Swedish stoner/desert rock duo Molosser Crude unveils new single »Swallow The Sun«; debut album out in May 2025!

Uråsa, Sweden based stoner/desert rock duo Molosser Crude has unveiled a brand new single and video »Swallow The Sun« following »Slave To The Voices«.

»Swallow The Sun« is the second single leading up to Molosser Crude’s debut album, scheduled for release in May 2025.

Listen to »Swallow The Sun« on Spotify and other streaming platforms!

What would it sound like if the Jimi Hendrix Experience were to emerge from an extremely lengthy recording session at the Electric Lady Studios in New York to find that more than twenty years had passed, and in a dark, rainy street they met up with grim noise riff rockers Unsane, hit it off and decided to combine their capabilities? Well, to start with you’d have six people, whereas Swedish power duo Molosser Crude have to make do with only two: drumming vocalist Tess and multi-amp guitar player Jahn. On their new single »Swallow The Sun«, however, they do manage to merge the hypnotic drones of bluesy sixties psychedelia and the jazz-based swing of that era’s drumming and singing with the darkness, harsher rhythms and merciless drive of later decades, long past the summer of love.

With earlier releases, Molosser Crude have – reluctantly – defined themselves as a stoner rock outfit, throwing in grunge, blues, noise and jazz to round out the bill – and probably that still stands for »Swallow The Sun«. At least if you look at ur-stoners Kyuss rather than at later derivates; with songs ranging from furious »Green Machine« to dreamy »Catamaran«, the Palm Springs Desert combo reached far and wide with few regards to style. The same can be said of Molosser Crude, whose only real defining factor is the combined experience, sensibility and energy of its members. Any riff-hungry listener will get her or his fill from »Swallow The Sun« and the duo’s other offerings.

Molosser Crude’s previous single, »Slave To The Voices«, is actually Molosser Crude’s first step away from the live-in-the-studio format that the duo has used in their previous releases – everything recorded live in one take, vocals included. Their new recording still builds on the same foundation, a one-take recording of drums and guitar (played through guitar amps and a bass amp simultaneously) to preserve the energy of the live performance. This time, though, Crude have allowed themselves the luxury of tracking the vocals separately and even making a couple of guitar overdubs. The result is a doomy concoction that erupts in powerful choruses intermingled with slow-cooking, psychedelic interludes, leading up to a chaotic end to unload any excessive energy. The whole thing clocks in at close to eight minutes, but there are no dead points in this immaculately choreographed evolution. As the duo says: “We can’t stop until we’re finished.”

Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well