Doom Charts for 05/11/13

Top 25 Songs

#). Song Title (artist/album)

1. Highflyer (Eternal Elysium / Highflyer EP)
2. Warrior Woman (Corsair / Ghosts of Proxima Centauri)
3. Polygon of Eyes (Scorpion Child / ST)
4. Widow Stone (Sonic Mass / single)
5. Savage Dancer (Black Moth / 7" single)
6. Stone (Alice in Chains / The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here)
7. Leaning on a Bear (Purson / The Circle & The Blue Door)
8. Sinister Gleams (Abysmal Grief / Feretri)
9. Tower of Silence (Cathedral / The Last Spire)
10. Keyhole / Inner Saturn (Shinin' Shade / Sat-Urn)
11. Dancing With My Demons (Chains / 7" single)
12. Crux To Bear (Across Tundras / Split LP w/ Lark's Tongue)
13. Dull Ache [I Hate Myself Today] (Tentacle / Ingot Eye)
14. Shadow King (Beastwars / Blood Becomes Fire)
15. Nuclear Messiah (King Goat / Atom)
16. Chrononaut (Crag Dweller / Magic Dust)*
17. Cryogenics (Utah / ST)
18. Solution (Supermachine / ST)
19. Holy Planet Yamoth (Necronomicon / The Queen of Death)
20. Yorgan Mountain (Green Shade / ... Bright Interlude)*
21. Purple Void (Spacefog / Purple Void)
22. Kärsimyksen tie (Musta Risti / ST)
23. Money Shot (Early Mammal / Horror at Pleasure)
24. Death March (The Gates of Slumber / Stormcrow)
25. Silverwing (Sideburn / IV Monument)

* New Song

Outgoing songs:
Rain on the Highway (Geezer / Handmade Heavy Blues)
Final Escape (Amaxa / ST)

Top 30 Albums
#). artist - album title

1. Blizaro - Blak Majicians
2. Tentacle - Ingot Eye
3. Devil - Gather The Sinners
4. Beastwars - Blood Becomes Fire
5. Kröwnn - Hyborian Age
6. Black Pyramid - Adversarial
7. Shinin' Shade - SAT-URN
8. Cultura Tres - Rezando Al Miedo
9. Grave Disgrace - Triumphant & Militant Church
10. Devil To Pay - Fate Is Your Muse
11. Revelation - Inner Harbor
12. Head of the Demon - ST
13. Weed Priest - ST
14. Crag Dweller - Magic Dust
15. Tsar Bomba - Silent Queen
16. Cardinals Folly - Strange Conflicts of the Past
17. March The Desert - ST
18. Green Shade - ... Bright Interlude
19. Void of Sleep - Tales Between Reality & Madness
20. Mothership - ST
21. Demon Lung - The Hundredth Name
22. Sideburn - IV Monument
23. Gates of Slumber - Stormcrow EP
24. Geezer - Gage EP
25. Bretus - In Onirica
26. Iron Hearse - Get In The Hearse
27. Moss - Horrible Night
28. Miss Lava - Red Supergiant
29. Zodiac - ST
30. Machine / Sungrazer - split album

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Rowsdower / Send the Mistress split (album review)

I recently closed the doors to submissions here at the blog, but it wasn't without painful consternation.  A split album like this is the perfect example of why one wouldn't want to end the submission process.  There's no doubt I would have missed this one without it, and I'm grateful to have been sent this album for the purpose of review.  In fact, I'd heard of neither Rowsdower nor Send the Mistress before I received the email that introduced them to me.  I'll miss those moments of being completely floored by totally undiscovered bands for the time being.  Eventually the doors will open back up again, but for now ... it's albums like this that will have me up in the middle of the night wondering what I missed.  Anyway, Rowsdower and Send the Mistress: a pair of hard rockin' stoner bands from Missoura.

I have no idea whether or not Rowsdower projects the film The Final Sacrifice behind them when they play, but that would be perfect.  Not a bad starting place when trying to visualize an overall picture of what sound this band produces.  The band christened themselves after the mustachioed and mulleted big man with a shot gun from the b-movie.  Rowsdower the band play the kind of blues-tinged rock n roll that I'd like to believe Zap Rowsdower the man on screen would listen to.

"Redemption Denied" is an excellent example of how the band builds a song, slowly and carefully.  By the time the second guitar solo muscles in, the song has moved from a midtempo roadhouse blues number to a stoned roadside ceremony which then leads into their last number "Victor's Waltz".  Sparks dance towards the tops of long campfire projected shadows on isolated canyon walls as the band moves through its longest ritual on the record.

Where Rowsdower bangs the ceremonial drum around the campfire, smoking peacepipes and inhaling otherwise mellow vibes, Send the Mistress hits the ground running on their initial offering "Tired Limbs Energetic".  They've got a bit of an Alexisonfire thing going on here with dual melodic / rasped vocals but they do it in a more Alice in Chains-y way.  Let me make this clear, this is not "screamo" music, but there is that rasped scream element here.  "A Magnificent Feast" ups the A.I.C. ante by degrees with a terrifically distant background vocal during the chorus creating a floating / ethereal effect.

"Medusa's New Do" brings all the Send the Mistress elements to the table and rolls them together beautifully.  It's got the most stoner rock sound of all the songs on this record, which makes the screaming all the more apparent.  It's just not a technique used by a lot of 'stoner' bands.  Headbanging syncopation and those ethereal vocals waft in and out of the background once again.  Towards the end of the track the band actually does "send the mistress" with some excellent female backing vocals.

Even a cursory listen reveals a clash of styles at work, from Rowsdower's campfire Kyuss sound to Send the Mistress' blast beat explorations, it can be a bit much of a departure.  Listening to each side of the record at a time will certainly remedy this though, and it's got you covered for both mellow and hyped-up moods depending on how you want to flip it.

Highlights include: "Medusa's New Do" and "Acid Healer"

Rating: 3.5/5

Total Run Time: 35:23

From: St. Louis, MO. (Rowsdower) / Warrenton, MO. (Send the Mistress)

Genre: Stoner, Blues, Hard Rock

Release Date: February 6, 2013

Suggested listening activity for fellow non-stoners: Chop your wood, find your kindling, start your fire, nurture it, then jump right in.

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Kröwnn - Hyborian Age (album review)

Cover artwork, logo and layout by View From The Coffin

Kröwnn hammered their way into the consciousness of Paranoid Hitsophrenic after "For the Throne of Fire" appeared as the opening track on the Soggy Bog podcast 119.  It was a strong and memorable track with everybody's favorite Arnie quote from Conan the Barbarian (1982):

1. Mongol General: What is best in life?
2. Conan: To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women. 

They have since garnered quite a few rave reviews and mentions in other blogs and webzines around the globe.  The very next episode of the Soggy Bog featured this album in it's entirety.  At one point the band enthusiastically had their pictures taken with members of Saint Vitus.  That kind of says it all.  Fans turned recording artists, Kröwnn keeps it old school in both it's doom metal stylings and in its lyrical content: Saint Vitus & Robert E. Howard, Death SS & George R.R. Martin, Trouble & Tolkien, Witchfinder General & Michael Moorcock become the combo ingredients for one heavy stew.

In a way, it's hard to believe they've only been around on a world stage for a couple months now, this new band (formed in summer 2012) has fast become a bright light in the field of doom.

Right off the bat, Kröwnn gives the listener a solid taste of what they're all about on the previously mentioned opening track, "For the Throne of Fire".  Flashes of crazy riffing and flash-bang syncopation followed by slow doom and double tracked vocals.  Mostly, the band stays at a midtempo pace, slicing steadily through songs like they're bodies that must be disposed of before sunrise, sighing heavily while wiping sweat from soiled brows.  "At the Cromlech" is a slow building song, perhaps more dynamic than anything else on 'Hyborian Age' aside from the instrumental (more on that one in a minute).  It's got a bassline that reminds me of "1-800 Suicide" by the Gravediggaz (who's old enough to remember the Demon Knight soundtrack?).  Also, I didn't know what a cromlech was before Kröwnn stepped in and rested its gilded self onto my life.  Thanks, Kröwnn!

While each of the three band members add their own inimitable voice to the affair, sparkplug drummer Elena Fiorenzano is a rising star among stars.  Her upbeat and busy drumming style elevates each song while providing the band with its true defining characteristic.  Whereas most doom drummers will stick to a simplistic, slow shamble, Elena thrusts each song forward with whirlwind energy.

Ceaseless heaviness in leather jacketed riffs glides across the album like a wizard-conjured cloud of locusts.  The band actually manages to create the sound of a storm on the incredible instrumental, "Stormborn".  Gusting winds pound out from the drums and fuzz bass, rain drops drizzle down before falling in sheets from the guitar of Michele el Lello Carnielli.  Kröwnn puts on a clinic here of how to paint moving pictures with music.

Much of the heaviness actually comes from Michele's vocals, which are sung in a low register.  They're neither too gruff nor too subdued, but strike the right chord for a doom outfit.  The tone of all the instruments here is neither too brutal nor crushing and never goes over the top, but just right.  And because the band chooses to emphasize high energy over slow moodiness, while still remaining moody and atmospheric, they speak with a distinctive voice within the field of true doom.

So what do we have here when it's all said and done?  A solid debut from a band who manage to sound like they've been around forever.  They manage this by hitting just the right balance of loose jamming and tight structure, a sensitivity toward ambiance, carving a groove for themselves soundwise and gunning it for the length of the album.  While there is definitely room for growth in terms of experimenting with different tones, tempos and textures, the band prove themselves capable, even as a rookie outfit of giving a doom craving audience what it needs and crafting memorable songs, which in today's oversaturated market actually means something.  There's so much more to say about this album, but I'll leave it to the player below to do the rest of the talking.

Highlights include: "For the Throne of Fire" and "At the Cromlech"

Rating: 4/5

Total Run Time: 39:09

Michele el Lello Carnielli - Vocals, Guitars
Silvia Selvaggia Rossato - Bass Guitar
Elena Fiorenzano - Drums

From: Venice, Italy

Genre: Doom Metal

Reminds me of: Conan, Gates of Slumber, John Buscema, Robert E. Howard, Roy Thomas

Release Date: February 12, 2013

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Nibiru - Caosgon (album review)

Artwork and graphics by Siatris (drums)

Every now and then a band comes along and blows your head apart.  It's an even rarer breed of band that takes a multi-media approach to the task, using captivating imagery (boobs) to craft such memorable, haunting and mesmerizing videos that the two (audio and visual) are forever linked in the mind and can no longer be separated.  What was once seen cannot be unseen, and what is later heard without the visuals cannot be sampled without glimpsing the visuals in the mind's eye (in the case of "Invokation I": good [boobs!], for "Smashanam": not so good [take my word for it but go ahead and look if you're really that curious, and don't say I didn't warn you!!]).  Most importantly, for the purposes of our study, is how the head blowing apart effect of this band is achieved.  Just follow me down this here rabbit hole and away we go ...

First off, Nibiru utilizes vocals of the Enochian chant variety, the language of the angels.  That's pretty trippy right off the bat, innit?  The title of this album, 'Caosgon', translates from Enochian to English as "to the earth", with the suffix -n being the case ending of the root word "caosgo" or "of earth".  The fact that the word sounds like a totally accurate description of Earth, "chaos gun" is pretty trippy in and of itself, too.  But none of these little factoids are what blow the head apart.

Nibiru is also a jam band, writing their songs around live unstructured improvisations, then recording them live with minimal overdubs, a choice and style that almost by definition breeds interesting structures and song elements.  Here we are coming closer to what makes Nibiru such a mind-blowing act, but we're not quite there yet.  To get there, we're going to have to take a much closer look at the music itself.

Songs rise and bloom like flowers from a simple drone with various elements added one by one, piece by piece, layer by layer.  Does this album have cowbell?  It sure does though not as a rhythmic element, but cowbell used as originally intended, dangling away in a stereoscopic circle to begin the album (and close it) as the first sounds you hear on opening track "Invokation I: The Acid Skull" (see video below) and the last sounds you hear on closing track "Umbra Venefica".  What this band is capable of achieving is an alpha state in the listener, then throwing said victim into a churning pit of hell.  It doesn't matter that it's not a real place and that it's all in the mind or is a state of being or whatever.  They throw you in that pit of torture and despair regardless.  You don't see it coming, and it happens suddenly, like a quick death followed by an eternal moment of agony.  Of course, the effect is subtle, like the feeling of presence beside the bed at night.  This is where the acid skull takes the listener, and a better, more descriptive name to pin on a bad trip I've not heard.

By the time "Smashanam, The Crematorium Ground Of Kaly" whirly dervishes its way across the speakers, you're almost glad that the subtle pressure of nocturnal visitation is over and the actual beating begins.  From there on the album becomes a cycle of ritual abuse followed by a moment of respite and so on.  This is not the feelgood soundtrack to a stolen summer night, unless that night involves tripping on bad acid while locked inside a mausoleum stuffed with hungry and curiously probing animated corpses.

The overall effect 'Caosgon' has on the listener is impressive, an experience that must become totally overwhelming at a live show.  This became one of those albums that literally changed the way I heard everything else for days afterwards.  Not that everything else paled in comparison, it wasn't really a comparative thing, it's just that the band leaves its mark, the way they used to warn that acid changed a person forever after taking it.  Not to make too big a deal about it, but this album blew my head open.  I hope I've explained a little bit about how they achieved this effect and that the reader can keep this in mind, now the only thing left is for the reader to dabble in Nibiru's sonic drug and perform the ritual experiment the ancient Enochian speaking angels used to call, "listening" on his or her own.  That means you!  But be patient, because this isn't the kind of thing that will reveal itself on a quick preview, it's got to be listened to without distraction from cowbell to cowbell.  You've got to buy this album dinner and get to know it first.

Highlights include: "Invokation IV: Heru-Khentan-Maati" and "Smashanam, The Crematorium Ground Of Kaly"

Rating: 4.5/5

Total Run Time: 51:28

RI - bass and liturgic organ
Ardath - guitar & voice
Siatris - drums, percussions & Virus

From: Turin, Italy

Genre: Drone, Psychedelic, Sludge

Reminds me of: Saturnalia Temple, Spectral Haze

Release Date: February 27, 2013

Suggested listening activity for fellow non-stoners: You're falling into a deep trance ... your eyes are getting heavier ... and heavier ... good, he's asleep now, let's torch the fucker! ...

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Doom Charts for 05/08/13

Top 25 Songs

#). Song Title (artist/album)

1. Warrior Woman (Corsair / Ghosts of Proxima Centauri)
2. Polygon of Eyes (Scorpion Child / ST)
3. Leaning on a Bear (Purson / The Circle & The Blue Door)
4. Highflyer (Eternal Elysium / Highflyer EP)
5. Widow Stone (Sonic Mass / single)
6. Sinister Gleams (Abysmal Grief / Feretri)
7. Stone (Alice in Chains / The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here)
8. Tower of Silence (Cathedral / The Last Spire)
9. Dancing With My Demons (Chains / 7" single)
10. Savage Dancer (Black Moth / 7" single)
11. Crux To Bear (Across Tundras / Split LP w/ Lark's Tongue)
12. Keyhole / Inner Saturn (Shinin' Shade / Sat-Urn)*
13. Dull Ache [I Hate Myself Today] (Tentacle / Ingot Eye)*
14. Cryogenics (Utah / ST)
15. Solution (Supermachine / ST)
16. Shadow King (Beastwars / Blood Becomes Fire)*
17. Rain on the Highway (Geezer / Handmade Heavy Blues)
18. Final Escape (Amaxa / ST)
19. Kärsimyksen tie (Musta Risti / ST)
20. Nuclear Messiah (King Goat / Atom)*
21. Money Shot (Early Mammal / Horror at Pleasure)
22. Death March (The Gates of Slumber / Stormcrow)
23. Silverwing (Sideburn / IV Monument)
24. Purple Void (Spacefog / Purple Void)*
25. Holy Planet Yamoth (Necronomicon / The Queen of Death)*

* New Song

Outgoing songs:
Lifestream (Blizaro / Blak Majicians)
La Ley Del Dolor (Cultura Tres / Rezando al Miedo)
Signed, Epstein's Mom (Gozu / The Fury of a Patient Man)
Wash His Bones (Dead River / ST)
Great Leader (Giza / Future Ruins)
Weather Breeder (Neon Warship / ST)

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The Mangled Dead - Hate Humans (album review)

Rad cover artwork by Tallboy

Here's a band that almost escaped my attention, if not for a timely mention on facebook by the band's other more well known incarnation, the mighty Ice Dragon!  The Mangled Dead is one of three other incarnations (that are known by this fan anyway) of the band, which is less like a dragon and more like a Transformer, or I guess more specifically, a Dino-Bot.  They also shovel doomed sludge under the mantle of Tentacle and dredge bleak emotional states as Slow Heart.  In my review of Tentacle's latest opus 'Ingot Eye' (a review that has so far earned me over a dozen spam emails from sellers of actual ingot), I refrained from mentioning the Ice Dragon connection because it's a different band with a different name (even though it features the same faces) and I felt it deserved to be taken on its own merits and not compared to anything else the guys have done.  Henceforth, I shall take the same approach to the Mangled Dead ...

Well, the cover says it all.

The title track "Hate Humans" was originally released on a four track EP on July 2 2012 according to bandcamp's release date.  It has been re-recorded here in a decidedly punkier fashion.  The chorus lacks the same maniacal drive that propelled the original version forward.  The new version is lethargic by comparison, but has substituted propulsion and energy for an "I just don't give a fuck about anything anymore" ethic.  On the original version Hot Ron doesn't do the vocals on the verse, only on the chorus.  The fact that he does them on the new version changes the feel of the song entirely, never mind the music which is also different.

"Frankenstein Pays The Rent" has already been featured on this blog, in the form of a charming little video the band shot which was featured on 'The Hour of Power'.  Some images just burn in your mind and the monster pulling the guy's hand off as he rides by the bus stop on his skateboard is one of them.  Watch the freakin' video! (do it.)  It doesn't hurt that it's a good song too.

'Hate Humans' flies by in a flash and had me asking whether or not there's a narrative thread tying this whole thing together more than once.  A punk rock concept album?  That's a reversal whose time is ripe, an idea with such attitude it gives punk rock itself the old one finger salute.  "So, punk started as a bad attitude  response to overblown production and technicality in rock, huh?  Well here's a concept album, ya cunts!!" would have made a good summation, but that narrative story feeling is due more to the piss stained aesthetic the band have taken up, classic monsters and punks in fright masks in a mosh pit.  Their unwavering focus to this imagery is what makes it feel like a single story.

The whole thing was recorded on 4-track cassette and the band tends to red line the sound levels at times, such as on "Mutated Dracula" where it's really noticeable.  Such lo-fi recordings add immensely to the charm of this release (something that's true across the board of everything these guys release [okay no more referencing the other projects of The Mangled Dead!]).

I'll admit, I wasn't sure I'd like this thing, as I've never been a big punk fan.  I like 'Never Mind the Bollocks' and some stuff by The Fall and a few other things ... "TV Party", whatever else ... but 'Hate Humans' is made up of a tight group of six fast paced songs that bring to mind, once again, classic monsters doing horrible things to humans and it's a wonderful place to visit.

They also have another song up on bandcamp that kicks major arse called, "Satan's Got My Back".  Grab it, listen to it, spit beer in people's faces, stomp around and enjoy your obnoxious self!

Highlights include: "Frankenstein Pays The Rent" and "Mutated Dracula"

Rating: 4/5

Total Run Time: 13:20

From: Boston, Massachussetts

Genre: Horror Punk

Reminds me of: The Misfits, Monster Squad, Return of the Living Dead

Release Date: March 8, 2013

Suggested listening activity for fellow non-stoners: Go out on your skateboard, monster huntin'!

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Rogue Transmissions - Blizaro - Blak Majicians (album review)

Cover artwork by John Gallo

When I first heard "Lifestream", the second track off this demo album, on the AudiObelisk podcast (I also discover Black Pyramid's "Aphelion" there too), I was floored by its authentic late seventies / early eighties horror film soundtrack sound, but I kept "waiting for the song to start".  It wasn't long before I "got" it and it wasn't much longer after that that I ordered 'City of the Living Nightmare', the band's 2010 full-length album on CD, not knowing what to expect.  Well, it rocks.  But it also spooks and puts a mischievous smile on my face every damn time.  Not too much longer after that I picked up Blizaro's split CD with Wooden Stake.  It also rocks and spooks.

So, am I still waiting for the songs to start?  Absolutely not.  It wasn't until I picked up 'City of the Living Nightmare' that I realized they weren't all ambient horror instrumental / imaginary soundtrack music all the time.  Blizaro play a mix a heavy old school doom with full lyrics and song structure and organ/synth driven intrumentals.  A mix that is almost EXACTLY what you've been waiting to hear your whole life if your toddler ass spent way too much time with your teenage uncles listening to heavy metal and watching horror flicks in the eighties like I did.  It's not often however, that the twain actually meet in Blizaro's repertoire.  That's when Blizaro blindsides you with opening track "Sacrifice", delivering the most potent combination of the band's two styles imaginable.  Headbanging meets head spinning when the synth fires up during the middle 8 of the song creating feelings of unease and terror which only come to a peak during the next track, the instrumental "Lifestream".

You may recognize this title from my "Doom Charts".  As I mentioned earlier, I first heard this song way back in August of last year, but it wasn't until about mid-March that I got this CD in the mail.  It's like one of those feel good filler stories in the newspaper about two people from opposite ends of the earth who were reunited after a chance encounter only to be wedded and live happily ever after.  If some smart-ass wanted to say, "if you love this song so much, why don't you marry it?" I'd say, "Show me the papers asshole, yeah I'll sign 'em!"  This song is still the perfect expression of Gallo's organ/synth explorations to me, if for no other reason than it was my very first impression of the band altogether.  You can listen to each of the two opening tracks, and a small handful of others from 'Blak Majicians' by clicking the links on the tracklist below.

Black metal explorations on "Towers of Mystery" sound like Gallo getting his Crucifist kicks out, it's a short track and the second half of it gears down harshly from blast beat to doom tempo.  If you hear a thick, wet snap during this song, don't worry, it's just your neck breaking from the whiplash effect.  "Bliztramental" once again gets the Blizaro atmosphere just right, and there goes the corner of my mouth into a mischievous smile once again during the whining and echo-laden keyboard break.  I feel like Lucille Bluth, "Oh, you got me again!!"

Man, I don't even know how to describe it, I can't tell you what this band does to me.  I can't say they are my absolute favorite band, but they're right up there and climbing every day.  I suppose if everyone did what Blizaro does, it would get stale real quick.  Fortunately, they remain unique, a dusty gem embedded in the mouldering eye socket of the skull of doom.

"Sobering Through Darkness" then pours forth, spinning perhaps their most catchy soundtrack-like creation to date.  Towards the end of the track, a verse comes in to shovel dirt on it.  With this track and "Sacrifice" Blizaro show a very encouraging tendency to combine their key driven instrumental ambience with their doom metal side.  Maybe it's just a strange impression but it seems to happen more on this disc than anywhere else in the band's discography.

Obviously, I knew about this demo album from the Stoner Hands of Doom XII podcast that I've mentioned twice already.  I saw on Encyclopedia Metallum that this CD was only available at Days of the Doomed II, but I had to get my grubby hands on it.  I messaged the band on their facebook page (see link below) and we were in business.  Maybe the best 8 bucks I ever spent.  This CD is now one of my most prized musical possessions, ... my preciousss!  I don't know how many copies the band have left to sell or if they were even planning on selling any more of these things.  That's what makes this post a Rogue Transmission.  What I do know is that Blizaro's second full-length album coming out on Razorback Records called 'Cornucopia Della Morte'.  No release date has been set or anything like that, last facebook update in mid-March stated that the album was nearing completion.  I for one can hardly wait.  What I do know is that this song will be on it, it's called "Frozen Awakenings".  Listen to it and be afraid.  In the meantime, John Gallo releases spare tracks and demo mixes of songs to youtube all the time under the names John Gallow, JG Blizaro, Johnsgallow, and just plain old Blizaro.  It's all good stuff in the Blizaro vein and it's through this avenue that I can link several of the songs in the tracklist below for your listening pleasure (you can check out Gallo's Borntoodoom youtube page here).

Highlights include: "Lifestream" and "Sacrifice"

Rating: 5/5



Tracklist:
1). Sacrifice (5:16)
2). Lifestream (3:42)
3). Slave of Chaos (2:40)
4). Towers of Mystery (2:08)
5). Bliztramental (3:43)
6). Sobering Through Darkness (3:28)
7). Burial Grounds [Trapped Cadavers] (4:40)
8). Voyage Beyond Space (4:06)
9). Projections (3:29)
Total Run Time: 33:07

John Gallo - Guitar, synth/organ, bass, drums, vocals

(below are in the band but did not record on this demo album)
Mark Rapone - Bass
Mike Waske - Drums

From: Rochester, New York

Genre: Horror Doom, Prog, Ambient, Old School Metal

Reminds me of: Dawn of the Dead, Goblin, Orodruin, Paul Chain

Release Date: June 15, 2012

Suggested listening activity for fellow non-stoners: The wizard's in his lab, the demon's in his lair and you're in the graveyard with the headphones on, breathing in the mist.

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