BRAIN PYRAMID - "Chasma Hideout" | Stoner/Psychedelic Rock | 8,5/10

Wer auf die Hippie-Phasen der heiligen CATHEDRAL steht, auf die vergrasten Tieftöne von ELECTRIC WIZARD und fuzzigen 70er-Prog-Rock aus Italien abfährt, wird "Chasma Hideout", das neue Album von der Band BRAIN PYRAMID, lieben.
Abwechslung, auch in Speed-technischer Hinsicht, ist auf dem Release Programm. Mein persönlicher Lieblingssong ist "Lucifer" - antesten und bitte einen angemessenen Preis für die kurzweilige Album-Gesamtleistung auf der Bandcamp-Seite von Acid Cosmonaut Records investieren! Heavy Zeug!

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ENGLISH

Everybody into the hippie period of the holy CATHEDRAL, digging the weedy down tuned riffs of ELECTRIC WIZARD and fuzzed out 70s Prog Rock from Italy will love the new album, "Chasma Hideout", by BRAIN PYRAMID. Diversity is the motto on the whole release, also on the speed level. My personal favorite track is "Lucifer"- check it out and name a worthy price at the Bandcamp page of Acid Cosmonaut Records! This is heavy stuff! (SM)

acidcosmonautrecords.bandcamp.com

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SEPTIC MIND - "Rab" | Funeral Doom Metal | 8/10

SEPTIC MIND

"Rab"

Format: CD

Veröffentlichungstermin | Release Date: 06.10.2014

Land | Country: Russia

Genre: Funeral Doom Metal

Das dritte Vollzeitalbum der russischen Band setzt das Studium der Probleme fort, welche im Zusammenhang mit dem Wahnsinn der modernen Gesellschaft und apokalyptischen Erwartungen stehen. Jene findet man in der Gesamtstimmung des Albums und den Songtexten wieder, aber auch in den musikalischen Arrangements.
Dazu gehören die abwechslungsreiche Gestaltung der Tempi, Passagen, die von Meditation bis Raserei reichen, von stilgerechtem Funeral Doom Metal bis hin zu avantgardistischen psychedelischen Experimenten. SEPTIC MIND beeindrucken mit schwerer und düsterer Musik fernab von irgendwelchen Standards. (SM)

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The third full-length album by a Russian band continues to study the problems of insanity of modern society and apocalyptic expectations which were embodied both in the general mood of the album and its lyrics, as well as in in its musical part: tempo variations, passages from meditation to fury, from canonic funeral doom metal to avantgarde psychedelic experiments. And again Septic Mind amazes the fans of heavy, dark and nonstandard music.

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FOG: Limited Edition CD of Virginia Stoner/Doom Project out now!

"Wonderful combination of blues/psych/doom, this has every chance of being played to death ... ", Steve Rodger

"Beautifully crafted doom tinged psych that just oozes class! If your trippin' out on something exotic then this is the perfect soundtrack. Cosmic maaaan!", FDJ

"Chilled grooves, spacey vocals, doomy psych jams, what's not to like.", PJD

fogband.bandcamp.com

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Psychedelically layered Stoner Punk with touches of Doom?! LIGHTSABRES from Sweden plays it!

LIGHTSABRES is a one-man band from Luleå, Sweden, playing psychedelically layered stoner punk with touches of both post-rock and doom. The debut 9 track album Demons was recorded at home on a 4-track handrecorder to get the sound as raw and ragged as possible. It was released digitally in late November and on 12" and cassette in December '13 by Hink Inc. Records and 808 New York Tapes respectively.

https://www.facebook.com/lightsabres

https://lightsabres.bandcamp.com/

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Ripple Music to re-release POOBAH's "U.S.Rock" album in February 2014: Limited Edition already available now!

Legendary heavy psych masters POOBAH have just recently announced that Ripple Music will be re-releasing their 1976 album "U.S. Rock" in February, officially set to hit the UK stores on February 10th and in Europe on February 14th of 2014. But to celebrate the upcoming re-issue of "U.S. Rock" in advance, Ripple Music is now offering an exclusive Limited edition blue splatter vinyl package which includes the fully remastered LP with an 11 x 17 poster and download card, and also the CD version of the release, which features 4 previously unreleased bonus tracks! The blue splatter edition is a limited press run of 100 units.

You want to be the first to get hold of POOBAH's re-issued and hotly anticipated Seventies rock jewel before the rest of the world? Then this is your chance, the advanced Limited edition of Poobah's "U.S.Rock" is available on Ripple Music now: 

Order here! 

"U.S. Rock" is the second release from the mighty POOBAH (originally released in 1976) and the also the second to be re-issued by Ripple Music. The album features ten tracks in the original running order, remastered by T. Dallas Reed at HeavyHead Studios. This is the first time that this album has seen the light of day in almost forty years and the CD edition features four bonus tracks, including a blistering live rendition of “Steamroller”. Jim Gustafson, the Grand POOBAH himself, delivers a resounding set of six string heroics that should have seen him sitting alongside the greats of the time, and shows why he is the Wizard of Heavy Psyche!

For Fans of Led Zeppelin, Cream, Foghat, Deep Purple, Cactus, Leaf Hound, Uriah Heep, Blue Oyster Cult!

Track List:

1. Flesh Fantasies
2. Pullin' Me Down
3. Watch Me
4. Coast To Coast
5. Let's Rock
6. Thru These Eyes
7. Crazy
8. Keep On Rollin'
9. Right Out Of The Night
10. Out Of You

*Bonus tracks on CD*:

1. Your Way, My Way
2. Cold Blooded Lover
3. Enjoy What You Have (Alternate Mix)
4. Steamroller (Live)

Poobah is:

Jim Gustafson- Lead Vocals/guitar/songwriter

Lori Powers- Percussion/vocals

Eric Wright- Bass

Mike Fortino- Drums /backing vocals

Links:

www.poobahband.com  

www.facebook.com/pages/Poobah/139254842766375 

www.ripple-music.com

"U.S.Rock" by Poobah - re-released on Ripple Music - will be officially coming out in the UK on February 10th & in Europe on February 14th of 2014!

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"Aeonian", the second full-length from ETHEREAL RIFFIAN, elevates the Ukrainian onto the next level of musical progression

ETHEREAL RIFFIAN was formed in summer of 2010. After spending several years and experimenting with different musical styles, they have found sonic vibrations that sound in unison with ER's collective consciousness. "Shaman's Visions", the debut work of ER, was released in 2011 and the result of the long search.

Exactly one year later, the next release "Dkyil Khor (Sand Mandala)" was added to the band's discography. The twenty-minute meditational single was written for one of the expositions of the Arsenale-Biennale 2012 exhibition, which was devoted to the transience of time and the search of self.

The second full-length album called "Aeonian" is the band's most mature work, which unites all the best talents of its members. The eponimous book merged as a result of their intention to fully disclose the ideas and concepts of the album. While working on the narrative, ER realized that from now on books would become an integral part of the band’s creative work, for they let reinforce the images created by the music and inculcate them in the consciousness of the listeners.

The band's activity has two main objectives: to compose unconventional music, which is able to expand the frames of the listener's musical perception, and to shed light on the existence of a subtler plane, whose laws if understood properly may help to perceive the reality on a deeper level. In order to achieve the abovementioned goals, ER diligently work on each new release. That is exactly why the ones who get acquainted with the creative work of ER need to be very attentive.

"We sincerely hope that the message carefully integrated in our music is able to induce our listeners, and now our readers as well, to open up the new facets of existence and kindle the light of their true self, which will not dim even in the darkest nooks of Sheol." - ETHEREAL RIFFIAN



https://etherealriffian.bandcamp.com/

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HARSH TOKE launching the red hot group's unapologetic and unsophisticated psychedelic-blues into interstellar overdrive!

HARSH TOKE

"Light Up And Live"

Label: TeePee Records

Released: 22 November 2013

Psychedelic rockers HARSH TOKE explore sound and space through music. On the San Diego acid rock band's debut album "Light Up And Live", loud, heavy guitars, swimming bass lines and smashing drums warp to full throttle, cranking insanity, working together to launch the red hot group's unapologetic and unsophisticated psychedelic-blues into interstellar overdrive. Led by ripping pro skater and rip-roaring guitarist Justin “Figgy” Figueroa, HARSH TOKE are equal parts atmospheric and anarchic, merging raging, blind fury musicianship with unprecedented white-knuckle volume abuse.

Tense and surreal, HARSH TOKE's songs slowly build from hallucinatory haze into grand overtures of noise and feedback; a cosmic buffet of pounding, pummeling and punishing as if the ocean itself belched forth ornery, astral planes of sound. Heavy. Cosmic. Kinetic. HARSH TOKE lay down sizzling grooves with every needle on the soundboard pinned to the red. If Blue Cheer could be called "Louder than God" in 1968, forty five years later, HARSH TOKE can easily be pegged as "Louder than Satan." Run for your lives – into the din.

HARSH TOKE is here! "Light Up And Live" is the highly anticipated debut album from THE hottest California Psychedelic Rock band. Get on board now before this band blows the roof off of the underground hard rock scene (and blows the doors off of every venue in America)! HUGE BUZZ already happening with these awesome amp destroyers!

HARSH TOKE features gnarly lead guitarist and pro skater Justin “Figgy” Figueroa (Shredder of the Year?). The music/skate/X Games crossover potential HARSH TOKE harnesses is a 10 on a 10 scale!

"Light Up And Live" was recorded in San Diego by Brian Ellis (also of the prog-rock band Astra) and mastered by Carl Saff (Earthless, OFF!, Unsane).

U.S. tour dates in support of Light Up And Live are expected. This band will be on tour well into 2014!

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GRIT from Heidelberg serve Heavy Psychedelia on their yet released "Surge" EP

GRIT from Heidelberg, Germany, play heavy Psychedelic Rock with a heartfelt jam-based approach to songwriting and performance. They recently recorded an EP-sized demo, "Surge", which is freely available in digital form on the band's homepage.

GRIT is Daniele, Jörn & Eric.

For fans of SAMSARA BLUES EXPERIMENT, COLOUR HAZE and similar.

http://gritband.bandcamp.com
https://soundcloud.com/grit-from-hd/
https://www.facebook.com/grit.hd

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MINDWARP: Self-titled EP of instrumental Psych/Stonerrock band from Italy will be released in February

MINDWARP was born in 2012 in the wasteland of Brindisi, from the ashes of stoner and doom project, Southern Cult. The musical understanding of the trio and the desire to experiment with genres brought the band in search of a sound totally free from the rigors of any kind or limits. The band's sound is varied, with riffs and sounds that come from the desert rock, from acid blues, progressive and funk in an attempt to blend as much as possible the different musical influences of each component.

Release: 21 February 2014

MINDWARP is:
Andrea Antelmi - Bass
Vincenzo "Izzy" De Nigris - Guitars
Marco Mari - Drums

LISTEN & PRE-ORDER HERE!

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Crusher Records re-releasing DEAD MAN`s Debutalbum

Crusher Records is re-releasing DEAD MAN’s debut, and long time out of print, album as three different and limited vinyl versions: solid black (300), solid gold (100) and crystal clear (100) vinyl.

DEAD MAN is a mix of 70’s heavy rock, folk rock and a big portion of psychedelia. Their self-titled debut was recorded in 2005 at Svenska Grammofon Studion in Göteborg, Sweden, and released on February 25th, 2006. The album contains seven tracks, including the two hit songs Highway and Goin’ Over The Hill.

DEAD MAN was formed in 2003, Örebro, Sweden, and started off as a purely experimental band. In September 2004 they released their first record, the 7-inch single Ship Ahoy! / Thousand Mile Stare, on Crusher Records. In February 2006 the band released their debut album "Dead Man". The album release was followed up by tours in Europe. In March 2008 they released their second album, Euphoria, and for the first time the band crossed the ocean over to America for a few weeks of touring and got featured in magazines like SPIN, Brooklyn Vegan and Time Out New York to only name a few.

This re-release will be out on January 24, 2014.



Complete track listing:

1. Goin’ Over The Hill
2. Haunted Man
3. Mumbo Gumbo
4. Season Of The Dead
5. Further
6. Highway
7. Deep Forest Green


All three versions are currently available for pre-order over at Shiny Beast (NL), whilst the black vinyl version is also available via Plastic Head (UK). On release day all three versions will also be available via All That Is Heavy (US).


Pre-order:

SOLID BLACK (NL): http://bit.ly/1iyyrIW
SOLID BLACK (UK): http://bit.ly/Jy4slO
SOLID GOLD (NL): http://bit.ly/1eZYcBq
CRYSTAL CLEAR (NL): http://bit.ly/1bDnE7J

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New MOTHER OF GOD 7” Single to be released on January 25th on H42 Records

"Woke up at dawn and felt a presence, nature spirits, observing me. Looked out through the window. Black shape. I went to the nearby forest and the journey had begun. Without a direct way, I went through the woods and crossed mountains. Suddenly elated by light, I was under the raven's wings. Numb. Awakened by a thud and the silhouettes of the three. Embrace. The circle was complete.” – MOTHER OF GOD.

Born in 2008 and raised on rock in Morgårdshammar, Sweden, the four-piece Mother of God cast off a lot of the retro ‘70s mentality of their countrymen in favor of a more modern approach. Well, 20 years more modern, anyway. MOTHER OF GOD no doubt have some appreciation for the finer things in ‘70s rock – there are beards to prove it – but musically they incorporate influences from grunge and the heavy grooves of the early ‘90s. Bands like Soundgarden and Alice in Chains mesh their downtrodden grunge melodies alongside classic inspiration drawn from Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin.

After releasing their debut ‘ANTROHPOs on Small Stone in 2012, now it is time to do the next step: Mother of God put again all their energy and enthusiasm into the scale! The Beast called BLACK OCEAN will be released at new independent record label H42 Records based in Hamburg, Germany.

The Tracks were produced by Erik Berglund and Mother of God. Recorded & engineered by Erik Berglund at Bergstenska. Mixed & mastered by Erik Berglund. Great artwork & design realized by Alexander von Wieding, www.zeichentier.com.

In addition to festival appearances at Getaway Rock, Wacken Open Air in Germany and Peace & Love, MOTHER OF GOD have shared the stage with YOB, Dozer, Graveyard, Imperial State Electric and more, and they’ll look to continue their live domination in Scandinavia and beyond in support of Anthropos, shoving their eclectic sound and undeniable hooks right in the faces of everyone who thinks they know what heavy rock should sound like.

Mother of God is:
Daniel Nygren: Vocals, Guitars
Johan Kvastegård: Guitars
Carl Lindblad: Bass Guitar
Jimmy Hurtig: Drums

7” Single Stream 
Video "Black Ocean"

They have recently done an interview with DOOM METAL FRONT magazine, which can be read in issue #11, released in November 2013! Order here: https://doommetalfront.bandcamp.com/

http://www.facebook.com/H42Records
http://www.h42records.com

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MAJOR KONG: Watch out for a new "Doom Machine" rolling over you on the 20th January 2014

MAJOR KONG is an instrumental Doom Metal trio from Lublin, Poland. They began their journey in late 2010, initially as a project alongside their parent band – FIFTY FOOT WOMAN. After a couple of months they recorded the 4 track EP “Orogeneis” and began serving their slow guitar hypnosis live. "Doom for the Black Sun" - their debut album - was made in 2012.

MAJOR KONG have announced their second full-length album, which will be called "Doom Machine". Expect five tracks once again inspired by Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, old horror and sci-fi movies. Serves solid groove and shitloads of heavy, fuzzed-out, blues-driven Doom. There's some psychedelic vibe in too.

So keep your eyes and ears open or you will be overrun by MAJOR KONG's "Doom Machine" on the 20th of January. The year 2014 is gonna start heavy and slow as fuck, just the way we love it!

http://majorkong.bandcamp.com/album/doom-machine
https://www.facebook.com/majorkong666

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BRAVE BLACK SEA: Song-Teaser zum Debüt-Album online! Mit Ex-Musikern von Kyuss, Queens Of The Stone Age, Slo Burn und Brant Bjork

BRAVE BLACK SEA rekrutieren sich aus ehemaligen Mitgliedern von QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, KYUSS und SLO BURN und demnach ist diesen Gentlemen kompromissloser Rock & Roll ganz sicher nicht fremd. Auch untereinander kennt man sich: In den späten 90ern haben Sänger Damon Garrison, Gitarrist Chris Hale und Drummer Alfredo Hernandez zusammen bei John Garcias Kyuss-Nachfolger Slo Burn gespielt. Alfredo war zuvor schon auf dem letzten Kyuss-Album And The Circus Leaves Town zu hören. Nach dem Aus von Slo Burn trommelte Alfredo das legendäre erste Album der Queens Of The Stone Age ein, spielte später bei Nick Oliveris Band MONDO GENERATOR und BRANT BJORK. Nach vielen Jahren, Bands, Alben, Touren, Projekten und Reisen sollten sich die Wege von Damon, Chris und Alfredo erneut kreuzen. Den Anstoß gab ein kurzes Telefongespräch zwischen Damon und Chris, der zwischenzeitlich in Las Vegas wohnte: „Ich ziehe zurück in die Wüste, mach dich bereit.“ Innerhalb von Minuten wurden Emails mit Songs, Riffs, Sounds und Ideen getauscht. Am nächsten Tag rief Damon Alfredo an, ganz einfach deshalb, weil „wir zu Ende bringen müssen, was wir damals angefangen haben“. Durch einen gemeinsamen Freund kamen sie in Kontakt mit Bassist Clint Cunningham, der ebenfalls gerade erst zurück in die Stadt gezogen war, nachdem er mit diversen Bands in Portland und Phoenix getourt hatte. Nach einer Woche Songwriting hatten sie eine Auswahl an potenziellen Album-Kandidaten zusammen.

Mit „The Five Visitors“ gibt es nun einen ersten Höreindruck von Brave Black Seas erstem Album Fragments, das in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz am 04. April 2014 via V2 Benelux auf CD und Vinyl (limitiert) erscheinen wird:

Brave Black Sea - The Five Visitors from Brave Black Sea on Vimeo.

Chris Hale – Guitar, Keys, Backing Vocals (Slo Burn)
Alfredo Hernández – Drums (Kyuss, QOTSA, Brant Bjork, Yawning Man, Desert Sessions, Mondo Generator)
Damon Garrison – Vocals, Guitar (Slo Burn)
Clint Cunningham – Bass

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SOLAR HALOS: Streaming "The Vast White Plains", the first track of the upcoming debut album

SOLAR HALOS stream opening track from their debut album:

https://soundcloud.com/devouter-records/the-vast-white-plains

Solar Halos are a trio of musicians from the Chapel Hill, North Carolina featuring Horseback and Caltrop drummer John Crouch, Fin Fang Foom bassist Eddie Sanchez and guitarist/singer Nora Rogers formerly of Horseback and Curtains of Night.

Album out on Vinyl, CD and Digitally on January 20th. Buy the album at www.devouterrecords.co.uk

Solar Halos blazed up stoner-rock the way you always wanted it to burn, gave heavy psych a gritty drive that never allowed it to nod out, hinted at doominess but didn't submit to the darkness, and forged their own hard-ass, hit-and-run, bluesy blare. SPIN.COM – from their recent live show supporting Sleep.

'For fans of heavy, stoner rock and roll (psychedelic doom-style) it won't get much better than this 3-piece' - metalmark.blogspot.co.uk

'this is a monumental piece of art!' - ridewiththedevil.blogspot.co.uk

'The trio manage to sidestep the most obvious stoner rock cliches, forging a deep, sensual sound that sounds far weightier and heartfelt than many of their contemporaries.' - Terrorizer online

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Go on a Spacetrip with YURI GAGARIN!!!

If you are into heavy fuzzed out Spacerock coming from Gothenburg, Sweden, sit down in a rocket with YURI GAGARIN, named after the russian astronaut who was the first man to circle around the earth on the 12th April 1960. Fasten your seat belt and get ready to take off!!!

"Hard-driving instrumental psychedelia."

"Sonic dynamite."


http://yurigagarinswe.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/yurigagarinspacerock

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SOLAR HALOS: Stunning debut album to be released on Devouter Records on January 20th

Devouter Records is proud to present the release of SOLAR HALOS' stunning debut album on the 20th January. Available on CD, Vinyl and digitally. 

SOLAR HALOS is a trio of musicians from the Chapel Hill, North Carolina featuring Horseback and Caltrop drummer John Crouch, Fin Fang Foom bassist Eddie Sanchez and guitarist/singer Nora Rogers formerly of Horseback and Curtains of Night.

"SOLAR HALOS blazed up stoner-rock the way you always wanted it to burn, gave heavy psych a gritty drive that never allowed it to nod out, hinted at doominess but didn't submit to the darkness, and forged their own hard-ass, hit-and-run, bluesy blare." – SPIN.COM, from their recent live show supporting Sleep.

For fans of: Horseback, Royal Thunder, Kyuss, Hawkwind and High on Fire

www.solarhalos.com
www.devouterrecords.co.uk

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Milwaukee doomsters MOON CURSE sign with Bilocation Records/Kozmik Artifactz

Bilocation Records/Kozmik Artifactz have announced that mighty doomsters Moon Curse signed with us for an expanded re-release of their epic debut LP!

The album will feature the yet unheard exclusive track "Seminary Woods" and will be vinylmastered by Tony Reed (Mos Generator). It will be available in 2014 - of course on high quality 180g vinyl and housed in a heavy gatefold cover - all handnumbered and limited!

Beneath the faded light of Milwaukee's infamous "polish moon" clock tower (a structure built for the sole intent of dominating the night sky and the view of it's immigrant residents), three bleary eyed mystics brew stoner hymns dedicated to baphomet bongsmoke, Pontiac muscle and 70's rock n' rollers. following a DOOMED path, tred by true HEAVY fanatics before them, a path that will always remain for those dedicated to the riff; MOON CURSE walk with intent to play loud and proud! Keith bangs the drums, Rochelle strums the Squier P bass, and Matt breaks Orange amplifiers and howls. One could cite Sabbath (duh!), Zeppelin, or a handful of other protometal-fuzz-stoner-whatever-rock as influnces, but you get the idea! You know it! You love it! so.. GET CURSED!

http://kozmik-artifactz.com/artist/moon-curse/

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UK Retro-power Rockers STUBB Sign Worldwide Deal With Ripple Music

RIPPLE MUSIC is proud to announce the signing of acclaimed, hard-hitting UK-based retro-heavy rockers, STUBB to their ever-expanding roster!

Stubb was formed in 2006 with Jack Dickinson on guitar and vocals, Aaron O'Sullivan on drums and Isa Bruni on bass. The power trios of the late 60's and early 70's were the blueprint for their loud driving, fuzzed up heavy blues rock. In 2009, Chris West joined on drums and Peter Holland on bass (both also members of Trippy Wicked), solidifying the first classic line-up. The band recorded their first full length album for Chris West's label Superhot Records, and hit the road, gigging with such heavy rock luminaries as the Gentlemans Pistols, Firebird, Cherry Choke, Steak, Sungrazer and The Machine as well as appearing at Desertfest to a packed house Purple Turtle. Making the trip over to Europe twice with Stone Axe from the USA further cemented Stubb's reputation as a solid live act with some serious chops.

"We are delighted to be signing with Ripple Music, who are one of the hardest working independent labels on the scene," Dickinson said. "To be alongside the likes of Mos Generator, Mothership, Stone Axe and Grifter as labelmates is an honour and a pleasure. The new record will bring you the sound of Stubb that along with a whole load of new shades and surprises. We hope to come and play in front of new audiences and treat you all to the loud sound of three guys doing what they love."

With the departure of Chris West, the band recruited Tom Fyfe (ex-Olde Crone) as the new drummer. Tom brings another new sound to the powerful rhythm section as they prepare to head to Skyhammer Studios with Chris Fielding, January 26 - 30 to record their Ripple Music debut. The album will mixed and mastered by Mos Generator's Tony Reed at Heavy Head Studios, guaranteeing a sonic explosion of heaviness.

For the growing legions of Ripple fans, known as the Waveriders, Stubb will be another must-hear addition to the ranks of bands that already include such heavy rockers as Mos Generator, Devil to Pay, Mothership, Trucker Diablo and Ape Machine. You can bet that the combination of Stubb and Ripple Music will be a combustible mixture!

Be sure to catch Stubb live:

11/29 @ Hard Rock Hell Festival - Wales

https://www.facebook.com/Stubbrock

http://www.ripple-music.com/

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MÜHR: Serving just one song on the "Messiah" full-length album, which is a subsonic thunder

Amsterdam's MÜHR released their first output, the „Shepherd/Blood“ EP, which was recorded by Menno Bakker and Jevin de Groot, in the winter of 2010, The vinyl-only consists of 2 tracks, each covering a side.

Now the band is back with a full album of Psychedelic Doom, on vinyl again, serving just one song at a length of almost 50 minutes! Listen to the "Messiah"!!!

https://www.facebook.com/muhrband
http://muhrband.bandcamp.com/

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MANTHRA DEI: 70s-based Progressive/Psychedelic Rock from Italy out on Acid Cosmonaut Records

More than a band, MANTHRA DEI are a bunch of friends in love with lysergic deserts and forged by nights spent listening cassettes of teenage idols. Spontaneous, raw and mind-tripped tunes get pierced together by their bipolar personalities and become straight as headbanging on a kick-ass riff.

Michele, Paolo and Brano started back in 2009 as an instrumental power-trio that brought them to self-produce an EP with two log trips for almost 40 minutes of improvisations. Soon after, Maestro Paolo T. (yes, a real Maestro) joined them to start a long list of live-shows with Karma to Burn, Yawning Man, Vibravoid among many others up to a memorable Pietrasonica Festival in 2011.

After that the band decided to fix their jams into an album and consequently to get closed in a rehearsal room for almost two years … at least up to 2013, when Nasoni Rec – Colour Haze, Machine, Siena Root anyone? – decided to cast on vinyl their recordings. CD edition was taken in charge by a young Italian label, Acid Cosmonauts, that spread the world with a limited edition of 300 copies of their first full-length.

1.Stone Face – a majestic trip into space/psych/prog areas
2.Xolotl – heavy one: heavy riffing and head banging for the masses
3.Legendary Lamb – yes, after all we are a stoner band and this is supposed to sound like a stoner song
4.Urjammer – special intermezzo to relax you from cardiac problems
5.Blue Phantom – the suite: stoner/psych/prog/blues/ethnic/acid/doom/kraut/heavy mixed together without any rules. May the mindtrip begin!
6.Stone Face (Acoustic Reprise) – our special message of love & anguish for this cruel world



What to find on the album? Hawkwind, Causa Sui, Can, Kyuss, Earthless, Black Sabbath, Colour Haze, King Crimson, Motorpsycho, Popol Vuh, Sleep, Goblin, Hypnos69, Jethro Tull, Ozric Tentacles mashed-up with no criteria but with horns up against the sky!

acidcosmonautrecords.bandcamp.com/

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