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Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation
2008-12-05 17:23:00 A companion "group" to Jason Köhnen and Giedon Kiers' Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble, the Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation is the antithesis of the "jazz ensemble" concept. Wreathed in subterranean drones and undulating tone waves, the Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation is the sort of lounge act one would find playing in the lower circles of Hell, down were time dilates to infinity and every action takes epochs to complete. Doomjazz Future Corpses! is a nine track descent into the sludgified substrata of melody. It is deep, dark, and suffocating. It is to a radio friendly pop song as glacial drift is to rapid climatic change.Recorded live in The Netherlands during the arctic twilight of 2007, the Doomjazz Future Corpses! session utilizes trombone, cello, oscillator, an unknown number of FX plugins and patches, guitar, and saxophone to fabricate a noisome environment of drifting spectral ambience. The tracks, simply numbered in series, move in an uninterrupted flow from a sparse landscap... More About: Music
Los Llamarada
2008-12-02 20:12:00 It has been almost a couple years since Los Llamarada took the world by surprise with their much raved about vinyl debut "The Exploding Now!" Monterrey, Mexico's premier underground band's claustrophobic psych punk won praises from everybody from Siltbreeze's Tom Lax to Z Gun's Ryan Wells. "When's the next record?" has rung in my ears for the last year. Well, now it is here! "Take the Sky" was originally slated for a February release, we held off on putting it out until we built this into one serious killer. While some of the murk of the first is gone (don't worry it still as an eerie lo-fi sound), it has been replaced by sharp psych stun guitar which will make your jaw drop. I've previewed this for a few people (Rick Ele, Ryan Wells to name two) and everyone has walked away amazed. To quote Rick Ele: "Damn." Of course, I am biased, but this is a great record?Info stolen from; S-S Records Links;Los Llamarada - Take the SkyLos Llamarada @ MySpaceS-S Records @ MySpaceS-S Records More About: Music
News
2008-11-29 19:12:00 Hello there dear readers, fellow bloggers, and everyone who is reading this. I got a announcement regarding my blog. Don?t be scared this is not a official announcement about me retiring from blogging. But from now on you can find more music on the FORUM i started. Become a member and you can see what i found on the mighty NET. And i hope you share the stuff you find on the net. I will continue using the blog but only once or twice a week. Peace and have a good weekend; mr.ACheck the forum overhere;FORUM More About: News
Barn Owl
2008-11-29 18:39:00 Given that this band are called Barn Owl, and have that righteous mythical beast scrawled on their album sleeve, I think it's pretty clear what direction this LP is going to take. Tranced-out psych studies are the order of the day, and wielding an arsenal of guitars, harmonium, harmonica, rhodes and synthesizer, this quartet (well, there are four of them this time around - apparently they have a floating, variable roster of chums to call upon) tap into some creepy pagan atmospheres, and ceremonial drones on a slab of vinyl that's as white as their death cult robes. There's a bit of a soundtrack quality to this music too, often coming across as more considered and composed than similarly minded wood nymph party jams, even getting a bit Dylan Carson at certain points, conjuring a doomy Western feel worthy of post-Hex-era Earth. The fact that this comes to you via the practically infallible Not Not Fun imprint should be all the recommendation you need, but here's some more. Highly ... More About: Music
Spirit Caravan
2008-11-29 18:38:00 The Last Embrace is the final release by Spirit Caravan. It was released on 2xCD and 2xLP in 2003 by Meteor City Records. It contains 19 songs from their two albums, Jug Fulla Sun and Elusive Truth, the three songs that appeared on their debut 7" (under the name Shine), the two songs from their final 7", Spirit Caravan, the song from their split 7" with Sixty Watt Shaman and their song from the Rise 13 compilation on Rise Above Records. It also features the last three songs Spirit Caravan recorded, "The Last Embrace," "Brainwashed" and "Dove-Tongued Aggressor."It?s a pity Spirit Caravan were such a short lived band, lasting only 3 short years. Scott ?Wino? Weinrich (formerly of ?The Obsessed? and ?Saint Vitus?) and his kin produced some of the greatest doom/stoner metal since Black Sabbath invented the genre. However, as if it were a gift to apologize for breaking up, they left us with one last release; ?The Last Embrace?.?The Last Embrace? is basically a ?greatest hits? if you will... More About: Music
Dragontears
2008-11-29 18:36:00 The Baby Woodrose side-project called Dragontears has just finished the recordings of their second album entitled "Tambourine Freak Machine". The release date is set for for November 17th and it will be available as LP/CD and download. As a teaser it is now possible to listen to the song "Sunrise" on the Dragontears myspace: http://www.myspace.com/dragontears2000The album is musically quite similar to the first - "2000 Micrograms From Home" from 2007 - but the band used a larger amount of electronics and the eternal quest for hallucinatory experimentation has made the music span a sligthly wider range, transcending musical styles like neofolk, psychedelic, space rock and electronica. hell, it must be the first album in 20 years to include a bona fide drum solo!Dragontears has a fluent line-up and this around it includes:Lorenzo Woodrose - Vocals, guitars, organs, jug and piano (Baby Woodrose)Fuzz Daddy - Drums, percussion, tablabox and cellphone (Baby Woodrose)The Moody Guru - Bass,... More About: Music
The Soulbreaker Company
2008-11-27 17:34:00 When I received my last package from Alone Records/The Stone Circle at the beginning of 2008, this was one of the included discs and it was my first meeting with THE SOULBREAKER COMPANY. After I listen to the first seconds of the opener 'Elliptic Tunes', I thought that this Spanish band would follow in the footsteps of Orquesta Del Desierto, due to the mariachi horns and this special latin vibe. But suddenly a funky rhythm pushes the song in a complete different direction and the second song 'You Shouldn't Cry' shows what's really going on here. THE SOULBREAKER COMPANY display a mastery of various 70's rock styles with this eleven track excursion into mind expansion. This six guys combine hard progressive, straight heavy rock, hardrock and funk to one powerful unit and they can also write fantastic songs as for example 'Blood That You Wish', or 'The Man That You Betray', but it's really impossible to find oustanding tracks, because the entire album is on a level of higes... More About: Music , Company
ASVA
2008-11-25 20:35:00 As luck would have it, I?ve never met Stuart Dahlquist. In late spring of 2005, I patched an awkward bit of writing together hailing the operatic prog of Asva?s Futurists Against the Ocean. I emailed him the review and from then on, Stuart and I corresponded willy-nilly, mostly about books, ideas, places; his words always alarmingly honest and innocently unaware. A month after my Futurists review ran, Stuart?s brother, Michael, was killed. I woke up one morning, had coffee and checked some websites. There on Stephen O?Malley?s Ideologic page was the news. The one year anniversary of Michael?s death came around and Stuart wrestled with how he was going to spend that time. He was living in Long Beach, getting along well enough and doing his best to keep the demons at bay. He told me he was going to stay at a mountain cabin and think about Michael. When he came back down that mountain, he said he?d gotten deep down into a bottle of Wild Turkey, listened a lot to Michael?s band, Silkwor... More About: Music
King Hobo
2008-11-23 18:34:00 Back during the Sounds of the Underground Festival of 2005, Opeth?s Per Wiberg and Clutch?s Jean-Paul Gaster had an inspirational flash of genius. A meeting of musical minds followed and a general invite went out to like-minded muso?s.Curiosity got the better of them, before long a cast of players had been set up, and the project that is King Hobo took shape. An early but all important element was ?get funky or get out? and soon as someone started ?wailing? or ?shredding? it would all go quiet and it would all go back to square one.What this vagabond set of highly regarded musicians have come up with is the self-titled King Hobo album ? and ? it has to be said ? it is a remarkable achievement. Firstly most of them had never played together before. A small house was rented in Sweden but they only a week to put it all together and to write enough tracks for an album. However we are not talking about your normal people here and King Hobo is actually a collective talent base par excelle... More About: Music
Samothrace
2008-11-23 18:32:00 Samothrace emerges from Lawrence, Kansas with a bludgeoning debut of blues-drenched doom. Perfectly produced by Buried At Sea?s Sanford Parker, Life?s Trade sits at the top of the 2008 doom heap, and my taste is fucking impeccable, I assure you. So get this shit immediately.Four songs, each 10 - 14 minutes. Opener ?La Llorona? begins quietly with clean guitar and swirling haunted house sound effects and then slowly works up to the heaviness before getting quiet again about three and a half minutes in. The drums drop out for bits here and there, and we get variations on a droney riff played over a sample of what sounds like wind whistling through the trees floating in the background. When the doom grunt vocals really kick in along with the drums and a heavy down-tuned riff just shy of the 5 minute mark, the lead singer?s growl has this almost transcendent soaring feel to it, and it made me wish I had an altar in my room so I could bow down and worship the doom gods. It?s so heavy, it... More About: Music
Slomo
2008-11-23 13:34:00 THE BOG is the 2nd full-length release from Slomo, honing down the ritual clatter of their first album, THE CREEP (2005), into a more cumbersome and laden affair, ever heading downwards into the Northern Underworld upon slurries of unsignposted mung.Core duo Holy McGrail & Howard Marsden once again create a lumpy bed of bass-heavy synthesizer and guitar drones while Arch-drude Julian Cope provides a coda to proceedings with the recital of his poem Land, especially written for this album.Info stolen from; Slomo "If the doom metal of Khanate is the ideal soundtrack to the 21st Century Odinists' hanging upon the tree of Yggdrasil, then the vegetal music of Slomo is the unfolding, nurturing, ever-becoming ur-ooze that titanically irrigates the roots of that sacred tree. Slomo restores our timeless beginnings and fulfils the Ginnungagap... motherfuckers." JULIAN COPELinks; Slomo - The Bog Slomo @ MySpace SlomoHoly McGrailImportant Records More About: Music
El Paramo
2008-11-23 13:33:00 El Paramo is a four piece from Madrid, Spain, formed at the beginning of 2005. They are influenced by Black Sabbath, Colour Haze, Black Mountain and Kyuss among a few others, so ofcourse their sound is a mix of the desert sounds with tones of Colour Haze, Kyuss and bla bla bla. But dont get me wrong this album is fucking awesome. Dont expect something new, expect only something damn good. These guys know what they are doing, you get some of the finest instrumental heavy stoner, psychedelia you havent heared for a long time, exept maybe from Colour Haze. Sorry for my enthusiasm but the only negative thing i can think of is that this album is only seven songs and 58 minutes. Please check them out, and buy this album!Peace; mr.A Links;El Paramo - El ParamoEl Paramo @ MySpaceAlone recordsAll That is Heavy More About: Music
Emilio Subira
2008-11-21 12:54:00 Pertaining to the art group ?000SICK Estudio?, founded in 2000 with the artist and musician Rafael Jurado, resides and works in Seville (Spain).Each human mind guards a back door in the deepst of its unfathomable mistery. All these doors open into the same dark and quiet back alley; previous to culture and even to ourselves, only self intuition sometimes gives us indications of its existence.Emilio Subira´s work is focused on the intuitive translation of the multiplicity that characterizes the reality in plastical terms from the perspective of a viewer plunged into ostracism, working like a satirical and critical filter. Links;Emilio SubiraEmilio Subira @ MySpaceCheck the Slide-Show from Emilio Subira Full Screen
Pocahaunted
2008-11-21 12:53:00 There's a working theory out there about Pocahaunted: either every record they've released is a concept album, or none of them are. There's good proof to support both camps. The truth, of course, might lie somewhere in between the two (if that's possible -- which it probably isn't), but Island Diamonds makes a stronger case for the former. The ladies' longstanding studio union with Eagle Rock guru Bobb Bruno has explored an array of terrains in the past, but their partnership on Diamonds transformed Pocahaunted into a way weirder, doper, and dancier creature than ever before, inspired in equal parts by Manda's obsession with Max Romeo tropical soul and bad acid jazz and Bethany's abiding love of mainstream rap and the Cocteau Twins (that sounds like it'd be a nightmare, right?). Naturally, the results don't really resemble any of the influences they may have attempted to channel during these sessions, but so what? Low-lidded drum machine beats, sparse guitar chimes, and th... More About: Music
Nebula
2008-11-21 12:51:00 Peel Sessions; Culled from 2 John Peel sessions and a Radio One Rick Show session recorded between 2002-2004. Featuring the line up that record the first 2 classic Nebula albums "To the Center" & "Charged" , these recordings demonstrate why Nebula were regarded as pioneers of the late90's/00's stoner rock scene.Los Angeles based trio **'Nebula'** , comprised of Eddie Glass (Guitar/Vocals), English geezer Tom Davies (Bass/Vocals) & Rob Oswald (Drums). ........It all started when Eddie Glass & Neil Blender were making weird 4 track music ,,Alien Workshops' first video.... Eddie then went on to drum for **'Olivelawn'** ........ later Eddie played lead guitar with **'Fu Manchu'** , writing some of the songs and playing lead guitar on the first three albums.^....... **In 1997 Eddie Glass and Ruben Romano started** Nebula**.......... Guitars, Drums, Moogs, Sitars, psychedelics electric guitars,shredding drums... ***Nebula.*** Tom Davies crossed the Atlantic in the summer of 2004 ... More About: Music
Tribute to Syd Barrett
2008-11-19 17:28:00 It didn?t take long for a tribute album to surface following the death of Pink Floyd mastermind Syd Barrett . The groovy part is Like Black Holes in the Sky: The Tribute to Syd Barrett avoids gimmickry with an all-underground roster of metal, prog and sludge bands.Syd Barrett?s spacegrassy Piper at the Gates of Dawn is a building block for future stoner, doom and tech metal practitioners. As testimony to the Pink Floyd album?s pioneering spirit, Like Black Holes in the Sky: The Tribute to Syd Barrett hoists six Piper cuts in addition to seven of Barrett?s solo tunes, largely represented by The Madcap Laughs.Instead of obvious candidates like Queens of the Stone Age on this thing, you get Jesu, Yakuza, Intronaut, Zodiak, Stinking Lizaveta, Unearthly Trance and Kylesa as well as the mighty Pentagram, all likely nominees to do Syd Barrett?s frequently off-kilter music justice.Jarboe and Giant Squid capture the sheer lunacy of Barrett?s quizzical music on ?Late Night? and ?Octopus? respe... More About: Music
Circle
2008-11-19 17:27:00 Circle: No beginning and no end, and when you think you?ve come upon the conclusion you?re back at the start. Perhaps this describes Circle?s compositional work ethic more than anything. Circle is a west coast rock band, the west coast of Finland, that is. They live in a city called Pori, further north than the capital, Helsinki, and Stockholm, Sweden to the east. With a large student population, and its own jazz festival, Pori also is home to Finland?s most visible underground rock band, Circle.Their latest in a long line of innovative recordings, Hollywood, lists them as a "new exciting band from Finland." To most people, this is true enough, but to those paying attention, Circle has been making some of the most original modern rock music since the beginning of the ?90s. Formed by bassist/guitarist/vocalist/creative wildman Jussi Lehtisalo, the group has been on an endless journey of musical exploration since they began. Besides being consummate players, the band are avid music co... More About: Music , Circle
Atavist / Nadja
2008-11-19 17:26:00 Points at Infinity is the second collaboration between the UK?s most infamous doom/sludge metal band, Atavist, and the most prolific and respected act in experimental/drone/doom/ambient music today, Nadja .The first collaboration, titled 12012291920/1414101 and released last year through Invada Records (owned by Portishead main songwriter Geoff Barrow), was merely an experiment?one that was actually initiated by Profound Lore Records. This second collaboration presents a sound picture with significantly more substance and depth; while still experimental in nature, Points at Infinity exemplifies growth and expansion by both of these enigmatic bands.PRAISE FOR 12012291920/1414101:?This collaboration between the UK?s Atavist and Canadian doom mongers Nadja is a rare old treat. Across two lengthy pieces, the bands square up to deliver a disc?s worth of bottom-heavy sludge and floating drones. Far from being a cold-hearted excursion into dark metal, the resultant pieces are a surprisingly... More About: Music
Black Time
2008-11-17 17:19:00 London's Black Time have carved a hefty reputation for themselves over the past few years through scattered tours across Europe and the US, numerous limited-edition 7-inch records, two dense yet danceable long-player albums, and a manifesto that, among other things, espouses "fuck and rage" and the "heavy vampire sound." Double Negative is the latest full-length in the Black Time canon. Fans of the band's previous output will not be disappointed, especially if they want to hear the fractured, art-damaged scree of their singles forged with the trebly garage punk of their two albums. The trio of Lemmy Caution, Janie Too Bad, and Mr. Stix outdo themselves here and turn in the most fully realized Black Time release to date. If you've been aching for Messthetics and Back From The Grave compilations, then look no further. Double Negative is the absinthe you've been wanting to drink. Known for their propensity for all things black, Black Time carries their theme of bleak darkness to th... More About: Music
Les Anges
2008-11-17 17:18:00 Les Anges raised from the ashes of Hulk & Fifty Foot Combo , two well known, much loved rock'n roll bands from Belgium. Having previously been regulars of the Dutch, Belgian, French and German rock scene, the four members of Les Anges have been tearing up the scene since forming in January 2007, having played hundreds venues across Europe. With the release of their first album "A Deep Grave as a Shelter" in April 2007, Les Anges have since graced stages at festivals such as Dour and have shared the stage with bands such as the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Dandy Warhols and The Egales of Death Metal. With the sexy sounds of Sandra's keyboards, the charisma & charm of Renaud's guitar rocking, the hot & heavy bass lines of Matthieu and the 70's rythmic beating of Giacomo's drums all makes for a rock'n roll orgasm. Staying true to their rock roots, their live performances are high energy, electric, charismatic and definantly not to be missed. Look out for Les Anges first album... More About: Music
Zak Riles
2008-11-16 12:19:00 Zak Riles is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist in the Important band Grails. His creative contributions to the group are immeasurable and can be heard clearly on this self titled debut solo outing. In fact some of the pieces on this solo record have been reinterpreted into Grails favorites.Like his band Grails, Zak Riles solo work is an elaborate mansion built of inspiration but with so much strength and originality that it stands firmly on its own. On these rocky shores come crashing waves of Sandy Bull, Mogolar,Deuter, Popol Vuh and the Ventures while Persian breeze drifts by wafting the melodies of Hossein Alizadeh. Essential listening for followers of Important Records who favor the likes of Grails & James Blackshaw.Info stolen from; Important Records Links;Zak Riles - Zak RilesZak Riles @ MySpaceGrailsImportant RecordsNorman Records More About: Music
Gown
2008-11-15 10:45:00 Released january 28, 2008. gown (aka andrew macgregor and otherwise known as one-half of the bark haze with thurston moore) moved from western wassachusetts to nova scotia in mid-2007. before he moved, he wanted to have one big audio blow-out to remember the grand old mass times. with that goal in mind, gown went into the studio with the sunburned hand of the man gang (represented this time out by john moloney, sarah o'shea, ron schneiderman and taylor richardson) to melt some audio consoles. for the maples represents a portion of that recorded output and believe us, it's some massive stuff. sunburned's thick funk presents the perfect background for gown's shredding guitar-play. extremely hot stuff, especially the massive side-long "bending close." click HERE for a downloadable preview, "taylor's jam."as per the three lobed standard, for the maples is pressed on 180g RTI vinyl. it is housed within silkscreened jackets (screen work by alan sherry / SIWA) bearing new artwork by g... More About: Music , Gown
Karl Persson
2008-11-15 10:34:00 My intellect doesn?t come into play when I am channeling something subconsciously. There is plenty of time for interpretation after a painting is finished. Whenever I look at my finished paintings it is like analysing a dream ? deciphering my personal symbolic language. Although there is obviously some calculated thought behind things like compositional aesthetics, I still try to keep these decisions relatively instinctive. I find this approach far more fulfilling than when I have injected some preconceived concept into an image, which has often consequently become either stale or too obvious. Links;Karl PerssonKarl Persson @ MySpaceCheck the Karl Persson Slide Show
Eighteen Wheels Burning
2008-11-14 13:01:00 For those missing The Want, Eighteen Wheels Burning might be just what you need. After all, Eighteen Wheels Burning has Jeff Mackey and Adam Valk, the bassist and guitarst (respectively) from that classic underground band. You won?t get an exact replica of The Want?s Zeppelin-like rock, but Eighteen Wheels Burning follow the same rough template ? classic rock revisited."ArzgarthInfo stolen from; Arzgarth Stonerrock.com "Bringing the power trio into the 21st century, Eighteen Wheels Burning rolls over you like a ten ton rig! Tripped out guitars, a pounding rhythm section, sonic vocals and featuring ex-members of The Want (Southern Lord), "Tweak'd Out, Strung Up & Redlined" is set to establish Eighteen Wheels Burning as one of the premier bands on the stoner rock scene."Links;Eighteen Wheels Burning - Tweak'd Out Strung Up & RedlinedEighteen Wheels Burning @ MySpaceEighteen Wheels BurningMeteorCityAllThatIsHeavy More About: Music
Suishou No Fune
2008-11-13 17:26:00 New album "Where The Spirits Are" of Suishou no Fune by label Holy Mountain of American San Francisco started sale now.Suishou no Fune's excellent new album, "Where the Spirits Are," will also be in stores on March 28, 2006. They are yet another astonishing example of Tokyo's rich tradition of producing dark, avant-garde psychedelic rock groups.Holy MountainFormed in 1999 as a duo of female guitarist Pirako Kurenai and male guitarist Kageo, Suishou no Fune have been making some of the most charmingly chaotic dream music coming out of Japan. Their sound contains subcutaneous elements of no-wave energy mixed with psychedelic rock a la early Fushitsusha or Kousokuya. Other songs approach balladry with oddly beautiful twinned vocals and distorted guitars. They have performed around Tokyo with a list of people who could succinctly be described as everybody and were even invited to play Scotland's Weekend festival in 2005.Midheaven U.S.ABrand new album from the best post Fushitsusha/Ra... More About: Music
Robert Morris
2008-11-12 20:11:00 Robert Morris has a bachelor's degree in fine art from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Since 1998, he's made New York City his home. He has built a reputation of creating stunning imagery through a variety of media including ink, scratchboard, airbrush, sculpture, photography, music, web sites, print design, motion graphics, 3D, video, and digital compositing. His work generally has a darker edge to it, and pushes the limits of what is possible with any given medium. Since working as a full-time freelance compositor, his work has been highly praised in publications such as Fangoria, Creativity, Digit, and Cthulhu Sex Magazine. During his career, Robert has had the pleasure of working closely with talent such as Android Lust, The Birthday Massacre, Kittie, and Dan Ouellette.Robert has a passion for subway decay, the smell of burning electricity, fall evenings in the city, good white wine, soft black puppies, medical illustrations, slow foreign films, natural history museums... More About: Robert
Hebosagil
2008-11-12 17:36:00 Armed with ruthless determination, nihilistic wit and a bunch of super-sludgy gargantuan grooves, Hebosagil is up to set the world in flames.Around these parts we tend to quote press statements/torrent of words to point fingers and piss reality based A.I.D.S all over them. Or simply because we cannot think up a proper intro, as is the case here. I still piss on you, but this time not the assertion, a snappy snippet, believe it or not, giving you, the potential listener, a rather excellent impression of what to expect.Quite impressive, I know, and likewise so is the fact that ?Colossal? is named so for a reason, a title not pulled out of an ass for a change. At first, however, that being before I adjusted the bass, it was all too colossal, coming across as a distorted mess made for the sake of melting amps and setting speakers on fire.A bit of fiddling and a couple of listens later and I have more or less fallen in love with the album and its massive grooves interlaced with tons of f... More About: Music
Expo '70 / Be Invisible Now!
2008-11-11 17:58:00 Latest from Aquarius Records faves Expo '70, masters of modern krautdrone, every record another chapter in their expanding sonic history of the universe, a tale in sound, of suns and planets, of drifting in space, of galaxies expanding, of stars dying, of black holes, and endless expanses, of timelessness and infinity.Two tracks, each a slow building epic, the first rife with deep chordal swells, simple strummed acoustic guitars, crumbling distorted leads, mournful melancholy melodies, distant streaks of feedback, abstract whir and deep minimal rumble, a gorgeous slab of outer space drone folk, like a more spaced out kraut version of Kiss The Anus, or like a new weird America Santana fused with Hawkwind at their most acoustic and blissed out. The second track is a much dronier affair, a spaced out soundscape of rumbling, buzzing, shimmering synths, layered and textured, rhythmic and hypnotic. Like Tangerine Dream or Popol Vuh, but much darker and buzzier, but just as blissy and spa... More About: Music , Invisible
Nachtmystium
2008-11-10 18:11:00 Man, if Instinct: Decay blew your mind this new offering by Chicago?s finest will absolutely shatter your brain into tiny little microscopic pieces. It is that good and much more. Like many intrepid artists with a cracked open mind before him, leadman Blake Judd had already been messing about with psychedelics in Instinct: Decay. He added the sounds to an already charged up and loaded gamut of guitars, frosty vocals and battalion drums ending up with one of the most unique sounding and potent experimental black metal records ever. In Assassins, Judd, banks on it (psychedelics) even more. Evidently, Blake was aware that in order to take Nachtmystium to the next level he could not rely only on his talent alone. So he?s knocked on all the right doors, recruited Tony Laureano (Angelcorpse, Nile Dimmu Borgir) to play the drums and then enlisted knob twiddling master Parker Sanford (minsk, Yakuza, Rwake, Pelican) to not only produce Assassins but to participate creatively and join the ... More About: Music
Danava
More articles from this author:2008-11-09 12:50:00 Because they're on Kemado-- or, rather, because Kemado is forever linked to the Invaders comp that crystallized the hipster metal thing in 2006-- it's tough to talk about Danava without tossing around comparisons to the Swords and Saviours of the world. Certainly, there was enough Blue Cheer riffing and 1960s gloom on the band's self-titled debut to cast them as convincing nu-stoner attachés. But when their beefier brethren straight-copped Tony Iommi doom and dingy Horsemen thrash, these Portland space cadets were accentuating druggy astro-rock with slightly more obscure cues. Think Hawkwind instead of High on Fire, Magma rather than Maiden.But the wire-crossing of prog, glam, and academic metal only worked in spells in '06. They peaked early on the UFO dragstrip ride of Invaders stand-out "By the Mark", but Danava never really found a comfortable or convincing step afterwards. No-frills freakouts seemed a bit too dead-eyed, the big art-psych foibles seemed unsure, and the in-be... More About: Music 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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