First of all, this is hands down the best album that I have heard this year! These guys have a gift for their instruments and they know how to play them. On their newest release "The Last Adventures of Captain Dog" They show a tremondous amout of talent with some great guitar work, a voice that won't quit, and drums that blast through your ears like a bullet crashing through your skull. These guys have a distictive sound that makes your skin crawl with excitement and spread the word to everybody about this album. There is not a bad track on this album which is hard to come by nowadays. They have a sound that is pure and strong. There are some heavy tracks and some soft tracks. The songs that realy caught my attention were, "10,000 Reasons", "Thundergroove", "Damned if I should Care", and "When I'm Finally Gone". I hear quite a few different styles on this album, there are a few doom riffs that are excellent, a quality supply of acoustic interlays, and some awesome rock 'n' roll pick ups. I hear some Black Sabbath in the song "Feels Like My Mind", and for some odd reason Drivin' and Cryin' in songs like "Thundergroove" and "Wish I knew Which Side I'm On". I love this album and I recommend this purchase to everyone that loves great metal with a few twists.

From the Spiritual Beggars area of Halmstad, Sweden arrives this band with their debut album. The album was actually recorded 1999 but it wasn't released until recently by MeteorCity. Blind Dog is a 3-piece band that has been around for a few years with a appearance on the Roadrunner compilation Burn One Up before they started the recordings at Berno Paulssons studio in Malmoe(south Sweden) where the Beggars also served their time. The Last Adventures.. have a interesting concept, armed with a fuzzed out sound added with harmonica, percussions and hammond the band delivers quite a stunning record. Openers Thundergroove,10,000 reasons have a intense groove added with doomy overtones the same with Wish I knew which side I´m on and Back where I´ve always been. Blend is a more slow psyched out epic emotional number, Beyond my reach have more vintage heavyblues based sound. When I´m finally gone have a more early Jethro Tull vibe. A slow melancholic progressive number. Feels like my mind is another memorable moment a slow doomy fuzzed out piece. The last adventures.. offers a wide spectrum. The early 70s roots is right there on the spot Jethro Tull is mentioned, early Sabbath also Leafhound and Gravy Train is fitting in here along with early MonsterMagnet, Trouble and Spirit Caravan also adds the description of this band. A highly recommended album.

Ohhh yeah baby! Here's a band that knows how to groove. In terms of crunching guitars Blind Dog has that gritty Death n' Roll sound made famous by Entombed and others. But perhaps Doom n' Roll is a better description as listeners will be instantly reminded of Soul Sacrifice/Ethereal Mirror era Cathedral. Black Sabbath also fits in prominently as an influence ("Blend"). Other songs like "Beyond My Reach" bring to mind bands like Raging Slab. And if you think that pigeon-holes them, then just listen to "When I'm Finally Gone" and you realize that Blind Dog are not so easily categorized. The combination of these diverse styles make for one ass kicking record! And having said this, Blind Dog also fit squarely within the stereotype of the better than average metal band we've come to expect from Sweden. What we have here, then, is a top-notch album complete with annotated notes for each song and an "essay", if you will, describing the band's development. Weigh yourself after hearing this one because it is bound to knock a few pounds off!

The first time I listened to Blind dog, it was when the compilation "Burn One
Up"came out in 1997. After that, I never heard anything about this Swedish
band. It was only in late 2000 that I saw in a Metorcity newsletter that Blind
dog would release their first full lenght record thenext year. And I got this record in
my hands. The first thing that I can say is that I'm not disappointed. The last
Adventures of Captain Dog" drives you into a world full of dust and cactus, where
the sun shines eternally... On the tracks "Thundergroove", "10000 Reasons"
or "Coming To" you feel the groove of early Spiritual beggars. The other
tracks such as "Blend", "When I'm Finally Gone", "Sun" or "Wish I Knew Which Side I'm On" remind me a bit of Natas. Blind Dog has the same natural quality to
write some aerial but heavy songs. During the 13 tracks of this album, you feel
the heat surrounding you ( listen to the guitar effects on "Back Where I've
Always Been"). Blind dog has a very warm sound that increases the heat effect.

"The Last Adventures of Captain Dog" is a great a heavy rock album, and Blind
Dog may be the new incarnation of "Desert Rock".

With the loose exhaust of Motorpsycho (remember them?) and the production values of grungy Hendrix (where the guitars are nasty and the drums are distant and atmospheric and the bass is got some serious ass cheeks goin'), we have Blind Dog. Call'em doom/stoner or whatever but just don't call these guys anything to their faces. They are likely to spit in your face...after pummeling it into silly putty for 30 minutes. The guitars have the slab of Sab, while the vocals are beer bellied BTO gone brutal post-skank weed. "Thundergroove" cranks while "Beyond My Reach" is a surprisingly subtle rocker with a desert wander kinda vibe. "When I'm Finally Gone" is another exploratory jaunt, tripping via Moody Blues acoustic guitars and a quirky restraint on the vocals. Nice shuffle on this one too. The deeper one gets into the disc the more they'll realize that the band has more to offer than just full throttle ampage. Very '69. Although there aren't any home run tracks (okay, the riff on "Back Where I've Always Been" rules, I admit it!), most of this is pleasant solid enough to warrant a few chances from the retro crowd.

This Swedish band released this album on their own before getting picked up by MeteorCity. On this re-release they added one track which brings the total now to thirteen. The CD starts off very heavy with the tracks �Thundergroove� and �10.000 Reasons�. Bashing riffs and thundering drums with aggressive vocals creating music that sound like a Monster Magnet going bezerk. From the third song on, the sound opens up and becomes more diverse and more melodic. They always keep their heaviness but it slows down considerably. Melodic tranquil parts are combined with heavy power doom parts and all of this creates a captivating atmosphere. Tobias Nilsson shows on this album that he has a voice that he can use in many ways.They also create sometimes a seventies sound. I guess you can call this album a stoner release but you would do the band short with this description. Blind Dog is much more than just a stoner band. They are a fucking heavy and diverse band.

Jeb's Review:

Oh yeah... BLIND DOG dig down deep to unearth a nitty gritty, back porch blues, southern fried rock n roll vibe that they let run amok throughout their hard hitting "The Last Adventures Of Captain Dog" CD. I'd almost hate to call this metal or doom or Sabbath-esque or rawk because it is all that and more. A lot of heavy throbbing Sabbath influenced bands forget that the primary influence for BLACK SABBATH was the blues but not BLIND DOG. In fact, they tap into that same vein themselves and it makes for a very rich and textured album in spite of the fact it is heavy enough to crush you like a bug under heel. Add to this the aforementioned southern flavor and you have got a serious winner any way you look at it!

Brad's Review:

I am a complete sucker for bands like this, I admit it. How can you blame me? Any band that is so unabashed in their idolization of the first Black Sabbath album knows which end is up in my book. This CD, like the first Sabbath album, borrows heavily from the blues, is enshrouded in driving guitar riffs and never forgets that melody is what makes really heavy music work. Seriously. If you have melody as an undercurrent to distortion the contrast will make the heaviness 100 times more powerful. This is the kind of CD that I like to play in the car with the volume cranked all the way up and the windows open. Tearing down the highway blaring BLIND DOG, that has got to be what heaven is like, eh?

New Mexican self-proclaimed rapcore hating label, Meteor City, kick out a howling heavy CD with Blind Dog's debut, The Last Adventures of Captain Dog. Previous only appearance of Blind Dog was on Roadrunner's Burn One Up compilation, a stoner-rock CD. The label is very competent, and has such acts as The Atomic Bitchwax (with Monster Magnet's Ed Mundell), Goatsnake, Natas and others. Well produced and well packaged, The Last Adventures of Captain Dog even have great liner notes - Blind Dog don't offer lyrics within the sleeve of the album, however. Instead they offer their story and history, a well written expose' that brings back the days when bands actually had something to say besides what's in the songs, including stories behind the tracks themselves - well done!

Made up of Thomas Elenvik (drums/percussion/Hammond), Joakim Thell (guitars/harmonica) and Tobias Nilsson (bass/growly vocals), I was somewhat surprised to find only three members of this band. Their work sounds very complete, especially guitars, and it's easy to see four or five people contributing to the powerful sound. Playing together for about a half decade or so now, The Last Adventures of Captain Dog is as much an anthology of Blind Dog's work than it is a debut album, with songs that are as old as the outfit. You have to respect a band that waits until the "right time" to put something out, rehearsing, refining the tracks, instead of just farting out a quick debut that is nothing but raw cuts and things that should find their home instead among the rats of the studio floor.

The CD open with the enormously heavy Thundergroove, a riff-crushing balls out track of utter carnage. Heavy enough to crush a freighter, groovy enough to stomp a pit. Keeping the heavy and loud style, 10,000 Reasons on track 2 breaks through after Thundergroove picking up the speed just a bit at the outset but slowing down to a more grunge-oriented rhythm. I have to give props to the inclusion of a sample of Merlin from the film "Excalibur" starting off Blend (track 3). And I love the opening riff of Beyond My Reach. It has a classic, rock metal feel to it hearkening back to Led Zep, Pink Floyd and Jethro Tull. The keyboards you hear in the back are reminiscent of Steppenwolf, and harmonica adds a touch of blues, and all of the above show the wide range of influence that go into a band that are as much fans of the music as they are players. We can even take a break with track 8 - Damned If I Should Care is a ballad that opens with rock-country guitar chords, but at 2:00 in length it mostly provides a short breather between heavier tracks. It provides a nice segue into the next track, Coming To. The album closes just as heavy as it opened with the closing track Lose, coming in like a lion and going out with just as strong a roar.

I mostly quit the metal listening back when "alternative" moved from being an off the cuff adjective to the name of a musical genre. I poked my head in only sparingly after that, and when one of my very favorites, Soundgarden, split up I've moved myself stronger into the EBM/electronic/industrial scenes. But Blind Dog could very well be my Soundgarden replacement, with their heavy sound, power riffs and mean attitude. And they even have something to say, not only in the songs but penned on the sleeve. You don't see things that cool anymore. Blind Dog shits all over the cookie-cutter alterna-grunge scene of today and sends it groveling for the pits where it belongs.

I ask this question all the time: What the fuck is it about Sweden? By almost all accounts of musicians who live there, it's not exactly an exciting place. Of course, that might be the answer right there. Maybe the overwhelming dullness of their surroundings is what causes so many fucking great rock and metal bands to emerge from that area. Well, you can add Blind Dog to the ever-growing list of kick ass rock 'n' roll bands to rise from Sweden.

Blind Dog's MeteorCity debut, The Last Adventures Of Captain Dog, is a raucous combination of stoner-driven groove and metal-fueled insanity. Their bio describes their sound quite nicely as a cross between Superjudge-era Monster Magnet and the current sound of The Mighty Entombed. You'll even hear somes hints of Kyuss and, naturally, the legendary Wino.

The album kicks off with the aptly named "Thundergroove," which quite simply knocked me on my ass the first time I popped the disc in. These guys don't fuck around when it comes to blistering riffs and wailing solos. I can't tell you how sick I am of guitarists who spend more time trying to get more sound out of a seventh string than they are worried about learning how to play the other six. The band is an incredibly tight three-piece, and it sounds like most everything was recorded in studio as it could be played live (in other words, they won't need touring musicians, other than a keyboard player, to fill out their sound).

Nilsson reminds me a lot of Dave Wyndorf. He's got a similar vocal style (only a lot rougher... sort of leaning towards Entombed's L-G Petrov on some songs, only more melodic), and he has a passion for incredibly strange lyrics that basically scream, "Yeah, I wrote this when I was fucked up." And, of course, I mean all of that in a good way.

Quite honestly, I can't find a bad thing to say about Blind Dog. Along with bands like Fireball Ministry and Sixty Watt Shaman, it's one of those debut albums I fell in love with the second I heard it. They know how to rock like motherfuckers ("Wish I Knew Which Side I'm On"), and they can bring it down a notch and do some wicked acoustic material ("When I'm Finally Gone"). Fuckin' A, man, just go out and buy this disc. You've heard enough gushing from me.

You gotta hand it to Jadd and Aaron of MeteorCity. Not only did they kick a whole genre off with the release of the seminal "Welcome to MeteorCity" compilation, but they are running one hell of a label. They know how to pick 'em...they take their own sweet time and when something knocks 'em off their feet, they release it. And if it doesn't they don't. Which would explain the amazing quality control associated with MeteorCity releases....ain't a bad one in the bunch. I can only hope someone kisses my ass like this some day...

Blind Dog's "The Last Adventures of Captain Dog" is flat out excellent. I haven't heard so much energy radiate through the Bose since Throttlerod's Eastbound and Down. These guys are from Sweden, and they are on fire.

This release is heavy, heavy groove at it's best and most compelling. They flat out tear the timbers off with hyperactive earth-shakers like "Thundergroove" and "10,000 reasons, juxtapose the tender and tempest with songs like "Blend" (Best doom riff by a non-doom band....maybe just the best doom riff!), harmonica-flavahed, folk-thunder with "Beyond My Reach", bee-you-tee-full acoustic folk-flavah with "When I'm Finally Gone", back to some doom-riffage with "Feels Like My Mind...", gentle trip-rock before launching into a HEAVY groove manifesto with "Wish I Knew What Side I'm On", the tripped-out gentle sonic waves and soothing vocals in the epic "Damned If I Should Care" before WHAM!! The heaviest guitar call- and-answer since "Diary of a Madman" (please dig the hand-claps toward the end) and we are only a little more than half way through the album....

If you can picture Half-Man in combo with Roachpowder with pre-fuck-up Monster Magnet tendencies, then you kind of get the picture. Regardless of your tastes in heavy music, this thing has something for everything. I mean it's a GREAT album...did I mention the production? Friggin' flawless, vocals strong and out-of-the-pocket, the guitar sonics are mean, crunchy and loud, drums n' bass crystal clear without being overpowering and obnoxious.... all in all tighter than a bull's ass during fly season...

A must have.