Merry Xmas

Merry Xmas and a Noizy New Year to all!!!!

Sorry for no posts, fans...

...quite busy around here... watch this space soon!!!

COSMIC PSYCHOS' DUNG AUSTRALIA is now out on PITSHARK records

COSMIC PSYCHOS' DUNG AUSTRALIA is now out on PITSHARK rds.

Beautiful digipack European edition, with one exclusive bonus track !

The return of the rawest band in the world !

(10 euros only, inc. shipping ! And a new exclusive COSMIC PSYCHOS free limited edition postcard !)

I already have my copy...

"With the release of Dung Australia, the Cosmic Psychos remain as raw, spirited and vital today as they ever were. Catch Melbourne's rock royalty at a venue near you for an experience you won’t forget! (stolen from COSMIC PSYCHOS myspace website...)"

R.I.P. ROBBIE ROCKET WATTS

MONSTER MAGNET + NEBULA + PILGRIM FATHERS live @ Sala Heineken

MONSTER MAGNET + NEBULA + PILGRIM FATHERS
live at Sala HEINEKEN

Adam West farewell...

We at NoizeLand cannot say goodbye to ADAM WEST so we will only say later...

It's been a few weeks now since Adam West finished its farewell tour of Europe and played its final show in Washington DC. After almost 17 years, it's hard to say good-bye.

There are so many people to thank for all the support over the years that I can't even begin to name names. But my utter gratitude goes out to all of you.

But don't fret, boys and girls, there are still a few things on the horizon. Our record label People Like You Records is planning a VERY BEST OF compilation for release in 2009. There may also be a special collectors package as well. And, as usual, a couple other songs may pop up here and there.

In the meantime, I implore you to check out Steve's, Mario's, and Jim's other bands. They continue to rock in the war against the jive!

Borracho
Assrockers
Channel 43

Plus, I have a couple solo 7" singles planned for 2009 on Bootleg Booze Records and No Balls Records. You can't get rid of us!

So I leave you all with one last request: buy our latest (and last) album "ESP: Extra Sexual Perception" and dig it. We're very proud of this album.

Thank you, good night, farewell, and take care. There's only love between us...

Your favorite throat,

~Jake Starr

GRIEF + Trapt Them + Moho @ Ritmo y Compas

More details here

Jeniferever Live

Jeniferever were great!! Sound was perfect, performance also was A+. I really enjoyed it.

Even their supporting band VINCENT were at the level. You can download their work HERE. And there was a good turnout though it was pretty comfortable at the bar.

[P.U.T] drops their EP for free download

Duo dark-emo-noise-punk-indus guitares/bass/rythms since 1998. NEW EP avaibale free on our website (prelisten also available)

Enjoy and let them know...

JENIFEREVER live @Moby Dick (12-Nov-'08)

Jeniferever will be performing live at Moby Dick, Madrid next wednesday 12th of November 2008

UZZHUAÏA live

Check out their new video HERE

More dates and info HERE.

RUSSIAN CIRCLES live, Madrid

Tonight, RUSSIAN CIRCLES and THESE ARMS ARE SNAKES will play live at Sala Ritmo & Compas.

Epic

Ground control to Major Tom

Ground control to Major Tom:

Take your protein pills and put your helmet on

Ground control to Major Tom:

Commencing countdown engine's on

Check ig-nition and may God's love be with you...

This is ground control to Major Tom,

you've really made the grade!

And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear,

Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare

This is Major Tom to ground con-trol,

I'm stepping through the door

And I'm floating in the most peculiar way

And the stars look very different today

For here am I sitting in a tin can, far above the world

Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do

Though I'm passed one hundred thousand miles,

I'm feeling very still

And I think my spaceship knows which way to go,

tell my wife I love her very much she knows

Ground control to Major Tom: Your circuit's dead, there's something wrong.

Can you hear me Major Tom? Can you hear me Major Tom? Can you hear me Major Tom? Can you ...

Here am I floating round my tin can, far above the moon

Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do

Moloken - 2008 - We All Face The Dark Alone

I have to say this band instantly caught my attention. Is one of those bands who easily flows into yourself as a whole. Art, music, name, monicker, musicians... everything fits perfectly into this darkness created by this new swedish band in the same way that an evil absence of light matches with fear.

"We All Face The Dark Alone" could sneak into black metal stuff if you only see the cover art. Error. That would be the only link with that style... apart from the voice, which also can be included on a far side on that genre. Musically talking I won't label them as it wouldn't be fair. If a term has to be used for them is experimental, understanding that into extreme metal scene. You'll soon understand why when you start to listen to this EP.

It consists of a 15 minutes track split into three titles, apparently not linked if you read them: "Lost Saviour", "Dual Core Friction" and "Paranoia". Of course, they all form part of the same whole.

I'd say these songs go from dark and slow tempoes to sudden epic riffs which automatically catches you into a pursuit horror film scene happening on their native home, among trees and over the snow... at dusk. The beast is near and you're tired... get the picture?

This work is not one of those you'll put to hear something while you arrive to somewhere... though could be useful to have it in the background. This EP is better to sit down, relax and listen to it a couple times on your room... the bummer is this kinda digipack doesn't come with a booklet with pictures and lyrics to support the story the band wants to transmit. But sometimes is better to leave up to your imagination the picture the music wants to give.

I particularly enjoy the amazing passage starting on minute 8 (almost sharp) which adds some progressive elements after the initial wild beginning... Wow!!!

This is very recommendable to all of those freaks into sludge, art-core, extreme stuff.

MOLOKEN folks: think about start to work on new material!!!

NoizeLand freaks: as always, support the band buying their records (directly or to an approved source) and their merch.

MERCH

LORDI releases their new album "DEADACHE"

This new album won't deceipt any LORDI's fans.

Meanwhile I prepare something for this, here I post some videos of some known songs.

...and its new version.

PEACEVILLE Records: Doom Metal classics re-released

October 27th sees the release of 2 Peaceville classic albums, namely Paradise Lost's genre-defining GOTHIC, and Anathema's THE SILENT ENIGMA. Both titles come as a special CD/DVD edition; Paradise Lost including a very rare Gothic-era live performance from 1991, and Anathema includes the Visions of a Dying Embrace DVD along with the newly re-mastered The Silent Enigma album. Check out the Peaceville webstore for more information at PEACEVILLE .

DAVID BOWIE to release his own comp

DAVID BOWIE is about to release a greatest hits but selected by himself. It'll be called "iSelect" and only contains one hit ("Life On Mars") of all of his career.

Read more...
by David Bowie
For this CD compilation I've selected 12 of my songs that I don't seem to tire of. Few of them are well known, but many of them are still sung at my concerts. Usually by me. I'll start off with the hit.

Life On Mars
This song was so easy. Being young was easy. A really beautiful day in the park, sitting on the steps of the bandstand. 'Sailors bap-bap-bap-bap-baaa-bap.' An anomic (not a 'gnomic') heroine. Middle-class ecstasy.
I took a walk to Beckenham High Street to catch a bus to Lewisham to buy shoes and shirts but couldn't get the riff out of my head. Jumped off two stops into the ride and more or less loped back to the house up on Southend Road.
Workspace was a big empty room with a chaise longue; a bargain-price art nouveau screen ('William Morris,' so I told anyone who asked); a huge overflowing freestanding ashtray and a grand piano. Little else.
I started working it out on the piano and had the whole lyric and melody finished by late afternoon. Nice.
Rick Wakeman came over a couple of weeks later and embellished the piano part and guitarist Mick Ronson created one of his first and best string parts for this song which now has become something of a fixture in my live shows.

Sweet Thing/ Candidate/ Sweet Thing
I'd failed to obtain the theatrical rights from George Orwell's widow for the book 1984 and having written three or more songs for it already, I did a fast about-face and recobbled the idea into Diamond Dogs: teen punks on rusty skates living on the roofs of the dystopian Hunger City; a post-apocalyptic landscape.
A centrepiece for this would-be stage production was to be Sweet Thing/Candidate/Sweet Thing, which I wrote using William Burroughs's cut-up method.
You write down a paragraph or two describing several different subjects creating a kind of story ingredients-list, I suppose, and then cut the sentences into four or five-word sections; mix 'em up and reconnect them.
You can get some pretty interesting idea combinations like this. You can use them as is or, if you have a craven need to not lose control, bounce off these ideas and write whole new sections.
I was looking to create a profligate world that could have been inhabited by characters from Kurt Weill or John Rechy - that sort of atmosphere. A bridge between Enid Blyton's Beckenham and The Velvet Underground's New York. Without Noddy, though.
I thought it evocative to wander between the melodramatic Sweet Thing croon into the dirty sound of Candidate and back again. For no clear reason (what's new?) I stopped singing this song around the mid-Seventies.
Though I've never had the patience or discipline to get down to finishing a musical theatre idea other than the rock shows I'm known for, I know what I'd try to produce if I did.
I've never been keen on traditional musicals. I find it awfully hard to suspend my disbelief when dialogue is suddenly song. I suppose one of the few people who can make this work is Stephen Sondheim with works such as Assassins.
I much prefer through-sung pieces where there is little if any dialogue at all. Sweeney Todd is a good example, of course. Peter Grimes and The Turn Of The Screw, both operas by Benjamin Britten, and The Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny by Weill. How fantastic to be able to create something like that.

The Bewlay Brothers
The only pipe I have ever smoked was a cheap Bewlay. It was a common item in the late Sixties and for this song I used Bewlay as a cognomen - in place of my own. This wasn't just a song about brotherhood so I didn't want to misrepresent it by using my true name.
Having said that, I wouldn't know how to interpret the lyric of this song other than suggesting that there are layers of ghosts within it. It's a palimpsest, then.
The circumstances of the recording barely exist in my memory. It was late, I know that. I was on my own with my producer Ken Scott; the other musicians having gone for the night.
Unlike the rest of the Hunky Dory album, which I had written before the studio had been booked, this song was an unwritten piece that I felt had to be recorded instantaneously.
I had a whole wad of words that I had been writing all day. I had felt distanced and unsteady all evening, something settling in my mind. It's possible that I may have smoked something in my Bewlay pipe. I distinctly remember a sense of emotional invasion.
I do believe that we finished the whole thing on that one night. It's likely that I ended up drinking at the Sombrero in Kensington High Street or possibly Wardour Street's crumbling La Chasse. Cool.

Lady Grinning Soul
Mike Garson's piano opens with the most ridiculous and spot-on re-creation of a 19th Century music hall 'exotic' number. I can see now the 'poses plastiques' as if through a smoke-filled bar. Fans, castanets and lots of Spanish black lace and little else. Sexy, mmm? And for you, Madam?
This was written for a wonderful young girl whom I've not seen for more than 30 years. When I hear this song she's still in her 20s, of course.
A song will put you tantalisingly close to the past, so close that you can almost reach out and touch it. The sound of ghosts again.

Win
This is not, you may be speechless to learn, an ode to Winifred Atwell, though I almost wish it were for she was a real winner. In the Fifties in England it was virtually impossible for a ten-year-old to hear boogiewoogies and rags unless our Winifred was playing them on her 'other' piano.
At home in Trinidad she'd been brought up with blues and R&B and had played it for the American GIs who were based at what is now the main airport. Winnie was the first black artist in Britain to sell one million records. She was tops.
No, this song is about, er, winning. David Sanborn is on sax. He was experimenting with sound effects at the time and I'd rather hoped he would push further into that area, but he chose to become rich and famous instead. So he did win really, didn't he?

Some Are
A quiet little piece Brian Eno and I wrote in the Seventies. The cries of wolves in the background are sounds that you might not pick up on immediately. Unless you're a wolf. They're almost human, both beautiful and creepy.
Images of the failed Napoleonic force stumbling back through Smolensk. Finding the unburied corpses of their comrades left from their original advance on Moscow. Or possibly a snowman with a carrot for a nose; a crumpled Crystal Palace Football Club admission ticket at his feet. A Weltschmerz [world weariness] indeed. Send in your own images, children, and we'll show the best of them next week.

Teenage Wildlife
So it's late morning and I'm thinking: 'New song and a fresh approach. I know, I'm going to do a Ronnie Spector. Oh yes I am. Ersatz, just for one day.'
And I did and here it is. Bless. I'm still enamoured of this song and would give you two Modern Loves for it any time. It's also one that I find fulfilling to sing onstage. It has some nice interesting sections to it that can trip you up, always a good kind of obstacle to contend with live.
Ironically, the lyric is something about taking a short view of life, not looking too far ahead and not predicting the oncoming hard knocks. The lyric might have been a note to a younger brother or my own adolescent self.
The guitars on this track form a splintery little duel between the great Robert Fripp and my long-time friend Carlos Alomar.

Repetition
By virtue of the instrument's classical baggage, Simon House's violin touches a vein of pure Goth on this recording. There's a numbness to the whole rhythm section that I try to duplicate with a deadpan vocal, as though I'm reading a report rather than witnessing the event. I used to find this quite easy to accomplish.
I decided to write something on the deeply disturbing subject of wife abuse in the manner of a short-form drama.
I had known more instances of this behaviour than I would have preferred to have been made aware of and could not for the life of me imagine how someone could hit a woman, not only once but many, many times.

Fantastic Voyage
It's almost quaint, this one. It has a strong feel of the Fifties variety show to it. A cavil in passing - if I'd been in the position of the mid-Sixties Rolling Stones, I definitely would have gone on the Sunday Night At The London Palladium show's revolving stage.
They had refused to stand on the roundabout with the other acts at the end of the show, as it didn't fit in with their rebellious image. I was surprised to read that the American entertainer Judy Garland also refused a whirl, as she was too emotionally upset. Who knew?
I would have been shyly clawing my way past Jimmy Tarbuck to get on. I remember my mother being excited about the first time this show appeared on television in 1955.
My father had bought our set for Princess Elizabeth's coronation in 1953 and it had opened up a new world for us. Guy Mitchell was apparently an exciting part of this world as my mother went all schoolgirl when he came on screen and sang She Wears Red Feathers (And A Hula Hula Skirt).
This song's chord structure (Fantastic Voyage, I mean, not She Wears Red Feathers) appeared on the album Lodger in two forms. First, as it appears here and then further in as Boys Keep Swinging (they were men's dresses, I tell you). Both the tempo and top-line melody are rewritten.
I did this again on the album Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps). It proved nothing. Thinking about it, Guy Mitchell would have done this song proud.

Loving The Alien
I'm trying to come up with a little-used word for each song entry. I've not got one for this song. And this song is not, it may surprise you to know, another ode to little green Martians. Oh, recidivism, that'll fit.

Time Will Crawl
There are a host of songs that I've recorded over the years that for one reason or another (clenched teeth) I've often wanted to re-record some time in the future. This track from Never Let Me Down is one of those.
I've replaced the drum machine with true drums and added some crickety strings and remixed. I'm very fond of this new version with its Neil Young of Shortlands accents. Oh, to redo the rest of that album.
One Saturday afternoon in April 1986, along with some other musicians I was taking a break from recording at Montreux studios in Switzerland. It was a beautiful day and we were outside on a small piece of lawn facing the Alps and the lake.
Our engineer, who had been listening to the radio, shot out of the studio and shouted: 'There's a whole lot of s*** going on in Russia.'
The Swiss news had picked up a Norwegian radio station that was screaming - to anyone who would listen - that huge billowing clouds were moving over from the Motherland and they weren't rain clouds. This was the first news in Europe of the satanic Chernobyl.
I phoned a writer friend in London, but he hadn't heard anything about it. It wasn't for many more hours that the story started trickling out as major news.
For those first few moments it felt sort of claustrophobic to know you were one of only a few witnesses to something of this magnitude.
Over the next couple of months a complicated crucible of impressions collected in my head prompted by this insanity, any one of which could have become a song. I stuck them all in Time Will Crawl. That last sentence rhymes.

Hang On To Yourself (live)
Ziggy and the Spiders had played around 50 UK shows total, and this Santa Monica performance, from October 20, 1972, would be our 12th in America.
Although of only bootleg quality and despite the drums and bass being casually miked, I hope you can feel our real thrill here of presenting the band to a radio audience for the first time. I necessarily took the most centre-stage position as easily as an old ham from Bromley Repertory would, though in reality I was deadly nervous.
This was our first live American radio broadcast, so it was a big deal. We fluffed a lot of stuff that night, but the enthusiasm and pride stand 10ft tall.
One astounding thing about Mainman, my management at the time, is that for the 18 months of the Spiders' life-cycle (and after, actually) they never arranged for us to play anywhere in Europe where Ziggy was a proverbial monster. No tours, no shows, not even Paris.
I never understood that and was pretty miserable about it at the time, but now realise how naive and unprepared my management was for the serious job of actually managing.
© David Bowie 2008.

The WILDHEARTS live, Madrid Sala EL SOL

16th of October...

NASHVILLE PUSSY on tour

NASHVILLE PUSSY is touring now with GRADY in some dates... I guess. Nice gigs.

Go and check'em on your city... don't be a pussy, man.

LOOP stuff reissued

Hi folks. Just to let you know that one of our fave bands LOOP is announcing their stuff will be reissued soon. Don't be a dumbhole and get them while they last.

From their own words:

Dear All,

The Loop reissue program has finally found it's feet and there will new remastered versions of Heaven's End, Fade Out, The World In Your Eyes out on REACTOR in late 2008.
All of these have been commercially unavailable since 1991 on any format.

Initially, only cd versions will be available, but if there is enough interest, then vinyl will be considered.
All releases will be housed in a deluxe sleeve and include a booklet.

For Heaven's End and Fade Out : Each package will be 2xcds and include on CD1 remastered versions of the original LPs - direct from the original analogue masters. CD2 will include the relative John Peel Session and rare archive material from the era. There is not a great wealth of outtakes or different versions but we will strive to get everything we can find that warrants inclusion, all remastered from the original sources.
The World In Your Eyes : Will now be known as The World In Your Eyes Vols. I & II. These are of course compilations of all the original 12" vinyl singles originally released on HEAD and CHAPTER 22, plus compilation tracks and rare archive material.
To avoid confusion, the original Chapter 22 compilation of singles called "Eternal", which was issued against the wishes of Loop at the time, then reissued as "Dual" on Reactor in the 90's is now called The World In Your Eyes Vol. II.

Heaven's End will be the first release, just in time for it's 21st Anniversary in 2008. Fade Out and The World In Your Eyes Vols. I & II will follow shortly after.

That's all we can say for now..."

And later...

The album were due for releases on October 8th, but now have been delayed to problems with the artwork. They will now be released on November 17th.

Full Track Listings for HeavenÕs End and Fade Out re-issues

HEAVEN'S END
CD1
Soundhead
Straight To Your Heart
Forever
Heaven's End

Too Real To Feel
Fix To Fall
Head On
Carry Me

CD2
Rocket USA
Soundhead (1st Mix)
Head On (1st Mix)
Peel Session 1
Soundhead
Straight To Your Heart
Rocket USA

FADE OUT
CD1

Black Sun
This Is Where You End
Fever Knife
Torched

Fade Out
Pulse
A Vision Stain
Got To Get It Over


CD2
Black Sun (Feedback)
Torched (1st Mix)
Got To Get It Over (1st Mix)
This Is Where You End (House In The Woods Demo Mix no. 7)

Peel Session 2
Pulse
This Is Where You End
Collision

Fade Out Guitar Loops (House In The Woods Recording June 88)
I
II
III
IV
V

REACTOR present the long out of print albums by Loop remastered from the original analogue sources. These two releases will be released on the same day, scheduled October 08 release. They will be housed in a Mini Vinyl style card sleeve, which reproduce the original artwork which has been slightly modified to fit the gatefold format and including inner bags for both discs. All due care has been taken to release everything that is available to us in some chronological order, sadly a couple of tapes have been too badly damaged or lost to make a complete edition, but these will be the definitive editions...there won't be any 'special editions' to rip you off with, that's a promise. As for vinyl, it is planned to do a limited run of 180g pressings, but these will only be repros of the original lps without the bonus material. The bonus material will only be available on the Compact Disc issues and not for digital downloads, mainly because of the costs of having to pay ungodly rates on the Peel Sessions. So, the Compact Disc issues will be unique in their own right.

PITSHARK records

See what they can offer. Cool stuff at good prices. RUN FOR COVER!!!!

MUMAKIL: Begin Work On New Album for RELAPSE

Congrats!!!!

Switzerland’s MUMAKIL have recently entered the studio to begin work on their Relapse debut.
The follow-up to MUMAKIL’s debut full-length Customized Warfare, is being recorded in the band’s hometown of Geneva. MUMAKIL drummer Sebastien Schacher recently checked-in from the studio with an update: “We have finished with the drum, bass, and guitar tracks and will begin with vocals next. This new album will be even more brutal, faster, and "punkier" than our first CD Customized Warfare. There will be less "groovy-brutal-death" parts but more dark and crusty riffs supported by fast blast-beat attacks. We rather chose to propose the punk and brutal side of our music. The album will be titled "Behold the Failure" and it will be a kind of an anthem to our great world in perdition.“
MUMAKIL has written roughly 26 new tracks for Behold The Failure. Advance song titles include “Doomed”, “Brothers In Slavery”, “Black Sheep”, “Wish You The Worst”, “Mass Murder Institution”, and “Pigs On Fire”. Behold The Failure will see a Spring 2009 release date.
MUMAKIL has announced a number of November and December tour dates in Switzerland and France. A listing of dates and cities can be found here with more to be announced soon. MUMAKIL has also recently released three new tracks via the Relapse Records Slimewave 7” series and CD compilation. For more information on this series, please click here.

Who will save Rock'n'Roll: THE DICTATORS

I only can say THE DICTATORS didn't dissapoint anyone there... as expected as it couldn't be other way.



THE DICTATORS will always rule!!!

The DICTATORS live, Madrid Sala HEINEKEN

Now I'm goin' to check Handsome Dick Manitoba and Co live... long live THE DICTATORS!!!!

FiftyWattHead - 2008 - FogCutter

ASSKICKING!!! I'd say this is brutal and heavy!!!! None of the elements you'll first check when you hold the CD in your hands after spinning their FOGCUTTER CD will let you guess what is about to explode... well, maybe monicker gives you an idea... but in any way what you'll suffer meanwhile this amazing piece of music elapses...

The album is expected to be released by the 16th of this month and you better be smart if you don't wanna miss a copy of that!!!

WHITEOUT starts this album and let me tell you I like this song pretty much: it is a perfect warning to you... in the sense of "enter at your own risk"... blow your head.

Second tune FOGCUTTER, which titles the album is perfect to draw together any sense of the album into one song. Even I'd define some passages as epic-sludge...Soon you realise this album becomes one of your worst endless nightmares when SEADAWG continues to punish your head with another brick-punch direct to your stomach. Ouch... again!!!

And I can continue like this until the album ends... FOUR PINTS is another pretty heavy tuned cut... even it can be compared with some MELVINS angry song... a really good song which fit perfect to a soundtrack for a steamroller.

IRON CLAD is another song you'll love and enjoy... and when you finish this album, you'll realise you love the whole of it!!!

FiftyWattHead hails from Canada and they have been caught by the great uprising SIGNED BY FORCE label who has an exquisite palate for bands.

Thanks SIGNED BY FORCE for this... again!!!

Backyard Babies - Live

I was very pleased this time to get into on time because I had the chance to check supporting band BULLET.

Hadn't heard about them before and let me tell you this is a worth pain band. Their sound is simply (?) AC/DC oriented but dressed in metal (you know, leather, nail wristbands, etc...). And the result as a whole is a nice set in which you'll feel young again... if you're not, of course... but it was short. Even people asked for a second encore but people, in the end were there to check headlining BACKYARD BABIES.

And for the BACKYARD BABIES all I can say is they did what was expected: they rock, they've experience, they got their own appeal and Dregen is still the same as in the beginnings... Where the hell does this guy take the energy?!?!?! Don't be evil... I know what you're thinking... but if it were something bad this guy couldn't take all of these years touring and still alive so... you gotta think about another way... and yes: he looks like that kind of guy you never wanted as your daughter's boyfriend but he rocks. That's true. In fact, I really love THE HELLACOPTERS era when he was into. And if you let me say this, he is the guy who gives motion to the band. I expected more in this sense... they looked more static than earlier shows...

Another bad thing was the short set they played... for the discography they have. But it was cool anyway.

And sure they'll come back!!!

BACK YARD BABIES Live, Madrid, SALA HEINEKEN

BACKYARD BABIES Live, Madrid, SALA HEINEKEN

Moho - 2008 - Chotacabra

Back in black with spanish act MOHO. And once again a fully satisfactory album.

It starts with the track which titles the album, CHOTACABRA and it is just a follow up of a previous unfinished tune. Right in the balls.Second track is slightly different about what we are all use to listen from MOHO. SAN MAMES encloses not so sludge sounds, riffs and so on. It winks rock, whatever the shape you want it to give... if you could!! Anyway, it's a good way to spice a sludge album.

But don't trust anything you think at first sight: third track GARGANTOR comes with typical MOHO deals. Groovy dirty sludge on its right way.

DEMACRONCH is a bit difficult to swallow. It is far from being catchy... math riffs chain themselves, no matter what you expect you'll hear: they do.Tracklist is shown in this album like if it were a vinyl one: A and B side.

And it is this B side the one who starts with the dark and slow TERROR ULTRAMARINO, pretty similar to previous one.

Apparently primitive TORPEDO could be one of those delicious cakes for sludgers though main drum rhythm could bother a bit until the end...

ANCIAGO is an 17 minutes doomy piece which opens the door to the awesome GARAGE CHAMPION, that ends the album.

Get it now!!!!!!!!!

Hellacopters Live

Really cool!!! The Hellas played around an hour and a half. And they did it like they know: rock!!!
I know some Hellas followers like early days and they only played around five songs from early two albums. But who cares? The concert hall (SALA HEINEKEN) was completely full (and when I say full, I mean FULL!!). That was good for them but not for me because I like to see bands in small places... like their beginnings when they came eleven years ago. But that's the past and good bands gotta collect their awards.

I got late to the show so I lost supporting band so... no mention to them.

Well... it was nice to check them out though they're now more... forget it. Check them if you have the chance.

The HELLACOPTERS Live, Madrid, SALA HEINEKEN

The HELLACOPTERS Live, Madrid, SALA HEINEKEN

SOLD OUT!!!

Talks by itself...

Crawl Back In - great post-metal to download

Crawl Back In @ myspace

Get it on their myspace and pay attention to these guys...

Walls Of Mystery - Walls Of Mystery

Great self released work from this greek act with 15 cool tunes, no less.

Basically, WoM can be filed on stoner but this wouldn’t be fair for them and even for you: their sound is more “good ol’rock” flavored and voice transports you to ol’rock’n’roll bands; Hammond spiced “Take a Chance” or “End of Time” are an example; Slow “Scissor Tongue” will put you into a big hangover after a train of shots of bourbon in a far west saloon; “Harmless Axe” comes to mind early rock songs of Saint Vitus in the beginning; the same with “Another Deaf Season” but this spell brokes itself when a piano appears on scene. It fits perfect in the song, anyway.

“Gypsy Son” is a typical riff tune you cannot resist to listen to the end, though I’m sure you’ve heard similar ones before.

But this album is not perfect, to be a bit critical with my greek friends: “City Clown” is not into my likes… organ results a bit annoying though it’s clearly givin’ the circus attrezzo to the song…

If you try to guess where the heck they come from, you’ll never get right because they sound, both voice and instruments, like if they were truly 70’s southern rockers. You cannot assure the birth of this album is so recent.

After ninth song, cuts look more primitive, more simple. Seems like they’re from an early era of the band which is not necessary bad. The band assures they’re the same age as the others so… maybe it’s only my imagination… Examples of this opinion are “TV Brain” or “Drugstore Mama”.

This is a serious work. It doesn’t go only to get you by simple catchy tunes. They even go further to satisfy the most demanding rockers.

To end: a really interesting band I’m sure will have more cool stuff to offer in the future.

Devillac - 2008 - Three Hours To Coma

With a near-to-be disturbing cover, THREE HOURS TO COMA starts with the song which gives title to the album. Is one of those jammie relaxing songs with a bit of western taste... I guess.
But soon you'll enter into DEVILLAC's world with MAN WITHOUT A SPINE. I still remember when I first heard these guys and they're still in the same vein. Also I remember I filed their stuff pretty close to early QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, but they had their own way to understand that weird-stoner they made. Because I believe we all loved KYUSS, so it's supossed to be with QOTSA... but not in my case. I have to recognize sometimes I've got bored listening a whole album of their latest era. This won't happen in any case with DEVILLAC, who will preserve that essence that makes unique a band. Even if you think stoner-rock died some ago or if you firmly believe it never existed, you have to be aware this band is recommended to any into alternative rock scene.

Third song, PB, is one of my fave songs of this ten song album, together with following one. It is catchy, it is fuzzy, it'll make your feet stomp, it'll make you bang your head, it'll make you jump!!!
WINCHESTER is one of those alt-rock/stoner-rock tunes which remembers me one of those songs from that cool band called SUPERCRUISER.
Just to be a bit severe with my finnish friends, instrumentals like MENTAL explore sounds out of their yard... but they do it good!!!

KAMIKAZE could be a recurring tune, but with a wellknown riff so who cares?
WHITE KNUCKLE DRIVE is one of those songs that I'd love to be performed live. A truth fast stoner tune which I'm sure makes DEVILLAC explode over the audience anytime they unload their energy... remember early DOZER?

And to close this highly recommended sweet piece of music, the finishing touch of an almost 8 minutes track which fades out making you wishing more!!! All you have to do is spin again from the beginning to continue the trip...

Go rush for this CD before they run out HERE !!!

Sad News: BOSSK quits

Sad news to receive this info: BOSSK, one of the tips into post rock/ post metal scene, has announced they split up. To those of you who can enjoy these guys on one of their two last shows, don't miss the chance!!!!

from their myspace:

It is with great saddness that I have to type this, but Bossk is no more.
We have decided to call it a day.
Alex has decided that he no longer wants to
be involved in the band, and we cant continue without him.
There wont be a
new album, we have cancelled all the shows we had booked. This may come as a
shock to many people, but things havent been right in the band since Nick and
Rob left earlier this year.
I want to take this opportunity to say a huge
thank you to everyone that has supported us in our time together, we have made
some amazing friends, and shared some great times with a lot of people and none
of this we could have achieved on our own.
There are too many people to thank
for all their help, but special mention goes to everyone at Eyes Of Sound
Records for their constant support. Along with all the staff at Rock Sound
magazine.
The DVD will still be released in October, and we will also be
releasing all our records in a Trilogy before the end of the year. There is talk
of adding additional footage to the DVD, more news on this when its all
decided.
We WILL be doing two final shows, one in Leeds and one in London,
more details on this when we have stuff sorted.
Thanks for the good
times.
Tom

Sad news: The end of DUSTER69

After 9 years, 4 full-length CDs, 4 professional video-clips, 4 Splits and Vinyl Singles and a lot of compilation contributions (Rock Hard Magazine Germany, People Like you Stoner compilation to mention a few) the guys decided to end the chapter of Duster69. We are still proud about the last years and we want to thank all the fans and supporters from 1999-2008.

We say THANK YOU and you can order our farewell compilation NOTHING LEFT (unreleased and rare stuff from 1999-2008, fat full-coloured artwork, linernotes, guests appearances from Calamus, Disengage, Sparzanza, Mother Misery, Stonewall Noise Orchestra) for only 6 Euros right now.
We 4 still rehearse and jam in our Studio, so far only to have fun, and maybe you will hear new music under a new name in the future.

And check out the videoclip DUSTCRUSHER from 2001 on www.myspace.com/duster69

R.I.P. Isaac HAYES

Isaac Hayes was found the 10th of August lying dead beside a still-running treadmill in a downstairs bedroom by his wife at his own house in Memphis.

Isaac Hayes was one of the first black music superstars of the '70s and its voice is one of the most peculiar into (any) music scene.

If you ever loved music, you had to enjoy Mr. Hayes' tunes. I still listen sometimes SHAFT OST...

Rest In Peace, brother.

More details here...

Maligno - 2007 - Maligno

If we all talk about MALIGNO it is a must to mention the terms doom and southern rock, apart from store them among your best doom-stoner-rocks records on your shelves. That is, taking the cocktail shaker, putting equal parts of TROUBLE and BLACK SABBATH and shake it with the anger of DOWN, together along with late CORROSION OF CONFORMITY's tuned guitars... maybe... or so. In fact, MALIGNO was taking form meanwhile members were touring as a BLACK SABBATH's tribute band.

Anyway, if you are so lucky (clever if you ask for it now) to get MALIGNO's cd, you'll experience the same essence of doom into 2008, which will be the year of their second album. It will be the same feeling like if you discover today THE OBSESSED... if this could happen, heheheheh...

These "never born" arrive from Mexico, for you to know. And the sound could compete with the best producing into the scene all around the world, not for nothing is was produced by Mr. Colin Davis at Imperial Mastering L.A. Their product is a hard work with exceptional results. And I say exceptional because resulst are exactly what they wanted to mean.

Easy to understand if you check the cover of this CD: a big broken brow skull on black background together with in gothic font moniker MALIGNO. With this, what you get inside is what it is expected. Good vibe...

Some musical elements are new for the doomsters but they're not annoying on the final picture so don't worry about purity of this doom piece.

Ten tracks complete this album with no fissures and no filler. The album is almost 50 minutes and believe me you'll think it's shorter when the last track ends. And once you listen the album for a second time, some songs will make you wonder if this or that one you have heard it before some ago, and not because of similarities, which doom-stoner-rock riffs are always full of...

MALIGNO is currently releasing their new album so you better check them out the soonest!!!

POD PEOPLE 2008 new stuff

Our beloved australian stoner-sludge-doomsters POD PEOPLE threat the world with new stuff titled ’Mons Animae Mortuorum’ and will contain 10 songs.

Check their new song HERE and "rest in pieces"...

AISA Festival

If you are around Huesca the 25th, 26th and 27th of July, you gotta take some time to check AISA Festival.

The bummer is BURN ELEPHANT won't be there: their performance is cancelled due to personal issues.

TORMENTA's new stuff is out

You gotta check french band TORMENTA. They have new stuff out so get in touch with them before they get out of CDs!!!!

LOS LÜGERS video

You gotta check LOS LÜGERS video...

... and they playing live...

Time To Burn - 2007 - Is.Land

Excelent work by this band from Paris. Or may I say AWESOME.

It is not easy to label this album but let's store this band at the beginning as sludge metal (45%) and post-rock(55%). But it would be rough for a pure post-rocker listener... maybe post-hardcore or post-metal could be also used, but I don't believe it is accurate enough, IMO.

I would like to meet these guys before here in Madrid because I saw they were playing around here not a long ago. And if they sound live a half cool as on the album, a live set by TIME TO BURN gotta be crushing!!!!

They explore heavy recourring riffs which carries you down to their hell as if you were comfortably seated on a giant snake who steadfastly arrives to the true throne of evil. Their soft (?) interludes soon cut up to bring harder riffs like a rollercoaster of sludgie fun. Anger suppurates on every note without flaunting: Just seing really cool front cover (very calm and peaceful sensation) and artwork of the album (clean colors... in the same way as Cult Of Luna's "Salvation" cover art) which don't show off the power truck who is about to start when you slip their CD into the player.

There are some kind of play in this album. Its title is "Is.Land"; first song's title "Is", fifth song out of ten's title is "." and last song is titled "Land". Hadn't received any reference about this and well... maybe I'm becoming mad and wanna see ghosts everywhere!!

Some similarities can be done on the fly with the band BATTLEFIELDS... and I said "some"...

I love this album, guys. Come to Madrid soon... Maybe soon we can talk for a show around here, together with your neighbours TORMENTA...

Nevermind the DWARVES: here's TRIGGER EFFECT

Dissapointed to the bone... and angry. Yes: that's the feeling after the DWARVES gig.
Less than 60 minutes playing and no encore... Just note they didn't play DRUGSTORE!!!!!!

I looked like possessed... screaming... asking for more... but they didn't come out.

So it was time to calm down after showing my middle finger when entering the car... and there, there was that great TRIGGER EFFECT album waiting for me on the CD player. And it was somewhat like a magic pill.

The real thing is this album KICKS ASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! These guys are fücking crazy, I tell you!!!!

Right from the beginning this album ("Dare To Ride The Heliocraft") comes with a freak intro which makes you fear what comes later. Fuck labeling this album 'coz you won't be able: I bet you!!. Many many bands from many different scenes will go thru your head while listening this...

Even, vocally talking, you can find short passages where SLIPKNOT or MARILYN MANSON will come to your mind: distorted mic voice singing that way shoving among the sounds on tunes that will kick your balls hard.

The mix of styles is weird and FULLY recommendable to all of you. If you miss this album, you're nothing, dude.

Montreal based TRIGGER EFFECT have created one of the best albums this year on this great label SIGNED BY FORCE who is working so hard for the underground and hitting the bull's eye.

DWARVES live in Madrid

THE DWARVES are visiting Madrid tomorrow at Gruta 77

...and NOIZELAND will be there...

16 Tour cancelled

Bad news about the 16 Tour...

from their myspace site

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

TOUR BULLETIN AND NEWS.
Hey.
We could have taken the easy way out and just said "Due to personal reasons we are unable to complete our scheduled April 2008 Tour". But we owe you more than that as some of you have been down for our shit for a long, long, long ass time. Also our little world of metal is pretty close-knit and shit travels fast. The rumor mill has a unique way of spinning shit way off the path.
Truth is we have worked our asses off for this band in the last 7 months and we are firmly committed to take 16 as far as we can. I myself busted my ass to get this tour done and rolling just as CT from Rwake has when he grabbed the bull by the horns on this one and just ran. Every time there is some joy in our life if always gets handed a shit load of pain. It wouldn’t be 16 without it.
Below is something I wrote a week ago in case this had to happen. Truth is one of us is going to jail and one of us is having major sinus surgery. I had an attorney who promised me 13 months ago that this would "all go away" and that the case would be dropped, the cops had no probable cause, blah, blah, fucking blah. Well kids, it didn’t get dropped and unless some miracle happens in court this Thursday a few months in jail is the ONLY solution. That being said, read on. I think the letter below lays it all out.

I guess we’ll just get straight to the point… There were so many people who helped put our April tour together and worked their asses off setting shit up and making things happen. CT from Rwake was the most important person who spent countless hours seeing everything got handled and worked out. Unfortunately we can’t do the tour. Corley has been involved in a huge legal battle with the cops and courts and we were hoping the case was gonna get dismissed but it just seems these fuckers are on his shit and want blood. The year they offered him in jail has been talked down from nine months to four. This appears to be the best deal. Another had him not being able to leave the state for a year and involved in this huge almost impossible to complete year long drug program ran by the state. At the best he will get some sort of house arrest or find some program to be in from anywhere to 3 to 6 months but can keep him free so we can still record as planned over the next 6 months. Trust us this has been a huge and expensive battle and it appears that they are not budging from where they are right now. We’ll know more on the 20th. And if that wasn’t enough Bobby has to have a major sinus surgery which got scheduled for three days into the tour. The recovery time in the hospital is four days. It’s a pretty major deal. We can’t express how pissed we are and this just fuels the fire for us to keep doing what we have been doing with the direction of the music. All of us are 100% focused on -16- and we have been working on this tour since September. This is a huge disappointment to us as I imagine to some of you who were coming from far away to see the shows. Once Corley’s ordeal is done we will be out touring as much as possible. The new record will be finished and we will be killing it like never before in 2009. We should have some actual good news to report in a few weeks. If there is some miracle and the court shit goes a different way then something may happen sooner but we could not wait any longer to drop the bad news on you all. Hang tight, don’t be too pissed. We are not going in anywhere. The band is stronger than ever and we will be here for a long time. Thanks to all who worked their asses off on this shit we just can’t make the nightmare go away. We’ll see ya soon, -16-

We are not going anywhere. We have amazing opportunities in front of us that will make it so we can record and tour like we have never been able to before. This is just a brief setback in the life of 16. We are here to stay.
Later,
JxCx

Graveyard Rodeo

Graveyard Rodeo is working on recovering old stuff and put it on the streets. Meanwhile we receive some stuff G has sent to us, here it is our particular tribute to this great band.

White Lilium - 2007 - II: Chrysalis

OFFICIAL

myspace

A pretty difficult task we have here: where the hell you can store this band with?
This doesn't mean a bad thing, of course. It is just a way to recommend this EP to everyone into eclectic styles, but metal oriented.

In this sense, you can say this could be progressive trash metal spiced with death metal segments. But this classification is short enough for these young guys (20 years ARO). "II: Chrysalis" (you can get these songs officially from this link in mp3 format) is not stuff only for metalheads, though headbangers from different styles will find this a delicious cake. I really find some passages and riffs near to the feeling you get when you listen to BUCKETHEAD. But you gotta add some interesting lyrics, kinda twisted in my opinion but cool in the end together with melodies.

Maybe, as a result of a NoizeLand recommendation, this EP is a bit hard to swallow for a newbie into metal but after a second spin, you'll find some juicy parts to chew for a long while.

With the enlistment of a new bassist (previous one left the band due to personal and musical differences), WHITE LILIUM looks to the future with a pleasant smile on their faces as they know what they're doing is their correct musical expression of what they feel.

They'll be at the Emergenza Bandcontest, somewhen april '08. Good luck!!!