{"id":17698,"date":"2018-05-21T01:00:15","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T05:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?p=17698"},"modified":"2022-01-06T19:49:22","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T00:49:22","slug":"content-needed-album-review-graveyard-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=17698","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Graveyard &#8211; Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Graveyard &#8211; Peace<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Release Date: May 25, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>September of 2016 was one of the saddest months of my life when it was announced that Swedish face rockers Graveyard were calling it a day.\u00a0 I was so bummed and I literally mourned their loss but then all of the sudden, in January of 2017 it was announced that the band was returning but this time with a different drummer.\u00a0 I screamed a glory call that could be heard across the cosmos and eagerly waited to see what would become of one of my all time favorite bands.<\/p>\n<p>This was a very fragile time and Graveyard, as usual, wasn\u2019t making a big deal about anything.\u00a0 They played a few festival dates and then launched the Fen Fire Tour of Europe.\u00a0 Nobody knew who this mysterious new drummer was and of course we Graveyard fans knew that something was brewing.\u00a0 It was either going to not work and this would be it or this would be a new beginning.\u00a0 Lucky for us, drummer Oskar Bergenheim proved to be the missing link and Graveyard was reborn in the form of a new album in 2018 called Peace.<\/p>\n<p>Every time Graveyard puts out a new album I always find myself with this nervous, tense excitement.\u00a0 Every album that Graveyard has put out has shown the band taking new steps and growing as songwriters and performers.\u00a0 Every album was unique and hell, call me a superfan but I fucking loved each and every one of them warts (very few of them) and all. Peace though; Peace is something truly special and unlike any Graveyard album that I ever expected them to make.<\/p>\n<p>The opening track, \u201cIt Ain\u2019t Over Yet\u201d was such a kick to the groin and was a bold and brash statement that Graveyard is back.\u00a0 The fire, the energy, the pent up feeling of frustration just oozed through the speakers.\u00a0 Oskar is definitely a monster of a drummer and honestly, Graveyard couldn\u2019t have chosen a more perfect drummer.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G7sBMm5JJFc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Former drummer Axel Sj\u00f6berg had more of a subtle heaviness to his playing but Bergenheim has all the chops of Bill Ward on the heavy songs like \u201cCold Love\u201d and \u201cPlease Don\u2019t\u201d yet has the ability to bring it down to the most gentle of touches on Truls Mork\u2019s masterpiece, \u201cSee the Day\u201d and the slow burn western tinged \u201cDel Manic\u201d which just may be one of the greatest Graveyard songs to date.<\/p>\n<p>To pick a single highlight of this album is absolutely impossible because honestly, this album is flawless.\u00a0 As a matter of fact, I would even go as far to say that this is without a doubt Graveyard\u2019s best release to date.\u00a0 From the thought provoking artwork to the rollercoaster of emotions covered by the songs, Peace is a testament to a band who, when we all thought had been drained of their lifeblood, rose from the ashes like a mighty phoenix and presented us with an album of timeless, unforgettable music.<\/p>\n<p>If there were every any doubters out there that Graveyard was losing their touch, those thoughts can be cast aside.\u00a0 Peace is everything that Graveyard is and it has me excited for many more years to come from Graveyard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graveyard &#8211; Peace Release Date: May 25, 2018 September of 2016 was one of the saddest months of my life when it was announced that Swedish face rockers Graveyard were calling it a day.\u00a0 I was so bummed and I literally mourned their loss but then all of the sudden, in January of 2017 it was announced that the band was returning but this time with a different drummer.\u00a0 I screamed a glory call that could be heard across the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,277],"tags":[573,985,1955],"class_list":["post-17698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","category-music-news","tag-graveyard","tag-nuclear-blast","tag-peace"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19639,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17698\/revisions\/19639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}