Volume IV - Hammered Again

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Volume IV - Hammered Again
Studio album by Mammoth Mammoth

Publication
(s)

March 27, 2015

Label (s) Napalm Records

Genre (s)

Hard rock , stoner rock

Title (number)

10

running time

46 min 20 s

occupation

production

Jason Fuller

Studio (s)

Toyland Studios, Melbourne

chronology
Vol. III - Hell's Likely
(2012) 		Volume IV - Hammered Again Mammoth Bloody Mammoth
(2016)

Volume IV - Hammered Again is the third studio album by the Australian hard / stoner rock band Mammoth Mammoth . It was released on March 27, 2015 via Napalm Records .

Origin and background

The album was written in the first half of 2014 and was mostly created in jam sessions . In contrast to the previous albums, the band wrote more songs, whereby numerous ideas were discarded. The recordings took place between July 11 and 23, 2014 at Toyland Studios in Melbourne . The album was produced by Jason Fuller. The bass player of the band Blood Duster had already produced the previous album Vol. III - Hell's Likely .

For the song Lookin 'Down the Barrel one was music video rotated. The recordings took place by a swimming pool and are a tribute to guitarist Chris Holmes from the band WASP . Holmes once gave an interview in a swimming pool with a bottle of vodka in hand.

Track list

  1. Life's a Bitch - 2:51
  2. Lookin 'Down the Barrel - 5:15
  3. Electric Sunshine - 4:56
  4. Fuel Injected - 4:09
  5. Black Dog - 4:31
  2. Promised Land - 4:58
  3. Reign Supreme - 2:44
  4. Sick (of Being Sick) - 3:41
  5. Hammered Again - 4:04
  6. High as a Kite - 9:11

The limited edition also contains the song Alcohol as a bonus .

reception

Lothar Gerber from the German magazine Metal Hammer wrote that Mammoth Mammoth "do their own crazy thing that just drips in front of Foster's ", so that "nobody needs medical AC / DC - Epigone from Down Under ". Gerber rated the album five out of seven. For Markus Endres from the online magazine Metal.de “the album is particularly suitable for partying and driving a car”. Since the new songs “are a bit more catchy than their predecessors” and this “is actually fun”, he awarded eight out of ten points.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Markus Endres: Interview with guitarist Ben "Cuz" Couzens and drummer Frank "Bones" Trobbiani on "Volume IV - Hammered Again". (No longer available online.) Metal.de, archived from the original on April 30, 2015 ; accessed on March 27, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.metal.de
  2. ↑ Matthew Tomich: Two Minutes With MAMMOTH MAMMOTH. (No longer available online.) Life Is Noise, archived from the original on May 18, 2015 ; accessed on March 16, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / lifeisnoise.com
  3. ^ Lothar Gerber: Mammoth Mammoth - Vol. IV: Hammered Again . In: Metal Hammer , April 2015, page 87
  4. ↑ Markus Endres: Volume IV - Hammered Again. Metal.de, accessed on March 16, 2015 .