BRAINOIL's self-titled debut, released in 2003 via Life Is Abuse Records, was one of the best sludge records of that decade. One of the reasons for this is that BRAINOIL know how to write memorable songs without losing the uncomfortable attitude that is so important for this kind of heavy music...
BABY WOODROSE (Mindblowing Seeds And Disconnected Flowers) LP/CD
Apr/26/2011
This is a great collection to cut your teeth on and if you have a craving for BABY WOODROSE like me, you can't go wrong with 'Mindblowing Seeds And Disconnected Flowers'. Here, we have a total of fifteen superbly played full-blown 1960's psychedelic garage rock cuts that Lorenzo Woodrose had recorded before the release of the first BABY WOODROSE record 'Blows Your Mind'...
For some people BLOOD CEREMONY is the greatest thing since sliced bread and I am quite sure that the same people won't be disappointed by the band's second record 'Living With The Ancients'. BLOOD CEREMONY stick to their concept: once again, they take the listener on a trip to a doomy world of sound, reaching from acid folk to progressive and heavy rock...
The title of BLACK LAND's second album is more than just an indication of their musical direction. Admittedly I would replace the word 'extreme' here by 'doom', and then we have a substantially better description of their heavy sound...
BRUCE LAMONT (Feral Songs For The Epic Decline) CD
Jan/19/2011
Bruce Lamont's first solo album is absolutely beautiful. One gets the impression that it is partly grounded in the shamanistic heritage of Native American culture...
This is not the next black metal band from Scandinavia, but guitarist Darryl Shepard, one-time member of bands such as Hackman, Roadaw and Milligram. Obviously, he felt the need to record his first solo album that turned out surprisingly experimental...
Back then in 1985, I can well imagine that BLACK HOLE does not attract a lot of attention. It was the time when hardcore punk and thrash metal dominated the rebellious musical word of most adolescents...
Once again Small Stone Records demonstrate their ability for releasing albums that actually do not fit the rest of the label program. BLACK SLEEP OF KALI have virtually nothing in common with 1970's heavy rock, although they also prefer huge riffs...
If there is indeed a New Wave of German Kraut Rock, as I just read something about Neo Kraut, then Beehover should easily be the top of that movement. And that is because these guys are a) from Germany and b) just fucking rule with their sometimes progressive sometimes a bit psychedelic Heavy Rock...
'Twilight Of The Gods' is definitely my favourite Bathory album, but except for the album title there is no further common ground between Tomas 'Quorthon' Forsberg and the Glasgow-based trio BLACK SUN. There is no nordic mythology, instead BLACK SUN confront the listener with the blackest depths of human existence on their sixth studio record, which has been released in 2010 by Future Noise Recordings in partnership with Head Of Crom Records...
