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Our pick this week is a track from legendary English metal band Saxon, and it's probably not one of the tracks you're thinking of!

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A Look Back At SAXON’s “Remarkable And Sometimes Bizarre Journey” (Video)

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Founding SAXON Guitarist PAUL QUINN Releases New Single With THE CARDS, Announces European Tour

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Original Founding SAXON Guitarist PAUL QUINN Releases New Single With THE CARDS; European Tour Confirmed

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Review: Severe OVerbite “Evil Minds”

Release date: 17 April 2026

Label: Independent

Gage J. Tolin

Swedish duo Severe Overbite returns stronger and heavier with a four track EP “Evil Minds” set for release April 17 2026. The EP is a major step forward for the band delivering a more mature and powerful sound than the 2024 debut album. The songs show a more mature side of the band with power, heavy riffs and catchy melodies still with the NWOBH influence. The album was filled with songs written in the 80’s and the EP contains an old song as well. The heaviest song , Deep Cut, was first
demoed 40 years ago in February 1986. Lyrically the EP explores war, love from a distance and that you should seize the day.

LINE-UP:
Håkan Mårtensson- Vocals
Jonas Öhlund: Guitar, bass and keyboard

Review

“Evil Minds” featured an incredibly bass forward approach to its production that I deeply appreciated, it gave the track a very satisfying ‘chugging’ quality. The Iron Maiden influence instrumentally speaking was pretty strong, but more geared toward the “Flight of Icarus” side of things. Håkan’s vocals sound both raw and polished at the same time, and there’s a maturity and methodical nature in the way he delivers each lyric. To build on that maturity, the band is an almost entirely two-man project, with the pair handling all mixing, production, and songwriting, themselves. That DIY ethos and no frills sort of stance is what heavy metal is all about.

“Walk Your Own Way” had a nice Sabbath-like bend to kick off before the main riff let loose into a nice groove. While the tempo remains at the same chugging as the prior track, it didn’t feel repetitious in the slightest. Once more, Håkan’s vocals are delivered in a way that is only moderately different from the opener, but just enough to give this one some extra juice. On top of that, I found the self-reflective and empowering nature of the lyrics to be a serious bright spot for the song.

“Deep Cut”, the one the promo lauded as ‘the heaviest’ song opened up with a hell of a riff to back up that claim. Jonas is letting loose some insanely grooving basslines. Vocally, Håkan reminded me a lot of golden age Saxon here, as did this whole song in fact. While in comparison to their other work, the lyrics here can seem a bit barebones (after all they wrote it 40 years ago!), I think that gives the track a sort of retro-adjacent charm.

“Roll With the Punches” had an ever so slightly more upbeat tempo that the rest of EP, but not enough that I could or would call it ‘speedy’. While I did love the overall melody of the chorus, and the delivery therein, I couldn’t help but feel that the song needed an extra bit of something to really polish it off. It’s an earworm of a chorus, and the groove of the song has a nice amount of headbanging quality behind it, but something felt missing here. Not sure what it is though.

Conclusion

Severe Overbite’s latest EP shows that their debut album wasn’t just a flash in the pan, and that the Swedish duo has a bit more left in their tanks. While it doesn’t break new ground or shatter the sky, it isn’t trying to, this is two dudes just playing rock n roll for the sake of rock n roll, and that should always be commended. As a sucker for DIY projects, I say “hats off!” to Severe Overbite for putting out another solid release.

TheNwothm Score: 8/10

Links

Bandcamp: https://severeoverbite.bandcamp.com/

Facebook: https://facebook.com/SevereOverbite

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/severeoverbite/

Label: Independent

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After removing my clothes, I wade into the promo sump. Yes, nakedness is advised for such a foray, as any loose material can get you ensnared by the bog’s filtration and disposal machinery or by the foul denizens that reside within the sludge. I enter herein with a single purpose in mind: to find a promo that will restore my credibility as a reviewer, if I ever had any to begin with. Since my return to the hall, I’ve written 3.5 after 3.5, and I am in search of something that will bring my average down before I am made to “non-suspiciously” disappear again. I reach down and grasp a promising prospect. Pieces of congealed n00b meat and 16-year-old promo remains fall from the cover, revealing a band name that sounds like some guy’s last name and a photo of several dudes in various tough-guy poses. I smile, allowing myself to hope that I’ve found what I’m looking for. Further investigation reveals Rozario’s Northern Crusaders to be a 50-minute-long heavy/power metal album, and I tell myself that this has 2.5 written all over it. Yep, this’ll do.

My confidence grows when I see that these Norwegians have picked the album’s first two songs as singles. “Fire and Ice” starts things off with some energetic power metal-infused heavy metal that brings Dream Evil immediately to mind. After a huge earworm chorus and some killer riffing and leads, the song winds down, and I’m horrified to realize that I’ve been involuntarily smiling and headbanging the whole time. Fear not, I say to myself. The next single can’t be as good. “We are One” takes the momentum of the opener and runs with it. I hear Brainstorm. I hear Dio. I hear more Dream Evil. I hear an even bigger chorus. Shit.

Not to worry! I’m sure they’ve simply stacked the singles at the front because they’re the best tunes. A qualitative drop-off is sure to come! Just as those foolish words finish leaving my mind-lips, “Down Low” slaps me across the face with a down-tuned chug that I didn’t see coming. This PED-enhanced version of Rozario, also seen on “Sleepless” and “Betrayed,” fits the Brainstorm mold alluded to above, and even ventures towards Mystic Prophecy levels of heaviness. “Crusader” and “Die Like Warriors” both see the band putting their Saxon pants on, their quality daring me to add them both to my “SWOARDS” playlist of battle-ready metal.

I finish Northern Crusaders for the first time and am surprised at just how fast the album’s 50 minutes flew by. I play it again. I like it even more. I am totally fucked. Sure, I can look across the album’s track list and pick out two songs that I don’t absolutely love (“Coming Home” and “The Warning”), but they’re still good songs whose place in the runtime almost totally mitigates any potential impact they could have had on the overall flow. I’m rather pissed that singer David Rosario puts in a journeyman performance with his weathered voice, and I’m even more upset that he’s filled his near-eponymous band with so much talent, particularly on guitar. The duo of Stein Hjertholm and Taran Lister has filled these tracks with muscular riffs, beautiful leads, and face-melting solos, and this is a huge reason that Northern Crusader feels so effortless and easily replayable. Even the production is fantastic. Gah! What a catastrophe!

It’s now been several weeks since I plucked this from the sump. As I put the finishing touches on the review and prepare to enter the final rating, I am suddenly aware of a presence in the room with me. I look up from my laptop screen to see 3.5 glaring at me with a sinister smile on its face. “You couldn’t live with your own failure,” it says. “Where did that bring you? Back to me.” I type the score, realizing it is futile to resist, fully aware that I’ve made the mistake of judging Rozario’s Northern Crusaders by its cover. I slam my computer screen down, stand up, and walk away, naked and full of shame.1

Rating: 3.5/5.0
DR: 10 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
Label: Pride & Joy Music
Websites: rozarioofficial.com | facebook.com/rozarioband
Releases Worldwide: February 20th, 2026

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