Friday 27 June 2014

Goat - World Music

Goat - World Music 


Goat are a collective who hail from a small and very remote village called Korpilombolo in deepest darkest Sweden. Legend has it that for centuries, the inhabitants of the village of Korpilombolo were dedicated to the worship and practices of Voodoo. 

This strange and seemingly unlikely activity was apparently introduced into the area after a travelling witch doctor and a handful of her disciples were led to Korpilombolo by following a cipher hidden within their most sacred of ancient scriptures. 




Mars Red Sky - Mars Red Sky

Mars Red Sky - Mars Red Sky 


Mars Red Sky is a French  band formed in 2007 in Bordeaux, France.

The band stoke the fire of a voodoo mass with their 70’s old school riffs and their psychedelic groove.

Julien Pras, well known for the pop magnificence of his studio session with Calc, was secretly dreaming ofBlack Sabbath and Led Zeppelin and was also sharing these musical fantasies with drummer Benoit Busser and noisy bass player Jimmy Kinast. The three of them make a melodic stoner music using heavy reverbs. Julien Pras’s airy voice mixed with the sound of fuzzy electric guitar gives an aerial dimension to their rolling rhythm. 



Alcian Blue - Slow Colorless Stare

Alcian Blue - Slow Colorless Stare


Washington, DC-based Alcian Blue, whose early limited-edition EPs drew favorable comparisons to the likes of My Bloody Valentine and Jesus and Mary Chain, had been around for almost five years, recording records in their basement and developing an underground fan base both locally and globally. The sudden departure of their drummer left them wondering what the future held for DC’s loudest rock band. It was right at this time that vocalist/guitarist Jake Reid and his then girlfriend (now wife) Kim started writing a batch of new songs with heavy drum machine beats and walls of synths and guitars. Blending the neo-shoegaze influences from their past releases with the haunting landscapes of early ‘80s icons like Joy Division/New Order, The Cure, and prime time Depeche Mode, the new sound showcased on Alcian Blue presents a fresh perspective and groundwork for exploration.





Duster - Stratosphere

Duster - Stratosphere


 Duster is a lo-fi slowcore band which first consisted of Clay Parton and Dove Amber. Jason Albertini joined the band when the recording of Stratosphere was almost complete. Most of the bands’ material, including the Stratosphere (1998), 1975 (1999) and Contemporary Movement (2000), have been released on Up Records.



Codeine - The White Birch

Codeine - The White Birch


American  band formed in New York in 1989 by members Stephen Immerwahr (vocal, bass), Chris Brokaw (drums) and John Engle (guitar). Codeine pioneered the  and  subgenres of indie rock, but with a more experimental attitude than other bands in the genre, such as LowIdaho and Red House Painters. The band’s original tone, marked by slow tempos, Immerwahr’s nasal and apathetic vocals, and Engle’s ringing Telecaster, did not evolve much during their career



Thursday 26 June 2014

Salems Pot 
Salem’s Pot is extremely heavy doom metal, with an occult atmosphere.Sweden


Monolord
Sweden
Psychedelic Doom Metal

Formed in 2013, this band is made up of Swedish rockers Thomas Jäger, Esben Willems, and Mika Häkki. Both Jäger and Willems were in the Swedish boogie rock band Marulk and started Monolord as a side project as a way to play some more heavier tunes, they quickly added Häkki (from The Don Darlings, ex Rotten Sound) and realized that they had something very special between the 3 of them. Monolord became very real very quickly and recording commenced in early 2013. Thomas Jäger had not sung in a band before this one, but you would never know it by the sound of it. Having met EasyRider Records head hauncho Daniel Hall over instagram in May of 2013 when the record was ready to listen to, EasyRider was one of the first that it was sent to and picked up the band immediately after hearing the finished album that will come out worldwide on April 1st 2014, this first offering is of pure hellfire of unrestrained heavy doom that has the ability to shatter windows and put people into an induced coma. The album titled, Empress Rising, has all of the flavors of an iconic doom record and follows in the footsteps of Sleep Holy Mountain, Pallbearer “Sorrow and Extinction”, Electric Wizard “Witchcult Today” with melodic vocals and harmonies that are super psychedelic and easy to sing along with.




Sons Of Huns 
In a city like Portland, Oregon, where there are quite literally hundreds of people 
playing heavy music – and playing it well, at that – it takes a bold, tightly-honed 

punch to the crowd’s ears in order to stand out. Formed in the winter of 2009 and
armed with a full stack of Orange cabs, a lifetime of experience and enough classical
training to out-riff any band that dares stand in their SG-wielding path, Sons of Huns
have consistently blown crowds away. Peter Hughes (guitar), Shoki Tanabe (bass)
and Ryan Northrop (drums) have headlined shows in anywhere from tiny bars to
the main stages of Portland’s biggest music festivals, and had the honor of opening
for the likes of Red Fang, Andrew W.K., Danava and even the world’s most metal
comedian, Brian Posehn. 



A pick of my 3 Riding Easy Records favorites.



The Grand Eternal and the Sermon on the Mount


The subconscious is a collection of infinite doorways connected with streams and corridors, paths that lead to nowhere but everywhere, all tangled together in a colossus soup of "fantasy" and reality, the difference being that our subconscious is connected to every living creature and plant on this planet as well as far beyond this world we live in, we come from out beyond the stars, the only place carbon and other such materials can be created are in the incredible pressures created when a star is born, or at its death connecting all living things to its initial birth within a star.

Everything we see, hear, smell, taste, imagine and create are the only guidelines we have to understand our own "conscious" mind, our own personal ethics and understanding of morality are on the surface of our conscious being but to understand the subconscious, you have to look beyond what natural order insist we believe.
example: If you were raised in a country where it is socially and culturally accepted to murder and enslave other beings, be they human plant or animal your conscious mind, your personal moral compass tells you it is absolutely fine to commit such acts, you were raised and lead to understand that "this is for the greater good" and this changes the hands on your "conscious" moral compass, and is justification to commit such acts. But to understand this, you have to understand survival, and that personal gain not for the benefit of every living being (greed) is not survival, it is vanity, and vanity will ruin your mind, which then leads to boredom and boredom leads to destruction, destruction of the mind body and "soul". Killing predatorily is very much a part of survival, so long as we only take what we need to survive, if our consciousness is threated, and we take action to counter the threat, this is also survival, and survival has no negative effect on our "Subconscious" moral compass, a compass shared between every living carbon based life form. your soul is what i believe to be your subconscious, and with that in mind, think about the day to day choices you make, and the drive behind those choices, what is pushing you to commit to your routines, or in turn break from those routines, is it driven by your conscious moral compass, or your subconscious morality, as a human, a living creature, who has committed crimes, treated people un fairly and taken more than I have needed to better and improve my social standing in life, i have felt and understand the difference between my subconscious and conscious moral code, i have in the past convinced myself that my wrong doings are justified by society, and the murmurs felt in my stomach are not warning signs from our subconscious, but a curiosity induced by fear of change, i now know that this is not true and that even if society and culture tells me its ok to do these things my subconscious, my connection to everything, is actually telling me, "this is wrong" i imagine over time we have diluted our body’s enough to be able to either ignore or supress this feeling, and the truest most powerful form of this feeling is guilt, a subconscious understand that we are doing wrong.

Now before this starts to sound like some idealistic hippie philosophy, I’d like to go into a substance called N,N-Dimethyltryptamine , a psychedelic compound used throughout  the ages by a number of different religious and none religious groups, also as a recreational substance within western society, and is used to bridge the gap between consciousness and subconscious , meaning this is almost the key to visit your own subconscious within your own mind. In the altered state of consciousness you experience whilst taking DMT you are exposed to a number of changes, you are no longer apart of this world we have created but yet feel a part of something so much bigger, you can reach out your hands and all you can see is this kaleidoscopic world you are now connected to, when you sleep, a small dose of DMT is realised into your mind, this induces dreams, your consciousness is still awake, and it is like looking into the window of your subconscious, without being fully integrated  with it, and your subconscious knows every little detail about you and your life, the mistakes you have made, the good you have done for others and the real drive behind your actions, and this for some people can be very scary, this is why
We don’t always understand the terrors we find in our nightmares, because it is our subconscious causing them, not or conscious mind. This is why it is very important we try to understand our dreams a lot more than we do. In the eyes of others you could be the perfect human, you do things for others, you are not greedy, your care and love the people around you and commit selfless acts, but what is the drive behind all this? maybe that drive is to gain enough power and respect that you are raised to a position of power, a social standing above other men and women, and then with this new found power, you become vain, maybe not in your conscious mind yet, you start to develop  greed, and you start to dictate to others your methods and stories of success and this dilutes your moral ethics, your now working to your own rules and codes, and not the grand eternal code  that is stitched within our subconscious. You have to understand this is not the case for every (deemed by society) successful man or women but is only an example of what can and will happen. And in that case there is no excuse for stupidity or ignorance, we all carry this clock, this code of right, wrong  and survival.


You won’t have been told about this in school science labs, or from watching your TV, or your parents and family, because it is hidden and ignored by the powers that try control our conscious mind. when you die DMT is released into your brain as with all living things, any living thing that dies, realises DMT, it is the perfect indication of life, and when your exposed to DMT you lose any understanding of time, time is no longer a rule, time is no longer anything, whilst taking a dosage of 0.05 of a gram of DMT 5 minutes can seem like a whole day within your subconscious, but you don’t know how long a day is, and have nothing to compare to, the only reason you feel this, is because your consciousness is still making you aware of time, a rule only important on our conscious earth, but you die, and death is the end of consciousness, time is no more, the amounts of DMT released  are almost chaotic in comparison to recreational use an everlasting eternal trip of the subconscious, effected tremendously by the choices you made in your conscious mind. The Grand Eternal, choices you made in life will haunt you for eternity in your last trip, a trip that has no concept of time and is very honest your true personality will be exposed and this will either cause you to punish yourself, or exist in peace in an interstellar world where anything and everything is possible, so long as you learn to control your subconscious.

Daniel Brown