BIO

Molosser Crude is a Swedish power duo consisting of Tess on drums and vocals, and Jahn on guitar. Their heavy alternative rock rests on a hard-riffing bedrock of noise and stoner rock coupled with gritty blues as well as other influences that might not be as obvious but still contribute to their trademark sound.

The music is all about maximizing the minimal, doing everything at once and exploiting the dynamic possibilities of a tight-knit unit of just two people. Add to this excellent songwriting and you get some really interesting results.

Molosser Crude started out as a side project of acoustic guitar duo Molosser, where Tess and Jahn had explored the possibilites of making riff-based music on two down-tunes acoustic guitars, but Crude soon took over as the main project. Molosser Crude’s first batch of singles were all live-in-the-studio recordings, where everything was recorded in one take, including the vocals, and Jahn played the guitar through two guitar amplifiers and one bass amp, thus creating a full band sound despite the duo format.

In 2025, Molosser Crude released their first album, I Am Distortion, recorded in a more ”normal” way, where one continuous take of drums and guitar playing together form the base for vocals and guitar overdubs. Still no bass guitar; the low end is managed by the bass amp channel of the primary recording. On their second album, still a work in progess, they went back to a more "everything at once" manner of recording better to capture the raw energy of their live performances. Whereas I Am Distortion featured mainly long, slow tracks, the new material is more varied with many faster, shorter songs.

As a live band, Molosser Crude is overwhelming despite the small format. Tess bashes away at her drums like a furious, modern-day Keith Moon and Jahn delivers a wide spectrum of sounds via his three amps, doing bass, rhythm and solo duties all at once. But again, excessive power is not everything; Crude uses the possibility of going from a whisper to a scream in a way that might be harder with a bigger group. A hint of Molosser Crude’s live presence can be gleaned from the live videos here, but the only chance to experience the full impact of a Molosser Crude gig is to see them first hand.

Tess and Jahn share life outside as well as inside the music and are currently based in Fjärås on the West coast of Sweden, a stone’s throw from Gothenburg, where they originally met.