Brainoil

Lubricant for your fatty grey parts. A big thanks to lo-res for turning me on to this band who represent, to me, the perfect union of raging crusty velocity & bile and de-tuned sludge stomp.

This zip includes their s/t, demo, and a split with Iron Lung which in Brainoil　terms is superfluous 'cause the track's also on the self-titled.

While I thought Brainoil had been defunct for a while, in fact they're back around and playing a show: if I lived in Cali I would try be here.

S/T, SPLIT W/ IRON LUNG & DEMO

Porn...

I know you like it.

EXPERIMENTS IN FEEDBACK




AMERICAN STYLE





WINE WOMEN & SONG

Weird filthy low end craziness. Awesome retard vocals. Brilliant stuff.

Brainoil / Cruevo : Split

Killer sludge split, with both hands hailing more from the punk/hc side of the spectrum. Cruevo's songs are longer, Brainoil's are shorter, both stomp like dusted Yetis.


BRAINOIL / CRUEVO

Rebreather : No. 4

I really like this band. Rebreather started out heavy and stoned molasses slow. Throughout the years they leavened their sound with some lighter and somewhat faster influences, and their later releases, to me at least, constitute a lovely union of heaviness and shades of melodic indie rock. Great guitar tone and solid songwriting abound.

This is their fourth release (surprised, aren't you), and my personal favorite (or maybe not- their other stuff is also pretty excellent). For some shameful reason this has never seen a proper release, making it a perfect and guilt-free album to put up on a music blog.




Their most recent album, 'sunflower' did have a proper release in 2008 and can be gotten here. I also see that they have another album in the works, so I'm happy.

Come to the back / Madre

NO. 4

Behind One's Back : We Hate To Follow The Rules

Death metal stoner sludge : Guttural growls, shouts and squeals with big stomping bass loaded riffs. This 'single', released last year, consists of a 3 minute intro and two 8 minute songs, and except for the first minute of the intro it's all unrelentingly. There's some variation in speed, and the occasional left-field effect (the third track is a collabo w/ some noise types, and also has some of the only lead guitars on the album), but for the most part Behind One's Back keep on pounding away- no meandering guitar pickings or delicate build-ups or any wankery of any sort here- they just continue stomping like a dumb, yet cruel beast that knows nothing but the kicking of corpses.

Their myspace




WE HATE TO FOLLOW THE RULES

Gomidama : Nuclear Noise Of Confusion

Gomidama is an interesting proposition: Heavy sludge/psychonauts Garadama perform five of their songs live alongside noise artist Pain Jerk. I was already a fan of Garadama's sneering madman vocals and sludgy psych groove, but the addition of another layer of hums, hisses and buzzes fill out the sound into a satisfyingly massive wall of fuzz.

Anyway, forget my boring description here's the blurb from their site:

This album is recording a battle of super heavy psychedelic band and super-high-speed noise master. A lump of the sound changed into a nucleus at a battlefield and confused them

You can order stuff direct from the band on their own Fiend's Shrine label through their myspace.

The cd contains 5 songs in one track.
Order and titles:
1. Why?
2. A Fiend Living in My Brain
3. Everything is Nothing
4. Dragon's Shrine
5. The Sun Rises

GOMIDAMA

Crom!

First off, let's get one thing clear: Conan the Barbarian is a great movie, not least because it contains moments like this:

Schwarzenegger is at the height of his powers in the role he was born to play [except for Predator and Total Recall everything since has been superfluous], the script is by Oliver Stone, and Basil Pouledouis's soundtrack is excellent:





Conan The Barbarian OST (Basil Poledouris)

Beyond Conan's cinematic triumph, the original books by Robert Howard rank as some of the most important works of early fantastic literature, and the comics by Barry Windsor-Smith are classics in their own right.



From this proud tradition come Crom, and Hot Sumerian Nights, an album-length tribute to metal, punk & the great barbarian, a collage of sometimes borrowed riffs + barrages of thrash, grind and sludge weaved into very extensive samples from the movie,its soundtrack and am radio.

Needless to say I enjoyed the album, and you should too:



Crom : Hot Sumerian Nights

This came out on CD a while back but only just became available on vinyl, so swing over to their myspace to pick it up or for one of their sweet, sweet Crom shirts.

Some Odds & Ends : Zenocide & Of The Spacistor

A slow-moving, layered wall of noise accompanied by echoing screams, somewhere this side of (.)dot & suchlike. Here are three untitled tracks taken from an untitled (split)CDR. These guys will soon release a full-length, which I look forward to checking out.


ZENOCIDE



These three tracks come from a split with Eternal Elysium which I have upped elsewhere. The thing is, the two bands play rather different music, and I imagine many people who would not enjoy Elysiums brand of long-haired dope-smoking sabbath worship, or who avoid anything that whiffs of stinky hippies, might nonetheless find a place in their hearts for Of The Spacistor's noise rock/hardcore/new wave hybrid. This band has been around for quite a while, and are apparently still active, but these songs constitute everything they've released, which saddens me, as these three tracks are good. The bassline on 'Daily Wall' is just fucking awesome.


OF THE SPACISTOR

Sally : C-Earth

Heavy. Evil. Gooooood.
Harsh, sludgy, low-end heavy rock from England, released in 2003.

Sally's first album was a raw, stoner-type affair, and fairly entertaining. But on this, their second and sadly final album, they produced something really awesome.
C-earth is an album of pounding, sludgy, hypnotic, fuzz-drenched droning, doomy riffs, stripped of the sort of southern elements which appeared on their first disc (and good riddance too- I can really do without). Billy Anderson's production drenches everything in a nice layer of mud, which suits the grimy, semi-liquid nature of the sound perfectly.

Heavy and hypnotic sum this up best- Sally brings some krautrock and drone influences into their sludged out rock: awesomeness ensues. One of my favorite albums of late--though nothing jumps out initially, it's a grower--and one that I feel deserves a wider audience than it got (apparently it was poorly supported by their record label). Definitely worth checking out.

This band features members of Mistress(drummer), Penance(vocals) & Einstellung.

Standout tracks: 2, 7, 8.

C-Earth (2003)