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Electric Haze - Electric Haze (EP) (2016)











Year : 2016
Style : Melodic Hard Rock
Country: Sweden
Audio : 320 kbps + front
Size : 103 mb

Bio:

Electric Haze was formed in 2014 in Umeå, in northern Sweden, but some of us had known each other and played together in different constellations before. We’re all big consumers of rock music, and we all grew up listening to classic rock bands such as KISS and Deep Purple. If we’d try to compare our Electric Hazesound to some of those rock giants we’d probably drop band names like Deep Purple, Van Halen, and Dio along with newer bands like Black Country Communion.”In terms of why Electric Haze elected to first release a single with a B side rather than an EP or album, the band members stated: “Considering the way people listen to music nowadays, we thought it would be a better idea to release a few songs at a time than releasing a full album straight away. Unfortunately, today most people do not have the interest to sit down, have a ‘Lemmy‘ and listen to twelve songs in a row, and therefore we settled for the single format. However, we will release the full album this spring!”

Album:

Electric Haze took its formation in 2014 after friends Johan (Drums) and Tommy (guitar) moved the 400 km from Övertorneå down to Umeå, where they met the brothers André (bass) and Anton (Sång). The immediate chemistry resulted that them quickly writing a couple of songs that they took out on stages in and around Umeå.Their debut single, “Master & Slave,” saw the light of day in 2016 and was followed by the songs “Endlessly” and “(Shut Up) Shuffle and Deal.” The singles paved the way for the self-titled EP released in-house on digital platforms later that year. They attracted attention in several blogs and web magazines, which gave a fantastic start for a relatively newly formed band. The interest in Electric Haze has been quite massive on Spotify alone: the EP has generated over 165,000 streams to date. With six strong rock songs in their luggage, Electric Haze went out on the road with live gigs across the country.After establishing themselves as a new rock band with live gigs and an EP in the back, they started working in 2018 on their first full-length album, Get In Line. They booked time at Kapten Studio in Umeå and recorded nine heavy songs with lyrics about depression, anxiety, and feeling left out and misunderstood. The first song, “All I Ask for,” is about the abuse of power. It was followed by “Cavern of Pain,” a riff-rock song in the Dio spirit transformed into a complex ballad.When the songs were recorded, Anton, who works as a music producer on a daily basis, took it upon himself to complete the album. Careful follow-up work to find the right sound began. Two years later, on November 20th, the first single Succuba was released. The song is based on an old folk belief about a female demon who visits men in his dreams and seduces them against his will. At the same time as all this is happening, the local record label Idle North Records signed Electric Haze in the spring of 2021 for the debut album, Get In Line.

Line-Up:

Anton Ekstrom – lead vocals
Tommy Toya – guitar
Andre Ekstrom – bass
Yuppie Anderson – drums

Tracklist:

01. Can’t Handle the Brakes
02. Endlessly
03. Fever
04. (Shut Up) Shuffle and Deal
05. Crucify Me
06. Master & Slave



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Electric Haze - Get In Line (2021)











Year : 2021
Style : Melodic Hard Rock
Country: Sweden
Audio : 320 kbps + front
Size : 103 mb

Bio:

Electric Haze was formed in 2014 in Umeå, in northern Sweden, but some of us had known each other and played together in different constellations before. We’re all big consumers of rock music, and we all grew up listening to classic rock bands such as KISS and Deep Purple. If we’d try to compare our Electric Hazesound to some of those rock giants we’d probably drop band names like Deep Purple, Van Halen, and Dio along with newer bands like Black Country Communion.”In terms of why Electric Haze elected to first release a single with a B side rather than an EP or album, the band members stated: “Considering the way people listen to music nowadays, we thought it would be a better idea to release a few songs at a time than releasing a full album straight away. Unfortunately, today most people do not have the interest to sit down, have a ‘Lemmy‘ and listen to twelve songs in a row, and therefore we settled for the single format. However, we will release the full album this spring!”

Album:

Consisting of Anton Ekstrom (vocals), Tommy Toya (guitars), Andre Ekstrom (bass) and Yuppie Anderson (drums), this Swedish rock quartet follow up their 2016 self-titled EP with their first full-length offering, Get In Line.Electric Haze wear their 1970’s classic rock inspirations of Deep Purple, Dio and other such massive behemoths firmly and proudly on their denim clad sleeves according to their press releases, they then confusingly choose to open the album with the meandering “Succuba.” That track certainly fails to deliver anything that would hook you into the album immediately, and would seem more at home on a flour covered goth band album from the mid to late eighties. “WOAH!” then follows and changes tack again, incorporating tinges of ’80s glam metal including the title chanted accordingly. This is followed by the album’s title track “Get In Line” which I am reliably informed is the lead single. This reverts back to the classic rock stance that was purportedly their style originally but has certainly not seemed to be the case so far.“All I Ask For” then passes by without note and in a similar vein, before “Cavern Of Pain” limps leadenly through the speakers. This is the stand-out track for all the wrong reasons. It has its elements of prog and possibly even psychedelia but, truthfully, is just a funereal dirge that seems to be completely at odds with whatever Electric Haze were trying to present with the previous tracks and is in stark opposition to their much vaunted classic rock stance. Following that aural horror, the rest of the album becomes much of a muchness. “Lest We Forget” and “Too Close To The Truth” pass by without any incident, although “Clenched Fist” has flashes of the promise they exhibited on the aforementioned 2016 EP, the final track “Cryin’” disappears from memory as soon as it is over.I had really wanted to like this album, particularly after liking their previous release, but – and it is a very big BUT – the songs are a mish-mash of styles and are all almost completely unmemorable, as well as melding into each other as the album progresses. With of course the exception of track five, which I am still struggling to understand the inclusion of, or indeed the reason behind its existence. All of this is a great shame in many ways since it’s competently produced, vocalist Anton Ekstrom has a decent voice and the band can actually play but it is definitely the distinct absence of decent material to work with that really nullifies the effort.Sweden has of course provided the rock world with so much wonderful music over the decades that it is almost blasphemous to criticize anything from there, but, sadly, I don’t think Electric Haze will be added to that glorious pantheon on the evidence of this eminently forgettable album.

Line-Up:

Anton Ekstrom – lead vocals
Tommy Toya – guitar
Andre Ekstrom – bass
Yuppie Anderson – drums

Tracklist:

01. Succuba
02. WOAH!
03. Get In Line
04. All I Ask For
05. Cavern of Pain
06. Lest We Forget
07. Too Close To The Truth
08. Clenched Fist
09. Cryin’



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