Sleep - Dopesmoker Remastered 2012

because eat a dick, this is still the best review of anything ever:

"Listening to Sleep makes you realize what a stupidly over-detailed language English is. I'm trying to collect my thoughts as I'm listening and all I can muster are shouted newspaper headlines like "BACKWARDS ECHO SQUELCH GUITAR INTRO OCCURS". Sleep take English and strip it down and streamline it into a form of pure meaning, perhaps only rivaled by Ramglish (if you know what I'm talkin about then you know what I'm talkin about).
This album kicks off with said squelchy-backwards-echo-guitar before a ridiculously long (which is probably the perfect length) guitar intro, in which the guitarist manages to repeat 2 cycles of the riff in over 2 and a half minutes. (Even though their names are on the front of this page I’ve made no attempt to learn them, incase they’ve got shitty normal-bloke sounding names like Steve, instead of righteous-superhuman-mystikal-Zen-motherfucker names of which I can’t think of right now) After this intro, you could be forgiven for forgetting what drums and bass actually sound like, which is great, because the rhythm section soon crunches in, and shave my knees and call me Mary if they aren’t the all time-greatest rhythm section you’ve ever heard. The band churn on, slowly fucking with this monolithic-fuckin-enormo-riff until 8mins 30, at which point, in the most ridiculously sub-human, drawn out voice you’ll ever hear, SLEEP-GLISH IS BORN, MOTHERFUCKERS.

“DROP OUT OF LIFE
WITH BONG IN HAND”

Is this the fucking greatest opening line to any song/album/anything ever or what? I mean seriously, stop and read that again. There isn’t a fuckin syllable wasted on this whole album. It takes him a whole 16 second to sing that one line, and it’s a further 17 before he launches himself into the even more ridiculous second line;

“FOLLOW THE SMOKE
TO THE RIFF FILLED LAND”

Then, just to emphasize the no-frills-attached no-bells-and-whistles form of pure meaning he’s just unleashed, he sings both lines again. After which, it’s heads down for another 5 or 6 minutes of outrageous stoner-rock (hahahhaha, this HAS to be about the only band on earth that probably wouldn’t mind the “Stoner-Rock” label) before OH JESUS, BENDY BASS LICK INTO 3 MINUTE FUCKING VOLCANIC META-SOLO. This is the first absolute stone-cold genius moment on this beast. This is the point when you realize they’re not “sub-humans” like I said back there, they’re super-human-7-foot-tall superior beings, fucking with our feeble minds and preconceptions. Honestly, most men would kill for this solo and they way they built it up.
I think the entire album up to this point was designed to knock to you the fuck out so that they could ram your shell-shocked mind with further pure meaning, mostly about weed, but (I like to think) also about a million other things that, if we keep listening, we’ll slowly start to understand. The band churns on for a fucking aeon, while the singer delivers his absolute-knowledge directly into your helpless brain. Your mind is outwardly thinking “WHAT THE FUCK” and in doing so, takes in absolutely everything.
The band stumble on, pausing now and again as if to say “yeah, we might finish here”, but of course they don’t, they career headlong into the next stupidly simple but effective riff, the singer’s wisdom forever delivered in this agonizing 1-note melody. At about the half hour mark the band start to jam on what’s effectively a 1-note riff until you’re begging for something, anything to remind you what you thought music was until 30 minutes ago. The band, amazingly, relents, fuck, I’m listening right now and all I can say is

FUCKING MOLTEN GUITAR SEEPS FORTH PURE BOILING WISDOM
SURGING SOLO PINES INTO ABSOLUTE
BUBBLING GUITAR EXCURSION TAPS TO UNDERCURRENT OF TIME, PERHAPS

Before this all subsides into the calmest, fuck, maybe even most MELODIC piece on the whole album. The chorus-ed up guitar picks a weird semi-melody over some of the most restrained and down-fucking-right TASTEFULL drumming and bass playing I’ve ever heard. This bit is fuckin unreal, honestly. The bass and drums are absolutely perfect, they’re hardly even there. I wish I was there the day they made up this part, just so I could soak up the genius. QUITE GOOD, IT IS.
The next part, no shit, is EVEN FUCKING BETTER. The band launch them selves headlong into the BIGGEST, INSANEST, GOODEST riff maybe in the universe, the bass actually lets the guitar play the bass while it does this relentless 2 note lick, just so that when he decides to join in the riff it pummels you 2-fold. Goddamn, this is the best bit. This album is the tits. I just listened to that whole section, the solo up until now, 4 times while writing this.
Then, they decide to prove that they’ve taken this whole Black Sabbath-stoner thing to its logical conclusion by blatantly ripping off the Iron Man riff, fucking with it for a few minutes, then discarding it and pummeling you until just after the hour mark, when they FINALLY stop. When you hear the end of this album it’s weird remembering that there was a reality when this music wasn’t playing. No wonder the band never did anything again after this. It could never be topped. It’s THAT intense.
And long, of course.
VERY, VERY LONG."

1. Dopesmoker 1:03:34
2. Holy Mountain (Live, 1994) 11:36

http://uploaded.to/file/nc6oir0s/Sleep-Dopesmoker-Remastered_Digipak-2012-DGS.rar

Aquanaut - Sunken Ark 2012

ahhhhhh 4 long songs, harsh vocals, fucking insanely great use of electronics, and some of the weirdest goddamn solos i have heard. if you dont think mammatus is ever going to release a split with thou and acid king, youre probably right, but this fills in nicely.

band description: "Emerging from the briny depths of the Atlantic Ocean, Aquanaut burst forth from the water, a juggernaut. Simultaneously fast and slow, sludgy and sleek, Aquanaut is a new kind of force. With one goal in mind, the warrior turns south and begins its final journey; to sink Australia."

interests? suicide. influences? suicide.

1. Sunken Ark 10:12
2. Flying Fortress 11:24
3. Galaxy Rider 12:00
4. Bong Water River 09:00

http://aquanaut1.bandcamp.com/

http://www.mediafire.com/?qlydt1nqtrwrd8i

Slabdragger - Regress 2011

do you like electric wizard? sleep? elder? abdullah? bongzilla? weedeater? ramesses?

think those, but with the occasional torche-like bomb tuned riff wall (see: 1:52 in splice the mainbrace). its fucking big.

and look, its yet another song with the network monologue.

1. Bab el-Mandeb [9:36]
2. Erroneous Maximus [2:24]
3. Splice The Mainbrace [4:10]
4. Iron Vulture [9:47]
5. Regression [4:36]
6. MurkyFen [4:35]
7. Woe Betide [6:20]
8. Trichome Oddyssey [8:10]

http://www.mediafire.com/?q6waap41bar97d4

Pelican - EP 2001

there's a reason that, if this is your band's first release, a lot of people sit up and listen.

that reason is mammoth. it is the most gloriously, full body-headbangable song there is. it is also one of the most concise and pure songs there is. nothing is wasted, there's about a riff and a half, and maybe 8 seconds of a sleep-like part where the bass rises to prominence and sluggishly bends to the harmony note through the guitar wall. mammoth is the pinnacle of good-day music. the opening kind of questions what tone the song will crush it's way into, and then it repeats, but with a soaring, delayed upper layer (where suddenly the entire tone shifts into sunlight), and then IT HAPPENS. there is no way to listen to mammoth quietly.

if i know you, and you listen to this today (friday), and somehow collect evidence that you listened to it today, i will give you a dollar. but you will probably be in such a glorious, powerful good mood that you will refuse to accept it BECAUSE YOU ARE HEADBANGING SO FUCKING HARD. no one doesnt enjoy mammoth.

also i have an absurd affinity for The Woods, because the second time i saw them play, they ended with a 20 minute version that just ground itself into oblivion as the last riff looped and looped until no one was playing anymore and they walked offstage.

aaaand, it never hurts to mention that the other two songs are perfect. this ep is like hearing EITS for the first time. it is just awe-inspiring and revelatory. a harbinger of things to come.


1. Pulse
2. Mammoth
3. Forecast For Today
4. The Woods

https://rs390dt.rapidshare.com/#!download|390l32|235670480|Pelican__EP_.rar|42247|R~B015860BF3BED48C0ED416E0845C22ED|0|0

Mammatus - S/T 2006

this album is the bee's tits. it is so. so. so. fucking well-rounded. its like if every day you woke up in a beach house in northern california when its hot and sunny, so you put on your trippy bathrobe looking thing (this is an allusion to the video i wanted to embed, but for some reason it doesnt exist any more, which features the band playing dragon of the deep part 1 with the acid mothers temple guitarist in what look like silk bathrobes) and wade out onto your deck overlooking the cliffs and plug your gibson into your wah pedal into your 420,000W amp and drag it outside with you and decide to USE THE FUCKING RIGHTEOUS POWER OF FUZZY, PSYCHEDELIC NOODLING THROUGH MAJOR KEYS TO CREATE CLOUDS AND GIANT WAVES AND THEN ALL THE SURFERS DROP MORE ACID AND THANK YOU, BECAUSE YOU ARE THE NEW GOD OF THE SONIC PETTING ZOO.

it sounds like that. im sure thats how the band would describe their sound too.

so here's dragon of the deep 1, which starts with the best bass line in the world. cory and i are going to see them live if its the last thing we do. AND IT JUST MIGHT BE.






ROBIXXX!!!