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Album of the day: Temporarily on Hold Until June 4

Posted on Thursday, May 9th, 2013

Album of the Day is on hiatus while we decompress after the tremendous 2013 Roadburn Festival (and some personal circumstances). Plenty of great albums have been piling up and we look forward to sharing them with you when we get back on the grid on June 4th.

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Album of the day: Spiritual Beggars – Earth Blues

Posted on Sunday, April 7th, 2013

Lovingly pinched from ThisIsNotAScene: Hard to believe that this year sees Spiritual Beggars celebrating 20 years as a band. Formed after guitarist Michael Amott left death / grind legends Carcass, the band took a more relaxed approach to their metal, playing 70′s-inspired hard rock with psychedelic and stoner influences, with Earth ...read more

Album of the day: Blaak Heat Shujaa – The Edge of an Era

Posted on Saturday, April 6th, 2013

Lovingly pinched from The Obelisk: Since the release of their 2010 self-titled debut, Blaak Heat Shujaa have moved from Paris to Los Angeles — with a stop in New York City as well for a time — have honed their desert rocking chops on tours with Fatso Jetson and Yawning ...read more

Album of the day: Encircling Sea – A Forgotten Land

Posted on Friday, April 5th, 2013

Lovingly pinched from Last Rites: Here’s the thing: You’ve probably heard this before. Australia’s Encircling Sea grafts earthy black metal themes and musical motifs onto a bedrock of lengthy clean doom structures and sweeping post-rock. So, while the band’s sound is altogether more lilting and pastoral than Wolves in the Throne ...read more

Album of the day: Melvins – Everybody Loves Sausages

Posted on Thursday, April 4th, 2013

Lovingly pinched from The Sleeping Shaman: Ask several discerning Melvins fans which of the group’s two dozen (well, something like that, I’ve lost count!) albums they consider the best, you’ll most likely get several wildly different answers. But then this isn’t any “normal” rock group; this is the Melvins, credited with ...read more

Album of the day: The Black Angels – Indigo Meadow

Posted on Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013

Lovingly pinched from Paste Magazine: Over the past few years The Black Angels have emerged as the patriarchs and greatest ambassadors for modern psych rock. They’re from the psych-rich city of Austin, have been at it for longer than most and have used their stature to help along worthy up-and-comers. ...read more

Album of the day: MOSS – Horrible Night

Posted on Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013

Lovingly pinched from CVLT Nation: Despite being together as a band for nearly thirteen years, the UK-based MOSS are only now on the cusp of releasing their third full length. That’s not to say that this trio have been resting on their laurels, heck no, most years since their inception ...read more

Album of the day: Glitter Wizard – Hunting Gatherers (Vinyl)

Posted on Monday, April 1st, 2013

Praise for Glitter Wizard‘s Hunting Gatherers from San Francisco’s aQuarius Records: We thumbed up the spacey synthy glitter-glam garage retro not-really-metal of this SF band’s Siltbreeze 7″ a while back, but then somehow skipped over reviewing their subsequent full-length, and are even a little behind the times in getting to ...read more

Album of the day: E-Musikgruppe Lux Ohr – Kometenbahn

Posted on Sunday, March 31st, 2013

Lovingly pinched from Ave Noctum: Well even with a basic grasp of German you should know what an Autobahn is and with Kometbahn it’s not difficult to guess we are heading to space along with the comet’s path. Then there is the name of the band (E-Musikgruppe Lux Ohr) , ...read more

Album of the day: The Ultra Electric Mega Galactic – The Ultra Electric Mega Galactic

Posted on Saturday, March 30th, 2013

Lovingly pinced from The Soda Shop: Oh man, I am rather pleased to announce that Ed Mundell is back on the psychedelic hard rock instrumental train with his new project, The Ultra Electric Mega Galactic. With the epic name comes an epic record. Featuring a bitching rhythm section compromised of ...read more