This came out in 2004 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
The Quill are just the latest Swedish rock band to invade these shores. But they may not be the Swedish rock band you expect — these boys don’t wear co-ordinated outfits, have moptop haircuts or play choppy garage-rock. Nope.
As near as I can tell from their fourth album Hooray! It’s A Death Trip, The Quill like their jeans blue, their hair long and their sounds straight from the metallic glory days of 1975. In fact, Death Trip is really more of a time trip, with 11 tracks that resurrect the guitar heroics, swaggering grooves, sledgehammer beats, tight-pants vocals and trippy post-psychedelia of classic Zep, Sabbath, Rainbow, UFO and Dio. Even better, they have enough of a sense of humour ot write tunes with titles like Because I’m God. Hooray, indeed.
