Archive for November, 2011

The Day After The Sabbath: Vol.56 – Freedom Of Yore Posted On line

Posted on Wednesday, November 30th, 2011

The Day After The Sabbath is a blog specialising in regular compilations of obscure heavy 60s and 70s rock. It’s Rich’ aim to reveal the secret world of bands that were inspired by the early psychedelic, doom and hard rock greats but were too short-lived, un-commercial or just plain unlucky to the gain the recognition that they probably deserved at the time. Download Vol.56: Freedom Of Yore HERE.

“This volume is dedicated to heavy 60s and 70s bands from the “the land of song”, Wales”, says Rich, “I found that though the welsh rock family tree was quite incestuous during this period, it spawned some amazing talent. Historically, the band “Eyes Of Blue” seems to have been a very important starting point for a lot of this talent.

They lead directly to one of my favourite albums of all time, Ancient Grease’s “Women and Children First” (1970), from which I include the track ‘Eagle Song’. You may have noticed the glaring omission of a particular ornithologically-named band here, though I am sure most of you know them pretty well already…”

All my previous compilations from can be found at my BLOG and I’m sure any of you who are intrigued by the more obscure history of heavy rock will find a lot of great surprises.”

Tags: doom, Freedom Of Yore, heavy 70's, psychedelica, The Day After The Sabbath
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Transylvanianhungerrr: Nader Sadek – Live In New York City (by Stefan Raduta)

Posted on Wednesday, November 30th, 2011

NADER SADEK – finally made flesh in New York City  – thoughts and images by Stefan Raduta Monday, November 20th. Egypt is in turmoil. Cairo is burning, tens of thousands of protesters are in the streets. By now over 40 people have been killed, thousands are injured – it looks ...read more

NPR: The Best Metal Albums of 2011 (by Lars Gotrich)

Posted on Wednesday, November 30th, 2011

I made it my personal goal to listen to more death metal in 2011. We all have our blind spots and this was a gaping wide hole in my horn-raising knowledge. I’m happy to report that I spent a massive amount of time and cash on these filthy sounds, and ...read more

Album of the day: Umberto – Prophecy Of The Black Widow (CD)

Posted on Wednesday, November 30th, 2011

Praise for Umberto‘s Prophecy Of The Black Widow from San Francisco’s aQuarius Records: It’s about a month late for Halloween, but we’re still pretty thrilled that this Record Of The Week from last year is now available as a CD! Here’s what we said about the original vinyl version which ...read more

Tombs Path Of Totality Named Decibel Magazine’s Album Of The Year

Posted on Wednesday, November 30th, 2011

Brooklyn, New York’s Tombs have received the coveted of Album of the Year Award from Decibel Magazine for their sophomore release Path of Totality. Vocalist and guitarst Mike Hill commented on the honor: “We’re fortunate to have received so much support. A lot of hard work goes into what we ...read more

Album of the day: Noothgrush – S/T (Reissue 2011)

Posted on Tuesday, November 29th, 2011

Lovingly pinched from The Sleeping Shaman: An interesting one, this; independent label Fuck Yoga have gotten their grubby mits on one of Noothgrush’s very first recordings – a self-recorded demo that was only ever released on a handful of cassettes – and are releasing it on limited edition CD and ...read more

Boris Stream Entire Forthcoming Album via SPIN.com

Posted on Tuesday, November 29th, 2011

Legendary Japanese trio Boris are now streaming their entire forthcoming release New Album courtesy of SPIN.com. Listen to the full album HERE. Rolling Stone recently premiered the MP3 for New Album track Flare, which is available to stream/download HERE. Additionally, Pitchfork previously posted Spoon, the first single from New Album, ...read more

Pitchfork: Show No Mercy – The Top 40 Metal Albums of 2011

Posted on Tuesday, November 29th, 2011

Pitchfork‘s Brandon Stosuy lists his top 40 metal albums of the year (and then some) in the latest installment of Show No Mercy: I’ve been making these sorts of lists long enough to know they’re not an exact science, and they don’t please everyone. In the end, they’re snapshots that ...read more

Saint Vitus Name New Album (Terrorizer)

Posted on Tuesday, November 29th, 2011

Ahead of Premonition 13′s UK appearances this week, Terrorizer spoke to doom legend Scott “Wino” Weinrich about the first Saint Vitus album in almost seventeen years. Due for release in the first quarter of 2012 on Seasons Of Mist, the frontman claims “it’s completely finished and going to be called ...read more

Zebulon Pike: Minneapolis Instrumental Prog-Doom Metallers Unleash Space Is The Corpse Of Time

Posted on Tuesday, November 29th, 2011

Hailing from Minneapolis, Minnesota, Zebulon Pike is an instrumental prog-doom metal band formed in late 2002. Inspired in equal parts by heavy sounds of the ’70s (Mountain, Pentagram, Captain Beyond, early Judas Priest), progressive rock (King Crimson, Rush), and 20th century classical (Bela Bartok, Arvo Part, and many others), Zebulon ...read more