Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Ocean Of Ghosts - Loss and Numbness

Ocean Of Ghosts was created in the fall of 2008 and comes from the mind, mouth, and fingertips of Forrest Cutrer. Based in Tempe, Arizona, Ocean Of Ghosts traverses the sonic landscape and enters a world where sound and physical being exist as one tangible entity.

The first album, “Life In The Desert,” is a half-hour long single track, stretching across noise, ambient, drone, and doom metal, invoking the mind-numbing depression of burning to death in a hell on Earth. A firm believer in the freedom of music, Forrest has taken to placing burned copies of this album in various spots for free around town, and offers to send a free copy to anyone who asks for one via the Ocean Of Ghosts Myspace page.

(Taken from Last.fm)

Mix the droning parts of The Angelic Process with the atmospheric ambient soundscapes of Nadja and add some good black metalish growls to the cocktail and you get this beast. Enjoy!



Tracklist
1. Nona
2. Alone, by the Sea
3. Forgotten
4. Death
5. The Sun (End)


Peter Broderick & Machinefabriek - Blank Grey Canvas Sky

Rotterdam’s Rutger Zuydervelt has previously worked with Peter Broderick on the Machinefabriek 3”CD Huis, although for this collaboration there’s a more even distribution of work. Zuydervelt’s heavily processed drone-weaving is countered by luscious acoustic instrumentation, but importantly, none of it feels tacked on, and these two prolific artists make a good job of integrating their respective approaches. It’s actually a very natural collaboration: while Machinefabriek often converges on the classical and cinematic, Broderick’s instrumental music is rendered with a discerning producer’s ear. After an introductory splash of droning atmospherics on ‘Departure’, the follow-up track, ‘Planes’ takes on a more classical sound, featuring Broderick’s urgent, Philip Glass-like piano riffing and a wordless, hummed vocal that gels into the swirling Zuydervelt soundscape. Possibly the finest piece on the whole set, ‘Kites’ operates in a similar fashion, with loose, impressionistic key-work and distant strings melting seamlessly into an electroacoustic sonic environment. It’s like a hallucinated symphony orchestra drifting across airwaves before slowly disintegrating into bad reception by the piece’s oddly poignant end. Marking a slight change in direction, ‘Rain’ features vocals (a duet between Peter and Susanna Lundgren) and acoustic guitar while contact-miced rainfall forms the basis of a backdrop. An altogether more experimental, radio-based sound collage, ‘Blank Grey’ is predominantly electronic and relatively severe, using acoustic instruments as a brooding, mysterious background while cut-up speech fragments and broadcast signals populate the mix.

(Taken from Last.fm)



Tracklist
1. Departure
2. Planes
3. Kites
4. Rain
5. Blank Grey
6. Homecoming


Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Agalloch - The Silence of Forgotten Landscapes (DVD-R)

First-ever DVD from the mighty Agalloch. The main feature of this DVD is a show recorded on March 29, 2008 in Belgium -- eight tracks culled from the band's three albums to date, totaling over 70 minutes. Features another 50 minutes of extra material, which includes about 10 minutes of original music written and performed by John Haughm. [By request of the band, $2.50 of each DVD sale will be donated to a nature preservation society that protects parts of northern Belgium and southern Holland.]




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Monday, December 7, 2009

Monkey3 - Undercover

Monkey 3 - Monkey3 are a “Psyco-stoner” band from Switzerland.
They began to play music together just as a jamming community in 2001. The stoner-vibe of music fastly was the one to play by everybody because of all their musical intentions.

The band is formed as a quartet, Picasso - Bass, Walter - Drums, Boris - Guitar and dB - Keys.

In 2004 they released their first selftitled album. A great instrumental release that was and still is widely appreciated. They performed on different stages through Europe (as headliner and support for SNO, Honcho, Sparzanza, Hypnos69, Ozric Tentacles, Colour Haze, etc, … and on festivals like Buzzfest and Stoned from the Underground).

(Taken from Last.fm)




Tracklist
1. Numb
2. Watching you (Feat. John Garcia)
3. One of these Days
4. Kashmir (Feat. Tony Jelencovich)
5. Burn
6. Once upon a Time in the West


Horisont - Två Sidor Av Horisonten

Yes, another Swedish 70’s inspired hard rock band! I guess Sweden ranks no. 1 in the world when it comes to this genre. Horisont picks up where Witchcraft and Graveyard laid down the cornerstones and they are out on Crusher Records who also nurses Dead Man. So if you’re a sucker for music inspired by Pentagram, Blue Cheer and what not … and you dig denim and long haired guys this is a kick ass record. Horisont is all about blues rock and boogie with heavy riffing and long guitar solos. But also more Sabbath’ish inspiration may be heard in “The Unseen” which gives you everything from doomy atmosphere and slow riffing to beauty parts with killer vocal. Half the songs are with Swedish lyrics giving a cool feel to the songs and “Du Röde” is an ultra slow and emotional track giving you the special Swedish touch also known from a band like Svarta Pan. Killer new band!

If you dig: Witchcraft, Graveyard, Dead Man

(Taken from Last.fm)



Tracklist
1. Nightrider
2. Just ain't right
3. High Time
4. The Unseen
5. Oh, my Lord
6. Horisont Boogie
7. Du Rode
8. Visa Vagen
9. Tiggaren
10. Efter min Pipa


Saturday, December 5, 2009

Karma to Burn - Discography

Karma to Burn is an American instrumental stoner rock band. The band was formed in 1994, in Hicksville, WV (actually Morgantown, WV, though this was a running joke also reflected in bios of the band on other Web sites).

Their instrumental album Almost Heathen is widely regarded as on par Kyuss’ Welcome To Sky Valley and Monster Magnet’s Spine of God, as one of the defining albums of the stoner rock genre, although the band themselves referred to their style as malternative.

The band was renown for their live performances and former Kyuss singer John Garcia was a big fan and even tried to sing with the band, however this didn’t bear much fruit as he did not have the time to become a full-time member and Karma to Burn itself wasn’t sure his voice fitted in their music.

Karma To Burn refused to give their songs ordinary titles, instead referring to them by numbers, which allegedly made it easier for a dyslexic band member to read setlists.

The group quietly disbanded in 2002 after bassist Rich Mullins left to play full time in Speedealer.

The band reformed in 2009.

(Taken from Last.fm)




Regular Studio Albums


Karma to Burn - Almost Heathen (2001)


Tracklist
1. Nineteen
2. Thirty Eight
3. Thirty Four
4. Thirty Seven
5. Thirty Nine
6. Thirty Six
7. Thirty Three
8. Thirty Five
9. Five
10. Forty





Karma to Burn - Wild, Wonderful...Purgatory (1999)


Tracklist
1. Twenty
2. Twenty Eight
3. Thirty
4. Thirty One
5. Twenty Nine
6. Thirty Two
7. Twenty Five
8. Twenty Six
9. One
10. Three
11. Seven
12. Eight


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Karma to Burn - Karma to Burn (1997)

Tracklist
1. Ma petite mort
2. Bobbi, Bobbi, Bobbi...I'm not
3. Patty Hearst's Closet Mantra
4. Mt. Penetrator
5. Eight
6. Appalachian Woman
7. Twenty Four Hours
8. Six-Gun Sucker Punch
9. Thirteen
10. (Waltz of the) Playboy Pallbea
11. Twin Sisters and half a Bottle
12. Six


Friday, December 4, 2009

Alcest & Les Discrets - Split

Alcest

Formed in 1999 by French black metal multi-instrumentalist Neige (who also worked with Peste Noire, Mortifera, and Amesoeurs), Alcest was originally conceived as a solo project. It would eventually take on the form of a full band as Hegnor (also of Peste Noire) and Arguth joined the fray and released a four-track demo entitled Tristesse Hivernale in 1999. This demo was a more straightforward black metal affair, much different from what would happen next. After that released, Alcest returned to a one-member format, with Neige moving away from the metal overtones of the three-piece and embracing a more atmospheric approach to his work. The 2005 EP release, Le Secret, was more in tune with the project`s ultimate goal, which was to put to ear, as it were, Neige`s fascination with an “otherworld” — of sorts — that had held a fascination for him beginning in his childhood. In 2007, Neige released the first full-length Alcest recording, Souvenirs D`un Autre Monde (Memories of Another World, for those keeping up in English), which was released on Prophecy Productions, and was a critical success. 2007 also saw a split-EP release with Angmar.

Les Discrets

Les Discrets is a shoegaze, post-rock, experimental, acoustic project. It is the sole musical creation of Fursy Teyssier who also played in Amesoeurs and has created artwork for other bands including Peste Noire, Alcest, Amesoeurs, Arctic Plateau, Neun Welten,The American Dollar…

Several songs have been made available on the Les Discrets myspace page, but there have been no releases.

The debut release (E.P.) was expected to be released by UK label Todestrieb Records but the deal is cancelled for another label.




Tracklist
1. Alcest - Percees de Lumiere
2. Alcest - Circe Poisoning the Sea
3. Les Discrets - L'echapee
4. Les Discrets - Apres l'ombre
5. Les Discrets - Song for Mountains (Demo)


Thursday, December 3, 2009

Los Natas - Discography

Los Natas propose a journey made of basic elements: valvular equipment and vintage instruments, they incorporate the use of the senses and perception of the listener as a part of a sonic trip. They make music that changes constantly, supported by long jams that give them a different meaning every time they execute them having that way a sense of freedom in the way of interpreting the sounds, making this experience extremely related to the sensations that both the musicians and the audience receive every time a show begins.

Since 1998, the music industry noticed the existence of bands with this musical influences spread around the globe. The scene was growing with the edition of CDs and vinyls emerging as a new culture under global codes: the same love for music and the sound. As an answer to the mainstream it began this new trend under the name of stoner rock. Nowadays the sound and music of Natas goes beyond this classification, with the incorporation of Argentine folk instruments and the creation of ambiance which makes the classification of the band in one genre very difficult.

Los Natas toured around the United States (1998/99/00), Europe (2003/04) where they shared stages with important bands of the genre such as Queens Of The Stone Age, Nebula, Men Of Porn, Unida, Dozer, Circle, Colour Haze, Brant Bjork & His Bros., among others. They have been doing a bunch of theme oriented gigs/festival that where created by them called Viernes Verdes (Green Fridays) that has had 10 editions so far and it takes place in Buenos Aires’s main theaters

(Read more at Last.fm)




Regular Studio Albums


Los Natas - El Nuevo Orden de la Libertad (2009)
 
Tracklist
1. Las Campanadas
2. El Nuevo Orden de la Libertad
3. Resistiendo el Dolor
4. Hombre de Metal
5. Ganar - perder
6. El Pastizal
7. David & Goliath
8. Bienvenidos
9. 10.000
10. Dos Horses





Los Natas - Universo Perdido (2007)

Tracklist
CD I
1. Amame Petiribi
2. Barridos por el Viento
3. Collar de Perro
4. Born to be Wild
5. Sequenze e Frequenze
6. Allen's Wrench
7. Paranoid


CD II
1. Bodokentorten
2. Corriendo el la Montana
3. Tiempos Violentos
4. Highway Sun
5. Division Miami
6. El Convoy
7. Xanadu
8. El Pappo
9. Remember...
10. Ride with me





Los Natas - El Hombre Montana (2006)

Tracklist
1. El bolsero
2. Amanecer blanco
3. No es lo mismo
4. Humo negro del Vaticano
5. La espada en la piedra
6. El ciervo
7. El camino de Dios
8. De las cenizas, el hombre
9. El soldado
10. Lanza ganado
11. Sigue, sigue





Los Natas - Toba Trance II (2004)

Tracklist
1. Tomatito
2. Traicion en el arrocero
3. Matogrosso
4. Humo de marihuana
5. La sepa
6. Que rico





Los Natas - Toba Trance I (2004)

Tracklist
1. La Tierra del Fin
2. Que Rico
3. Die Possime
4. Tormenta Mental (Hawkwind Cover)





Los Natas - Corsario Negro (2002)

Tracklist
1. 2002
2. Planeta Solitario
3. Patas de Elefante
4. El Cono del Encono
5. Lei Motive
6. Hey Jimmy
7. Contemplando la Niebla
8. Bumburi
9. Americano
10. El Gauchito
11. Corsario Negro





Los Natas - Ciudad de Brahman

Tracklist
1. Carl Sagan 1
2. Meteoro 2028
3. Tufi Meme
4. La Ciudad de Brahman
5. Sliuettle
6. Brisa del Desierto
7. Paradise
8. Alohawaii
9. Adolscentes
10. 999
11. Resplandor
12. Rutation
13. Polvareda
14. Nadha





Los Natas - Delmar

Tracklist
1. Samurai
2. 1980
3. Trilogia
4. I love you
5. Soma
6. Mux Cortoi
7. Delmar
8. Windblows
9. El Negro
10 .Alberto Migre



Live Recordings


Los Natas - Live en Berlin (2003)

Tracklist
1. Carl Sagan
2. Tufi Meme
3. La Ciudad de Brahman
4. El Cono del Encono
5. Que Rico
6. Tormenta Mental
7. El Gobernador I
8. El Gobernador II
9. Meteoro 2028
10. Polverado
11. Soma
12. Corsario Negro
13. Patas de Elefante





Los Natas - Live en Ginebra (2005)

Tracklist
1. Tufi Meme
2. Ciudad de Brahman
3. El Cono del Encono
4. Meteoro 2028
5. Agatha (El Bolsero)
6. No es lo mismo
7. Soma
8. Bumburi
9. Tormenta Mental
10. Planeta Solitario
11. Patas de Elefante





Los Natas - Live en Strasbourg (2005)

Tracklist
1. Traición en el Arrocero (Tomatito)
2. El Cono del Encono
3. Tufi Meme
4. La Ciudad de Brahman
5. El Bolsero
6. No  es lo mismo

7. Contemplando la Niebla
8. Bumburi
9. Rutation
10. Soma
11. Meteoro 2028 (La Tierra Delfin)
12. Patas de Elefante
13. Planeta Solitario
14. De las Cenizas, el Hombre...



 Split EP's / EP's


 Los Natas / Cabron - Split

Tracklist
1. Los Natas - Allen's Wrench
2.  Highway Sun
3. Cabron - Burden
4. Cabron - Parasending
5. Backlash





Los Natas / Dragonauta - Split

Tracklist
1. Los Natas - Xanadu
2. Los Natas - El Pappo
3. Los Natas - El Convoy
4. Los Natas -  Tiempos Vielentos
5. Dragonauta - Astroinfierno
6. Dragonauta - Hombre Monstruo
7. Dragonauta - Guardian del Hongo 
8. Dragonauta - Profeta del Mar





Viaje A 800 & Los Natas - Split

Tracklist
1. Los Natas - El Gobernador I
2. Los Natas - El Gobernador II
3. Viaje A 800 - Higomon
4. Viaje A 800 - Solo
5. Viaje A 800 - Imensia






Los Natas - El Cono del Encono


Tracklist
1. El Cono del Encono







Los Natas - Livin' la Weeda Loca


Tracklist
1. Xanadu
2. El Pappo
3. Tiempos Violentos
4. Bodokentorten
5. El Convoy







Los Natas - Tormenta Mental y Paranoico


Tracklist
1. Tormenta Mental
2. Paranoico





Los Natas - Unreleased Dopes


Tracklist
1. Meteoro 2028
2. Corriendo en la Montania
3. Highway Sun
4. Brisa del Desierto
5. Asteroides
6. Division Miami
7. Viento Dorado
8. El Resplandor
9. Alohawaii




Misc. Stuff


Los Natas - Apaga la Tele

Tracklist
1. Amame Petiribi
2. Como el viento voy a ver
3. Post-Crucifixion
4. Contemplando la Niebla




Los Natas - La Cosa Nostra


Tracklist
1. Presentacion
2. Polvaerdo
3. Meteoro 2028
4. Entrvista I
5. 2002 - Planeta Solitario
6. Entravista II
7. Contemplando la niebla - Bumburi.

8. El Cono del Encono
9. Patas de Elefante
10. Entravista III





Los Natas - Mal Elemento


Tracklist
1. Presentacion
2. La Tierra Delfin
3. Contemplando la Niebla
4. Bumburi
5. Entrevista
6. Nuevo
7. Humo de Marihuana
8. Meteoro 2028
9. Ending







Los Natas - Sucking the 70s


Tracklist
1. Los Natas - Brainstorm


Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Eyehategod - Discography

Eyehategod (also abbreviated and referred to as EHG) is an American sludge band from New Orleans, Louisiana who are known for their dark, sludgy riffs combined with equally dark lyrics. Like many sludge metal bands, Eyehategod draw on both stoner rock / doom metal influences as well as hardcore punk. Formed in 1988.

Eyehategod have noted Melvins, Black Flag, Saint Vitus and Black Sabbath as key influences to their sound. This, combined with heavy, detuned, and bluesy riffs dominate the band’s sound. They are combined with walls of feedback and distinctive tortured vocals to create a truly misanthropic vibe.

While Jimmy Bower was busy playing drums for Down, rather than sit on their laurels, the other 4 members of Eyehategod formed a side-project called Outlaw Order (abbreviated to OO%). The band released a limited edition 7” EP in 2003 called Legalize Crime, which has since been rereleased on CD with a bonus live track and is available through Eyehategod’s webstore. The criminal theme is apparently because at the time of formation, all 5 of the members were on probation, and have consistently been in trouble with the law. Marc Shultz is currently serving a prison sentence and so has been replaced by Justin Grisoli. The band have recorded their 13 track debut full-length and will release it sometime soon, they are “waiting for a label worth a fuck”.

(Taken from Last.fm)




Regular Studio Albums


Eyehategod - Preaching the "End-Time" Message (2005)

Tracklist
1. Methamphetamine
2. Serving Time in the middle of nowhere
3. Sabbath Jam
4. Age of Bootcamp
5. I am the Gestapo
6. Jackass in the will of God (Live)
7. Revolution Revelation (Live)
8. International Narcotic
9. 36 Beers and a Ball of String
10. Turn troubled Tables





Eyehategod - Southern Discomfort (2000)

Tracklist
1. Ruptured Heart Theory
2. Story of the Eye
3. Blank - Shoplift
4. Southern Discomfort
5. Serving Time in the middle of Nowhere
6. Lack of almost everything
7. Peace thru War (Thru Peace and War)
8. Depress
9. Dopesick Jam





Eyehategod - Confederacy of Ruined Lives (2000)

Tracklist
1. Revelation - Revolution
2. Blood Money
3. Jack Ass in the Will of God
4. Self Medication Blues
5. The Concussion Machine Process
6. Inferior and full of Anxiety
7. 001%
8. 99 Miles of bad Road
9. Last Year (she wanted a Doll House)
10. Corruption Sheme





Eyehategod - Dopesick (1996)

Tracklist
1. My Name is God (I hate you)
2. Dogs Holy Life
3. Masters of Legalized Confusion
4. Dixie Whiskey
5. Ruptured Heart Theory
6. Non Coductive Negative Reasoning
7. Lack of almost everything
8. Zero Nowhere
9. Metamphetamine
10. Peace thru War (Thru Peace and War)
11. Broken down but not locked up
12. Anxiety Hangover





Eyehategod - Take as needed for Pain (1993)

Tracklist
1. Bland
2. Sister Fucker Part I
3. Shop Lift
4. White Nigger
5. 30$ Bag
6. Disturbance
7. Take as needed for Pain
8. Sister Fucker Part II
9. Crimes against Skin
10. Kill your Boss
11. Who Gave her the Roses
12. Laugh it off





Eyehategod - In the Name of Suffering (1992)

Tracklist
1. Depress
2. Man is too Ignorant to Exist
3. Shinobi
4. Pigs
5. Run it into the Ground
6. Godsong
7. Children of God
8. Left to Starve
9. Hostility Dose
10. Hit a Girl



Split EP's


Cripple Bastards / Eyehategod - Split

Tracklist
1. Cripple Bastards - Self Zeroing
2. Eyehategod - I am the Gestapo





Anal Cunt / Eyehategod - Split

Tracklist
1. Anal Cunt - Killing yourself to live
2. Anal Cunt - It's Allright Sabra Cadabra
3. Eyehategod - Sabbath Jam


Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Mouth of the Architect - Discography

Mouth of the Architect is an American atmospheric sludge metal band from Dayton, Ohio, creating music influenced by and similar to Neurosis, Isis, Pelican, Cult of Luna, and various post-metal bands.

The band formed in 2003 with the lineup of Jason Watkins, Gregory Lahm, Dave Mann, Alex Vernon and Derik Sommer.

They released their first album Time & Withering in 2004 to positive reviews.

Soon after the band released a split with label mates Kenoma in 2006, their second album The Ties That Blind was released in August, and featured Brent Hinds of Mastodon on guest vocals on one track. To support The Ties That Blind, the band toured extensively around the United States, first with These Arms Are Snakes in late 2006, then with 400 Blows and Unsane in May and June of 2007.

Their latest album, Quietly, was recorded after Lahm in turn left the band, with Vernon returning alongside newcomer Steve Brooks to jointly handle guitars and vocals, with Kevin Schindel providing bass. Soon after the release of the album by Translation Loss Records, Vernon left yet again, with Schindel filling the guitar void.

Schindel, Vernon, and Brooks have been members of the band Twelve Tribes at various points in the past.

Current lineup consists:

Jason Watkins - vocal, keyboards, samples;
Steve Brooks - guitar, vocal;
Kevin Schindel - guitar, vocal (Dead Blue Sky, Twelve Tribes);
Dave Mann - drums (Rune).

(Taken from Last.fm)




Regular Studio Albums


Mouth of the Architect - Quietly (2008)

Tracklist
1. Quietly
2. Hate and Heartache
3. Pine Boxes
4. Guilt and the Like
5. Generation of Ghosts
6. Rocking Chairs and Shogtuns
7. Medicine
8. A beautiful Corpse





Mouth of the Architect - The Ties that Bind (2006)

Tracklist
1. Baobab
2. No one wished to settle here
3. Carry on
4. Harboring an Apparition
5. At Arms length
6. Wake me when it's over




Mouth of the Architect - Time and Withering (2004)

Tracklist
1. A Vivid Chaos
2. Soil to Stone
3. Heart Eaters
4. The Worm



Split EP's


Mouth of the Architect / Kenoma - Split (2006)

Tracklist
1. Mouth of the Architect - Sleepwalk Powder
2. Kenoma - The Nature of the Empire
3. Kenoma - 1913