Brightons finest Doomsters, DOPEFIGHT Invades the Glove

Brighton's Finest Doomsters, Dopefight FINALLY Brings the Ruckus to the Bloody Glove!!

The guys have it down to a science!  They give you EVERYTHING we listen to Heavy Metal for. Just look at how deadly that record cover is! Holy Satan is right.  The riffage on this record is the size of freaking RUSSIA!!  HUGE SOUND with the heaviest of Sludgy, Pantera/Sepultura-esque breakdowns.  Yes... You get the BEST of all things METAL with this band from England!  Now go get this record!  Give it a listen...Here's a lil sample...

The Abominable Iron Sloth

The Abominable Iron Sloth

"The Abominable Iron Sloth"

Black Market Records

2006

For fans of sludge, down-tuned guitars with heavy distortion and thick riffs accompanied by a layer of guitar effects, slow grooving drums that compliment the riffs, and high pitched screaming, check this beauty of an album out. I would say even for fans of Will Haven, give this album a shot, you might be surprised. Standout tracks include "Hats Made of Veal And That New Car Scent," A Hot Pink Shell of My Former Self," "A Distant Pond From the Rivers of Human Limelight," and "The Family That Slays Together Stays Together." -Camelo Colca Grab LP HERE

Creature With The Atom Brain | "Transylvania" now playing the bloody glove

Creature With The Atom Brain

"Transylvania"

The End Records

2009

The pedigree of Belgian group Creature with the Atom Brain is phenomenal. Creature With The Atom Brain members have toured and been part of some real heavyweight outfits such as QOTSA and the underrated Millionaire. The album's guest stars, such as Mark Lanegan and Tim Vanhamel, are notable catches. The varied influences on the band's MySpace page are spot on. But for all the talent, experience and attempts at musical variety here, Transylvania is just missing that certain ‘something’ that "...Golden Gate Bridge" encompassed and feels like rock-by-numbers, which can possibly be attributed to a recent jaunt touring with Dead Weather sucking their very souls dry whilst they slept. For the record, I am a HUGE fan of The Dead Weather.

That’s not to say this is a bad record as such. When it’s good and the band lock themselves into a tight, six-minute psychedelic riffathon then it is wholly decent and worthwhile stuff. Like when, two minutes into the upbeat title track, the bass goes all fuzzy. Or when the opener ‘I Rise the Moon’ saunters into its blissed-out chorus like a stoner exiting a bedsit at 8am on a sunny morn. Or for all of the understated but genre-melding six minutes of ‘Darker than a Dungeon’, one of the few tracks where they vary the pace and time signature throughout the song’s duration.

But is it enough to hark back to bands like Kyuss and Melvins, merely aping them and providing a modern day alternative when other rock bands have moved the genre on in the meantime?

Such is the dilemma with Creature with the Atom Brain. If all you want is a sophomoric record in a largely sophomoric branch of rock’s history, then ‘Transylvania’ will serve you well. For the rest of us, until they develop a sound of their own they’ll merely continue to be the bridesmaid, but never the bride…

-Drowned in Sound

Video for the title track, "Transylvania"

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MINI MANSIONS - Self Titled LP

Mini Mansions

Self-Titled LP

Ipecac Recordings

2010

So here's the deal with the LA based trio, MINI MANSIONS...

....Queens of the Stone Age are on break ( they have families and other lives ya know), anyhow, Queens and Wires On Fire bass player Michael Shuman decided to get back together with some of his old mates.  The "Old Mates" he reunited with were Tyler Parkford and Zach Dawes in a shitty, dusty room somewhere DEEP in the San Fernando Valley where they FUSED their minds together to form the Psych-Pop Trio, MINI MANSIONS. And a GOLD RECORD was born!! (unofficial).  The 3 members are usually confined to piano, bass, and a cocktail drum kit, the LA based trio generates a Technicolor spectrum of sound drawn from the Pop,baroque, gothic, psychedelic, and cinematic realms.

Best way to describe them is The Beatles (Later stuff) and Elliott Smith and you can pretty much get a good idea from that descriptive what they sound like.

Have at it...LP HERE

Blues Funeral - Mark Lanegan Band

Mark Lanegan Band

"Blues Funeral"

4AD

2012

Undoubtedly, the crowning culmination of Mark Lanegan's life's work, the darkly majestic Blues Funeral offers further evidence that, for an addict, there is never any freedom from addiction.

Though apparently now clean of his former heroin habit, Lanegan's songs here positively writhe with the lingering twitch of druggy desire, lyrically reflected in varying degrees of metaphorical imagery, from the relatively direct ("Lost on a violent sea/Gone for endless days") to the more elliptical, but still fairly obvious ("The moon don't smile on Saturday's child lying still in Elysian fields/ I don't know what the doctor he did, now I'm all day long with my body in bed"). It's been a constant theme throughout Lanegan's career, but this time it's found its most appropriate and satisfying setting, in the warm, enveloping arrangements created for the songs by Alain Johannes, with textured layers of synths, Mellotron and guitars swirling miasmically about Lanegan's smoky baritone.

Track after track finds the singer crippled with boredom, contemplating the miserable passage of days. In "Gray Goes Black", the bustling krautrock motorik evokes the inner restlessness as he confronts the stasis of the soul, "so insect I'm in amber". It's a torment likewise haunting "Leviathan", where "the hours crawl by like a spider/ hangman is following me". The wan, disjointed organ solo is like to a cork bobbing on the ocean, unable to control its course, and when the closing coda of "everyday a prayer for what I never know" comes cascading in round-style layers of harmony, it feels like a supportive twelve-step anthem to which he's desperately clinging.

Musically, it's the most accomplished of Lanegan's albums. "The Gravedigger's Song" opens proceedings with a lumbering but limber groove that evokes the galloping menace of apocalyptic horsemen, and Josh Homme helps bring a Gun Club flavour to the predatory fuzz-guitar groove and strident lead line of "Riot in My House". Heavier still is "Quiver Syndrome", with harsh, strident guitar chording over a thunderous caterpillar-track beat. At the other extreme, the classic blues flood motif of "Bleeding Muddy Water" is set to an oozing, sticky blend of shivering guitar and trembling keyboard.

"St Louis Elegy" features a similarly dark, throbbing undertow of low frequencies, with the slow shuffle of drum-machine like manacles on the soul as a fretful, earthbound Lanegan contemplates death from the skies. Comparative light relief comes in the centre of the album, with "Ode to Sad Disco" recalling Joy Division's "Atmosphere" – if that could be considered "light" – and the lovely, fatalistic melody of "Phantasmagoria Blues" floating on an oceanic miasma stippled with prickly percussion, a formula triumphantly reprised with added Mellotron and reversed guitars for the concluding "Tiny Grain of Truth". Taken as a whole, it's a marvellous piece of work, boasting a rare congruence between lyrical themes and musical evocations, and fronted by one of the most broodingly characterful voices in rock music. -The Independent(UK)

A TASTE OF THAT GOOD MEDICINE...

Get the LP HERE

The Heavy Eyes Promo EP

The Heavy Eyes

"Heavy Eyes"

2011

 

Memphis based rockers.  This EP just flatout murders. I can even taste a bit of the Black Keys in this EP. If you like Sabbath, I promise you'll eat this up and ask for seconds!  Here's a taste...

Download the EP HERE

Check their Bandcamp spot for more goodness HERE

Or check them out on Facebook HERE

Remember if you like it, BUY IT.

New ELDER LP, "Dead Roots Stirring" now rock the glove

Elder

"Dead Roots Stirring"

2011

Meteor City Recordings

 

 The second LP from Boston's Metal/Psych monsters, ELDER!  This has been one of my favorite bands since I heard their first LP about two years ago and holy shit do they absolutely destroy it on this record as well.  The boys at Doomantia.com wrote a great review for "Dead Roots Rising"

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--I must confess I am lost for words to describe this masterpiece from Elder. Some bands match expectations with new releases, some disappoint but Elder have exceeded all possible expectations with 'Dead Roots Stirring.' I can't honestly say this is 'album of the year' as it has a couple of minor question-marks surrounding a couple of songs but this is about as good as you hope to get in the stoner-doom, sludge metal world in 2011. Their last album was amazing in as much as the band was very young as a band and as individuals; now some time has passed and they have progressed into one of finest heavy bands in the world.

It is still uncompromisingly heavy but there has been a slight shift into more progressive, complex song structures and hypnotic rhythms. They are trying to mine new ground with this album and what they have dragged up is stunning. Where as the last album was all about gargantuan monster-riffing, this album has a more cosmic, psychedelic direction which has the band pushing in all directions. If you were seeking a repeat of earlier works, you may be disappointed. There is nothing on this album to compare with the straight-ahead pulverizing riffing of a 'Riddle of Steel Pt. 1' but what it is lacking in that vein it more than makes up for it in other mind-bending ways. In my opinion, 'Dead Roots Stirring' will go down in history as their timeless masterpiece.

download the lp here

here's a lil sample 

If you like it BUY IT HERE (While it's still on sale)

Vinum Sabbatum brings their EP to the glove

Vinum Sabbatum

"Songs From the Convent"

2010

Eyes Like Snow Recordings

 

 The Bloody Glove is proud to bring you the debut EP from Vinum Sabbatum, "Songs From the Convent".

 Here's a quick synopsis...

"For the last few years the late 60's and early 70's Hard Rock experience has been getting revisited by literally hundreds of bands, most of them have created some real quality music while a few have been doing nothing much more than simply jumping upon some kind of Psychedelic bandwagon. Another band that has seemed to hitched its wagon to the Psychedelic era is Finnish retro-rockers Vinum Sabbatum who have signed a 3 album deal with Eyes Like Snow Records. They have already been given the Doom Metal tag by some which to me seems a bit misleading as for the most part this band is more in-tune with the sounds of Atomic Rooster than Black Sabbath not that there is anything wrong with that." 

1. Demon Dance
2. Witch Woman
3. Angel of Mourning
4. Ramblin' Dues
5. Sunrise of tomorrow

The Bloody Glove Presents... "Songs From the Convent" grab it here



http://www.myspace.com/vinumsabbatum

If you like it, BUY IT!!!!