A Surprise For FREE!

Sweet Mississippi Deal is the third album of the Swedish Stoner Rock band StoneWall Noise Orchestra. And guess what: They give it away for free as a torrent!
Sweet Mississippi Deal is a great album with ten songs for so far. There will be more songs added when it will be released in physical form. Awesome songs are: Black Cat Bone, I Am, One Hundred and the last track Interstate, there's a nice trumpet in it!

I have one note of criticism: The song All Systems Go is a re-make of the Demon Cleaner song (Like Freedom Prize on Vol.1), this version does not please me because it's to slow and the vocals does not fit. And that is strange, because in my opinion the singer does a great job on this album. Beside this minor disappointment Sweet Mississippi Deal is a great album! Enjoy!

What can we say…it’s a Sweet Mississippi Deal!
The new album, well most of it, is now up for free download right here on www.snoband.com!
Here’s the deal..once you’ve downloaded -Your soul belongs to us! Forever!

We decided to head straight to the core this time, the music is recorded so let’s get it out there and keep the Orchestra rolling. Of course there will be a full length album release as well, we’ve signed a deal with Transubstans Records and the release is set for sometime this fall. Hats off to this fine and understanding label allowing us to do this!

Some new live dates are added so check them out as well, now crank those mp3-players! C ya!
(From their website)

Stonewall Noise Orchestra - Sweet Mississippi Deal (2010)

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Soundgrenade.

With this post I completed the discography of Astrosoniq at this blog.
Soundgrenade is their second album and I cannot tell which one is my favorite album, cause they are all great! If you like Spaced out Stoner Rock with Hard Rock influences, then this is your thing! Enjoy!

Again on the Dutch quality label Freebird Records, Astrosoniq releases a blast. Their second album is more diverse on one hand, but also more balanced then their debut "Son Of AP Lady". Oh yes this sure is one hell of a record.
The sound isn't as dirty and crunchy as it was on their previous, but it's more round, warm and still heavy as shit. And they seem to have doubled the amount of "SPACE".
The guitarsolo's are one of the eyecatchers this time, though not on a main spot. More subtle moved into the songs. Man, does this cat know how to use his wah's. And the vocals, they rule and often remind me to glamrock, but in a cool way. And again the keyword is "Balanced". Drummer/Producer Marcel van de Vondervoort has done a terrific job with the production in his own "Tortured Garden Studio's". Heavy as hell, but compact as a nice unexploded grenade lying in your hand (I'm looking for the right words here!!). And how about the diversity here?
Well, everything is present again plus more. We have a beautiful melancholic ebow-space-guitar-intro, then the grenade explodes, we here allot of Hawkwind, Monster Magnet and Kiss, and then some South-American-Ghost-Dance. We kick back with Nick Cave, followed up by Motorhead (again, great soloing) with some very cool harmonies. Stevie Wonder comes by, playing Higher Ground with a distorted Funkadelic, and again we return to Hawkwind for a great finale. Just to name but a few, but most of all this albums sounds like Astrosoniq. And that's what they do best.
(By Mathijs at Stonerrock.com)

Astrosoniq - Soundgrenade (2002)

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Part Two And Three Of A Trilogy.

Thanks again to Maciej for sharing these albums!
Last week I posted the first album of Pandemonica, a solo project by Lorenzo Woodrose. Here are II and III. It is like the first album: Dark Psychedelic Music with the great voice of Lorenzo Woodrose. These are very nice tunes. It is hard to find any reviews of these albums, except for the one below. Enjoy!

A trilogy of LPs packed in non-gloss black cardboard covers depicting various satanic or occult drawings probably lifted from writings by Alistair Crowley or Anton La Vey, and with song titles like "Thanatos", "Therion" and "Dying to Live" anyone could easily be tricked into believing that this is the work of yet another daft church-burning bunch of Norwegian black metal madmen. But no, it's the psychedelic sounds of Lorenzo Woodrose's Pandemonica.
(From Lowcut.dk)

Pandemonica - III (2002)

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Pandemonica - II (2001)

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Nice Dutch Space And Stoner Tunes.

Gomer Pyle is a Dutch Space/Stoner Rock band. Idiots Savants is their full length album after releasing two EP's. Their sound is a bit similar to Astrosoniq and 35007. The result is an album full of very nice Psychedelic Space and Stoner Rock tunes. Idiots Savants is a true recommendation! Enjoy!

"The music created by the guys of Gomer Pyle is best described as space-stoner rock. The band plays a quite mellow sound with some rough edges along the way. A warm and smooth sound oozes out of the speakers when I play Idiots Savants, which both relaxes and rocks. Quite an eclectic selection of music to be found here. While listening to this record, I do have to say that the sound of this band reminds me a lot of the Swiss band Monkey3. Very psychedelic, a lot of stoner influences, you can almost see the people sitting in a circle tripping on some LSD. Add some small country influences and you’ve got yourself some nice music."
(By DemonDust at Allthatisheavy)

Gomer Pyle - Idiots Savants (2008)

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Another Project Of Lorenzo Woodrose.

Thanks to Maciej for sharing this album!
Lorenzo Woodrose is famous from bans like On Trial, Baby Woodrose, Dragontears and The Setting Son. Pandemonica is a solo project before Lorenzo began Baby Woodrose. I cannot tell much about it. It seems that Lorenzo played all instruments by himself. The result is a strange and Psychedelic album. It's a combination of Psychedelic Rock, Stoner Rock and 60's Rock, Influenced according MySpace by: 13th Floor Elevators, St. Michael, Aleister Crowley, Bevis Frond and Black Sabbath. This album is the first of a trilogy. The voice of Lorenzo is clearly recognizable. This album sounds great, a lot different than other stuff I've heard from Mr. Woodrose. Enjoy!

Pandemonica - I (2000)

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One request: If someone got Pandemonica II and III, please share it!

Strange Atmosphere From France.

Thanks to Valentin from Henryspenncer for sending his EP!
Henryspenncer is an one-man project from France. This guy plays some great Atmospheric Psychedelic Doom with Metal and even Americana influences. (Valentin knows how to play slide guitar!) According to MySpace Henryspenncer is inspired by the following: Neil Young's Dead Man, Titan, Grails, Six Organs Of Admittance, Metallica, Across Tundras,Kyuss, Barn Owl, Headdress, The Black Angels and Earth.
The result is The Shelter Days, an EP that is truly great. It really has a creepy/sombre sphere. The music is some sort of indefinable, but it is awesome! You have to take my word for that. I guess you have to experience this EP for yourself. Enjoy these strange vibes!

Henryspenncer - The Shelter Days (2009)

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More True Amazement.

A big thanks again to Sadness for this contribution!
Last week I posted the second album of the Peruvian/Argentinian band TLÖN. This is their first album. It's an awesome album that sounds a bit like the second one. That means: A great combination of Stoner, Psychedelic Rock, 70's Hard Rock and Doom! And more of that strange voice!
If you listened to TLÖN II, then you know what to expect. If you don't, go listen both albums! Enjoy!

"TLÖN is a Peruvian/Argentine heavy rock band with touches of psychedelic music, similar in some ways to Tarkus. This band is formed by Walo Carrillo, drummer and founder of Tarkus, Los Holys, Telegraph Avenue. In fact, the album includes some unreleased songs composed around 1972 from the Tarkus period. TLÖN is Christian Van Lacke on guitars and voice, Marcos Coifman on bass (from Reino Ermitano), and Walo Carrillo on drums. They continue with the magic that Tarkus left behind in 1972."
(From Allthatisheavy)

TLÖN - I (2009)

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Let's Go Retro!

Thanks to Anders for sending me another great album!
Yer from Brazil plays some awesome Retro Rock. There are a lot of influences here, according to their MySpace the following: Hendrix, Free, Stones, Beatles, Faces, Humble Pie, James Gang, Derek And The Dominos, Stevie Wonder, Johnny Winter, Dylan, Led Zep, Black Sabbath, BB - Allbert - Freddie King. In fact Yer combines 70's Hard Rock, 60's Rock and Blues together to a great sound. First Of Many Others is an album with some great variety, from Heavy to Psychedelic, from Blues to Mellow. If you like some Retro stuff, then this is your thing. Enjoy.

2008 has been kinda a “Sargent Peppers Lonely time” for YER. Since Yer..s debut Ep in 2005, they had played and grown as a band, going deeply inside their heart and soul, searching for breath moment off the stage, that kind of nirvana insight as keruac on the Mountains with his devils had and mad about. Sort of things that make us a better human been; seen, listen, feeling the movement of the world.
As a trio, the difficult to assimilate and express all the contemporary rock style make they go into their own studio, call it simple “Power of Soul” that meaning it self.
That was the last thing missing for Yer, free time rolling songs, tracking fields, mixing their own songs like their idols Eddie Kramer, Glyn and Andy johns bros, Tom Dowd and much more mates. Having a really good times, as the golden years when Traffic had composed songs in a small cottage in rural Berkshire or when The Band did the same, living in Woodstock.
Now Yer just become the own self intuitive feelings, putting they selves all together without any misunderstanding and block of the big bosses, and this is not what you going to find around, because Yer is what they are, simple a Power of Soul, making good, strange, wrong and maybe confuse songs, things they are shitin.. off for the bloody wankers, because this is pure. If it will be good, is your decision, because they are far away on the mountains of south Brazil….. cheers!!!

London..s air has ever been the “wicked place” for rock..n..roll, you know, and was there that Fabiano Koeche de Melo completed his mastership in rock, blues and psychedelic feelings. After two years walking around the Queen..s land , Fabiano has backed to south Brazil and in 2005 recruited his younger brother Mauricio (bass) and the old friend Guilherme Pitt (drums) to form a band. The most talented power trio from that area. Here you can appreciate the first Yer..s EP, called “Cheers Mate!” Melting amps in a full pelt performance with a old fashion style is quite rare to find out on the rock arena on this days, loud guitar bends with a les paul through a marshall amps, hard beats rhythm on drums and a big and strong bass lines that could make mrs Bruce and Bogert cry of jealously – yeah mate, that..s a real rule for Yer, just make a kind of Blues / Rock with the “old smell” without lose the 90..s energy.
(From MySpace)

Yer - First Of Many Others (2010)

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Not The Slo Burn Song.

Thanks to Wayne from the band Wheelfall for sharing this free download EP!
Wheelfall is song from Slo Burn and also a Stoner Rock band from Nancy, France. The influences are obvious: Unida and Slo Burn beside other Stoner Rock acts. Wheelfall plays Stoner as it should be and it sounds a bit primitive. I like that uncouth sound. The guitars are heavy, the drums and bass are pounding. The singer has a great voice that fits this kind of music perfectly. Some parts of the song Brotherhood Of Sleep reminds me very much of Kyuss' Green Machine.
Don't expect originality at this EP, but these guys know how to play big deal of Stoner Rock! If you like Stoner Rock in it's purest form, you will like Wheelfall! Enjoy and support these guys!

Wheelfall - From The Blazing Sky At Dusk (2010)

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Such Impressive Atmospheric Post Metal.

Thanks to Richard from the band Ortega for sending their album!
Some earlier I posted the promo EP from the Dutch Post Metal band Ortega here. This is their full-lenght debut album and I must say it is very, very impressive.

The concept album 1634 is a masterpiece! It contains seven tracks that goes from Heavy to Atmospheric. The promo EP is just a small impression of what Ortega has become now! The three songs on the promo are also on 1634, but the implementation is so much better! Take the epic song Siren for example, that song has really grown to the max! There is some beautiful violin in here and that sounds so great! That violin sound does also appear in the song Octagon, another awesome and atmospheric song.

My conclusion is that Ortega has exceeded themselves. This album is highly recommended, so buy this album at their MySpace! (Or send an email to ortegaonline@gmail.com) Enjoy!

Ortega from the north of the Netherlands releases their first album '1634' in 100 handmade copies. The album tells the story of a shepherd who is stranded on the Spanish coast and tries to remember his experiences. Every song is a recollection of important moments of his story.

Musically the CD is somewhere between Cult of Luna, Isis and Neurosis. After the first song “Still” the Black Metal riff in “Into the Waves” is a bit misleading. This is absolutely the darkest part of the record. Later on melancholy is all around; especially when the violin comes in in 'The Siren' and 'Octagon'. Then I also hear similarities with 'The Eye of Every Storm' and 'A Sun that Never Sets'. Also the deep vocals of guitarist Richard Postma in “Shipwrecked” are inspired by the voice of Scott Kelly. Ortega takes the above mentioned bands as a starting point and mixes it with Doom Metal from the nineties. Bands like Anathema or My Dying Bride have inspired the band for sure in ‘Octagon’.

Due to the guitar sound Ortega is playing a lighter version than is normally played in the genre. That doesn't matter because the tone of the record fits the idea of the concept. The concept is not that original anymore, the music fits the concept perfectly and that’s what matters. Listening to the disc more and more I imagined a movie that fits with the music so you also could say '1634' is the soundtrack for an unwritten movie.

JB from Dr. Doom did the production so you know this is well done for a DIY product. If you are into Post Metal/Hardcore don’t hesitate to check this band on www.myspace.com/ortegaband and order this impressive debut album.
(By Maurice at Acice.net)

Ortega - 1634 (2010)

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