Archive for May, 2009
Album of the day: La Ira De Dios – Cosmos Kaos Destruction (World In Sound 2008)
Posted on Sunday, May 31st, 2009
La Ira De Dios - Cosmos Kaos Destruction
(From our archives): Imagine Jimi Hendrix playing with Space Ritual era Hawkwind and getting into the spirit of the thing. Add a healthy dose of psychedelic thrash and doom and you’ve got just the recipe for a band like La Ira de Dios. Cosmos Kaos Destruction is their latest, having switched from Nasoni Records to the World in Sound label.
‘Quemando” opens the set on a quiet note, with doomy sludgy bass and slowly building psychedelic guitar. But after a minute or so the band launch into classic La Ira de Dios steamroller power trio cosmic psych rock. And you never have to wait long for Chino Burgo to crank out a guitar solo.
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Album of the day: The Gates of Slumber – Conqueror (I Hate Records 2008)
Posted on Saturday, May 30th, 2009
(From our archives): It would be easy for the casual listener to dismiss Gates of Slumber as a Sabbath worship band. Indeed, their sound is a throwback to the old school doom laden sounds of the grandfathers of heavy metal, but lucky for them they have more to offer than ...read more
Album of the day: Sunn 0))) – The GrimmRobe Demos (Southern Lord 2005)
Posted on Friday, May 29th, 2009
(From our archives): When it came to ambient drone soundscapes, Dylan Carlson was a visionary. His seminal recordings with Earth blazed a new trail through the wilderness of possibility for distorted electric guitar. The drone-riff spectacular, Extra-Capsular Extraction was treated as a novelty by many listeners – especially since it ...read more
Album of the day: The Obsessed – Incarnate (Southern Lord 2004)
Posted on Thursday, May 28th, 2009
(From our archives): Well, deemed with the task of reviewing this record has left me with a profound dilemma; why bother? If you need me to tell you how good this is, then you’ve been living under a rock for some time now. I mean, do I have to convince ...read more
Album of the day: Sons of Otis – X (Small Stone Records 2005)
Posted on Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
(From our archives): The advent of a new Sons of Otis record is always a combination of expectation and dread. Expectation in that the band consistently produce great records, dread in that, like Spinal Tap, the band seem plagued by minor and major problems during recording!
This time around, the problem ...read more
Album of the day: 35007 – Phase V (Stickman Records 2005)
Posted on Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
(From our archives): The Dutch lords of instrumental space rock are back with their fifth LP/EP. The line-up has shifted since the release of 2002’s stellar release, Liquid with a change in guitarist. Tos (ex-Beaver) is now handling six-string duties and 35007’s overall sound has altered as a result.
Liquid featured ...read more
Album of the day: Witchcraft – S/T (Rise Above Records 2004)
Posted on Monday, May 25th, 2009
(From our archives): Witchcraft S/T should be emblazoned with a HUGE health-warning sticker, as should you, the listener suffer from motion sickness… BE WARNED!!! As the speed with which this blissfully anachronistic heavy rock album sucks you down, a delirious time tunnel would warp the mind of H.G Wells himself.
Fabulous ...read more
Witchcraft: new pro-shot concert footage available
Posted on Sunday, May 24th, 2009
Strike, the metal show on StreetClip.tv, has uploaded brand new professionally filmed concert footage of Swedish doom rockers Witchcraft.
Witchcraft, who formed in 2000 in tribute to band heroes Roky Erickson and Bobby Liebling (Pentagram), create heavy, blues-based rock augmented with touches of psychedelica and late ’60s pop flourishes. The quartet’s ...read more
A beginners guide to the music of Swans
Posted on Sunday, May 24th, 2009
Swans are perhaps the single biggest influence on the burgeoning doom / sludge / drone scene aside from the obvious likes of Black Sabbath. New York’s Dan Bukszpan wrote a beginners guide to the music of Swans:
One of the unexpected wonders of being in my band, Slow Horse, is that ...read more
Album of the day: Torche – Meanderthal (Hydra Head Records 2008)
Posted on Sunday, May 24th, 2009
(From our archives): Clocking in at just over 36 minutes, Torche’s Meanderthal is an album that is both massive and jubilant. Labeled “thunder-pop” by the few publications who have reviewed it, it’s a perfect example of just how exciting, original and all out fucking fist pumpingly enjoyable heavy music can ...read more
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