OMSORG

Some hardcore bands keep their hearts well hidden. Omsorg (Danish for care) hold theirs right out in the open. The trio grew up around the legendary Aalborg venue 1000fryd, after two old skate friends and a drummer found each other in the lockdown of 2020. The debut album Moments, Movements (2023) arrived fists first, followed by the EP Echoes (Puffin Artlab, 2024), recorded live as a band: shorter, rawer, more melodic, and aching in all the right places – both releases embodying grief, loneliness, anxiety, and community. And now the band is working on its next full-length.

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Jan Fenger Christensen's guitar brings riffs that roll in fast and then ring out over open space. Trong Minh Le's bass keeps a melody of its own, with a funk lean that swings where you expected only weight. Mads Skannerup Hansen's drums scatter across the kit and change groove just when you think you have it, with cymbals shimmering over every turn. Christensen and Le share the vocals, trading gruff barks and piercing screams, and live Hansen sometimes hands the sticks to a friend for a song and grabs the microphone himself. Together the three make music that tips between desperate and tender, drops from full tilt to a hush within a bar, sways in 6/8 for a while, and then stops dead before you can brace for it.

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WHAT TO EXPECT

Omsorg play fast and tight and look like they are having the time of their lives: the screams come with wide smiles, the bass grins through the knottiest passages, and the drums, pushed to the front of the stage, never let the pulse sag. Then the voice thickens, and a track goes out to someone who is gone. Between numbers the band speak plainly about looking after one another, and the next song lands the harder for it.

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