Almighty Milwaukee doom monsters, MOON CURSE, hit the glove

MOON CURSE

"Paths of The Restless EP"

Moon Curse

2012

Take fucking notice...This band is ridiculously on point.  If you're unaware of this Milwaukee Doom/Stoner onslaught that is Moon Curse, I truly feel sorry for you. So make your holiday even better by downloading this amazing EP and if you're in the giving mood, I recommend hitting their BANDCAMP site for more info and other goodies.  

Recorded and mixed by Nolan Trealo at The Ring
Mastered by Justin Perkins at the Mystery Room
Illustration by Vince Zager

credits

released 05 June 2012
Matt: Guitar, Vocals
Rochelle: Bass Guitar
Keith: Drums, Hammond

Here's a LIVE joint from Riverwest Fest 3 this past weekend that brought the fucking house down! 

TURN IT UP.

MOON CURSE

"Sasquatch Superhighway"

If you like it, BUY IT!! 

A dollar is very well worth it for this 5 song EP of some of the freshest doom this side of the Mississippi!

"Medicinecoma"

REVIEW OF "Paths of The Restless" coming this week along with merch and tons more! Stay tuned.

For more on Moon Curse visit them here... 

Cheers and happy fuckin hanukah, xmas, festivus, and all the other holidays I could give a shit about!  

So...It's official...DAVID GROHL now drumming w QOTSA again...

   

Shit...this is gonna be good.  Peep this weaponry..
EXCLUSIVE Josh Homme & David Sardy b-Side from some new shitty movie.  Sounds delicious to me.  What you say?? have at it... 'Nobody to Love'




Read all about it at
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More to come ... Stay VERY TUNED.

INDIAN HANDCRAFTS' "Civil Disobedience For Losers" LP DESTRUCTION!

INDIAN HANDCRAFTS

"Civil Disobedience For Losers"

Sargent House

2012

Opener and highlight “Bruce Lee” could inspire a whole graphic novel, or at least get optioned for a Tarantino-produced Grindhouse flick. It sets up the main ingredient on the duo’s sophomore LP, Civil Disobedience For Losers: riffs. Riff may be a four-letter word to some, but the Ontario duet have refined tastes: Queens of the Stone Age, Helmet, and Melvins all get nods in Daniel Brandon Allen’s guitar-work, whose minor-pentatonic sludge should be tabbed-up by fledgling guitarists in no time. Even the lead guitar work on the album puts the Tom Morello/Jack White octave pedal to new and good use.

Beyond the best-foot-forward songs that the riff-mining Allen and drummer Brandyn James Aikins soak themselves in, the sci-fi, pulpy tracks stretch far across a relatively small spectrum. The ur-heavy metal of “Terminal Horse” to the Lemmy-via-Scorpions ballad “Coming Home” all leave a different mark, aided by producer Toshi Kasai, whose work with Tool and Big Business are felt strongly here. There’s some filler weighing down the back half of the album, but that’s only a small leak in this colossal galleon.

“What time is it?/ it’s time for red action!” scream Allen and Aikins, early in the album. Red Action: drink tallboys, get stoned, read comics, palm-mute your Ibanez, and blast it out your Hemi. Indian Handcrafts live in the lost sci-fi fantasy world of ’80s metal, a world that under less able hands would lay flat on the back of the Algebra notebook. They hoist their banner just under Black Sabbath’s and reanimate all those familiar monsters to make them fight again, harbingers of a zombie metal apocalypse. -Consequence of Sound

'BRUCE LEE'

grab "Civil Disobedience..." HERE

As of today... Indian Handcrafts, Red Fang, and Black Tusk are out on a US Tour!  So go support these rad bands on the road!!  Get active.

Dates Below...

RED FANG, BLACK TUSK, INDIAN HANDCRAFTS - 2012 TOUR DATES
11/02 Toronto, ON @ Horseshoe Tavern*
11/10 Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts
11/11 New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
11/12 Brooklyn, NY @ St. Vitus
11/13 Cambridge, MA @ The Middle East (Downstairs)
11/15 Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Ballroom
11/16 Detroit, MI @ The Magic Stick
11/17 Chicago, IL @ Subterranean
11/19 Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater
11/20 Salt Lake City, UT @ The Urban Lounge
11/21 Boise, ID @ Neurolux
* Indian Handcrafts solo

For more on INDIAN HANDCRAFTS Check THIS

INDIAN JEWELRY | "Invasive Exotic"

INDIAN JEWELRY

"Invasive Exotic"

2006

Skinny Wolves/Monitor

 Invasive Exotics crawls into your brain, buries itself deep within your medulla oblongata, and unleashes a furious noise upon your waking mind that grips your body in a numbing paralysis. Indian Jewelry make music for wandering the scorching deserts after ingesting heroic doses of peyote. As their name implies, a certain native presence infiltrates the droning dissonance that pervades their debut album. Warning: this is not an album you put on for a sunny drive through the country with your significant other, but rather suited for those lonesome excursions across highways through vast nothingness when your consciousness can be as much an ally as it is a foe. Houston, Texas' Indian Jewelry adorns their music with a sense of impending doom, a motif that is both inescapable and yet utterly alluring. It's mysterious, alien, bizarre, and feels like it should exist only in the mind of a mental patient. And that's exactly what makes listening to it so interesting. The aesthetic opposite of industrial music, while still borrowing from the likes of Trent Reznor and pioneers of synthesizer drones Suicide, the sounds on Invasive Exotics are firmly rooted in the arid landscape of some unknown wilderness, seemingly abandoned by the modern world. - M.Simpson

Grab the LP HERE 

Sweden brings Ghost "Opus Eponymous" to the glove

GHOST

"Opus Eponymous"

Rise Above/Metal Blade

2010

"Opus Eponymous" is the first album by Ghost, released on October 18, 2010. What you can hear here is heavy, doomy riffs in contrast with softer parts and choruses ruled by keyboards, all of this to create an amazing, sometimes dark atmosphere. It sounds like Black Sabbath and Deep Purple had a baby, and it kinda sounds like Blue Öyster Cult too. Some people also compare them with Mercyful Fate/King Diamond, mostly because of their theatral live performances. The band was formed in 2008 in Linköping, Sweden, and it's line up consists of vocalist Papa Emeritus and five "Nameless Ghouls": 2 guitarists, bassist, drummer and keyboardist. Kinda creative thing. The album has received mostly positive reviews, embracing fans from hardcore metalheads into death/black metal to stoner rock fans. The album also contains "Here Comes The Sun" in a heavier version as a bonus track. This is another great record from the Swedish rock scene, which I recommend you all to check it out.  - iommi600

Grab "Opus Eponymous" right HERE

FOR ALL THINGS GHOST ... check em out on Rise Above

ENJOY!

more sludge goodness from The Abominable Iron Sloth

The Abominable Iron Sloth

"The Id Will Overcome"

Black Market Activities

2010

 

  From the start thick powerful riffs intertwined with shrill horror scream esque vocals brings this self proclaimed “old nihilistic punk rock, but doom,” feel which grips you by the throat and doesn’t let go. Underneath the dirty sonic crust on the surface you will find yourself a filthy groove to bang your head to like within “Two Black Helicopters.” The culmination of sound, bring a whirlwind of power and terror that leaves you on the edge of your seat as you glide into the next track. AIS plays with very simple techniques and builds them into unique powerful songs that feel fresh. Each track feels as if you are on a death march to an imminent doom, which is so fitting when the album’s inspiration is provided by the bands “disdain for humanity and what humanity, as a virus, has done to the planet.”

  Personally, the Charles Manson cover was completely unexpected but done flawlessly and fit right in with the direction of the album. There is nothing really bad about this album, Justin Godfrey’s shrill screams may prove to be intolerable to some, but they help define this band and add another layer to AIS. The doom(ish) slower pace might also become old to some after a few and yes I wish at some points the songs would pick up more steam but what do you expect from a band that has Sloth in its name, it would seem rather ironic otherwise. In the end I think the things that will annoy some make AIS so unique, yes they may sound like Eyehategod a tad or perhaps, or a slower version of label mates Gaza. -J. Terry

'Killimanjaro Dreamin'

 

Enjoy "The Id Will Overcome"

 

Belgium's MILLIONAIRE now playing at the bloodyglove

MILLIONAIRE

"Paradisiac"

Pias/Shock

2005

 

If Belgium act Millionaire isn't a name you're familiar with, then it soon will be. Although relatively unknown to most, the four-piece act released their debut album as far back as 2001 (Outside The Simian Flock), and while it received positive feedback from the press, Millionaire hardly became a household name. The bands luck soon changed when while supporting Masters Of Reality, when the band's debut found it's way into the hands of Queens Of The Stone Age's Josh Homme. Taken by their music, the band soon found themselves getting major exposure on a nightly basis on tour. Fast forward a couple of years and the connection between the two acts continued with Millionaire vocalist/guitarist Tim Vanhamel collaborated with Homme and Jesse 'The Devil' Hughes in Eagles Of Death Metal, who released their debut album Peace Love Death Metal in 2004 to critical acclaim.

Twelve months on, and with the freeing up of schedules, Vanhamel and Millionaire (Who also consist of bassist/vocalist Bas Remans, keyboardist/vocalist Aldo Struyf (Who recorded and toured with Mark Lanegan for 2004's Bubblegum) and drummer Dave Schroyen) re-entered the studio with Homme behind the console (After completing work on Q.O.T.S.A.'s Lullabies To Paralyze) to start work on their second album.

A simple cursory listen through Paradisiac immediately tells you one important fact - Pigeonholing Millionaire's sound is a pointless exercise. Yes, Homme's presence is certainly felt in places, but only in regards to giving the band a meatier sound than the sound appeared on their more pop sounding debut. Millionaire isn't mimicking Q.O.T.S.A., but they certainly rock, if in a strange and unusual way.

The opening tracks I'm On A High (Which is the single) and A Lust Unmatched are huge, thumping hook laden lazy rockers that give the misleading impression that the band are a somewhat experimental stoner rock act (The loops and effects add a different dimension to proceedings), but it's the follow up track For A Maid that really throws a spanner in the works with it's Muse like leanings within the piercing high volumed chorus and edgy rock and roll vibe. The back to basics primitive feel of Streetlife Cherry is a sure candidate for a future single release, while the darker and more tempered atmosphere felt within Rise And Fall and the acoustic Ballad Of Pure Thought affirm a more mature outing the second time around for the group.

Providing a little more heaviness in the guitar stakes, Alpha Male, Love Is A Sickness the creepy (Highlight of the album) We Don't Live There Anymore, the down and dirty grit of Wake Up The Children and the bizarre cut/patched up A Face That Doesn't Fit (Along with the uncredited Nocturn at the end) all audibly stand apart from each other, but somehow manage to fit under the same 'rock' banner without sounding like an incoherent mess of different styles.  -themetalforge

 'I'm On A High'

 

grab this masterpiece HERE

MF DOOM | "Collaborations, Remixes, Etc. Vol. 4"

MF DOOM

"Collaborations, Remixes, Etc. Vol. 4"

DOOM

2008

"Want not, Waste not, Whatnot"

You know the drill... This is DOOM at his best.  Plenty of special blends and herbs make this nicer than a lunatic shyster.  "Come on bring the slaughter"

'Sniper Elite'

One shot.  One kill.

Grab this GEM HERE

For all things DOOM ... Peep the weaponry 

Heavy Heavy Low Low | "Turtle Nipple and the Toxic Shock

Heavy Heavy Low Low

"Turtle Nipple and The Toxic Shock"

Ferret

2008

Taking the direction of, but not limited to an early release on SST, Dischord, or Touch and Go, HHLL thrives on a formula of minimalist punk energy, choppy tempos and the most bastardized take on prog rock you've probably ever heard. With sprinkles of glitchy keyboards, slabs of noisecore and frantic lyrics tossed in the mix, Turtle Nipple will get the rocks off for HHLL's endless legions of fans and usher in a throng of new ones.

When asked to describe the band's current direction, drummer Christopher Fritter states "I'd say this new CD brings my mind to another level. At times I just want to cry while listening to it. Then randomly I just want to hit a fool in the face." Spoken like a true craftsman who took part in creating this bipolar cacophony of an album. Yes, it will mess with your head but it'll prove to be the most exhilarating mind fuck you'll probably ever have.

-absolutepunk.net

'Giant Mantis vs TURT Nip'

go HERE for the full LP

If you like it, BUY IT!! 

Glowsun brings the "The Sundering" to the bloodyglove

Glowsun

"The Sundering"

Buzzville/Suburban

2008

France. They've brought us baguettes, croissants and guys like me, who act as if they can speak the language, some pussy here and there (Monsieur de la Boulanger if you're reading this, which I doubt, I didn't understand your daughter when she said she was only seventeen, I only know the number soixant-neuf in French, I'm sorry ok?). Musically they also brought us some good stuff. In that pile of good stuff I'm talking about, Glowsun is the best I've heard so far.
If you enjoy stoner, like I do, you'll love these guys. Are they original and do they define the genre in a new way never heard before? Hell no! They're just really good at making Stoner Rock! I'm talking nineties here, I'm talking Kyuss and early QOTSA here! Not a whole lot of vocals, but just enough to make sure it isn't an instrumental album. Good drumming and great, great guitars. If you picture a guitar sound when thinking of Stoner Rock, this is it! It's hard as hell, it's mushy like it should be and the man found his way to a wah pedal and knows how to use this fine commodity!

The album starts of with an easy song that gets thrashed with harder intervals and some good guitarwork! Highlight of this album is the 7+ minutes song 'Inside My Head'. In this song Glowsun goes all out and plays a lot of great riffs. This song never gets boring, believe me I tried...I listened to it over and over, but it just doesn't. This might be one of the better albums made in Europe this year.

So ladies and gentledudes, go check this band out, but be careful...You might like it!

-Metalrage.com

'VIRUS'

Grab "The Sundering" LP here

Support this great band LIVE...For more GLOWSUN check out their official site HERE

"Say Goodnight To The World" DAX RIGGS

Dax Riggs

"Say Goodnight To The World"

Fat Possum

2010

This LP falls almost perfectly into Riggs' wheelhouse.  Still intensely blues influenced with that unmistakeable style he encompasses so well.  "Say Goodnight..." picks up where "...Blood or Love" left off, this time with more emphasis on complete song structure.  The backing band does a fantastic job of flooding the tracks with lots of delays and psychedelic drug-drenched guitars, thus capturing the essence that is "Say Goodnight to the World".  Standout tracks for me include probably the BEST cover I personally have ever heard, "Heartbreak Hotel", "Grave Dirt On My Blue Suede Shoes", and the more raucous, "Let Me Be Your Cigarette", round out what is yet another stellar effort from New Orleans' best crooner, DAX RIGGS.  Enjoy.

-Recordhigh

A taste...

grab the lp Here

For tour dates and much much more on all things Dax Riggs visit him here

Dax is currently living and playing around Austin, TX. So, if you're lucky enough to be in the south of the Mason-Dixon, go out and support one of the hardest working musicians in the game right now. 

Cheers!

French duo, TEENAGE BAD GIRL, bring the anthems...

Teenage Bad Girl

"Cocotte"

Citizen

2007

These dudes need no introduction whatsoever.  EXTREMELY hard-hitting Electronic beats that are even more relevant today and will continue to be.  Heavier than JUSTICE.  Heavier than BOYS NOIZE.  Heavier than DAFT PUNK!  If you're even a remote fan of JUSTICE...YOU NEED THIS LP.  It's extremely difficult to come by these days, so HAVE AT IT before it's gone!! 

Just check one of the title tracks...'Cocotte' below

These dudes are so on point.  France does it again.

Grab "COCOTTE" HERE

For more on TEENAGE BAD GIRL visit them on FB

Milwaukee's Best, JAILL, hit the bloody glove

Jaill

"Traps"

Sub Pop

2012

My favorite people in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, JAILL, released their sophomore LP for Washington's SUBPOP records.  This is some of the smartest psyched out rock and pop I've EVER heard, period.  They have just wrapped up a tour of Europe and I'm sure will be coming back for more...

Check out the video for "House With Haunting"

"TRAPS" available Here

For ALL THINGS JAILL hit em on FB Here

or on their main page here

Enjoy!

If you like it...BUY IT!!!  And LOTS of it!

Memphis boys, The Heavy Eyes' Self-Titled LP now rocking the bloody glove

The Heavy Eyes

"Heavy Eyes"

Self-Released

2011

I've spent a lot of time with the debut release by this Tennessee band. Heavy Eyes seems to capture everything I dig in a rock record. Lots of fuzzy guitars, groovy foot stomping riffs and tons of attitude during its 11 tracks.

Imagine if you will, Brant Bjork, The White Stripes and Fu Manchu all sitting around puffing on a hookah listening to Zeppelin albums, then picking up their gear and just going for it. That's the vibe I get from this impressive slab of rock put forth on here. Plenty of soul and a real sense of honesty is captured during the whole duration of the album.

Seems to be that all these new bands that are opting to put out their music themselves, whether it's through iTunes, bandcamp or whatever file hosting website they choose is really making things interesting. The production on the album is stellar and really has a live jammy feeling to it. Maybe being mixed and mastered in the city where rock and roll started with Elvis in Memphis has something to do with it. Some of that voodoo may be rubbing off here. The band has posted on their bandcamp page: "We hope this album melts your speakers".  I'd say...mission accomplished!

-planetfuzz.com

'Swing that hammer down...'

Lp Here...Enjoy!!

Support this band and see them LIVE.  For more on The Heavy Eyes check THIS

If you like it...BUY IT or DONATE on band camp.