It’s easy to say that any band that sounds more or like Led Zeppelin, Fleetwood Mac, Black Sabbath (or a mix of them), is a vintage rock band. The heavy distorted sound, with the blues feeling all around and the Robert Plant screams. A pretty easy plan to sound old and catchy. But with Graveyard from Sweden, it wasn’t always so obvious. The approach of Graveyard through their four albums changed, but never lost their attachment to the late 60’s blues rock, 70’s classic rock, 90’s desert rock. With integrated knowledge and deep respect for their roots, the group developed their sound and achieved to become a well-known hard rock band, with many fans and lots of good songs. With this article we will try to chart the majority of Graveyard songs, according to various influences that can be found in their sound.

A SORTING OF GRAVEYARD MUSIC ACCORDING TO THEIR INFLUENCES

HEAVY ROCK

(Mountain, Captain Beyond, Sir Lord Baltimore)

AN INDUSTRY OF MURDER

THIN LINE

THE HATCH

CAUSE & DEFECT

HARD ROCK

(Led Zeppelin, UFO)

HISINGEN BLUES

DON’T TAKE US FOR FOOLS



AIN’T FIT TO LIVE HERE

ENDLESS NIGHT

HEAVY METAL

(Black Sabbath, Budgie, Bang)

EVIL WAYS

SATAN’S FINEST

UNGRATEFUL ARE THE DEAD

SUBMARINE BLUES

BLUES ROCK/BOOGIE ROCK

(Cactus, Cream, Dire Straits)

THE APPLE AND THE TREE

BLUE SOUL

GOLIATH

20/20 (TUNNEL VISION)

MAGNETIC SHUNK

BRITISH BLUES

(Cream, early Fleetwood Mac, Peter Green)

TOO MUCH IS NOT ENOUGH

NO GOOD, MR HOLDEN

THE SIREN

HARD TIMES LOVIN’

UNCOMFORTABLY NUB

EXIT 97

SOUTHERN ROCK

(The Allman Brothers Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd, ZZ-Top)

AS THE YEARS PASS BY

THE SUITS, THE LAW & THE UNIFORMS

VARIOUS INFLUENCES

(Ennio Morricone, QOTSA, Hawkwind, MC5)

LONGING

SLOW MOTION COUNTDOWN

CAN’T WALK OUT

STAY FOR A SONG

BUYING TRUTH