Nephila - Live Sweden Rock 2025 - Part 1
Nephila - Live Sweden Rock 2025 - Part 2
Nephila is a Swedish psychedelic rock band consisting of seven young musicians, five of whom appear to like being masked most of the time – and I don’t mean surgical face masks, these are the full-on “Plague Doctor” variety – without any clue why this be so! The band are collectively inspired by ’60s and ’70s rock, with hints of folk and a twist of theatrical expressionism. Nephila won the nationwide Swedish music competition LiveKarusellen in 2019 and made an impact on everyone who attended. And I can see why, the seven tracks on the album provide a mix of heavy prog, retro rock, sweet guitar solos and duelling vocal harmonies provided by the band’s dual lead singers, with elements of mysticism, folklore, and storytelling.
The lead singers were previously with another Swedish retro band called Children of the Sün, who are distinctly hippy-ish so if you like the more psychedelic music of the late 60’s, early 70’s you’ll love this! Touches of heavy blues rock add to the retro feel, according to the band, guitars act as the basis on which hard rock rests as the heart of it all. Add to it that sense of mysticism and theatre, and that captures their ‘vision’. “Nephila’s strength definitely lies in our performance”, says one of the lead singers Stina. “The mystique is important. We all have strong personalities and our masks create yet another dimension. No matter what happens to any of us, the mask always lives on.” From: https://www.velvetthunder.co.uk/nephila-nephila-the-sign-records/
The lead singers were previously with another Swedish retro band called Children of the Sün, who are distinctly hippy-ish so if you like the more psychedelic music of the late 60’s, early 70’s you’ll love this! Touches of heavy blues rock add to the retro feel, according to the band, guitars act as the basis on which hard rock rests as the heart of it all. Add to it that sense of mysticism and theatre, and that captures their ‘vision’. “Nephila’s strength definitely lies in our performance”, says one of the lead singers Stina. “The mystique is important. We all have strong personalities and our masks create yet another dimension. No matter what happens to any of us, the mask always lives on.” From: https://www.velvetthunder.co.uk/nephila-nephila-the-sign-records/
