The Greasy Luck Brewpub and its adjoining rock venue,”the Vault” have hosted a number of notable rock and heavy rock acts lately. The venue is large enough to handle these acts yet intimate enough to offer ample viewing of the stage from anyplace in the room. My experiences there have been nothing but positive from the menu to the bartenders this place is a top notch premier venue.
On Friday, August 10th, the all female Judas Priest tribute band, JUDAS PRIESTESS entered the vault and tore the roof off. The opening act, MELIA, features a flashy guitarist/singer, with a quick hand and a raspy,soulful voice.
The elements of pop and alternative rock were there, as well as some punk and hard rock influences. it all blended together with a tight band behind her.
MELIA rips on her guitar but at times pulls back and allows her band to shine. In particular was the incredibly tight backing musicians, Angelo Marasco on bass, Jimmy Whitaker on rhythm guitar, and the show stopping percussionist, Erik Wheater. Overall MELIA put on a fantastic show and she clearly has the stage presence to rock any venue.
Up next was the mighty JUDAS PRIESTESS. These women hit that stage running and unleashed a torrent of molten priest classics and new material. Relentless and poised to strike they head banged their way through the set with a fiery rapid fire of hits. Undeniable is their passion as not only musicians but as true fans of JUDAS PRIEST. Between sets the powerhouse vocalist herself, Militia explained that she has always been a fan of JUDAS PRIEST and the band has even received the blessing of the metal god himself, Rob Halford.
JUDAS PRIESTESS distance themselves from other copy cat tributes as they clearly play the songs not true to the notes but true to the feel. The clothing and even the equipment is their own look and their own style. They just happened to paying tribute to JUDAS PRIEST. The band is clearly having as much fun performing as we are listening. The twin guitar attack of Josette and Rena Sands will melt you into submission.;While the rapid fire bass licks of Gyda Gash sync up with the blazing hellfire of drummer, Hillary Blaze. 10/10 Wolf Howls for Both Bands 10/10 Wolf Howls for The Vault CRY OF THE WOLF MAGAZINE
PRIMAL FEAR returns with their latest epic metal masterpiece, APOCALYPSE, on August 10th. Created in 1997 by vocalist RALF SCHEEPERS, and Bassist MATT SINNER, This German band has been a constant juggernaut of metal anthems and crushing ballads for over 20 years!
This trend continues on the inspiring APOCALYPSE. 11 scorching tracks of molten heavy metal ready to be pounded into your brain. Have no doubt that PRIMAL FEAR is one of the best metal acts on the planet.
Tracks like, “Kings Of Madness”, and “Hounds of Justice” slice right through your speakers.Epic tomes like ” Supernova” reveal a band at the height of its creativity. In short, this album is a true iconic representation of what modern heavy metal should sound like.
Most of their peers tend to veer off in different variations of the metal genre. But PRIMAL FEAR remains solidly entrenched in the magnificent metal they love to create.
Frontiers Records have scored another Power hit with the release of this album. Judging by the sonic presence embedded deep in this album, we can expect many more from PRIMAL FEAR.
Vince Neil of Mötley Crüe Headlines Inaugural Idaho Rockfest August 24-25
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho – Vince Neil, the legendary frontman
of Mötley Crüe, will perform all the Mötley Crüe iconic hits when he
headlines the inaugural Idaho Rockfest at Melaleuca Field August 24-25 in Idaho Falls. Idaho Rockfest will also host
performances by Great White, RATT, Dokken, Warrant, Sebastian Bach and Lynch Mob. CLICK
HERE for a two-day $99 pass.
Idaho Rockfest is produced by Ron Heyrend of EKR Entertainment. “It’s
going to be stellar weekend of iconic rock music at Melaleuca Field in
Idaho Falls! There’s never been a festival of this magnitude in our
region, so we’re looking forward to bringing A-list
rock and metal entertainment to their loyal fan base here,” Heyrend
shared.
The two-day lineup of rock acts have collectively sold more than 170 million albums!
August 24
RATT
Dokken
Warrant (more bands to be announced soon)
August 25
Vince Neil of Mötley Crüe
Sebastian Bach
Great White
Lynch Mob (more bands to be announced soon)
Vince Neil, the legendary front man of Mötley Crüe, is an international
superstar, accomplished businessman and heartfelt philanthropist. His
unmistakable voice leads some of the greatest rock songs of a generation
including “Wild Side,” “Shout at the Devil,”
“Home Sweet Home,” “Girls, Girls, Girls,” “Dr. Feelgood,” “Kickstart My
Heart,” “Same Ol’ Situation,” and many others. Raised on the tough
streets of Compton, California, Vince Neil fell in love with music as a
child, developing a broad vocabulary that ranged
from classic Motown to hard rock. As a teenager, he began performing
with local bands and soon discovered both a passion for the stage and a
natural talent as a singer and performer. He fronted the popular band
Rock Candy before reuniting with high school
buddy Tommy Lee in 1981, establishing his spot in rock and roll history
with the formation of Mötley Crüe. Mötley Crüe’s epic 34‐year run
included countless multi‐platinum releases, more than 22 hit singles,
100 million albums sold and dozens of global tours
with sold out arenas, inclusive of some of the largest venues in the
world. The band completed “The Final Tour” on New Year’s Eve 2015,
closing the book that told the story of their iconic career. Despite the
Mötley Crüe departure from the rock world, however,
Vince Neil shows no sign of slow down, continuing to carry on with the
unending “The Legacy Continues Tour”. Neil continues to perform all the
classic Mötley Crüe hits with select cuts from his three solo albums.
Additionally, this badass performer is working
on new music, and has hinted about performing some of it during this
tour: “I’ll say that we are recording some stuff for a new record this
year,” he said in a Loudwire interview in January. “You often hear some
surprises at our shows. I don’t want to give
away some of those surprises…The music is exciting. It’s good, fun,
nasty, raw energy and great songs.” Presently, Neil remains primarily
occupied answering the call to his immense following with shows
internationally in conjunction with the culmination of
his fourth solo album. Besides being an international superstar, Neil
is an accomplished businessman and heartfelt philanthropist. He manages
to own several restaurants and his own brand of both tequila and vodka.
Certainly not least, his efforts have rallied
millions of dollars for a non‐profit organization, The Skylar Neil
Memorial Foundation, in tribute to the unfortunate loss of his daughter
to cancer in 1995. In January of 2017 Vince Neil is back in the TV
spotlight once again, as a contestant on NBC’s The
Celebrity Apprentice, featuring new host Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Continuing The North American leg of their 2018 worldwide by Blood we Tour, The Ross The Boss Band will roll Into New Bedford Mass to tear apart the Vault on Wednesday, June 27th. For Ross it is a continuation of his assault on the metal masses. For vocalist Marc Lopes it is a victorious home coming, as he hails from New Bedford. The ultimate tale of a local musician who worked his ass off and achieved the ultimate gig.
We talked with Ross recently about his latest offering, By Blood Sworn. “Metal is starting to change” Ross States as our conversation begins. We are doing our part he expresses. By Blood Born is an incredible collection of classic heavy metal raise your fist anthems. Marc Lopes is clearly a perfect fit for Ross’ incendiary guitar work. Hands down this is one of the best sounding metal albums we have heard so far this year. Ross expressed his desire to play at least 4 or 5 of the new songs in addition to the classic Manowar catalog. ” We have to play some of the new ones of course but we also have to get to the Manowar songs. Everything is in a good spot now for us. The record is selling and it is unlike any of the others. It has “legs”, which is what we call it in the business but this record stands on its own.”
Listening to the album, “Devil’s Day”, “Play Among the Godz” stand out as future classic iconic songs. Each song is a whirlwind unto itself of total metal. If your in the New Bedford Mass area on June 27th you will hear the sound and the fury of Ross The Boss!
Hail And Kill Indeed
Blood Born
10/10 Wolf Howls
Cry Of the Wolf Magazine
www.Rosstheboss.com
California sludge/doom outfit AMAROK debut their first full length in partnership with Translation Loss Records entitled “Devoured”. With four epic and expansive tracks spanning almost 70 minutes, AMAROK take their listeners on a sorrowful journey of epic proportions. Vast and powerful, AMAROK prey on your darkest phobias imparting the perception of nearly drowning, the claustrophobic sensation of being held under water until the last second when released and gasping for air. Each track delivers focused and fearless journeys through harrowing, metallic riffs and rips through bleak, unsettling atmosphere while cataclysmic waves of bass and drums pummel from the inside out.
“On ‘Devoured’, AMAROK combine melodiously haunting funeral doom metal with painfully distorted, gnawing drone sounds. Feels like disturbing Khanate interpret Pallbearer-style hymns of grief and despair!” – Doom Metal Front
AMAROK formed in Chico, California in 2009. They released their first self-titled EP in October of 2010 followed by three well-received splits with Hell, Enth and Pyramido. AMAROK have played multiple tours up and down the west coast with notable bands such as Cough, Bell Witch, Floor, Samothrace, Noothgrush, Weedeater, Atriarch and more.
“Devoured” was produced by Sanford Parker and mastered by James Plotkin.
“With the band moving towards long form doom with complex, evolving riffs and dynamic changes, collectively we felt that our material warranted a call to Sanford Parker”, recalls bassist/vocalist Brandon Squyres. “We booked a short west coast tour to meet with Sanford in LA at Big Bad Studios and spent a week collaborating with him on material and playing with his extreme noise style to compliment the intensity of the new songs. We then sent the recordings to James Plotkin to master, and spent a month dialing everything in to perfect the albums enormous live sound”.
There are few bands around in the slow paving music genre with a programmatic name. So with DOOMED, who are originated in Germany’s far eastern province Saxony. They have released six full- length albums within six years on the respected Russian doom metal label Solitude Productions. Their newest effort is called “6 Anti-Odes To Life” serving six plus one lengthy tracks about representative topics that could lead to reject human existence and life at all.
“On ‘6 Anti-Odes To Life’, DOOMED take you on a multi-faceted trip through the horrors of life combining old school doom and death metal with vast, progressively evolving soundscapes full of tons heavy guitar riffs and beautifully chanting leads. It’s both a melancholic symphony and a sonic statement to defend life against the real existing adversities.” – Doom Metal Front
“There are so many situations in life I despise”, says DOOMED mastermind and multi-instrumentalist Pierre Laube, “like death, parting, ignorance, competition and greed, the ruination of Mother Earth, religion, uncertainty, sickness, threat, war – a never ending story. This is what I tell about in ‘6 Anti-Odes …’ but in the final seventh track – ‘Layers – Ode to Life’ –, which is proving in melancholic manner that I actually love living. I’m virtually absorbing life, embracing it – I want to stay! Finally, this instrumental song dissolves the album’s overall mood. Feel invited to read my thoughts about it in the booklet!”
“6 Anti-Odes To Life” is way more melancholic and leaving the progressive death metallic paths entered on “Anna”, DOOMED’s acclaimed predecessor. Pierre returns to the essence of doom taking much time to evolve a massive wall of sound.
“Of course, there are nasty parts as well”, Pierre adds. “It still matters to be uncomfortable, and to combine layer after layer, melodies and create connections. There’s so much cinema in my head when creating music. The album is both a step back, stylistically, and forward when talking about new influences like pointed post-metal elements, vast soundscapes and loads of flow, which I dig a lot.”
In 2018, DOOMED is far away from the standard death doom metal of their early days writing ambitious multifaceted and highly empathetic music that is channeling anger and frustration in pure sonic beauty. For the first time Pierre is singing the clean parts himself proving that his vocal skills are as impressive as the abyssal growls. Adding his brother Yves into the compositorial process, who is playing all main guitar leads on the album, DOOMED has become something like a real band leaving its strict one-man project character.
Guest musicians:
Willjiam Nijhof (vocals – Faal)
Andreas Kaufmann (vocals – Charon, Hatespawn, Purgatory)
The rite is a 9-track vortex of majestic heaviness laced with an evocative psychedelic haze, whereby classic melodies meld with fuzz-drenched riffs cultivating an enticing potion of technicolour wickedness. Although a grooving heavyweight tone drives throughout the rite, a darkened presence is forever evident, hexing you into DRUG CULT’s realm.
“DRUG CULT’s self-titled debut serves female fronted, hypnotically rolling occult doom metal unmistakably nourishing itself from the billowing womb of the stoned master wizard!” – Doom Metal Front
Formed at the edge of Mt. Jerusalem in the hills of Mullumbimby, Australia, DRUG CULT is the alchemic workings of guitarist Vin Steele (ex-Wolfmother, Megaritual, Sun Of Man), vocalist Aasha Tozer, drummer Dale Walker (Megaritual, Sun Of Man) and bassist Maggie Schreiber. Their elemental craft has been brewing since April 2015, shaping the vision of a heavy celestial voyage through atmospheric sound connection.
The band’s first offering was recorded live at Rocking Horse Studios, Byron Bay during Solstice December 2016, with George Carpenter at the recording and production helm and mastered by Brian Lucey of Magic Garden Mastering.
KING HEAVY’s “Guardian Demons” reflects the most visceral edge of their first EP, “Horror Absoluto”, and the sophisticated side of the self-titled debut but closer to traditional Heavy Metal and to the darkest Epic Doom.
“Once more, KING HEAVY showcase Chilean doom power on ‘Guardian Demons’, which is deeply rooted in 80s epic metal and characterized by Luce Vee’s unique extroverted vocal style!”
Two years in the making, the album leads to the most classic sound of Trouble, Judas Priest melted with the sound of Northern Europe as Minotauri or Reverend Bizarre. Featuring HOODED PRIEST’s singer Luce Vee and founding PROCESSION member and ex-bassist Daniel Saa, the band will embark on an European tour in October 2018 performing at the Doom Over Vienna festival among others.
Tracklist:
1. Guardian Demon (7:12)
2. (Death is but an extreme form of) Narcosis (6:58) 3. Doom Shall Rise (6:59)
THE RED COIL released the first three tracks Ep “Slough Off” in 2009. On April 2013, their debut album “Lam” came out including ten songs, recorded and mixed by Andrea Garavaglia (Mesmerize) and mastered by Jacob Bredahl (Hatesphere, Allhelluja) at Dead Rat Studio (Denmark). The album received very good feedback and positive reviews. The Red Coil played a lot of live shows in the north of Italy, very appreciated for their energy and raw attitude. In autumn 2015 the bass player Toni decided to left the band, when a lot of new songs was quite ready. The Red Coil announced the new bass player Gelindo in December 2015 and immediately started working and arranging the new material. The new album, “Himalayan Demons”, is highly recommended to fans of Iron Monkey, Spiritual Beggars or Corrosion Of Conformity.
“THE RED COIL unleash the ‘Himalayan Demons’, serving a sludge-infested groovy southern metal/stoner bastard!” – Doom Metal Front
YOB, the Oregon-based trio released “Our Raw Heart”, the band’s eighth full-length album and Relapse Records debut.
“‘Our Raw Heart’ is digging deep turning hidden emotions inside out – it’s the most possessive album YOB have ever been recording!” – Doom Metal Front
“We’re very excited to share this new music”, says singer and guitar player Mike Scheidt. “We gave it everything we have. Going from an uncertain future in the beginning of 2017, to writing and then recording a new album at the end of it, it was quite a year. We’re very grateful. We’re looking forward to hitting the road again and celebrating decibels and good cheer with friends worldwide. Can’t wait.”
Photo credit: Orion Landau
“Our Raw Heart” was co-produced by the band and Billy Barnett at Gung Ho Studio in Eugene, Ore., with mastering handled by Heba Kadry (The Mars Volta, Diamanda Galas, Slowdive).
Sicily’s HAUNTED drop second album called “Dayburner”, which has been recorded by Carlo Longo at NuevArte Studio in Catania and mastered by the renowned producer Brad Boatright (Sleep, COC, Yob, Obituary, among others) at Audiosiege Engineering in Portland, Oregon.
Singer Cristina Chimirri comments: “When we started to develop the songwriting process of ‘Dayburner’, we wanted to talk about the course, the unexplored passage between the beginning and the end. Without necessarily imposing fixed points, but tracing a material circle and an anti-material ascensional progression.”
Bass player Frank Tudisco adds: “‘Dayburner’ is actually the representation of a day, not properly a day as we commonly know it, but something that become immediately night right after the first flashes of the sun. The light of this sun is too weak and can’t afford to challenge the strength of the darkness. Only thanks to minimal differences in tonal contrasts we are able to distinguish the sun from the moon. We can actually say that all the proper attributes of the day miserably fail here.”
“HAUNTED is the Sicilian answer to grand female fronted bands like Windhand or Alunah. Find top quality, stoically rolling doom metal on ‘Dayburner’, which is filled to the brim with catchy guitar riffs and Cristina Chimirri’s exceptionally soulful vocals!” – Doom Metal Front
The evocative cover artwork has been created by the well-know artist and photographer Deborah Sheedy.
“The All Penetrating Silence” by Norwegian band KITE is digitally released via Sludgelord Records. A vinyl release is also planned for the near future.
The band was originally formed in 1998, and went through different lineups until today’s three‐piece got together in 2007. KITE released numerous DIY demos and EP’s in the early years, while building up a following with frequent touring all over Scandinavia, but first and foremost Britain, where they pulled off 5 tours. In 2007, starting over with a fresh and heavier sound, their second album – “The Hook, The Line, The sinker” – was released on their own label 60/40 Records. Since then the band has been working on and off in between their other band projects, but 2018 sees KITE back at it full throttle, stronger and heavier than ever.
“KITE play non-standard sludge/post-metal, which is much too groovy and diverse to fit the common genre trademarks. ‘The All Penetrating Silence’ is an ultra-heavy riff monster, blues-soaked and as infinitely reverberating as the cosmological radiation.” – Doom Metal Front
Recorded summer 2017 at Amper Tone, Oslo, by Kim Lillestøl
London’s fine EYE OF SOLITUDE are having their fifth full-length album called “Slaves To Solitude” out presenting the band in top form when it comes to crawling funeral doom metal that is soaked with utter grief and despair. Feels like being trapped in your own mental abyss in search for the way out of illimitable darkness and sorrow.
Comes with five beautifully arranged lengthy tracks full of heartbreaking melodies, monolithically drifting riffage and jaw dropping growls. “Slaves To Solitude” leaves me isolated and shattered in a world of decay and nihilism. Highly recommended for fans of Godgory, Mournful Congregation and Shape Of Despair. (SM)
When MIST first released their 2013 Demo as an all-female band they never dreamed it would become recognized around the globe for its unique dark harmonies contrasted by powerful feminine vocals. Their music is natural, raw and the riffs reflect the themes of their lyrics – nature, spells, death – which are more often than not deeply inspired by the occult. MIST’s traditional doom sound builds on the legacy of legendary bands like Black Sabbath, Pentagram, Candlemass, Coven, Saint Vitus and others.
In 2014 the band signed with Soulseller Records and released the “Inan” EP in 2015, as well as their 2013 Demo, which had previously been sold-out twice. They have since performed with a number of legendary artists, such as Manilla Road, Jex Thoth, Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats and have owned the stage at Bloodstock, Hammer Of Doom, MetalDays, Malta Doom Festival and more.
Now, the Slovenian priestesses of doom release ten brand new songs on their first full-length album titled “Free Me Of The Sun”. Staying true to their traditional doom roots the band builds upon strong riffs with bright female vocals and epic guitar solos.
The album was recorded in Studio Ork, produced and mixed by Benjamin Kic and mastered by Patrick W. Engel – Temple of Disharmony. With this release MIST are starting a new chapter on their path in the depths of doom.
Black Bow Records have re-released the classic split album between doom bands CONAN and SLOMATICS. The album is produced on limited edition ogre green vinyl. There’s nothing left to say about this stunning collaboration of doom but that two volcanos have risen from the depths of England permanently spilling earth shaking sonic lava off the speakers to crush your mangled bodies and tortured souls! (SM)
SOLILOQUIUM from Sweden are having their second full-length album, “Contemplations”, out via Transcending Records. Once again produced by Mike Watts (Sleepwalkers, Terminus), who also handles the drums and electronics this time. “Contemplations” is a more varied release off the death/doom metal standards combining heavy guitar riffs and abyssal growls with acoustic parts as well as dreamy clean vocals. The typical Stockholm darkness is omnipresent on this album, which is filling the void of the Katatonia hiatus.
“Contemplations” track list: 1. Chains 2. Catharsis 3. Streetlights 4. Unfulfilling Prophecy 5. 22 6. For the Accursed 7. In Affect 8. Wanderlust
SOLILOQUIUM is a three-piece melodic doom/death metal band from Stockholm, Sweden, featuring members of Desolator and Ending Quest. The band began in 2011 and have 3 EPs out, which were all released on Transcending Records as well as their debut full-length “An Empty Frame” (2016). SOLILOQUIUM’s music draws clear influence from old school doom metal bands such as Katatonia, Anathema, Paradise Lost, and October Tide.
Formed in Canberra in 2014, WITCHSKULL grabbed the attention of the hirsute, underground hordes with their first demo in 2015. The band’s debut album, “The Vast Electric Dark”, emerged soon after to great acclaim: its thunderous, turbo-charged squall striking an instant, devilish chord with headbangers hungry for life-affirming riffs, a dash of grubby-fingered authenticity and lashings of supernatural venom. Honed and nurtured in sweaty practice rooms and on stages across the band’s native Australia, the WITCHSKULL sound has subsequently evolved, leading to “Coven’s Will”: a sophomore outing that looks certain to thrust the three-piece to the upper echelons of the stoner world. Recorded at Studio G in Brooklyn, NYC, with producers Billy Anderson (Neurosis, Sleep, Buzzoven) and Jason Fuller (Blood Duster) and mixed at Jason’s Goatsound Studio in Melbourne, “Coven’s Will” has mutated into a snarling, muscular acid-metal monster.
“Tony (McMahon, bass) is from New York originally, so we wanted to make the album in his home town”, Joel explains. “Sonically, we knew Billy would be able to capture huge tones and we knew Jason would be able to mix it how we wanted. Jason did our first record, so having him there was a huge bonus. We wanted to make the album as organically as possible, going live to tape without click tracks and capturing most of it in the first or second take. Working with Billy was definitely an experience we’ll never forget. He also introduced us to Erica Stoltz (Sanhedrin, ex-Amber Asylum), who sang on two of the songs, and she did an amazing job.”
Boasting eight, groove-driven slabs of infernal fury, “Coven’s Will” pulls off the neat trick of sounding simultaneously timeless and timely, as the fundamental principles of our beloved genre are fed through the Australians’ pitch-black prism and spat out in a shower of wild, hallucinatory devil blues. Ranging from direct, bowel-rattling assaults like opener “Raven” and the none-more-Sabbathian crescendos of “Priestess” to the more expansive, psycho-delic sprawl of “Son Of The Snake” and epic finale “The Empty Well”, it’s an album driven by dark thoughts, twisted nightmares and the looming shadow of mortal madness. According to vocalist/guitarist Marcus De Pasquale, WITCHSKULL subsist on a thematic diet of “the Occult, fantasy, dreams, the Moon and the Elements, isolation, loneliness, depression, mental illness, regret and time – all the good, bleak things in life!”
A crazy-eyed howl of discontent from the sun-scorched wastelands of Australia, “Coven’s Will” is a ferocious statement from a band that seem to be hitting their stride and gaining power by the hour. Newly signed to Lee Dorrian’s revered Rise Above Records imprint, WITCHSKULL have found the perfect home from which to spread their irresistible gospel of unholy heaviness. Hell’s gates have opened, the riffs are coming and the coven compels you to surrender your soul. (Dom Lawson, 2018)
The calling of doom metal is not for those who seek an easy path to glory. For those drawn to its flame, it is the awakening of Black Sabbath’s dark spirit through the music that is its own rich reward. And for those who truly walk the path of doom, it is a journey without end, a pilgrimage that eventually becomes part of the traveller’s very bones and being.
For Hampshire doom metal maniacs WITCHSORROW, it has become a life’s work. Formed by frontman Necroskull and bassist Emily Witch over a decade ago (later completed by drummer Wilbrahammer), and with a mission to celebrate the traditions of doom as practiced by such puritans as Black Sabbath, Cathedral, Saint Vitus, Trouble and Candlemass, across three albums their hymns to the void have earned them a place among the genre’s elite. Obsessed with doom, proudly upholding the heavy metal roots of the genre, and with a lyrical outlook that takes in madness, misanthropy, witchcraft, evil, and no less a topic than the destruction of the Earth itself, the trio are as much about the worship of doom as they are pouring scorn on a world of hate and envy.
And as the world continues to live in ever-more interesting times, a new collection of hymns emerges. Those familiar with the history of witch trials will already know of the Malleus Maleficarum, the dreaded book by fifteenth-century Catholic clergyman Henricus Institoris that detailed and endorsed the torture and extermination of witches by violent means. But, like the album, it also went by another name: Hexenhammer.
Written during a hermetic period following an intense run of live shows, and recorded at Skyhammer studio with long-time co-conspirator Chris Fielding (Conan, Primordial, Electric Wizard), the songs find WITCHSORROW continuing to explore the dark corners of doom, and illuminate them with the blinding light of sheer heavy metal forged of the strongest steel. It’s an almost anthemic soundtrack to the end of the world lyrics.
“I’ve always been obsessed with the end of the world,” explains Necroskull. “On previous albums, I’ve been wanting it to happen, because I was caught in a very dark place. On ‘No Light…’, I was almost angry that it hadn’t happened. This time, it’s a massively confusing time where we’re basically staring at it and waiting for it. I have no solutions. There are none to be had.”
If 2018 needs a soundtrack to its madness, WITCHSORROW have provided it. Heavier, darker, doomier, and more metal than ever before, one of doom’s leading lights have made the perfect album for our times.
DOPETHRONE plays “Slutch Metal”, a foul Canadian mix of yellow snow, crackhead diarrhea, blood, tears and broken dreams. This new album “Transcanadian Anger” follows in with the trio’s widely acclaimed fourth full-length “Hochelaga” (2015) and pushes their pervasive, filthy brand of sludge metal to its most extreme and intoxicating levels. This is eight punishing tracks of the highest order, a no-frills-given riff carnage with all the sleaze and groove you can expect from a DOPETHRONE record, while embracing the band’s punk and hardcore roots as never before.
It was late summer of 2013, Otu and RiQ met on the web and quickly discovered that their music interests were the same. Wasting no time, they formed a band, this machine called KAISER. Their initial session showed that their chemistry was more than right, it was supreme. They recruited Pex, who had played bass in the same band as RiQ in the past.
The band worked with legendary producer Hiili “Carbon” Hiilesmaa on “1st Sound”, most notable for his work with fellow Hellsinki rock legends HIM.The result is a crushingly heavy, super tight and melodic stoner rock album that is sure to hit home with fans of Kyuss, High On Fire, The Sword and Red Fang.
Oak Island Records carved the fuzzed-out, riff fuelled energy of KAISER in vinyl and CD.
