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On the Radar: Electric Cavemen

Fans of Swedish rockers Mammoth Volume were invariably disappointed when the band broke up. I know I was. But drummer/vocalist Nicklas Andersson is back with a new trio called Electric Cavemen who have some demo tracks posted now on their MySpace.

Some of them are pretty rough — “Please My Mind” in particular — but the I don't know if this is the demo cover or not. They seem to have like eight of them.addition of new bassist Richard Maisa to the lineup along with Nicklas and guitarist/vocalist Bonny Koskela Andersson seems to have shifted the direction of the material from the straightforward stoner-type into something a little meatier. The track “Burning Cross” (a title which one assumes carries less racially-charged baggage for Swedes than for Americans) melds Helmet-style start-stop riffing with a Queens of the Stone Age multi-vocal chorus, and sounds completely natural doing so.

If this is the direction they’re going in with their 10 track demo, which they say is available for free on their website but I couldn’t access to confirm, then there’s plenty to look forward to from Electric Cavemen. In the meantime, “Burning Cross” and the more rockin’ “Hard Blues for You,” not to mention the pedigree, make them easily worth keeping on the radar.

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