Release Date: November 07th 2025. Record Label: Self Released. Formats: DD
Everything Is Not Going To Be Alright - Tracklisting
1. This Land Is Your Land (Until It's Not) (4:24)
2. Doom Folk Fury (5:14)
3. Screaming Into the Void (5:06)
4. Terms and Conditions Apply (3:35)
5. Fever Breaks (3:38)
6. Take the Tyrant Down (4:51)
7. Lunatic Lighthouse Keeper (3:30)
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Christopher Thomas Elliott: vocals, electric and acoustic guitars, bass, drum programming, dobro, keyboards.
Review
Folk/Doom Metal artist Buzzard returns with another round of superbly timed politically charged statements with his outstanding new EP Everything Is Not Going To Be Alright. This record follows soon after Christopher Thomas Elliott (individual behind Buzzard) released his acclaimed album Mean Bone back in April 2025. I would say this record is more hard-hitting truths taking aim perhaps at the American way of life and the other bad shit currently going on in the world.
Buzzard doesn’t fuck about with this record and gets straight down to business with his own re-imagination of the classic Woody Guthrie anthem This Land Is Your Land but this time it’s called This Land Is Your Land (Until It’s Not). Buzzard puts his own spin on such an anthemic song with perfectly timed lyrics and heavy semi-acoustic instrumental passages with a fine amount of down-tuned Doom Rock melodies giving the Americana / Country genre a hefty kick in the privates at the same time.
Buzzard keeps up the social justice message with the constantly bleak Doom Folk Fury and I have to say there’s some brilliantly and superbly written lyrics that has an element of Pitch Black Comedy to it all whilst remaining frighteningly real at the same time. The music aggressively moves from Doom, Stoner, Sludge, Country and Bluesgrass based themes which shouldn’t really go together but Christopher is becoming quite masterful at this style of music. Imagine Neil Young channelling the creative spirit of WINO and Conny Ochs and how Buzzard sounds like on this track alone and perhaps the whole record.
Third track Screaming Into The Void is the heaviest and angriest I’ve heard musically speaking from Buzzard as the music is full on Doom Rock with an aggressive Sludge Rock urgency. The lyrics take aim at today's toxic masculinity and MAGA culture where I fully agree with what Christopher is saying here. Buzzard takes no prisoners with this track and his poetic hip-hop beats actually make this track one of the standout moments on the whole record.
One of the main strengths of Everything Is Not Going To Be Alright is it’s bleak insight into the whole world is going to hell but Christopher inspires a whole wave of hopefulness stating things will get better within time but only if we all change. Perhaps a big BOLD statement but I always have hope in humanity like I do with music and Buzzard continues merging those mission statements against each other which is quite an insane style of hope, emotional baggage and one that puts a great take on the overall human condition.
Buzzard aims big both politically and socially on the other excellent tracks such as Terms And Conditions Apply, Fever Breaks and Take The Tyrant Down. We all know who Buzzard is referring to and I’m fully 100% on board with his decision. The music itself once again sees Buzzard inject waves of Acoustic Rock against the heavier passages of Electric Rock which does dominate the creative landscape on the later stages of the record.
Everything Is Not Going To Be Alright is not only a perfectly timed mission statement but it’s a brilliantly observed and progressively subversive record that's reflecting our current political age. Buzzard may receive a lot of criticism from a certain political crowd who do reside within the Doom/Stoner Rock underground scene. However, you have to admire his courage and superb songwriting skills to sing about what he feels what’s right. And for that alone he will always have my support.
Words by Steve Howe
Thanks to Good Boy PR for the promo.
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