Sweden’s Truckfighters have completed the lineup for Fuzz Festival #3, set for Dec. 9 and 10 in Stockholm, and it is a significant bill, statistically speaking. It pays homage to the old school in headliners Dozer and Colour Haze, as well as Astroqueen, the newer school in High Desert Queen, Swan Valley Heights and Gaupa, and the in-between in Firestone, Truckfighters themselves, Kings Destroy, Kal-El and others, and with Enigma Experience included in this find round of lineup additions, Truckfighters guitarist Niklas Källgren joins Tommi Holappa of Dozer/Greenleaf in pulling double-shifts, playing in two bands presumably on two separate days.

Swan Valley Heights, Gaupa — whose new record, Myriad, is due Nov. 18 on Nuclear Blast — and Mammonaut are also in the final group of acts joining the bill and I’m thrilled to say I’ll be there to see them. It’s been a long time since I last traveled with the Kings Destroy guys, but they were kind enough to invite me along for the trip, and I tried to say no because traveling is awful and I’m doing a fair amount of it in the coming months, music-related and not, but couldn’t. How many times in your life is someone going to say to you, “Come with me to Stockholm and see Dozer and Colour Haze?” Well.

The presumably final announcement from Truckfighters is below, barring any cancelations, etc., and I very, very much look forward to covering this front-to-back:

Fuzz Festival #3

We are proud and happy to present the third edition of our Fuzz Festival! This time it will take place on Dec 9+10 2022. Festival #3 will continue on the same path as #2 with 2 days, 2 stages and a lot of fuzzy bands!

BIG THANKS to everyone who showed up in 2021 making it just as big success as the first edition back in 2019! Hope to see you this December, MAY THE FUZZ BE WITH YOU ALL!

Just a BIG, BIG Heads up! The last couple of bands is set! This is going to be a totally amazing weekend with so much amazing bands so it’s almost sick… :P

NEW AND LAST Bookings!

GAUPA
SWAN VALLEY HEIGHTS
ENIGMA EXPERIENCE
MAMMONAUT

FULL LINEUP!!!

Get those tickets at

TICKSTER: https://www.tickster.com/sv/events/5hlj6fm5wfxl3nu/2022-12-09/9-10-12-2022-fuzzfest-3-debaser-strand

OR

FUZZOHOME: https://eu.fuzzoramastore.com/en/fuzz-festival-3-concert-ticket-1.html

2 days, 2 stages.
Confirmed acts:
TRUCKFIGHTERS
COLOUR HAZE
DOZER
GREENLEAF
ASTROQUEEN
FIRESTONE
KINGS DESTROY [us]
KAL EL [n]
HIGH DESERT QUEEN [us]
DEATH RAY BOOT
GAUPA
SWAN VALLEY HEIGHTS
ENIGMA EXPERIENCE
MAMMONAUT

https://www.facebook.com/events/353997376362183/
http://www.truckfighters.com/festival/

Gaupa, “Diametrical Enchantress” official video

Certainly Astroqueen playing one of their select few announced reunion shows is an event worth a nod, but amid the would-be-significant-even-if-it-was-just-Truckfighters-and-Greenleaf bill of the Truckfighters Fuzz Festival #3, it’s even more noteworthy.

There’s allegedly a non-zero chance I might travel to Stockholm for the two-day dig in the lovely company of Kings Destroy, who were slated to play this past year and did not owing to the complications of international travel, and gosh that would be just wonderful, but one way or the other, it’s cool to see the likes of High Desert Queen traveling abroad for what will be the second time in 2022. They’re currently on a UK tour and have summer plans besides. Band with a mission hitting it. So it goes.

Tickets are on sale now and I’m pretty sure the link is below here somewhere. Take a look:

TRUCKFIGHTERS FUZZ FESTIVAL #3 Stockholm

NEW BAND ANNOUNCEMENTS!!!

ASTROQUEEN

Their first live show in 15+ years!

Astroqueen was a stoner metal band from Stenungsund, Sweden. Active between 1998 and 2005 in their main run the band composed a thick, heavy stoner sound in a similar vein to Fu Manchu and Nebula though the band draws from other bands such as Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Kyuss and Soundgarden. The group would sign to Pavement Music in December 1999 but it wouldn’t be until 2001 that the band release their only studio album Into Submission in 2001, produced by King Diamond guitarist Andy Larocque. Some recording sessions from 2003 and a split with Buffalo would come over the next few years.

KAL-EL

Kal-El is a Tony Iommi approved Norwegian stoner rock band. These heavy rockers have released three full lengths alongside a pair of EP’s and toured both Europe and the States since their formation in 2012. The band is a product of diverse influences, and though they draw from the classics like Black Sabbath, Sleep and Motorpsycho, if one listens closely they can hear hints of thrash metal and Skandirock fleshing out the sound. It makes for a unique group who are determined to head out and take on the world.

HIGH DESERT QUEEN (US)

After releasing their debut album “Secrets of the Black Moon” on Ripple Music in October of 2021, High Desert Queen has been doing more than turning heads, they are making them move. Their album finished in many top 10 lists for album of the year while receiving rave reviews.

DEATH RAY BOOT

With 10 years in existence, Death Ray Boot is keeping their own pace. Even though gigs have been few and far apart they have gained a trusting fan base. Their music exits somewhere between stoner and punk, right in the middle of The Stooges and Masters Of Reality. Or just something entirely different. Find out for yourself.

There is 19 early bird tickets (ONLY 595Sek) left from THIS LINK (https://www.tickster.com/sv/events/uffebpy3xrygp5r/2022-12-09/9-10-12-2022-fuzzfest-3-early-bird-debaser), when they are gone the regular price is the deal.

Regular tickets:

TICKSTER: https://www.tickster.com/sv/events/5hlj6fm5wfxl3nu/2022-12-09/9-10-12-2022-fuzzfest-3-debaser

FUZZORAMASTORE: https://eu.fuzzoramastore.com/en/fuzz-festival-3-concert-ticket.html

Two full evenings of euphony.

https://www.facebook.com/events/353997376362183/
http://www.truckfighters.com/festival/