Loon - Loon (2011)

So girl doom from providence. Which if you've ever met a girl from providence makes perfect sense.

I remember seeing this band live one time but I wasn't really paying attention because it was during a Red Sox or Celtics game and i am an emotional invalid when sports are on. and since the bruins are about to start big surprise I am in the same boat all over again. I recently remembered them and wanted to hear them again along with some weird black metal band called 'the hard drugs' No luck finding the hard drugs but i found these broads record. and it does not disappoint. kind of low flying under the hype radar which has to be a plus to some of you given the fact yob is opening for tool on some dates. and overpraised metal act + mainstream rock act = nightmare.

Doom with girl vocals might just be a hacky move but I really like it. It somehow gives it instant credibility to me which it probably does not deserve. Maybe I'm just lazy and refuse validation to anything unless its gimmicky now. But whatever I'm sold.
speaking of lazy I haven't offered any real comparisons or descriptions of this band. so here are some haikus

providence, shit hole
girl singer, buried at sea?
tilda swinton, hot

are they even good?
well traveled riffs abound me
maybe they are hot

rhode island is nice
there is a lot to do there
like being in hell

metal simile
much like a police report
girl screams are funny

miserable douchebag
must i crush all i value?
i liked this album

ooh baby do you
know what thats worth? we'll make heav
ven a place on earth


loon

judd madden

ok fine heres something that isn't indy or rap.



judd madden is a solo act coming straight from the underground...down under...ground....Australia. doom stoner instrumental atmospheric psych whatever you're looking for this lad has in fucking droves. he's some graphic designer musician or whatever

from album to album the songs change but still somehow keep a general theme.

float drown and waterfall are strong, and really have a great dynamic as a whole. But if i had one complaint they're not albums i feel like i can enjoy an individual track from. its like if i want to listen to him i have to make a 45 minute commitment.

billy joel sucks

oh who even gives a shit

don't like this band
don't like this genre
haven't listened to this album
likely i will delete it a month from now with out ever have.

I

Drown in Sangria ...

The wine here is not involved. Here slabs of unbearably heavy sludge-doom rule ...

I'm sure you know about Sangria, crushing doom band from mighty Chile.
Well, Chile’s doom is becoming mandatory due to its heaviness and awesomeness. So many great bands ... Just think about the youngest bands, like Abismo … Killer!
I suppose I may write that Sangria folks are almost “veterans”. In any case they are part of that amazing underground scene together with bands like Electrozombies, Yaiajra, Abismo, Condenados, Ocultum, El Gran Temor and many others.

Not so easy to communicate with the local labels, especially after the very bad earthquake that struck Chile not long after this album had been released. However there has been a bit of interconnection with Spanish labels for distribution.

So thanks a lot to friend Alejandro Ossandon from Abismo, and also from blog Mentes Podridas, for helping the band inspreading around the last album by Sangria, related to Projecto Sepulcro.
Here ara Sangria’s words via Alejandro in his original post:
"Renaces de La Miseria" was conceived in 2009, in a joint work, 100% D.I.Y., between Sangria and Proyecto Sepulcro. Effort, improvement, compromise, fraternity, and over all, BALLS from both parts.
After the CD was sold out, and was re-edited in a small print run, which was distributed from Spain to Europe by the Spanish label Odio Sonoro, we've decided to make available to you all, for first time ever, the CD in digital format, for those have interest in our sound.”

Thank you thank you thank you!!!

The trio (Osvaldo Frías on bass and vocals; Pablo Benavides on drums and Carlos Frías on guitars) make up a sonic wall mixing extremely distorted and downtuned riffs, plodding to almost ritualistic drumming, sludgy torn vocals and alienating psychedelic-drone repetitions. Obvious comparisons can be made with Electric Wizard, Fistula and Corrupted.
Super stuff ...

Band here and here

Sangria - Renaces de La Miseria (2009)
(Bandcamp and free!)

short and sweet

ok here we go again, two releases from two very different bands

one of which i am a fan of, i think and the other one i don't really care for

i don't know what to say about the sword, they've just never been my thing i guess. and black mountain released that album that everyone thought was great and i thought was "good to pretty good"

two great names for releases. i won't listen to either of these records for at least 2 months.


bm - wilderness heart (2010)



sword - warp riders (2010)



the photo by the way is the best google image result to "the sword black mountain"

Ramesses – Take the Curse [2010]

well with all this fun going on you'd think that some of you guys forgot how completely crushing music can be? well here is the proverbial dick in the birthday cake of fun. ramesses are not fun gentlemen. they did a great job on the for the sick tribute thing for who gives a shit. just download this. heres the good album you've been looking for in god knows how long, this album is nothing like ocean. i promise you.

dl