The new album Rebelism, from Rebel Collective, stands out as the quartets most musically flexible album, in terms of genre, to date. The purpose of this album is to show an another side of the Swedish booze hounds and the wide range of inspiration that the group are surrounded by in both music and life.
The album’s music is very heavy with fuzzy songs like In Orbit, The Void and Moonlight Shinedown while still keeping the good ol’ southern rock sound with a hint of 90’s grunge to make things interesting. The first song, Switchblade, has got the typical “Rebel” ingredients, with heavy headbanging rhythm guitar combined with a fast, breathless vocal that sets the tempo of the song.
The vocals on the album have been tuned down from the usual aggressive mouthing off to a more melodic dry grungy vibe although the sound is a much more in your face experience. The band are quoted as saying; “Rebelism gets down and dirty sounding like Pantera f**king Guns ’n Roses in a redneck style as a more angry Clutch tries to get Kyuss into bed …still played by a gang of ol’ hillbillys.”
So swing your inner axe, release your inner bear and get ready to disappear in the moonlight….
Track Listing:
01. Switchblade
02. T-Rex
03. Gasoline
04. Moonlight Shinedown
05. The World Is Mine
06. Crusader
07. Valentine
08. The Void
09. Romantic Related Collapse
10. In Orbit
11. Halo
12. Travelling Man
Rebelism | Released May 7th, 2019 on Sliptrick Records
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LINEUP
Otto – Drums
Een – Bass
Hasse – Vocals
Genz – Guitar
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Rebel Collective was founded in the early spring of 2009 after Hans and Genz re-named their old band Machine after a change both in the music style and musicians. They started off quickly with a demo recording the following month and started playing local gigs that summer. The sound quickly evolved and the following year they got the chance to play at the 2010 Getaway Rock Festival.
Later that same year, the drummer and bass player quit the band and were replaced by Otto on drums and Andreas on bass, which remains the active lineup today. Excited and pumped with new inspiration, they entered the studio in the autumn of 2011 to start recording their first full-length album titled Middle Finger Famous, which had a digital release the next year. In 2012, they were once again invited to play the Getaway Rock Festival with a great position on the bill, the Saturday night in front off the biggest crowd so far in their career.
In the Spring of 2014, Rebel Collective started writing their 2nd full-length album which was released in May, 2015 and titled Middle Age Famous. The group backed up the album with a Scandinavian tour and after a magical appearance at Festival In Leksand, the band discovered “fuzz”. This turned in to a more stone rock sound and forms the basis for the new album Rebelism which will be released via Sliptrick Records in the coming months.
DISCOGRAPHY
Middle Finger Famous - 2012
Middle Age Famous - 2015
Rebelism - 2019