Awesome Basque Stoner Rock.

Thanks to Grandfunk Boy for sharing this great album!

Wow! This is an awesome surprise! Neubat is like Sharon Stoner a band from Basque Country. Their music is hard to describe, but it is mostly Stoner Rock influenced. The album Dantzaldiko Erreginak is a great one. It is very energetic, but it also has it's mellow moments. The music is just great: Some heavy riffs, an outstanding organ and some nice male/female vocals (The lyrics are in Basque language). The influences according to MySpace are: Kyuss, Fu Manchu, Queens of the Stone Age, Raging Speedhorn, Unida, Hermano, Slo Burn, Nebula, Deftones, El Caco, The Ramones, Bongzilla, Danko Jones, Metallica, Creedence Clearwater Revival and Helmet. To give you an idea. Surprise yourself with this great album! Enjoy!

Neubat - Dantzaldiko Erreginak (2004)

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Nice Italian Stoner Rock: THE RED COIL

This nice EP was sent to my by Marco from the band The Red Coil. Thank you, Marco!
The Red Coil is an Italian Stoner Rock band and Slough Off is their first EP. This band combines Stoner Rock with Southern Rock and Metal. This three-track EP sounds very nice. There is some great guitar playing, a decent rhythm section and a nice voice.
If you want to know what their music is about, see this list of influences on there MySpace: Down, Kyuss, Black Sabbath, Cathedral, Pantera, The Mushroom River Band, Crowbar, Eyehategod, Acrimony, Pink Floyd, Spiritual Beggars, Machine Head, Johnny Cash, Sentenced, Babylon Whores, The Doors, Fields Of The Nephilim, End Of Green, Black Label Society, Allhelluja, Joy Division, Amorphis, Entombed, Motorhead, Type O Negative, The Cult, Nick Cave, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Faith No More, Orange Goblin, And Much More On Metal, Rock, Blues, 70’S, Psychedelic, Dark, Thrash, Death, Southern Rock & Doom Music!
I think there's a great future for The Red Coil. Enjoy!

The egg opened and the snake started crawling in April 2008 when Marco (vocals), Daniele, Luca (guitars), Toni (bass), decided to start a new project, after a ten-year experience of music together . They needed a drummer to arouse the snake vibrating under the sand. On May 2008 Antonio joined the band, he brought his experience and completed the line up. This gave birth to The Red Coil project, a mix of metal, stoner, alternative, with a beer and whiskey flavour. Lots of influences (Down, Black Sabbath, Black Label Society, Kyuss, Pink Floyd, just to make few names) mixed with the idea of making rough music without frills. The name The Red Coil is related to the concept of Kundalini the energy that resides in the subtle body and it’s traditionally represented as a sleeping serpent coiled at the base of the spine The awakening of Kundalini is a kind of Dante's journey where we pass from hell to the heaven discovering heaven and hell are a mirror image and only facing its animal spirit, the man can reach liberation. The Red Coil’ sound is the soundtrack for this trip ... "alcoholic & altered” In a few months the alchemy of the band bear fruits and on December 2008 they started the recording of their first Ep at Octopussy Studios, under the direction of A. Garavaglia (drummer of the metal band Mesmerize). On February 2009 the demo Ep "Slough Off" came out. Now The Red Coil are ready to spread their music wherever is possible!
free the coiled snake…drink and let it rise!
(From MySpace)

The Red Coil - Slough Off EP (2010)

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Polisessions Vol. 2

Last years I posted the Polisessions Vol. 1 album from Gran Cuervo. This Argentinian band has just released Polisessions Vol. 2. It is an album full of Psychedelic Stoner Rock with Space influences. There is even a Reggae influenced song! Polisessions Vol. 2 contains five awesome tracks. They are all killers! Not bad for a free-give-away album! Enjoy!

This beautiful noise was recorded in our drummer's house, the Poli, almost a year ago, and from those two weeks of freedom came out the Polisessions. A lot of work followed until we could hear in full form the Vol. 1 and now this Vol. 2.
This record includes the musical talents of Chelosky on bass, Poli on drums, Farrookh Bulsara on guitar, Frank Boston on guitar, Leíto from Milica on vocals, Fernando Bozzini from Miasma on mix, and Manuel Platino on Theremin, bass, mix and mastering.
(From Zann's music)

Gran Cuervo - Polisessions Vol. 2 (2010)

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A Generation Of Vipers

From Des Moines, U.S.A. comes On A Pale Horse. This bands plays a great deal of Stoner Rock/Metal. A Generation Of Vipers is their third album. And it's their last on because On A Pale Horse has quit. Two of the band members were ex-Slipknot guitar player Josh Brainard and ex-Downthesun singer Aaron Peltz, what explains the Metal influences. A Generation Of Vipers is a great album with some awesome songs. Enjoy!

On A Pale Horse - A Generation Of Vipers (2008)

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Medusa

Stake-Off The Witch is an Italian Stoner Rock band with some Doom influences. This band has a lovely lady singer with a great voice! Medusa is their second album. It has a great sound and nice grooves. In short: A great Stoner Rock album that you don't want to miss! Enjoy!

Some time ago I reviewed the first album of Stake-Off when they were on Sliptrick Records. No they seem to have been headhunted for Swedish Fuzzorama Records. The music is still a captive mix of mainly heavy stoner metal but with elements of dark industrial in the sound.

The sound is much heavier and more stoner’ish compared to the first outing. The female voice gives the sound a quite hypnotic and almost creepy depth. I like this record so much more than the previous because of the colossal wall of sound. The band hasn’t evolved – well, quite the opposite I guess, but it’s damn sure for the better. Old school stonerrock with strange lyrics and foxy girls – what’s not to like…
(By Tomsen at Lowcut.dk)

Stake-Off The Witch - Medusa (2010)

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Stockholm Syndrom

Stockholm Syndrom is the debut album by the Belgian Stoner Rock band Kube. This album is a nice on. It contains original songs with great grooves. According to their MySpace Kube is influenced by the following: Kyuss, Motorpsycho, The Melvins, Qotsa, Dead Kennedys, Motown, Joy Division, Lalo Schifrrin, Hawkwind, Django Reinhardt and more. So you have a small clue of what you're facing! Enjoy!

A pumping vibe, a CD which makes you take your car, open the windows and drive with the pedal to the metal. Wicked humour, raging venom and twisted unanswered love injected songs are spewed upon us with such hate and frustration. Kube is ready to let us know what is going on in their minds in ten songs that leave you no moment of rest. Unless you count the instrumentals 'Army On My Side' or 'Orgy' as a pausing of the steamy grooves. The first one being a mesmerizing riff swelling bigger and faster every minute, the second being as sticky, sweaty and gluey as the best scenes from Spartacus or I, Claudius. It surely honours the name of the track! The vocals are great and I like the double vocals/singing in a song like 'Motivation'. A great debut from these Belgians, who are sure to be killer on stage!
(By Erik at Allthatisheavy)

Kube - Stockholm Syndrom (2006)

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13EAVER

Beaver from Amsterdam is about the first Dutch Stoner Rock band. This band made four albums and a split album with Queens Of The Stone Age. 13eaver is their first album. This album sounds in some ways a bit primitive, but it is quite alright. Beaver had an awesome singer and their riffs are great. I guess these guys were experimenting a lot in these days. In short a great album! Enjoy!

Beaver appeared on the Amsterdam music scene in the late eighties. Founded by guitarist/lyricist Roel Schoenmakers and drummer Eva Nahon, their line-up stabilized in 1992 with the addition of bassplayer Milo Beenhakker and ex-God guitarist Joszja de Weerdt. They started playing out on the European stages, supporting bands like The Obsessed, Rollins Band, The Melvins, Fugazi, Kyuss and Queens of the Stone Age.

The results of their first three recording sessions at the Via Ritmo studio in Rotterdam were released on CD by the local W.E.R.K./WORKS label in March 1996. 'B' (13eaver) contains one hour of their heavy rocking metascience-fictional blues. The next trip to the studio yielded the Josh Homme-produced "Green", the band's contribution to the genre-defining 'Burn One Up!' compilation that came out in January 1997. The Beaver rhythmsection teamed up with Josh's 'Queens of the Stone Age' for the song '18 A.D.' This record got a lot of international press and put Beaver in the vanguard of the European scene.

In September 1997 their second album, 'The Difference Engine', was released by their new label Elegy. The album was written and recorded within weeks and captures the band in particular fine form, flaunting their trademark tortured guitar-riffing, odd timesignatures and extragalactic soundscapes, lyrically hunted by the heaviness of the load.

The release of the Beaver/Queens of the Stone Age split-EP on Man's Ruin Records September 1998 exposed them to a worldwide audience and drew a lot of positive reactions from fans and music press.

In 1999 Beaver toured Europe twice. After three appearances at the 'Roadburn'-fest, they hit the road in February with Eindhoven's finest 35007. September saw their second tour, this time with Spirit Caravan. In between they recorded their second Man's Ruin-release at 'The Void'-studio in Eindhoven. 'Lodge' was released in October 1999 and received 4 K's in the British 'Kerrang'.

2000 kicked in with a show at the Hollywood 'Troubadour', with Guy Pinhas on bass and Tos Nieuwenhuizen on guitar, a pre-1992 line-up as a matter of fact. While visiting the States they got the go ahead to release a full-length album. Recording started July 2000. Meanwhile, Tos had become a full bandmember again, replacing Joszja as lead-guitarist. The new line-up took to the road in November 2000 and toured extensively all through Europe, visiting the UK for the first time.

They went straight into the studio to finish recording what was to become 'Mobile', eight tracks that catches the band in transition from a five- to a four-piece. The release in May got overshadowed somewhat by the collapse of Man's Ruin, their record label, a month later. The band kept a low profile for the rest of the year, playing some local shows and festivals, working on new songs.

(From Wikipedia)

Beaver - 13eaver (1996)

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INRI

Thanks again to Dowi for sharing this EP!
A couple of weeks I posted the album Feed On Me from the Italian band hYPNOTIC hYSTERIA. This is their first EP and it sounds a lot different. The major influence on this EP is the band Tool. The INRI EP contains four tracks and they are the blueprint for their later sound exposed on the album Feed On Me. Dowi told me this EP sounded very lo-fi, but I disagree. This EP sounds just fine in my opinion. Tell me what you think by leaving a comment. Enjoy and support hYPNOTIC hYSTERIA!

hYPNOTIC hYSTERIA - INRI (2008)

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Deep Inside

The first Stoner Rock wave in Holland was started by bands as Beaver, Celestial Season, 35007 and 7 Zuma 7. These bands were the inspiration for later bands as Astrosoniq and Gomer Pyle.

Deep Inside is the full-length album by 7 Zuma 7 and it is an awesome album. 7 Zuma 7 is a bit inspired by Monster Magnet. Too bad they quit after this album. Before Deep Inside 7 Zuma 7 made one great EP. Enjoy!

The stoner metal movement of the late ‘90s was primarily based in the U.S., but other areas of the world spawned similarly styled outfits as well, including Eindhoven, Holland's 7 Zuma 7. Formed in the middle of the decade, the group's original line-up consisted of singer/guitarist Jerry van Eyck, guitarist John Peate, bassist Nick Sanders, and drummer Jacco van Rooij. 1997 saw the release of a self-titled, five song EP, which led to appearances at such music festivals as the Dynamo Open Air 1996 and 1998 and Lowlands 1998, and made a major fan out of Monster Magnet frontman Dave Wyndorf. December of 1998 saw Sander's exit from the band, as two bassists attempted to fill the vacant spot over the course of 1999 (first up was Ronald Herregraven, next was Arjen Rienks), before newcomer Miranda Vandervoot was welcomed onboard permanently. The same year, 7 Zuma 7 issued their debut full-length, Deep Inside, which featured a spirited cover of the Who classic, "The Seeker."

(By Greg Prato at All Music Guide)

7 Zuma 7 - Deep Inside (1999)

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Palm Desert Punk.

Last sunday I went to the Garcia Plays Kyuss show and it was awesome. The special guest was Brant Bjork. At his merchandise stand I saw this CD and I bought it without hesitation, because I was curious. When I listened it at home I realized it was a Punk album. And not a bad one! Half Astro are from Palm Spring, California, just like Kyuss and Brant Bjork. These guys play some high octane Rock 'n' Roll Punk. Hybrid is their debut album and it sounds really nice. Sometimes it reminds me of The Dwarves and old Turbonegro. The last song Kings Of Tomorrowland is somehow Psychedelic. Enjoy!

Half Astro is a High Energy Rock and Roll band with new and old Punk influence based in the Coachella Valley of California. With 2 veterans of rock and 2 whippersnappers of rock they make a delicious combo of noise. HYBRID has been the only album recorded so far and was produced by Derek O Brien. In the bands short 2 year history they have already opened for legendary punk acts such as Adolescents, The Dickies, Agent Orange, and TSOL. Expect some pretty cool stuff from these guys in the near future.
(From MySpace)

Half Astro - Hybrid (2008)

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