Vidunder

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Vidunder
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Sunday, June 16, 2013
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This Swedish trio is yet another in a seemingly endless stream of vitage rock bands that come from Scandinavia that can play to a very high standard.

Vidunder relies upon a good sense of riffology placed with simple, but fitting lead guitar lines for their main songwriting approach. A great deal of the credit for that fact is owed to the amazing Roky Erikson-like larynx of Martin Prim and a sense that this band, as a whole, truly grasps the roots of groove blues rock. Material-wise, Vidunder is delivering top-shelf stuff right from the start. They compare favorably in style and quality to Graveyard, both bands clearly influenced by the best Swedish band ever November and ofcourse the whole trinity Zeppelin, Purple and Sabbath. The band keep their songs short (between three and five minutes each) as their rather simple verse-chorus-verse nature with a shredding solo in between would tend to make longer songs repetitive and boring. Vidunder provides a pleasurable listening experience that fans of psych/ stoner blues rock should enjoy and explodes in intelligent and catchy rhythms and melodies that will blow you away.

85/100