Graveyard – ‘Fever’ reviewed: back to raw hard and blues rock
The Swedes' seventh album was made without an outside producer. Heavy Music HQ gives it 3.5/5 and hears the energy of ‘Hisingen Blues’.
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Single: A Means To An End
Graveyard released their seventh studio album ‘Fever’ on Nuclear Blast on 9 October. This time the band did without an outside producer: “This time around, we decided to waste no time. No outside producer. No detours.”, they wrote when announcing it. Pelle Gunnerfeldt mixed the record and Robin Schmidt mastered it; the artwork is by Dutch artist Maarten Donders. The first single was ‘A Means To An End’.
Heavy Music HQ (3.5/5) sees the self-production as a return to the band's roots: the album recaptures the raw energy of their breakthrough ‘Hisingen Blues’, with punchier guitars, edgier vocals and more dynamic rhythms. Whether the band sticks to this path will depend on future records.
VISIONS describes a shift from the balladic sensitivity of earlier albums to shimmering, heated hard rock and singles out the guitar rush of opener ‘Back From The Grave’. Graveyard will co-headline a 2027 tour with Blues Pills, including a show at Munich's Muffathalle on 13 March, with Spiders in support.