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Swedish
melodic metallers Dogpound mark their return
with their third album simply entitled “III”.
Almost 2 years after their critically acclaimed
‘A Night In The Gutter’, “III”
sees the Dogpound trademark hook filled
approach reach new highs with a powerful
production perfectly allowing the bands
best songs thus far to soar with a potent
mix of strong musical hooks and infectious
vocals melodies.
For
“III” the band wrote 25 songs
which were reduced to the 14 you ultimately
hear on the album today. This differs to
the approach the band took on their previous
2 releases the aforementioned ‘Night
In The Gutter’ and ‘The Hellbum’.
Guitarist Micke Dahlqvis comments, “On
the earlier albums we pretty much recorded
all of the songs that we had at the moment
but this time the songs had time to grow
into shape which made it easier to see which
songs should be on the disc or not. Lyrically,
there’s still a lot of black humour
involved, but maybe with a twist of seriousness
this time around due to sheer amount of
disturbing stuff going on in the world”.
Musically
“III” the band sounding hungrier
than ever with a slightly heavier sound
which can be seen as a natural evolution
over the course of the bands three albums.
With their inspiration coming from the diverse
nature of the bands influences all helps
add to the unique Dogpound style. Although
maybe not being obvious these influences
directly influence the end Dogpound product.
The bands aim with “III” was
quite simple – to do it all better
than they’d done before. On the result
drummer Tuka simply states, “the result
was way beyond our expectations, take a
listen and decide for yourself”.
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The Hellbum |
Dogpound
Night In The
Gutter |
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