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

That's a great word. Also a fan of tinieblas.

http://https://f1.bcbits.com/img/a3596167080_10.jpg

Mondo Drag - Mondo Drag (Bilocation) - One of the first great surprises this year, some fabulous psych prog. They have a few albums, started more psych. Radio Moscow's rhythm section Zack Anderson and Cory Berry recorded with them before moving on to Blues Pills. With new rhythm section, they're now based in Oakland, and hopefully planning to hit the road.
https://mondodrag.bandcamp.com/album/s-t

Obelisk outdoes itself: Tomorrow’s Dream 2015: 90 of the Year’s Most Anticipated Releases
http://theobelisk.net/obelisk/2015/01/21/tomorrows-dream-2015/

Details on Goatsnake album coming soon. Correction, the FOGG album won't be out for a few months.

AMT touring US/Canada with ST 37, clearly doing their part to make sure a certain Drugs AMoney can die happy

Follakzoid announce new album + single
http://www.belmontbookings.nl/follakzoid-join-belmonts-european-roster-announce-new-album-single/

Witch Mountain found a new vocalist already, Kayla Dixon of Cleveland's Demons Within.
http://theobelisk.net/obelisk/2015/01/29/witch-mountain-kayla-dixon/

Eternal Tapestry - Wild Strawberries (Thrill Jockey) Feb 24 - New double album coming.

I've had a few days with the upcoming Elder and it is magnificent. Their sound is evolving from fuzzy stoner doom to a more prog direction.

Out now:
Burning Saviours - Unholy Tales From The North (Transubstans)
Spidergawd - Spidergawd II (Crispin Glover) - Norwegian stoner psych/prog/hard rock. I'd just heard their first one last month and already there's another. Don't ask me what's going on with the cover!
http://www.magnificentmusic.de/bands/spidergawd/Spidergawd_cover_II.jpg

Captain Crimson - Ageless Time (Moving Air) - I totally didn't know this was coming out. Out yesterday. Also available on iTunes.
https://captaincrimson.bandcamp.com/
http://open.spotify.com/album/7Jj9PIGkJiAC1KnYwsbG1n

Nudity (Oly, WA)LP "Astronomicon" coming soon. Looking forward to catching them live in a week; everything I've heard from them has been pretty great.

http://ironlungpv.bandcamp.com/album/astronomicon-lp-lungs-062?from=embed

The Quietus are streaming one track off the upcoming Ufomammut album Ecate

http://thequietus.com/articles/17168-ufomammut-temple

Also, holy shit.

http://bluesnaggletooth.bandcamp.com/album/beyond-thule

Ann Arbor stoner/sci-fi band released recent album (may have been covered in last year's thread?) Something tells me EZ might dig this

This is solid. Sometimes is a little too Kyuss (which, as I've talked about before, is not my thing) and the dude isn't the strongest singer, but the overall vibe is great.

This was released today.

https://corsair.bandcamp.com/album/one-eyed-horse

thanks, enjoying this

UFOMAMMUT Finally Tours North America!
http://fastnbulbous.com/ufomammut-finally-tours-north-america/

Kicks off just down the street from me at Reggie's!

i will see you there!! tickets go on sale friday and it's on my calendar. i'm kinda pissed that i'm going to miss electric wizard but it's on one of my school nights and also UFOMAMMUT makes up for it.

Dangit, Graveyard are touring with Mastodon and Clutch but for some reason aren't going to Chicago. They are playing Milwaukee on 5/13, the same night as Ufomammut!

yep - totally going to hit that triple bill in Milwaukee instead - you've talked up Graveyard live for so long, now I have to see 'em!

You know, I may try to make them both. The show at The Rave starts at 7-ish, and Graveyard opens. Reggies' doors open at 7 too, and only Usnea is scheduled to open so far. But as long as they pack in another band or two last minute like they usually do, it should be feasible to make it in time for Ufomammut later in the evening! I've seen Mastodon and Clutch plenty of times, so not an issue for me. That will definitely be a tip-top night for rock 'n' cosmic doom!

I'd be really impressed if you pulled that off and were able to catch both sets.

I don't wanna risk missing Ufomammut (or a $300 Wisconsin speeding ticket!), so only if they announce more opening bands at Reggie's.

there was a "and TBA" on the flyer...

New ST 37 album out. Report with more after listening to it...

Picked up the Nudity record at their tour kick-off. Very impressive! I get a sort of Hawkwind at their Krautiest vibe with a lot of NWOBHM flourishes.

Ok, I have had Bardo Pond's "Dilate" for quite a few years, have given it quite a few listens and like it quite well.

What would be a best second album by Bardo Pond?

Hmm... Lapsed, Amanita or On The Ellipse would be my recommendations. Set and Setting never grabbed me for some reason.

Nothing else they've done is really like Dilate, so it's best to prepare yourself for something different but still awesome.

stream new oriental folk metal album from Melechesh here:
http://www.metalinjection.net/av/stream-melecheshs-new-black-metal-opus-enki-in-full

(warning: not very folky at all)

Isn't it pretty much death metal?

i'm not hearing the middle eastern influences as much on this album but previous albums have had more (and they talk a lot about trying to incorporate middle eastern sounds into their death metal)

new al-namrood EP tho (ana al tughian) super middle eastern folky

http://cleorecs.com/store/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/1976-ST37.jpg

Listened to most of the ST 37 album today, called I'm Not Good and can only be found on Spotify under "ST-37" (dash included). I guess it was released late last year, and contrary to the title it's very good, so much so that I can see putting it on my top 10 of my ILX ballot, had I heard it in time. It's actually a lot like Glare, their masterpiece from 1995, 20 years ago!, but the mix is more in your face, with guitars, and eespecially vocals briught up to intelligible levels. Sonically it's a heady stew of dense spacerock guitars in a terminal state of Echoplex, surreal dissociative lyrics ("Doppleganger" mumbles on for multiple verses about bringing the silverware home), movie dialogue from (I think?) the 50s, backwards tape loops, a couple of deconstructed covers (including a ten-minute version of Edwyn Collins' A Girl Like You), all manners of discombobulating electronic effects and acid-fried weirdness. I suck at Spotify links but you can def find it there (remember the dash: ST-37), and I would recommend checking it out p much as soon as possible.

Doom Charts are back http://doomcharts.com/2015/03/01/the-doom-chart-for-march-2015/

you might let 'em know they've got Torche's album title where Black Pussy's "Magic Mustache" should be

Awesome shit from Ireland http://ironmountain.bandcamp.com

This is sounding pretty good on first listen: https://gurugurubrain.bandcamp.com/album/gypsy-house

New japanese psych that sounds like it could have been made in the early 70's.

New Elder album crushes.

Excited to see them on Saturday

The lineup for that show is Elder, MOS Generator, Blood of the Sun, Wo Fat, & Duell. I will hear ALL THE RIFFS.

What I enjoy about the album (and Elder Spires before it) is that it's not JUST riffs, but huge, open-string melodies too (like on the title track as the verse comes in around 1:30), that are just decipherable in the crunch.

...and the rhythm the drummer has, which is unhurried and free of filler (though I do remember a couple of triplets somewhere on the new album). But case in point is when the drums come in at the beginning of "Release"...just perfect, letting the guitar work breathe in space.

EZ, I'm super jealous of that line-up!

is that what ppl want from a drummer these days? uncluttered and steady? asking for a friend

The Elder album loses me with that super long track in the middle. Just feels like a chore to get through. The rest is very good but that track ruins it IMO.

That's the highlight of the album!

new Kult of the Wizard is out today:

https://kultofthewizard.bandcamp.com/album/the-white-wizard

They've morphed from Electric Wizard worship into more of a Witch Mountain-y vibe with the addition of a female vocalist. Even bust out a Heart cover. And, in the interest of full disclosure, they used some of my noise theremin squawking as the soundbed for "Plasma Pool". They've done a "noise track" on each of their prior two albums and they reached out to me this time around to help with that song.

Listening to this now and totally diggin' it - hope they come to Chicago.

They're hoping to get some shows booked in the near future. The lineup seems pretty solid now. I would guess that if they start playing outside Minneapolis they'll head your way.

http://helzgloriam.misantrof.net -- full album free

HELZGLORIAM is pure evil hailing from Persia: the group is ruled by the dark magic of passion and is inspired by the memories of ancient Satanic cults in The East. Is inspired by what the great Persian Empire meant. This is the beginning before any end. This is pure and unique energy created by musicians accepting SATAN as their creator and strongly intending to promote the mysteries of chaos in reality.

HELZGLORIAM is sublime symphonic black metal with extreme power, groove and energy. It sounds heavier and darker than most modern Scandinavian music of the same genre nowadays. “Infernal Monarchy” is purely dark lord worshipping.

This is what you were waiting for. This is what you needed. This is your beginning. This is your end.

….And death is whispering in the desert winds and SATAN is rising with the sandstorms...

they've got a great sound and loads of middle east folk influences (opening track has maqam stylings, chanting)

Shame about the stupid name, since this Black Pussy record is actually really good.

Anyone who cares to feel free to name and start the new thread. I've been taking a break, but will think about a title in the next couple days if no one else does.

I'm looking forward to the new Electric Eye - Different Sun (Feb 5)
http://www.xsnoize.com/electric-eye/

Here's their last one:
https://electriceye.bandcamp.com/