Metal
Blues Funeral Recordings · 13 November 2026
Dozer have opened up the vaults for a second time. “Reflect to Rewind: A Rarities Collection”, which the Borlänge band released on 13 November through Blues Funeral Recordings, gathers fifteen rare tracks, B-sides and singles from across Dozer’s career on a double album, and follows on from “Rewind to Return: Rarities, Singles and B-Sides”, the collection the same label put out on 1 August 2025 to mark the band’s thirtieth anniversary. As on that one, the track-by-track remastering is by Karl Daniel Lidén, whom the album notes describe as a longtime collaborator of the band.
Much of the material had already done the rounds on short-run formats. “Dumper Dumper” came from the “Universe 75” EP (1998); “Twilight Sleep” from the 1999 split with Unida; “The Phantom” and “Sub Ethna” from “The Phantom” 7-inch (2000); “Day of the Rope” from the 2002 single of the same name, and the version of “Sonic Reducer” from the split EP with Los Natas that same year. “Mongoloid” had appeared on the compilation “Sucking the 70s: Back in the Saddle Again” (2006), while “Infinity x 10” and “Bitchin’” featured on the 2010 combined reissue of “In the Tail of a Comet” and “Madre de Dios”.
The collection lasts nearly seventy minutes, and the longest track, “Bitchin’”, goes past the eight-minute mark. Alongside the digital release, the double vinyl comes in a gatefold sleeve, in a 260-copy limited edition and a clear-vinyl version, and there’s a digipak CD too.
Text by Roger Estivill