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Il Malpertugio

Stoner Rock

Italy

The history of the musical project “Il Malpertugio” begins in the late spring of 2002, in a small town near Caserta (Region of Campania, South Italy) by an idea of Antonio Zannone (guitar), Mario Antinucci (bass) and Gianluca Zannone. This first line-up paved the way to a sound-which would be explored and developed later on – focusing on STONER ROCK, a mix of metal, psychedelic rock, acid rock, sludge doom metal and desert rock.  

The combo widened with Ivan Franzini (vocals and lyrics) whose powerful vocal style would allow the band to define a better songwriting by adding angry and disillusioned lyrics to their explosive notes, thus getting an immediate positive feedback in the local rock scene.

The line-up’s powerful sound furtherly improved with guitarist Emilio Cuoco, while bass player Mario Antinucci was replaced by Giuseppe Marino first and Alberto Nardone then. Nowadays the older drummer has been replaced by Stefano Mancini.

The old line-up recorded a first self-produced promo cd, “The blues Demon’s Show. This work is composed by six tracks (“Bugs”, “Wrong Lane”, “Sunset Screaming”, “Obsession”, “Let Shit In”, “Second Rate Man”) in a succession of dark atmospheres with detonating peculiarities enriched by the alienating vibrations of a jew’s harp.

 

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"Sound's a little bit like the first Hermano album, nice quality, great riffs and licks...Sunset Screaming is a really awesome art for your ears...do it...its good for you!" 

7 from 10 Stonerpoints

...roots bloody roots...

STONER/DOOM/SLUDGE

D.I.Y

Italy

Blood Red Water formed in the summer of 2010 with Michele (vocals, ex grindcore bands: NAB and Grunter Screams) Fiorica (ex and bass player in Blank Symbol, now at the drum). Michele & Fiorica were longtime friends, drinking partners and united by the passion for sludge music so they decided to create something wicked.
Immediately Francesco “Volt”  joined them as guitarist and feedback noise junkie, so Mick, Fiorica and Volt started to create their music as Blood Red Water.
Tarantula as bass player joined them after few months.

For Blood Red Water it became clear that the band would not be the umpteenth cover band in the zone but their interest/purpose is writing the music they like and feel.
All members love bands like EyeHateGod, Eletric Wizard, St. Vitus (list of musical influences is long, very long) but - jam after jam - they realized to not belong to any particular genre. Some tunes are pretty doomy, other tunes could be more into stoner stuff.
Blood Red Water lyrics are a merciless portrait of what can save a life or ditch it. Far away from fantasy themes, lyrics give off Michele’s life experience; you can even find redeem words as well as the deepest dopesick despair.
At the end of 2011, they entered at the Flameout studio and they did their first 5 songs EP “Tales of Addiction and Despair”.

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"If you have ever experienced addiciton and despair, then BRW's EP will certainly evoke those memories once more. This 5 song EP has a number of head thrashing moments,
followed by skull crushing riffs and yells that will destroy the walls of 'Dopesick Despair' that this album buries you in. BRW stands on the shoulder's of giants in the genre
such as Eyehategod and Electric Wizard and carry the torch onwards and downwards into that pit of blood red water.
A standout track that shows versatility that BRW possess is 'Avoid the Relapse'. This tirade is moshy, dirty and highly addictive. This EP is like your next hit, it will peel your eyes open, make you weak at the knees
and wanting another fix. It's time folks too 'Let the Blood In'."
 

Thank's to PSYMIN for the Text

and Mick from BRW

8 from 10 Stonerpoint

...unbelievable but true...

Reason to celebrate

Over 180 Reviews, Over 50.000 visits, over 3500 downloads and a lot of new posts on the way.
I never thought that this page would enjoy such a high popularity and create such a great and growing doom/stoner/psych/sludge community.

I'm always happy when I find time to write you a nice post.

Thanks to all STONERHEADS out there and i hope we have a nice time furthermore.

Soon, there will, among other things an interview with Babis (Planet of Zeus), reviews of Huata, Blood Red Water, Jaw Horse, Piniata and many more.

 ....for example the life-reviews of Torso and Siena Root Live at Arena Wien


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Parasol Caravan /Cachimbo de Paz Split

USE THE FUZZ

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Cover Art by Johan Jacob

 

 PARASOL CARAVAN

Parasol Caravan crank their amps up to 11 and play heavy rock with stoner and psychedelic elements. They are a dirty soundbastard between Black Stone Cherry and Kyuss with never ending groove, fat guitar riffs that have no mercy with your neck and incredible whiskey soaked vocals that get under your skin.

Since the end of 2009 the four piece is rocking as many stages as possible and honoring their idols of the past without losing touch with the modern rock scene.

 

CACHIMBO DE PAZ

Fat, fuzzy guitars, a dark voice, bass lines that give you a solar plexus massage and drums that don’t even give you a chance to resist following the groove…

Cachimbo de Paz completely committed themselves to the high arts of the low tones – and the endless struggle against gravity. Stoner Rock may be seen as the foundation – but there are no limitations to the music – so their music is like a psychedelic trip through the desert, into outer space and across the borders of perception… with the fuzz as their ally.

SEE THEM LIVE:

16.02.2012 - KAPU, Linz (AT)Release+Tour-Auftakt -

17.02. dann Mushroom Cellar, Rothanschöring (D)

18.02. Plan B, Innsbruck (AT)

21.02. Rock Café, Leuven (BE)

22.02. Waldmeister e.v. Raum für Kultur, Solingen (D)

23.02. Gängeviertel, Hamburg (D)

24.02. Musikkneipe Alster, Jena (D)

25.02. Rock Jazz Café, Cheb (CZ)

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"...I swear...This Split rocks as hell...fat riffs from both bands...PARASOL CARAVAN points with great grooves like Kyuss, Orange Goblin and this incredible Voice...CHACHIMBO DE PAZ are a little bit slower and deeper...occult feelings and spacy tunes...the whole split comes like a brainfuck...do it!"

Thanks to Markus

9 from 10 Stonerpoints

...hi mom...

 Mother of God

Stoner Metal

Woke up at dawn and felt a strong belief in nature spirits, looked out. Black shape. I went to the nearby forest and the journey had begun. Without a direct way, I went through the woods and crossed mountains. Suddenly elated by light, I was under the raven's wings. Numb. Awakened by a thud and the silhouettes of the three. Embrace..
The circle was complete.

 

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"Mother of God...fuck what a good stuff...good overall picture, they rule with fat grooves and blasts, vocally parts also rock and sometimes you can hear the influence of bands like: Truckfighters, Dozer, Orange Goblin but also heavier styles like Black Pyramid or Planet of Zeus. Listen especially to "Blind Monkey" and "Ancient Tracks"...because its good for you!"

8 from 10 Stonerpoints

...meet buddha...

Buddha Sentenza

Germany

Stoner Rock/Psychedelic

They began in November 2008, her musical outpourings of adding structure and following the aspect of woe, the informal, open and spontaneous music-making, still cultivated and made an integral part of their program. Their sound that is both modern rockbands (Stoner-space-grunge) and by the sounds of older guitar psychonauts (of Pink Floyd via Black Sabbath to Motorhead) influenced. Due to the diverse instrumentation and the use of digital sounds they weave a flying carpet of sound, on which you settle down and relax for a moment before one can be in the next moment takes on an exciting journey into uncharted realms.

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"A giant first album, the second hopefuly with a bit more power and heaviness and they will get 2 more Stonerpoints. "Kehakeeltekool" and  "Ride With The Devil" are my favourite songs on this album, now its time to enjoy this shit on your own four rooms!!!"

8 from 10 Stonerpoints

 Desertfest Berlin 19th, 20th & 21st April 2012

MOTORPSYCHO (NO)
ORANGE GOBLIN (UK)
COLOUR HAZE (GER)

AMPLIFIER (UK) *

Greenleaf (SWE)Ufomammut (IT)Brain Police (ICE)
Truckfighters (SWE)Red Fang (USA) 

Priestess (USA), Wino & Conny Ochs(USA/ GER)
and:
Grandloom (GER), Los Disidentes Del Sucio Motel (FR), Wight (GER), Mars Red Sky (FR), Suma (SWE), The Grand Astoria (RU), Shrine69 (UK), Orcus Chylde (GER), Glowsun (FR), Elvis Deluxe (PL), Stonehenge (GER), Operators (GER), Abrahma (FR)

THEATRE BIZARRE:

Desertfest Berlin will also host the Berlin's Premiere of two documentary movies :

BLACK MASS RISING and TRUCKFIGHTERS FUZZOMENTARY
as well as Art / Silkscreens exhibit.

All tickets sale go through:.desertfest.de
Do not buy tickets from anyone claiming to be official seller- this is not true-

 SEE YOU THERE!!!
STONERHEAD

...SPACE DAY...

 Don Juan Matus

Clostidium Records
Stoner/Psych Rock 

Don Juan Matus is a musical collective formed in December 2005 in Lima, Perú. The band has released 3 full lenght albums and a split 7” in a 4 year span on various labels from Perú, Germany and Japan. Their music combine elements of late 60s psychedelia, early 70s heavy rock, folk, blues, to name a few. Being a studio project, the band has never performed live and has no interest in belonging to a particular scene. Their name was created by anthropologist and writer Carlos Castaneda.

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"GREAT RETRO RIFFS AND SPEEDY LICK'S ON GUITAR...THIS SHIT COMES LIKE AN ORIGINAL 1970 BAND WITH A MODERN PRODUCTION. SIENA ROOT WITH PEPPER GRAVEYARD VEGETABLES, MEAT FROM THE DEVIL'S BLOOD AND A LITTLE BIT OF WORLD MUSIC SPICE...FINISH... DON JUAN MATUS...THE DINER IS SERVED... "

Thanks to Richard Nossar 

9 FROM 10 STONERPOINTS

...ZODIAC...

ZODIAC

Stoner/Psych

Once Drummer Janosch Rathmer (Long Distance Calling) started jamming with guitar-wizard Nick van Delft in 2010 both decided that the songs that rose from their sessions had to meet the ears. So they soon joined forces with Stephan Gall (Guitar) and Robert Kahr (Bass, Organ) (both play also in Rocketchief) to form the bluesdriven, heavy and sometimes psychedelic rock-formation that should go by the name of ZODIAC.

"The four musicians combine a longtime experience in the game and a common will to create interesting music. You can hear the influences of the classics: Zeppelin, Sabbath, Thin Lizzy and Maiden just to name a few. "

ZODIAC’s songs live on their performers’ passion for handmade, pure and inspiring music. Willing to bring their tunes to the people, ZODIAC want to play live as much as possible. This urge already allowed them to share the stage with Graveyard and Church of Misery — but they want a lot more! And now that the first five songs found their way to the recording studio (you can hear the results at this very moment) it is time to set the course...

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"A REALLY GREAT NEWCOMER BAND WITH A BIG FUTURE, SMOOTH PSYCH TUNES MEETS ALICE IN WONDERLAND IN A GREAT ATMOSPHERE AND A ASS FULL OF ENERGY"

9 from 10 Stonerpoints

...FAST FORWARD STONERHEADS...

 Killimanjaro

Portugal
STONER/DOOM

BOTR

Three normal guys from Barcelos, Portugal, decided, on April 2011, to get together and go heavy. They realized that it wouldn't be needed more than a trio, a power trio. Influenced by the stoner-rock bands of today and inspired on the 70's rock era, they've just released their first EP and are hope you to bang your heads while listening''

 

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"THIS PORTUGALHEADS ROCK LIKE "EL THULE, BLACKLIGHT  BABARIAN, LOS NATAS OR HORISONT. A SOUND WITH INFLUENCE OF PUNK, FUNERAL DOOM AND STRAIGHT STONER. "PRAYER" HAS THE BEST SOUNGSTRUCTURE FOR ME A GOOD MIX OF ALL ALSO "BURNING" HAS THIS HIT CHARACTER FEELING. ENJOY IT!!!"

Thank's to José

9 from 10 Stonerpoints

...interview with dave...

 

 ...David Eering from THE MACHINE...

 

I know THE MACHINE since the first album, I have followed your style how it transform. I think "Solar Corona" is the album with the biggest cojones.
What do you think about the sound changes in these 5 years?

It’s actually four years and a bit I guess hehe… but yeah it changed. That’s only natural, the first album was recorded when Hans was in the band for two months you know. It was sort of a try for us to be honest. After that we jammed a lot, which resulted in Solar Corona (half of it was jammed/written in the studio). Drie is much more composed and structured, also a little bit more rocking I think. It’s good to keep evolving and not to make the same album again and again. Do you like the cojones in our sound? Prepare for our upcoming album then, we never exposed our balls like that before hahahaha.

The Machine released three genius albums (Shadow of the machine, Solar Corona and Drie). Will another follow soon and what can you say about it?

Yeah the next one will be called “Calmer Than You Are” and it’s almost finished (mixing/mastering etc.). It’s quite different again, it has more shorter/straightforward hardrocking songs too with more vocals, but it’s also a little bit more progressive ‘cause we sometimes abandoned the standard 4/4 time signature. 7 songs, 46 minutes so it will fit on one LP. I hope it will be released somewhere in February/March next year, out on Elektrohasch again. Some of our jamming/noodling fans might be disappointed because there’s less of that this time, but it at least will be different. We want to keep challenging ourselves by making a different album every time, but still leave the typical The Machine sound in there. The best thing is that this goes naturally, I mean, we don’t force ourselves to write different songs. It’s a natural process. We’ll see how the audience/fans react to it. The most important thing is that we like the result and playing the songs live.

  

What inspires you while songwriting? What would you say is the hardest part about it? Whats your method?

It’s difficult to say what inspires me and the other guys. It’s rock and roll you know? We just have to play music. There’s also not really a method we use. I can bring in a riff or a song idea I came up with at home, we jam to that and we see what happens. Sometimes it’s Davy or Hans coming with a cool idea on drums or bass and we just jam to that. Other times we just start jamming out of the blue, something magical happens and we suddenly have a song, structured and everything. That’s the best part to me of playing with these guys: we all got so used to each other that even the smallest signs during a jam can mark a change or switch to a next part of the song. The hardest part to me personally is writing the lyrics and fit them into the melodies/making them the melody. And then remember the words hahaha. I started doing this at Drie, paying more attention to the singing and melodies, which was quite new to me. It sort of became fun to do so I did it even more on the upcoming album, Calmer Than You Are.

16 minute long songs, 10 minute-long solos...do you play everything exactly right or do you improvise sometimes?

It’s a combination of both. Especially with those long solos, I have certain themes that were composed and are the backbone of a solo section in a song. These parts also come in handy as a reference point for the other guys, this way everybody knows when to switch to a different part of the song. In between these points I like to improvise, this keeps it challenging and fun for me to play. Especially our songs Jam no. Pi/Phi/Psi only have the main riff as a constant factor, all the soloing on these tracks is always improvised.

Which song of yours do you like playing live the most?

During the last 16-shows tour we played a new song called “Sphere (… or Kneiter)” which I really like to play live. Besides that one First Unique Prime is always nice: sometimes we open a show with it, sometimes we end a show with it and sometimes it’s somewhere in the middle of the setlist hahaha. At the moment I actually enjoy all the new songs the most, ‘cause they’re still fresh.

How long do you play guitar and what kind of equipment do you use and makes you horny?

I got my first acoustic guitar at 10, my first electric at 14 but started to tune it and take it seriously when I was about 17, which is ten years ago now. I have like 8 guitars, a bass and a sitar but use my Ibanez Artist from 1980 as my main guitar now, which basically is double cut Les Paul. My backup/second guitar live is always changing from a humbucker-ed Telecaster to a SG to my recently bought 1974 Pearl Custom Les Paul (cheap Japanese copy but it plays really nice). I have 11 pedals on my pedalboard, including my custom made Lava Machine as a booster/overdrive/fuzz (by Black Effect Pedals). I use two big heavy single channel amps, a Sound City from around ’74 (which is being converted to a Hiwatt 100 Custom right now) and a Matamp GT120 of the same age. One amp goes into a Hiwatt 4x12”, the other is going into a new cab I finalized yesterday. It’s an 8x10” basscab, but I built some other speakers into it. It’s now a 2x15”+2x10” bass cabinet and it sounds heavy as hell hahaha.
I cannot wait to start using this beast live. All this stuff makes me horny by the way, that’s why I play guitar!

 

What do yoe prefer Dio or Ozzy on Black Sabbath? What do you think about the Reunion?

As much as I like Dio and besides the fact we should have named him The Boss instead of the Springsteen dude, I have to go with Ozzy. To me, the one and only Sabbath is Iommi, Osbourne, Butler and Ward. Don’t know about this reunion though. The last one they had with this original line-up was in 2005 and I was happy as a little boy that I got the chance to witness the original Sabbath live, all the little mistakes didn’t matter because it was fucking Sabbath on stage together you know. Don’t know in what condition they are now and if they can still do it, the future will tell. I have absolutely no problem with them cashing in again, I mean it’s their legacy so go ahead. If it’s affordable I’ll go and check it out. At least it’s all of the original members together on stage, quite different from The Reunion of a desert band which made everybody so excited earlier this year…

Which type of music or band do you think is so bad that it should be prohibited?

Hahaha that’s a tough one. I like a lot of music and a lot of styles so yeah… Even the really bad ones shouldn’t be prohibited because it guarantees you a laugh or two! But I think we can do without The Eagles hahahaha.
Except for Hotel California of course.

Whats your favourite albums in this year 2011?

To be honest, I didn’t buy or checked out a lot of new stuff this year, I mostly bought older records from the 70’s and other pre-2011 music. The new Roadworks live record from Motorpsycho was released this year, I got that one and liked it. The new stuff Causa Sui keeps spitting out is cool, I like their krautrock stuff. Oh yes, Aum from Seven That Spells is amazing (they’re assholes by the way hahahaha, I love you Niko and Jerry). Chances are I’m forgetting something here though, I really suck at this “list stuff”.

What do you think about the UP and Smoke Tour Vol.3, how was the tour for the band?

The tour was amazing, really. It was our first big tour, playing 16 shows in a row and traveling in a nightliner. It was a real personal highlight of 2011 to me, since it’s Christmas now it’s a good moment to evaluate this year J. I think we did a good job at promoting ourselves to a bigger audience and even more important, learned some new things as a band. You cannot do anything else than improve from playing 16 nights in a row I guess. We changed the line-up every night which was cool, everybody had their share of opening and closing the evening. Sometimes we had to start really early because it was a night with four bands, so it was a five headed audience haha. Even if there’s only five people you have to give everything on stage.

What moment or concert do you think was the highlight of your rock career until now?

To me personally this was the entire aforementioned tour. Besides that, to name just one show, it’ll probably be our gig at Burg Herzberg Festival earlier this year. There were I guess about 2000 people enjoying our stuff to the max, which was really unexpected and really amazing. I think we played over two hours and nobody got bored haha.
 

Last and most important question: Which advice can you give all the young and unknown guitar out there?

Do whatever you want to as long as it makes you happy, stay true to yourself and experiment a lot. Rock and roll!!

THANKS FOR THE NICE WORDS AND THE GREAT INTEVIEW...

...homeless...

 HOME

AUSTRIA
SLUDGE/STONER METAL

Home was founded in the winter of 2009/10 by Hans-Peter Gann (bass / vocals also bass by sahra surfers), Amadeus Mader (guitar) and Mathias Magerle (drums). Although they  knew each other for many years and all of them play in different bands, this was their first project to create music together...and it works as hell!!!
In January 2010 they recorded their first EP  in an edition of 100 copies  which is already exhausted and self produced.

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"Home...really rules...hard and negative riffing in higher level, really nice Austrian sludge band. Together with the Sahara Surfers on Tour and they quake the stage...trust me"


7 from 10 Sludgepoints

...sludge russia...

Cosmonauts Day

Moscow/Russia

Post-Rock/Sludge

 Cosmonauts Day from Moscow released theyr first full length album "Paths of the Restless" on November 15th, about a half a year after theyr first EP "Live Demos"

They describe theyr music as post-metal/progressive sludge...and i think thats a really good describe,

because this dudes are really genius .

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Krasen - bass
Chekan - guitars
Dima - guitars
Nikita - guitars

 

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"Paths of the Restless is a energy full beast of an album with really genius artwork.

The whole album is a post-sludge masterpiece, the search has his end...here are COSMONAUTS DAY...enjoy it"

9 from 10 Stonerpoints

...its not only a spider...

Touch the Spider

Stoner/Doom/Psych

Once upon a time there were a singer-guitarist and a drummer.
They strolled through the Black Forest until they found their real destiny:
They created the highly motivated and incomparable band Touch The Spider!
TOUCH THE SPIDER! mix elements of the 70th with Doom, Gothic and Psychedelic.

"Music from the dark side of life!"

Members: 

Unholy Ghost: Vocals, Bass, Guitars, Perc., Keys
Cosmic Energy: Drums, Perc., Keys, FX, Artwork

 

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"Generation Zombie is exactly the right thing what you need to relax in your sofa and to have a nice daydream, good minimalistic band with very interesting sound."

Big thanks to Torsten

8 from 10 Stonerpoints