Dozer Post “Ex-Human, Now Beast” Video; Drifting in the Endless Void Preorder Available
There are going to be a lot of people with Dozer at the top of their best-of-2023 lists about 10 months from now, and none of them will get any argument from me. The venerated Swedish heavy rockers return after 15 years with Drifting in the Endless Void, which is out April 21 through Blues Funeral Recordings. By that time, the subscribers to the label’s PostWax service will have already gotten their platters — the download codes went out a couple evenings ago — and as I wrote the liner notes for that edition of the release, I won’t pretend not to have heard it. It’s new Dozer. I feel like that’s the highest compliment for it, and if you know the band, you know that means something.
Yesterday, the band and label posted the track “Ex-Human, Now Beast,” and I almost put this up then, but got the tipoff that the video was coming today for it, so here we are. I’ve waited a long time to talk about this record, so one more day isn’t killing me, but if you’re still reading, why? The clip is at the bottom of the post. Go. Go!
The PR wire brought the following info, preorder links, and so on. As I said, go:
Swedish stoner rock godfathers DOZER to release new album “Drifting in the Endless Void” on Blues Funeral Recordings; preorder + first single available!
Preorder: Blues Funeral Recordings website, Bandcamp and European store.
Swedish godfathers of stoner rock DOZER return after over a decade with their long-anticipated sixth studio album “Drifting in the Endless Void”, to be released this April 21st on Blues Funeral Recordings. Watch their brand new video for “Ex-Human, Now Beast” right now!
About Dozer’s awaited comeback, Dozer co-founder and lead guitarist Tommi Holappa comments: “It’s been 15 years since the last Dozer album and this is who we are now. We might be older, maybe not so much wiser, but I think we may have made one of our best albums. When we started writing new material, we didn’t have a clue what this band would sound like in the 2020s. It was a bit nerve-wracking at first, but after we finished “Missing 13”, the first song we wrote for the album, we knew we were onto something. The first single “Ex-Human, Now Beast” has all the energy, power and heaviness we’ve always loved to create, it’s proof we can still rock and we can’t wait for people to hear it!”
About the video: “As soon as I saw the track name, I knew I needed to do a video where one or more of the guys get beastified by a giant tentacled monster,” laughs Peder Bergstrand, director, Lowrider frontman and longtime friend of the band. “The result is a mix of horror, humor, and these relentless animated nightmare sections that I think match the track’s non-stop rocket fuel drum parts really well.”
DOZER still bring the tumultuous churn that longtime fans expect, but their sound has become a gravitational mass that also pulls in massive sludge, fuzzed-out doom, space-tripping grooves, red-eyed psychedelics, and whatever else they find floating in the vast cosmic expanse. Their return to the musical landscape they helped shape is cause enough for celebration, but the explosive playing and fiery purpose is what makes “Drifting in the Endless Void” a truly unmissable experience!
“Drifting in the Endless Void” will be available worldwide on April 21st (with the ultra-limited deluxe vinyl edition shipping earlier to PostWax Vol. II subscribers) on various vinyl formats, limited digipack CD and digital.
New album “Drifting In The Endless Void”
Out April 21st on Blues Funeral Recordings
Get more info & subscribe to PostWax Vol. II at this location
1. Mutation/Transformation
2. Ex-Human, Now Beast
3. Dust for Blood
4. Andromeda
5. No Quarter Expected, No Quarter Given
6. Run, Mortals, Run!
7. Missing 13
DOZER is:
Tommi Holappa – Guitar
Fredrik Nordin – Guitar/Vox
Johan Rockner – Bass
Sebastian Olsson – Drums
Photo: Mats Ek @matstxswe
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Great post and an amazing band – this wasn’t even on my radar so thanks!
I never knew the singer played guitar too, I never saw them nor a video. Great song, can’t wait for the album!
Wow. WOW. What a phenomenal return/to form. Crazy, propulsive endless drum filled riff stoner space fueled madness rock from a decade and a half long hibernation roars awakened, hungry and reminding the kids that these dudes knew how to do it when they were still in diapers. Fuck. FUCK YES!
Yes!