Paralyzed – Rumble & Roar

 

 

Paralyzed – Rumble & Roar
Ripple Music – 2025
Rock, Seventies, Blues, Psych
Rated: ****

Their Heavy Road album ended up on Number 12 of the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2022 and we jotted down a few words about that third Paralyzed album right on the date it came out. We’re a few days late now for their new album Rumble & Roar, but at least we are here. And that’s where we want to be, rocking out with the four Germans and hearing them deliver another selection of heavy rocking, seventies inspired, blues based, psych rockers. This time around perhaps not the diesel blues variant, but more the desert inspired blues, surging through every composition that still vibrates at the perfect vintage pitch. And yes, sometimes or even often, we might assume vocalist Michael Binder to be the bastard son of Jim Morrison. But the music has drifted more away from The Doors and into heavier territory. And that is never a bad thing! Signed to the majestic Ripple Music label for this album the four turn their heavy blues into true hard rocking power. A lot of groove and boogie that keeps the energy flowing the right way, up until the middle track The Myth Of Love, serving as the perfect resting point to breathe, admire the guitar work and the scenery created by the Paralyzed four. Rumble & Roar is another thunder rocker and at those moments when the organ is allowed to flourish, punctuate and penetrate, it all becomes irresistible!

(Written by JK)

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Paralyzed – Heavy Road

Number 12 on the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2022