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Album of the day: Samsara Blues Experiment – Long Distance Trip

Posted on Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

Samsara Blues Experiment - Long Distance Trip

Lovingly pinched from The Obelisk: I can’t figure out why none of the myriad stoner indies out there has jumped on Berlin’s heavy psych rockers Samsara Blues Experiment. The German four-piece have recorded their first full-length, Long-Distance Trip, and sent it over for some preview-type listening, and especially coming off the heels of their two-song demo — which itself was nothing to scoff at — it’s got the kind of trance inducing stoner feel that one would think labels would be all over. Tee Pee? MeteorCity? Hell, even Elektrohasch (although that one might even be too obvious)? These guys toured the West Coast of the US on their own dime! Far worse has been signed for far less. Won’t someone give a quality band a home?

The two tracks from the demo, “Singata Mystic Queen” and “Double Freedom” show up here, the latter closing the album with a stunning 22-minute sprawl and the former serving as the opening movement. Samsara Blues Experiment, like Los Sounds de Krauts-era Colour Haze before them, are just beginning to explore where they can go with their jams, utilizing both heavy riffing and mellow noodling to establish a flow both within each track and one to the next.

Continue reading:  Pack Your Bags and Journey with Samsara Blues Experiment’s Long-Distance Trip | The Obelisk.
(Very special thanks to JJ Koczan for his kind permission)

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Oresund Space Collective – Dead Man In Space (vinyl)

Posted on Monday, March 15th, 2010

Lovingly piched from Ian Abrahams’ Spacerock Reviews: In the first category, since anything by them is always a treat to listen to, is a three-track limited edition vinyl of Oresund Space Collective’s Dead Man In Space release from late 2009 that OSC’s Scott Heller had very kindly sent me a ...read more

Album of the day: Iron Man – Black Night

Posted on Sunday, March 14th, 2010

Lovingly pinched from The Obelisk: If the elder’s fables are true, and there really is a cult of true doom, then I can’t help but feel that somewhere in the initiation process is Black Night, the 1992 debut offering from Maryland legends Iron Man. Among the most sought-after of the ...read more

Album of the day: Gunslingers – Manifesto Zero

Posted on Saturday, March 13th, 2010

Praise for Gunslingers’ Manifesto Zero from San Francisco’s Aquarius Records: Now this is what we’re talkin’ about. The return of France’s Gunslingers, not too long after their amazing No More Invention album and the cd release of frontman Gregory Raimo’s equally awesome solo endeavor as GR & Full-Blown Expansion.
How does ...read more

Album of the day: Las Cruces – Dusk

Posted on Friday, March 12th, 2010

Lovingly pinched from The Obelisk: As the follow-up to 1998’s Ringmaster, Dusk (Brainticket / Metal Rising), the 2009 offering from San Antonio, Texas, doom bashers Las Cruces, is something of a surprise. Mostly because, since the band more or less called it quits after self-releasing the The Lowest End EP ...read more

Album of the day: While Heaven Wept – Vast Oceans Lachrymose

Posted on Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Lovingly pinched from Hellride Music: Since the early 90s, Virginia doom collective While Heaven Wept have resided in the shadows; a criminally underrated unit which has consistently released quality, emotional doom of the highest order. Whether it be 1998’s Sorrow of the Angels or 2003’s masterful Of Empires Forlorn, the ...read more

Album of the day: Grand Funk – Live Album

Posted on Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Lovingly pinched from The Ripple Effect: “Here’s the group you’ve been waiting to see, GRAND FUNK RAILROAD!” And with those words my life was never the same. It wasn’t until about 10 or 12 years ago that someone hipped me to the fact that there was a lot more to ...read more

Album of the day: Lair of the Minotaur – Evil Power

Posted on Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

Lovingly pinched from The Obelisk: My chief issue with destructive Chicago outfit Lair of the Minotaur has always been memorability. For each of their three albums prior to the latest, Evil Power (their first on self-release label The Grind-House Records), I’ve been psyched to get the disc, put it on, ...read more

Album of the day: Black Boned Angel – The Witch Must Be Killed (vinyl)

Posted on Monday, March 8th, 2010

Praise for Black Boned Angel’s The Witch Must Be Killed from San Francisco’s Aquarius Records: Latest slab of sprawling outsider minimal ambient sludge doom drone from this (now) duo, fronted by none other than Campbell Kneale, he of Birchville Cat Motel and Our Love Will Destroy The World, but as ...read more

Album of the day: Hard Stuff – Bulletproof

Posted on Sunday, March 7th, 2010

Lovingly pinched from The Ripple Effect: The first half of the 1970’s is a bottomless pit of kick ass hard rock. Every month or so someone will turn me on to some band I’ve never heard of and it’s always from before 1975. Not too long ago Racer wrote up ...read more