Orbit Culture came to Sacramento on one of the final cool nights in the area with amazing support from ‘ATLAS’ and ‘OV SULFUR’ who lit the sold out crowd up from the beginning and also offered up something different to every single fan in the building whether you were there for the melodic or for the chaos. Orbit Culture, hailing from Sweden, has been around for almost a decade and pulls zero punches in their live set, while also not shying away from their obvious influences.
Their set consisted of a healthy dose of “Death Above Life”, unsurprisingly considering that’s the album that skyrocketed them, but also did a nice job of sprinkling in tracks off of ’Nina’ and ‘Descent’, but among them standing out for me were “Saw” off of their Redfog EP and “The Shadowing” off of Nija. This was the first show on the tour, but definitely didn’t feel like there was any warm-up needed as they ripped through their entire set without stopping for much longer than to get a drink of water.
I wouldn’t go as far to say that Orbit Culture is the future of Swedish metal, but I will say that they may be the catalyst that brings new fans of the genre into bands like In Flames, Dark Tranquility, The Haunted and many more, or at least that’s my hope.
| Song | Album / EP | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Death Above Life | Death Above Life | October 3, 2025 |
| The Storm | Death Above Life | October 3, 2025 |
| The Tales of War | Death Above Life | October 3, 2025 |
| North Star of Nija | Nija | August 7, 2020 |
| Saw | Redfog (EP) | April 6, 2018 |
| From the Inside | Descent | August 18, 2023 |
| Bloodhound | Death Above Life | October 3, 2025 |
| The Shadowing | Nija | August 7, 2020 |
| Open Eye | Nija | August 7, 2020 |
| While We Serve | The Forgotten (EP) | December 1, 2023 |
| Hydra | Death Above Life | October 3, 2025 |
| Vultures of North | Descent | August 18, 2023 |
