Archive for March, 2011

Album of the day: Grayceon – All We Destroy

Posted on Monday, March 21st, 2011

Lovingly pinched from About.com: Heavy Metal: Grayceon pushes right past our conceptions of metal with clean singing and a cello. True, other bands have touched on these sounds, but Grayceon goes even a step beyond gender benders like Neurosis and Isis. They are similar to their Bay Area cohorts Ludicra in their desire to expand our understanding of metal and imbue the music with a singer-songwriter’s soul.

That approach is the main strength and stumbling block of All We Destroy, Grayceon’s third album. Jackie Perez Gratz, a classically trained musician, has an angelic voice, one that could work wonders in any genre. Her cello playing is also masterful; giving the music unexpected textures and sounds. She shreds on a cello like most players wish they could shred on an electric guitar.

Continue reading: Grayceon All We Destroy Review – Review of All We Destroy by Grayceon.

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Album of the day: War Injun – Tribal Eulogy

Posted on Sunday, March 20th, 2011

Lovingly pinched from Hellride Music: WHOOOOWHEEE!! Gawd bless the soil that bears the fruit of the Maryland Doom scene. Through its loins is birthed War Injun, a ferocious addition to a hallowed family that includes Pentagram, The Obsessed, Earthride and Spirit Caravan among many other notables. If ‘Loaded and Damned’, ...read more

Album of the day: Bong – Beyond Ancient Space

Posted on Saturday, March 19th, 2011

Lovingly pinched from The Sleeping Shaman: From the windswept megalithic hills of the Northeast comes the new monstrous studio release by drug-sworn pentagram worshipping Bong. This has been a long time in coming, multiple live releases have emerged from this band but it’s been a while since a studio album ...read more

Album of the day: Mastodon – Live at the Aragon

Posted on Friday, March 18th, 2011

Lovingly pinched from BBC Music: Released in 2009, Mastodon’s fourth album Crack the Skye was a mind-meltingly ambitious offering, melding significant rock chops with proggy themes and digit-busting fret-work. It was a perfect album for Guitar Hero kids and old-school metalheads alike, and rightly ate up critical acclaim. Not that ...read more

Album of the day: Blut Aus Nord – The Mystical Beast Of Rebellion (2CD)

Posted on Thursday, March 17th, 2011

Praise for Blut Aus Nord‘s The Mystical Beast Of Rebellion from San Francisco’s aQuarius Records: Long out of print, this twisted bit of experimental avant industrial flecked gnarled and warped black metal from these French weirdos gets a super deluxe reissue, with a whole extra disc, more on that in ...read more

Album of the day: The Might Could – Self-Titled

Posted on Wednesday, March 16th, 2011

Lovingly pinched from The Sleeping Shaman: So, you’re in a pretty successful, kick ass band, you’ve released a bunch of awesome albums, toured the world then one day it all goes tits up. What do you do? Well, if you’re Erik Larson you head home to Richmond, Virginia, lick your ...read more

Album of the day: The Machine – Drie

Posted on Tuesday, March 15th, 2011

Lovingly pinched from The Obelisk: Dutch heavy psych jammers The Machine make a dense run on their aptly-titled third album, Drie. The full-length, their Elektrohasch debut, follows on the heels of two strong LPs, 2007’s self-released Shadow of the Machine and 2009’s Solar Corona (Nasoni), and while both of those ...read more

Album of the day: Carlton Melton – Country Ways (LP)

Posted on Monday, March 14th, 2011

Praise for Carlton Melton‘s Country Ways from San Francisco’s aQuarius Records: There’s no shortage of psychedelic space rock in SF these days: recent Record Of The Weekers Lumerians, the Spyrals,  Wooden Shjips, Sleepy Sun, and these guys, Carlton Melton, not a person, but a quartet, who conjure up epic stretches ...read more

Mamiffer: We Speak In The Dark (Stereogum Premiere)

Posted on Sunday, March 13th, 2011

Mamiffer – now featuring ex-Isis man Aaron Turner – will release their next full-length Mare Decendrii on March 15. The album will be released in the US via Turner and partner Faith Coloccia’s own label SIGE, with a European release coming via Belgium’s Conspiracy. Listen to We Speak In The ...read more

Album of the day: Blood Ceremony – Living With The Ancients

Posted on Sunday, March 13th, 2011

Praise for Blood Ceremony‘s Living With The Ancients from San Francisco’s aQuarius Records: This Canadian doom-psych-prog-metal band’s 2008 debut was a big fave ’round here, we likened their female-fronted n’ flutey, Hammond organ driven occult heaviness to “Electric Wizard given a medieval, madrigal makeover” and compared ‘em to a hypothetical ...read more