent, making it one of the defining events of early modern European history. At the center of Wallenstein’s Garage stands Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein (1583–1634), the Bohemian military commander who became one of the war’s most influential and controversial figures. Several songs revolve around the Battle of Lützen in 1632 – one of the conflict’s most famous engagements, remembered both for its enormous human cost and for the death of Swedish King Gustavus Adolphus. Yet SEK are not interested in historical reenactment. Instead, they construct a fictional frame: Wallenstein sits alone in his garage, restoring his taxidermied war horse, Amore Mio, while reflecting on the battle and the choices that shaped his life. From this deliberately absurd and surreal premise emerges a meditation on memory, mythmaking, and historiography. Why do societies commemorate wars and battles? At what point does history become fiction – and fiction become another way of understanding history? What is remembered, what disappears, and how can music capture the fragile boundary between the two? The band’s musical vocabulary is as expansive as its subject matter. Fuzz-drenched guitars soaked in swirling delay collide with galloping bass lines, driving drums, and dreamlike synthesizers. Moments of hypnotic groove give way to passages of near-total chaos, where rhythm and harmony dissolve like military formations collapsing in close combat. Elsewhere, delicate mandolin melodies emerge before unfolding into slow, grief-stricken soundscapes inspired by doom and drone metal. Moving effortlessly between improvisation, cinematic atmosphere, and crushing heaviness, SEK create music that does not simply revisit history – it invites listeners to inhabit it. The record will be released on Exile On Mainstream on black vinyl, bundled with a CD and digitally. SOWA - BER https://sowaberlin.bandcamp.com Genre: Heavy Post-Progrock FFO: Pelican, Helmet, Isis SOWA is an instrumental powertrio hailing from Berlin, Germany, offering a unique blend of heavy Post-Progrock and the darker side of 90’s-inspired Alternative, spiced up with a broad variety of Metal and Stoner influences. Knight Fish - BER https://knightfish.bandcamp.com/ Genre: Ambient Experimental Drone FFO: Mamiffer, Tim Hecker, Terry Riley, Knigh Fish is the spacy experimental ambient noise solo outlet by Red Ink Project founder Holger Jendis. Holger has been experimenting with sound texture, repetition and volume for some time and his attitude as a sponge for muscial influences has guided him on to unknown paths.