{"id":8745,"date":"2018-09-11T15:10:29","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T20:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/?p=8745"},"modified":"2018-09-11T15:10:29","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T20:10:29","slug":"s-k-o-r-interview-9-11-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/s-k-o-r-interview-9-11-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"S.K.o.R. Interview 9\/11\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nListen to the Interview via Talkshoe<\/a><\/p>\n

S.K.o.R.
\n‘Rubus Tellus’
\nGMR Music
\n14 September 2018
\nS.K.o.R. BIOGRAPHY<\/p>\n

Emil Gammeltoft, Lead Vocals
\nLorenzo Fugazza, Lead Guitars
\nAnders Thorgren, Bass
\nMally Hoxell, Drums<\/p>\n

It’s not often that you can discover something that is both original and commercial, but still pays tribute to the great poppy hard rock of the 1970’s. With S.K.o.R we have 2018\u2019s answer to bands such as The Sweet, Nazareth, Slade and a touch of Aerosmith perhaps.
\nS.K.o.R (which stands for Some Kind of Rubus) was formed in 2006 by lead vocalist Emil Gammeltoft, who just recently released an Ep with Manny Charlton\u2019s (Nazareth) No Borderz project. As for the name, Rubus is Latin for a large and diverse group of flowering plants in the rose family. Emil Gammeltoft picked the name Rubus from the milk tetras that had the northern Swedish landscape flower “Rubus Arcticus” on the packaging, when he was raised (so it is a “root” thing). Then added “Some kind of” to that later on. As most of the fan-base calls the band \u201cSKoR\u201d the band decided to shorten their name down from “Some Kind of Rubus” to S.K.o.R.<\/p>\n

The mission for S.K.o.R was to combine folk music and hard rock and several Ep:s and one full length album, \u2018Smorgasbord\u2019 were released in that vein on the bands own label. The band had a minor hit in Sweden with \u201dChop Song\u201d in 2011, but apart from that several line-up changes combined with the will to rock harder again meant a change of direction from 2015 onward.<\/p>\n

Rubus Tellus was produced by the band\u2019s drummer, Mats “Mally” Hoxell and recorded in S.K.o.R.s headquarters studio in Stockholm with parts of it also in the village of Junsele in the North of Sweden (actually in a northern zoo). The poppy, catchy first single \u201cBubbleman\u201d opens the album and \u201cis about breaking free from the norm. To dare to be who you really are can sometimes be difficult. The song addresses that, breaking free from the bubble most of us live in,\u201d says Gammeltoft, while \u201cRhythm ‘n Blues\u201d is somewhat autobiographical, relating Emil\u2019s musical road to Stockholm from and the story about vocalist Emil Gammeltoft’s road to Stockholm from the northern Swedish town of Lule\u00e5 where he was raised. \u201cHell to Pay\u201d is an acoustic track that tells the story of someone being used at work by a boss who uses dirty laundry to weed out his staff and \u201cMystify\u201d is about making life more interesting than it really is \u2013 \u201cabout trying to push anything you want to get something out of,\u201d explains the frontman. <\/p>\n

Taking all the best elements of classic rock, this Swedish quartet are set to explode. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Listen to the Interview via Talkshoe S.K.o.R. ‘Rubus Tellus’ GMR Music 14 September 2018 S.K.o.R. BIOGRAPHY Emil Gammeltoft, Lead Vocals Lorenzo Fugazza, Lead Guitars Anders Thorgren, Bass Mally Hoxell, Drums It’s not often that you can discover something that is both original and commercial, but still pays tribute to the great poppy hard rock of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8745","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rock"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8755,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8745\/revisions\/8755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}