Graveyard - Hisingen Blues review
| Band: | Graveyard |
| Album: | Hisingen Blues |
| Style: | Hard rock, Blues rock |
| Release date: | March 25, 2011 |
| A review by: | Baz Anderson |
01. Ain't Fit To Live Here
02. 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]
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.
Nine great songs of heavy bass guitar and Robert Plant-style howling, there is no possibility of listening to Hisingen Blues without feeling the soul of the music and tapping your foot along to the beat. Right from the off, "Ain't Fit To Live Here" is the perfect up-tempo opener for this addictive album that should feel more at home on a turntable than in a CD player. Each instrument brings its own feel to the album, culminating in a truly great album for hard rock and blues lovers.
Last song on the album "The Siren" is without exaggeration, six minutes of near-perfection that sums Hisingen Blues up in one and puts it to bed. Graveyard might not be a widely-known band, but with this album have delivered a bolt out of the blue that would be criminal to let pass without hearing. A true treat from a band with an authentic sound like none other for many years.
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Blues hard-rock
Sweden
Length: 39:29
Nuclear Blast
Rating breakdown
| Performance: | 9 |
| Songwriting: | 9 |
| Originality: | 7 |
| Production: | 9 |
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| NocturnalStalker Metal Addict Posts: 889  |
Great album that evokes the feeling of nostalgia for good old times. One of the pleasant surprises this year offered me. 
---- "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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| Spirit Molecule spirit molecule Posts: 1918  |
Hmmm these guys are on TeePee, will definitely give them a listen.
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| silenius Posts: 531  |
They are getting alot of attention here in sweden tbh, and they are worth it, awesome album, good review aswell!
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| HateSpark Posts: 27 |
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| malaikat Posts: 405  |
In Flames releases a piece of crap album, next thing you now, this jewel appeares. Touché, Sweden. Touché.
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| Merchant of Doom Posts: 702  |
A true treat from a band with an authentic sound like none other for many years Can you lend me some of the hearing-altering stuff you are on, please? I might be able to enjoy a lot more music then... 
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| Rupert Posts: 469  |
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| TheBigRossowski Posts: 1357  |
Great review, man. I wouldn't have said Robert Plant-ish style, but that's just like... ugh, my opinion, man. Nonetheless, a kick ass album! There's a lot of new/old shit on the rise these days! Check out Orchid's "Capricorn"! God damn!
---- That rug really tied the room together, did it not? 
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| shadowdragonfly1 Posts: 72 |
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| Fat & Sassy! Elite Posts: 3857  |
Written by TheBigRossowski on 13.06.2011 at 22:00 If someone told me Robert Plant did guest vocals on the song, The Siren, I'd believe it. Imo, it not only *sounds* like him, but their vocalist sings in a very similar style, expressing his emotions in the same manner as Plant did. =3
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| Storchillarn Posts: 163  |
I agree on the Plant reference. This album is good but I'd have given it a 7 because only 50% of the album is great while the other half is actually quite boring.
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| Yugosaki Posts: 141  |
Written by Storchillarn on 14.06.2011 at 21:28 that's my opinion too
---- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaEBpRWr2IA
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| Susan Smeghead Elite Posts: 6941  |
Nom nom nom I am eating this one up. Thanks for reviewing it Baz.... you're spot on!
---- "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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| TheBigRossowski Posts: 1357 |
Written by Fat & Sassy! on 14.06.2011 at 04:22 Actually, I do hear a bit of Plant in a few songs. Shit... wow...
---- That rug really tied the room together, did it not?
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| Valentin B Iconoclast Posts: 10094  |
Wow, I've been on a big classic/psychedelic rock craze lately but holy goddamned shit. This album is nuts! It sounds like if in 1972 the guys in Zeppelin and Deep Purple were locked up in a studio and force-fed hash brownies for 2 weeks straight. (I'm saying this because Zeppelin had a much more focused style, while Graveyard is all over the place).
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