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Beyond the conceptual physical language structure created by mankind, the definition of the name lies in internal rhythm, the internal sound that a man experiences. Those who embrace Naam have the key to the door of mysteries and miracles, as Naam exists in the Divine plane and shines through to the Physical plane, bringing healing and self-renewal.

“Unhappy with the lack of heavy, psychedelic rock and roll, We deliver our deafening sermon to bring a new dawn for all civilization.   The vast seas cannot drown Us, the darkest caverns cannot conceal Us, We will conquer insurmountable foes.  We are war, We are peace, We are time and space, We are infinite, We are Naam…”

There are no tracks stretching out to time-warping length here, but Naam  does traverse plenty of new mind-melting ground on their latest album “Vow”. The band makes extensive use of electronics, vocal harmonies, and velvety, buzzing melodies, and while the aforementioned focus is more inward than galaxy gazing, the album’s meditations are still swathed in cosmic rock and still highly effective in stimulating a psychoactive mood.

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AQUA NEBULA OSCILLATOR — formed in 2000 by David Sphaèr’os — creates utterly unique and fantastically tripped out occult psych rock inspired by parallel dimensions, voodoo, ethnic trance, horror and cult movies (from the 1920’s to the 60’s), painters like Hieronymus Bosch and Salvador Dali, dark underground literature (H. P. Lovecraft, Isidore Ducasse, Antonin Artaud), aliens and UFOs!

A modern mix of Krautrock / motorik with Hawkwind-style psychedelia, Hendrix-styled, ultra tripped out guitar action and an apocalyptic, Raw Power energy, AQUA NEBULA OSCILLATOR’s mind-burning, dark and dirty “chaos-sound” is a cauldron full of seething, primitive acid garage punk.

ANO looks and sounds like it was buried in a tomb in the late 60’s / 70’s and has just been dug up and the band’s new album (and Tee Pee Records debut), Third is both totally fantastic, utterly underground and peculiarly timeless!  AQUA NEBULA OSCILLATOR whips up storms of scorching guitar and hypnotic bass grooves over drums that are pounded into submission.  Pure punkadelic!!

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CORRECTIONS HOUSE is the collective compulsions of Mike IX Williams (Eyehategod), Scott Kelly (Neurosis), Bruce Lamont (Yakuza), Sanford Parker (Minsk) and their minister of propaganda, Seward Fairbury.

A mysterious cooperative of lost souls, forged unwittingly by the impetuous forces of nature and altered states of consciousness, CORRECTIONS HOUSE is without control of their destiny. Boundless in their genre voyage, CORRECTIONS HOUSE conjure an impossible-to-pinpoint kaleidoscopic synthesis of mechanical decomposition, atmospheric abnormalities, and poetic putrefaction.

They embrace the unkind, the diseased, the forgotten, the morose, their lush anti-soundscrapes and shadowy verses — at once beautifully hideous, graceful and terrifying — a manifestation of societal ruin and psychological decay. The transformation of time and space; death begetting life and veils being torn; an imposing dissonance too penetrating to dismiss…

CORRECTIONS HOUSE systematically create and destroy through audio disease and transcendent musical deconstruction. All things in all ways. There is nothing else.

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JR Robinson has been writing and recording music as Wrekmeister Harmonies in various incarnations since 2006. “You’ve Always Meant So Much To Me” was written to accompany a film Robinson shot in decimated Detroit locations, the desert of Joshua Tree and decaying forests of Tasmania. In 2012 he brought together some of the most revered musicians in the black metal and experimental music worlds (Jef Whitehead of Leviathan, Sanford Parker and Andrew Markuszewski of Nachmystium, Jamie Fennelly aka Mind Over Mirrors, Mark Solotroff of Anatomy of Habit, Bruce Lamont of Yakuza, and more) to perform the 38 minute composition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago to much acclaim and a sold out theater. The collaborators for the live performance joined Robinson at Steve Albini’s Electrical Audio later that year to record the composition in full.

The beauty and darkness of the visuals are reflected in the music, which seeps from the ether with great melancholy. Reflective drones grow and decay, forming waves of overlapping sound that evolve into a gigantic roar of distorted guitar. Searing, disembodied howls and pummeling drums signal a shift from mournful to harrowing as Robinson and his ensemble lurch forward into the abyss. As the metal elements dwindle, electronics return to the fore, accompanied by a softly plucked harp signaling gentle finality.

Robinson began Wrekmeister Harmonies by recording sonic templates in museums in the US and Europe. These include recordings made at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, the Gugenheim Museum and PS1 in New York, the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, SF MOMA in San Francisco, the Pompidou Center in Paris and the Art Center Berlin as well as site recordings at Joshua Tree National Park in California and both the Golden Gate Bridge and the Brooklyn Bridge. Robinson has taken these recordings and by collaborating with musicians Ken Vandermark, David Yow (Jesus Lizard), Mark Shippy and Pat Samson (US Maple), Matt Carson, Nate McBride, Fred Lonberg Holm, John Herndon & Jeff Parker (Tortoise), and Azita has created a unique hybrid of sound art and avant garde music.

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IRON HEEL RECORD RELEASE PARTY!

A lonely submarine navigating the black emptiness. A motley crew from Vienna, Austria bound for the glories of groove. The sonar is scanning the surface: deep frequencies of doom and stonermetal, lyrics that oscillate between occult mysteries and the rebellions of the depressed. The perfect soundtrack for your next hike through the swamp of your mind.

Iron Heel´s first LP “Book Of Grief” will see a release on vinyl via Per Koro Records.

music.iron-heel.com

After their selftitled 7″ (2012, Life & Death Records / Enjoyment Records), WITHERS are about to release their first 12″ called “LIGHTMARES” via ADAGIO830 / Per Koro Records and Life & Death Records.
The threepiece from Linz, Austria is approaching music intensely, and is driven by vocal outbursts and disruptive guitars.

They are developing a sound that will assault your senses, feedbacks punctuating the eardrum to an apocalyptic backdrop.
Lyrically they want to keep it deep and speak in general about human/social atrocities, troubled minds and search of self-awareness.
In this manner they are evocative of bands like Converge, Cursed or Cave In, who have a similar approach of creating music in the grey area between chaotic Hardcore, Metal and Punk.

http://withers.bandcamp.com
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A quest for knowledge, quest to see / all these things inside of me / looking in, there’s something wrong / I must set out on my own

If there is any hope that Rock N Roll can change the world, as Valient Thorr believe it can, people are going to have to start to get their own personal shit together first.

In what could be viewed as a single handed, spur of the moment effort to wrestle the phrase “personal responsibility” back from the Right, Our Own Masters the new album from intergalactic Rock N Roll saviors, Valient Thorr eschews direct frontal attacks on politicians and their wars and instead focuses inward on personal decisions and ethical living in the world economy.

Taking lessons from legions of like minded musicians and following the musical path Valient Thorr have traveled, Our Own Masters broadens the boundaries of what is hard and heavy, aggressive and fierce, extending an invitation to a party to be enjoyed by the heshers, head bangers, stoner rockers, thrashers, skate punks, old schoolers and the truly hardcore.  If one were to imagine hearing a palpable buzz so engaging that it has its own gravitational pull, something so strong that as one is pulled closer, the buzz becomes a throb that seemingly doubles over on itself into infinity. This is the furious sound of Valient Thorr, a band whose entire being is founded and powered on the force of one huge, mass, communal headbang that has the power to deliver a unifying moment of clarity.

www.valientthorr.com

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The term Samsara is derived from “to flow together,” to go or pass through states, to wander. Mostly a great revolving door between life and death and a new life reincarnated cycle of life.

Samsara Blues Experiment are a Berlin based band, founded in Summer 2007 by leadguitarist/singer Christian Peters. As the band name implies three elemental aspects are to notice – the blues as the fundament where it all comes from, the inclusion of spiritual influences accompanied by Indian/raga music and the experimental approach to mix up varied elements in a convincing manner.

The band’s songs are dominated by a playful dual guitar work as well as a passionate blend of heavy psych, stoner and space rock.

www.samsarabluesexperiment.com

Monkey3 starts in 2001 in Lausanne (Switzerland) as a jam-band community, influenced by a psychedelic and stoner-rock vibe that reminds Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin or 35007.
With their debut album « Monkey3 », released in 2004 by belgian label Buzzville Records, the band got great reactions and reviews all over Europe, putting them on the map of the stoner-rock scene.

The 2nd album « 39Laps » is released in 2007 and features a highly acclaimed cover of a movie classic, « Once Upon A Time In The West » by master Ennio Morricone.

The 3rd record, released in September 2009, is a cover album named « Undercover », loaded with covers from Archive, Kiss, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple.
May 2011, release of the 4th album « Beyond The Black Sky », on the german label Stickman Records. The album has been recorded at Studio de la Fonderie (Fribourg, Switzerland) with the young and talented producer Johann Meyer.

On October 25^th 2013 Monkey3 will release their highly anticipated 4th album “The 5th Sun”!

www.monkeythree.com

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Ufomammut is a power trio formed in 1999 in Italy by Poia, Urlo and Vita.
Ufomammut is worldwide recognized as the creator of a unique brand of psychedelic sludge.
With long songs, droning vocals and massive effects the band combines a monumental riffing attitude with the psychedelia of the more visionary Pink Floyd.

ORO is the title for Ufomammut’s latest work, divided into ten massive movements overall which is now confirmed to be delivered in two separate pieces during 2012: the first chapter, Opus Primum, in April, and the second, Opus Alter, in September.

Oro explores the concept of knowledge and its power; the magical stream controlled by the human mind to gain control of every single particle of the World surrounding us. Oro is the alchemical process to transform the human fears into pure essence; into Gold.
Although Oro’s two chapters will be released months apart from each other, they must be considered as a single track in which the musical themes and the sounds show up and hide, mutating and evolving, progressively and increasingly stratifying culminating in the crushing final movement.

Like a snake biting its own tail, time is circular, and with their upcoming tour, Ufomammut further corroborate ouroboric tendencies…
This autumn, Ufomammut will excavate items from their pliocenic past, keeping their third eye pointed at the future.
The ‘Magickal Mastery Tour‘ is a journey through fifteen years of Ufomammut music, performing under a new light songs from Godlike Snake to ORO, as thanksgiving to people for their support and devotion.

The band commented:

“We are very excited to come out and play material from across our album catalogue, whereas recent focus has been on ORO, an album which we are most proud of, we are looking forward to playing older material also, it’s been a while!“

“We’re totally happy to share the first part of the tour with our friends at Zolle.

They’ll bring some good old vibes from the countryside. Cows, thick wine and rock’n’roll!

We are proud to announce that kings of rural metal dirge and harvesters of riffs Zolle are bringing their surplus produce on the road this Autumn with  us!

With gratuitous amounts of methodic groove and grubby stoner swing which can only arise from the tight companionship of a jamming duo, Zolle are one of the few bands going who pack the weight necessary to roll with the conductor of this Magickal tour…”
www.ufomammut.com

Only those who know the ease of a cow while defecating can understand the genesis of the songs of Zolle.
Children of a natural path, direct, compact, subject to the force of gravity.
Impact safe with warm soul that does not end in the fall to the ground.
Even the sketches are lost.
In this contemporary, complex and indefinite, spare plates affirm the essential, appearing as furrows of land of the plain from which they come.
Being broken, turned, crushed, chopped.

In this contemporary, complex and indefinite, spare plates affirm the essential, appearing as furrows of land of the plain from which they come.
Being broken, turned, crushed, chopped.
In some episodes of guitar (Lan of MoRkObOt) and the drums will leave fertilize by the synths of Urlo (Ufomammut) and Roberto Rizzo (Quasiviri/Runi).
Scents and smells merge into a single mass of sound: Zolle.

http://www.zolle.org

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On “Soma” Windhand´s debut full length for Relapse Records, doom is syrupy slow, downtuned, hooky and anthemic.  Propelled by singer Dorthia Cottrell’s beautifully haunting bellow, WINDHAND’s dual guitar attack sounds like the glorious misfit offspring of Black Sabbath and Nirvana.  An easy candidate for heavy music record of the year.

“For the most part, Sabbathian doom bands stand out by only writing great songs because sonically it’s damn near impossible to seperate yourself from the overcrowded genre. But there is something about Richmond’s Windhand that makes them even more drugged-out and exceptional. The riffs sound like normal doom, but trapped in a mass of dark forest limbs, trying to hack their way towards the light while singer Dorthia Cottrell appears as a gloomy specter, wailing forlornly through the mire. It’s massive, addictive destruction. Yeah, these fuckers are gonna be huge.”
Decibel Magazine

windhandva.bandcamp.com/

Pilgrim is a three-piece doom metal band from Rhode Island, USA. With a mix of destruction, misery and beauty, these young disciples of doom blend a surprisingly original sword & sorcery feel with the classic chest-caving heaviness of the masters: Black Sabbath, Saint Vitus, Reverend Bizarre and Pentagram. Their thick walls of majestically darkened guitar, massive booming bass, and dangerously powerful yet calculated drumming lull listeners into an intense dream-like trance, abducting them to places they never knew were dwelling within their own minds.

The band formed in early 2010 and was built on the worship of “true doom metal”. Krolg, the Slayer of Man (drums), Count Elric the Soothsayer (bass) and The Wizard (guitars and vocals) have set out on a holy pilgrimage of domination through amplification.

Their debut full length “Misery Wizard” was released in 2012 through Metal Blade Records.

http://hailthepilgrim.bandcamp.com/

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In 2010 Martin Prim, Jens Rasmussen, Elis Edin Markskog and Johannes Cronquist started the band Abrakadabra in Växjö, Sweden. The band quickly managed to record a few tracks before two of the band members moved to Malmö, Sweden. Due to the distance rehearsing was close to nonexistent with the current line-up, and Martin Prim decided to team up with Linus Larsson and Jonas Sjöqvist to form a new band: Vidunder.

After much touring Vidunder began  recording of their debut album in late 2012.
The self-titled ten tracks album was released May 24th, 2013, via Crusher Records.

http://vidunderband.com/

Boozehounds Of Hell play dirty, honest and anti-sober Rock n` Roll inspired by the likes of Nashville Pussy, Motörhead and the Carburetors.

To conserve their mutual love for liquor, the Boozehounds Of Hell recorded their first EP entitled “Anti-Sober” in January 2012. Both in reviews and with the audience the CD gained a good reputation and more live-concerts followed, among them shows with other bands from the Austrian underground, open air festivals and local-support gigs for bands on the road (e.g.  Orange Goblin, Saxon, Gorilla Monsoon, White Cowbell Oklahoma, The Hitman Hearts) A Full-Length Album and many more gigs in and out of Austria are planned.

www.boozehoundsofhell.at

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The Dead Meadow sound is best compared to warm, runny honey…soft dewy grass… vibrant cracking bonfires… or dark rumbling thunder. The songs create a mood and a space for imagination to roam and drift. The organic, analog 70’s production brings out the best of Dead Meadow’s soulful playing and creates vast landscapes of their low-slung, glowing guitar tones.

Atmospheric, loping psychedelic rhythms are layered with somnolent vocals and plenty of free noodling guitar splutter and grind. Thorough all of the amped up soul-fuzz and multifolded acid shades, this trio’s innovative songwriting shines through and both stands them out from the crowd, and proves that this is not just another retro soup for the cannabis culture.

http://www.deadmeadow.com/

Charles Howl:
“A primitive, primeval force scurrying around the nether regions of London’s gig scene, their feral shows are an explosion of energetic, sweat and body hair.”
– Clash Magazine
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Bobby Liebling & Pentagram have been churning out widely admired music over four decades. Within its first, this D.C. band is largely regarded as pioneering not one but two subgenres. At the onset of the 1970’s, they helped procreate a behemoth called, “Heavy Metal.” Nine years on, they’d be planting the dark seed of what would grow to be known as “Doom.”

For 42 years the band has remained true to its macabre art. This unwavering dedication has influenced scores of renowned musicians some three decades on, and the legacy grows stronger every year.

Bobby Liebling remains to be one of Rock ´n Roll´s true living legends.

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All photos by Kurt Prinz

www.kurtprinz.at

Torso is a Psychedelic/70’s rock-inspired quartet from Vienna.
From seemingly endless, sometimes 50-minute jams developed structured
forms and a sophisticated songwriting Torso was born.

In its relatively short existence, the young band already shared the
stage with famous groups such as Siena Root, Karma to Burn,The:
Egocentrics, Golden Void, Mars Red Sky, Glowsun, Umor, Danava or Saviours.
2012 saw the release of the critically acclaimed Ep “Inside” through Stone Free Records.

A psychedelic journey.
Influenced by early rock.
From deep in a hole.

 www.facebook.com/torsomusic

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