Happy Belated 420/Easter et al

damn I missed posting this on 4/20 but was preoccupied with gettin highwith Jesus and the easter bunny and that whole crew and eating those damn delicious peeps and sucking the marrow out a cadbury egg

Kinetic Dissent - I Will Fight No More Forever

An absolute landmark of atmospheric thrash.

I Will Fight No More Forever

Dwarr - Starting Over

Speaking of The Mezmerist's drug-addled Black Sabbath worship, how about Dwarr's debut from '85? Parts of this sound like Planet Caravan...parts sound like The Flying Luttenbachers...the ultimate WTF album.

Starting Over

Pentagram - Relentless

Can't stop listening to this one.

Relentless

Vermonster - Spirit of Yma

Fuck me I like this smess, I really do! So crazy that it's working.

Spirit of Yma

Ash Ra Tempel - Seven Up

Soundtrack to an LSD trip, featuring the cruise director himself Dr. Timothy Leary.

Heads UP Seven Up

Skullflower - Birthdeath ep

Early Skullflower…this easily sits beside IIIrd Gatekeeper and Exquisite Fucking Boredom as my fav of Matt Bower’s malevolent hippie drone consortium. 

Birthdeath

Enslaved - Monumension

My 2nd fav Enslaved album featuring the indomitable Dirge Rep on skins.  Can you spot the 8 items?

Monumenskin

Why Don't They Make Music Videos Like This Anymore?

Rowsdower - Demo 2011

I just found out about this stoner-psyche band from the good ol' STL. That they call themselves Rowsdower (after the infamous character Zap from MST3K's riff-tastic treatment of oddball Canadian cult fav The Final Sacrifice) is just the icing on the cake. Great guitar work, really cool stuff!
Download the full demo provided by the band here.

Graveland Anno 2012

Check out these new pictures of Rob Darken acting a nut. That guy sure knows how to have a good time...what's he battling there, some kind of mythical antelope? Damn I'd love to do some shrooms with that guy, talk about a hoot!

 

 

Siren - The Calling...

Posted this one a while back, but it deserves special mention once again. Stumbling, bumbling doomy black metal that sounds like a collection of Countess B-sides. If that description doesn't make you hit the link immediately, then I'm afraid you have good taste and virtue and there is absolutely no hope for you. What's your stalling...er, I mean calling?

The Stalling

Katharsis - The Red Eyes Of Wrath

Someone get Wrath some Visine, he's high as a kite for chrissake!
Orthodox and punishing German totalitarianism, about as pleasant as a knife to the grundles.

Red Eyes

Oh, and definitely check out this girl's blog for some other borderline illustrations like the one above (I might be too harsh, I definitely love the "Wrath" illustration haha)

Android Empire - Android Empire

Death'n'roll as played by sentient automatons. Very much like later Entombed, but with a really nice melodic dm vibe (I can hear a tiny bit of vintage In Flames). You really can't go wrong with this one.

Android Empire

Tiamat - The Astral Sleep

Happy 420 everyone, on this most glorious of holidaze I must boast of this classick death metal album. Nowadays Tiamat is not exactly death metal, in fact they are not metal at all, playing more of a gothick cock rock. However back in 1991 Tiamat were playing ultra-glorious dirty death! Sounding like Mortuary Drape meeting Ophthalamia in a dark crypt, these songs have absolute perfect pacing...not toooo aggressive, just stuff you can headbang to. So go ahead and light one up, crank up Ancient Entity and let the good times roll.

The Astral Sleep

Steel Mammoth - The Kingdom Of The Golden Hammer

This record has been described as a mixture of "The Cult, Manilla Road, Voivod, uh, Dire Straits, the new Darkthrone, and Judas Priests's earliest, more psychedelic stuff (Rocka Rolla)." and I'm gonna go ahead and add ZZ Top into that casserole as well. Bake on high with the right ingredients and you'll be glowing like a radiated coyote in the clear desert night.

The Kingdom Of The Golden Hammer

Ophthalamia - Via Dolorosa

A twisting tortuous journey through the mind of Swedish midget upstart Tony Sarka aka "It"and his regular sized pal "ALL"...the duo perhaps best known for the psychopathic sounds of Abruptim, and many other lesser black metal acts (Vondur, War, etc...).  Ophthalamia is definitely the most musically interesting of their projects, being a doomy and weird take on black metal (probably more traditional heavy metal than black). Now and then I'm reminded of a cruder version of Root's Kargeras...mostly because both albums deal with telling the story of self-created fantasyworlds. Prog and Folk influences pop up every now and then, but Via Dolorosa maintains a dank and dirty, lugubriously melancholic atmosphere...the perfect soundtrack to this time of year when things are starting to thaw, but everything is still dead.
Speaking of dead, you will be if you spell "Ophthalamia" wrong; a warning from It..."We will kill them so bad that they will probably die.  I am so sick and tired of all the stupid idiots that can not spell right to the mighty word of Ophtalamia...Uppsss...My light saber will cut through their flesh like hot butter through a knife. And they will regret then, when they are dead, that they did not pay more attention."

Via Dolorosa

Lamented Souls - The Origins Of Misery

Grade A Candlemass worship from a group of capable Norwegians, many of whom went on to play in bands of some notoriety.  Perfect for late night bong rips and doom dancin'.

Lamented Skoals

Psychotic Waltz - Into the Everflow

Buddy Lackey and crew's second album.  If these guys were on drugs I want to know what kind and where I can get alot if it.

Into The Everflow