Ides of Gemini Constantinople Label - Neurot Recordings / SIGE Release date - May 2012 Much metal gains its extremity from lack of space: ear-bleeding guitars canvas the harmonic spectrum, drums fill every possible rhythmic nook, vocalist caulks the gaps with throaty sputum sealant. That totalness can get tiring, and it's also pretty aesthetically limiting [...]
Hey dudes and ladies, sorry I haven't been posting much this month. I've been travelingeven more than usual, and haven't had much time to sit down and write down much of anything besides flight confirmation numbers and directions to wherever I happen to be sleeping any given evening. Cheers once again to those of you [...]
Elyse Marie Pahler knew her killers from the school bus. Elyse, Jacob Delashmutt and Joseph Fiorella attended Arroyo Grande High School in San Luis Obispo, 195 miles northwest of Los Angeles. Roger Casey attended a nearby school. On July 22, 1995 the three boys took Elyse to a hidden location about a quarter-mile from [...]
Elyse Marie Pahler knew her killers from the school bus. Elyse, Jacob Delashmutt and Joseph Fiorella attended Arroyo Grande High School in San Luis Obispo, 195 miles northwest of Los Angeles. Roger Casey attended a nearby school. On July 22, 1995 the three boys took Elyse to a hidden location about a quarter-mile from [...]
By: Navjot Kaur Sobti Now, I'm not usually a chick who has the patience to get through most doom metal, unless it's my bedtime, snooze-inducing soundtrack to abysmally sweet dreams. When I picked up Black Math Horseman's 2010-released Wyllt, however, let's just say I got a wake-up call from a genre I'd otherwise have remained all ...
Black Math Horseman have announced a UK/European tour in April to coincide with their appearance at the 2010 Roadburn Festival in Tilburg, Holland. Tour info below: 2/19 Spaceland - Los Angeles, CA w/Ancestors and Intronaut 4/17 Roadburn Festival - Tilburg, NL 4/18 TBA - London, UK 4/20 Hafenklang - Hamburg, GER 4/21 Steinburch - Duiburg, GER 4/22 DB's - Utrecht, NL 4/23 [...]
One evening in October 1952 Stanley Glickman, a young artist living in Paris, accepted an invitation from an acquaintance to join him and some fellow Americans at the Cafe Select, a popular spot among writers and artists. There, the conversation turned into a heated political debate lasting several hours. When Glickman decided it was time [...]

Friday, July 15, 2005 Enumclaw-area animal-sex case investigated By Jennifer Sullivan Seattle Times staff reporter King County sheriff's detectives are investigating the owners of an Enumclaw-area farm after a Seattle man died from injuries sustained while having sex with a horse boarded on the property. Investigators first learned of the farm after the man died at Enumclaw Community Hospital July 2. The county Medical [...]

You should know about Tee Pee Records . The label is a protest against soulless, mechanized, Pro Tools music. It specializes in new things that sound old: psych rock, stoner rock, doom metal, spaghetti western soundtracks. Tee Pee means tube tones, analog recordings, and big, warm sounds. Its ambit is wider than this site's. But we like Eldopa and Witch (reviewed here and here ), and I wrote about Black Math Horseman, Weird Owl, and Ancestors here , here , and here . Black [...]

One evening in October 1952 Stanley Glickman, a young artist living in Paris, accepted an invitation from an acquaintance to join him and some fellow Americans at the Cafe Select, a popular spot among writers and artists. There, the conversation turned into a heated political debate lasting several hours. When Glickman decided it was time to leave, one of the men offered to buy him a drink to soothe any hard feelings. Rather than ask the waiter, the man himself went to the bar and brought drinks back to the table. Glickman noticed he had a club foot. [...]
For those of you not from the U.S. and somehow completely unaware of this, the Fourth of July is a pretty big deal here in America. On that day, we celebrate winning our freedom by kicking the British's ass. Of course, they later gave us Hugh Grant, so I guess they had their revenge in [...]

Couple of big shows go head-to-head tonight, so if you're out purely for the music, you really can't go wrong. She Wants Revenge [pictured] headlines the "Kick Out of the Clots: A Benefit for Jennifer Tefft" event at the Echo/Echoplex - the fundraiser offers a long night of music (doors at 7 p.m.) featuring Living Things , Dead Meadow , Great Northern , Rocco DeLuca , Nico Stai , the Honorary Title , Useless Keys and the LA Ladies Choir ; plus a DJ set from Moving Units [...]
Black Math Horseman have been around a relatively short while, but have quickly risen to prominence. With Wyllt, the band's Scott Reeder produced/MetalSucks approved debut, they've created a subtle space of OG-psychedelicambience and post-/doom metal riffs and crescendos. A big part of the band's distinctiveness is vocalist Sera Timms' droning voice, occasionally veering over to screaming [...]

"I first went to Nepal in 1970 it was the end of the now famous Hippie Trail that started overland from either Amsterdam or London. Buses full of us would disembark at the end of New Road and to this day this street is called Freak Street. Nepal was a nirvana…marijuana and hashish were legal and sold openly in Government licensed shops…I dreamt in the opium dens of Kathmandu…Cannabis was only illegal to export and if you were caught at the airport you were fined $100 USD and deported on the next flight…" [...]

Los Angeles's Black Math Horseman live somewhere between the world of 70's leaning stoner rock and modern shoegazers while adding 80's Goth and 90's post-rock flourishes. It's a combination that sounds difficult to sell, but the listener's patience will undoubtedly be rewarded with the songs on the band's Tee Pee Records debut Wyllt . On first listen, the Horsemen's Wyllt seems to play out in the fairly standard loud/quiet motif, which is complete with chiming guitars and lumbering drums. But there are disparate [...]
It's Friday, and it's nice out. I'ma go have a whiskey. Booze and drugs make you look cool and get lots of pussy... it's true. Here's what happened this week that made us batty enough to turn to the dark side: We got sick of metal bands doing ironic pop cover songs just in time for a [...]
A close read of Black Math Horseman's name will ultimately lead to disappointment: "Black" denotes black metal, but sadly, there is none; "Math" signifies shifting time signatures and jerky rhythms, but band's album is fairly light on that front; and "Horseman" could hearken back to black metal yet again, or perhaps Amon Amarth-style romp through [...]
A close read of Black Math Horseman's name will ultimately lead to disappointment: "Black" denotes black metal, but sadly, there is none; "Math" signifies shifting time signatures and jerky rhythms, but band's album is fairly light on that front; and "Horseman" could hearken back to black metal yet again, or perhaps Amon Amarth-style romp through [...]
MP3: The Warlocks - "Red Camera" from The Mirror Explodes, out May 19 on Tee Pee Records. This is a slow-burning bum trip of a jam. I've always respected Bobby Hecksher, but I prefer the Warlocks when they're making feel-good...

Want to know what happens when you take the brown acid? The L.A.-based Black Math Horseman 's debut album- the six-song, 38-minute-long Wyllt -is a case of psychedelia gone horribly wrong. Combining the art house horror vibe of bands like Espers and Ghost Bees with the sludge-metal riffs of Black Sabbath , BMH have arrived at a nightmarish kind of proto-metal-doom-psych that one would imagine the Nazgul would have come up with were they to form a band. [...]