Swedish stoner rockers Mammoth Volume release WoW-inspired new video »The Battle Of Lightwedge«; new album out August 23th on Blues Funeral Recordings!
Swedish progressive stoner rockers Mammoth Volume have released new single and music video »The Battle Of Lightwedge« taken from their upcoming album, »Raised Up By Witches«, due out on August 23rd, 2024 via Blues Funeral Recordings.
Tracklist:
01. The Battle Of Lightwedge
02. Black Horse Beach
03. Scissor Bliss
04. Diablo III: Faces In The Water
05. Lisa
06. Serpent In the Deep
07. Cult Of Eneera
08. A Tale About A Photon
09. Sången Om Ymer
Courtesy of Purple Sage PR:
Swedish progenitors of progressive stoner rock Mammoth Volume present their fun and gaming-inspired new video for »The Battle Of Lightwedge«. Their new album »Raised Up By Witches« will be released worldwide on August 23rd through Blues Funeral Recordings.
Watch WoW-inspired new video »The Battle Of Lightwedge«
+ listen to the official single on all streaming services
Mammoth Volume return with a new album that harnesses their absolute fluency with the somehow compatible genres of 70s progressive rock and modern stoner riffage. The result is an absorbing trek through head-nodding grooves, wispy instrumentation and quirky brilliance that’s riveting. Mammoth Volume has made it their brand to go unexpected places and take constant delightful turns pretty much every time we think we’ve got them pegged, and »Raised Up By Witches« is a seamless and exhilarating new trip where they’re basically the only vehicle on the road.
About the song »The Battle Of Lightwedge«, the band says: “Creative Writing 101: ‘Write what you know’. What does that mean for us? Well, Nicklas knows World of Warcraft and Daniel knows pen and paper role-playing games. The song already had lyrics inspired by Nicklas’ WoW playing, and that’s what most of the comic book illustrates. We then thought it would be fun to bookend the video with a role-playing session gone awry. While we were at it we also made it a lyrics video. As you might be able to tell it was a fun, beer-soaked and VERY fast shoot, so Jörgen and Kalle couldn’t make it in person and were turned into NPCs in the intro. No cats were harmed during the making of this video.”
»Raised Up By Witches« will be issued in Limited Galaxy Haze vinyl edition, CD Digipak and digital format on August 23rd, with preorders available now via Blues Funeral Recordings. Don’t miss Mammoth Volume’s latest video for »Serpent In The Deep«!
Mammoth Volume »Raised Up By Witches« out August 23rd on Blues Funeral Recordings: Preorder on Bandcamp, Bluesfuneral.com and SPKR shop
Founded in the small town of Lysekil in 1996 when stoner rock was new, cool, and catching fire in Sweden, Mammoth Volume differentiated themselves with jazzy breaks, proggy passages and unusual melodic phrasings woven seamlessly into bouncing, fuzz-fueled riff rock. Between 1998 and 2002, they released »Mammoth Volume«, »Noara Dance« and »A Single Book Of Songs«, three albums that made a massive impact in the early days of the worldwide heavy rock community. Many longtime scene denizens still count those records among their all-time favorites, and that early flash seemed to be all the world would get from one of the style’s earliest innovators until the announcement of their reactivation in 2019.
Mammoth Volume’s 2022 return album »The Cursed Who Perform The Larvagod Rites« was lavished with praise from a music media clearly ready for a fresh angle on where stoner rock had arrived by its third decade. The Big Takeover called the album, “A clever but organic fusion of early seventies progressive rock with the crunchy riffs and walloping rhythms we all expect from good stoner rock.” Ever Metal said, “It’s heavy, it’s interesting, it’s inventive, it’s performed with verve and gusto and it’s fucking good fun trying to work out where it’s going next.” And of the band, Invisible Oranges said, “The twenty years between their latest album and »A Single Book Of Songs« seem to have made no dent at all on the group’s chops or their hypnotic command of stoner rock.”
Line-up:
Jörgen Andersson – Vocals
Nicklas Andersson – Drums, Vocals and Bass
Kalle Berlin – Bass
Daniel Gustafsson – Guitars, Keys, Flutes, Percussion, Bass and Vocals
Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well