Sons of Kings - 2012 - Emersion

Atmospheric psychedelic post-rock from Finland

"Emersion draws thick grey lines between borders of alternative music. Meditative psychedelia and spacey soundscapes are both present on this new album which continues the journey of Sons of Kings. The creation is served in two parts, and with even more low frequencies with additional bass player, which renders the original trio into a quartet. The ambitious plan behind Emersion is to connect the dots between soundtrack-like atmospheres, non-typical progressions, kraut-continuity, stoner-fuzz, and post rock mentality. The outcome is, at least, an alternative way to approach the music."

listen :

http://sonsofkings.bandcamp.com/album/emersion

http://www.myspace.com/sonsofkingsmusic 

http://www.lastfm.ru/music/Sons+Of+Kings

buy: 

http://www.recordshopx.com/artist/sons_of_kings/emersion/#cd

contact :

http://www.sonsofkingsmusic.com/ 

http://www.facebook.com/sonsofkings

Basement Apes Live

Basement Apes Live is a live music program that broadcasts online every Monday evening (Australian Eastern Time). Each week we feature two bands playing in a totally live, raw and unrehearsed setting.

We've got two bands that I'm sure would appeal to your audience (and hopefully yourselves!).  Destroy She Said play hard rock in the classic Aussie pub rock tradition (think AC/DC and you're close) and Sheriff play a combination of old style Sabbath riffs mixed with a big southern rock influence.

Personally my new favourite Australian Video since Gay Paris' ((c). PhillO))))

and one more sweetie from Sheriff

1st show is in da house.
Pretty awesome. I'm sure that I will follow all the future stuff.
Good start. Good luck you guys from Melbourne !


Fancy a copy of last night's awesome jam session? Well, you gotta subscribe, baby!
Click the link below to join the Basement Apes Live mailing list (via Digioh) and get your copy of the MP3.
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The url for the show is http://www.basementapes.com.au
Our facebook page is http://www.facebook.com/BasementApesLive

Sent by the band September-October 2012

BLACK SMOKE DRAGON (Galicia, Spain)

 

Raw heavy stuff thom the dark corner of Spain.

"We are two guitars (Berto, LLoymi), bass (Oskar) and Drums (Álex). For this recording, one friend (Juanin) help us with keybord arrangements.

Black Smoke Dragon is an instrumental spanish band from de northwest of this country (Galicia). We started together at 2009, doing some instrumental jams, with Stoner/Sludge/Doom influences. We love bands like Eye Hate God, Sleep, Corrosion of Conformity, Crowbar, Down, Saint Vitus, Mastodon and Black Sabbath, of course. We have quick songs, slow sounds and later we introduce psychedelic arrangements. Bands like Ghost, Church of Misery, Kylesa,...we love this noise and shit man! Of course, we play on another bands too. Álex is the exdrummer of Oddy Lane (metal/alternative), Lloymi plays guitar on Arsenaut (Rock/Metal) and Drums on ID3M (Metal), Oskar has postrock projects and plays on ID3M too. And Berto plays on ID3M and Arsenaut too. "

http://www.facebook.com/blacksmokedragon

http://blacksmokedragon.bandcamp.com

http://www.youtube.com/user/BSDStoner

GALVANO – TWO TITANS

 

Devouter Records are proud to present the release of the colossal debut album Two Titans from Swedish Sludge-metallers Galvano, on the 5th November.

"‘All these songs are personal, all the way throughout the record. They are about personal matters and demons. It's about finding the darkest corners, the dark lord within and to show up for battle. Portrayed as two titans in constant battle: Good/Evil, Darkness/Light and so on. And sometimes wanting to embrace either side. It's about knowing when your mind is pulling tricks and being able to stop it. It's also celebrating our musical force as a duo.’"

stream 1 track

http://www.devouterrecords.co.uk/

http://devouterrecords.bigcartel.com/

COFFINFISH - 2012 - EP

 

Post-rock/Sludge band from the great city Krakow, PL.

"The band was formed on the initiative of Cthulhu - the high priest of the Great Old Ones in the sunken city of R'lyeh. It came out of the water at the beginning of 2011, and chosen Krakow as its base. Coffinfish task is to maintain worship of the Cthulhu through its music and to keep waiting for his return."

http://coffinfish.bandcamp.com/

http://www.myspace.com/coffinfish

http://www.facebook.com/Coffinfishband

BLACK CODE - 2012 - Hanged, Drawn and Quartered

 

French brutalized Crust as a fuck

Video from Rehearsal

http://blackcode.bandcamp.com/

http://tanker-records.cjb.net/


MELMAK - 2012 - COSMIC PAIN

The second EP of Melmak, duo of sludge / doom / stoner / hardcore metal of the Basque Country.
Highly Recommended !




http://melmak.bandcamp.com/album/cosmic-pain
 http://melmak.bigcartel.com/
http://www.facebook.com/melmakdestroy 

THE PRESTIGE - 2012 - BLACK MOUTHS 

 

hi-energy quartet from Paris, which plays a mix between (post) chaotic hardcore, intense punk, metal and rock under constant injection of adrenaline

For fans of Converge, Every Time I Die, The Ghost of a Thousand, Norma Jean, Touché Amoré, The Carrier....

 http://music.wearetheprestige.com/album/black-mouths
 http://www.wearetheprestige.com/
 http://theprestige.bigcartel.com/

ULTRA ZOOK - 2012 - EPUZ 

 

"ULTRA ZOOK plays a sort of "island music"  in a Fukushima style rather than in The Caribbeans style. This unique drums, keyboard & guitar/bass trio utilize an apocalyptic tropical groove in their post-modern sound. Their stage surreal atmosphere is made of pitched vocals and UV lights, as if the Muppet Show Doozers were suddenly colonizing Star Wars, a beat-up Tahiti was starting to glow and discharging toxic vapors, the poisonous labyrinth from Cube was growing around the musicians and swallowing you one by one."

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

NAÏVE - 2012 - THE END 

 

"Three persons. Three tormented souls. Three happy souls. Three desperate souls. Violence and combat, contemplation and sadness, junction between the ocean and the sky. Mox (Le Minus), Drums and electro, Jouch (Agora Fidelio, Phantom Status) Guitar, Voice and electro, and Rico (ex-Mary Slut) Bass. No limit. From Metal to Synthetic music, from violins to Trip-hop. Melody is a leitmotiv, Rythm is fuel. Let's be Naïve, once."

 http://naive.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/wearenaive
http://www.thecryingcommunity.com/

Direwolves - 2012 - Me From Myself, To Banish 

 

"Hailing from Lorient (western France), the band merges modern hardcore, crust and screamo on its debut EP "Me From Myself, To Banish". Recorded by producer/sound engineer Amaury Sauvé (Birds In Row, As We Draw, Comity…) at La Senelle, these six songs find the perfect balance between emotion and heaviness, reminding of bands such as Alpinist, Lewd Acts or Killing The Dream. The artwork has been designed by Fortifem, and pre-orders will be up on 18th october."

http://music.throatruinerrecords.com/album/me-from-myself-to-banish
http://throatruinerrecords.com/

GOYA - 2012 - DEMO

 

Really good lesson of Electric Wizardry !

"Goya is a stoner doom metal three piece from Phoenix, Arizona. They started playing shows in April and released their demo in September. Consisting of members of various Phoenix area metal and punk bands, and influenced by bands such as Electric Wizard, Sleep and Black Sabbath, they enjoy smoking reefer, turning their amps all the way up and contemplating the end the universe."

Jeff Owens - vocals, guitar
Shane Taylor - drums
Jirix-mie Paz - bass

http://marijuana.bandcamp.com/
http://www.facebook.com/goyastoner

GREY MOUSE - 2012 - TRIP

 

Great Psychedelic band from Moscow.

"The band “Grey mouse” was created by Dmitry Rybachev and Alexei Chunikhin. During its existence, with a different composition its members, the band recorded and released two studio albums “No masks” – 2005 (Jagi Jagi Records, (Russian)), “Blind and Ugly” of 2008 (BRP(Russian))., gave a large number of live performances in Moscow and other cities, participated in various festivals, preserving and maintaining its own style.
The band is not afraid of experiments. Along with the song-like genre, Grey Mouse is also actively experimenting with noise and background music. The band also collaborated with the Film Club, “Art Cinema” (Moscow), making live voicing of silent movie masterpieces of the early 20th century (the so-called “live film shows”). Now musicians are preparing to release their third album, titled “Trip”.

Official release and presentation of the album is expected in autumn 2012. ( But it is already available for download at this link http://the-russian-rock.com/grey-mouse-trip-2012/ ). The CD will be released by the independent label Mylodon Records (Chile). This label also works with cult South American psychedelic-rock band Aguaturbia formed in 1968.
Recordings took place in the studio of A. Bochko’s Creative Centre (Moscow) (where the previous album «Blind & Ugly» was recorded). There were a lot of new experiments. New instruments were used: didgeridoo, sitar, jaw harp, female vocals. And now you can hear the echoes of oriental music the blues motifs on habitual rock base.

Also one of the songs (instrumental composition «Snow (Spiral Walk)») from the new album of Grey Mouse will be released in a compilation album «Psychedelic World Music, Discovery,vol.1». This compilation album released by Trail Records (USA) will introduce psychedelic bands from all over the world. The CD release is expected in august 2012."

www.greymouse.ru
http://soundcloud.com/grey-mouse-band/sets
http://www.myspace.com/greymouseband

ASIDEFROMADAY- 2012 - CHASING SHADOWS 

 

" 4 years after the acclaimed "Manufactured landscape", the five French progressive postcore alchemists make their return with a brand new album which relies on power, aggression, atmosphere and raw emotions.

5 black shadows delivering dark and dynamic modern heavy music since 2000. Transporting the listener to some landscapes, various but invariably grazed. There is one constant thing, the weather: grey and threatening. With a sound firmly rooted in postcore/post-metal/sludge, ASIDEFROMADAY relies just as heavily on ambience, atmosphere, and power as it does dark complexity, brutal aggression and raw emotion. An original entity, ASIDEFROMADAY delivers music that consumes the listener with massive and hypnotic waves of sound.
This brand new creature has got a name : "Chasing shadows" and will be unleashed on october 5th (CD/LP/Digital) through Division Records (Dirge, Kehlvin, Unfold, Process of Guilt, YOG...). From now two excerpts from this upcoming album are available for streaming on Bandcamp.

Limited pre-orders are up directly from the Division Records WEBSTORE.
...
For fans of Breach, Neurosis, Russian Circles, Old Man Gloom, Botch, Zozobra..."

http://asidefromaday.bandcamp.com/album/chasing-shadows-3
http://divisionrecords.blogspot.com/

PROMETHEE - 2012 - Sickness Unto Death 

 

Swizz crabcore for younger fellas who suddenly came on this blog )

"Born in the spring of 2008, Promethee is a five-piece of hardcore/progressive/metal band burning heavy riffs in the heart of the Swiss metal scene.

After only a few months of writing their first songs, these guys, based in Geneva, started to play as many shows as they could, gaining allready loads of local support from bands, friends and promoters, before to release a first self-titled EP in 2009.

Slowly but surely the band found it's own personal sound in order to record a full-length album. Promethee doesn't have a perticular political, religious, philisophical message of any kind, but writes about the things that touches and effects them in this world and through their lives with the music they create.

This fall, the band will released its debut album, "Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes" out on october 13th in CD edition."

http://promethee.bandcamp.com/
 https://www.facebook.com/prometheemusic

Le Minus- 2012 - Make My Day 

 

Cool funky tunes from Toulouse

"This fusion/rock power-trio from the French city of Toulouse disrespectfully sums up two decades of alternative rock and fusion. After a first 3-tracks EP in 2009 ("Rancour is a gift") and one year later its debut full-length album,"The Book Of V", Le Minus unleashes in 2012 its third recorded effort, entitled "Make my day",

Their style ? An explosive cocktail of energy, rock'n'roll instinct, groove and power, illustrated by the scathing snarl of a neurotic Frenglishman. Highly ecommended for those with a taste for the deeply unusual."

http://leminus1.free.fr/
http://leminus.bandcamp.com/album/make-my-day

VS - 2012 - Just a sigh (Part 1) (Stream)

listen///relax

" VS the french entity mixing various influences between post-rock, trip-hop, ambient & electronica, is going to release a digital EP on october 15th through the Believe legal platform. "Just a sigh (Part 1)" will be the first part of a concept-trilogy. The second one, "CiTies R reaL (Part 2)" will follow in 2013.

To celebrate the release of the EP, VS will play @ Nouveau Casino (Paris) on october 31st with the french indie-rock band Tazieff as openers.

In waiting for the official release date , "Just a sigh" is available right now for entire streaming."

http://www.vs-music.com/

Circassian - 2012 - Procrastinational 

"Circassian, another promising band in the greek scene has already participated in Miss Fortune was a Henhouse manager compilation, released another EP and is rather diligent on fusing easter traditional sound with western instrumentation and psychedelia. "

http://circassian.bandcamp.com/

YOUWRETCH - 2012 - Sympathy of Wolves

Great band from Minneapolis.
Heavy fast parts perfectly change heavy slow parts.
FFO : His hero Is Gone, Noothgrush, Cursed, Trap Them.

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/YOUWRETCH
Bandcamp: http://youwretch.bandcamp.com/album/sympathy-of-wolves
Official Site: www.YOUWRETCH.com

Cultura Tres - 2011 - El Mal Del Bien  (2012 - CD re-issue)

2 reasons to rspkt Argentina :
 1) Hugo Chavez is president once again
2) Cultura Tres made 2nd album last year on vinyl and Devouter recs. are pressing the CD.

"Devouter Records are proud to present the release of Cultura Tres stunning album El Mal Del Bien on the 12th November. The album was originally released last year, but has only been available direct from the band on vinyl. Devouter Records will be releasing the album on CD and vinyl with full distribution.
El Mal Del Bien - The Lowdown
El Mal Del Bien delves deeper into the dark atmospheric which the band had already shown at moments in debut their album La Cura. The daring album opener “Propiedad de Dios” sets the mood: it sounds like the soundtrack of a tragic cult movie. The songs that follow evoke the witchery, slavery, oppression and religious madness that influence the South American continent to this day. Being a concept album adds another dimension to the individual songs. A patient listener will be dragged into a hallucinating trip around the insane world the album paints.Cultura Tres are now hailed as the national rock/sludge pride of Venezuela. From their first EP "Seis" (2007) the band already outgrew the South American continent. But only after releasing debut album "La Cura" in October 2008, the band started to get noticed worldwide. During the preceding year of rigorous composing, Cultura Tres incorporated many influences into their sound, ranging from sludge to doom metal and from death metal to classic rock.Important magazines in Europe and Japan praised “La Cura” for its dark and original music, and Metal Hammer magazine even selected Cultura Tres as the month's global discovery. The release tour took the band during 18 months across Europe, South America and to the first well-received shows in Japan. In that period the band also released three video clips that gained them a world-wide cult following in the underground doom & sludge scene. The most important underground and mainstream media are unanimously praising the unique direction the band has taken. It also led to the band being requested to deliver a track for the Global Metal CD of Metal Hammer (in the Sept. 2011 issue), and many appearances on TV and radio with interviews and specials, as well as an appearance on the closing day of the already notorious DesertFest 2012 in London (alongside Orange Goblin, Karma to Burn etc).  So far this year the band have played Venezuela, Argentina, Peru, Holland, UK – with more UK

dates planned for November:
Nov 15th – Colchester @TBA (w/ TELEPATHY & OLD MAN LIZARD
 Nov 16th – TBC
Nov 17th – Birmingham @The Asylum (w/ SLABDRAGGER, GRIMPEN MIRE, UNDERSMILE and more)
Nov 18th – London @ The Purple Turtle (w/ TELEPATHY, ABRAHMA, SOLARIS, ENOS and more)"

http://culturatres.bandcamp.com/
http://devouterrecords.bigcartel.com/

EGGNOGG seeks to fund the release of their forthcoming full-length album, "You're All Invited," on vinyl record.

If you have some $2000 extra you can:

1. help one robust band to record and release a vinyl

2. Get tons of goodies from the band  plus McDonald's menu challenge. The band members will each attempt to consume every item on the menu, and the event will be filmed and dedicated in your honor.

Is not it worth it?

"In the time since the 2011 release of their second album Moments in Vacuum, EGGNOGG has been hard at work writing and recording this follow-up, full-length LP entitled You're All Invited.

You're all Invited is a conceptual record beginning with Rituals in Transfigured Time. A 22-minute conglomeration of five pieces that transition seamlessly, Rituals in Transfigured Time will fill up the entire first side of the record. The second side of the record will begin with a song entitled Meshes of the Afternoon, and the eponymous Egg Nogg will conclude the album. Egg Nogg is a composition which encompasses such a remarkable contrast of apocalyptic sludge and hard-rock riffery that the band is proud to consider it their theme song.

On the whole, You're All Invited is sure to be EGGNOGG's heaviest, trippiest, and well-composed work to date, and it maintains the spirit of refined rawness and reinvention that has defined the band's music since their debut album in 2009.

The great number of fans seeking vinyl copies of the band's previous albums has made it clear that You're All Invited deserves a proper record release. This will be the band's first vinyl release, and the members of EGGNOGG are very excited for the opportunity to put the record out in its most natural and appropriate form, complete with full-sized artwork."

 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/879876822/eggnogg-youre-all-invited-vinyl-lp-release

 http://www.facebook.com/eggnoggmusic

http://eggnogg.bandcamp.com/

Castravalva - 2012 - You're Not In Hell. You're in Purgatory My Friend 12'' Review

Castrovalva is a super awesome trio from Leeds, UK.

They have done one mini-album, one big, one single, and two waxy splits.

This hot cake curiously named "You're Not In Hell. You're in Purgatory My Friend" was cooked in three different ovens : cd, green vinyl and orange tape.

Fabulously epic, Instantly classic, Futuristic noise tunes....yes, you will read such a crap from the pages of some expensive modern metal magazine soon...

It's really hard-to-describe the perfect mix that makes my ears cum. But I should try.

These guys should have studied in one class with Mars Volta and Fantomas on the noiserock, 90's rapcore and dubstep departments.

Don't be a pussy. Listen to this & you don't want it to stop.

PS. I really like how the "A Vultures Eyes " ends.

Steam fullblown madness here :

http://brew.bandcamp.com/album/castrovalva-youre-not-in-hell-youre-in-purgatory-my-friend

buy some cool stuff here :

http://brewrecords.bigcartel.com/

 

http://www.facebook.com/castrovalvamusic

Fistula - 2012 - Nothern Agression Review

This review was written by Den.

Dope fiends “Fistula” are finally back with new LP.  Having released a number of splits and EP-s over the course of last 4 years, these Guys have finally accumulated enough aggression to inject the next dose of hatred straight into our face. And that’s where “Northern Aggression” perfectly fits in. Comprised of only 7 tracks with the overall playtime not exceeding 20 minutes, “Northern Aggression” gets straight to the point delivering a lethal dose of hatred which will leave many of you begging for mercy.  Melding badass-heavy sludge with straightforward hardcore-crust parts, northern aggression stays on the pinnacle of heaviness and apparently a candidate for the heaviest 2012 album so far. 

My first acquaintance with the “Northern Aggression” happened when we decided to venture forth to the Chernobyl Alienation Containment Area. And Fistula’s opus became a good accomplice to this suicide trip. The first track, “The Spider” was perfectly accompanying the roaring engine of my old Junker as I bottomed the accelerator driving forth to the northern lands long liberated from the burden of the modern society.  As Idrove, the ferociously brutal   and overwhelmingly sick sludge-crust tunes were blowing from the speakers making me totally immerse in the impenetrable wall of sound that the first track delivered. 

Next one, “The Fang” is a good follow –up to the opener.  Initially the song starts from ferociously heavy sludge. It got me almost floored when I got out of my Junker and stepped upon the radioactive soil. The tunes are so badass-heavy and catchy that the first spin left my craving for heaviness completely unfulfilled. I spinned it over and over again until the blood started to sip from my ears. Grab this piece if you are suffering from excessive alcohol abuse.  It will not take long until you puke the shit out of your belly.

With next track, “Black Sunday”, the band starts to pick the pace again.  Utilizing catchy and sharp hardcore-crust and rarely entering sludge territory this piece of filth would be a good choice if you feel like it’s just about time to shake old bones.  Next one, “Harmful Situation”   uses the same formula extending upon the crust-fest of the previous one. However, it quickly evolves into merciless downbeat bad-assary making you fight for your life from the giant mammoth threatening to trample you to death. Having escaped the pre-historic menace, don’t expect to get a respite as the next monster “Kanker Nose” will stop at nothing but annihilate your fucking eardrums with the lethal dose of ferociouslyheavy sludge hatred.  It is the longest track on the album so get ready to take a challenge.  It gets slower and slower towards the end, spawning a huge herd of   previously mentioned mammoths and only those who have a good record of Fistula –worshipping will survive.  The last track is akin to the first one, it even bears the same moniker. It is a good heavy crust attack  allowing the survivors of the mammoth holocaust to run for their petty lives. 

I think, that the amount dope of exceeded all visible levels when this words were written. Radioactive Chernobyl Mammoth evoked by the excessive consumption of hallucinogenic mushrooms did what they had to.  A good piece of crusty sludge. 8.5/10

 I'm sure you can't get over this :

"Just in time for the 'Northern Aggression' tour, FISTULA 'Northern Aggression' is now available as a deluxe CD limited to 150 copies only. Each disc will he housed in a DVD case, containing a 6"x5" woven patch. In addition to 'Northern Aggression,' for the first time 'Loser' is available as well as their cover of MENTORS 'Going Through Your Purse.' Only 50 copies will be available through the PATAC Records Distro, the rest will be sold at the 'Northern Aggression' shows."

Get a Wonderful package from Fistula

Stream the whole shit here 

 

Bastard of the Skies - 2012 - Tarmation REVIEW

Here's a massive review done by Den.

     Hailing from Blackburn, Lancashire, Bastard of the Skies  have embarked in a mission to annihilate our eardrums with the   filthy and  devastating  sludge attack since its formation back in 2006. Having released 2 albums, an EP and Split LP, the band has concocted an unique sound, which although clings to the well-recognized clichés but at the same time has the touch of its own. Wielding monstrous, gargantuan riffs and occasionally turning to melodic respites,  the first  band's self-titled opus gathered a devoted fan base  throughout UK and on the other side of Atlantic and received good critical acclaim  over the  web. But it was not until 2010 when the band was bent to unleash its next filthy beast, and another piece of unrelenting down-tuned goodness bearing the moniker "Ichor Ichor" saw the "light". The album was a huge piece of brutal and uncompromising heaviness delivering 9 tracks of straight-to-your face filthy and groovy sludge. Now the time has come for the next generation in the breed of ear-splitting monsters to emerge out of the bottomless ocean, and that's where the 3-rd full-length of British sludge monsters arrives.

      Tarnation, that's how the band called its upcoming opus, is exactly what the name implies. The artwork is what immediately bursts into eye. Made by the infamous Sean Schock, known for its collaboration with Yob, Buzzoven, Sourvein, Coffins and many others, the artwork immediately sets the mood of impending doom, portraying the spiky scales of the sea  serpent protruding  from the filthy boiling waters long devoid of equilibrium. The beast is faceless and unknown to the unsuspecting masses, as if it is the embodiment of shadowy forces which are spinning the wheels of this decaying world. Only spikes are visible, while the other parts of its monstrous body are hidden beneath the dark surface of the sea.

     From the opening note the doubts are immediately put aside, as the opener "Drug Monarch" kicks in with crawling wall of down-tuned grooves. Tumbling bass and pounding drums, coupled with desperate roaring of Matt Richardson set the tone of the song punishing listener with the 5-minutes of tight & sick grooves. The riff gets almost repetitive form time to time, but the unrelenting heaviness compensates any drawbacks making the listener fully submerge into the vortex of infectious riffs.

     The next track, "A punch into your fucking lungs", quite lives up to its name. Starting with High-on-Fire styled grooves, the song oscillates between heavy parts and melodic respites, whose purpose is nothing but pave the way to even more devastating and monstrous riffs.

   

     The next one, "(Roasted in the Depth of) Sloar” is a slight retreat from the previous monsters, however it is not less heavy. The song is slow and epic piece of sickening downtempo sludge,  with some parts bearing resemblance  to those of the last opus of Australian sludgers Clagg, while the rest of the song picks the pace closer to the end delivering a set of dark and foreboding tunes, as if the sea beast is about to unleash it's fourth tentacle.

      The next opus, "Bastard Sabbath" adheres to the tradition of the previous song, with the tentacle of the beast slowly wiping out all the resistance it faces on its way. The track is heavy and straightforward, with the riffs getting so infectious that the first spin left me craving for more.

       The title track “Tarnation” is an amalgamation of down tuned and apparently feed backed noises which get accompanied by occasional drumbeats closer to the end.  The track sometimes enters the drone territory, however, it still manages to evoke dark and apocalyptic atmosphere, which gets even more intensifying closer to the end.  What comes to mind here is that the beast is halfway to its destination, and no force can prevent in from consuming our fragile world.

        But there is still much left for the beast to face on its dark path, as next nail in the coffin is hammered with the “Repugnance”, which is probably the most infectious and grooviest track on the entire album. The track paves its way with the endless barrage of pounding riffs leaving me in the state of complete head-banging for a number of repetitive spins.

        The next tracks “Locklear” and “Snapmare” utilize the same formula, but what really distinguishes from the mood of the entire album is the closer “What Are You Looking At Dicknose”?  The track starts with the noisy intro with occasional Lovecraftian whispers protruding from the roaring background, but quickly evolves into an epic riff-worshipping pilgrimage boosted by additional feedback, double vocals and noise. It will apparently be chosen as a closer for the upcoming live sets, at it perfectly summarizes all what these filthy British sludgers have been trying to convey to the listeners. The beast has completed the prophesy, the world left in smoldering ruins, and the set stage for the next era to emerge…. to wait for another beast to incarnate the TARNATION of the generations to come. For fans of High-on-Fire, Clagg, and all worshippers of  heavy sludge goodness.  9/10.

Album is out 1st October on Future Noise Recordings (FUN012)

check 1 track from the album here :

http://bastardoftheskies.bandcamp.com/album/tarnation

buy CD here :

http://futurenoise.bigcartel.com/product/bastard-of-the-skies-tarnation-cd

http://www.facebook.com/bastardoftheskies

http://www.myspace.com/bastardoftheskies

http://www.future-noise.co.uk/roster/bastard-of-the-skies/

Backing Band Project - 2011 - Demo

drum & bass duo from Verona, Italy. 

consider good school from melvins, Eagletwin and K2B.

and this demo will rock your arse !

http://soundcloud.com/backing-band-project

http://www.facebook.com/BackingBandProject
http://www.myspace.com/backingbandproject

dl