Album of the day: Bong – Bong (Reissue)
Lovingly pinched from The Sleeping Shaman: The UK’s trippiest doomhounds Bong scored great acclaim earlier this year with their latest album Mana-Yood-Sushai, (described on this very site as ‘two...
View ArticleAlbum of the day: 11Paranoias – Superunnatural
Lovingly pinched from The Sleeping Shaman: If you think about it, 11 as a number is really rather sinister. Trapped somewhere between the chauvinistic metricality of 10 and the likeable divisibility of...
View ArticleAlbum of the Day: Haikai No Ku – Sick On My Journey
Lovingly pinched from The Sleeping Shaman: There are artists whose whole reputation hangs on one stupendous work – a painting, song or film that stands out as a singular achievement within the context...
View ArticleThe Road To Roadburn by Kim Kelly
It’s that time of year again. For doom ‘heads, it’s better than Christmas, your birthday, and a half dozen bank holidays rolled into one – the mighty Roadburn is mere months away, and the annual white...
View ArticleRoadburn 2014: Into The Crypt Of Tilburg by Saúl Do Caixão (The Sleeping Shaman)
As April draws inexorably nearer, the full enormity of what has become an essential part of the discerning heavy music fan’s calendar blooms into full-blown giddy excitement. Roadburn Festival 2014 is...
View ArticleJosé Carlos Santos’ Roadburn Band of the Week: Bong (Terrorizer)
Discovering new bands and making new friends is of course one of the very pleasant effects of attending Roadburn, but on the other hand, one of the greatest things about the festival is its...
View ArticleAlbum of the Day: Conan – Blood Eagle
Lovingly pinched from The Obelisk: It has been a substantial two years since UK megadoomers Conan made their full-length debut with Monnos through Burning World Records in 2012. That album followed a...
View ArticleAlbum of the Day: Bong – Stoner Rock
Praise for Bong‘s Stoner Rock from Norman Records UK: To be so audacious as to name it Stoner Rock you know that Bong mean business with this new album, and indeed this latest from the prolific...
View ArticleLenny Kaye Talks About His Apprearance (w/ Harsh Toke) at Roadburn Festival 2014
“It’s perhaps fitting that Tilburg is the boyhood home of Vincent Van Gogh, since I can only imagine what his missing ear would make of the amps-on-stun overload that characterizes the Roadburn...
View ArticleHear It Here: Roadburn Festival 2014 Audio Streams Online; Bong, Noothgrush,...
How to summarize the 2014 Roadburn Festival? The name of one of the many fantastic bands that performed comes to mind: Promise and The Monster. The festival promised to be something special, and like...
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