Release date: 9/29/2023
Origin: Gothenburg, Sweden
Personnel: Joakim Nilsson-vox/guitar, Jonatan Larocca-Ramm-guitar, Truls Morck-bass, Oskar Bergenheim-drums
Graveyard is such a world weary band. Listening to them will make you feel like you’ve spent the night in a smoky, run down dive bar. You’ve smoked too many heaters and possibly took too many shots to drown out the fact that you’ve lost your job and your old lady has been running around on you. All of that is captured in the soulfully mournful vocals of Joakim Nilsson. I honestly hope that his life hasn’t been as hard as his vocal delivery implies. These guys are just the best at this kind of throwback bluesy, laid-back metal. Album number 6 for these guys just solidifies their place as kings of this subgenre.
5 flip flops out of 5
The list so far:
3. Graveyard-6
4. The Ocean-Holocene
5. Hinayana-Shatter and Fall
6. In Flames-Foregone
7. Soen-Memorial
8. Panopticon-The Rime of Memory
9. Mutoid Man-Mutants
10. Enslaved-Heimdal
11. Thron-Dust
12. Harboured-Harboured
13. Herod-Iconoclast
14. Insomnium-Anno 1696
15. Spirit Adrift-Ghost At the Gallows
16. Church of Misery-Born Under a Mad Sign
17. Primordial-How It Ends
18. Imperium Dekadenz-Into Sorrow Evermore
19. Royal Thunder-Rebuilding the Mountain
20. Katatonia-Sky Void of Stars
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