Release Date: August 01st 2025. Record Label: Majestic Mountain Records. Formats: DD
667788 - Tracklisting
1.Sayonara
2.Down
3.Blood Moon
4.Rather
5.Children
6.Electric
7.Wish
8.Fight
Members
Jens Florén – Vocals, Guitar
Dennis Österdal – Bass
Jörgen Tjusling – Drums
Review
667788 is my first exposure to the Swedish Doom/Stoner Metal powerhouse that is known as LOMMI. I believe this is their third full length album after a lengthy hiatus and with their previous album being released back in 2014. What you have here is a mix of CLUTCH, High On Fire, Black Sabbath, Motorhead and Mastodon based grooves wrapped up in a lovingly THRASH METAL / GROOVE METAL laced package. The sound has a muscular and classic HEAVY RAWK sound running through its veins.
There’s also that classic Swedish Doom/Stoner Metal underground energy that the scene is well known and respected for. The music is direct and very straight to the point with LOMMI using their classic POWER TRIO stance to great effect which generates in some turbo-charged grooves and intense melodies on the superb batch of opening tracks of Sayonara, Down and Blood Moon.
The vocals from Jens Florén are mostly Groove and Stoner Rock orientated with him selling LOMMI’s classic style of bombastic music which has an air of destructive 1980’s Heavy Metal running throughout whilst keeping with that essential modern day vibe. The lyrics are easy to remember where you can sing along to your heart's content. The record does see a sudden shift into Progressive textures on the longer tracks such as Blood Moon and Children which never loses its melodic focus.
667788 may refer to the hexadecimal colour code for a light greyish blue tone but maybe the band can elaborate on that further though this record is quite a moody, sombre and gritty experience which is boosted by LOMMI’s diversion into areas of Classic Heavy Metal and modern day Doom/Stoner Metal attitude on other tracks such as Rather, Electric, Children and Fight.
LOMMI have a distinctive sound hiding within the production values of the record as the sound is aggressive and has a sublime PROTO-METAL and PUNK ROCK aesthetic which allows Jens (Guitar/Vocals), Jens (Bass) and Jörgen (Drums) to play to the best of their technical abilities. The album allows LOMMI to have a vital HEAVY METAL presence to them which gives 667788 a more authentic sound, quality and attitude than you can possibly imagine.
CRANK this bad-boy up to the HIGHEST VOLUME possible and PREPARE TO RAWK THE FUCK OUT!!!
Words by Steve Howe
Thanks to Viral Propaganda PR for the promo.
667788 is available to buy digitally now via all good digital stockists by Majestic Mountain Records.
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