Truckfighters are back. The Swedish fuzz rock band have released “The Bliss,” their first new single in ten years and the opening statement from their upcoming album ‘Masterflow.’ “The Bliss symbolizes everything the new album is about, fuzz groove and melody,” the band says. “We can’t believe it’s the first track we release in 10 years.” Built on the band’s signature desert rock foundation while pushing into broader, more expansive sonic territory, ‘Masterflow’ arrives as a full-band reckoning with what the duo of Niklas “Dango” Källgren and Oskar “Ozo” Cedermalm have been building since they first plugged in together in Örebro, Sweden back in 2001.
The album title says it all. ‘Masterflow’ is about balance between discipline and freedom, shifting between crushing heaviness and psychedelic passages, earth-shaking low-end and soaring melodic builds, raw power and nuance. This is a record built for packed clubs, endless highways and speakers pushed to their limits. Truckfighters have spent more than two decades becoming a foundational force in stoner rock and metal, and the return of new material after this long a stretch has the rock world paying close attention. Josh Homme famously called them “the best band that ever existed” in the 2011 documentary “Fuzzomentary,” and nothing about ‘Masterflow’ suggests that assessment needs revisiting.
A major European tour kicks off in April and runs through the festival summer, including appearances at Desertfest Berlin, Desertfest London at The Roundhouse in Camden on May 17, Hellfest in Clisson and Mystic Festival in Gdansk. The full tour dates are as follows.
April 11 | Cologne, Germany | Sol Sonic Ride
April 15 | Oslo, Norway | Parkteatret
April 16 | Bergen, Norway | Hulen
April 17 | Stavanger, Norway | Folken
April 18 | Porsgrunn, Norway | R.I.P.
April 28 | Hamburg, Germany | Grünspan
April 29 | Groningen, Netherlands | Vera
April 30 | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Melkweg
May 1 | Dordrecht, Netherlands | Bibelot
May 2 | Izegem, Belgium | Headbanger’s Ball Fest
May 8 | Copenhagen, Denmark | A Colossal Weekend
May 11 | Vienna, Austria | Arena
May 14 | Berlin, Germany | Desertfest
May 17 | London, United Kingdom | Desertfest (The Roundhouse, Camden)
May 25 | Neunkirchen, Germany | Stummsche Reithalle
May 26 | Stuttgart, Germany | Im Wizesmann
May 27 | Winterthur, Switzerland | Gaswerk
May 28 | Luzern, Switzerland | Sedel
May 29 | München, Germany | Backstage (Halle)
May 30 | Dresden, Germany | Beatpol
June 4 | Gdansk, Poland | Mystic Festival
June 18 | Clisson, France | Hellfest
June 27 | Wiesbaden, Germany | Sonic Ride IV
July 26 | Milan, Italy | Magnolia Stone Fest
August 14 | Taarstedt, Germany | Angeliter Open Air