Sweden’s Jazzy and Progressive Stoner torchbearers Mammoth Volume release their new album “Raised Up By Witches” on Blues Funeral Recordings and present a new video for the song “Lisa” today.
Mammoth Volume return with a new album that harnesses their absolute fluency with the somehow compatible genres of 70s Progressive Rock and modern Stoner riffage. The result is an absorbing trek through head-nodding grooves, wispy instrumentation and quirky brilliance that’s riveting. Mammoth Volume has made it their brand to go unexpected places and take constant delightful turns pretty much every time we think we’ve got them pegged, and “Raised Up By Witches” is a seamless and exhilarating new trip where they’re basically the only vehicle on the road.
Stream new album “Raised Up By Witches“ at this location
Watch their brand new visualizer for “Lisa” through the YouTube player below:
About the “Lisa” visualizer, the band says: “Truth be told, the music for ”Lisa” was written instrumentally. If memory serves, the working title was something like ”¾ swing” – descriptive but not very poetic or narrative. When it came time to record the song we obviously had to come up with some lyrics. About three-quarters of the lyrics was prepared, but we still had to fill out the rest as we were recording the vocals in the studio. That’s when we (spoiler warning!) thought to rhyme ”way” with ”gay”. We double-checked to make sure the lyrics couldn’t be conceived as homophobic, then we celebrated: an actually decent song lyric, with a twist at the end! Then (and only then) it occurred to us that there is a 60’s film called ”David and Lisa” that deals with some of the themes in the song: mental illness, tragic romance, and most notably a girl named LISA! Lucky for us that movie was in the public domain. In an inspired rush of creativity, a screenplay was written to match scenes in the movie with the lyrics of the song. BOOM! One of our better moments is born. They matched up pretty well if we may say so ourselves. Shit happens.“
“Raised Up By Witches” is out now in Limited Galaxy Haze vinyl edition, CD Digipak and digital format via Blues Funeral Recordings. Watch their latest videos for “Serpent In The Deep” and “The Battle of Lightwedge“!
Mammoth Volume “Raised Up By Witches” out August 23rd on Blues Funeral Recordings – Purcahse on Bandcamp, Bluesfuneral.com and SPKR Shop
Founded in the small town of Lysekil in 1996 when Stoner Rock was new, cool, and catching fire in Sweden, Mammoth Volume differentiated themselves with Jazzy breaks, Proggy passages and unusual melodic phrasings woven seamlessly into bouncing, fuzz-fueled riff Rock.
Between 1998 and 2002, they released “Mammoth Volume,” “Noara Dance” and “A Single Book Of Songs,” three albums that made a massive impact in the early days of the worldwide Heavy Rock community. Many longtime scene denizens still count those records among their all-time favorites, and that early flash seemed to be all the world would get from one of the style’s earliest innovators until the announcement of their reactivation in 2019.
Mammoth Volume’s 2022 return album “The Cursed Who Perform The Larvagod Rites” was lavished with praise from a music media clearly ready for a fresh angle on where Stoner Rock had arrived by its third decade.
Tracklist:
01. The Battle Of Lightwedge
02. Black Horse Beach
03. Scissor Bliss
04. Diablo III: Faces In The Water
05. Lisa
06. Serpent In the Deep
07. Cult Of Eneera
08. A Tale About A Photon
09. Sången Om Ymer
Lineup:
Jörgen Andersson / Vocals
Nicklas Andersson / Drums, Vocals and Bass
Kalle Berlin / Bass
Daniel Gustafsson / Guitars, Keys, Flutes, Percussion, Bass and Vocals
