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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 second Shrinebuilder, that Shrinebuilder will play the 2010 Scion Rock Fest & Roadburn and that the legendary trio Sleep, in which he was vocalist and bassist with Matt Pike (High on Fire) on guitar and Chris Hakius on drums, will indeed be playing in the US September of next year. An excerpt from the chat follows below.

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The Obelisk: Now that you’ve had a little time to process the record and had the chance to get a reaction live, how do you feel about that material? Are there changes sound-wise you’d want to make going forward?

Al Cisneros: We’re already working on new songs, we all are. The unit starts to define its momentum and its own feel becomes more clarified. It starts to intensify itself. That’s happened through the shows. Of course, every band, when you get off the road, you know your record better than you did going in, even though you knew it going in completely and when you recorded it. Every band ever, after playing the album live enough times, goes, “Man, why couldn’t we have recorded it now? There’s this part and now we play this part this way?” Even if you tour on songs, then go to a studio, after that studio recording and you go tour again, you still have that. It’s just that way. The songs never stop growing, ever.”

Continue Reading: The Obelisk – Shrinebuilder Interview
(Very special thanks to JJ Kozcan for his kind permission)


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The Obelisk reviews Shrinebuilder’s self-titled debut album

Posted on Saturday, September 12th, 2009

The Obelisk, easily one of the very best stonerrock related blogs has reviewed Shrinebuilder’s self-titled debut album:
It’s hard not to feel like you’re standing in the presence of greatness when listening to Shrinebuilder’s self-titled debut (Neurot), and likewise difficult to separate the music from those making it. In that ...read more

Album of the day: House of Broken Promises – Using The Useless

Posted on Friday, September 11th, 2009

Lovingly pinched from The Obelisk: At the mountaintop of heavy metal clichés (and quite a mountain it is) sits the mighty “Formed from the ashes of.” It is the ultimate, beating out the many variations on “shred” and any use of “brutal” you can imagine.
Imagine any (every) local band press ...read more