Don’t go anywhere near this if you don’t like Ozzy and Black Sabbath! Now you’ve been warned.

Said icons certainly haven’t lived in vain for Swedish hard rockers Hellfueled who throw some seriously rocking punches at the listener with their third release, ‘Memories in Black’.

The riffs are gritty, crunchy, efficient, yet melodic and make you think of a simpler version of Zakk Wylde in his more southern rock inspired moments and in other places of the riff-master Iommi himself. With the track Sky Walker, Hellfueled are even bordering on theft of Iommi’s tremendous riff for A National Acrobat. So close, but not quite anyway. It sounds brilliant.

What is most striking, though, is singer Andy’s similarities with Ozzy, both in of intonation and power (Ozzy’s earlier years, of course). Whether you like this notion is your own choice, naturally, but I’m inclined to think that one Ozzy is enough for the world. He never was a great singer, but had/has the charisma it takes to pull it through, and that is yet to be proved true for Andy here. For now, he’s just a tiny bit unnerving and makes the otherwise excellent musical experience slightly strained.

But on the whole an album that is worth rocking out to. Check it out if you get the opportunity – there are really excellent riffs all over the place.