Graveyard - Hisingen Blues
Tracklist
01. Ain't Fit To Live Here02. No Good, Mr Holden
03. Hisingen Blues
04. Uncomfortably Numb
05. Buying Truth (Tack Och Förlåt)
06. Longing
07. Ungrateful Are The Dead
08. Rss
09. The Siren
10. Cooking Brew [bonus]
Line-up
Joakim Nilsson - guitar, vocals
Rikard Edlund - bass
Axel Sjöberg - drums
Jonatan Ramm - guitar
Guest musicians
Petrus Fredestad - hammond on "Longing" & "Ungrateful Are The Dead"
Nils Dahl - piano on "Longing"
Erik Sjöberg Ridderström - lergök on "Longing"
Joakim Nilsson - guitar, vocals
Rikard Edlund - bass
Axel Sjöberg - drums
Jonatan Ramm - guitar
Guest musicians
Petrus Fredestad - hammond on "Longing" & "Ungrateful Are The Dead"
Nils Dahl - piano on "Longing"
Erik Sjöberg Ridderström - lergök on "Longing"
Additional info
Produced, engineered and mixed by Don Ahsterberg at Don Pierre Studios. Mastered by Hans Olsson Brookes & Don Ahsterberg at Svenska Grammofonstudion Mastering.Cover artwork by Ulf Lundén.
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Graveyard are a relatively new band hailing from Sweden bringing back a very old sound to our ears. Hisingen Blues is their second album of absolute classic blues rock heaven. This is hard rock with a heavy side of blues and a hint of psychedelic rock thrown in for good measure. Dirty guitars, dirty vocals, Graveyard are stuck in the 70's and it hasn't sounded better in the modern age than it does here. Read more ›› |
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Fat & Sassy!
Blues Rock
Jun 21, 2011
Oh boy. Another surprise hit this year. It may not be the most original music ever, but each track on this album packs a punch with tons of feeling and atmosphere. So next time your girlfriend/boyfriend or friends come over for some maximum chillage, put your Zeppelin albums away for a night and put Hisingen Blues in your sound system. Let Graveyard help you relax and then make some drinks, make some friends, make some memories, and maybe (if you're lucky) make a little bit of love tonight.
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Brilliant album. Very powerful stuff. And I like the nods at classic bands like "Uncomfortably Numb". XD
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I expected myself not to enjoy this given that throwback bands are a dime a dozen nowadays. This though...its the real deal. Very impressed.
---- Learn to adapt to the change, or get washed away like tears in the rain.
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After many, many listens, I decided to issue this album a ten... I don't do this often, but I think every second of this album is pure gold. =3
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It's nice and cute  that band plays this forgotten style, but i dont' think the songs are that good.... album is good, but nothing more...
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Absolutely one of the best albums I've heard this year. Top 10 for sure 
---- "A life all mine Is what I choose At the end of my days" --The Gathering "A Life All Mine" from Souvenirs
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Listened to this one for the first time yesterday. It makes me remember why I like blues rock so much. Needs a lot more spins.
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It's good, but I don't get why people heap that much praise upon it
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Posts: 21306 Written by Ag Fox on 25.06.2011 at 21:23 Because it's new and it sounds old. People go crazy for shit like that.
---- "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
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Posts: 4774 Written by Troy Killjoy on 25.06.2011 at 21:26 Well... Perhaps. I appreciate certain old sounding new albums (e.g. Ghost's latest which I ended liking it enough to give it a 9), but I guess I just don't quite feel the nostalgia here
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Posts: 3857 Written by Troy Killjoy on 25.06.2011 at 21:26 Or because it sounds incredibly raw and sincerely emotive. I'm not even *that* big of a classic hard/blues rock fan, but this album tickles me pink. 
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Posts: 21306 Written by Fat & Sassy! on 25.06.2011 at 21:30 I haven't listened to it (and most likely won't), I was just assuming.
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This is indeed one fun album to listen to 
---- Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29 Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
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Posts: 9568 Written by Troy Killjoy on 25.06.2011 at 21:26 aint that the truth.
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Posts: 18612 Written by Ag Fox on 25.06.2011 at 21:29 I'm the other way around, I don't feel that much with Ghost's album... The old school spirit wasn't really there, just the music. This guys really breath the genre imo.
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Great album to enjoy the music while reminiscing of the good ol' 70's. Not like I can do the reminiscing part, though, as I was born in the eighties. Anyway Hisingen Blues is one of the rare jewels presented before us in the previous year, and it would be very unwise to discard this album (unless you're a passionate hard/blues rock hater, which is also not too wise ).
---- "And we are not who we think we are We are who we're afraid to be" - Lux Occulta "The Opening of Eleventh Sephirah"
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Classic Blues Hard-Rock, Led Zeppelin (Robert Plant)-like .
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Posts: 3333 Written by monur on 09.11.2016 at 15:30 There is a lot of similarity to Witchcraft indeed, but I'm sure we all know that the influences come from way past, 70s even. Everyone influences everyone. All who wanna hear a killer song check out "Samaritan Burden" (by Witchcraft).
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Sounds like Wolfmother.
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The vocals are very intense and cool, the music takes you into a different world but I cannot help but say that this album is way overrated. From the comments and the ratings here on Metal Storm, I was expecting something that will blow out of my mind (and I wasn't expecting something technical). and boy was I let down. It is a nice addition to my music library but it's a normal album with a special mood. Many songs sound alike and I cannot make the difference between most of them. A 7 for me and just for originality and atmosphere.
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Posts: 1376 Written by Ace Frawley on 03.03.2018 at 09:31 Only 10x better.
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Absolutely phenomenal record, one of the best in blues rock of the 21st century. Excellent songwriting, tremendous vocals, and heavy on nostalgia.
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