Archive for July, 2009

Baroness reveal new album title, artwork

Posted on Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

Georgia-based rockers Baroness have unveiled the title of their forthcoming full-length as Blue Record. The follow-up and sister album to 2007’s acclaimed Red Album, Blue Record features artwork by the band’s own John Dyer Baizley.

Baroness - Blue Record

Blue Record tracklisting: ‘Bullhead’s Psalm’, ‘The Sweetest Curse’, ‘Jake Leg’, ‘Steel That Sleeps the Eye’, ‘Swollen and Halo’, ‘Ogeechee Hymnal’, ‘A Horse Called Golgotha’, ‘O’er Hell And Hide’, ‘War, Wisdom and Rhyme’, ‘Blackpowder Orchard’, ‘The Gnashing’ &  ‘Bullhead’s Lament’.

Blue Record was recorded in Dallas, TX with producer / engineer John Congleton and will see an October 2009 international release date. Two exclusive in-studio entries chronicling the band’s first two weeks in the studio can be accessed here and here.

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Please click here for the audio stream of Baroness – Roadburn 2009.

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Supersonic Festival 2009

Posted on Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

Sunday night’s performance of the reunited Goblin brought Birmingham’s Supersonic Festival to a close, a fitting conclusion to a great weekend for me and Jurgen. One of the special things about Supersonic that we noticed was how much time the musicians from the various bands on the bill spent hanging ...read more

Wino fronted Saint Vitus to play the eastern United States for the first time since 1987!!!

Posted on Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

Saint Vitus were one of the first to fuse the behemoth riffage and bleak atmosphere of doomier side of Black Sabbath with the desperate aggression of punk rock ala Black Flag and the 80’s flourishing hardcore scene. Saint Vitus re-united in 2003 for two select shows in Germany & Chicago ...read more

Darkthrone’ Nocturno Culto pens introduction to Hellhammer/Celtic Frost illustrated history

Posted on Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

Former Hellhammer / Celtic Frost and current Triptykon frontman Tom Gabriel Fischer and Bazillion Points Books have announced that Nocturno Culto of Darkthrone has written an introduction to Fischer’s upcoming 288-page hardcover book Only Death Is Real: An Illustrated History of Hellhammer and Early Celtic Frost 1981-1985. Nocturno Culto states: ...read more

Album of the day: Los Natas – El Nuevo Orden de la Libertad

Posted on Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

Lovingly pinched from Stonerrock.com: It’s vaguely correct to call El Nuevo Orden de la Libertad, the new album by Argentina free rockers Los Natas a return to form. Their third offering for Small Stone, it sees a resurgence of the kind of catchy desert riffing that permeated early works like ...read more

Pitchfork: Interviews Sunn O)))

Posted on Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

Grayson Currin of Pitchfork recently conducted an interview with Sunn 0))). An excerpt from the article follows below. Judging by the consistent criticism that Sunn O)))’s metal-based drone experimentation suffers– that is, it’s boring, self-serious, humorless, and mean– perhaps one wouldn’t expect Greg Anderson and Stephen O’Malley to be cruising ...read more

Monday Song: Allman Brothers – In Memory of Elizabeth Reed (1970)

Posted on Monday, July 27th, 2009

Every Monday morning we’ll post a kick-ass song to get your week going!

Album of the day: We Insist! – The Babel Inside Was Terrible

Posted on Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

Lovingly pinched from one of our favorite blogs, The Ripple Effect: When last we saw We Insist!, they were defying logic with their incredibly infectious release Oh! Things Are So Corruptible, an album packed past the grooves with deft tempo changes infused with a sense of melody that sticks with ...read more

Hello! Goodnight! – After 15 years, Sleep come out slugging for 48 hours only

Posted on Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

Jack Steel of Vice recently conducted an interview with Sleep. An excerpt from the article follows below. Earlier this year I was talking with a pal about dream musical reformations. The more we talked about the turds who’d recently reformed for cash, the more we realised how little we cared ...read more

Album of the day: Candlemass – Death Magic Doom

Posted on Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

Lovingly pinched from The Metal Minute: If you happen to be one of the stubborn lot who strayed from Candlemass because Messiah departed once again, shame shame shame on you. Robert Lowe more than capably fielded mike duties on Candlemass’ last album King of the Grey Islands while his second ...read more