Rolling Stoner/Psych/Doom/Sludge/Retro/Drone/Space Thread 2012

I like Seven the Spells, just rediscovered it, actually. Reminds me a little of some ex local guys, Warhammer 48k. oh wow, the first (Vern Rumsey engineered) Warhammer album is on spotify, that's great!

Feel like Circle deserve a mention for recent forward thinking psych.
My personal favorite is Prospekt but they release monumental albums at a frightening pace and I'm not super familiar with their stuff from the last five or so years. Luckily, there's a great thread on here detailing all of that stuff.

i like seven that spells, i also have a record by warhammer 48k!

Warhammer did a reunion mini-tour last year, their last show in town was something else. Sounded like they'd been on the road for three months rather than three nights. Miss that band.

Vern Rumsey is a great name. seven that (the?) spells is something i would forget within a nanosecond of reading/hearing/thinking it. weird phrase! i will look them up though.

http://www.piccadillyrecords.com/imgrec/sl-80894.jpg
goat-goatman 7" is cool, lots of wah wah guitar and they have a whole voodoo image they're pushing. reminds me of a more psych-freakout clinic.

It is Seven THAT Spells, btw, just a typo.

The Warhammer guys (they were practically still kids) were all obsessed with Unwound. They sent a tape to Vern and he dug it. They packed everything in to a minivan and drove from the middle of Missouri to Olympia WA and spent a week or so recording.

argh I keep letting this thread stack up the recommendations and new releases but I still haven't had time to check out all this stuff.

Too much doomy-psych-space-sludge, too little time...

Ok I am back to report that seven that spells "death and resurrection of krautrock: AUM" is top notch. i like the vocals a lot on "aum" (the song)

ive played that in outloud before for drugs b money

it's good! i'm listening to it while i grade quizzes.

goat-goatman 7"

This is great, btw

AG otm; he played a song from that Seven That Spells album in outloud; that's how I first heard of that album...

I know how it is when it seems like no one is listening to recommendations. I've checked out the Seven That Spells, Sungod and Dark Sun and have been enjoying them all, mostly while beavering away at work on a big project.

I really thought people would go nuts for Venomous Maximus along the lines of Ghost, Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats and Christian Mistress, but I just hear crickets ;) I think more will get on board when their full length comes out.

Looks like I better pull the trigger on the Devil's Blood/In Solitude tickets for the Friday the 13th show in April at Bottom Lounge. Anyone planning to go? La Lechera?

I also just finished a piece on how many of my favorite recent metal/doom/sludge/occult bands are lead by women: Metal Sirens

Hmmm...you think it'll sell out already?
I was excited because AMT is going to be at the EB (again) but it's on a Monday :-/

Just out of curiosity, FnB, do you know anyone who got that weird "gold pass" thing (or whatever they were calling it) at the EB? I always think something like that is a terrible idea, but then I look at how many shows I would/could go to and it starts to sound better, esp over the summer.

at the same time, who wants to be the asshole who's like "here's my gold pass y'all, now give my my free drink"
i don't

I v much plan on listening to Venomous Maximus and Deepspacepilots; my computer is being problematic at the moment though, so sorry if it appears I was sloughing off your recommendations Fastnbulbous!

Oh no, I figure everyone who's interested will eventually hear 'em!

xp Ha, I make it to Empty Bottle maybe once a year, so not my bag. I don't like how their shows are so late on weeknights, and the only way home is an expensive cab ride. Ultra Lounge is really starting to put together some good shows. Coming up are Rollo Tomasi, Truckfighters, Hull/East Of The Wall/Royal Thunder/Black Tusk (all in one night!), Across Tundras, and Negura Bunget. Same place does booking there as Reggies (where I'm planning to see Turisas).

Acid Mothers Temple is tempting though, and I'm blown away that feedtime are coming in March. That's a band I did not expect to see again!

http://threemileisland.bandcamp.com/

posted about this in the Bandcamp page, but I dig these guys. Two guys--bass & drums--saw them play live last night. The bass player started off their first "song" by holding a power drill up to his pickups and stabbing his bass with a knife, followed by sampling the speech from Network. Wildly hallucinatory mix of drone metal, samples, and a highly controlled aura of dread (even if a lot of the stuff on their page is more conventional stoner-metal)

Was just listening to Inches From the Sun, will do yours next. Along those lines:

Wiht - The Harrowing of the North
http://wihtleeds.bandcamp.com/album/the-harrowing-of-the-north

Stoner/psych, two long instrumental songs. I'm torn between feeling like a fuckwit for missing this last year (I saw the good reviews in blogs, just totally spaced on checking it out) and being delighted to have found something new and great.

Brotherhood Of Sleep - Dark As Light
http://brotherhoodofsleep.bandcamp.com/album/dark-as-light

Stoner/psych. This one was on my list, but may not have been on Bandcamp when I checked previously.

I am listening to the Eurotophobia EP from last year; that might be the best place to start...

btw:

Venomous Maximus is cool though it lacks the beguiling pop sense that made Ghost/Uncle Acid seem special. They seem to be mine a more trad-stoner vein like Fu Manchu or Orange Goblin. It's a rocking record though.

Haven't listened to all of the Deepspacepilots album but that one was good too; predictably I tend to like the album's prettier, more melodic moments, ie "Light of the Sun" & "Black Emanuelle". I really like "Black Emanuelle"

has anyone been keeping up on expo 70? i checked out after "death voyage" but i understand there's some new stuff?

Druglord - Motherfucker Rising (2011)
http://druglord.bandcamp.com/album/motherfucker-rising

Doom from Richmond. Raw and crunchy. Great title, only $2.

Pyramido - Salt (2011)
http://pyramido.bandcamp.com/album/salt

Swedish sludge/doom/hardcore. Can only stream, don't know why they're not selling a download. They say it's on available on CD through Total Rust, but no link. What is wrong with these f'in bands?? "Good luck finding it sucker, maybe if you want it bad enough." Christonacrutch.

has anyone been keeping up on expo 70? i checked out after "death voyage" but i understand there's some new stuff?

― the late great, Saturday, February 18, 2012 1:50 PM (Yesterday)

He's been consistently releasing things here and there over the last year or so.

What is wrong with these f'in bands?? "Good luck finding it sucker, maybe if you want it bad enough."

Honestly I think its more "we're too drugged out and dopey to know how properly distribute a release and our label doesn't really give a shit about us"

http://desertfest.de/index.php/line-up.html
COLOUR HAZE, UFOMAMMUT, MOTORPSYCHO, GREENLEAF, ORANGE GOBLIN, ANCESTORS, TRUCKFIGHTERS, LONELY KAMEL, MONKEY3, ELVIS DELUXE, MARS RED SKY

Dang I wanna go, but possibly going to Duna Jam in Sardinia, can't afford both. Is anyone going?

Haha, I wish. Saturday looks like an awesome day to be there.

Greenleaf has had an evolving cast the past decade. Those disappointed when Dozer went on indefinite hiatus when vocalist Fredrik Norden went back to school will be pleased that Greenleaf is basically Dozer with Truckfighters' Oskar Cedermalm on vocals. I thought Nest of Vipers didn't come out 'til June on Small Stone, but you can stream it now until Monday. Available on iTunes. http://theobelisk.net/obelisk/2012/03/05/greenleafstream/

Speaking of Truckfighters, they killed it Monday night. Good thing, as last year they did not impress my friends at Reggies. I knew it was just technical difficulties. Their amp literally ignited on fire, billowing smoke. They borrowed another band's amp and broke that too. Third time worked, but did not sound great. The vocals particularly were improperly amplified/mixed. Last night at Ultra Lounge there were no such problems. The sound was perfect and their performance was epic. They reminded me slightly of Nirvana on their Bleach tour if you switch uptight/intense Kurt to bass (Ozo), and if Keith Moon and Animal merged and took up guitar (the manic, muppety Dengo). With the satisfying heavy fuzz and the variety of amazing tones Dengo squeezed out, I'd rank this show higher. They were in Memphis last night, and Nola tonight. I picked up a CD of first album Gravity X and their mockumentary DVD.

Here's the rest of their dates:
March 7 New Orleans, LA Siberia
March 8 Austin, TX ND @ 501 Studios
March 9 Tulsa, OK Downtown Lounge
March 10 Texarkana, AR The Roadmap
March 11 Little Rock, AR Downtown Music
March 14 Raleigh, NC Pour House
March 15 Norfolk, VA Jewish Mother Backstage
March 16 Philadelphia, PA The Station
March 17 Brooklyn, NY Public Assembly

That desertfest lineup is killer!

There's a Desertfest in London too, Apr 6-8, but missing my faves Colour Haze, Ufomammut and Motorpsycho. Wish the Berlin lineup could do one in the U.S.! Hell, even All Tomorrow's Parties in London May 25-27 is featuring SLAYER (performing Reign in Blood), FLOOR, MELVINS, MUDHONEY, SLEEP, SLEEPY SUN and YOB. No such lineups at the various ATPs in the U.S., of course. Argh.

Interview with Truckfighters, with good news on progress on their new album. I also learned that Pezo is doing double duty with fellow Örebro band Witchcraft. Glad to hear Witchcraft still exist, lol. http://theobelisk.net/obelisk/2012/03/08/truckfightersinterview-2/

I was watching the Truckfighters Fuzzomentary last night and saw in the bonus features that the director Joerg Steineck is working on a new documentary on the Californian desert rock scene, Lo Sound Desert. Like his last movie, it's completion depends on financial support from fans. http://losounddesert.joerg-steineck.com/donate/donate.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9InkRj0kY40&feature=youtu.be

oh yeah and there's this development:

http://open.soundrop.fm/s/Vw6FRBau3Qe1JQ0X

A Doom Metal room in Soundrop! Weee!

New album of the week - Horisont - Second Assault. Swedish band signed to Lee Dorian's Rise Above label for their excellent second album, with roots in early proto-metal era Judas Priest, Scorpions and Wishbone Ash. In stock at All That Is Heavy. Also out is another Swedish band, Ett Rop På Hjälp - Hur Svårt Kan Det Vara? (Transubstans), which I haven't heard yet. http://www.riseaboverecords.com/products/view/378

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHYdflHxoWI&feature=youtu.be

The Bad Light - Marrow Of Sound - Doomy swamp blues from Santa Cruz, nice stuff.
http://thebadlight.bandcamp.com/album/marrow-of-sound

Conan - Monnos (Burning World) Apr 2
http://soundcloud.com/i-like-press/sets/conan-monoss

My subwoofer is shaking my cube this morning with this album. Doesn't come out 'til Apr 2 but you can stream it above. UK Stoner/Doom/Sludge. If you like Electric Wizard and Sleep (who they're touring with), check 'em out!

Reviews: http://www.doommantia.com/2012/03/conan-monnos.html
"Conan...have always been great but this album is the absolute peak of perfection. I can say it right now, this album is my early pick for the album of 2012. Recorded at Foel Studios by Chris Fielding who has worked with Electric Wizard, Moss and Serpent Venom to name just a few has made a masterpiece out of this 6 track, almost 40 minute onslaught of monster-like doom and sludge-metal."

http://www.thesleepingshaman.com/reviews/album-reviews/c/conan-monnos-cd-lp-dd-2012/
"Monnos is amazingly accomplished, singular in its apocalyptic vision and densely layered. And by dense I don’t just mean the dropped-F tuning that the guys reportedly use. Not only are the songs heavy (and I’m talking heavy), they’re also strangely otherworldly. When Jon Davis’ lets out his signature siren-call it sounds like a message that has filtered through time, telling us of some long-forgotten massacre from the Dark Ages and the music acts as a grim backdrop to it all. As pompous as that sounds, these aren’t your everyday doom songs – this is a timeless doom record and it’s heavier than just about anything you’ve ever heard."

That Horisont song sounds like Witchcraft, which is fine by me. Don't hear Priest or Scorpions myself, but it's a good sound.

I loved the last Horisont album and will definitely check this one out.

Maybe Rocka Rolla and Fly The Rainbow era perhaps. I'm re-listening to their first album, Två Sidor Av Horisonten, which kicks off with a nice Thin Lizzy guitar lead on "Nightrider."

Many of you have probably heard that Southern Lord is reissuing a deluxe version of Sleep's Dopesmoker.

For the 2012 reissue, there are some very notable changes. The original studio tapes have been remastered presenting the album as the band had originally intended. The audio is clearer, louder, and at last brings a true representation of SLEEP's hour-plus Weedian chronicle. Exclusive to this Southern Lord edition is brand new artwork by long time SLEEP artist Arik Roper, to be unveiled in the coming weeks. Additionally, this reborn version of Dopesmoker boasts an unreleased live recording of one of the band's best all-time performances: "Holy Mountain" from San Francisco's I-Beam in 1994.

It's unclear to me, however, if they're comparing it to the Tee Pee version or the Jerusalem version.

I don't need another version of Dopesmoker. The cult of Sleep is one of the most inexplicable aspects of modern metal culture to me. Right up there with the cult of Om. The best thing Matt Pike ever did was leave Sleep and form High On Fire.

The Machine - Calmer Than You Are (Elektrohasch) Mar 24.
Dutch psych cosmonauts get a bit heavier on their fourth album. Their last one was Drie (2010).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIvHw0zWp8Y&feature=youtu.be

Anyone at SXSW? This Small Stone showcase tomorrow looks like a can't-miss event. I have not yet gotten to see Gozu or Wo Fat. Should be a smokin' show!

http://f0.bcbits.com/z/58/49/584914168-1.jpg

Small Stone Records SXSW 2012
Friday, March 16, 2012

Head Hunters
720 Red River Street
(512) 236-9820

7:00PM - Dwellers
8:00PM - Backwoods Payback
9:00PM - Gozu
10:00PM - Lo-Pan
11:00PM - Wo Fat
12:00AM - Dixie Witch
1:00AM - Tia Carrera

Sample the lineup: http://smallstone.bandcamp.com/album/sxsw-2012-showcase-line-up

http://www.wizardsmoke.net/tsos.png
http://www.wizardsmoke.net/

Wizard Smoke is Atlanta's premiere stoner metal band, or at the very least the favorite among people that go to all the garage rock/punk shows in town, or buy w33d from band members. They're pretty great, the first time I saw them was at an outdoor show on May 21, 2011, the day Jesus was supposed to come back. As they played I saw a glowing light rise up from behind them in the distance, hover in the sky, and then dart off. It was a UFO, and I turned to one of my friends and she looked at me like "I know! WTF?"

ok 'Wizard Smoke' has to be the most imagination-free name for a band like this ever

great cover though.

That Wizard Smoke album was posted about in last year's thread. It's aite; I'm probably due to give it another listen soon...

To Whom It May Concern:

I recently discovered the manuscript while rambling in the woods with my dog. It was a few weeks shy of the vernal equinox, and the fine ends of the trees had just begun to show green. My hound had left me alone on the trail to go nose about the scrub—and possibly ferret out something living to eat—when suddenly I heard him calling. I found him pawing furiously at the ground in front of a weird tree with a huge trunk and massive branches sprouting low. Its bark was hard as granite and almost blue in color. My dog ceased his digging and looked at me, seemingly imploring me to dig further. I loosened the soil with my knife and continued the excavation until I struck something hard: it was a bound volume bearing the engraving “Tome of the Future Ancients by Ice Dragon." Inside, the leaves were filled with inscrutable symbols, ritualistic diagrams, and illustrations of strange flora and fauna. Even the must that invaded my nose as I turned the pages was alien.

What had I found?

Once home, I began to research and quickly discovered that there was a musical entity named Ice Dragon who worked in a basement not far from where the book had been. I contacted them to see if they had hidden it as some sort of promotional stunt. When I mentioned the engraving on the front, there was a pregnant pause on their end of the line. They assured me they had no knowledge of the book. However, what they revealed next gave me pause:

They had just completed their third album, and it was titled Tome of the Future Ancients. It was to be released on the day of the equinox. Sure enough, this turned out to be true.

By now, I was almost certain they were simply in the business of creating hype. There was no doubt they were responsible for the creation and burying of the book. Or so I was convinced, until carbon dating proved ineffective, and my academic peers who specialize in cryptography responded to my inquiries with blank looks.

Then, quite simply, the book vanished. One day it was in my study, and the next it was gone. Perhaps one of my colleagues grew jealous of my discovery and stole it; perhaps the woman who cleans my house disposed of it in fear upon opening it. Truthfully? I’m almost relieved it is gone for I hadn’t experienced a restful night since bringing it into my home. My dreams were black, and my dog would bay at the threshold of the room that held the damned book.

For now, the only Tome of the Future Ancients by Ice Dragon available for study is this one. May it always be so.

—Professor Cepheus Hallow

http://icedragon.bandcamp.com/album/tome-of-the-future-ancients

why did none of you tell me about
http://truecultheavymetal.com/media/blogs/shop/Doom_Special_Cover_Final_lores.jpg
http://truecultheavymetal.com/index.php/2012/03/01/out-now-terrorizer-s-secret-history-of-doom?blog=13

Terrorizer has delved deep into the dark vaults of doom and traversed across its rich history to unearth the truth and tales told by some of the heaviest of riff wielders! From metal's very own nativity story, the birth of Black Sabbath, which changed rock music forever and created a genre deemed too evil for the young and impressionable, to the heroes of stoner doom, funeral doom, drone and sludge. We revisit classic interviews with the likes of Sunn O))) and Electric Wizard, and look back in time with Paradise Lost and Matt Pike (Sleep, High On Fire). Plus no special would be complete without our very own Top 50 essential doom albums and cover mount CD. Doom or be doomed!

You can buy it HERE

Inside we dissect:

THE BIRTH OF DOOM
BRITISH DOOM
THE A-Z OF DOOM
AMERICAN DOOM
DRONE
FUNERAL DOOM
EPIC DOOM

PLUS....

HAIL HORROR!
Electric Wizard's Jus Oborn reveals the horror films that inspired and shaped the music of one of England's most influential doom bands.

ESSENTIAL ALBUMS
From Black Sabbath's debut to Yob's 2011 opus, we trace doom's progression from 1970 to the present day

DARK ART
Where would doom be without some of the most inspired artwork in the world of heavy metal?

THEMES OF DOOM
From Christianity to heroin, doom has drawn on the depressing and the macabre since its humble beginnings... we delve into the mire

STONER/ SLUDGE
The drug use got messy and the riffs got distorted but the outcome was tremendous

BEYOND DOOM!
How can a 40-year-old genre survive in 2012? Terrorizer gazes through our crystal ball and predicts its future...

Iron Men
BLACK SABBATH
Tony Iommi joins in the celebrations and remembers how the four horseman of the apocalypse (or four blokes from Birmingham) created a genre that changed the world forever

CATHEDRAL
Lee Dorrian - Cathedral frontman and Rise Above Records founder remembers a time when no one cared

PENTAGRAM
From singing cover songs to Vietnam War Vets to fronting one of America's most legendary doom bands Bobby Leibling tells us his amazing story

ORAL HISTORIES
Wino, Trouble's Eric Wagner, John Perez, Victor Griffin and more look back on their doomed lives

SUNN 0))))
He played in Thorr's Hammer, Goatsnake, Sunn 0))) and he founded Southern Lord Records. Greg Anderson tells us about it all

LORD VICAR
The revered, true doom legend Peter Vicar recalls the Bizarre times

PARADISE LOST
King of Northern bleakness Gregor Mackintosh talks punk rock, touring and side-projects

CANDLEMASS
Leif Edling, the founding bassist of Sweden behemoths Candlemass tells us how he's still humble despite his band's legendary status

ELECTRIC WIZARD
Blonde bombshell guitarist Liz Buckingham is the Queen of Riffs - we raise a toast to celebrate Doom's First Lady

+ much much more.

BUY

I mentioned that in last year's metal thread. Simon Reynolds of all people mentioned it in his blog, and I searched in vain for it. I didn't know it wasn't to come out for another several months.

Buey - Universe Bellowing
http://buey.bandcamp.com/

Stoner rockers from Valencia, Spain. Blurb on Bandcamp page awkwardly translates to this, heh:

OX THE MUGIDO OF THE UNIVERSE A new wide-awake king in the mud. He still beats, insensible to his power: One… dwells heavy, dense, iron creature and brutal, forged in fat and ancestral resentment, joke and it watches to us fixedly, with the gathered frown: Cornuda his testuz announces the Devastation: King Buey has been born.

it came out march 1st apparently. I went down to smiths thismorning to get it + the new issue out today + the wire.

Giant compilation of unsigned stoner/psych/doom/sludge bands, thought you guys might be interested in checking it out. There might be a few gems on here: http://heavyplanet.bandcamp.com/album/bong-hits-from-the-astral-basement

Someone's gonna make sure there's one of these threads in 2013, right? Not two...

This one was first. But maybe it makes sense to continue to have the separate psych/drone/freak thread, and roll all other stoner/doom/sludge/space/retro discussion into the general Rolling Metal thread. Activity was kind of low here and most people follow the metal one.

Ah, the Obelisk results are finally in! 296 people voted, very nice. However, it sounds like he did not weigh votes based on ranking, which is odd, but interesting results either way.

http://theobelisk.net/obelisk/2013/01/01/readers-poll-results-the-top-20-of-2012/

01. Om, Advaitic Songs – 108 votes
02. High on Fire, De Vermis Mysteriis – 106
03. Graveyard, Lights Out – 86
04. Neurosis, Honor Found in Decay – 65
05. Ufomammut, Oro – 63
05. Witchcraft, Legend – 63
06. Colour Haze, She Said – 56
06. Saint Vitus, Lillie: F-65 – 56
07. Kadavar, Kadavar – 49
07. Pallbearer, Sorrow and Extinction – 49
08. Orange Goblin, A Eulogy for the Damned – 46
09. Baroness, Yellow and Green – 39
10. Conan, Monnos – 38
11. Swans, The Seer – 35
12. Astra, The Black Chord – 31
13. Greenleaf, Nest of Vipers – 31
13. The Sword, Apocryphon – 31
14. Royal Thunder, CVI – 26
14. Wo Fat, The Black Code – 26
15. Ancestors, In Dreams and Time – 25
16. Torche, Harmonicraft – 23
17. Corrosion of Conformity, Corrosion of Conformity – 22
18. Enslaved, Riitiir – 19
19. Goat, World Music – 18
19. Melvins Lite, Freak Puke – 18
19. Soundgarden, King Animal – 18
20. Amenra, Mass V – 17
20. Samothrace, Reverence to Stone – 17

xpost i never even differentiated between the two. to me, they seem like two threads dedicated to essentially the same stuff that both survived the year, more or less. and it seems like it would be easier to keep it all in one place.

i mean, i understand the difference between the genres, etc., but... i guess maybe the words psych and drone being in both titles may be throwing me off. if it were psych/space/freak and sludge/doom (i think of drone separately anyway), then i could see the point.

but if everyone else thinks they have distinct purposes as they are, by all means, ignore me.

and for the record, i for one definitely want some sort of thread that's dedicated more to psych, space, drone, kraut, whatever than folding any/all of that into rolling metal... these two threads were basically my sweet spot in 2012

I'm not sure which of the rolling threads to post this in (seems like non-indie punk may be more appropriate than this one, but this one is fresher) and there aren't any 2013 rolling threads yet but I've just discovered this record out of Philly on Richie Records and it sounds great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbfjxIRMSV0

It's Spacin "Deep Thuds." Lots of touchstones being signified in this one.

sorry about that alpine, I didn't remember who said it when I went off on the other thread, but knowing that it was out of a desire to keep things straight, rather than just moaning about pointless threads, makes what I said sound even worse than how I meant it #banDrugs2013

oh no worries at all. i wasn't riled up or anything. was just wondering if that was what you were responding to, or if there had been other discussion I'd missed, etc. all good.

i was responding to a few other things, but i'd rather just drop the matter entirely