Rolling Stoner/Psych/Retro/Space Thread 2015: Red With Purple Flashes

ufomammut were great!! the usa seems to be agreeing with them and their visual aid included a repeating segment with cave footage/stalactites/mites/glow worms just like in the caves episode of planet earth.
very enjoyable!

I'd have liked to chat with you more La, but I wasn't used to having 12 other friends at a show while simultaneously having my shivering brain incapacitated by Ufomammut!

So yeah, amazing show. Highly recommend everyone who can, go!

5/14/2015 Now That’s Class – Cleveland, OH
5/15/2015 Bug Jar – Rochester, NY
5/16/2015 Mod Club – Toronto, ON
5/17/2015 Le Ritz – Montreal, QC
5/19/2015 Saint Vitus Bar – Brooklyn, NY
5/20/2015 Johnny Brenda’s – Philadelphia, PA
5/21/2015 Maryland Death Fest – Baltimore, MD [no Usnea]
5/22/2015 King’s – Raleigh, NC
5/23/2015 Drunken Unicorn – Atlanta, GA
5/25/2015 Siberia – New Orleans, LA
5/26/2015 Walter’s – Houston, TX
5/27/2015 Red 7 – Austin, TX
5/29/2015 Sister – Albuquerque, NM
5/30/2015 Flycatcher – Tucson, AZ
5/31/2015 Complex – Los Angeles, CA
6/02/2015 Catalyst – Santa Cruz, CA
6/03/2015 Elbo Room – San Francisco, CA
6/04/2015 Press Club – Sacramento, CA
6/05/2015 WOW Hall – Eugene, OR [no Usnea]
6/06/2015 Rotture – Portland, OR
6/07/2015 Chop Suey – Seattle, WA
6/08/2015 Neurolux – Boise, ID
6/09/2015 Bar Deluxe – Salt Lake City, UT
6/10/2015 Hi-Dive – Denver, CO
6/12/2015 Turf Club – St Paul, MN
6/13/2015 Metal Grill – Milwaukee, WI

From my friend Philip:

“Immersive” isn’t a big enough word for Ufomammut. These Italian psychedelic-doom sorcerers play narcotically heavy, tail-swallowing grooves that propel you through the incandescent arteries and throbbing chambers of a cosmic cardiopulmonary system. The magma-thick riffs recirculate hypnotically, with the thunderous heartbeat of the drums and the roaring, detonating vortices of the guitars often driven by two distinct metabolisms. The vocals confuse the question of whether this trip is through inner space or outer darkness—sometimes they whisper and murmur like an occult presence infiltrating your skull, and at others they howl and chant like bestial priests, their distant cries often processed into iridescent gales of noise. Curtains of electronic keyboard glisten and sizzle like diabolical aurora, and even the ambient interludes simmer with vast and obscure life rather than discharge the tension built by the music’s inexorable spiraling orbits. This spring’s Ecate (Neurot), the band’s ninth studio full-length (if you count 2012’s Oro: Opus Primum and Oro: Opus Alter as two), makes liberal use of Ufomammut’s best trick: a cycling pattern whose bone-simple rhythms and black-hole blocks of distortion elude easy grasp by cunningly slipping in and out of phase with each other. The nearly 11-minute “Chaosecret” opens with the drums in nine-beat phrases and the guitars in 12, and the slippage between the two keeps the part engrossing for the four solid minutes it repeats. The ur-example of this technique, though, remains “Oroborus” from Opus Alter—its evil anaconda of a riff uses paired groups of seven and eight pulses that shift on or off an implied 4/4 downbeat with each loop, gathering heat and density till the song ignites like the nuclear furnace of a newborn star. This is only Ufomammut’s third trip across the Atlantic in their 16 years together, so don’t count on another chance to see these amplifier-abusing space wizards in the flesh.

He has top notch descriptive skills. It was definitely a sonic inferno. I had been up since 6am and was worth it to see such exuberance. Good show for sure.

Saw Acid Mothers Temple & ST 37 last night. Good show! I was super tired but I'm glad I dragged myself out. It was my first time seeing Acid Mothers Temple and I finally get it. I've liked some of their records but didn't think they were anything special. They're a very, very good live band that just can't capture it in the studio.

Hard Rock Ascending
http://fastnbulbous.com/hard-rock-ascending/

http://fastnbulbous.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/hard-rock-ascending.jpg

so much to listen to. looking forward to going through all these recommendations! thx

I originally had this listed for this week, but further digging shows I think it's just an EP and not out until July:

Orchid – Sign Of The Witch (Nuclear Blast) 25-May

Now that things are slowing down, I'm going back and listening to stuff I missed, like Finnish trad metal Lord Fist, and also thinking about what's coming up, like Christian Mistress, Graveyard, even Iron Maiden!

Night Demon is touring, I might see them at LiveWire on 6/9. They're not on Spotify but here's a playlist with some others, including latest by Ironsword: https://open.spotify.com/user/1212496385/playlist/1N0Ri7fJejEyzLgDZrT4WS

Followed through on my anticipated thoughts, which is part wishlist, though I hope the piece will rattle the cages of some of the bands and get them to give an update :) http://fastnbulbous.com/anticipated-albums-2015/

There's also a Satan album coming up. That's the one I'm anticipating most.

I like the Sammal record a lot. 70s-sounding prog that stays pleasantly loose and casual.

I didn't know about the Satan! Re Sammal, along those lines I look forward to Agusa!

Goatsnake – Black Age Blues (Southern Lord)
http://fastnbulbous.com/goatsnake-black-age-blues/

Also, psych noir! It's becoming a thing!

10 000 Russos (Portugal) came out recently, Dead Skeletons (Iceland) has had several EPs and should have a new album at some point. They're my favorite. The Janitors (Sweden) and The Black Waves (France) should also have new stuff coming.

https://fuzzclub.bandcamp.com/album/10000-russos
https://theluciddream.bandcamp.com/album/the-lucid-dream
https://deadskeletons.bandcamp.com/
https://thejanitors.bandcamp.com/album/evil-doings-of-an-evil-kind-ep
https://thejanitors.bandcamp.com/album/drone-head
https://theblackwaves.bandcamp.com/album/thousands-of-visions

https://tamanshud1.bandcamp.com/album/viper-smoke

I got to debut "Joy OF Home" from FOGG at Last Rites. One of the best local bands and they've got a new album, High Testament out on Tee Pee later this month. They do the proto-metal thing without the occult cheese. Lots of Blue Cheer in them.

http://lastrit.es/articles/934/the-fogg-has-landed

I got their DEATH cassette a while back, definitely looking forward to their Tee Pee album.

It's a huge leap forward from the Death cassette. Out June 23rd.

New single from Midday Veil feat. Bernie Worrell: https://soundcloud.com/mike-newman/01-babel

I hear some of these $3 games are good but are they CUP OF COFFEE GOOD?

Sorry wrong thread!

What else from this year sounds like the Wand album????????

they are like my ideal heavy rock band sound i.e. stoner Tubeway Army

this Mondo Drag album sounds cool on a cursory listen

Have you heard this band Tame Impala

There's a new White Manna
https://whitemanna.bandcamp.com/album/pan

Finding more than one stoner/psych Tubeway Army within the same year, let alone a decade is a tall order! I like that White Manna. The latest Thee Oh Sees is heavier than previous stuff, not quite as good as Wand. Heaters, who I saw open for Wand, have an album out in Aug. I really love the Male Gaze - Gale Maze EP, post-punk-psych!

I'm working on a Psych Noir piece that hopefully people will enjoy.

Latest on upcoming releases:

Glowsun - Beyond The Wall Of Time (Napalm) 23-Jun
Ecstatic Vision - Sonic Praise (Relapse) 30-Jun
Bevar Sea - Invoke The Bizarre Jun
Agusa - Agusa 2 (The Laser's Edge) 21-Jul
Black Space Riders - Refugeeum (Black Space/Cargo) 24-Jul
Sundays & Cybele - Heaven (Beyond Beyond is Beyond) 31-Jul
Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss (Sargent House) 7-Aug
Ghost - Meliora (Loma Vista) 21-Aug
Kadavar - Berlin (Nuclear Blast) 21-Aug
Motörhead - Bad Magic (UDR) 21-Aug
The Sword - High Country (Razor & Tie) 21-Aug
Hills - Frid (Rocket) 28-Aug
Pentagram - Curious Volume (Peaceville) 28-Aug
Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats - The Night Creeper (Rise Above) 4-Sep
Windhand - Grief's Infernal Flower (Relapse) 18-Sep
Graveyard - Innocence & Decadence (Nuclear Blast) 25-Sep
Heaters - Holy Water Pool (Beyond Beyond is Beyond) 25-Sep
Christian Mistress - To Your Death (Relapse) Sep
Clutch - Psychic Warfare (Weathermaker) Sep

wow @ september releases

New Hills is great news, at least!

I'm working on a Psych Noir piece that hopefully people will enjoy.

My interest is piqued. Piqued!

Couple of Kikagaku Moyo live sets turned up on Dime over the last few days.
Now got Chui Wan from LA last month this morning.

Hoping more of both appear. Hadn't heard Chui Wan before.

Liked the new White Manna right off the bat. Production is a cut above.

Saw Chui Wan at both LA shows - new album is so great.

Don't miss out on the Birdstriking set from the same night.

Is Lola Colt going to be in your psych-noir piece, fnb? Because that band is the freaking best.

https://youtu.be/TL-4O5VjLEY

Don't miss out on the Birdstriking set from the same night.

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THanks for that, since i had somehow managed to miss it otherwise. Got it d/loading now.

Kaleidoscopes & Grimoires: Psych Noir
http://fastnbulbous.com/kaleidoscopes-grimoires-psych-noir/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/1212496385/playlist/2PegSe2opuqlDPF2zWCB7P

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Enjoyed the article, thx for sharing

I was pretty fried at the end of the work week, and once I got some sleep I was able to flesh out the last section starting at "Guns, Peyote ‘n’ Dark Highways," including Devil Worshipper, The Black Angels, 10 000 Russos, Sonic Jesus, The Janitors, The Lucid Dream & Taman Shud.

http://fastnbulbous.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/psych-noir-2.jpg

That article looks amazing, definitely going to read the whole thing when I get a chance!

Arthur Magazine
‏@arthurmagazine

We've got this feature length concert film of ArthurFest 2005 directed by Lance Bangs. Who wants to put it out?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CIuNQ8dUkAAi_Vl.jpg

The first few days it was published, July 2-6, it was missing the damn second paragraph, which was accidentally deleted when I added the Spotify widget and didn't notice! It was kind of important to the piece!

What’s surprising is that it took so long for a significant collection of artists to focus on consistently dark subject matter. It wasn’t until the past eight years that what I consider psych noir really took off. While occult rock is the most commonly used descriptor, I feel it is inadequate, because the majority of the bands are not serious practitioners of the occult, mysticism, black magick or Satanism. The occult is simply one of many themes in their lyrics that match up with the dark, psychedelic atmospherics of their music, just like doom is only a minor element of only some of the bands. While I don’t know if anyone else is ever going to use it, I think psych noir is the perfect descriptor, if not genre name. Just like how there is disagreement among scholars whether “film noir” is a legitimate genre, or a “style,” or just a “cycle,” “phenomenon,” “mood” or “series.” Either way, it’s a useful way to address a diverse body of work that shares a disposition and group of elements without having to share every element. Just as not every film noir movie has a femme fatale or a hard boiled detective, not every psych noir band references the occult, witchcraft or hails Satan.

Psychedelic Psummer: Tame Impala’s Synths Vs. All the Guitars
http://fastnbulbous.com/psychedelic-psummer-tame-impalas-synths-vs-all-the-guitars/

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/1212496385/playlist/372tkPi9hSI3FdCFZa6RlT

http://fastnbulbous.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/psychedelic-psummer-2015.jpg

Oh awesome. Can't wait to delve into this.

Out today and last week:

Sundays & Cybele - Heaven
https://open.spotify.com/album/5npxhgwoUwRBzVpswMaeL2

Year Of The Goat - The Unspeakable
https://open.spotify.com/album/0ECeTz3h31GCSMfoFQphyZ

Sacri Monti - Sacri Monti
http://fastnbulbous.com/sacri-monti-sacri-monti/
https://open.spotify.com/album/7wreY3ojQtvQSWEYCirk7y

Lee Dorrian is curating Roadburn! I'm so going.

http://www.roadburn.com/2015/08/lee-dorrian-to-curate-roadburn-2016-with-his-rituals-for-the-blind-dead-parts-1-2/

In the last few years, Dorrian has been assembling an amazing roster of new bands on his Rise Above label that span a fascinating range of psych, prog, folk, doom, proto-metal and more, with Galley Beggar, Lucifer, Death Penalty, Hidden Masters, The Oath, Troubled Horse, Saturn, Iron Man, SerpentCult, Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats, Blood Ceremony, Purson, Age of Taurus, Horisont, Noctum and Ghost. Hopefully his new band made up of former members of Electric Wizard, With The Dead, will also make an appearance.

While there should be a healthy representation of bands from his label's roster, of course he'll also want to reach far beyond that. There should be plenty of surprises. I would expect a once-in-a-lifetime reunion a favorite psych prog band from that 1968-72 era, along the lines of High Tide, Gun, Night Sun, Blackwater Park, T2 or Flower Travellin' Band. Fingers crossed! My wishlist would include Spirits of the Dead, Motorpsycho, I Am The Mansion, Jess & Jess and the Ancient Ones, Colour Haze, Syd Arthur, Wolf People, Anekdoten, Dead Skeletons, Lola Colt, Messenger - Band, Avatarium, Blues Pills, Goatess, Spiders, 40 Watt Sun, Sonic Jesus, The Janitors, The Lucid Dream, The Black Waves, Taman Shud, mostly European-based bands that never make it to the U.S. that I've never seen. Plenty of other great worthy American bands that would fit in too, like Magic Circle, Fellwoods, Golden Void, Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band, Fuzz, Wo Fat, Green & Wood, Brimstone Coven, Demon Eye, Quilt, Argus, Devil Worshipper, etc.

More about Dorrian's psych prog tastes in the beginning of this thread: Psych Prog 1968-72

In the “150 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die” issue of Classic Rock Magazine, his piece called <a href="http://fastnbulbous.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/psych-prog.pdf";>"Prog Psych: The Great Lost Albums of British Rock, 1968-72"</a> covered 20 albums that inhabited what was special about the transition from 60s psychedelic rock to 70s progressive.

In the “150 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die” issue of Classic Rock Magazine, his piece called Prog Psych: The Great Lost Albums of British Rock, 1968-72 covered 20 albums that inhabited what was special about the transition from 60s psychedelic rock to 70s progressive.

http://doomcharts.com/2015/08/07/doom-charts-for-august-2015/

https://www.facebook.com/events/431532273700189/

Fuzz Club Festival, London
FRIDAY NOV. 13th
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THE KVB
CAMERA
THE TELESCOPES
10,000 RUSSOS
NEW CANDYS
THROW DOWN BONES

SATURDAY NOV. 14th
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THE MYRRORS
LOLA COLT
SONIC JESUS
MUGSTAR
THE CULT OF DOM KELLER
RADAR MEN FROM THE MOON
THE JANITORS
THE ORANGE REVIVAL
DEAD RABBITS

http://doomcharts.com/2015/09/04/doom-charts-for-september-2015/

So quiet here. So in one of those What Are You Listening Now groups, someone bragged about having the new Dungen, and I wanted to reach out thru the 'net and smack 'em. I have it pre-ordered, but no promo yet. So would it be just as annoying if I said I'm enjoying my first few listens to Horisont, Graveyard and Christian Mistress? I saw Christian Mistress last week, great show in a tiny room. Davis' voice started losing power partway through, but the band more than made up for it. Graveyard isn't what I expected so taking some adjustment but I'm on board with it. Horisont have stepped up their songwriting big time. Some psych, but bit of Judas Priest going on there too!

A recent review: Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats – The Night Creeper (Rise Above)

why were you upset at the dungeon dude? the album leaked a couple days ago