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OUR SURVIVAL DEPENDS ON US

DOOM/SLUDGE/HEAVY PROG

AUSTRIA

You literally had to expect something extraordinary as well as impressive from this band from Salzburg/Austria and even people who are not in the know (yet) should quickly be made rejoice with excitement by this exalted showcase of musical extremes. OUR SURVIVAL DEPENDS ON US sits comfortably between the chairs and especially through this fact they create a mood that other bands often lack completely. Intense Spiritual Music is the label that was chosen by OSDOU themselves. There are tons of bands on this globe that are easier to discribe than OUR SURVIVAL DEPENDS ON US are, one who spends his time with Sludge/Core bands such as NEUROSIS, CROWBAR, ISIS, CULT OF LUNA or also older SLEEP is likely to enjoy this. Despite all this these bands and the comparisons connected to them are not completely exact.

Also, only a few will remember the first tries of OSDOU in form of the 2 track EP Breathe from 2000, and as you can easily imagine, a lot has changed since then, which is partly due to the logical development but which can traced back to the changed line-up on the other hand. Apart from guitarist, vocalist and founding member Mucho (ex-SOULSEARCH/MY MIDNIGHT

SUN) you will find to other SOULSEARCH heroes in the lines of OSDOU. After the split of the Doom Metal institution from Austria, Thom

(guitars/vocals) and Hajot (samples/noise) have found a much more appropriate home. Eventually the team is completed by drummer Mani and bassist barth who is known from BELPHEGOR. It is almost scary how homogenously this quintet works.

Wonderful acoustic sounds, pitch-black sound samples, minimum acoustically and the mourning and conjuring vocals of the two singers. The seamless change between the single vocal parts is exemplary and extraordinary.

Rage, sadness, bitterness, suffering and hate are only a part of the emotions that are processed and thus channelled with OSDOU. Besides mighty slow motion guitar walls roll out of the speakers, so that you are hammered into the ground without warning and try in vane to escape this force. The tribal-like drumming, which disappears into the background time and again, unresistingly pulls you deeper and deeper into the dark abyss and thus into the world of OSDOU.

OSDOU set an unignorable sign that can also convince completely sound-wise and should not leave anything to be desired even for pampered ears.

Furthermore another, quite daring decision makes OSDOU unique, as theirrecords will also be released as a vinyl version (in coloured vinyl), perfectly demonstrating the inner closeness to the old-fashioned record.

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"Finally a band appears with a dirty,bloody and muddy face...OSDOU makes the perfect mix of hard sludge, slow doom and atmospheric post rock. Like a sledgehammer they pull out their massive riffs and build an exciting and melancholic mood. Driven by the sick society of our world, pregnant by nature and high on roots of the occult and true music. To the band it is very important to form a unit which can be heard in every song!. Texts to think and melodies to relax are on the agenda. "Painful stories told with a passion for life" is a brilliant example of the band and brings a full spectrum on dark heavy tunes for every one. Groove your hairy heads to this fat grooves of austrias next super wizards, because it's so fucking good for you!!!"!!!"

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8 from 10 Stonerheadpoints

Sludgeflesh for breakfast...

FLESHWORLD

POLAND

Post Hardcore/Sludge

Unquiet Records

Fleshworld was founded in 2009 in Kraków. At first inspired by The Cure or Deftones, as time went, the music and line-up evolved to finally emerge as “like we’re all equal again”, a debut album

released by Unquiet Records. It is a mixture of post-rock,

post-metal, sludge and many other genres that might bear similarities to bands like Envy, Isis, Cult of Luna, Opeth or Deathpell Omega ...

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"A band with a big spectrum of music, ranging from smooth post-rock parts up to dirty and monstrous down tuned slow mo storms of riffs, however all those components are wrapped up in "Like we're all equal again". Song's like "The Infinite, Dust Eater, Hereinafter could not be more different but they all have the free building structure in it. The vocal parts are placed really good and not all the time, which can be seen all too interesting."

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9 from 10 Stonerheadpoints

...straight from slovenia...

 Inhibis

Slovenia

Stoner Rock/Desert Rock

The band was started by me and our drummer somewhere in the spring of 2012. We didn't really call it a band at that point yet, just two friends jamming together, but when the two of us got ourselves a gig, we decided we'll get serious about it. 

After we finished our second gig, a guy came to us and said he really liked what he heard and asked us if we needeed a singer. We said sure and decided to get a bassist aswell. The new formation began its work in september 2012.

Our first release was published in April 2013, a 3 track demo called Illusions. People liked it, so we countinued with our work. In october 2013 we released the before mentioned Galora Wasteland EP.

Just a few weeks ago though, we decided it's for the band's best if we kick out our signer. It was tough, but a step in the right directon in our opinion.
We're makin instrumental music now, in hopes to find a new singer. 

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"INHIBIS make a calm and smooth sound, but also warm and earthy. Sometimes the pure riff spell hits the band and they march and stomp the groove in your brains...songs like "Hot Rotten Robot and Shit" could convince myself full line. "Good Line Galora" is my favourite track. In my opinion, the band does not necessariy need a singer and vocal parts, I’d rather prefer a pure instumental sound for them!"

big thanks to Matija

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7 from 10 Stonerheadpoints

Pink is the new Black...

Pinkemical Sunset
Italy

 Hard Rock/Prog Rock

Ok, lets get it on... at first it sounds very groovy and funky on "My Woman" with a huge bass sound and after all that, 

BOOM! the vocalist gives a asskick with his voice and starts with the crew the whole thing on.

The vocals are very massive and sounds a little bit like Ragga Reggae or Tribe Metal sometimes. 

Mostly very fat bad ass angry deep voluminous stuff and on the other hand there are sometimes 

cleaner parts with some effects on a few parts.

The whole album is very fuzzy, but for sure not for every Stonerhead i think.

What the track length belongs is all in the lower range with about 3 to 5 minutes.

A Phaser beams Us into "Paranoia", the second track. Some good arranged drum parts gives this track a personal note.

But like all tracks straight, slow, deep, hard and short.

In "Change" they really change the sound, now it gets a little bit more melodic, and some good breaks rounds up the track.

Guitar solos are not really much there... in "Absynth" you can hear one, and even that is more in the background.

The sound is pretty direct and straight. Sometimes the Voice remembers me on Nu-Metal / Alternative stuff or something.

But sounds still like underground Stuff and did not get "commercial" or something.

"Orgasm" starts with a smooth slow clean reefer tone. Some ambient sounds came through too the first time, and the bass sounds awesome here.

the vocals sounds very dirty, like a heroin shot through the microphone.

Time for the next Track "Thought". It was the first time where i really thought on Stoner Doom or Stuff like i expected, but it is still not on it´s best.

I am sure that they have even more potential as we can hear on this Album.

"Deformed" definetly sounds like straight Rock or Alternative track, except of the fuzzy guitar sound. The drums are really cool here.

Grunge or Crossover from the early 90z comes in my mind.

Finally we got i a nice cup of "Tea" It seems like a final Statement where they show that the can do it if they want. A strange brew of various Vocals with

fat fuzzy sounds over nice breaks n fill in´s upon real good drums. The end gets a bit Doomy too. The riffs remembers me sometimes on Spiritual Beggars,

but it´s a very different own sound Pinkemical Sunset has. Very nice Track!

It it my favorite Track on this Album, because here is all i expected from a Stoner track.

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...green redemption...

WEEDPECKER

WARSAW

STONER ROCK/METAL

The band was started in 2011by the Dobry brothers, both taking guitar duties. At the end of the year joined the band Pan Falon, who also plays drums for Belzebong. 

The trio released their demo in 2012, still without bassist. At the end of the year finally joined the band as bassist Jose, spanish musician who also played before in bands like Looking For An Answer and Antigama. In April 2013 this formation (Piotr, Bartek, Falon and Jose) started recording material for their first album and performed live first time supporting americans Elder in Warsaw. 

Their album was released in July 2013 and now you can get it on bandcamp for some bucks, or make decison to get a shirt and a physical copy of the album...because it's good for you.

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 "Finest Stoner Metal from Poland, from the first second of the album till the last tone it kicks ass and let groove your brain. Berenjena Pipe reminds me in a kind of style like GRANDLOOM
only here is a singer available and do a good job...but there more than simple stoner rock songs on this disc..." Don't trust your elephant" is a smooth and colourful song with a fist full of post-rock elements. "Kraken" comes with a fat and dirty sludge and the last song's are very varied and full of psychedelic parts and some cool ballads. At all a piece of green gold hahaha!!!"

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...time to relax...

AUSTRALASIA - Sin4tr4 

Instrumental Post Rock/Metal,Shoegaze

Italy 

GOLDEN MORNING SOUNDS

AUSTRALASIA is a childhood spent listening to Ennio Morricone's

soundtracks; a youth on the sharp edge of the underground, 

extreme metal scene; a whole life sunk into the Post-rock molten wax 

with a strong fascination for the sound of vintage synthesizers.

This is the place where unusual soundscapes come to life: 

ethereal guitars mix with blast beat drums and black metal riffing, 

giving birth to strange and fast-flowing tunes. 

Here subterranean streams alternate with tidal waves, 

turning into cinematic pictures that can last just the blink of an eye.

A path distant from the typical instrumental music clichés.

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Antenna 02:56

Spine 04:23

Apnea 02:38

Scenario 02:26

Satellite 02:53

Retina 03:06

Fragile 03:55

 THE REVIEW

 If I am not mistaken, the EP starts with the sound of a cassette, which is inserted into a tape recorder. That takes me back to the 80ies and early 90ies, and gives a good symbolical preview about the general feeling that I had, during my hearing sessions.

The well placed walls of synthesizers, the delayed guitars and the precise drumming... All this reminds me of bands like GY!BE or JOY DIVISION.

And then there is this influence of Post-Metal. The hard guitar riffs and fast drums, mixed with nearly psychedelic parts.

Unfortunately the songs are very short. The longest Track (No.2 – SPINE) comes with 04:23. So the songs let you fly, but the landing is coming to quickly, I felt.

What ever, Sin4tr4 is a nice, atmospheric and experimental piece of music. It will be interesting to see a Live Performance of AUSTRALASIA!

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8 from 10 Stonerpoints

...Horse Funeral...

MAETH

PROGRESSIVE METAL/PSYCHEDELIC POST ROCK

USA/MINNESOTA

This four headed band is called MAETH they are from Saint Paul and they do a nice job...the whole work is for free so download and spread it into the world and support them. MAETH have created a sound of diffrent styles.... psych rock, progressive metal, acoustic parts, post rock elements, a few doom parts and also some black metal tunes hehe!! "Horse Funeral" is a great first album at all...thanks a lot for music...

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8 from 10 Stonerpoints

...akuma...matata...

Akuma

Mexico

Drone/Doom/Stoner/Punk/Rock/Noise/Hardcore/Ambient/Minimal/MexicanFolk

A wide range of music but not yet excessive...Akuma put on the skillfully as to their.

"Invocations on a Storm" includes  31 minutesof...parts of 80's Metal, post influence, deepest doom, atmospheric sounds, two-voice solos(octaver) ,

a lot of sludge part and fast forward trashmetal stuff...a great mix...hear for yourself.

The  "Twin Ep" shines with some vocal parts, the song "Azamrama"

strongly reminiscent of the reef by Andrew W.K . "Party Hard or somthing?"

This Dudes know how to rock...thanks for your nice music...

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7 from 10 Stonerpoints