ALBUM REVIEW: All Quiet On The Final Frontier – 10,000 Years

In only four short years, Swedish stoner rock band 10,000 YEARS have made on impact with their riff fuelled brand of groove laden rock. All Quiet On The Final Frontier and are impressively, in that short time, on their third full-length album. With the band forming in 2020 and releasing their self-titled debut it EP in the same year, a year that seemed to last as long as the band’s name!

The amount of material that the band have put out is no mean feat, and the fact that they are bringing out an album as strong as All Quiet On The Final Frontier demonstrates that the band are only just hitting their stride, so what we have here is another quality collection of vibrant stoner rock with the songs on this record sounding even bigger that they have done before

A suitably eerie intro entitled Orbital Decay kicks things off and this undoubtedly has to be the bands opening music when they play live in support of the new album as it sets the atmospheric tone for what follows and does this extremely well.

Orbital Decay makes way in turn for the riff led explosion, complete with a gloriously fuzzed out groove, of All Quiet On The Final Frontiers title track and it simply explodes from the get go and shows exacting how 10,000 YEARS mean business, and it is immediately apparent that riffs are certainly the order of the day, as this song (and the rest of the album as well) are jam packed full of them.

The following likes of The Experiment, Death Valley Ritual and The Weight Of A Feather pack a punch and are full of exactly what makes 10,000 YEARS such a great band while the utterly pulverising A Blaze In The Now gradually turns into something more upbeat and triumphant and as the track concludes with a satisfyingly hazy noise, and you feel that you have just listened to the centrepiece of the entire record.

The powerful and soaring High Noon In Sword City has to be the heaviest thing on the album and continues the high before Down The Heavy Path ends things perfectly.

The band members play a blinder throughout  with Alex Risberg‘s commanding vocals soaring alongside the bands grooves courtesy of Risberg alongside the drumming power of recent addition, his brother Alvin Risberg and the duo come together and create a winning noise, and that’s noise is completed with the riffs that are such a huge part of the album and come courtesy of guitarist Erik Palm who once again proves how good of a player he is.

The songwriting is superb throughout, and showcases a step up in that department for the band, as there is a growing maturity alongside the sheer  vivacity to the tracks here.

There is a vibrancy and an energy to the music of 10,000 YEARS and it is this that separates them the majority of fellow stoner rock bands and All Quiet On The Final Frontier is testament to that, and definitely takes the band into orbit and to the next level in terms of sonic excellence.

Rating: 8/10

All Quiet On The Final Frontier out now via Ripple Music. 

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