{"id":7745,"date":"2026-08-06T10:20:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T09:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/?p=7745"},"modified":"2026-08-06T10:27:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T09:27:52","slug":"shindig-issue-178","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/?p=7745","title":{"rendered":"Shindig! Issue #178 \u2013 Graveyard"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cFuck wasting time, fuck depression \u2013 let\u2019s just go and do this album the best we can and do it fast and hard and have a lot of fun while doing it,\u201d enthuses GRAVEYARD\u2019s <\/strong>Truls M\u00f6rck.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since emerging from Gothenburg in 2006, the band have infused their bluesy rock with monolithic Sabbath-style riffs, anthemic choruses, tormented lyrics and the petrol-soaked vocals of Joakim Nilsson. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Now they return with Fever<\/em>, their best album since the seminal Hisingen Blues<\/em>, marking a brutal return to the majesty of the early material with which they made their name, writes AUSTIN MATTHEWS<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Longtime fans may wonder where Graveyard are heading next \u2013 and the answer appears to be a return to the drive and aggression of their earlier albums with Fever, <\/em>which will be out on Nuclear Blast Records on 9th October. For this album the lion\u2019s share of the material has been composed by Truls M\u00f6rck, with Jonatan Ramm also contributing a couple of numbers. \u201cThe main inspiration was touring and just the energy of the live shows,\u201d claims M\u00f6rck. \u201cI wrote a lot of the songs while on tour in 2024 with Baroness. Every night I went back to the bus with a guitar and in my mind, I thought how can we improve on this live set? (The show was) good but when I was fresh off stage I would think \u2018I wish we had a song like this\u2019 and I would try to write it. That was how it all started. That energy informed the writing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel some urgency with this one. The last album was more mellow, and slower. I wanted the albums to be connected but to be opposite, like yin and yang. 6<\/em> was more like an introspective album so I wanted the extrovert album now. I was just trying to get to the point quick without any detours. Try to find energy quick in the songs and just go for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFever <\/em>is a lot different from 6<\/em>,\u201d adds Nilsson. \u201cIt\u2019s a lot harder, more up-tempo. Truls has been doing a lot of the hard work on Fever<\/em> \u2013 it\u2019s been produced mostly by him as well. We wanted to get this album out as soon as possible and Truls really had the stamina going. He had a clear picture of what he wanted to do. For us it\u2019s time for a harder album, an angrier album. Truls really wanted to make a \u2018true\u2019 Graveyard album so I think he analysed how we sound and you could say we were inspired by ourselves! It\u2019s not like some of our more introspective stuff \u2013 it\u2019s more like the harder stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n