Deus Ex Machina

Groover Von Krueger is a band from Melbourne, Australia that plays some sort of Progressive Rock. The Deus Ex Machina EP is their debut release. This trio claims to be influenced by acts like Mr.Bungle, Frank Zappa, Brant Bjork, The Hellacopters and Beast Of Burden. This has resulted in five nice songs. The music is pleasant to hear. The songs are very varied. My personal favorite is NOAB (Nazi On A Bike). But the other songs are also great! You really should listen this EP. It is definitely worth. Enjoy!

I bid you welcome to this humble abode, electronic residence of yours truly, Groover von Krueger of Melbourne (MBA).

Let me be quite frank, the purpose of this site is to induct you into a web of audacious awesomeness the likes of which have never been seen before.

Your Grace is no doubt aware that Groover von Krueger is dedicated to the production of the finest quality modern music. That is indeed our primary purpose.

However, Groover von Krueger is also involved in a business at once very old and very new - the rabbit hole business. We're talking custom-built and hand-crafted. In short, the finest quality rabbit holes using all the latest rabbit hole technology.

Now you might ask yourself 'what is a rabbit hole good for?' Well, a rabbit hole is good for falling down. But, in time-honoured tradition, that requires a leap of faith on your part.

Your Eminence, Groover von Krueger is an attempt at a new way of making and distributing music (and rabbit holes) - direct from us to you with no intervention from suit-wearers and bean-counters. We are a fledgling enterprise, but we hope you will join us. Subscribers to GvK will receive our debut EP, a regular edition of The Weekly Groover and up-to-date correspondence on matters of fact and fiction. A box seat to a story strange and true as we put our Master Plan into action.

Friend, the dawn has broken and the golden rays of the morning sun throw light upon this glorious endeavour. Let us crack open the bone and suck out the marrow. Let us pop the cork, crack the tinny and cheer up our hearts. Let us see where this rabbit hole.
(From their website)

Groover Von Krueger - Deus Ex Machina EP (2011)

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Wreck And Reference

Thanks to Felix and Ignat for sharing their EP!
Wreck And Reference is a DIY electronic Doom duo from Davis, California. This duo is averse of guitar. So they used only synthesizers and samples. I must say as guitar lover that the result is not bad at all! Wreck And Reference offers with the Black Cassette EP some great music. This EP contains six songs that are full of despair and dejection. Their music reminds me somehow of the Sisters Of Mercy.
Do not be dissuaded by the lack of guitar and listen this EP at least one time. Maybe you like it. Enjoy!

Wreck And Reference - Black Cassette EP (2011)

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Woolly Bullet

Let's start with a funny fact. The last name of the keyboard player of this band is Blowen. Well, blowen is the dutch word for smoking pot!
Woolly Bullet is a five piece band from Eliot, Maine, USA (According to Bandcamp and ReverbNation) or from Dover, New Hampshire, USA (According to Facebook). This band plays some great Stoner Rock that is heavily inspired by seventies Rock music. According to their Facebook page, Woolly Bullet is influenced by the following: The Dead Weather, Led Zeppelin, Say ZuZu, Swamp Yankee, One Hand Free, Jon Nolan and the Working Class Girls, etc.
The result is this magnificent free to download self-titled debut album. These guys know how to play some great music. The songs are mostly instrumental. Some songs have a bit of Space Rock, because of the organ. (Mr. Blowen is doing a real excellent job!)
All in all, this is a formidable album that definitely deserves a listen. Enjoy!

So, I (Dave Nebbia) decided to do an RPM Challenge in 2011... I was determined! The last attempt turned into something special and never got released, it was the launch and birth of Swamp Yankee.
This year, I wanted to get some player I have never played with before and try to put together some magic. So, I contacted Jon Nolan and then we added Geoff Taylor on Bass from One Hand Free, Andrew Blowen on Organ Piano and Synth, and then Jon McCormack on Guitar and Bass. I played all the drums and sang on a few of the tunes. That was the idea.
I started to collect melodies by me humming on my iPhone... bits of verses and choruses and whatever other melody I thought might get us going.
We all show up on a Sunday night at 6PM, get rolling at 8PM and start recording at about 9:30PM. I took my iPhone melodies and sat with JonMC and he transposed them into guitar and we were off and running. 2 hours later, we had 3 tunes. We then show up the next night at 6:00PM and within 7 hours have all 10 tunes done! We had our friend Jamie Biscomb sing on one tune and do back ups on another. Boom, DONE! Hope you like what came out!
(Their bio from reverbNation)

Woolly Bullet - Woolly Bullet (2011)

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The Weasel Putorius

This contribution was sent in by the band Fura. Thank you for that, guys!
Fura is a band from the Spanish island Mallorca. This foursome plays a Instrumental and Experimental combination of Post Rock, Math Rock and Shoegaze. The result is this three-track EP called Mustela Putorius, an epic and beautiful piece of work. I guess this is the first release of Fura, but it tastes definitely for more! Enjoy!

Fura was founded in late 2008 when 4 musicians from around the world decide to combine their artistic creativity resulting in a musical experiment with a sound that is similar to a ferret (fura in catalan): they could sleep many hours, entering in a state of absolute calm, to become a very active and curious animal.
(From Facebook)

Fura - Mustela Putorius (2010)

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The Most Dangerous Animal Is Me

Scissorfight is a band from White Mountains, New Hampshire, USA. This band plays a blend of Stoner Rock, Punk and Metal. It seems that these guys present themselves as aggressive maniacs who will put up a fight without a warning and without any reason. Mantrapping For Sport And Profit is their fourth album and it is my favorite one. This album contains some songs that are full of aggression. This is mainly due Ironlung's awesome vocals. He sings really mean and vicious. The music fits seamlessly with these vocals. Great songs are: New Hampshire's All Right If You Like Fighting, The Most Dangerous Animal is Me, Go Cave and the absolute highlight Blizzards, Buzzards And Bastards. Enjoy!

The forth full-length album from crusty punks Scissorfight shows the band tightening their sound into a impressive stoner metal force to be reckoned with. The excellent production (by Andrew Schneider and Craig Riggs, along with the band) shapes the thick guitars into brutal chunks of shrapnel, cutting through the songs with a frightening fury. Ironlung's vocals also improve on this album, falling somewhere between Gwar's Oderus Urungus and Clutch's Neil Fallon. It is his charismatic growl that gives this album the strong personality it needs. Although their lyrics are still pretty average, the delivery makes up for it in spades. The album is a tad overlong, mostly due to the amount of time the band is willing to spend on one riff. But most of the songs are pretty short and harmless, and the band has a good sense of track placement that keeps things interesting. The average listener may not be impressed, but fans of stoner metal may want to give this a listen.
(By Bradley Torreano at All Music Guide)

Scissorfight - Mantrapping For Sport And Profit (2001)

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Even Now We Are Preparing To Love You

It's Not The Heat, It's The Humanity is the second album by the New York Stoner Rockers Puny Human. This album is the logical sequel to the album Revenge Is Easy. So you can expect a lot of awesome Stoner Rock songs. This is yet another great release by Small Stone Records. A highly recommended album! Enjoy!

"Rock is back. Its soundtrack for 2003 is coming. It's coming to cure your mind and body from all that lame corporate rock, the less than listenable drivel that the majors have been trying to package and sell rather heavily as of late. It's coming whether you like it or not. It's Puny Human's "It's Not the Heat it's the Humanity." This recording could easily be described as an underground masterpiece. The songs, the tones, the dynamics.. it has everything that needs to be there. These particular humans sound aptly heavy, yet with a fuzz-inflected boogie circa ‘70s hard-edged classic arena rock (think Grand Funk Railroad and Thin Lizzy playing Devo)."
(By Small Stone Records)

Puny Human - It's Not The Heat, It's The Humanity (2003)

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Eating Cigarettes

Puny Human is a Stoner Rock band from New York. Revenge Is Easy is their debut album from 2001 released by Small Stone Records. Beside Stoner Rock there are some Metal influences in their music. Revenge Is Easy has all the ingredients for a great Stoner album: Filthy fuzz guitars, a driving drum and bass combination and an awesome singer. I just rediscovered this album recently and I've learned to value it again. Enjoy!

Tags like Heavy Metal or Stoner Rock don't do justice to New York City's Puny Human. Something like Giant Freaking Boulder Smacking You Between the Eyes and Crushing Your Skull Like an Eggshell Rock would better convey the absurd overkill and slamming power of these boys. Riff-laden, fuzz-busting tracks like Jesus Has My Leg, Way of the Intercepting Fist and Stink of Two Men (not to mention their cover of Aerosmith's Rock in a Hard Place) tell us these guys have spent quality time with their Sabbath, Blue Cheer, Fu Manchu, Kyuss and Tad albums. And their wailing wah-wah guitars, muscle-car boogie and cowbell-rock blast makes it clear they were paying attention. You'll do the same if you know what's good for you. Take it from us, Revenge is sweet.
(By Darryl Sterdan at Canoe.ca)

Puny Human - Revenge Is Easy (2001)

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Lord Green.

This very nice demo was sent to me by someone of Fan The Flames Records (A label that is specialized in cassettes and vinyl).
When you hear the name Lord Green, then you can assume that you can expect some cannabis driven music. And when you listen to the first track, then you think you're right about that assumption. Because these tunes reminds of Bongzilla and Church Of Misery. But then starts track two... A portion of unadulterated Hardcore Punk is there right in your face. Lord Green plays some great tunes with an aggressive attitude. Fast and loud is the motto here! That fury continues till track seven. The song Dropping Out is more like the first track. A bit slower and some more stoned. The last track is again the Hardcore Punk madness! Lord Green from Davenport, U.S.A. has made an nice and entertaining demo. Enjoy!

Lord Green - Last Demo (2010)

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The World, The Flesh And The Devil

A while ago I've posted the fantastic album For Sardines Space Is No Problem by the Swedish band The Movements here. Now it's time for their album The World, The Flesh And The Devil from 2009.
The Movements is a band from Göteborg that plays some awesome Psychedelic Garage Rock with influences such as Space Rock, 60's Rock, Kraut and even Punk. The songs on this album are all excellent. The Movements has given it all on this album. Enjoy!

First off, this CD should be heard for no other reason than how fucking cool and bad ass the opening track is! It's such a brilliantly constructed track with killer drums, guitar riff, vocals, everything. It moves at such a frenetic pace and just rolls along. The layering and construction is truly quite original and is a great example of how to take something old and wrap it into something fresh. It's a very psychedelia style number, but still very modern. It's a wonderful beginning to the disc for sure.

At time Garage Band like, at times Psychedelic, at times Proggy (very lightly) and at times bordering on Punk, but always blasting through your speakers will full energy. The problem I have had in the past with certain Psychedelic bands is that they might give you one song with energy, catch your ear, and then get quite mellow for everything else. The Movements never forsake their energy and always keep things moving, even on a track like "The Fun Ain't For Free", which starts slow and builds to a slow burn. You never feel like these guys are relaxing, their just biding their time waiting to explode all over the place.

The promo material mentions that this album was written while vocalist David Henriksson was laid up in a hospital bed fighting cancer. It would seem that David poured a lot of his energy and heart into this stuff, and the other members of the band did the same and decided to really give it all they have. The end result is a wonderful release.

This is actually one of those CD's that is really tough to review, as it really needs to be picked apart piece by piece to really give you the reader a full idea of just what the hell this thing is all about. There is so damn much going on at all times, and even though a song such as "I Am You" might be a rather bizarre little number, it breaks into these horn (?) parts that are so catchy it is ridiculous, and it proves that no matter what you might think a song is going to be like, it just might eventually turn into something else entirely. You could almost write a book about an album of this sort. Wild stuff, and I HIGHLY recommend it to anybody looking for high energy, yet something rather adventurous.
(By Carl Isonhart at Sonic Ruin)

The Movements - The World, The Flesh And The Devil (2009)

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Qualone

Qualone was a Psychedelic Space/Stoner Rock band from Atlanta, USA. This band can be seen as the forerunner of Telestrion, because two members are involved with both bands. Qualone has only released one album. This album is a display of awesome Stoner Rock with several influences like Pink Floyd and Black Sabbath.
Just as with Telestrion are the vocals quite remarkable. And I mean this in a positive way!
So if you ever have heard Telestrion and you did appreciate it, then for sure you will love Qualone! Enjoy!

Those of you that were around at the advent of Stoner Rock’s heyday might recall the band Plaster – an American contribution to the KyussSabbathFloydGrandFunk – influenced SR ethic. Simply put, it was big riffs, scorching yet emotive leads, occasional psychedelic aural excursions and a lotta low end. The band broke up and some of the former members reformed as Qualone in 2002.

Qualone retains most of the above-described Plaster aesthetic, but to these ears, Qualone is on the more accessible side of SR; a kinder ear towards melody and harmony. The big riffs are still there and the leads still smoke (the one on “Mind Cloud” singed my eyebrows), but the choruses are bigger and have better sticking-quality than the Plaster material I was familiar with. The band also take on a bong-rock psych excursions (“The Kind” and especially the well-done Beatle-esque “Mushroom Flower”) with equal aplomb for you more cerebral psych heads.

Truth be told, In a pinch, I prefer the more adventurous modern heavy psych of Colour Haze, Gas Giant and Los Natas, but Qualone do what they do well. Andy Samford is a great voice for the band – distinctive and confident – reminds me of Collective Soul’s Ed Roland especially on the big infectious-riff rockers like “Watermelon”. Not a put down, “Shine” still rocks like a MoFo.

Good stuff. Gives a ray of hope for those of us that think Stoner Rock’s best days ended with Man’s Ruin went out of business.
(By Chris Barnes at Hellride Music)

Qualone - Qualone (2004)

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