Wine, Women and Song

RSS Feed Homepage

Articles: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

No-Neck Blues Band
2008-12-23 20:15:00
Mind-blowingly good twisted improv from New York's No-Neck Blues Band . This new album is brilliantly all over the place, taking in a tremendous range of stylistic stopping off points, all handled with the utmost freedom and spontaneity by these seasoned psych-blues travellers. "Clomeim is an evolution, a vital document of change in The No-Neck Blues Band's 15+ years of para-musical activity. This pivotal recording is a creative distillation of the collective at a new and startling saturation point. For three rainy days in March 2007, the seven-headed hydra that is NNCK holed up in Black Dirt Studios, their newly outfitted recording studio in the foothills of upstate New York. With a discipline & a clarity of vision they've rarely displayed before,the collective channeled all of their energies into hours of recording live, real-time improvisation. After months spent sculpting and recasting the raw material, Clomeim emerged--a distinct whole, recalling in its parts the communal how...
More About: Music

The Great Sabatini
2008-12-23 20:13:00
Formed from the ashes of Violent Marv, this Montreal sludge-math foursome proffer disgruntled stoner metal rife with odd time signatures and thick, hearty production. Great Sabatini might be described as a futuristic meeting between Sabbath, Sleep and Meshuggah, until you reach the EP's jarring eight-minute-long conclusion, experimental noise number Scene One: Ombu Enters Vixen's Private Moments Only to Dissolve, Immersed in Obscured Solitude. Sabatini's three-pronged vocal assault brings alternating layers of screaming, yelling and outright singing; add to that the band's unpretentious, tongue-in-cheek stance and phenomenal album art, and you've got something worth checking out - or signing, if you're a label bigwig.Info stolen from; (HOUR) Links;The Great Sabatini - Burning WildernessThe Great Sabatini @ MySpaceThe Great SabatiniCD Baby:
More About: Music

Glowsun
2008-12-23 20:11:00
Glowsun is a music band created in 1997 in Lille and its surroundings, north of France. At the beginning, the line-up is Johan Jaccob / guitar, Mickael Duhem / bass, Yann Duvivier / drums. In december 99, a first demo called « Inside the sun » is issued and is limited to an edition of 50. The band starts to play in festivals and gives little concerts in the north of France and in Belgium. In 2003, during the coming out of the second demo « Escape from hell », the drummer Yann Duvivier leaves the band. Johan decides to create an instrumental project named Kallima, with Mickael and Fabrice Cornille (drummer of the band Attack of the Mutant Camels). Kallima and Attack of the Mutant Camels are even sometimes together in the same show... In September 2003, Mickael wants to have a break and intends to devote himself to personal plans. But Johan and Fabrice keep on playing together.In the year 2004, Johan and Fabrice think about setting up Glowsun again. The real line-up will be completed ...
More About: Music

Maligno
2008-12-23 20:10:00
Maligno was born in 2004, with the desire of every member in the band to go back to their roots. After years of experimenting with different musical projects. Due to their musical background the band decided to pay homage to the most influential heavy metal band of all time: BLACK SABBATH. During several gigs throughout the country the band decided it was time to write original material. After months of rehearsals and composing, Maligno finally finished 10 songs wich are captured on the groups first album. The resulting sound is a mixture of their 70s metal influences and others that each member contributed. finishing in a progressive but agressive brand of doom metal. the album was recorded and produced by maligno at la nave studios in monterrey n.l. MEXICO, and it was mastered by Colin Davis (Vile) at Imperial Mastering L.A. Maligno has participated in some of the most important metal festivals in latin america like: Monterrey metalfest 3 with blind guardian, U.D.O, Cathedral, Obi...
More About: Music

Riccardo Boldorini
2008-12-18 18:11:00
Born in Milan in 1971, he starter his photographic activity in 1992 with the Murales in photography exhibit, a series of images on the walls of various European cities, Italy included.From 1993 to 1995 he collaborates with a host of underground magazines, experimenting on black and white as a means of impact expression. Meanwhile his exhibits, mainly in Milan, lead to The other Milan (1993), Portraits of protest (1993), Ten political flashes (1994). Some of the most esteemed magazines, such as "Il Manifesto" and "Il Corriere della sera" publish his images.From 1995 to 1996 he becomes part of the social photography group Fotoimmagine, becoming more aware of the surrounding reality, and leaving the most abstract experimentation. This leads to two group exhibits on current issues, racism and work: The dirty face of Milan (1995) and The voice of work (1996). Experimental exhibits include at the time: Warme Kuche (1995), Images of Grazzano Visconti (1995), Stone eyes (1995), Everyday lif...

Teeth Mountain
2008-12-18 18:10:00
You've heard this one before: A group of young (and more than likely college-educated) white people get together, pile instruments in a heap, and share a one-track mind to home, sweet, Om. Teeth Mountain 's mixed-bag lineup doesn't re-invent the drum circle, but its members--listed as Andrew Burt, Andrew Bernstein, Greg Fox, Greg St. Pierre, Max Eisenberg, Max Eilbacher, Kate Levitt, Grace Bedwell, and Owen Gardner here, not all of whom played on the recording--do it with a sincere appreciation for the woollier end of late-'60s radicalism. Think long-robed cults coming for your children or, better yet, of the original incarnation of Amon Duul, the German commune qua free-drone ensemble that spit out five glorious percussion-heavy records before some members split off and formed Amon Duul II, a much more commercially successful group that kowtowed to the man by having, you know, actual songs.Right now Teeth Mountain hasn't drunk such careerist Kool-Aid yet, and this LP bristles w...
More About: Music

Virus
2008-12-18 18:08:00
Everybody, welcome to a unique event in the world of dark music, as Czral the man with dancing hands comes back from the tomb to disharmonize grooves and to unbend spiky sputniks. So many things have been said regarding this already-cult-before-having-been-released album, so I think that if we frankly want to understand its value by sticking to its true content, its time for us to ignore every one else's opinions, even our very own, and simply go with the flow of the black flux. Thank you for following me along the way!To make things clear from the start: this is not Carheart part II, and to be honest, not much from that album has made its way into the new Virus album, except for the singular guitar signatures and bass acrobatics. One major difference is that the music is much darker than before, in that it doesn't use absurd and surreal themes to bring a befuddled smile on your face, but even more so to spring free a somewhat vague feeling of discomfort, of unease, of malaise, al...
More About: Music

Clipd Beaks
2008-12-18 18:07:00
Filing the Oakland-based Clip?d Beaks into the 21st century noise-rock cannon is not the world?s easiest task. There?s not enough punk in them to put Clip?d Beaks next to a group like Pissed Jeans, whose Hope For Men made critical waves in 2007. Clip?d Beaks also can?t reasonably be compared to bands further down the harshnoise spectrum, like Black Dice and Lightning Bolt. The easiest way to describe them would be as a stripped down version of Liars, minus the overtly psychotic lead singer. Whether or not Clip?d Beaks follows in Liars? footsteps remains to be seen, but Hoarse Lords is a passable start.If you find Hoarse Lords? opening track, ?Melter?, to be unlistenable, you are not going to like the rest of the album. Beyond that, you probably don?t like noise at all. With dueling, discordant vocals, a heavy, monotonous bass line, and continual noisecore licks, ?Melter? sets Hoarse Lords out to be neither the most challenging nor the easiest of listens. Underneath the overwhelming ...
More About: Music

Grouper
2008-12-18 18:05:00
With the label's hiatus well and truly over, Type Records follows up Peter Broderick's amazing 'Float' with a brand new album of midnight Shoegazer classics from Portland's Liz Harris - and it really is one of the most special albums you'll hear this year. While the filtered, tape-fuelled obfuscation of her signature sound remains, Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill is far more resonant up front about the songs at the heart of her work. Opening track 'Disengaged' offers a segue from the cloudy, amorphous Grouper output of old and this current strain of more easily deciphered writing: it's a mass of mesmerising magnetic hiss and soft noise, with a voice cloaked in lo-fi haze somewhere at the back. Soon after, Harris' guitar and voice emerge, reverberant and phantom-like, and yet comprehensible. If previously you've struggled to make out Grouper lyrics, and wondered what's going on beneath that veneer of musty, degraded audio, 'Heavy Water/I'd Rather Be Sleeping' offers you...
More About: Music

Woods Family Creeps
2008-12-18 18:03:00
Outsider Brooklyn folk-pop duo Woods makes music so deceptively simple, it is downright frustrating. The apparent ease they have in making each hummable chorus paired with the lo-fi production is infectious. Each time their 2007 release At Rear House comes to an end, I can't help but be a little ticked off that I am listening to the music rather than creating it myself. It just appears to be so simplistic at the hands of the Fuck It Tapes masterminds that anyone with a little music training could be concocting these catchy verse-chorus-verse ditties. It's similar to the feeling you get when listening to a Pixies record: "Really? No one before 1987 thought of utilizing loud-quiet-loud dynamics in a three-minute pop-rock song? No one at all? "Obviously, it speaks loudly of the songwriting skills these do-it-yourselfers possess ? it's as if they reside on some outlaying branch of the Buddy Holly lineage. But it's not solely about the poppy campfire sing-alongs; they also have an un...
More About: Family , Music

Kawabata Makoto & Michishita Shinsuke
2008-12-11 20:04:00
The Acid Mothers temple leader Kawabata Makoto teams up with fellow Japanese psych explorer Michishita Shinsuke of LSD March for this ear-melting guitar duel. It's an all-improvised affair with no overdubs, just fifty-five minutes divided into five tracks worth of dishevelled harmony, strips of feedback and a smart, restrained deployment of effects. Through whole sections of this record one guitar takes on 'melodic' duties, ponderously meandering through phrases while the other instrument summons up a wall of noise. There are other occasions where anything so ordinary as a 'note' is abandoned altogether, as on the furious whammy wrenching and distortion cloudbursts of the second piece. It's during these more searing exchanges that the duo's power comes to light, and you'd hope that this isn't the last meeting between these two figureheads of modern Japanese avant-rock.Info stolen from; Boomkat Links;Kawabata Makoto & Michishita Shinsuke - Basement EchoKawabata Makoto @ MyS...
More About: Music

Catherine Alexandre
2008-12-11 20:01:00
When I was two years old, my parents peut a pencil in my hand, that I have never let it go since. At the end of my secondary school studies, I went to Art'School, where I have obtained my NATIONAL DIPLOMA of PAINTING. At the same time, I have trained and was awarded a DIPLOMA in CONTEMPORARY JEWELLY DESIGN.While continuing the painting, I learn to do engraving with a spanish Master, Alfonso SAURA, and I was for five years in making engravings for a Paris gallery. I specialised in the Art Movement COBRA, principally the artists Karel APPEL and LINDSTRÖM.Winner of fashion's design (COURTELLE CREATIONS) for ten years I was designing clothings and embroidery motifs for a textile company. At the same time, my paintings were shown at a number of galleries and Art Exhibition. Then, as a free-lance, I have for five years created original characters for CARTOONS (model-sheets). I have discovered the world of cinema and began to write scenarios. And later, novels. Actually, I paint, I write...
More About: Catherine

Across Tundras
2008-12-11 19:59:00
As of late, Across Tundras' clever take on sludge and doom metal has certainly been appreciated amongst the Neur-Isis disciple bands. The band's previous record took a robust helping of the standard stoner metal ingredients and blended in dashes of country twang, vintage rock, and folk undertones to create a unique combination of raw heaviness with a western psyche. Lonesome Wails from the Weeping Willow, their debut release for Forgotten Empire Records, showcases the band's ever increasing attention to detail, as the trio's sound is filled out with a wide range of traditional folk instruments (mandolin, slide guitar, etc.). These elements, though present on Western Sky Ride, permeate each and every track, allowing LWFTWW to represent the bands most unified and fluid record yet.LWFTWW also displays a bit of a step away from Neurosis and Black Sabbath-type songwriting styles toward a sparser sound more akin to a blend of Earth and Neil Young. While the latter pair of influences w...
More About: Music

My Sleeping Karma
2008-12-11 19:58:00
This is the 2nd CD by this German band that arose out of the ashes of the Great Escape. It is instantly recognizable as My Sleeping Karma . They are forging more of their own sound which is a mix of very melodic guitar lines (very similar in many many songs), with hypnotic grooves and some space. Like a more melodic version of Monkey 3, who clearly is an influence. 12 tracks (only 7 song titles) in 58 minutes so here we go..Ahimsa starts things off with a great heavy and spacey groove and the guitar line that is band loves to use. A spacey Colour Haze like track. Great track. Track 3, the title track is a bit more of the same until the middle section where the guitars fade away and the bass, drums and synths glide. The guitars return shortly and the hypnotic groove as well. Track 4 is a short piece with some cool drums behind the same repeated guitar line over and over and it leads directly into Asetya, which starts with some forest sounds and a nice delay added to the guitar line th...
More About: Music

Hototogisu
2008-12-11 19:56:00
Another amazing project from Mr. Matthew Bower (Skullflower/Total/Sunroof!) and his Rural Electrification Program. One has to wonder how one man can be so prolific and continually churn out such amazing sounds. But ours is not to question...The disc starts off with what sounds like people playing ping pong accompanied by a shopping mall organ and sparsely plucked guitar, moody sparse and sort of whimsical. Track two finds Bower back in more familiar waters. A shimmering wash of high end harmonics and the sound of dripping water. Much mellower and dreamier than Sunroof!, all distant melodies, and guitar shimmers and delicate webs of feedback. Hypnotic and ethereally captivating.Info stolen from; aquarius records Links;Hototogisu - White Wind Of AutumnHototogisuaquarius records
More About: Music

The Dead C
2008-12-11 19:54:00
After listening to The Dead C?s ?Secret Earth? it is safe to say that this New Zealand ?noise-rock? trio have successfully returned to their roots. Last years ?Future Artists? showed the band at an odd stage; instead of cranking up the twisted guitar distortion Bruce Russell and co. were busy fiddling around with aimless electronics and fart noises. Don?t get me wrong,?Future Artists? was an enjoyable experiment but ?Secret Earth? showcases the bands patented noise/drone sound while adding in fresh ideas as well.?Secret Earth? only contains four tracks yet the album spans just over forty minutes. Throughout the album the listener is treated with relentless waves of guitar feedback that sound like they are coming out of a amp that has been beaten senselessly with a baseball bat. On top of this vocalist Mike Morley manages to creep his way into every song adding a cynical, hopeless sound to the music. The record as a whole conveys a harsh yet accessible atmosphere. The music is raw an...
More About: Music

Dan Ouellette
2008-12-05 17:32:00
Born into an era of activism, Altamont and mind-expanding drugs, Oullette?s youth was a mixture of old world values and new world sexual intellect. And while the visual indulgence of Catholic church lasted only a brief period, it left him notably scarred. He began drawing as a child. He found he could easily entertain classmates with his drawings of grotesque prostitutes rendered nude but for their high-top sneakers. Album cover art was closely scrutinized. Escher, Dali and Moebius books were always close at hand. Absurdist/surrealist Super-8 filmmaking paralleled his constant illustration efforts. A wealth of cultural diversity in combination with extensive hallucinogenic drug use and confused sexual deviation began to transform his disparate artistic experiments into a protracted an demanding lifestyle of self-expression. He grew to adore the cinema of Fellini and marvelled at Lynch?s ?Eraserhead? and Cronenberg?s ?Videodrome?. So rather than persue a formal ?education? in the fi...

Drive By Wire
2008-12-05 17:28:00
DriveByWire operates from the sultry town Deventer; Simone Holsbeek-vocals &guitar ( ex-Cords, ex-Telefunk) , Alwin Wubben- low-down-dirty-guitar & slide, and Remco Cornelissen ( ex- Incense) beating the shit out of the drums. The band is recently joined by René Rutten ( The Gathering), who adds heavy-ass bassrumble to the DriveByWire sound. A throat, a buch of guitars, a set of drums and a bottle of single malt whisky is all they need to burn the stage with their heavy grooving desertrock . So how would it sound if you put Korn, the Carpenters and Madonna in a rehearsal room jammin together? Well it sure as hell won't sound as Drive By Wire. A beaten up 69 Dodge Challenger doing 160 through the smouldering desert towards an raging thunderstorm with Chris Goss at the steering wheel and The Stooges kicking it with P.J. Harvey on the backseat, would be the best possible description of the Drive By Wire sound...ooh yeah! After the release in april 2006 of our debut-album ( follow up i...
More About: Music , Drive

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