RIPPLE MUSIC SPECIAL
MOS GENERATOR
Stoner Rock/Stoner Metal
In 2001, the Port Orchard, Washington trio of Shawn Johnson (drums),
Scooter Haslip (bass), and Tony Reed (guitars/vocals) emerged from the
jam room and studio to the live stage as Mos Generator and began to
shake the Pacific Northwest with their incendiary and uncompromising
live performances. Between 2002 and 2007, the band four full length
studio albums and, in 2008, released a collection of some of Mos
Generator’s finest moments by way of “Destroy! The Mos Generator”. By
2008, the band needed a well deserved break to clean up their lives,
follow a different muse, and to recharge the energies that make a hard
rock band successful.
In 2010, Tony Reed began a relationship with Ripple Music that saw
the re-release of the entire Stone Axe catalog, which opened the door to
the possibilities of re-launching Mos Generator, and in late Fall of
2011, the long out-of-print debut self-titled Mos Generator album saw
its re-release in a grand deluxe package. And, by the time of the
re-issued debut album hit the streets, the band had already laid down
the basic tracks for their first album of new material in over five
years.
In October of 2012, Nomads will be received by a world-wide audience,
who will experience an introspective journey into the depths of
interpersonal relations, the struggle for soul survival, and the
optimistic hope that it will all work out in the end, all performed over
the bands trademark sound of explosive heavy dissonance combined with
equally beautiful melodic passages.
"A band full of power, they groove like Clutch and sometimes they rock like The Sword...On the whole, a very capable formation of a classical stoner rock band, dirty,dry and grooveful like hell!!!
I can highly recommend the new album, it's a piece of gold for my ears!!!"
8 from 10 Stonerheadpoints
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APE MACHINE
Stoner Rock/Heavy Rock
The name APE MACHINE is a nod to the days of reel-to-reel magnetic
tape audio recording; a fitting moniker for the heavy-hitting quartet as
the band plays through vintage tube amplifiers and lays down its songs
using exclusively throwback quality studio equipment. With a heady mix
of animal aggression and technical precision, APE MACHINE’s music
carries an organic depth and warmth rarely heard since the time of
rock’s glorious early years (or your Dad’s bad ass record collection)
infused with an exceptional modern sensibility. When the mystical lyrics
of vocalist Caleb Heinze lock in with the band’s stone-cold groove, APE
MACHINE demonstrates an earth-shaking ability to rock. A true
four-piece, the group has been called “a rock and roll band with a
finger on the pulse of the 70′s and their asses firmly in the present”
and “real heavy-psych for the iPhone generation” that delivers “true
guts and glory rock and roll.”
Blending equal parts Rock n’ Roll, Blues, Stoner Rock and
Psychedelia, Ape Machine is out to melt faces and pound the apathy out
of otherwise jaded listeners with a wall of heavy rock n’ roll tones
unheard since the days of bell bottoms, long hair and blaring tube
amplifiers.
Ape Machine’s mission is to combine intense melody, cutting riffs and
blistering live improvisation. Where many bands rely on meticulously
rehearsed, just-like-the-record-parts, Ape Machine provides a live
experience that is as unique as each evening it shares with an audience.
"Ape Machine is a heavy rocking fresh
band with two hot albums, the first was amazing and the second is able
to top it, this nice guys know how to rock and brings you back in this
time who nobody gives a shit about the inflated American dream, they only want to make good music and that's what they are doing really good...Thumb up!!!"
9 from 10 Stonerheadpoints
