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Dozer Celebrating 20th Anniversary with Video Series

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Well, heck. Congratulations to Dozer on hitting the 20-year mark. There was a lot of Swedish rock and roll before them, and there’s certainly been a lot of it since — a goodly portion of it working under their influence — but no one’s ever quite captured the same magic as Dozer across their five records. The last of those, Beyond the Colossal, is now approaching eight years old, having arrived in 2008 on Small Stone, and whether or not Dozer are an active band remains something of a mystery.

They’ve shown up at a couple festivals over the last three years or so — I still consider myself deeply fortunate for having seen them at Desertfest London 2013 — but there’s been no word of a steady return in the sense of writing, touring, basically being a band again. In the meantime, guitarist Tommi Holappa has brought his other band, Greenleaf, to life as a touring act, and their new album, Rise Above the Meadow — also their debut on Napalm Records — is unmistakably a highlight of the year. It’s so good, in fact, that I’m completely comfortable saying that on Jan. 7, with 359 days left to go before 2017 hits.

Where that leaves Dozer seems to be a question for another time. As the remaining founders of the band after parting ways with Erik Bäckwall, Holappa, guitarist/vocalist Fredrik Nordin and bassist Johan Rockner — joined now by Olle Mårthans on drums or at very least whatever of the drums are left after he’s done pounding the crap out of them — are celebrating 20 years since the inception of the band late in 1995, and they’re doing so with a series of video clips posted that contain old live footage edited together and set to audio from the era. Notice the rewind effect in the beginning. That’s a nice touch.

Two clips have been posted so far, but I’ll keep my eye out for more and do my best to keep up with it, because really, if there’s anything that’s going to improve any given day, it’s a Dozer video. Enjoy:

Dozer, “Speeder”

Dozer, “Tanglefoot”

20 years is a long time but it sometimes feels as yesterday when we started the band back in 1995. In the following weeks we´ll be putting up some live footage from these past 20 years, recorded with a simple camcorder, so bear with us that the audio and video is not top notch. We enjoyed watching these old vids anyway and hope you do too.

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One Response to “Dozer Celebrating 20th Anniversary with Video Series”

  1. Jose Humberto says:

    Dont know why a Greenleaf album almost every year and not even one Dozer full lenght since “Beyond Colosal” and the Vultures EP

    we need a new albums guys
    ps and if its with “comet” or “madre” vibe , better …much better

    you better!

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