Wool - Budspawn [1992]

Hello! Well, since I'm currently unemployed, I guess I have plenty of freetime, again, mmm, like to start diggin on this musical genre that's so amuzing to me. You probably have listened this band, still I didn't know about it untill a few days ago... . Two weeks so far, I 've been seriously listening wool's releases and they are very nice.

Woll was formed by Peter and Franz Stahl, who were playing at Scream, band in which also played Dave Grohl. When Scream went to hell, who knows what reason they had for; Grohl went to Nirvana :O, while Peter and Franz formed Wool.

There is a lot of Punk and hard rock in this band, it sounds like Helmet, said to me a friend the other day. Yeah, Wool has that amazing 90's rock sound which sprouted from peers such as Pearl Jam, Helmet, Nirvana, Alice in Chains and lord knows what else. Anyway, I highly advice you to get this stuff, they are freakin cool. Besides, the album is only 35 mg, damn! I bet you would wish every 35 mg albums were this good, once you have heard Budspawn.

Well, I'm off for now, take your time, Keep coming...I shed tears everytime you make a comment xD Thanks, you rock!

Tracklist:

1.- S.O.S

2.- Slightly Under

3.- Clear my head

4.- Wait

5.- Medication

6.- Eff

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Mother Trucker - Electric Blacksmith EP [2006]

Long time no see I guess. I don't know if it is enough of instrumental stuff, but hell, I never have enough, I 'm never satisfied so here I bring you a new band I found out. They are somehow more of a slow motion intrumental stuff and according to experts they go like in the line of Red Sparowes and Pelican, that means, bathed in doom. I just have tried to listen both of those bands, but I just don't like them. Nevertheless, Mother Trucker is the exception to the rule.
The band was formed in October 2003 and is the creation of Charlie Butler (Guitar), Tom Moffat (Bass), James Davison (Drums) and Chris Scrivens (Guitar) from Birmingham in the UK.
"Mothertrucker blend together the harshness of metal, the ambience, texture and lulling nature of post-rock, the groove and rolling rhythms of stoner rock and the gruesome dark feelings of doom with the aim of fusing all this into one as a truly cohesive sound". (http://www.purevolume.com/mothertrucker)

Well, I hope you like, just give it a try and you may find something really addictive. See y'all.

Tracklist:

1. Horn of Edwards 06:56 2. The Russian 01:42 3. The Taking of Planet 55 08:31 4. Dark Destroyer 05:44 5. Kings of Kabaddi 10:21 Total playing time 33:14

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RotoR - 3 [2007]

Hey there pals! I'm back again and with new stuff again. This is another band I found along with Nitroseed. This time, stoner comes from Berlin, Germany. Don't know much of german stoner, but this band certainly surprised me a lot. RotoR have certainly a very wide and rich sound, like to say this is only stoner or psychodelic rock. So, I'm just will tell you some bands that came to my mind while listening the album. Oh! By the way, this a great instrumental band. That is why I made the assosiation with Nitroseed.

First, I thought inmediately about Karma to burn, then an Argentinian band called Poseidotika also appeared, along with Opeth. Weird. So let's say the band has some tough stoner rock, along with some metal, progresive stuff and the right dosis of psych. I may tell you don't even try to imagine what this band sound like...just get it and enjoy. =P

PD: Squirrel gripp records define the album as "An irresitable koloss of groove, heavy riffs and delicate jazzy playing - as it hasn`t been heard so far!"

Tracklist:

1. Auf' Maul
2. V-ger
3. Rotor
4. Hart im Wind
5. Umkehrschub
6. Drehsturm
7. Klar Schiff
8. Nordend
9. Kaltstart
10 . Transporter

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Nitroseed - Molt

Hey, cheer up! I'm posting very often now. In fact, I'm surprise of myself. Moreover, I brought a new band to you. Well is not actually a new band, but I discorvered it just a couple of days ago. Talking about this band, necesarily means to talk about Karma to burn, because Karma is a pionner in instrumental rock and somehow stoner. In this sense, it means to touch on many other instrumental bands outhere like Balero, Hotel Wrecking City Traders, 5ive, Treasure cat, and A Tijuana Trip, just to mention a few I enjoy a lot. Nitroseed comes from Laurel, Maryland, USA. They are regarded as Instrumental Stoner Doom. I guess such description fits their sound. They are a doom stoner band, but they got something else, they got that spark of heavy and groove that keeps you on fire and that's the reason I'm posting their stuff. I often fall sleep with stoner doom, but this an exception. They got those sweet and painfull slow repetitive compases and rythms encripted in heavy metal chords and rolled around in riffs saturated with stoner everywhere, then encripted again in a Balero's mood and rolled around in Karma to Burn's sudden chord explosions.

It's a nice band, no weak songs as Stoner Rock review says. The band play solid, furious and neverending as a flame. Take this piece without shadow of doubt. 10o% suggested.

Tracklist:

1. Barbarian test tube
2. Creeper
3. Class War
4. Ship from up North
5. Megalodon
6. Power of the Sun
7. Combined Forces
8. Molt
9. Saturday night palsy
10 . Gut butt

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Hotel Wrecking City Traders - EP [2007]

Now comes something new to this blog. Something my ears were glad to discover, just a few days ago. First, I must say thanks to "Sludgeswamp", cuz' I found the band while exploring his blog, which has vast loads of material, so it is quite a nice place to check up.
Well, this a Mellbourne, Australia band. The most amazing thing is that the band has only two members: "ben" the drummer and "toby" on guitars. Coming down to set the band's influences we got names like: Karma to burn, Mogwai, Kinski, Kyuss, Colour Haze, 5ive and some other instrumental bands...oh yeah! this is "Intrumental" stuff. Why is it that I like this music so much? The answer is simple, lacking vocals the music comes to you free of any bounds. I personally found that vocals set directions and rigid rythms to songs...so, in this sense instrumental music allows you to interpret music as you wish, to picture your own image of the sound waves (hate, anger, wrath [not all of them necesarily negative of course])...and I'm talking about this because I'm adding to this post an interview made to HWCT's drummer, in which he refers about the band's origins and to this particular topic of instrumental compositions. So, check up both, the album and the interview...I will probably up-load the band's second album later on, but if you want it first hand, go and get it at sludgeswamp...check up the link on my stoner sources. Take you all!

PD: I forgot to say that they have a DVD, but I haven't been able to find it..."Red Carpet Nigh Presents: Hotel Wrecking City Traders - Live At The EBC "

Interview: http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=209672113&blogID=439094479

Tracklist:

1.- The Porch
2.- Massoli
3.- Get high motherfucker!
4.- Sutter Cane
5.- Danklicker
6.- 7 minutes of tape

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Sleep - Jerusalem [1999]

Wondering in the net, the other I came up with a top 20 list of the best stoner album ever -top created by a magazine called "Decibel magazine"-. I fuckin' ended up quite amazed of the albums and bands I saw in that list. So, hell curious about some unknown bands I started to look for some info to find out that some of them were nice and some other very weird... I kinda think I will post most of them, just for you to check them up. Now, I'm starting with this one, that I found rather interesting, because it is almost instrumental stoner, which is what I enjoy the most within the stoner stuff. The band is named "SLEEP" and I leave you to read, Decibel's magazine commentary on the album and the mentioned "top 20", for you check up. That's it pals!

The Top 20 Stoner Rock Albums of All Time

20 Fu Manchu, In Search of… | Mammoth (1996)
19 High on Fire, Surrounded by Thieves | Relapse (2002)
18 Acrimony, Tumuli Shroomaroom | Peaceville (1997)
17 The Obsessed, Lunar Womb | Hellhound (1991)
16 Leaf Hound, Grower of Mushrooms | Decca (1971)
15 Saint Vitus, Born too Late | SST (1986)
14 Cathedral, The Ethereal Mirror | Columbia/Earache (1993)
13 Monster Magnet, Spine of God | Caroline (1991)
12 Witchfinder General, Death Penalty | Heavy Metal (1982)
11 Masters of Reality, Masters of Reality | Def American (1988)
10 Hawkwind, Space Ritual | United Artists (1973)
9 Melvins, Bullhead | Boner (1991)
8 Blue Cheer, Vincebus Eruptum | Philips (1968)
7 Trouble, Psalm 9 (a.k.a. Trouble) | Metal Blade (1984)
6 Queens of the Stone Age, Self-Titled | Loosegroove (1998)
5 Black Sabbath, Black Sabbath | Warner Bros. (1970)
4 Kyuss, Blues for the Red Sun | Dali (1992)
3 Sleep, Jerusalem | Rise Above/The Music Cartel (1999)
2 Electric Wizard, Dopethrone | Rise Above (2000)
1 Black Sabbath, Master of Reality | Warner Bros. (1971)

retrieved from: http://www.decibelmagazine.com/features_detail.aspx?id=8936

"3 Sleep, Jerusalem | Rise Above/The Music Cartel (1999)

The words “stoner epic” don’t even come close to describing the extreme riff-hypnosis that Jerusalem visited upon the red-eyed legions of heshers, grass pirates and acid casualties who genuflected at the altar of the legendary power-trio known as Sleep. In 1995, after two albums (’91’s Volume One and ’93’s Holy Mountain) bassist/vocalist Al Cisneros, drummer Chris Hakius (both currently of Om) and guitarist Matt Pike (currently of High on Fire) recorded their masterpiece—a one-song, 52-minute album—with financial assistance from their new corporate benefactors at London Records. Jerusalem is Sabbath in slow motion, Earth 2 without track divisions and the soundtrack for an eternal bong-huffing caravan to the heart of the Holy Land rolled into a thick, hazy hour of thundering chords, booming vocals and terminal battery. Sleep would break up years before their official release in 1998, but the album originally entitled Dopesmoker will always be one of the world’s quintessential head classics. —J. Bennett"

Tracklist:

01 - Jerusalem part. 1
02 - Jerusalem part. 2
03 - Jerusalem part. 3
04 - Jerusalem part. 4
05 - Jerusalem part. 5
06 - Jerusalem part. 6

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Karma to burn - Wild, wonderful purgatory [1999]

Yes! Another Karma to burn album and this time the one I consider the best of their discography and a "jewel" of instrumental stoner rock. I don't know up until what extent Karma is famous, but they got a lot of good songs out there, you may have listened some of them in videoclips, movie soundtracks or commercials. Being that the case, this album gonna blow up your head man, and if is not the case, this work of art will literally drive you "up" to "hell" and you will enjoy it. Grab this masterpiece and make yourself feel at home, xenobites comrades!

Tracklist:

01 - Twenty
02 - Twenty eight
03 - Thirty
04 - Thirty one
05 - Twenty nine
06 - Thirty two
07 - Twenty five
08 - Twenty six
09 - One
10 - Three
11 - Seven
12 - Eight

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Balero - Demo [2004]

Here is another Balero's album, an instrumental groove stoner rock four songs Demo that will tear your soul apart. I mean it, this is way one of the most violent intrumental stoner bands my ears have had the pleasure to bleed for. Being Balero's debut album, I like to think of it like an introductory stage, for the chaos unleashed in their following album, of course posted previously. I highly suggested album.

Tracklist:

01 - Drop the bomb
02 - The voyage
03 - El mere
04 - Well Look Who It Is

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Treaure Cat - Choice Cut [2007]

Hey! another great instrumental stoner rock band? Yes! This time we got William Mecum's project, ex-leading man of Karma to burn. This time his debut album as treasure cat brings to us an album overcharge of power and heavy, but also with delightful and peacefull transitions. I very much suggest this album if you liked my previous post, specially Karma to burn.

Tracklist:

01 - Battle of britain
02 - Captain Smirk
03 - Cerebral Ballsey
04 - Destructo Legatta
05 - Dresden
06 - Hurt myself being stupid
07 - King shit of fuck avenue (203 mclane ave)
08 - On a clear day
09 - Poltergator
10 - Pyroglyphics
11 - Queen of spades
12 - Schock and awe
13 - Snake plissken (I thought you were dead)
14 - The admirals
15 - Valhall

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Karma to burn - Almost Heathen [2002]

Karma to burn is a West Virginia band from the end of the 90's. They play instrumental stoner rock and many people regard their sound to that of Kyuss and the Obessessed. We got just three people in this band and yet they sound in such a way that is hard to explain, so I highly suggest their stuff if you enjoy instrumental stoner, because somehow, Karma to burn are pionners of this branch of stoner rock. The band break appart after this album, so is kinda nostalgic posting this stuff, for sure I will upload their previous works later on.

Tracklist:

1.	Nineteen	04:01
2.	Thirty Eight	05:50
3.	Thirty Four	04:12
4.	Thirty Seven	05:19
5.	Thirty Nine	05:34
6.	Thirty Six	04:28
7.	Thirty Three	04:50
8.	Thirty Five	05:14
9.	Five	04:50
10.	Forty	03:39
Total playing time		48:00

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Balero - One Planet Short Of The Sun [2006]

Ballero is an American band regarded as Instrumental groove stoner rock. I have never understood what the fuck groove means, but hell it sounds like the devil. The band in some sense is minimalist, but it is amazing how such simple and monotonous sounds may put your blood to boil at thousands degrees (...) every time stoned at this shit I picture my head smashed over the wall. Balero is lush for violence.

Tracklist:

1 Captain
2 Bonzai
3 Inertia
4 The Mangler
5 Resolution

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