Ingest All Deliriants at the Door: Rolling Stoner/Psych/Retro/Space Rock Thread 2016

Yas! I saw Decibel gave Khemmis - Hunted a feature review. It's out Friday but looks like they released it on Bandcamp last night: http://listen.20buckspin.com/album/hunted-2. They're touring in January. Still waiting for their 20 Buck Spin labelmates Magic Circle to do a proper tour.

When I saw that my Doom Chart brethren already voted for Asteroid in for October I wrote the blurb for it on https://doomcharts.com/2016/10/11/the-doom-charts-for-october-2016/

been searching for more of the kind of psych that I'm into and I found great success w/Sky Lantern Records, the label that released Kikagaku Moyo's Mammatus Clouds in 2014 https://skylanternrecords.bandcamp.com/

dope visual aesthetic

I like Dead Sea Apes and Eternal Tapestry, will need to check out some of the others. Cardinal Fuzz has some things too.

like that khemmis

wow, yeah, that Sky Lantern Bandcamp is beautiful!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUNiiNUR_Uc

Is there anything new out there like this? I love this style of psych. I hoped it would become kind-of a thing

There's hardly a shortage of jammy space rock. No one tries to copy another, but there's similarities with The Spacelords, Mugstar, Mythic Sunship, The Oscillation, Sendelica, Seven That Spells, Blown Out, Sungod, Earthless, Causa Sui, Sula Bassana, Electric Moon, Electric Octopus, My Brother The Wind, Øresund Space Collective, My Sleeping Karma, Lüger, Hills, Gnod, The Cosmic Dead, Electric Eye, Pyramidal, 3rd Ear Experience, Radar Men From the Moon, Monomyth, Farflung, Psicomagia, Yuri Gagarin and many more.

Just started on the Spacelords, this is good stuff. Thanks for the recommendations

okay, so with that in mind, the playlist is updated for October. 94 songs, 11 hours, lots of freaky shit mannnnnnnnnn

ILM's Rolling Stoner-Psych Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist

Norway's Madder Mortem has been messing with variations of avant prog and doom metal (plus extra witchy goth) for 23 years, and on the new one I noticed similarities with the recent psych noir of Jess & the Ancient Ones, Purson and Blood Ceremony.

Madder Mortem – Red In Tooth And Claw (Dark Essence/Karisma)

People seem enamored by Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard. I go back and forth. I like the mix of cosmic space sludge tones and wispy 4AD proto-goth stylings, but feel they have a ways to go to construct more engaging choons.

https://newheavysounds.bandcamp.com/album/y-proffwyd-dwyll

I like the latest from fellow UK stoner doomsters Spider Kitten:
https://spiderkitten.bandcamp.com/album/ark-of-octofelis

mammoth weed wizard bastard is pretty cool, too bad they went to the sleepytime gorilla museum school for naming your band something stupid that makes me never want to listen

been searching for more of the kind of psych that I'm into and I found great success w/Sky Lantern Records, the label that released Kikagaku Moyo's Mammatus Clouds in 2014 https://skylanternrecords.bandcamp.com/

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the track featured on here is some good stuff: https://skylanternrecords.bandcamp.com/album/strange-pleasures

Yes! I dig Dreamtime's past couple albums from 2011 & 13, looking forward to it, out on Dec. 2.

Asteroid – III (Fuzzorama) - out next week

Tomorrow I see Electric Citizen and Horisont, looking forward to it.

Wolf People - Ruins (Jagjaguwar) out tomorrow. Another contender for my album of the year.

After saying they won't release their album until their 10 year anniversary in 2017, Spirits Of The Dead put up an enigmatic image and video that just says, "11.11" I can only guess it means a release date, but I'm trying not to get my hopes up.

Most of the blogs come out with their lists later in December. I prefer to get mine done by the 2nd week of December -- any recommendations for albums not yet mentioned on this thread?

One album I sort of forgot about is this:

Hexvessel - When We Are Death. Finnish folk psych band goes in a more 60s garage psych direction.

So I've been listening to this on Spotify:

https://purplepyramid.bandcamp.com/album/space-rock-an-interstellar-traveler-s-guide

And its pretty fun! But is it the best comp to start with space rock? There's lots of acts that don't seem to fit the mold or tracks that aren't the best choice.

Lol William Shatner. Yeah, that's a bit all over the place. However it's the first space rock comp I've seen, so I couldn't say.

So no albums to throw in the listening pool for best of 2016?

I've been meaning to make time to sit down with this year's releases from Camera and The Oscillation but haven't been able to yet.

The new Warlocks is pretty dull, but the first track is the kind of thing I could listen to all day:
https://thewarlocks.bandcamp.com/track/only-you-2

Whoa, just read that Sun Dial have a new record out! Didn't realize they were still around. Only saw this minutes ago but if I were the list-making type I'd want to hear it before making one.

Only clip I've found so far:
www.soundcloud.com/sulatron/sun-dial-regenerator

playlist is updated.

You might want to update that playlist one more time, lots of stuff to discover here from my man Simon Delic (though half aren't on Spotify): http://www.backseatmafia.com/2016/11/25/psych-insight-25-essential-psych-albums-2016/

25 Essential Psych Albums 2016 (presented here in no order or preference)

Stockholm Maraton by Kungens Män (Adansonia Records)
Helios Rising by Moths and Locusts (NoiseAgonyMayhem Records/ Sunmask Records)
The Hermit by Surya Kris Peters (Electric Magic Records)
Soy Dios by Dead Sea Apes (Cardinal Fuzz/ Sky Lantern Records)
Lost Chants/ Last Chance by Kandodo/ McBain (Rooster Rock Records)
Black Hill Transmitter by Black Hill Transmitter (FSOL)
House In The Tall Grass by Kikagaku Moyo (GuruGuru Brain Records)
Heron Oblivion by Heron Oblivion (Sub Pop Records)
In God’s Creation by Nudity (Cardinal Fuzz)
Karma Suture by Fungal Abyss (Adansonia Records)
KURO by KURO (Rocket Recordings)
Phantom of Liberty by Camera (Bureau B)
Ouroboros by Mythic Sunship (El Paraiso Records)
Zement: Werk by Zement (Sunhair Records)
Phantamonium by Hotel Wrecking City Traders (Evil Hoodoo)
Magnetic North by Vert:x/ Dead Sea Apes/ Blown Out/ Earthling Society (Drone Rock Records)
Monographic by The Oscillation (All Time Low Records/ Hands in the Dark Records)
Moral Machine by Colonel Petrov’s Good Judgement (Moral Machine Records)
Magnetic Seasons by Mugstar (Rock Action Records)
JuJu by JuJu (Sunrise Ocean Bender)
Mantra Music by Megaritual (White Dwarf Rock)
The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol Box Set (Birdman Sound Records/ Cardinal Fuzz)
Body Cults by Narcosatanicos (Bad Afro Records)
Entranced Earth by Myrrors (Beyond Beyond is Beyond)
Strange Pleasures by Dreamtime (Cardinal Fuzz/ Sky Lantern Records/ TYM Guitars)

will come back to all this in the end o' year round up!

New Gulp single (Guto Pryce from SFA and Lindsey Leven) produced by Luke Abbott.

https://soundcloud.com/e-l-k-1/gulp-search-for-your-love

Drone: http://antigravitybunny.com/?p=10849

Fester's Lucky 13: 2016 Year-End Summary
http://fastnbulbous.com/lucky-16/

Top 100 Albums of 2016 | Spotify Mix | 2016 Breakdown: Genre Lists | Shows, Videos | Movies, Television, Books & Comics

http://fastnbulbous.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/2016-lucky-13.jpg

The last I heard of Arthur Brown, around the turn of the century, he was a music therapist in Austin. Reportedly, he wrote songs with clients.

THE CRAZY WORLD OF ARTHUR BROWN Announces First US Tour In Nearly Five Decades

After a highlight performance at Psycho Las Vegas 2016, hugely influential UK heavy psychedelic progressive eccentrics THE CRAZY WORLD OF ARTHUR BROWN announces their 2017 Zim Zam Zim tour marking their first run of live performances since 1969.

The God Of Hellfire himself, Arthur Brown, will be celebrating fifty years since releasing the debut single "Devil's Grip," which helped shape the British and worldwide psychedelic movement. Pushing theatrics to their dystopian hellscape limits would earn Brown acolytes in everyone from David Bowie and Alice Cooper to Kiss, Marilyn Manson, and Lady Gaga to the entire genre of black metal, and his influence continues to spread today.

"The last time I toured the US with THE CRAZY WORLD was early 1969," Brown confirms. "It was our third tour there. At the time, the band had been headlining massive festivals, alongside Hendrix, Frank Zappa, Jefferson Airplane, and other top attractions of the time. Iggy Pop and Alice Cooper were still only mildly famous, somewhere down the bill."

Zim Zam Zim takes its name from THE CRAZY WORLD OF ARTHUR BROWN's latest album, released in 2014. They'll be joined on this landmark trip by Ohio rockers Electric Citizen, and shows will feature generational sonic offspring like White Hills, Acid King, Pallbearer, Danava, and Jex Thoth.

Psycho Entertainment Presents:
THE CRAZY WORLD OF ARTHUR BROWN w/ Electric Citizen:
2/15/2017 Regent Theater - Los Angeles, CA [tickets] w/ White Hills
2/16/2017 Hard Rock Hotel And Casino Las Vegas, NV [tickets] w/ White Hills
2/17/2017 Slims - San Francisco, CA [tickets] w/ Acid King
2/18/2017 Star Theater - Portland, OR [tickets] w/ Danava
2/21/2017 Reggie's - Chicago, IL [tickets]
2/23/2017 Le Poisson Rouge - New York, NY [tickets]
2/24/2017 Barracuda - Austin, TX [tickets] w/ Pallbearer
2/25/2017 Barracuda - Austin, TX [tickets] w/ Acid King, Jex Thoth

For further info contact liz at earsplitcompound.com.

http://www.arthur-brown.com
http://www.facebook.com/arthurbrownmusic
http://www.youtube.com/arthurbrownmusic
http://www.vivapsycho.com
http://www.facebook.com/psychoentertainmentpresents

fnb: five of your top six records in the "Desert/Fuzz/Stoner Rock" contain roman numerals. is this just an inherent quality of the genre?

seriously though i did really like that psychic lemon record. so much so that i don't even mind there's goddamn flute all over it.

They must all be paying tribute to Chicago ;)

Looking forward to that Arthur Brown show at Reggie's! With Khemmis and Truckfighters in January, it's going to be a good winter for shows just a mile down the street from me.

Here's the Stoner Hive slow roll so far. Yes, with the ties, 13 should be next, but Stoner Hive universe runs on it's own logic ;)

http://stonerhive.blogspot.com/

20 The Re-Stoned – Reptiles Return
19 Komatsu – Recipe For Murder One
18 Baroness – Purple
17 Mos Generator – Abyssinia
16 Mars Red Sky – Apex III (Praise For The Burning Soul)
16 Baby Woodrose – Freedom

http://https%3A//2.bp.blogspot.com/-w8pwqcZLo7U/WFbOvPSKKCI/AAAAAAAAKo8/ifE8u1--9DoJ0Ti2xtV3zthe1g3uRmekwCLcB/s320/2016-15.jpg

15 Gojira - Magma
15 Black Rainbows – Stellar Prophecy

After the amazing Baby Woodrose and stunning Mars Red Sky albums featured on Number 16 we once again find two bands on Number 15. One of which was definitely not expected! So, let’s start with that one first. For we definitely recognized its glory and merit, it’s just that this kind of metal isn’t featured a lot on the HiVe. Sure, one could always claim this French band to be a weird kind of lovechild of bands such as Meshuggah, Neurosis and Mastodon. And that the band has been drifting ever forward towards its own sound. A strange amalgam of prog, death and math metal. And all of that, in a very open and hopeful way. And listening to this record again, while writing this, it immediately proves why all you freaks out there voted for it. It is universally good and an album that transcends boundaries. The Italians however, who received the same amount of points for the 2016 Top 20 Countdown are ofcourse definitely meant to be on it. Expected even, probably. Right? For every one of us heavy rock lovers dug their former album. The one released last year and which ended on Number 5 of the Top 20. This time around the trio aim their fuzzy electric blues for the stars and riff out a new prophecy for themselves. Much more esoteric and grandiose and less meant to this earth or this time. This is meant for the ages and to live on forever!

14 Truckfighters – V
14 Elephant Tree – Elephant Tree

We jumped a few points here and there the past positions to reach Number 15 featuring Gojira and Black Rainbows. But now we jump another ten points to reach place Number 14 which is, once again, occupied by two bands. Swedes and Brits. One of them delivering their debut (full-sized) album this year while the other one came out swinging with their fifth. Everyone loves those Swedes and seeing them live will only make you love them more. Their stage antics and wild shows are always highly entertaining. You can count on them to show you a good time. With their fifth album they even managed to outdo their former album that reached Number 8 back in 2014. And they managed to outdo themselves, turning their wild no nonsense stoner rock into something much more adventurous. Which took quite a few fans to take slowly to their new album. But once the coin dropped, they were ofcourse once again victorious! The Brits rode high on the Doom Charts for four months straight. And rightfully so, their debut album is so chuck full of swing and groove, so densely packed with melodies and songwriting skill, you almost forget about the high intensity desert rock and blues roots that fuels it all. Riff upon riff and hymn upon hymn…

http://ripplemusic.blogspot.com/2016/12/bandcamp-bonanza-best-of-bonanza-16.html?m=1

13 Brant Bjork – Tao Of The Devil

Will Number 14 which featured Truckfighters and Elephant Tree be the last position with two bands? Or can we count on more albums getting the exact amount of votes? Well, on Number 13 we find just one. And one alone. Well, ofcourse the man did receive some help from some weird punky friends. But, the man has been reaching the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown with each album he has released in the years the Countdown has been running. So, since 2009 that is. Reaching Number 7 in 2010 and Number 3 in 2014. O’ and let’s not forget about the band he was a part of back in 2013, which reached all the way to Number 1 thanks to 61 of you voters out there. He was ofcourse also part of the band that started everything and is without a doubt the one master and guru of the laidback desert scene. The new record just proves it all over again. It contains universal truths and sundried tones, raw and edgy on some moments, funky and soulful on others and always warm, windswept and dusty. And above all much more bluesy and with an intense groove. The Tao cannot be articulated with mere words. But the man has found the right amount of music to do it with…

A couple newer discoveries.

The Early Years - II (Sonic Cathedral) - Ten years after their debut, shoegaze evolves into gleaming Kosmische and post-punk/post-rock minimalism.
https://soniccathedral.bandcamp.com/album/ii

The Urges – Time Will Pass (Mersol) - Dublin garage psych band, also takes nearly a decade to follow up their debut, this one evolving from raw Sonics style garage to something influenced by Love/Zombies/Pretty Things. On "Echoes Softly" they even measure up to one of my favorites, Hidden Masters. Not on Spotify or Bandcamp, I ordered the CD.
http://mersolmusic.bigcartel.com/product/the-urges-time-will-pass-cd-album-limited-edition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPHVSOY0gwc

12 Holy Serpent – Temples
12 Curse The Son – Isolator

Of course Mr. Bjork always makes this list. Responsible for so much, and we’ve just been loving so much of the music he has been putting out over the years. And Tao Of The Devil on Number 13 was no exception! But we do jump a lot of points again to head over to Number 12. Where we, yes, find once again, two bands! Two albums that have been riding high on the Doom Charts. Lysergic rock soundscapes are pouring out of the majestic fuzz viscera’s of this album with sluggish fury and so they stun the senses, numb the body and intoxicate the brain with their abysmal doom aura and thanks to the rich talents of this trio, who sprinkle their grandiose heavy sound with hazy sludge touches and almost imperceptibly grunge hues and funk timbres that accentuate their muggy stoner aesthetics, we are offered an extremely heavy and almost irresistible album of high stoner/doom quality. Yes, that’s what Lyk from Phantasmagoria wrote back in April for our Doom Chart. And Clint from Hand Of Doom wrote this: In scenes, reminiscent of the progression between the first and second albums from Elder you will bear witness to a band raising the stakes in crafting their own sound – heavy and oozing with melody, unexpected twists and surging riffs, searing wah soaked solos and that mile-thick guitar tone has so much bite, incredible… The album seems to slow down and get heavier with each track… And both were right on the money! So, let’s curse the serpent and isolate our temples!

not to derail at all but i think this might be the thread for this, late contender for a top 10 of 2016- described as bardo pond playing live/dead... i love it

https://desmadradossoldadosdeventura.bandcamp.com/album/the-grand-celestial-purge

Oooh Ive been meaning to check out the new Desmadradoes

what else would you recommend? this is my first listen

I was kind of into Interpenetrating Dimensional Express . It fit right in with a lot of other stuff I was listening to in 2014

Not derailing, everyone please post. If all anyone really wants here are Grateful Dead style space jams, someone should make a list! I did a Space Rock list that touches on it -

http://fastnbulbous.com/lucky-16/#breakdown

Space Rock
01. Eye – Vision & Ageless Light (Lasers Edge) | Bandcamp
02. Moths & Locusts – Helios Rising (Noiseagonymayhem ) | Bandcamp
03. Saturnia – The Real High (Elekrohasch) | Buy
04. Black Rainbows – Stellar Prophecy (Heavy Psych) | Bandcamp
05. Nudity – Nudity Is God’s Creation (Cardinal Fuzz) | Bandcamp
06. Mugstar – Magnetic Sessions (Rock Action)
07. The Myrrors – Entranced Earth (Beyond Beyond Is Beyond) | Bandcamp
08. The Spacelords – Liquid Sun (Tonzonen) | Bandcamp
09. The Cosmic Dead – Rainbowhead (Paradigm) | Bandcamp
10. Mythic Sunship – Ouroboros (El Paraiso)
11. Hotel Wrecking City Traders – Phantamonium (Evil Hoodoo) | Bandcamp
12. Tranquonauts – Tranquonauts (La Bare)
13. Electric Eye – Different Sun (Jansen Plateproduksjon) | Bandcamp

11 Wretch - Wretch

A band that names itself after the first album of the band that started everything has some gigantic balls. Yes, we just assume they did that. Of course it also means miserable and unhappy. And we know it might also be because of the background of loss. But hey, let's assume for a moment that is was because of the godfather band, okay? And then naming your debut album after it as well, well, you’d better prove you are worth it. And they do. Beating the bands on Number 12 with a handful of points they received votes from many of you freaks out there. Doom metal, stoner rock and the gravity of loss. There is so much drama hidden in this record it seeps out with every riff and every guitar color. Born out of the demise of The Gates Of Slumber and born out of the loss of a close friend, the new power trio moves through seven tracks that memorize all the goodness of doom, heavy rock and the world of fuzz. Raw, heavy and emotional. Once again, we must state with a heavy heart that so much great stuff has to be born out of loss and good things coming to an end…

10 Sinister Haze – Laid Low in the Dust of Death
10 Geezer – Geezer

And now, entering the Top 10, we once again find two bands occupying that same spot. I guess there were just too many albums released in 2016 that were so freaking good! And yes, once again only a few points above Number 11 and both very different animals. One of them delivering one of the best cosmic stoner blues albums of the year and the other high octane psychedelic heaviness. Yet also very alike. Both of them lead the Doom Charts at one point and both of them have this outlaw quality to their music. You know, the soundtrack to a marauding herd speeding down the middle of the highway, tense for action, long hair in the wind, beards and bandanas flapping. Riffs that shine like filthy chrome and vocalists that run flat out through the eye of a beer can and up your daughter’s leg with no quarter asked and none given. Indeed, two bands that are here to show the squares some class and give’m a whiff of those kicks they’ll never know…

great lists! really enjoying the lucid dreams right now and looking forward to checking out more stuff

http://theobelisk.net/obelisk/2016/12/20/top-30-of-2016/

1. SubRosa, For this We Fought the Battle of Ages
2. Mars Red Sky, Apex III (Praise for the Burning Soul)
3. Gozu, Revival
4. Asteroid, III
5. Brant Bjork, Tao of the Devil
6. Greenleaf, Rise Above the Meadow
7. Wight, Love is Not Only What You Know
8. King Buffalo, Orion
9. Wo Fat, Midnight Cometh
10. Slomatics, Future Echo Returns
11. Mos Generator, Abyssinia
12. Elephant Tree, Elephant Tree
13. Zun, Burial Sunrise
14. Hexvessel, When We are Death
15. Fatso Jetson, Idle Hands
16. EYE, Vision and the Ageless Light
17. Geezer, Geezer
18. Baby Woodrose, Freedom
19. Conan, Revengeance
20. Neurosis, Fires Within Fires
21. Curse the Son, Isolator
22. The Golden Grass, Coming Back Again
23. Borracho, Atacama
24. Black Rainbows, Stellar Prophecy
25. 1000mods, Repeated Exposure To…
25a. Egypt, Endless Flight
26. Foghound, The World Unseen
27. Beelzefuzz, The Righteous Bloom
28. Droids Attack, Sci-Fi or Die
29. Comet Control, Center of the Maze
30. Talmud Beach, Chief
31. Blaak Heat, Shifting Mirrors
32. Truckfighters, V
33. West, Space & Love, Vol. II
34. Seedy Jeezus with Isaiah Mitchell, Tranquonauts
35. Yawning Man, Historical Graffiti
36. Causa Sui, Return to Sky
37. Vokonis, Olde One Ascending
38. Hotel Wrecking City Traders, Phantomonium
39. The Wounded Kings, Visions in Bone
40. It’s Not Night: It’s Space, Our Birth is but a Sleep and a Forgetting
41. Beastwars, The Death of all Things
42. Naxatras, II
43. Holy Grove, Holy Grove
44. Worshipper, Shadow Hymns
45. Wretch, Wretch
46. Colour Haze, Live Vol. I: Europa Tournee 2015
47. Zaum, Eidolon
48. Bellringer, Jettison
49. Young Hunter, Young Hunter
50. Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard, Y Proffwyd Dwyll

9 Dunsmuir – Dunsmuir

http://stonerhive.blogspot.com/2016/12/number-9.html

We pass Geezer and Sinister Haze on Number 10 with five points to reach the band on Number 9. An album, I must confess, that only pulled me in after the new listening sessions started when I saw the votes come in. Man, how could this have passed me by when it was released back in July. Seventies inspired hard rock with heavy metal colors and stoner trucking. And yes, it surely reminds of The Company Band and even Clutch. But then we know why, don’t we? Just as it has some Fu Manchu takes here and there and faster paced Sabbath song rhythms. And there’s a simple reason for that as well. Yes. If ever there was a supergroup, it is this. I just can’t fathom why the album did not grab me right away back then. Cause it did now. But then again, this also happened with Graveyard’s Hisingen Blues back in 2011, which became my favorite album of the year very fast after that. And these cats are now doing the very same thing! It should have been higher on the list! Or did this happen to a lot of you freaks out there? It should have been higher! But that’s just my opinion… My late to the party opinion…

http://outlawsofthesun.blogspot.com/2016/12/steve-howe-top-albums-of-2016.html

01. Geezer – Geezer
02. Cough – Still They Prey
03. Truckfighters – V
04. Elephant Tree – Elephant Tree
05. Brant Bjork – Tao Of The Devil
06. Haast's Eagled – II: For Mankind
07. Slomatics –Future Echo Returns
08. Slow Green Thing – II
09. Slabdragger – Rise Of The Dawncrusher
10. Kvelertak – Nattesferd
11. Holy Serpent – Temples
12. House Of Lightning – House Of Lightning
13. Comacozer – Astra Planeta
14. Demonauta – Tierra Del Fuego
15. Year Of The Cobra – In The Shadows Below
16. Conan – Revengeance
17. Mars Red Sky – Apex III (Praise For The Burning Soul)
18. Vokonis – Olde One Ascending
19. High Fighter – Scars & Crosses
20. Domkraft - The End Of Electricity
21. Greenleaf – Meadow
22. Borracho – Atacama
23. Wo Fat – Midnight Cometh
24. Sourvein – Aquatic Occult
25. Megatherium – Superbeast

8 Wo Fat - Midnight Cometh

Dunsmuir on Number 9, has been on repeat ever since our renewed acquaintance. And with a definite moment of pain we move on to the next band. But only for a moment ofcourse. For the cats on Number 8 have been riding high on the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown with many of their earlier releases, and it was only logical this one would make it as well. Number 1 in 2014. Number 13 in 2012. Number 8 in 2009 and now once again in 2016. Swampedelic as ever, it is their blues rock based heavy psychedelic doom and stoner metal sounds that we simply can’t live without. It is heavier, darker and doomier than ever before. But just as epic and just as grand. There is absolutely nothing wrong with his album or out of place. Or perhaps, perhaps, track two should have opened the record. Cause it shines through like a true mission statement. ‘We live by the old ways, we know what came before. Build ourselves a purple haze. We are the Riffborn’. Right on! It’s all happening man. It’s all happening!