Name: BRUECKEN
Members: Florian Alemi, David Barteczko, Thorge Freidel, Bernd Frikke, Jens Niehoff
Interviewee: Jens Niehoff
Nationality: German
Current release: BRUECKEN's new album years that answer is out via Moment of Collapse.  

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When it comes to experiencing the sensation of “energy” as a listener, which albums, performances, and artists come to mind?

When it comes to the five of us the range for this answer would spread really wide. I will try to pinpoint the outposts here.

Cult of Luna are amazing by everything they did thus far and kept our interest throughout the years. It is amazing to see a band grow and progress in their own way like they did without compromising.

To me the album Vertikal is a masterpiece and genre defining milestone.



Maybeshewill are part of our playlist on every tour we hit the road. Their definition of musical melancholy is one of a kind and a wonderful thing to listen.

The song “Complicity” off their album No Feeling is Final is a good example, a perfect song by a unique band.



Even if it is obvious, but Mogwai simply rule. This band has been around for such a long time and kept releasing great music. Their songs are not so much on the nose, but grow with every further spin.

“Hungry Face” is the opening title of the soundtrack they did for The Revenants and a truly growing earworm.



Envy from Japan are one of the most impressive acts when it comes to energy- and melodydriven music. Not unlike Cult of Luna they went on their own path without selling their musical core and continued combining magical melodies with distortion and chaos.

“All that’s left has gone to sleep” of their EP Abyssal is one of those tracks that stood the test of time and never lost any point of its intensity.



The list could go on and on, Caspian, Shy Low, We Lost The Sea, Isis (the band), Russian Circles, Bohren & der Club of Gore, Cranial, Botch ... you name it.

[Read our Caspian interview]

Music is a wonderful thing and so rich in its colors.

On a personal note I would mention Her Name Is Calla.



They're a band I just rediscovered and completely fell in love with their album The Quiet Lamb, the entire album is a rough ride through melancholy, despair, pain and beauty.