The next advance single taken from the forthcoming MER Redux Series release "Marc Urselli's Ramones Redux" brings a deep fried Swedish-American collaboration with DOMKRAFT providing the heavy musical backbone, and their compatriot Ulf Cederlund of ENTOMBED fame as well as vocalist Justin Goins and guitarist Tommy Southard from US stoner metal stalwarts SOLACE putting a ton of icing on this sonic cake.
Together, they have taken on the track 'Today Your Love, Tomorrow the World', in which DeeDee Ramone channeled a childhood trauma of being bullied as an American soldier's son in postwar Germany. The fact that both his band mates were Jewish and had lost relatives in the Holocaust sure adds at least another layer of meaning.
This punk-worshipping Redux Series installment will be released on June 6, 2025.
The DOMKRAFT feat. Ulf Cederlund, Justin Goins & Tommy Southard tribute track of RAMONES' ''Today Your Love, Tomorrow the World' ' is now available for publication via this link: https://youtu.be/1b23wa14Ccw
Parallel to "Marc Urselli's Ramones Redux", Magnetic Eye Records will release the customary companion album entitled "Marc Urselli's Best of Ramones Redux" that contains 17 cover renditions of deep cuts and all-time classics from across the RAMONES' extensive catalogue recorded by some of the heavy underground's most exciting artists.
DOMKRAFT feat. Ulf Cederlund, Justin Goins & Tommy Southard
'Today Your Love, Tomorrow the World'
Ramones cover taken from the album "Ramones Redux"
https://youtu.be/1b23wa14Ccw
DOMKRAFT comment: "“When asked to do a Ramones collaboration track, the first guy we turned to was Ulf Cederlund of Entombed fame", vocalist and bass player Martin Wegeland relates. "After having toured with one of his present bands, we knew it would be a lot of fun ravaging a classic with him. And I'd say that our mutual love for bands like MC5 and The Stooges as well as 80's British psych rock shines through in this interpretation – with added classic heavy rock vibes from the Solace guys."
Justin Goins (SOLACE) states: "My band mate Tommy asked me to be a part of the Ramones tribute, and my initial thought was that it was a cool concept, especially given all of the great performers associated with the project", the vocalist and keyboard player writes. "The Ramones are just one of those bands that are so well defined that you can't improve upon their immediacy or ferocity, so that very much freed everybody up to approach the song, which is a deep cut, from a completely different angle while still keeping its bones firmly in place."
Swedish psychedelic doom masters DOMKRAFT have just released the new track 'The Bane' as an advance single from the reissue of their 2015 self-titled EP "Domkraft", which will hit the streets on June 27, 2025 and has been upgraded to an album with the addition of two new unreleased tracks. DOMKRAFT were conceived when singer and bassist Martin Wegeland, guitarist Martin Widholm, and drummer Anders Dahlgren bonded over a mutual love of bands such as SPACEMEN 3, MONSTER MAGNET, SLEEP, and HAWKWIND. Drawing from the heaviest of their combined influences, they crafted a sound that blends monolithic dirges, mind-bending psychedelia, and hypnotic minimalism, as embodied by DOMKRAFT's massive 2016 first album "The End of Electricity", the crushing 2018 follow-up "Flood" and the acclaimed and massively amplified third and fourth full-lengths "Seeds" (2021) and "Sonic Moons".
Ulf Cederlund is probably best known as the guitarist of the seminal Swedish death metal and later death 'n' roll pioneers ENTOMBED that formed in 1989. This iconic band has been most influential for all of the Scandinavian country's metal scene, which is one of the largest worldwide. He has also been playing guitar in Swedish hardcore punk band DISFEAR.
Vocalist Justin Goins and guitarist Tommy Southard are members of US stoner metal stalwarts SOLACE from Asbury, NJ. Founded way back in 1996, the band released their first full-length "Further" in 2000. The Americans quickly established themselves as as staple in the desert rock and stoner scene, despite continuously taking quite some time between new albums. Yet, although it took a decade via the sophomore full-length "13" (2003) to get to third album "A.D." (2010), the Americans continued to gather new fans and invitations to prestigious festivals such as Roadburn and Hellfest followed. As their latest album "The Brink" (2019) also dates some years back, this collaboration is a much welcome sign of life, and paves the way for a new SOLACE album sooner than later.