Joseph Tholl, the Swedish multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and composer, is best known for playing guitar in speed metallers Enforcer until 2019, founding Black Trip (later renamed Vojd) and currently shredding in Tribulation. This June, he’ll drop his second solo studio album, “It Might Be Art”, via High Roller Records.
Check out the first single (and video) from the album, New Dawn, below.
“It Might Be Art” follows Tholl’s debut “Devil’s Drum” (2019) after a six-year wait.
On “It Might Be Art”, Tholl handles vocals and guitars, plays most of the bass, and also covers keys and synth. He’s joined by Robert Eriksson (The Hellacopters) and Jakob Ljungberg (Second Sun) on drums, plus Johannes Andersson (Tribulation), Tobias Lindkvist (Tyrann), Pia Stjärnvind (Serpent Omega), Adam Zaars (Tribulation) and Robert Pehrsson (Dundertåget, Robert Pehrsson’s Humbucker).
You can already pre-order “It Might Be Art”.
“It Might Be Art” blends a whole range of musical influences. Tholl cites the likes of The Sisters Of Mercy, The Cure, New Model Army and Midnight Oil as inspiration, and adds: “It’s really hard to describe the album’s music by just name-dropping a few bands. There are simply too many influences. The album is a mix of grunge, heavy metal, Swedish pop/rock, AOR,… I’ve reshaped all of it into my own rock’n’roll.”
“It Might Be Art” tracklist:
1. New Dawn
2. Oh the Madness
3. I’m in a Darkness
4. Invocation of the Evening Star
5. Walking
6. It Might be Art
7. I Syrenens Tid
8. Rebirth
9. On Velvet Waves
10 The Burial
