Posts Tagged ‘Stonerrock’

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

Posted on Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

Samsara Blues Experiment - Long Distance Trip

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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Album of the day: The Brought Low – Third Record

Posted on Thursday, February 25th, 2010

Lovingly pinched from The Obelisk: What New York City rockers The Brought Low have always managed to do best is get right to the point, and on their latest offering, the appropriately titled Third Album (Small Stone), the trio make it known right away that they’re open for business. “Old ...read more

Cathedral New Album Details Revealed

Posted on Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

Veteran British doom / stoner band Cathedral will release its ninth full-length album and second for the Nuclear Blast label, The Guessing Game, on March 26. The CD was recorded at the Chapel studios in Lincolnshire, U.K. and was once again produced by Warren Riker (Down, Crowbar). It also sports ...read more

Album of the day: Church of Misery – Live at Roadburn 2009

Posted on Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

Lovingly pinched from The Obelisk: Man, it was late when Japanese stoner doom legends — now in their 15th year of operation — took the stage at Roadburn 2009 at the 013 Popcentrum in Tilburg. Over on the main stage, Colour Haze was noodling out, and it was so packed ...read more

Soilent Green pulls out of Afterburner event; Outlaw Order replacement headliner. Samsara Blues Experiment added to Roadburn Festival 2010

Posted on Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

We’re very sorry to report that Soilent Green has pulled out of the 2010 Roadburn Afterburner event, set to take place, Sunday, April 18th at the 013 venue, Tilburg, Holland.
Soilent Green’s Tommy Buckley, who is also in Crowbar, will be on tour, supporting Sepultura with Crowbar in April. There’s a ...read more

Album of the day: Mondo Drag – New Rituals

Posted on Thursday, February 4th, 2010

Lovingly pinched from The Obelisk: With minds expanded and set to the key of retro, Davenport, Iowa — which for those in the know is called “the San Francisco of Iowa” (that’s not true) — the high toned Mondo Drag emerge bearing psychedelic sweets that seem to melt as soon ...read more

Priestess: Entire New Album Available For Streaming

Posted on Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

Prior to the Fire, the sophomore album from Montreal, Quebec, Canada-based hard rockers Priestess, is available for streaming in its entirety at THIS LOCATION. Due on February2 via New York City’s Tee Pee Records, the CD was recorded in Los Angeles with producer David Schiffman (The Mars Volta, Nin Inch ...read more

We Want Your Top 10 Albums Of The Decade

Posted on Sunday, December 20th, 2009

Update:  The votes are in, the points have been awarded and the math has been done. More than 150 of you have taken the time to forward your Top 10 list for the Roadburn Album of the Decade.
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Album of the day: El Festival de los Viajes – Disparen!

Posted on Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

Lovingly pinched from The Obelisk: Whether the music is your thing or not, what you have to admit about Disparen! (Aquatalan), the second album from Argentina’s El Festival de los Viajes is that it’s accurately titled. Disparate, unique: they simply don’t fit, and that’s clearly on purpose. Disparen! boasts a ...read more

Album of the day: Naam – Naam

Posted on Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

Lovingly pinched from About.com: Heavy Metal: In Thai, the word “naam” is sometimes used in reference to water. Perfect if you’re this Naam from Brooklyn which frequently operates courtesy of aquatic trances as precursor to their boisterous outpourings of doom and sludge.
Reportedly recorded on a dairy farm in the Catskill ...read more

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