The Skull Defekts - The Drone Drug

Drone Drug's sound is about as welcome as a kick to the groin, and it succeeds on that very fact alone. ENJOOOOY!!!

The Drone Drug

Psyche Out: Don Bradshaw-Leather - Distance Between Us

Dark Psychedelia will be the name of the game around here for a little bit, and I wanted to start things out with an enigmatic album that I just recently stumbled upon: Don Bradshaw and a gal named Leather's soul-occult psyche freakout from '72. It's difficult to even describe this. I can only say it is haunting, powerful, horrific, insane, beautiful....I could go on but I think I'll stop right there. Do some research on this guy, it's fascinating the conjecture and mythology that people go into. Does no one actually know who this was?!? Anyway, I've been listening to these youtube clips the past few daze and I advise you to do the same. No link, but music this ephemeral should not sit on your computer anyway, it should settle deep in your mind only to come alive during those darkest moments when surreality can offer the only escape.

Gravity - The Window To The Unknown

Sci-fi grinding madness that has some wonderfully alien riffing...Gravity mix it up a bit with clean guitar passages and unpredictable song structures...Czech out the grim head-destroying cycle of insanity that is the last 3 minutes of Suffocate Yourself. Holy Shit!!!

The Window To The Unknown

Pessimist - Longaevus

More of what I'm christening Czech-Tech (clever, eh) from a couple of the dudes responsible for the Mindfuck that is Mindwork. Pessimist (def not to be confused with the American band, or the million other bands named as such) play a sparser more sparkling brand of jazz inflected death than their sister band. The album has a whole alien ecological theme going on and at times sounds like the death metal soundtrack to an Outer Limits or Psi-Factor episode (anyone remember that show?) I think these guys like Sadist a whole lot, cuz I'm picking up on a similarly chilling atmosphere that those Italians do so well...airy, slightly atonal keyboards...fusion lead guitar, catchy not overly complex rhythms, and a warm fretless bass tone that complements things so nicely. Pair this one with that Mindwork album and you can't miss.

Longaevus

Master's Hammer - Šlágry

When all were gone but two - wildness was wrought
RIO in spirit - blackness in their hearts
Genres come and go - styles flitter past
Somehow they even managed to blast Chuck Berry in the ass!
So if you want your metal with a bit of pedigree
Czech out this guilty pleasure - magnum opus - called Slagry

Slagry

Ital Tek - Midnight Colour

Warm and sexy beats.  Perfect for those nights when all you want to do is bake.

Midnight Colour