Music: Stoner Rock
Website: http://www.truckfighters.com/
Country: Sweden
Stand out tracks: Atomic, Fortyeight, Slacken
Swedish stoners TRUCKFIGHTERS have been establishing themselves nicely over the last few years. Their previous album gravity X was a solder stoner album in the vein of KYUSS. They have been touring the last year with pedigree stoners FU MANCHU giving them good exposure to a wider audience. So with this in mind Id been eagerly awaiting this album.
The album kicks in with the track atomic; a fuzzy opening riff before breaking in with John Garcia style vocals. Its stoner rock paint by numbers the riffs are present and accounted for and makes for a promising opening to the album. Fortyeight is mid tempo affair with a good little groove to it. The intervals between the singing has nice little breakdowns. Kickdown carries on much the same way. The riffs are reminiscent of KYUSS and NEBULA. Chameleon takes things a step further lasting over ten minutes. The song moves along at a slow pace. Its a pleasant song with mellower sections before breaking back with the fuzzy wall of noise and picking up the pace about half way through. It then ends on relaxing string section part. At times it was losing my interest, but still a solid song. Dysthymia is one of the mellowest tracks on the album distracting from the hard rocking of the rest of the album. Slacken gets things back on track with one of the most infectious openings of the album. Slacken pretty much flows into the next track warhead. Warhead is just an instrumental jam that isnt adding much to the album. Its just a filler track to get the album up the acceptable 10 song point. Traffic has a slight eastern vibe about the opening of the song. Track 9 will either be slides if you have the EU release of the album. Slides is another instrumental jam that blurs into the rest of the album. The album is winding down now as we reach the final song The game which raps up the album well enough.
The album is all solid stoner fodder. The first half contains most of the strongest songs with the instrumentals and weaker songs on the second half not really adding much. The weaker songs aside its still a good release. It may not be up there with KYUSS welcome to sky valley, but then QOTSA arent producing music on that quality anymore either so its a good effort. Basically whether you like this album will come down to whether you object to hearing another band that sounds exactly like KYUSS, FU MANCHU or NEBULA or the many other countless stoner that were products of KYUSS and MONSTER MAGNET. Personally its a welcome album as Id rather hear this than hear another poor quality metal core band or poor quality band claiming to be bringing thrash back. But you have be warned this doesnt score any points for originality but it is packed with enough fuzzy riffs and groovy tunes to make up for it.
note: 7/10
Tracklist
1. Atomic
2. Fortyeight
3. Kickdown
4. Chameleon
5. Dysthymia
6. Slacken
7. Warhead
8. Traffic
9. Slides (EU release)/Below the sun (US release)
10. The game
Line-up
Paco-Drums & percussion
Dango-Guitar
Ozo-Bass
Fredo-Guitar
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