III....

Here's the final "the making of" video. To tell a few words about the fest itself - it was KICK-ASS! 

We will write the report soon.

Abyss stares back at you.....

Amarok (US) offers you to look into the eyes of the abyss. The four from California has came up with a self-titled EP in 2010, and a vinyl LP. Sludge/doom with drone and psychedelic elements at it's best. Think of Finland's sludge finest Frogskin meet US monsters Cough sometimes combined with Dopesmoker-like riffage (EP's first track), and top notch psychedelic solos & drones. Death/doom touch is felt as well (2nd track).
That like misery sounds like.

The band has recently did an entire US tour where they have shared stage with Samothrace, Floor, Weedeater & Cough.

Don't miss them playing and be sure to buy their upcoming releases:

- a split with Cough (Forcefeild records)
- a split with H.C. Minds
- a split with Hell (members of Leech)

One of the most essential debuts on the sludge/doom scene during the last two years in my opinion. Keep an eye on them.

- Taste the Abyss -

Amarok MySpace

Bootlegger's Creed, Vol. 15 - Rival Sons, Video Vol. 3

A revivalist rock band recalling legendary classic rock bands from the 60s and 70. Led Zeppelin + Cream + The Who + The Doors = Rival Sons​.

Rival Sons - June 15, 2011 - Abbey Pub, Chicago, IL

Video Equipment: Canon SX210 IS
Video Source: 720p > AVS Video Editor > DVD (ntsc)
Audio Equipment: Sony PCM M-10 CSB Mics
Audio Source: 96 khz, 24 bit > FLAC > 48 khz, 16 bit
Size: 720x 480
Bit Rate: 9400 kbps
Frame Rate: 29.97 frames/second
Video Compression: MPEG-2
Duration: 00:52:06.113
Bit Rate: 224 kbps
Channels: 2
Sample Rate: 48000 Hz
Audio Format: MP2
Duration: 00:52:06.113

Setlist:
01 Stage Entrance
02 Gypsy Heart
03 Torture
04 Get What's Coming
05 All Over the Road
06 Pressure & Time
07 Soul
08 I Want More / Baby Please Don't Go
09 On My Way
10 Tell Me Something

part 1
part 2
part 3
part 4
part 5
part 6
part 7
part 8
part 9
part 10

MySpace

Grand Selmer - 2011 - Though Day Or Relief

As you can see from the pictures this is a sweet looking digipack, as well as a band, coming from Göteborg, Sweden. Playing kickass melodic stuff in the post-grunge/stoned alternative edges. This is the first fullength album done after releasing 3 EPs (The Night EP -10/Gods Only EP - 08/Turning Me On So Sweet EP - 07)

Recommended to the fellas who really dig the following stuff : Queens of the stone age, kyuss, Monster Magnet, BigElf, Cathedral, ZZ Top, Division of Laura Lee, TSOOL, Mustasch...



Beware - the ass attack is everywhere )




http://www.facebook.com/grandselmer
http://www.lastfm.ru/music/Grand+Selmer
http://www.myspace.com/grandselmer

you can buy album here or here

(Thanx to Pontus and the rest of the band for sending this awesome looking CD)

Don't judge book by it's cover/ Don't judge Band by it's name )

From the Minds of Madness The origins of heavy metal band names

Have you ever thought about how the metal bands are going with names ? Movies, Quotes, some song names from the past...or just some stoned list of words?

The book is written by Blair Gibson. And the good work is done.

All the answers that you need you will find in this book, as well as lot's of funny stories about your favourite band names.

here're some samples/quotes from the book :

BLINDDOG (Stonermetal)(Halmstad,Sweden) (Formedin1995)

"The very dull story of how we came up thename Blind Dog is simply that I opened up a magazine which contained a story about dogs doing tricks. The article had one really nicelooking picture of a dog that was blindfolded and was tightropewalking, on two parallel ropes. “Look at this; what a bout BlindDog?” I said. The others agreed that it was a good enough name to have for a while."

TobiasNilsson(bass/vocals)

SOFAKINGKILLER (Sludgemetal)(Akron,USA)(Formedin1999)

This is the USA winter of 99/00: while carrying my drums to my car, I thought, "man, it is so fucking coldout; sofakingcold!" We still didn't have a band name and I thought that was kind of a funny play on words, so I kept thinking about other ways to use the sofaking wordplay. Then I thought, "ohyeah; we are SoFuckingKiller!"

SUNNO))) (Dronemetal)(Seattle,USA)(Formedin1998)

Named after our favourite amplifier (includinglogo).

StephenO’Malley(guitars)

By Author's words :

Hello, my name is Blair Gibson and I’m an aspiring author/metal head from a place called Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. I recently just finished compiling a book called “From the Minds of Madness: The origins of heavy metal band names.”
Over the past two years, I have e-mailed a slew of heavy metal bands from every genre there is. I have contacted bands in black metal, death metal, doom metal, power metal, stoner rock and the list goes on and on.
I contacted each band personally either through their Myspace, Facebook or the bands official website. I asked them “How did you come up with your band name and why did you choose it?” This book answers those questions.
I included their answers as they were sent back to me. I e-mailed these bands and many others over the last two years and compiled a list of over 350 bands to be included in this book. I also had a local artist do up a cover for the book as well.
The book is as follows: introduction written by me, thank yous, foreword by Aaron Stainthorpe of My Dying Bride, index and page numbers, body of the book (answers), band logos, brief information on the bed, credit to the person who gave me the answer, appendix and a bio at the end.

The hard copy of the book sells for $15.00 while the digital download eBook version only costs $5.00. I think I have a novel idea here as I haven’t seen or read any similar books on this subject. Metal heads and music lovers in general would love this book as it is a very interesting and humours read on how some of these bands actually came up with their names.

You can buy this book :

calbeg@accesscomm.ca - writing to the author
http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=3698742 - visiting the store