Song of the Day: “More!” by Sweatmaster
Finnish rockers demand high volume and a low sense of self-preservation
When a band disappears for fifteen years, the common assumption is that they’ve either matured into tax-paying citizens or developed a bad habit that needed addressing prior to being able to make more rock. In Sweatmaster’s case, the silence following 2010’s Dig Up the Knife felt less like a retirement and more like they’d simply parked the van in a very long-term parking garage and lost the keys. For a decade and a half, the Finnish trio existed in the “where are they now?” file of garage rock, while the rest of the world moved on to synthesizers and existential dread.
The hiatus wasn’t just a break; it was a total tactical withdrawal. During these fifteen years, the musical landscape shifted several times over, making the band’s return with More! in 2026 feel like a transmission from a more honest, louder era. Most bands returning from a fifteen-year slumber try to “update” their sound by adding electronic textures or, god forbid, an acoustic ballad. Sweatmaster, however, seems to have spent the time realizing that the world didn’t need a refined version of them—it just needed them to turn the amps back on… and up!
If you’re looking for a soundtrack to a night that starts with cheap beer and ends with a mild case of tinnitus, Sweatmaster’s More! is the formal invitation you’ve been waiting for. Coming out of the Finnish garage rock scene, More! represents the moment they stopped just playing garage rock and started commanding it, moving away from the scuzzier, lo-fi roots of their debut and into something leaner, meaner, and arguably more professional—without ever becoming “polite.”
While the tracklist is remarkably consistent, the title track “More!” is the band’s ethos condensed into a single track. It doesn’t reinvent the wheel; it just spins the wheel so fast it starts to smoke. The chorus is practically designed for shouting in a crowded room where nobody can hear their own thoughts, balancing a repetitive, hypnotic rhythm with an explosive release that makes the previous three minutes feel like a fuse burning down. In a genre often plagued by ironic detachment, “More!” feels genuinely desperate and hungry, living up to its name without overstaying its welcome.
The Song
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The Album
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Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/more/1860332663