Archive for November, 2009

Album of the day: High Tide – Sea Shanties

Posted on Monday, November 30th, 2009

High Tide - Sea Shanties

Lovingly pinched from The Ripple Effect: Imagine if you will the unholy bastard child of the Doors psychedelica and early Sabbath heaviness with an electric violin tire-ironed into the mix in the place of Ray Manzarek’s organ. Now if that sounds a little hard to put your finger on, imagine that violin not being content to hang out in the back ground, playing gentle atmospherics and fey melodies, but instead going head to head with the lead guitar, flying off on epic battles of searing leads while the bass and drums pound out a relentlessly heavy bottom end, all mixed in with Jim Morrison on vocals.

That’s High Tide.

I can’t imagine anyone knew what to make of Sea Shanties when it was first released in 1969. While the Beatles were happily singing that they all lived in a yellow submarine, and CCR was releasing their first three albums, High Tide unleashed this ungodly, glorious mess of a record onto the English public.

Continue reading  The Ripple Effect: Proto-metal report – High Tide – Sea Shanties.

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The Exile of Satan from Heavy Metal Design: the art of Seldon Hunt, Stephen O’Malley & Aaron Turner

Posted on Sunday, November 29th, 2009

Those “heavy metal” bands that debuted during that first palmy MTV generation sound like nontoxic pop compared to today’s vast offerings of subaltern metal genres, where intricate is the new heavy, and glacially slow is far more radical than hyperfast. Metal has evolved in such diverse directions—drawing from and crossing ...read more

More bands announced for Roadburn 2010: Firebird, Troubled Horse, Black Math Horseman, Monarch! and Totimoshi

Posted on Friday, November 27th, 2009

As you all may have noticed, the line-up for Roadburn Festival 2010 has been shaping up nicely.  In addition to the bands previously announced, we are very happy to announce the following acts:
Taking his passion for early Johnny Winter and classic rock and adding some obscure influences like 50’s harmonica-driven ...read more

Gnaw Their Tongues: Terrorizer band of the day

Posted on Friday, November 27th, 2009

Find out why our good friends over at Terrorizer just can’t stop writing about Gnaw Their Tongues: Since 2005 Dutch-based Gnaw Their Tongues has been damaging the pleasure/pain receptors in the psyches of curious (possibly masochistic) listeners with a densely orchestrated sound as alienating, chaotic, debauched and sadistic as any ...read more

Roadburn Afterburner: Graveyard confirmed; Line-up complete

Posted on Thursday, November 26th, 2009

Graveyard, along with Dixie Witch, Soilent Green, Sourvein and House of Broken Promises are the confirmed bands for Roadburn’s special Afterburner event on Sunday, April 18, at the 013 venue in Tilburg, Holland.

Formed in November 2006, Sweden’s Graveyard excel at creating ‘heavy psychedlic 70’s hardrock’, influenced by the likes ...read more

Jarboe about her appearance at Roadburn Festival 2010

Posted on Thursday, November 26th, 2009

Former Swans chanteuse Jarboe has aligned herself with the constantly mutating world of Avant-Metal by her recent collaborations with  Neurosis, Cobalt and Jesu. She has also forged her own path with her feminine take on NYC dirge. Heavy, operatic and hypnotic, Jarboe’s  hydra-head vocals vary from waif whispers to shrieking ...read more

Album of the day: Part Chimp – Thriller

Posted on Thursday, November 26th, 2009

Lovingly pinched from BBC Music: Riff monsters they may be, but Part Chimp have often resembled a rather benign kind of beast. Sure, their ungodly speaker-stacks are fit to rend the ground asunder, resonating on a level that somehow unites the earthly and the cosmic. Yet maybe it’s some combination ...read more

Album of the day: Iron Man – I Have Returned

Posted on Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

Lovingly pinched from HellrideMusic.com: To say that it has been a rocky and difficult path on the way to Iron Man’s fourth full length album would be an understatement. It has been nine years and countless line up changes since Generation Void. That kind of turmoil can take a serious ...read more

Roadburn Afterburner: Soilent Green and Sourvein confirmed

Posted on Monday, November 23rd, 2009

Soilent Green and Sourvein, along with Dixie Witch and House of Broken Promises have been confirmed for Roadburn’s special Afterburner event on Sunday, April 18, at the 013 venue in Tilburg, Holland.

Featuring former members of 13 and Buzzov’en in their ranks, Sourvein offers low-tuned, balls out, southern sludge metal. Word ...read more

OM’s Al Cisneros on: Shrinebuilder, OM and Sleep.

Posted on Monday, November 23rd, 2009

JJ Kozcan of The Obelisk recently conducted an interview with OM ’s Al Cisneros. Cisneros, fresh back in California from a few days spent in Austin, TX, following the last of the five shows on Shrinebuilder’s run, confirmed that writing has already begun for a fifth Om record and a ...read more