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Cranking out EP after EP, RBBP electrifies their audience with great heavy music and energy that I haven't seen on stage in years!

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Psychedelic doom, stoner rock, and rock n' roll from Northern California.

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NECROT releases their much-anticipated LP “Mortal”! Formed in 2011, NECROT shares pedigree from multiple bands in the Bay Area death metal scene. Relentless buzz saw guitars, blast beats, fitting leads, and vocals from the 7th realm of Hell. NECROT proves themselves once again as a formidable opponent in the death metal genre period.

“When we first started, our goal was to play death metal and put out some tapes,” elaborates vocalist/bassist Luca Indrio. “We always wanted to write an album that twenty years from now would be remembered as a true classic of the genre. With Blood Offerings, we may have done that but with Mortal we have done that. Time will prove us right.”

“Your Hell” kicks off the album ferociously with not giving you moment to breathe. My personal favorite “Stench Of Decay” just has a great beat and is seriously fun to listen to. “Sinister Will’ has a punk back bead with time changes and everything you’ve been hoping for with an intricate guitar solo mid-way, rolling into “Malevolent Intentions” rendering you useless to resist from banging your head. The entire album is well mixed and technically proficient, but not getting into the tech-death camp. NECROT is firmly planted into in your face death metal. “Blood Offerings” is a fantastic album and I think NECROT set out and accomplished producing an album that will stand the test of time.

If you like bands like Bolt Thrower, Grave, Asphex, and Mammoth Grinder, NECROT is a band certainly for you.

I got to talk with Chad about the album, music and influences that you can check out here:

NECROT:

Luca Indrio - bass, vocals

Sonny Reinhardt - guitars

Chad Gailey – drums

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Terminal Nation comes in hot with “Holocene Extinction”. The album cover right off catches your eye with great artwork and a viney band logo, so instantly I was intrigued.

Not knowing their previously releases initially, I was extremely impressed with the band’s sound. Barking cavernous vocals, at times haunting guitar, brutal beats, Terminal Nation opens with a GREAT first track “Cognitive Dissonance’, giving you a taste of what to expect.

Terminal Nation is deeply seated within the Hardcore community and they bring their punk sounds and format with them as essentially the entire band shares vocals at times, while they take a few more steps into the Death Metal camp and other sub-genres.

‘Expired Utopia” channels some major doom vibes by slowing down, fuzz, and atmospheric drums, rolling right into another brutal track ‘Death For Profit”

While listening, I REALLY want to see these guys in concert. You can really hear that they put their all into the recordings and I can only imagine they will leave it all on the table live.

This album is a great example of multiple influences coming together cohesively, creating an absolutely brutal album.

If you dig bands like Bolt Thrower, Creeping Death, Power Trip, Gatecreeper

I got to sit down with Stans and talk about the album and music. You can check it out here:

TERMINAL NATION:

Make sure to show the band some love with he album dropping August 7th, 2020

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When I think of Detroit I think “tuff”, no bullshit, along with the extreme amount of talent form a myriad of sonic genres and gear manufacturers from the region. Checking out the line from Poltergeist Amplification and talking with Jason, the gear they provide is exactly that, tuff and no bullshit.

These hand crafted products have been tested out and engineered for the road hardened musician or the person who is wanting to step up their game with serious quality that will last you a lifetime.

Jason draws from true touring experience and his own journey of finding his guitar tone.

You get to reap the benefits of his experience to enjoy monstrous tones from a variety of cabinets.

I had the privilege to sit down and talk about the music industry, influences, the “tribe” that is music lovers, and more.

Check it out here and make sure to give Poltergeist a follow and holler:

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Hailing from Denver, CO Earthdiver released their great EP “Leave Something Witchy” in 2019.

The much anticipated LP release has been out for a couple of months now and it hasn’t disappointed one bit. If you haven’t head, then I present to you “Lord of The Cosmos”

I instantly new I would like this band from their LP album cover alone with their psychedelic space Odin holding a charging Norman Crusader. There is as much going on when listening to the album as there is looking at the cover. Great distortion on the guitar and bass as the bass also punches through with cool time changes in tempo and vocals that sound like someones last screams in a cave.

It’s great, it’s wonderful, it’s fantastic.

With all of that said, the band draws influences from a wide gamut of music. At times tones of NOLA Sludge comes through, Sabbath-esk riffing and solos, with a dash hardcore/punk. Lyrics frequent politics, religion, the occult, history and mythology. The album comes in heavy with "Apparatus de Cultus" a stoner/doom single that anyone into the genre will love rolling into more of a fuzzed out in your face vibes with “Worlds Die Again”. The band gives you a touch of rest with a riffing jam “War Drums” that seamlessly transitions into “Cut The Bone Away” without you even knowing that you are listening to another track. Earthdiver revisits “Leave Something Witchy” and I honestly really like both renditions of this song from their EP and their LP. It’s a toss up on guitar tone, one sounds more like a Super Fuzz and the other sounds more Big Muff, both are great and it really just depends on the flavor you dig at the moment for me. I lean a little more toward the vocals from the LP version. They’re a little more unhinged, in a good way. “Blood Moon” starts out almost with a Jazzy feel then builds into a cacophony of fuzz for you to lean back and melt into your seat. “God of The Gallows” brings you back with Norse mythology and ending the whole experience with an 11 min track “Crusader” leading the charge into the abyss.

This album is a great listen, mixed well with lots of energy. Make sure to pick up a copy of the album! Vinyls are shipping soon on green vinyl with orange splatter with the stellar album cover art. You’ll want to see all of the details up close!

I got the chance to talk to Eric for a bit about music and the album.

Support the band:

Forbidden Records:https://forbiddenplacerecords.bandcamp.com/album/earthdiver-lord-of-the-cosmos

Bandcamp: https://earthdiverdenver.bandcamp.com/album/lord-of-the-cosmos

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“We have summoned up this pale creature, a symbol of good old fun: hard rock, leather jackets, cigarettes and cemeteries. You may take the demon's hand for a full moon slow dance on the grave of modern civilization and take a step back in time when everyone at the rock show had long hair or at least a leather jacket and a record player at home. It's never too late to let your freak flag fly! Long live the Leather Demon," states LUCIFER frontwoman Johanna Sadonis.

You’ve been living under a rock if you haven’t heard of LUCIFER. Releasing their third

album “Lucifer III”, the band brings you more great 70’s inspired hard rock/heavy metal with a vive of the darker side of things. LUCIFER paints a great picture of who they are as a band and reminds me of Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers “Last Dance With MaryJane” music video while Johanna’s vocals remind me of a macabre Heart with a strong kickoff to the album with “Ghosts” making you want to put your fist in the air and great power ballads like “Leather Demon” and “Cemetery Eyes”. Throughout the album you’ll hear the influences of the greats like Black Sabbath, Heart, Joan Jett, and more as the band oozes 70’s and 80’s swagger.

I was able to chat with Johanna as we talked about influences, recording, new releases and more.

LUCIFER is Johanna Sadonis (vocals), Nicke Andersson (drums), Harald Göthblad (bass), Martin Nordin (guitar), Linus Björklund (guitar)

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There’s something so satisfying and exhilarating about finding new music. For music lovers when you find a band you can get into at any level, in any genre it touches the soul.

The Heavy Eyes is a band when I first heard “One Hand On The Buffalo” I had to go down the rabbit hole in finding out more. Oozing swagger from the early days of fuzzed out Rock n’ Roll of the late 60s, early 70s, The Heavy Eyes have much more to offer than only an homage to earlier music. Hailing from Memphis, TN, the band draws from their Delta Blues / Rock influences and fuse a nice combination of heavy music. I have a personal playlist of The Heavy Eyes, Wet Nuns, The Black Keys, The Sword, Dan Auerbach, and Clutch, giving nice swells, fuzz for days and a “kick the door in” attitude that is listenable all day.

Celebrating their 10th year in 2020 as a band, The Heavy Eyes is a band when I discovered them, I wish I had earlier.

Their latest release “Love Like Machines” gives you everything you’re hoping for while showing some maturity from the band. The album itself brings nice peaks and valleys to the structure of their songs, giving you a trip through what the band has created.

The album starts out super chill with an acoustic guitar and cavernous clean vocals from Tripp Shumake. Once settling into the tempo of the intro the first track “Anabasis” crashes into great drums and guitar, rolling into a fantastic beat laid out by Eric Garcia on their 2nd track “Made for the Age” Wally Anderson brings you fat bass and Matt Qualls rounds off the quartet with more fuzzed out guitar. To me a quartet is a perfect lineup, creating a fullness and dynamic range that brings the most out of every instrument. I also really like how The Heavy Eyes keep it simple by leaving space within the songs and album in its entirety. “Love Like Machines” reminds me of moments you could hear from Eagles of Death Metal or Queens of The Stone Age with the way they handle some of their arrangements as the band plays with different guitar tones, great drum mixes, treatments on vocals, and more giving you an experience.

It’s difficult to nail down a “favorite” track, but it I had to I would land on “Late Night” with the cool way the song kicks off with what sounds like a heel stomp and a pencil tapping on a glass to keep time, opening up to immense fuzz and a great sound to a punchy kick drum.

“Love Like Machines” is a great rock album that should be heard by many.

I sat down with Tripp and Eric to talk some about the band’s history, influences, and their new album.

You can check it out here:

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Icelandic Black Metal has an interesting history as a scene and musically. The musicianship along with their ability to capture frigid endless tundras sonically is more than appealing if you are a fan of extreme metal. Helfró is no acceptation with their debut release “Helfró”

Bringing you the brutality you expect with nice influences of death metal in arrangement at times and especially the mix. While I love old school Norwegian Black Metal, you can gain some ear fatigue from the purposely poor quality of the mixes.

This album gives you relentless full double bass drums along with a “machine gun” snare beat that won’t release you from it’s grip until it’s finished.

I also really dig the mixture of vocals provided by Ragnar S: Drums, Vocals, Simon Þ: Guitars, Bass, Vocals, and Gísli S: Clean Vocals with classic shrill black metal vocals, guttural barking death growls along with clean folk/monk style vocals.

This is an impressive example of what Iceland has to offer musically.

I had the privilege to to talk to Ragnar for a bit about the album and the Icelandic music scene.

Genre: Black metal

Line-up:Ragnar S: Composition, drums, vocals. Símon Þ: Arrangements, guitars, bass, vocals.  Recording line-up:Ragnar S: Drums, Vocals Simon Þ: Guitars, Bass, Vocals Gísli S: Clean Vocals  Recording studio: Studio EmissaryProducer / sound engineer: Stephen Lockhart / Simon Þ. Mixing studio and engineer: Stephen Lockhart Mastering studio and engineer: Stephen Lockhart

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If you haven’t heard, get on the train of Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol!

This 3 piece from Austin, TX has a HUGE sound with an 8 string guitar a d4 string bass bringing you a mix of intense fuzz, raw groovy drums and vocals cutting right through.

With a rigorous touring schedule, these guys have been able to crank out EP after EP until the pandemic has forced them to stay in place producing their first LP scheduled for a summer 2020 release.

We’re really enjoying blasting their tunes at METALLOID HQ, particularly RBBP’s EP “Grease Beast”. The album brings you the intensity of stoner/doom we all love, with a groove beat that you can’t help but want to get up out of your chair and wiggle.

We’ll keep you posted on their single release and next album!

Website:

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Bandcamp:

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Facebook:

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Instagram:

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Spotify:

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Youtube:

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