12/8/12

ART OF BURNING WATER - 2012 - THIS DISGRACE LP (Review)


One of the greatest bands from the smog island and one of my personal faves 
has recently released their 4th album.
It has a title "The Disgrace".
It sounds fucking masssive. Having strong british industrial base (think of early Pitchshifter and Fudge Tunnel and Godflesh)  and american  noise-rock influences (16, Unsane and take best bands from AmRep, Sub Pop).
Also I need to mention that  Kunal (Superfi rec's. boss) entered the band in 2012 and I'm sure this is a good upgrade.
"This Disgrace" will be out in January 2013. Three mighty labels splits 500 copies of wax : British Superfi and Riot Season and French Swarm Of Nails
If you havn't heard this fabulous band yet - you should also check three previous albums too.





Release Info :

Art Of Burning Water were born out of the ‘white flats’ of Hanwell (W7) and the pre-gentrified homes of Hammersmith (W6) in West London in 2001. The sound of suburban alienation and misfit isolation forged an awkward visceral sound that was too punk for the metallers, too noisy for the arthouse crowd and too weird for seemingly everyone else. AOBW continue to plough their own furrow despite personal injury and often chronic disorganisation. with self-promotion taking a back seat to the importance of sound creation to combat the often ugly hardships of everyday living.
      
Like Slayer gone sludge, AOBW channel the prime noise-rock of vintage Zeni Geva and Godflesh with the more complex rhythmical riff obsessions of the Melvins, Keelhaul and mid-period Voivod. In saying that however, AOBW also adhere to the original punk philosophy of ‘anything goes’. There are no restrictions. Punk isn’t about Discharge (as good as they were and are), studded belts and crusty bum flaps. Punk is the heart to tell the narrow minded to get fucked.

“This Disgrace” continues the more spontaneous writing approach of third album “Love You Dead” with some emotionally draining dirge sections akin to a more budget “Children Of God”-era Swans, “What’s This For?” period Killing Joke as well as the “Souls At Zero” beatings of Neurosis. All subject to opinion of course. For fans of : Godflesh, Swans, Melvins, Unsane, Jesus Lizard, Mastodon etc etc


12/4/12

Sent by the band during November 2012

CUBE - 2012 - S/T


Stoned Grunge from Greece. 
Pretty good one.

"Newest Spinalonga Records/Body Blows co-release, Cube just released their self-titled debut LP digitally and on vinyl 12” in a limited pressing (250 copies).

In the midst of the economic crisis in Greece, Cube are releasing what seems like a 90’s heavy rock revival. Focused on groove and straight-up heavy rock, the band delves into prog-rock experimentation but never loses the grungy aesthetic that cuts through the entire album.
 

The quartet have released a few tracks over the years on various compilations such as the ‘In the Junkyard’ series -featuring fellow greek acts the Dive, Planet of Zeus, the Bliss, Nightstalker among others- (Spinalonga Records, Greece) and the ‘Rock ‘n Roll Blvd vol.1’ -featuring bands like Honcho, Monkey 3, Kayser and more- (Buzzville Records, Belgium)."


http://cube-1.bandcamp.com/ 
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Cube/
http://www.spinalonga.net/ 


JUDD MADDEN - 2012 - ARTESIAN


"Inspired by the harsh Australian outback, it continues the great doom / stoner metal journey."

http://juddmadden.bandcamp.com/album/artesian 
http://www.facebook.com/judd.madden.music 
http://neverwake.me/ 


Junkyard Birds - 2012 - Free Wheeling Free Will



French R'n'R Mayhem

"For years the Junkyard Birds haunt backstages and venues, providing a total in-your-face heavy-blues rock'n roll experience to the audiences, blasting speakers and breaking strings for the everlasting pleasure of your bleeding ears. " 


For fans of Boris, The Hellacopters, Fu Manchu, Ramones, Turbonegro...

http://junkyardbirds.bandcamp.com/ 
http://www.facebook.com/junkyardbirdsofficial 
http://dominomediaagency.wordpress.com/ 
http://www.deadbees.com/splash.php 

 

MAKE - 2012 - Axis


New EP by drone fellas


"MAKE recently entered the studio to begin recording tracks  the EP with engineer Nick Petersen (Horseback, Bon Iver). 
Says guitarist Scott Endres of the new EP: “It's not necessarily meant to be a cohesive statement but rather ideas we had which didn't necessarily fit in with the material we've been preparing for the next LP. I think the EP format is perfect for that sort of thing... allowing an artist to express different ideas which perhaps don't fit in within the context of some other greater whole. I suppose we could have added a few more minutes of music to this and called it a short LP but this isn't the statement we're looking to make in following 'Trephine'. We see this more as an appetizer or aperitif. Sonically though, it's both more psychedelic, more metal and less metal than we've previously been. In that order."



http://www.facebook.com/thebandmake 
http://thebandmake.bandcamp.com/ 


Lilium Sova - 2012 - Epic Morning



"4 years after the awesome "Tripartite chaos" debut album, the atypical instrumental hailing from Geneva, (Switzerland) Lilium Sova, is back with a new full-length effort coming on november 16th through Cal of Ror Records (Rorcal).

Emerged in early 2006 as a trio playing a fairly unique mixure of noise-hardcore and post-metal with a pinch of free-jazz, the band is back in 2012 with a new line-up and "Epic morning". A brand new album recorded & mixed by JP Schopfer @ Wool studio and mastered by Raphael Bovey, including guests appearances from members of Impure Wilhelmina, Kehlvin, Yog, Rorcal..."




 http://liliumsova.bandcamp.com/album/epic-morning
https://www.facebook.com/liliumsova 
http://www.liliumsova.bigcartel.com/ 
http://calofror-records.blogspot.fr/

Kursed - 2012 - Miaow 

 

 

"Two years after an acclaimed debut effort, "Like a coffee", released on M&O Music/Mosaic Music Distribution, Kursed makes its return with a brand new album called : "Miaow".



Young French indie-rock trio from Montpellier, Kursed plays an alternative indie-rock music somewhere between Arctic Monkeys and The Black Keys with a French touch."


http://kursed1.bandcamp.com/album/miaow
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kursed/



Craig Hughes - 2012 - Hard Times: Volume 1


Fresh EP from
Craig Hughes, an alt.blues/roots musician and songwriter (also lead guitarist with heavy psych-rock band Dog Moon Howl) based in Glasgow, Scotland. 
Best soundtrack for the end of the week.

http://craighughes.bandcamp.com/album/hard-times-volume-1
www.craighughes.net
www.channelnowhere.com
www.dogmoonhowl.com



Direwolves - 2012 - Me From Myself, To Banish 

 

 

"French record label Throatruiner Records has just put out the vinyl edition for DIREWOLVES's "Me From Myself, To Banish", limited to 500 copies on clear vinyl. Recorded by Amaury Sauvé (producer/sound engineer for Birds In Row, As We Draw, Comity...), the debut EP from this french hardcore/crust band reminds of bands such as Alpinist, Lewd Acts or Killing The Dream. "


http://music.throatruinerrecords.com/album/me-from-myself-to-banish
http://www.facebook.com/wearedirewolves 
http://store.throatruinerrecords.com/categories/direwolves 

Kalkh-In(joy) Erode - 2012 - Clear



"Drone, & dark, ambient, psychedelic, rock, doom, lo-fi, dunno... Some atmospheres in one ambience. unstable and improvised."

http://kalkhinerode.bandcamp.com/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kalkh-Injoy-Erode


Immovable Objects - 2012 - I'll Know to Believe in Sparrows



"This San Diego's quintet’s sound  has been compared to God Speed You Black Emperor, Explosions in the Sky, Mum, Sigur Ros, Panda Bear and Her Space Holiday."


http://immovableobjects1.bandcamp.com/
http://immovableobjects.com/
http://www.facebook.com/Immovableobjectsmusicpage



Black Science - 2012 - An Echo Through the Eyes of Forever 

 

 

 Increase your telepathic abilities today!
Full of danger space-stoned rock



The Black Widow's Project - 2012 - Heavy heart


Awesome hype band from Geneve !


 "there is a new swiss rock'n'roll band in town : The Black Widow's Project playing deep-rock (between stoner and grunge with 70's influences).  Greatness and decadence, poetry and rock n’roll, love and sex, peace and war. 
These are the words that inspire this atypical rock band, performing a music both clean and dirty, coated with primitive hard rock which would flirt with the energies of grunge music."


Check the new video tune from the upcoming album.


TESA - 2012 - IV


"Soberly entitled IV, the third full-lentgh album of our favorite Latvian band is composed of 3 long tracks, a magnificent blend of sludge and post-rock played with a singular sound that has made TESA a unique proposition for years. The music of the three-piece band from Riga drenches the listeners into multiples feelings, intertwining beautiful, melancholic and heavy atmospheres with a very subtle hardcore undercurrent. IV is the long-anticipated follow-up to heartbeatfromthesky released in 2008."


http://impuremuzik.bandcamp.com/album/iv 
www.myspace.com/tesaband  
 http://www.impuremuzik.fr/


Voltron - 2012 - Kaventsmann



Quite good sludge/doom from Berlin




VA - 2013 - Devils Kitchen 2013



2013. Australia. Fest. Killer Line-up.
This compilation is full of pleasent surprises from Australia. 

"After a four year hiatus, the legendary good time stoner-punk-death-boogie-sex-rock showcase is back, taking in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane in January 2013. "



Early Mammal - 2012 - Horror at Pleasure


"Early Mammal started on February 1st 2012 in an old butter factory in Camberwell, South London, called Dropout (London's true home of sludge and noise).  Formed by Rob Herian (ex-Elks http://www.heavyplanet.net/2011/10/new-band-to-burn-one-to-elks.html) on guitar and vocals, Ben Davies (ex-85 Bears) on drums, and with the prog-stylings of Turkish born Deniz Belendir on organ and synths, the band spent hours jamming heavy blues, space-rock and psyche with the likes of Captain Beefheart, High Rise, White Hills and Hawkwind on the brain, and in September 2012 finally finished recording their first album, Horror at Pleasure, which is looking for a 2013 release.

   
It's head-down-rock; it's fuzzed-out and heavy.  But there's also something wrong in the story.  That's what the last few months have created in Early Mammal and that's what you get.  That's what we all get because there's something not right about any of us, anywhere.  All our stories are fucked.  Early Mammal is coming from somewhere else.  It's expected and it's telling you something. "



http://www.facebook.com/earlymammal

Elephant Hawk Moth - 2012 - S/T


"ELEPHANT HAWK MOTH: That is energetic Alternative-Rock, with massive sound, ambitious songwriting, coaxingly playful but aggressive, supported by lyrics with a reflective tinge."

http://elephanthawkmoth.bandcamp.com/ 
http://www.facebook.com/ehmband 

11/24/12

Battle Pope vs. Jesus Christ Posse - 2012 - Split LP

 And the Oscar for the best cover artwork in 2012 goes to....Side A

 
  You may know Battle Pope frome the previous bestsellers with the cute titles : "Holy Trinity :Bitches, Dicks and Gonorrhea" and "Pantless Carnage EP"
And here's the next chapter of the scripture from Australian naughty boys. 
Stoned to the bone crust'n'roll with the good school from Blood Duster & Sabbath.


"Battle Pope are dick-slinging, soul-winning, heathen-killing Paladins of pussy and party - a most holy quartet of sexual juggernauts armed with powerful Papal fluid. Only through their teaching will you find salvation.

Blending elements of sludge, swing, rock, grind and doom, Battle Pope’s sermon have been likened to "Little Richard wildly fucking Blood Duster, Captain Cleanoff and Elvis at a hedonist coke orgy". They are a demented incarnation of Parliament, crazed by hyper-sexualised modern culture and fuelled by advanced research chemicals.

Features members of Dumbsaint, Serious Beak, Adrift for Days and Kill A Celebrity." 


Shut the fuck up!
AMEN




Side B is represented by J.C.P. 
 Great, fast oldschool hardcore in the vein of Cryptic Slaughter, Negative Approach, Agnostic Front and a couple of brit-core bands ala Heresy & Ripcord.

Check their fullength here.



"The saviours of Sydney City Hardcore Jesus Christ Posse leave a trail of bloodied heathens in their wake. Reppin' Christian punk worldwide from Bondi to Bethlehem - so it is written, so it shall be done.

Their music recalls early 90’s hardcore punk rock, with an aggressive edge forged through religious purity, strict abstinence and straight-edge lifestyle.

Features members of Fat Guy Wears Mystic Wolf Shirt and Rather Be Dead. "




Manifesto to this piece of wax :

"The collective psyche of humankind still bears the scars from violent religious schism in ages past. Where religion and the highest spiritual ideals are concerned, such splits can cause permanent trauma in culture.
The Great Schism in the eleventh Century severed the once joined spiritual life of peoples East and West, and they have followed their own separate trajectories ever since.


A few hundred years later, the Western Schism saw the Roman Catholic Church split, waging a bitter blood-feud over who was the ‘true’ Pope. The kingdom of Christiandom quite recovered from The Protestant Reformation, where Protestants broke off from the central authority of the Church in Rome in the 16th Century.


Now, in the 21st Century, two militant mega-churches have emerged in Sydney, Australia. While both have amassed powerful flocks, they have announced holy war and blood feud. In the interest of mediating a more peaceful resolution, Art As Catharsis is pleased to present to you a sampling of each group’s teaching, so that it might be determined which speaks the true Word of God."


Ships from 14 January 2013. Edition 1 of 250.

Features:
- Tasty black and blood red heavy splatter vinyl
- Shrinkwrapped 300gsm semi-gloss LP jacket
- Lyrics insert, stickers and band poster
- Vinyl only bonus track(s)
- Immediate digital download (long before the heathens)

Records printed by Pirate Press.

dig few tracks from the split here :

Heavy Metal Glue – 2012 - Heavy Metal Glue (Tape)


Hail Everybody !

Heavy Metal Glue is the pretty fresh band from Tokyo, Japan.
It was formed like a year ago. 
Raw, sick and twisted psychedellic, lo-fi garage madness was caught on tape the same year.


The DIY design really kicks ass.
Leather glove that glued into horns figure works like a cassete box.
The tape is limited to 100 and runs around 35 minutes.


Sometimes it comes more into noisy jamming, sometimes it's straight high-energy rock-n-roll.
NEGISHI ( ex CHURCH OF MISERY,GATES) is the best throat cutter ever. 
And the beautiful RIA (ex MARBLE SHEEP) looks nice between that oldschool Heavy Metal Dudes.
I like such a contrast picture of what you see and what you hear from stage.
For sure this is the band that is best seeing live.
And I hope to hear high quality fullength filled with the same energy in the nearest fuure !!!

You can also find 2 tracks by  Heavy Metal Glue on the japanese compilation
 "Tokyo Flashback " 


Be fast. So you can get some glowes before winter starts here :

11/8/12

War Iron - 2012 - Fifth and Final Sun (Review)


Fuck yeah. War Iron confidently joins the list of my favourite bands that comes from Ireland.
 And it's really hard to decide who's got the gold medal for the slowest and heaviest race.
The band was born on the ruins of local stoner rock band called NAUT, death metal band called DEVILMAKESTHREE in 2006. Marty from SLOMATICS is also in the band. (By the way if you haven't heard yet "Hocht" by Slomatics so you should do it urgently)

"Fifth and Final Sun" is the second album that was released on CD by Punkerama records on 20th of October 2012.
(The first 2-long-track album "The Faceless Sea" was released on vinyl and CD in 2011)

So let's take a closer look on th is record :
 -Four songs that lasts for 40 slow minutes.
-As I can get from the title, texts and cover the theme of the album is about Aztek-Mayan prophecies. Belive this or not, but "Fifth and Final Sun" will be the good CD to play loud for the whole day long at 21st of December. Don't forget to broke the "repeat", "stop" and "volume" buttons after the start.
 -Ultra heavy  double bass attack that you can compare with finnish Loinen.
-Brutal vocals that makes thousands of ants eating your skin simultaneously.
- Great song structure that mixes slow drone-doom parts with fast sludge shots. Think of Warhorse, Salome, Thou


In the Irish cave among locals such as Wreck of Hesperus, De Novissimis and Slomatics one more doom-sludge mammoth was born.

Throw The Goat - 2012 - Black Mountain



Throw the Goat is clutchy, catchy and full of energy band.
They're mixing hardcore, metal, stoner rock with southern grooves.

And I'm pretty sure that the rest of town's population that equals 3870 (to be precise) are almost diehard fans of this freakin' awesome band !

We're Throw The Goat - a heavy rock/punk/metal band from the mountains of Idyllwild, California. We would really like it if you'd check us out... you might dig our story. We're from a small town (population 3874) in the middle of nowhere, there's no scene for us where we live so we hustle our asses off playing dive bars to legendary venues around southern California and even toured down to Costa Rica last February. We've opened for Prong, Death By Stereo, D.I., Fireball Ministry and many others. We do this 100% on our own, completely independent. Our debut album Black Mountain, which we're releasing ourselves in a few weeks, can be streamed for free at: http://throwthegoat.bandcamp.com. It was produced by Alex Pappas from Finch. Hope you like what you hear, please let me know if you're interested and we'll mail you a copy or send a free download code for bandcamp, which will include our kickass cover of En Vogue's "Free Your Mind"





11/7/12

Dirty Is As Dirty Does........



What I hold in my hands is an excellent digiapck by a hard rock band from Australia. Everyone knows that hard rock and Australia is like hand and glove - an excellent combination that never fails. "Destroy She Said" is a five piece band from Melbourne that proves this statement once again. Their first full-length album called "Down To Dirty", which was released on the first of October 2012, consists of 10 tracks, and gives you that classic rock feeling from the first note you hear on it. Moreover - this feeling lasts all along the album.

The first thing besides a good sound (again I would use the word "classic" but classic in a modern way if you know what I mean) that you hear on that album is a very catchy vocal performance, which reminds me of Bon Scott and Steve Tyler. In my opinion vocal is an essential component of every song on this album. There are some cool riffs, melodic solos, and memorable harmonies on the album, but the compositions which these pieces build wouldn't sound interesting without this kind of vocal.


 As for the music itself, these guys don't create anything new, so if you actually want to hear something new on this record, it's not for you. This album is for the people who just want to get their daily dose of an honest piece of rock'n'roll crafted in a nice, classic way (think of Electric Marry, Night Horse, AC/DC and maybe The Answer). "Down to Dirty" is just a collection of 10 songs about hot women (mostly about them), bad influence of church and other nasty things that will make your day if you like when rock music is served that way.

Buy their CDs (by the way it comes in a cool digipack with a pick!), support them on stage and don't forget that artists always rely on their fans.

11/1/12

Sent By the Band - October 2012

Estoner - 2012 - The Stump Will Rise 

 


Captain Obvious says that Estoner is a cool psychedelic stoner band from Estonia !


Town Portal - 2012 - Chronopoly 

 


This is the second album from Danish progressive fellas.
The first one also was posted on Robustfellow

"Long story short, Town Portal is an instrumental rock band from Copenhagen, Denmark who are sporting curiously complex yet surprisingly catchy tunes with a dropped tune punch.
October 8th saw the release of the debut album ‘Chronopoly’ on the Copenhagen-based indie label Subsuburban. The album has been praised in the national music press.
In November the record will be followed up by a European tour with Extra Life drummer Nick Podgurski performing solo as Feast of the Epiphany.
"



 Interlude - 2012 - A la deriva 

 


"Hailing from Zaragoza, INTERLUDE plays a passionate emo-post-hardcore, sung exclusively in Spanish this time and with a more progressive, ambient approach compared to their previous works. "A la Deriva" is the long-awaited follow-up to "10000 ans de vengeance" released in 2008."




Vintage Cucumber - 2012 - Mc Goyl Style 

 

One man multi instrumental psychedelic band from Germany.
"Highly Recommended is the song "The Hots fette Sonne" from the album "Tom mit de Bon Style". One album is finished and the other is in process. "

MOUNT FUJI - 2012 - S\T

 


Really good band from Leipzig, Germany.
Alice in Chains & Helmet rides with Saint Vitus speed.


STONERHEAD LET GROOVE YOUR BRAINS TONIGHT

 Cute name for the blog & awesome promo video.





IGUANA - 2012 - get the city love you

 

 


“IGUANA released their new double vinyl at the end of June (at Sweethomerecords, Broken Silence) and have gradually moved their style from classic Stoner-Rock to a distinct Desert-Session-Psychedelic-Rock. „Get The City Love You” provides old-school Desert Rock – rough, psychedelic, melodious, but, above all, multi-faceted. The 10 songs represent different tunes in finest Desert-Sessions without even relating to any desert-clichés: sometimes instrumental, sometimes just straight, and then laid-back again. Somewhere between Doom, Psychedelic, Noise and the Desert Sessions, but, with a twinkle in the eye, it reminds us of Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd as well as Saint Vitus, The Black Keys, Qotsa and Soundgarden."

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED !!!

If you are interested, you can listen to 6 out of 10 new songs (and you can even download two of them for free) (tips: A Royal Null Drift, Vaque As A Mirage, Get The City Love You).http://soundcloud.com/iguanagermany

Tour dates – Get The City Love You – Tour 2012:

presented by: Allschools Network, Electric Magic, Sweet Home Records
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26/10/2012 Chemnitz (GER) - AJZ Talschock

27/10/2012 Freiberg (GER) - Deep Hole

03/11/2012 Jena (GER) - Black Night

09/11/2012 Leipzig (GER) - Bandhaus

10/11/2012 Braunschweig (GER) - Nexus

16/11/2012 Cottbus (GER) - La Casa

17/11/2012 Dresden (GER) - Born Wild Fest

18/11/2012 Berlin (GER) - Schokoladen


http://www.iguana-music.de
http://www.facebook.com/iguana666
http://www.youtube.com/user/IguanaVideochannel
http://www.myspace.com/iguanagermany



SHINESKI - 2012 - Leave you in the Dark 

 

Another Sweetie from Domino Media.
Check their fullength on bandcamp. It's a blast !
2 years after the release of its acclaimed second full-length album, "The wild lane", through Tentacled Records (Gamesdøglär, My Fancy Zoot), french alternative power-rock quartet Shineski is gonna to unleash a brand new CD/digital EP, "Leave you in the dark", on november 10th, still on Tentacled Recs.

"Leave you in the dark" will consist in five new songs for a powerful mix of stoner-rock, alternative grunge, power-pop and indie-rock. In a few words : something between Biffy Clyro and Kyuss.


  From now, the title-track of the EP is available for streaming on SoundCloud.

    Facebook | Label | Bandcamp

10/26/12

Mud Walk - 2012 - "Drifters forgotten Lore" LP (Review)


Mud Walk is absolutely amazing all-female band from Stockholm, Sweden.
6 girls are playing good mix of 70's blues rock.
Re-incarnated Janis Joplin comes to mind.
Hendrix, Buddy Guy, Robert Johnson, Chuck Berry
& the Woodstock '69's fog broke over the mud.


Their first EP "Barefoot Band EP" was released in May 2011 
And  "Drifters forgotten Lore" is the second one. It was released just one month ago
on Swedish's Ella music.
 The album starts from that moment when you pick up the cover
and peer into aquarelle cover artwork. That's the moment when size matters.
Then the needle scratches track by track. 
Pure retro atmosphere is in the air...
 

If you plan to have a wedding in the 70s style
Here is the band that you should probably get for your stag-party.
 (Please, don't beat me hard for this joke, grrrls)

Thank my friend Tobias for letting me know about this band.
And big thanks goes to girls for the hot wax.

 Check one track from this EP



And One Cool live with the song from previous EP




kick some tracks below :

10/25/12

Booba Fest at it's best


Don't miss these buritos in Kiev

Booba fest is going to be cool grindcore/gore/noise/porn/pw event.
It's made to celebrate 3 years of Booba Records existence.


Fecalizer - goregrind - Mexico
www.myspace.com/fecalizermx

Ripping Organs - grindcore - Mexico
http://www.myspace.com/rippingorgansmx

Inopexia - blasting gorenoise - Russia
http://www.inopexia.bandcamp.com/

Penis Amputator
- pornogrind - Russia
http://www.myspace.com/penisamputator

Necrocannibalistic Vomitorium - pornogrind - Ukraine
http://www.myspace.com/necrocannibalisticvomitorium

Foible Instinct - grindcore - Ukraine
http://www.myspace.com/foibleinstinct

Maläd - noisecore - Ukraine
http://www.maladnoise.bandcamp.com/

Ruined Face - powerviolence - Ukraine

RobusShop will be there among other cool distros.
Say us  hello and buy some robust stuff that you like !
See you there!

Price:  
80uah./8 euros