Bury me under the skies of Upsala..........................

This is a killer demo from St. Erik. If you remember I posted their full-length release earlier this year.
Massive stoner/doom with fat catchy riffs, which you won't forget!

St. Erik - 2007 - Upsala (Demo)
(thx to Ilbrujo)

Back from the shadows........

Here's a special treat for ya'll...This next post goes out to my Southern brother, Devildowninga...

You can get the description here.
You can check em' out here.
Buy this.. By all means, buy this.

This also includes the bonus 35 minute "banter" disc. All in beautiful 320...

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Digging up the dirt.........

I want to say sorry to all the Swampers for my absence. Life happens.... Anyways, here's a request fill for a repost. This band is personal friends of the Sludge Swamp. If You like your sludge filthy dirty with lots of low end and reverb, crank this up...

"Started in 2004 out of the smoking ashes of Sweet Willy Rollbar as a 6 piece playing heavy slow noisy sludge, heavily influenced by bands like Corrupted, Harvey Milk, Melvins, Floor, etc. Our 2nd guitarist left after 6 months and we carried on as a 5 piece. We have shared the stage with many great bands and people like: Moho, Unearthly Trance, Ramesses, HSML, Electrozombies, Reverend Bizarre, Toner Low, Lahar (Tekhton), Heavy Lord, Griz, Versus The Stillborn Minded and many more."

Check em' out here.

Mary Bell - Self Titled

Psychedelic alchemy................

"If you take the vocals of Zappa/Beefheart/Stack Waddy and Lemmy,with the music chops/jamming of QMS(happy Trails),Hawkwind,Edgar Broughton Band,Airplane's(bless it's pointed little head),ZZ Top,Zappa,Beefheart(trout Mask Replica)and all the other important albums of the past few decades,mix them all up,you'll get Endless Boogie. 79 minutes of pure bliss.
I also reckon it would make the perfect soundtrack...God knows what the film would turn out like,but it would be a classic.
In my desert island 5 cd pick,I'd take 5 copies of Focus Level, I might just wear them out one by one." (by Jeremy Zukowski "jerryzed")

ZZ-Topish psychedelic blues...sounds interesting.

Band's MySpace

Endless Boogie - 2008 - Focus Level
(thx to Porn)

Master Fenriz strikes again …

This Fenriz is “that” Fenriz from Darkthrone, but the blow he gave is not at all by means of old Norse swords and more or less raw-ish black metal.
Last July I had posted a fine compilation prepared by Fenriz for the blog A Fist in the Face of God (here). That compilation was called Trapped Under Vice Vol. I (here) and collected some killer samples from mostly “historical”, plus some excellent modern, black-death-thrash bands. That comp was more or less in the line with Fenriz’s music style.
The fruitful collaboration between Fenriz and that blog is going on. Fenriz goes on making collections on the music from which directly or indirectly he took inspiration. But the next fruit of this collaboration and collection is amazingly beautiful and incredible, seen the type of music normally produced by the man.
The compilation is called Trapped Under Vice Vol. II and the theme is “a collection of the stuff that had inspired the people who had inspired Fenriz to make music”.
Fenriz is the reference music man of the blog and for these compilation he appears as Fenriz DJ V.K.O.M (Vast Knowledge Of Music).
Here is the tracklist of the comp, which is a sort of time travel to the rock of the 60’s and 70’s, all across the globe from Iceland to Australia, as Fenriz himself commented on the blog. The sounds are rather heavy and the whole lot starts “with a leftfield-ish track to throw off the posers”. Lol!

Track listing:

1. Fever Tree (USA) 'Filigree & Shadow' (1968)
2. Ice Cross (Iceland) 'Jesus Freaks' (1978)
3. Caravan (UK) 'Cecil Rons' (and it's RONS not RUNS) (1968)
4. Gun (UK) 'Race with the Devil' (1968)
5. Spooky Tooth (UK) 'Better by You, Better Than Me' (1969)
6. Lucifer's Friend (Germany/UK) 'Lucifer's Friend' (1970)
7. Cactus (USA) 'Parchman Farm' (1970)
8. Scorpion (USA) 'Take A Look At Yourself' (1969)
9. Sit Lord Baltimore (USA) 'Lady of Fire' (1970)
10. Black Widow (UK) 'In Ancient Days' (1970)
11. The Open Mind (UK) 'Thor, the Thunder God' (1969)
12. Flax (Norway) 'Demon in Your Heart' (1976)
13. Lobby Loyde & The Coloured Balls (Australia) 'Human Being' (1973)
14. Amon Düül II (Germany) 'Archangel [Live]' (1975)
15. Jane (Germany) 'Janesession' (1975)
16. Black Oak Arkansas (USA) 'When Electricity Came to Arkansas [Live] (1973)

The cover used for this post is one of the various covers proposed for the original post. The downloadable folder contains the first cover proposed, which has been designed by Jim Fitzpatrick (who made artwork for Manilla Road as well). You'll find the other cover art images on the blog.
I love Darkthrone and dig musical projects where Fenriz is involved, and this amazing compilation makes me like that Norse head even more, even if it has nothing to do with black metal!

Fenriz aka DJ V.K.O.M. presents... Trapped Under Vice, Vol. II

(Thanks to Jonathan Rockwell for the idea and for the sharing on his blog)

A nice surprise …

The just posted Catacombs compilation was also the excuse to listen to some Abdullah.
Last time the name Abdullah was mentioned on the Swamp was by SpiritBeggar early this year and was to announce that Abdullah’s experience was sadly over.
However for the Catacombs comp I went to check Abdullah’s myspace page and I got a little surprise.
Well, the line-up on myspace only includes the name of Jeff Shirilla. So no more Alan Seibert, however there are signs of activity.
First of all there is the announcement, dated April 2009, for new songs coming.
Then there is a true gift for the fans: a “lost” album and an EP to download!

All dated 15th October 2009.
I’m pasting here the content of the myspace message regarding these albums.

“Thurday, October 15, 2009
"Lost" album and EP available for free download
This material was written in a transitional phase of the band between the years of 2005-2007. It is pretty much a complete departure from the stoner/alternative/doom metal we were theretofore known for. The quality of some of the tracks is dubious as a few were emailed back and forth between band members and different continents. The line-up at this point was:

Jeff Shirilla: drums, vocals, some guitars, synth
Alan Seibert: lead guitars
Aaron Dllison: guitars
Ed Stephens: bass

Josh adkins and john stepp played drums and guitars respectively on "dead babies" and queenie contributed vocals and lyrics to "lost."
This material was just taking up space on a hard drive doing no one any good so I decided to share it. Enjoy/hate/ignore!”

I surely enjoyed what I heard …
Well, you can go straight to the band’s myspace page as well as download this stuff from below: I’m using the band’s links, so the band will record the contacts anyway.
However some generous visits to the band’s myspace page will be nice.

So check what’s going on here

Abdullah’s Lost Album

Abdullah’s EP

A heavy-duty stoner-doom-sludge pill prescription …

I must thank friend Ollie from Grifter and Soph from the Catacomb Records (and from Alunah as well) for providing first and then allowing me share a fine compilation from which Swamp sounds exsude copiously.
The international collection "VVAA - The Sound Of Catacombs" was released in 2008 Catacomb Records and hosts 17 selected tracks from bands in the label's roster as well as in line with the genres distributed by the label: Suns of Thunder, Obiat, Outburst, Grifter, Gonga, Mos Generator, Aluna, Sonic Lord, Godsize, El Topo, Dirty red, Black Cesar, The Harold Wartooth, I Am Colossus, Spacecharge, Abdullah, Queen Elephantine.
So many bands already well known to and much appreciated by the people at the Swamp.

This awesome compilation is the first release by UK Midlands-based label Catacomb Records and clearly shows the deep love for as well as personal involvement of the label's runners (Soph from Alunah and Dave from Alunah, Sonic Lord and Godsize) in stoner, doom, sludge and psychedelia.
The bands are mostly from UK: Suns Of Thunder, Outburst, Obiat, Grifter, Godsize, Alunah, I Am Colossus, Sonic Lord Gonga, El Topo, Black Cesar (with Chris from band Taint). However there are some North-American representatives: DirtyRed (with drummer Armando Acosta, ex-St. Vitus), Abdullah, Queen Elephantine, Spacecharge, Mos Generator all from USA and the Canadian band The Harold Wartooth.

Soph said in an interview on the webzine The Sleeping Shaman: "The fact that our first release was a 17 track compilation featuring a wide array of bands helped lots in the way that each band did their bit at promoting the release as well as the release parties we had in Sheffield and Birmingham, all of that helped plant the name Catacomb Records in people's heads. The problem now is to keep the name in heads; we're competing with lots of cool indie labels that are already established in the underground, we're just being really persistent and telling anyone who'll listen about the label."

The music styles covered by the comp vary a lot. Generous doses of warm, fuzzy, trippy/doomy stoner-desert rock are variably provided by El Topo, Gonga, The Harold Wartooth, and Mos Generator, but for "booty shakin'" whiskey rock to southern hard rock/metal go straight to Suns Of Thunder, Grifter and DirtyRed. Abdullah give an irresistible pill of thrashy stoner-doom, whereas Black Cesar perform some instrumental punk-drenched sludge.
Heavy, groovy downtuned, variably hypnotic and fuzzed, stoner-doom, psych-doom and heavy doom riffs generously come out of Outburst, Obiat, Alunah and Spacecharge, while the monolithic sounds of Queen Elephantine and I Am Colossus cover the heaviest range of doom.
The task of representing the sinister sonic aggression of sludge is given to mighty Godsize and Sonic Lord.
I’m rather brief (!) because there's a super-rich review on this compilation written by Ollie on The Sleeping Shaman (here): it is quite detailed and objective, and is pleasanto to read thanks to Ollie's colourful prose!

Here is the tracklist with the links to the myspace pages of the bands:

1. Gimme some more - Suns Of Thunder http://www.myspace.com/sunsofthunder
2. Primitive - Outburst - http://www.myspace.com/outburst
3. Farewell to mankind - Obiat http://www.myspace.com/obiat
4. Slow boy - Grifter http://www.myspace.com/grifterrock
5. War is made by gentlemen - DirtyRed http://www.myspace.com/dirtyredrocks
6. Pure Aggression - Godsize http://www.myspace.com/godsize
7. In time - Spacecharge http://www.myspace.com/spacecharge1
8. Long gone - Abdullah http://www.myspace.com/abdullahrawk
9. Higher - Aluna http://www.myspace.com/alunatheband
10. Freerange woman - Black Cesar http://www.myspace.com/blackcesarrock
11. Revelations - I Am Colossus http://www.myspace.com/iamcolossus
12. come back down again - Sonic Lord http://www.myspace.com/soniclord
13. Sentinal - Gonga http://www.myspace.com/g0nga
14. Flight of the bitch - The Harold Wartooth http://www.myspace.com/theharoldwartooth
15. Sea goat - Queen Elephantine http://www.myspace.com/queenelephantine
16. Let's ride - El Topo http://www.myspace.com/eltopoband
17. On the eve - Mos Generator http://www.myspace.com/mosgenerator

Well, some bands are already on the Swamp and some aren't. So this excellent comp is a good way of refreshing the memory and getting to know something new at the same time.

I borrow some text from Ollie's review for closing my post:
"There you have it. Any compilation will divide opinion and people will always bemoan the lack of certain bands but as an overall piece of work this is about as good as it gets. Every stoner/doom/sludge fan out there would do well to get hold of a copy of this."

Check the label here

V.A. - The Sound of the Catacombs (2008)

(Thanks to Ollie)

Baptized in sludge........................

"The story of the band began from the year 2007, when young and ambitious vocalist Stas and drummer Oleg decided to form their own musical band, which could let them express themselves in slow and headcrushing music. But it was not so easy because of rare and outlandish music favours. So they started to search people, but their efforts weren’t awarded soon. Musicians went through, but none of them stayed in the band for long. It went to the dead end, but the chance helped and Stas and Oleg met bassist Dima at spring 2008. He came to an audition and fit perfectly into the band. Meanwhile, complete sound of band was evolved to noised and droned sludgecore. Recruitment was completely finished at the spring 2009, when guitarist Vova comes. With this line-up, they have recorded two-song demo in August 2009. Later on the band was accomplished with Alexander(who previously worked with such projects as Sinter and Buried Flags). So, five different people filled up each other in original, mindtwisting band from Syberia to make their own style of music. Fire is coming for its’ harvest, fire is coming to purge fields…" (Band's MySpace)

Bad-ass sludge form Russia...

Fire To Fields - 2009 - Demo

I can't see the stars..........................

"Incredible album from this very young band from the Netherlands. They've distilled a very distinctive sound out of the record collection of their grandparents. We here echoes of Jimi Hendrix, Deep Purple Mark I, second-album-Pink-Floyd and especially The Doors and Cream. Some people might say : "Well they're not original".
Well fuck them! When is it that a seventeen year old has written a song ("Silver Love Machine") that is as good as "Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun" by Pink Floyd. I strongly advise them to release the stunning ballad "Medine" as a single and even a commercial breakthrough is possible. Also because all three of them look like gorgeous posterboys who could line every teenage girls' bedroom. But there is more: the beautifull repetitive "Parloscope" really gets under your skin and the haunting "Red Sparks Of The Morning Dusk" gets me flipping over.
You can hear that this trio of guitar/vocals, organ and drums are real music lovers. They take the best of the music that they love and totally turn it into a DeWolff thing. The production also is flawless. It's clean and transparent and never loses focus.
This album is a big leap forward from their first mini-album and I give DeWollf a lot of credit for bringing this kind of music to the attention of their peers (14, 15 and 16 year old youngster) but still keeping massive credibility with the "30year+" record-buying public.
This album is competing with the latest Sonic Youth and A Place To Bury Strangers releases with the number 1 spot of my album yearlist of 2009. In the sixties they would say: "Far Out", now we say: "Fucking brilliant stuff!" - Rino -
The cd version features different artwork than the lp." (Source)

Band's MySpace

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- thx to insaneriez & sslessar -

Swedish grim and despairing atmospheres …

One band I’ve been listening to in these days and which has tightly caught my attention is Moloken. Moloken is a four-piece band from Sweden (precisely from Holmsund/Umeå,Västerbottens län).
Their just released debut full-length album “Our Astral Circle” comes after their EP “We All Face the Dark Alone” (2008).
These Swedes play a powerful and atmospheric style which fuses genres like hardcore (in the suffering emissions of the two vocalists), doom, sludge, progressive (how is it called: doomcore? post-hardcore/post-metal? …), and therefore it may recalls bands like Isis, Cult of Luna, etc.
Before running away from this post, be aware that the result of what these guys do is much much better than one could expect! This is mighty metal stuff and the melodies, which vary from oppressive to sensual to hypnotizing, are lead by a nice bass line …

They’ve received many excellent ratings on webzines and blogs, and you can see the links to all of them on the band’s myspace page.
Here is a part of one of them:
“The nine tracks on Our Astral Circle are the grimmest possible post metal, usually opting for a crawling sound that highlights the excellent atmospheres created by the guitars, bass and drums. The vocals are accordingly full of despair, painting a sonic landscape that feels like drawn from your blackest nightmares.” (from the review on disagreement.net)

Even the cut-throat reviewers from Global Domination wrote only well on them …
“ Nowadays, when I hear of bands playing slightly progressive, epic post-hardcore with lots of ebb and flow in the song structures I usually roll my eyes and prepare myself to be let down in a way only General Custer and Dave Mustaine would understand. Most of the music produced fitting under this label is either a) Inferior to Cult of Luna, Neurosis or Khoma, b) Duller then death or c) all of the above. What I didn’t know, and the world failed to inform me of is that there was a small but important gap that wasn’t presently filled by the three above mentioned bands. That of the slightly progressive, epic post-hardcore that still packs a punch that would level most bands emerging from some kind of “extreme metal” background. Because honestly; we all love Neurosis but sometimes they miss out on the fact that some up-tempo and double-bass sometimes makes for some really great variations. This is where Umeå‘s Moloken enters the scene. (…)
There’s slow, repetitive sections with sometimes just a clean guitar playing a lick to some harder-then-rock, balls-out metal riffing with a drummer doing his best Brann “the human squid” Dailor impersonation to some lavishly heavy doom parts that barely seem to move at all. All this wrapped up on the kind of HC-ish screaming we’d come to expect from this genre, with the exception that you can actually tell Kristoffer’s and Nicklas’ screams apart. Thus showing the point of having two vocalists.” (from Global Domination)

Check them here

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From the steaming, mossy swamps of London …

While lunch food is still in the oven, let’s get some tasty appetizer …

Raw Sorcery, debut EP from Hang The Bastard, a 5-piece band from London and South-east England who produces some truly killer hardcore drenched with sludge-doom-southern metal in full hommage to Eyehategod, Crowbar, Ringworm, "local" Iron Monkey as well as Black Sabbath, Pentagram, and all the other inspiring sources mentioned on the band’s myspace.
Vocal parts are duely mentioned as “throat” and the band calls itself as similar to a “hench man goat smoking hellweed”!!!

“The spirit of New Orleans sludge has been a staple influence on the UK underground since the days of Iron Monkeys, but it’s still a joy to discover a London hardcore band metaphorically mired in the Louisiana swamps. the debut six-tracker from Hang The bastard delivers in both groove and fury, with the death-dealing frenzy of the title-track and the downtempo riffing on the appropriately-named Doomed Fucking Doomed encapsulating their deceptively varied sound. Consequently, Raw Socery reveals a and who could translate to a variety of different audiences, topped off by the welcome suspicion that theri best work is yet to come.” (review reported on myspace)

A “must-get” for the Swamp. And Petya fully approves …

Check their movements here

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Stay away from this Village...............

This is a new release by the Village of Dead Roads, to make your weekend doomy & gloomy.

Support the band - buy the CD.

Band's MySpace

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- thx to Stormium & Sslessar -

More trippin'................................

"The band with one of the all time greatest band names of all time is "Trippy Wicked and the Cosmic Children of the Knight" and this their debut full length album called "Movin On". While the name may seem comical, this is one heavy-duty doom laden album complete with a excellent album cover that I could stare at all day. The band is as about as solid as you will find within this genre of music and they are also have many elements that set them apart from other bands and I will get to those points later. Trying to describe the band is not really that easy, they crossover from Electric Wizard style Stoner Doom to Kyuss style Desert Rock to Classic Black Sabbath sounding 70's Rock and everything in-between. The vocals of Pete Holland (who also handles the guitar work) has a Ozzy-esque sound to it but more powerful than anything the Oz was capable of in his hey-day. The churning crunch of the guitar and bass is thick as mud and drumming is exceptionally solid and pounding. The title track hits in your face with a guitar attack that is as fierce as it is sleazy and by the time you get to track three "Fire" you will be suck into the swirling riffing. They do have some unusual quirks to their sound however, the acoustic guitar ending of "Sea Shanty" comes in when you least expect and the trumpet on "Southern" may leave you scratching your head and asking why but that is the beauty of this album. Quirky Stoner Doom music experimentation, parts of it can even sound bluesy which sounds so different for a band playing within the context of "Stoner Rock". God, I am getting sick of that term but I will move on. "Echoes" is slightly perplexing as it sounds at odds with the rest of the album, at first I wasn't sure if it belong on the album but after further spins it has turned into one of my favorite tracks on the album. It has a Psychedelic, haunting beginning before moving into a more traditional heavy riff rocking section. This is one of the tracks on the album where the blues element comes through but that pops up on a few other tracks as well, just some less obvious. One of the strong points of the album is the variety of sounds and musical textures they manage to weave in and out throughout the CD which means it is going to be a album that is hard to get tired off. "Innocence" kicks off one hellish bass sound before the monster riff engulfs all in its wake, this is the band in total Doom mode and it kills. "Not What You Know" rocks like a son of a bitch, kinda reminding me of Orange Goblin at their most punishing. A real exercise in head snapping metal and the fun continues on the next track "Clothes On My Floor" where the band shifts gears into boogie mode."The Water" is more of Trippy Wicked's approach to Stoner Blues, a good track but not really up to the standard of the rest of the album and the whistling part is a bit off-putting. Thankfully they launch back into the big riff at around the 3 minute mark that saves the tune from the skip button. Final track is "Because Of You" and brings back things to the Sludge/Stoner groove, a great way to finish the album. The lyrics on the album are also different for a Stoner/Doom/Sludge Rock band as they are personal, heartfelt and actually meaningful ( shock-horror ). It is refreshing to hear a band take that lyrical approach for a change. I guess the band could be put alongside other quirky bands within the UK Doom/Stoner scene like The Lamp Of Thoth for example but they really are a band with a certain uniqueness that is hard to compare. You also get the feeling when listening to this, the band really enjoy what they are doing as it has a positive vibe about it. Check this band and album out, I think you will dig it." (Source)

Support the band - buy the CD.

Band's MySpace

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- thx to Sslessar -

Kingdom of smoke.........................

"In Thai, the word “naam” is sometimes used in reference to water. Perfect if you’re this Naam from Brooklyn which frequently operates courtesy of aquatic trances as precursor to their boisterous outpourings of doom and sludge. Reportedly recorded on a dairy farm in the Catskill Mountains, Naam’s self-titled debut is a bit of a mind-rape. Yet their daring alter-reality accenting their built-up sonic scapes is what keeps them interesting.

Unpredictable psychedelic brain funk scattered throughout the 16:24 opener “Kingdom” splashes in some Ray Manzarek-ish organs and sitar swirls amidst Naam’s forlorn drapes trickling towards expected detonation. When “Kingdom” erupts from its teasing eddies, the effect is akin to having your ear canals peeled apart and introduced to a boisterous, yet orgasmic din.

Drums and tabla guiding the hypnotic “Stone Ton” gives the listener no preparation for the booming, straightforward stoner grooves of the subsequent track “Skyling Slip.” A bit chunky and slipshod in the right manner, “Skyling Slip” turns cosmic towards its closure with wispy synths on the borderline of new wave despite the overall tonal crush of the track.

Once in awhile, this album goes on such a disruptive and unorganized tangent Naam loses their listeners as well as themselves. While “Fever if Fire” has spots of appeasing thunder and some groovy tunnel effects, it might help to light one up to fully grasp the song’s echoing pollutants, much less its jumbled, screaming vocals

On the other hand, Naam really works with spectacular methodology on “Icy Row” where the distortion opens the way for hallucinogenic delight and increases both in accordance to an agitating tempo. Though clocking in more than seven minutes, “Icy Row” is a well-constructed engine of atmospherics which feels wrapped in half the time Naam performs it.

Undoubtedly Naam is one album best appreciated after a few listens. Though it engages strongly on the first spin, the further depths of conveyances these guys expel through their wondrously strange music unravel with return visits. The organ-soaked spookiness of “Westered Wash” is plenty enough to get your head around, yet “Kingdom,” “Black Ice” and the gusty march of “Frosted Tread” unlock different chambers of your audile processing system the more you engage them.

Consider Naam a potential sleeper hit of the sludge market; they’re inventive and they have enough of a dark and vibrating space oddity about them to befuddle ground control, salud." (Source)

Outstanding psyhedelic stoner/doom.

Band's MySpace

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Titan of Rock'n'Roll...........................

"Chuck Berry is one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's website, "While no individual can be said to have invented rock and roll, Chuck Berry comes the closest of any single figure to being the one who put all the essential pieces together." Cub Koda wrote, "Of all the early breakthrough rock & roll artists, none is more important to the development of the music than Chuck Berry. He is its greatest songwriter, the main shaper of its instrumental voice, one of its greatest guitarists, possessing the clearest diction, and one of its greatest performers." John Lennon said: "If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'." (Source)

...one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century...

Chuck Berry - 2004 - Greatest Hits

Oh, that orgasmic organ.......

This is a review of a live show, but its such an awesome review, i had to share it...

"Black Diamond Heavies sound like whiskey sliding down the pulsating human hatch, and hitting an empty stomach with a discomforting thud. A shot of Detroit river water slipping down your throat and soaking into a slowly digesting meal – the type of meal that prepares you for a long night of slamming empty glasses on a waxed countertop – is a bit more kindly, but the blues don’t really give a fuck about that. The blues – especially after doing several lines of cocaine off of rock ‘n’ roll’s cock in a dingy and dimly lit bar bathroom – taste a lot like the type of puke-bucket magic that Black Diamond Heavies conjure up with nothing more than your basic set of skins and some smoothly played organ. And, if Black Diamond Heavies were the jukebox that rests in the corner of our barstool scenery, the 45s within that vintage machine would crackle and pop as they turned out Southern anthems of energy and sorrow played night after night through a distorted speaker that the barkeep never bothers to fix because it just sounds so damn good." (reaxmusic.com)

Band Site: http://www.myspace.com/blackdiamondheavies
Black Diamond Heavies - You Damn Right EP: http://tinyurl.com/yabtus7

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Now playing: Black Diamond Heavies - Hambone
via FoxyTunes

Don't waste your time away thinkin' 'bout yesterday's blues.....

"If you are a musician, dig playing blues and have the talent to record, then I suggest you look up Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys and ask him nicely to produce your next album. Black Diamond Heavies’ first album Every Damn Time was an enjoyable listen, but A Touch of Someone Else’s Class is a giant step forward. While the recipe of John Wesley Myers and Van Campbell remains the same, Auerbach has introduced a few new elements to the mix that really take the Tennessee twosome forward.

The dynamic of the band is very similar to the Keys. Both Auerbach and Myers are wholly dependent on their respective drummers to do more than simply keep a beat. They are responsible for becoming the driving force of the band to allow their frontmen a tremendous amount of freedom. Patrick Carney is my favorite drummer around today, but Van Campbell is definitely in the same league. I have listened to this album countless times and am truly blown away by his playing.

As for Myers, he still delivers his vocals ala Tom Waits. In fact Ralph Carney, a horn player for Waits and Patrick Carney’s uncle is introduced on one track, “Bidin’ My Time” that oozes soul. Much like “All To Hell” from the first album, it gives off an Otis Redding vibe that makes me want to slow dance with my lady. Myers is equally adept when the boys turn it up a notch as well. “Nutbush City Limit,” “Make Some Time” and my favorite, “Smooth It Out” are all dirty, scuzzy blues rockers. Myers works the organ into a lather and delivers the vocals like he’s part demon. Much like BBQ joints, there are some people that like their ribs in a quaint, well-lit atmosphere with shiny sliverware. And then there are those of us who like their ribs slapped on some white bread in a joint where you can barely see the silverware. Black Diamond Heavies are that hole-in-wall BBQ place. " (hearya.com)

Band Site: http://www.myspace.com/blackdiamondheavies
Black Diamond Heavies - A Touch Of Someone Else's Class: http://tinyurl.com/yclpauh

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Now playing: Black Diamond Heavies - Bidin' My Time
via FoxyTunes

A weekend full of Phil …

Is there anything better than listening to Phil Anselmo? Maybe seeing Phil Anselmo while performing!
He may not be the most beautiful man on Earth (I still go on digging George Clooney a lot …) but he is pure energy, mmmm! And what about Phil Anselmo and Superjoint Ritual … Wild!!!

You might find this DVD by Superjoint Ritual on various forums and sites although sometimes it is in bits and pieces (so often incomplete, i.e. without the bonus videos), as it is made up by independent videos.
“This 2004 concert at New York City's CBGB was everything the fans have come to expect: unbridled chaos, raw energy, and pure metal delivered only the way Superjoint can. It's the closest you can get to being there without actually jumping in the circle pit.” (from www. cduniverse.com)

Here’s the video/tracklist:
01 - Antifaith
02 - Fuck Your Enemy
03 - The Introvert
04 - Personal Insult
05 - The Destruction Of A Person
06 - Permanently
07 - The Alcoholik
08 - Waiting For The Turning Point
09 - One Song/Ozena
10 - Stealing A Page Or Two From Armed & Radical Pagans
Bonus Videos:
11 - Waiting For The Turning Point (Music Video)
12 - Dress Like A Target (Music Video)

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Feel the love 6 Feel the love 7 Feel the love 8 Feel the love 9

(Thanks to Maniakk)

N.B: all .rar folders here are linked, so all of them should be downloaded to reconstruct the complete DVD.

Friday fuzzzzzzzzzz.........

A true stoner classic from 2003, from a band that has sadly disbanded.....

"Driving stoner-style rock with a hardcore mentality, and Greatdayforup obviously love peeling off monster riffs at high volume..." (release notes).

Check em' out here.

Greatdayforup - God loves a Sinner
(Thanx 2 PETER)

Sludgy repost request from the c-box …

Thanks to Tona who alerted about a dead link.
Buzzoven, the “unreleased” album.
As from the web, this record was never officially released. It was recorded in 2001 and Hydra Head Records was supposed to put it out, but apparently there were some legal issues that prevented Hydra Head from releasing it. However a bootleg vinyl LP version was put out by Sounds of the South records in 2005 or 2006.

I renew the thanks to the first providers, Krustie and Eraserhead, mentioned on the original post by Cheeto, dated 7.8.2007.

Buzzoven – Revelation … Sick Again