Location: Tampere
Country: Finland
Genre: Doom/space/psychedelic rock
Full length: 12021: Post-Electric Apocalypse
Format: Vinyl, CD, digital
Label: Supernatural Cat
Release date: May 2, 2025
Finland is known for bands like Impaled Nazarene, Amorphis, Ensiferium, Beherit, Children of Bodom and Finntroll. This is an eclectic enough mix of styles so it’s not surprising that an album of this magnitude should emerge from there.
Skyjoggers' purpose in working on their sixth album "12021: Post-Electric Apocalypse" during many adverse world events was to inject a positive note into the chaos surrounding them. Heavy, gritty and clearly inspired by doom and stoner, it's as nuanced between space rock and psychedelic rock, with other genres hinted at, creating new territory to expand your mind. As they experiment with hypnotic, epic-level songwriting, they transform their concepts of death, loss, and despair into something more optimistic and uplifting, something many bands strive to achieve.
No cannabis smoking is required to join the band's exploration through deep space, just be receptive to their atmospheric, echo-laden soundscapes. "12021: Post-Electric Apocalypse" may even be a cure for drug addiction as it produces a natural high and all you need do to experience it is press play. No doubt this wouldn't be a doom/stoner album without similarities to Black Sabbath and The Obsessed, but the keyboard and synthesizer effects, electronic sounds, delay and reverb extend those similarities much further into the limitless potential of doom and stoner rock.
The addition of these components alone enhances Skyjoggers' heavier aspects exponentially, allowing greater shades of color to be added once the basic framework for each song has been established. This approach to writing makes more room for adding various genres to enhance diversity and intensify the execution. Examples of this are post-punk, early grunge, sludge, acid rock, seventies metal, funk, blues, jazz fusion, and even some ska and reggae from the sound of it.
The band is also incredibly tight; every new mood is composed and played with an instinctual sixth sense to where they seem to be playing on autopilot. Or maybe they work themselves into such a groove they just want to keep going and see where they take themselves. Either way, "12021: Post-Electric Apocalypse" is an album that achieves more than get you high, It takes you to places unknown in the universe and opens you new ideas and concept you might not have suspected possible. -Dave Wolff
Lineup:
Juan Rico: Bass, synth, vocals
Alexi Belle: Guitars, effects
Gabo Sabor: Drums, vocals
Track list:
1. Huevos Rancheros/Rapid Round
2. Newtonin Kanuuna
3. Døpehølm
4. Tessæil
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