HENRY BLACKER - 2014 - Hungry Dogs Will Eat Dirty Puddings

Strange Cousins from the Albion are welcome with their debut work.

Henry Blacker is a new band with two fellas from Hey Colossus and a brother on the drums.
 The sound and the mix is perfect for the first look.
Musically it's a very reach mix of noiserock, prog, hard-rock, post-punk.
I've also catched some doomy tunes too.
Strong rhythm section compares with charismatic vocal skills.
Don't forget about smart lyrics and album title.
The album/t-shirt cover delivers as well.

 Riot Season never fails with pleasant surprises.
Hail the soft noisy heaviness !

Get Mr. Blacker on vinyl or tape with an exclusive bonus track.

Catch these fuckers alive !

HENRY BLACKER TOUR DATES :

24th January, Brixton Windmill (w/ Bad Guys & Death Pedals)
8th February, Bristol (w/ Sleaford Mods)
9th February, Cardiff
28th February, Brighton
1st March Lille, France
2nd March Brussels,Belgium
4th March Paris, France
8th March, Preston
9th March British Wildlife Festival, Leeds
21st March The Black Heart, Camden. London.
Plenty more to be added.

 https://www.facebook.com/henryblackerband

 http://henryblacker.wordpress.com/

 https://www.facebook.com/riotseason

http://riotseasonrecords.bandcamp.com/album/hungry-dogs-will-eat-dirty-puddings

 http://riotseason.bigcartel.com/

http://www.riotseason.com/

Samsara Blues Experiment (Germany) - 2013 - Waiting for the Flood

It took me a while to put my hands on this review, but since I rarely hear an album which moves something inside, this was a thing that simply had to be done.

Samsara Blues Experiment is the band that needs no introduction. A killer debut "Long Distance Trip" continued by a less appreciated "Revelation and Mystery" and amazing live shows proved them to be one of Germany's most appreciated bands of today. Just check their performance at the Rockplast to see it for yourself.

I was very motivated about listening to the album, after the Soundcloud's preview of "Brahmin's Lament", and my anticipations weren't vain. "Waiting for the Flood" takes the best from previous albums and places it into even greater progressive rock garments than before. To tell the truth, in terms of stylistic characteristics, tags "progressive", "psychedelic" and "jam" spring first in my mind when I think of this album, leaving not so much space for the "stoner" vibe. But who says it's bad?

This four song album has a great atmosphere - Chris' voice sounds better than ever, sitar, flute, pads & psyched out effects are gently integrated here and there and musical structures keep you involved until the last second of the album. The only bad thing in this album for me, is that it's too smooth. There are no moments that fully capture your attention and make you feel one with the music.

Lyrics relate to the eastern philosophy and excellently blend with music. Name of the first song "Shringara" relates to the Sanskrit word, which means romantic love, attraction or beauty. On a deeper level this can be seen as a metaphor for the relationship between the person and the divine. "Brahmin's Lament" projects the idea of breaking through illusions and conditioning and facing one's true self beyond current incarnation, time, space or any other definite object. Go to their web-site to read the lyrics and make your own conclusions and research.

All in all, "Waiting for the Flood" is a strong heavy psych album by a great band. Support them by buying their merch and visiting their gigs - they totally nail it there. 

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Gudars Skymning - 2013 - Höj Era Glas

     Сегодня, многоуважаемые мы с Вами вновь вернёмся в Швецию, для того, чтобы вкусить ещё один запретный плод - новый, третий по счёту альбом хард-рокеров Gudars Skymning. 

     Cкажу честно, трудновато описать свои ощущения в полном объёме, особенно если учесть тот факт, что ШВЕДСКИЙ язык я так пока и не выучил....Однако, это один из ЛУЧШИХ альбомов уходящего года, поверьте - завораживающее звучание смеси классического харда образца прошлого века, блюзовых вкраплений и харизматичного вокала с первых же аккордов проникает в мозг и перенастраивает его центры удовольствия. 

     Альбом состоящий из 10 композиций слушается на одном дыхании и практически не имеет проходных вещей. А уж какие здесь встречаются медленные вещицы, воздадим же хвалу Одину!!!! Писать более не вижу смысла, друзья - приобретайте, приобщайтесь и проникайтесь этим чудом от суровых и величавых викингов!!!!!

(Review by Dron) 

Biography :

 

Gudars Skymning is a band from the Laplandic woods and mountains in the far north of Sweden. The band get their inspiration from the heavy rock of the sixties and seventies, blues, the traditional Swedish folk music, and the Swedish prog that was big in the seventies. The band thrives on live performance, and even in the studio record the bulk of their albums live!

Gudars Skymning started out in 2006 and recorded their first self titled demo the same year. The band then consisted of Kenny Oswald Dufvenberg, Dennis Sjödin, Tony Östman (Aeon), och Anders Nord. In December the same year a second guitarist, Knut Hassel (Destiny, 7^th Planet), was recruited.

2008 saw the band’s debut album “Dansa tillbaks till din grav” (Dance back to your grave) released. The guys didn’t have a record contract at the time, but things would soon change. In 2010 the Italian record label Black Widow / Bloodrock Records released the album “Mörka Vatten” (Dark Waters) on CD and vinyl.

In early December 2012 Gudars Skymning went down to Stockholm to record their third album, this time as a trio consisting of Kenny, Knut and Anders, with Kenny doing triple duties as vocalist, guitarist, and bass player.

In November 2013 Transubstans Records will release the new Gudars Skymning album “Höj Era Glas” (Raise Your Glass).

Gudars Skymning 2013 is: Kenny Oswald Dufvenberg (guitar, vocals), Knut Hassel (guitar), Magnus Hasselstam (bass), and Dennis Ozzian Sjödin (drums).

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 http://www.transubstans.com

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Bootlegger's Creed, Vol. 30: Corrections House - 2014-01-03 - Portland, Oregon, USA

Experimental supergroup featuring members of Neurosis, Eyehategod, Minsk and Yakuza.

Band:
Mike IX Williams (vocals, synth)
Scott Kelly (guitar, vocals)
Bruce Lamont (brass, vocals)
Sanford Parker (percussion)

Source Info: Recorder: Zoom Q3HD
Audio Settings: 24-bit, 48 kHz stereo PCM lossless
Storage Media: Kingston 32 GB ultimateX 100X SDHC
Batteries: Energizer Ultimate Lithium AA (two)
Recorded By: Meddle Earth
Transfer: SDHC (.wav file) > SDHC reader > HDD
Audacity (.wav) > CD Wave (splits) > dBpoweramp (.wav > .flac, tags)

Setlist:
01 Drapes Hung By Jesus
02 Party Leg And Three Fingers
03 interlude
04 Bullets And Graves
05 Dirt Poor And Mentally Ill
06 Hallows Of The Stream
07 Last City Zero (Cancer As A Social Activity)
08 Serve Or Survive
09 Hoax The System

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Robust Top 2013

We wish you to have a Robust 2014 !

Here's the top of the most memorable releases from the Robustcrew.

Stonezilla

(Ethereal Riffian, Wolverine Blues)

1. Naam - Vow
2. Clutch - Earth Rocker
3. Steve Hunter - Manhattan Blues Project
4. Killer Moon - Tunnel Vision
5. Monkey3 - The 5th Sun
6. Left Lane Cruiser - Rock Them Back To Hell
7. Weedpecker - Weedpecker
8. Estas Tonne - Internal Flight
9. Sasquatch - IV
10. Bluesbreaker - Arcanum
11. Samsara Blues Experiment - Waiting for the Flood
12. Causa Sui - Euporie Tide
13. Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats - Mind Control
14. The Grand Astoria - Punkadelica Supreme
15. Palm Desert - Rotten Village Sessions

Marco

 (Shiva the Destructor)

10. Mountain Witch - Cold River

Very atmospheric album here. Every track is blasting you deeper and deeper to the times when Sabbath ruled the world. If you are into such stuff – go listen to this one. 

9. Monster Truck – Furiosity

The groove is strong with this one. Listen to this and start instantly imagine yourself driving that ye olde Caddy with some serious booze in the trunk. Yep, this is what this album is for.

8. Dozer – Vultures

It just rocks. I don’t know why – is just does, end of story. If you missed this album – go get it and you’ll see what I mean.

7. The Machine &S ungrazer Split

Double dose of rough fuzz and groove – that is what you get here. Hold on to something steady while you listen to this.

6. Vista Chino – Peace

It all started with Kyuss for me, so I can’t leave this one behind my 2013 Top -10. Yes, this is not that Kyuss anymore and the album is not as good as for example Welcome to Sky Valley, but anyway – I enjoyed it.

5. YuriGagarin — YuriGagarin

This one was a huge surprise for me. And I love good surprises. Hit that play button, dissolve yourself into atoms and start that space saga of your own.

4. Monkey3 - The 50th Sun

I’ve always enjoyed this band. Now I love ‘em. Wickedly cosmic experience guaranteed. And some serious grooves also.

3. Monster Magnet – Last Patrol

There are bands that can surprise you in a good way. And there are bands that simply deliver what you

expect. This is the case. MM just nailed it and it is awesome. 

2. CausaSui - EuporieTide

Previous album just didn’t get me. But this one surely did! The masters of summer came here again with all those slow red sunsets, lovely summer breeze and the sound of waves rolling endlessly.

1. Earthless - FromTheAges

Awesome.Majestic.Brilliant.Wonderful.

 Bilous Sanya

 

 

 

1. Bomg - Polynseeds

2. Sea Of Bones - The Earth Wants Us Dead

3. The Disease Concept - Your Destroyer

4. Lizzard Wizzard - Lizzard Wizzard

5. Church Of Misery - Thy Kingdom Scum

Iron Dima

 

 

10. Jesu - Every Day I Get Closer to the Light From Which I Came
9. Long Distance Calling - The Flood Inside
8. Monolithe - IV
7. Cult of Luna - Vertikal
6. Clagg - Gather Your Beasts
5. Cough / Windhand - Reflection of the Negative
4. Windhand - Soma
3. Mouth of the Architect - Dawning
2. Ancient Vvisdom - Deathlike
1. Pyramido - Saga

PhillO)))

 

 

1. Killsong (Australia) - 2013 - He is Risen 

Absolute fresh mix of swing, rock, avant and spoken word sketches.

2. Melvins - 2013 - Tres Cabrones

No comments, fellas. This is Melvins in it's solid form.
3. HighKicks - 2013 - HighKicks

Best garage album I've heard in years.
4. Arabs in Aspic - 2013 - Pictures in a dream

Perfect prog/stoner rock from Norway. This album is timeless.
5. Dirty Streets - 2013 - Blades of Grass

They got the sound and the style. DS keeps that garage spark since "Portrait of a Man"

6. Magnolia - 2013 - Tank Sjalv (Transubstans)

Probably the best album with swedish lyrics.

7. Old Man's Will - 2013 - Old Man's Will (Transubstans)

Really catchy stuff outta here.

8. Arabrot - 2013 - Arabrot

Industrial/Dark noiserock from Norway at its best.

9. LLEROY  - 2013 - Soma

Great Italian noiserock. It really kicks ass.

10. Hey Colossus - 2013 - Cuckoo Live Life Like Cuckoo

The 8th and the best album in discography by the 8 piece band from the UK's secret noisy society.

11. Bad Guys - 2013 - Bad Guys (Riot Season)

Four men out of hell on a horse !

12. Black Sabbath - 2013 - 13

Thank you, Grandfathers for this re-union !

13. Bomg - 2013 - Polynseeds / 11PARANOIAS - 2013 - Superunnatural - EP (Ritual Prods.)

Two bands on one step. They've configured and recorded the rehearsal room. The sound is fantastic.

14. Monolith Cult  - 2013 - Run From the Light (Future Noise)

Doom album of the year.

15. Antigama - 2013 - Meteor

Blasting grindcore from Poland. Reminds Brutal Truth stuff at their mid. era.

16. Malignant Tumour - 2013 - Overdose & Overdrive

Motor Crust from Czech Republic. They're simply the best in the genre. 

17. Boredom - 2013 - Uber Alles!

Robust Crustcore from Austria. Slays.

18. Jello Biafra & The Guantanamo School Of Medicine - 2013 - White People And The Damage Don

Best Punx/showman still doing it well.

19. Distress - 2013 - Life- Death....Rebirth

Finest Russian D-Beat atack. Great sound on this record.

20. Wolverine Blues - 2013 - Convict

Robust Stoner/Metal band from Kiev. Looking forward for new stuff to come.

21. Clutch - 2013 - Earth Rocker

It's like reading new book from your favourite writer or watching a film by your fave director. There's nothing new under the sun, but you still  eating all the details like a child. It applies to all: sound, music, massive merch section.

22. Corrections House - 2013 - Last City Zero

Industrial/noise/spoken word from the famous guys. It's gonna be interesting to ctch 'em on stge.

23. The Disease Concept - 2013 - Your Destroyer

Allstar bastard crew with the ugliest album for sure.

24. The Brimstone Days - 2013 - The Healer (Transubstans)

More bluesy, but not less danceable than the previous albums. This album and 7 weeks-long tour were born as a result of invitation to Robustfet. And the very performance was excellent. We should invite Brimstone crew for more.

25. Mother Mars - 2013 - Steam Machine Museum

Heavy Psychedelic Stoned Jams from Australia.

Bands that are worth to be mentioned at the end of 2013

CortisoL - 2013 - The Feminist + Fleischkraft

 Truly sick sludge from the Canadian border.

Lovely art-wok, Charming vocal parts, thrashy sounds, What else do you need ?

 "the magnificent new CortisoL CD release in a wonderful gatefold eco-wallet. This CD contains the band's latest recording: the larger than death mini album The Feminist; plus the shamefully unreleased 2007 classic album Fleischkraft - for a total of 21 hits of the best sludgethrashpunkmetaldoom manufacture since the Mayan failure."

 http://cortisoldoom.bandcamp.com/album/the-feminist-fleischkraft

http://cortisoldoom.blogspot.com/ 

https://www.facebook.com/cortisoldoom 

 

GOYA - 2013 - 777

Great album after great Demo.

Nice artwork.

Heavy Stoner/Doom from Phoenix.

http://marijuana.bandcamp.com/

https://www.facebook.com/goyastoner

Dog Attack- 2013 - Dog Attack 

 

 Hungarian Crustcore attack.

https://dogattack.bandcamp.com/

 THE DISEASE CONCEPT - 2013 - Your Destroyer

 Fullblown sickness from allstar fuckers.

 http://totemcatrecords.bandcamp.com/album/your-destroyer

http://totemcatrecords.bigcartel.com/

FLESHPRESS - 2013 - Tearing Skyholes

A sudden surprise at the end of the year.

It's always a pleasure to find a new release on Kult of Nihilow Recs.

Slow, long, atmospheric songs. From minimalistic ambient to solid sludge monolith.

This essay slays. It's hard to take in one listening. It requires more and more rounds to go deeper inside the concept.

This is CD/LP release. And you can dl it for free on bandcamp.

http://fleshpress.bandcamp.com/album/tearing-skyholes

http://cfprod.com/kon/

JohnXMcClane - 2013 - EP

Perfect name for the band.

fast kickass pw tunes from UK.

http://johnxmcclane.bandcamp.com/album/ep

Burden Of The Noose - 2013 - The Forgotten Plague 

 

 Here's the UK sludgecore that I really love.

Old fellas from cool band are playing there.

 "Burden of the noose formed in feb 2012 from the ashes of local bands, godsize, mistress, I am collossus and out for blood."

http://botn.bandcamp.com/album/the-forgotten-plague 

Burden Of The Noose - 2013 - Kill The Bastards

 http://whenplanetscollide.bandcamp.com/album/burden-of-the-noose-kill-the-bastards

https://www.facebook.com/burdenofthenoose666

http://burdenofthenoose.com/

 Six Months Of Sun - 2013 - And Water Flows

 K2B prayers from Swizz.

http://sixmonthsofsun.bandcamp.com/

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Six-Months-Of-Sun/119708188104630

IGUANA VIDEO

https://www.facebook.com/iguana666

https://soundcloud.com/iguanagermany

Burning Full Throttle - 2013 - No Man's Land

Robust southern-fried surprise from Hungary.

https://www.facebook.com/burningfullthrottleband

http://burningfullthrottle.blogspot.hu/

https://soundcloud.com/burning-full-throttle/sets/burning-full-throttle-no-mans

Celophys - 2013 - Phobos Elevator (LP)

Sludge/Death Duo from Cherkassy, UA

 Proud of you guys,

LP is out on Emetic Recs.

http://vk.com/celophysdoom

http://celophysdoom.bandcamp.com/

http://www.emeticrecords.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=CL-PE-LP

http://celophysdoom.bandcamp.com/

Pressor / Diazepam / Soom - Split

Soom is a new band from Ukraine (-ex FUMANTIA MAURIS)

 

http://soom.bandcamp.com/

http://noname666.bandcamp.com/album/pressor-diazepam-soom

Uroboros - 2013 - Misantropía & Blasfemia

Black album from Argentina

http://cultodeuroboros.bandcamp.com/album/misantrop-a-blasfemia

Uroboros - 2013 -Herejía & Exilio

White album from Argentina

http://cultodeuroboros.bandcamp.com/album/herej-a-exilio

LOINEN Interview (24.10.2013)

Hi, Pekka! How’re you doin’, how’s the weather?

Pekka: Hey man weather is nice. It’s getting cold. I’m feeling fine just been 2 days at Super Massive festival. 


You've recently played in Kiev at Robustfest. What's your impressions of the city and the public?)

Pekka: Kiev City was nice. Much bigger than Helsinki where I live. Our driver Artem took us to touring in city which was really nice. Audience at festival was really nice. I did meet few Russians and few locals there and I did get to talk with other bands as well. Robust was cool it’s too bad that you can’t keep that place in future. But I hope festival continues forever! 


I know you had some troubles with flight, but still you arrived, and thank you for that. What has happened then and how you spent your spare time? =)

Pekka: Well, Loinen always has some trouble. We missed flight at Riga because of fog. Riga airport has not much activities so I think we drink few beers there only. Hahaha

How did you meet each other in the band? When did you discover sludge music fot you? And what the hell made you starting Loinen?)

Pekka: Well, I formed thrash metal band called Malicious Death in 2002 with other guys. GG joined to MD later and we came good friends. Later they had problems with guitarist and I joined Loinen for 1 gig but I’m still here. It's long gig for me. I still don’t know what sludge is, even people keep calling us as sludge band. I just listen bands and songs I’m not into genres but I guess I like sludge because I’m in this band?

GG: I had early nineties recorded tape from my mate. That tape was Eyehategod "takes as needed for pain" album. That was big reason to start Loinen. 

What was the most extreme/worst place where you played?

Pekka: I don’t know. Usually Loinen makes things for them as extreme, not gig places. We actually don’t mind about the places if things work it’s cool for us.

Recentrly I've listened to your new album "Noiseferatum". I really liked it and I wonder, how did you manage to create such dark atmospheric sound, what inspired you?

Pekka: Life inspires me a lot. From inner pain and melancholy. Nature and sounds of city things around me inspires. I have few good things in my life and like to keep it that way.

What album/split was the hardest to make and why?

Pekka: In Loinen most hardest thing is to get things published. We are waiting for a split with Usko to come out and long play from Svart records. Some day some day some day everything goes well but never in Loinen.

How much it’s important for a band to release their albums today on CD’s, cassettes and vinyls?

Pekka: Well I think most of us want to release our stuff in Vinyl but then again there’s a people that don’t have vinyl players. Most important is that fans get their stuff so that they can listen to it.

The band’s age is more than 12 years already. And there’s a lot of a great job done. What most important moments in your history would you highlight?

Pekka: For me best highlight in this band was Robust festival. After all travelling to Ukraine and play in festival there and hang around with cool people there.

GG: Robust fest / the first sludge tour with Fleshpress, Stumm, Count Raven and Reverend Bizarre

How do you see yourself in, let's say, 10-15 years?

Pekka: Old and slow. I don’t see do we change a lot but plans for new songs has made and probably in 10 years lots of faced problems made us more personal band.

What’s your attitude to TV, I don't know how it in your country, but in my country it`is total shit, almost all programs make you stupid...

Pekka: You’re right. TV programs are boring here too. Movies, gigs, news and sports I like to watch sometimes but series are mostly crap.

Everyone wonders what has Loinen prepared for the next year? Any plans for 2014?

Pekka: Everyone? We can’t be that big haha. Hopefully more gigs to Europe! We are slow and can’t really so that far. It’s sometimes hard to plan things to next weekend. New album at least should be recorded then.

Do you remember how it all started? Your first metal CD/vinyl, maybe t-shirt?))

Pekka: I can’t remember how or why or when. I had lots of recorded tapes at home. Some of them now later I’ve collected on vinyl or cd. Early 80’s stuff mostly that’s when all started to me.

GG:  Iron Maiden "Killers" on tape and Motörhead "Ace of Spades!" on vinyl 

Every person dreams about something. What’s your dream?

Pekka: Funny question. Funny because I’ve been lately thinking of this and I can’t find anything that I’m dreaming of. I mean I don’t have things in that good shape so I could stop dreaming. I just don’t know what I want from life. I’ve lost a sparkle perhaps I should dream of dreaming.

Well, that’s all, thank you so much for this interview! We would like to hear some final words to us?

Pekka: Don’t let depression take you down. Don’t let life grind you down. There is shit everywhere and we can’t avoid that. Times like these just recharge your batteries and burst your anger in something creative! Life won’t get better if runaway.

GG: stay slow!!

Interview by Alex Bilous

Photos by Olga Kovalenko

Video by Kirai,  Dmitriy OVRCM

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