The Hazytones – Wild Fever

 

 

The Hazytones – Wild Fever
Black Throne Productions – 2024
Rock, Stoner, Psych, Doom, Metal, Seventies
Rated: *****

It will arrive on May 10th, through that cool Black Throne Productions label and we have been spinning it for quite some time now. We’re talking about that wild new feverish The Hazytones album Wild Fever. Yes, we used the words from the album title immediately there, cause that’s how we roll over here and simply because the album title fits every part of this release so perfectly. Cause even when you listen to the slower, doom touched fourth track Night Is Young, you will still feel those drops accumulate on your hairy back side. You will be breaking out in a sweat because of the fervor you hear throughout that track. The oppressive and humid atmosphere that pushes upon you and keeps pushing until it opens up in that middle part with space to breathe, a guitar solo to make you fall in love with and a keyboard flourish to make you gush over, eighties metal reminiscent vocals howling and screeching and reveling around in an empty moonshine jar, because yes, the Night Is Young. The now four from Montreal, have become more than the sum of their parts on their third full-sized album, showing growth and the lust to explore different avenues. With only founding member Mick Martel still present, it’s not weird that the bluesy psych, (that southern bayou touch on the Down track, so lovely and clammy!) and the seventies grooviness from their first album is still there, but infused with so much more metal it turns the overall listening experience from good to something epic. And yes, that proto and more psychedelic doom stuff from their second album is still there as well but offered up as an under current for certain songs or as a minor influence in others, which also leaves the perfect room for the songs to find their own identity. Mixed by the great Esben Willems and mastered by awesome Kent Stump, this albums sounds like you’ve always wanted The Hazytones to sound. Hazy, wild and with a wealth of musical decorum, kaleidoscopic in all its misty melodies and feverish in delivery. The Hazytones are here to infect your brain and make your temperature rise!

(Written by JK)

Album out May 10th...
But you can listen to the first single Disease here...



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