Posts Tagged ‘Meteorcity’

Album of the day: Freedom Hawk – Freedom Hawk

Posted on Monday, January 4th, 2010

Freedom Hawk - Freedom Hawk

Lovingly pinched from The Obelisk: Freedom Hawk, out of Tidewater, Virginia, are a four-piece on a mission geared toward ’90s stoner space with just a touch of southern flair. Their self-titled MeteorCity debut, following last year’s nine-song Sunlight on Magic Lady Records, hails a ride in Fu Manchu’s boogie van while jamming out on garage-flavored Sabbath and putting back a couple of Legend brews, raising hell through the countryside.

Vince Burke (Beaten Back to Pure, Hail!Hornet, etc.) recorded, mixed, mastered and remastered the totality of Freedom Hawk, and he did a noble job of bringing forth the Orange-colored fuzz. I caught the band last year in New York after it was announced they’d be working with MeteorCity just to check them out, and compared to their live show, Freedom Hawk on record is a little tighter. Guitarist/vocalist TR Morton runs his voice through a processor basically throughout, and though that can get tiresome, it’s nothing unbearable, especially for fans of Sheavy or the aforementioned Fu Manchu.

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Album of the day: Egypt – Egypt

Posted on Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

Lovingly pinched from The Obelisk: Rare are the times in my life where the phrase, “Fuck yeah, Dire Straits!” has crossed my lips. In fact, I can only think of one instance, and that was the first time I heard the uber-fuzz guitar tone on ‘Dirty Witch’, the third of ...read more

Album of the day: Ararat – Musica de la Resistencia

Posted on Thursday, November 5th, 2009

Lovingly pinched from Stonerrock.com: Even looking at the two titles with which he’s chosen to represent his first solo outing apart from Los Natas, it’s plain to see Sergio Chotsourian is working to reconcile two sides of himself.
For a band moniker, he’s chosen Ararat, the highest mountain in and national ...read more

Album of the day: Elder – Elder

Posted on Friday, August 21st, 2009

Boston’s Elder answer the eternal stonerrock question — what would happen if you crossed Fu Manchu and Sleep? — by dropping an amazing album of pure stoner rock.
Actually, limiting Elder’s sound to just Fu and Sleep is selling them way short as they have many subtleties at work in their ...read more

Album of the day: Black Pyramid – Black Pyramid

Posted on Sunday, July 12th, 2009

Lovingly pinched from StonerRock.com: Massachusetts doomers Black Pyramid meet at the point of the road whereby the venerated riffs of Sleep cross paths with the modern beastly aesthetic that has come to replace the boogie vans and pot references as the go-to subject matter for new school stoner metal.
Guitarist /vocalist ...read more