BluesClassic Rock
Nuclear Blast · 9 October 2026
“Fever” is nine songs and thirty-eight minutes twenty, and the band said exactly what they wanted from it before they recorded any of it: “This time we decided not to waste any time. No external producer. No detours. Just Graveyard, straight to the point, doing what we do best.” They announced that on 2 June and the record keeps the promise to the letter: eight tracks between 3:32 and 4:33, and one on its own, “Dead Note”, which runs to 6:53 and is the only place where the band stretches. It is the seventh album from the Gothenburg group and the first since “6” (2023).
They produced it themselves and handed the mix to Pelle Gunnerfeldt, who comes from The Hives, Refused and Viagra Boys, and the master to Robin Schmidt at 24-96 Mastering. Gunnerfeldt is not a seventies-rock man, and Nuclear Blast sells the record as “way heavier” while keeping the blues soul of “Hisingen Blues” (2011). Of the three advance tracks, “A Means To An End” came first, “Tongue Tied” next, with a video by Emil Klinta (Ghost, The Hellacopters), and “Back From The Grave” on release day; none of the three is the slow one on the record, which is “A Better Cut (Note To Self)”.
Jonatan Larocca-Ramm plays second guitar throughout “Fever”, and on 30 June, three months before release, he left the band after nearly twenty years; no replacement has been announced and the tour opened on 2 October, seven days before the album could be bought. What is on tape is the last thing those four did together, and neither the album nor the campaign acknowledges it.
The Scandinavian leg runs again from 31 October to 5 December, with Blues Pills sharing the bill on the last four dates. The sleeve is by the Dutch artist Maarten Donders.
Rating: 8.0/10
Text by Enric Vilaplana