On the subject of music, Sweden is probably most well-known for sweetly catchy pop and brutal dying steel. 5-piece Electrical Hydra finds the non secular midpoint between these genres on its self-titled debut album by leaning into one other Swedish custom—retro hard-rock revivalism. The file’s cowl artwork brackets the band’s identify with two gaping snake maws that seem like tattoo flash, and the music may be very a lot what you’d count on from that: 34 minutes of adrenaline-pumping, stadium-size pop-metal goodness. The band isn’t particularly keen on innovation—that is music for true believers, they usually’ll discover ample cause for fervent head-banging within the spirit of bushy heroes of rawk’s previous. On “1000 Lies,” guitarist Jonathan Möller and bassist Ellinor Andersson lock right into a doomy, gonad-rumbling riff paying homage to Grasp of Actuality-era Sabbath whereas lead vocalist Sanne Karlsson does an ear-serrating and really credible Ozzy impression. Möller sings on “Iron Lung,” which embraces grunge with sufficient fuzz to go well with Mudhoney or Soundgarden. “It Comes Alive” cranks as much as Motörhead speeds, with sweetly tacky hair-metal harmonies buried within the combine and a gratuitous echo impact on Karlsson’s voice. Electrical Hydra by no means takes its biker boot off the accelerator because it blasts out heavy hooks and hooky heaviness that might please followers of Abba and Entombed alike. v
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