I'm 'bout to go party at a triple-birthday event then get rowdy at an outdoor winter BBQ tomorrow afternoon (Bacon Explosion, anyone?). But not before I can tell you what went down on MetalSucks this week: Dallas broke the silence on Earthsblood and told the "Blabberbitches" to fuck off. Zakk Wylde recorded on a Dope song, throwing [...]
Legendary dronesters Sunn o))) and record label Southern Lord share not just a penchant for original, outside-the-box thinking but a man by the name of Greg Anderson, who splits his time between playing guitar for the former and running all operations of the latter. In the interest of full disclosure I'm not really much of [...]
Tracklist: Omens And Portents 1: The Driver Rise To Glory Miami Morning Coming Down 2 (Shine) Engine Of Ruin Omens And Potents 2: Carrion Crow Hung From The Moon The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull Seattle-based Earth were always seen as a bit of an anomaly among their brethren - while Dylan Carlson is known for being a close friend of [...]
What a fantastic year for music, particularly heavy music. Not that it's all about competition, but in my eyes there were at least three legitimate contenders for the top spot-- any one of my top three (see below) could have potentially taken the gold. Let's get down to business... 10~ Withered Folie Circulaire [Amazon] [iTunes] (Prosthetic) As David Bee Roth put it, Withered are "more like
If there was one musical performance in 2007 that needed to be recorded, it's the one held on Sunn O)))'s new live LP, Dømkirke . This album just goes to show that Sunn O))) live and Sunn O))) in the studio are two completely different animals. And even though putting this %100 analog, vinyl-only recording onto a record player may not equate to the live experience, it's about as close as one can get without going back in time and grabbing a plane ticket to Norway. The inherent "darkness" in Sunn O)))'s music goes without [...]
In addition to opening for Nine Inch Nails at the Target Center on November 25 it has been announced that the Boris will return three days later to play the Triple Rock Social Club. The Triple Rock date is the first for the band as headliners after the Nine Inch Nails tour and will also feature Clouds and local act Zebulon Pike. 11/09/2008 Hoboken NJ, Maxwell (with Psychic Paramount) 11/11/2008 Ottawa ON, Scotiabank Place (with Nine Inch Nails) 11/12/2008 Montreal QC, Bell Centre (with Nine Inch Nails) 11/13/2008 Toronto ON, Lees Palace (with Orn) [...]
Download: Author and Punisher '40 To 12 Actually right now, if everything is on schedule. During the last five years, experimental media collective FLOOD has grown Long Beach's SoundWalk from a promising curiosity to an internationally reputable sound-art event—as far as I know, there is nothing else in the world that allows sound artists to commandeer an entire living urban neighborhood and pack it out with surprise installations—and in another five years I wouldn't be surprised to run into [...]
Instead of posting a half dozen bite-size stories about the latest news from the doom/sludge underground, I decided to compile it all into one big nasty ball o'resin and load y'all up with enough album updates, tour dates, and general sludgefuckery to BLOW. YOUR. FUCKING. MINDS. Load up the bong, and read on... Cult sludge act [...]
Hey all. I hope your Saturday goes well. Mine already sucks! I should've taken the advise I offered in yesterday's post. Whatever, there's been enough "whoa is me" bullshit around here for the last month. Here's the news. • Remember in Idiocracy , at the very beginning of the film (the only part of the film really worth watching), they talk about dysgenics and the dumbing down of America as a whole? It's not fiction. I've written about it so many times on this website that it should probably have its own label. Now TIME Magazine is [...]
While we recuperate from our festival weekend, we present our annual look at some of the more underappreciated records from the first half of the year. read more
Mp3: Jesse Sykes - LLL Jesse Sykes opened the second night of hers and Earth's encore show at the Tractor Tavern on July 29th, which was also the final night of the tour. A slightly more tense than usual Jesse took the stage with her band and played a great mix of old and new songs from their catalog. They played a more rockin' version of "Station Grey" to the delight of many of the fans present. Aside from a bit of [...]
While Earth may be rightly labeled as one of the forefathers of doom, that steamrolling, slow and foreboding form of metal, don't let that tag scare you. Chances are if bands like Earth came from a different scene, one not steeped in the heavy sound of the Melvins, then this genre would have a much more innocuous name, something like post-rock, perhaps. Yet, even if we disregard that creepy signifier, there is still something ominous about Earth's latest release for Southern Lord, The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull. Each number seems to foreshadow [...]
Boris Smile ( Southern Lord - 2008) Ricordate i Boris ? Sì proprio loro, quelli che sto cercando di propinarvi da un paio d'anni e che ancora continuate ad ignorare. Bè, è ora di svegliarsi! :) Il mese scorso è arrivto l'occhiello su Blow Up, dieci giorni fà il nuovo disco (il 14° in 15 anni circa), venerdì 16 Maggio hanno suonato al Bronson di Ravenna (una 50ina di persone in totale), la copertina di Wire è questione di qualche mese [...]
Boris Smile ( Southern Lord - 2008) Ricordate i Boris ? Sì proprio loro, quelli che sto cercando di propinarvi da un paio d'anni e che ancora continuate ad ignorare. Bè, è ora di svegliarsi! :) Il mese scorso è arrivto l'occhiello su Blow Up, dieci giorni fà il nuovo disco (il 14° in 15 anni circa), venerdì 16 Maggio hanno suonato al Bronson di Ravenna (una 50ina di persone in totale), la copertina di Wire è questione di qualche mese [...]
First, not a lolcat : This cat lives at Webster Hall . His name is Coco. He was photographed by someone in CSS. I think... I mean it's from their website, so I think it's a good assumption, no? And now "The Post": Do you know these hands? They belong to CSS . This image associated with their new song from their new album, Donkey (which [...]
EAR FARM's Three for Free: three EF approved, free and legal MP3s posted each week. This week - three songs from artists on Southern Lord Records . That's right... METAL. Click on the artist name to go to their site, click on the song name to listen to the song. Listen: Boris - "Flower, Sun, Rain" Wolves in the Throne Room - "I Will Lay Down My Bones Among the Rocks and Roots" [...]
by Black Bubblegum DOWNLOAD: Earth - The Driver (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Earth - Ouroboros Is Broken (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter - LLL (MP3) Dylan Carlson, of Earth ( ricky-oh ) Like a lone gunslinger riding off into the sunset, Dylan Carlson & Earth will bring the cowboy-soundtracky The Bees Made Honey In The [...]
earth " the bees made honey in the lion's skull " label: southern lord release date: 2/26/08 psychedelic instru-metal at it's finest. mp3 | earth - omens and portents 1: the driver
These drone metal stalwarts turn in a wordless masterpiece with their sixth album, making music that is cryptic, evocative and gigantic all at the same time.
The seed that grew into drone metal was certainly helped by Earth. At least, that is my understanding from Wikipedia. I'll need to come clean here, admitting that I've only read and heard of this band. Until now, I've never heard their music, only bands they have inspired, like Sunn O))). I doubt this is to be a proper introductory to a band that is eighteen years old. [...]
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