Description
Still sealed with slipcase
Joseph Tholl started his musical career playing guitar for Enforcer. He quit in 2016. At the same time his other band, namely Black Trip, which he was singing for, turned into Vojd. Besides, Joseph Toll is also part of the touring line-up of Robert Pehrsson’s Humbucker. And it was indeed Robert Pehrsson, who gave Tholl the idea for his first solo album entitled Devils Drum: Me and Robert Pehrsson have been working very close to each other over the last couple of years, and he has assisted me throughout the making of this album. He also did the mixing which I’m very pleased with. Robert Eriksson (Hellacopters) plays drums on most of the songs, and then Jakob Ljungberg (Second Sun, ex-Tribulation), Stipen Karlsson (Merciless, Dia Psalma) and myself play drums on one song each. Other guests are Tobias Lindkvist (Enforcer), Pontus Tahir (Dia Psalma) and Malin Stensson. The live line-up of Joseph Tholl’s solo band includes Robert Pehrsson, Anders Bentell (Vojd) on drums and Oscar Ulfheden (Humbucker) on bass. I wanted to step outside of the box from what Iv’e done previously, continues the guitarist/singer/drummer. For a long time I had the idea of making an album free from restrains, to write music without being too caught up in a certain genre. That’s why it became a solo album, I wanted to make sure there would be no compromises on this album. It can be a virtue to create music together with others, but this time I felt I needed to do it all by myself. I started recording it in April 2018. Whereas a lot of younger bands do not focus on writing meaningful lyrics, it’s the opposite for Joseph Tholl: Lyrics are always very important to me and I always write with the same approach whereas it’s been for Enforcer, Black Trip or for my solo songs. There’s usually a rather dark and dreamy touch to it. I like poetry, if you can read a music lyric as a poem without the music and still enjoy it, that is a good lyric. I’m The Machine is the only song without drums on the album and it has a pretty simple instrumentation, the lyrics are definitely the focus in this one and therefore it has to have something to say. Joseph Tholl can also been heard on albums with acts such as CC Company, Tribulation and Tyrann.
Track list:
1. Its Just Rock n Roll
2. They Fell From The Sky
3. Follow The Fire
4. Black Birds
5. Devils Drum
6. In Eternal Rest
7. The Passage by the Sea
8. Im The Machine
9. Through Endless Skies