Let’s be honest, Doom’s latest, Unexpected Guests, is disappointing. No more collections of previously released music, please. Read my review here or below.

The good old days:

Let’s be honest, Doom (nee MF Doom, King Gheedorah, Viktor Vaughn, etc.) hasn’t really released a good album since 2004’s Mmm… Food. And yet, somehow, his obsessive fans (this writer included) keep hoping for a great new record, one that doesn’t recycle past songs, one that reaches the level of Madvillainy or Take Me to Your Leader or even Operation: Doomsday. Instead, we get Unexpected Guests.

You see, if you are a devoted fan of Daniel Dumile, you have already heard every one of these tracks on a different (and better) album. De La Soul collaboration, “Rock Co. Kane Flow,” from The Grind Date? Check. Kurious collaboration, “?”, from Doomsday? Sure. Vast Aire collabo, “Da Supafriendz,” from Look Mom, No Hands? Why not? And the list goes on and on. This is great for the uninitiated, although these songs are definitely not his best (even though the album was “executed and overseen by the Super Villain himself,” but kind of boring for his super-fans.

Sadly, this will have to do until Doom gets his shit together, and the new Madvillain album and his forthcoming solo record (on which he’s working with TV on the Radio’s David Sitek) see the light of day. But beware, Doom. As beloved as you are, you are wearing your fans’ patience thin and stretching your mantle of prolificacy. Next time, please give us some quality new shit.

Din cauza faptului ca este implicat intr-un scandal de tip turism electoral, Gigel va lipsi vreo doua zile din povestile mele. Totusi, nu toate personajele au ales varianta vizitarii manastirilor in duminica alegerilor, asa ca disponibili pentru articolul de astazi sunt Mos Onofrei si Iulia Mihai. Ultima, nefiind un personaj fictional va avea dreptul sa prostesteze in cazul in care va fi nemultumita de rolul primit in povestirea de astazi.

Hostway i-au dat lui Dreampoet o idee interesanta, si anume un blog colectiv.

Cum scopul lui Dreampoet pe blog nu a fost niciodata acela de a face bani, blog-ul colectiv nu poate avea decat o tematica din aria de interes a acestuia si a colaboratorilor. Tema este una foarte vasta si nu poate fi cuprinsa atat de usor intr-un blog. Ne referim la Rock-ul din anii ’60 pana astazi. Cum Mos Onofrei a fost parte a miscarii flower-power, cum Iulia Mihai este experta pe zona de gothic si doom metal, Dreampoet va avea o echipa pe cinste. El se va ocupa de partea de heavy metal, power metal, si in general de tot ce tine de metal.

Nota pentru Gigel : « Gigele, stiu ca ai fost bun la chimie, dar aici nu ne referim la elementele din stanga tabelului lui Mendeleev, ci la un subgen al stilului muzical rock. Cu totii stim ca ai fost olimpic de toamna la chimie organica si ca trebuia sa ajungi doctor ginecolog. Din pacate toamna se numara bobocii, iar in toamna aceea fatidica din 2005, tu sustineai bacalaureatul pentru a treia oara ».

Dupa principiul numai sase-s norocoase, Gigel a nimerit din a treia incercare, reusind intr-un final sa faca deosebirea intre simpla si dubla legatura din catena unei hidrocarburi. Nu va spun cati bani a platit Gigel Al Batran pentru ca fecioru’ sa treaca si el examenul vietii. Cifra de afaceri a fostei companii a lui Gigel, Guma , pe un semestru ar putea fi un element ajutator in acest sens.

Dar sa revenim…Cei trei blogeri au fiecare cate o problema, ca de altfel orice echipa nou infiintata. Dreampoet nu se pricepe la editarea foto, Mos Onofrei inca se foloseste de masina de scris pentru redactarea textelor, in timp de Iulia locuieste intr-un oras ce nu ii permite sa se deplaseze la toate concertele majore. De obicei, 80% dintre aceste concerte au loc in Bucuresti.

Din motive de securitate nationala si din motive ce tin strict de partea financiara, Marioara nu a putut fi inclusa in echipa de soc. Aceste informatii au aparut in Double-Click. Din pacate, Dreampoet nu a beneficiat de un drept la replica, iar adevaratul motiv al refuzului includerii Marioarei in echipa apare pe blog-ul personal al acestuia : « Marioara, o fata simpatica in felul ei a afirmat ca cea mai buna voce din metal-ul actual este Calul Balan. Pentru noi, acest lucru a fost o adevarata blasfemie », a incheiat poetul de Berceni.

Revenind la subiectul acestui articol, problemele celor 3 pot fi solutionate. De editarea fotografica se va ocupa Iulia, de dactilografierea textelor si de mersul la concerte Dreampoet. Mos Onofrei va fi inteleptul care ne va delecta cu amintiri de pe discurile vinil pe care le asculta in tinerete, si de asemenea ne va povesti de concertele unor trupe precum Sfinx, Rosu si Negru, Semnal M sau Celelalte Cuvinte. In fiecare saptamana, administratorul de bloc va rememora aspecte legate de rock-ul romanesc din perioada pre-decembrista, dar si despre Deep Purple, Uriah Heep sau Pink Floyd.

Este clar ca acest blog se va adresa unui segment de piata restrans, nefiind adresat Gigeilor din Agigea, Marioarelor din Ciuca Macaii sau Maricicilor din Cucuietii din Deal. Trebuia precizat acest aspect din doua motive : sa nu ii facem pe acesti oameni sa renunte la mall-uri si bambuuri si, ca sa vedeti ca nu am uitat de unde a plecat fiecare personaj al meu.

Avand in vedere ca sansele ca acest blog sa aduca vreun venit sau macar sa depaseasca incasarile pe 2008 ale firmei Guma, categoriile ce vor fi incluse in site sunt la alegerea autorilor.

Pentru ca fiecare dintre cei trei va veni cu idei ce nu vor fi supuse cenzurii sau unor comentarii ce tin de subiectivismul situatiei, cineva trebuie sa coordoneze activitatea. Acesta nu se afla in varful piramidei nicidecum, ci doar are o atributiune in plus, mai precis management-ul blog-ului. Pentru aceasta pozitie a fost aleasa Iulia.

Nu se va respecta neaparat o cronologie, pentru ca nu se vrea a fi un manual al muzicii rock, ci un loc in care cei trei sa impartaseasca cititorilor impresiile lor despre aceasta muzica. Fiind un blog de nisa, se presupune ca printre cititori trebuie sa se afle oameni pasionati de aceasta muzica. De asemenea, cei trei au decis ca macar o data pe zi fiecare dintre ei sa aiba un articol, pentru ca blog-ul sa devina un organism viu.

Pentru inceput, Iulia ne va incanta cu o istorie a trupei Lacrimosa, Dreampoet va face o rememorare a principalelor concerte rock desfasurate in Romania in anul 2009, iar Mos Onofrei ne va vorbi despre personalitatea complexa a lui Roger Waters (ex Pink Floyd).

Pentru a fi mai vizibili pe internet, cei trei ar putea apela la hosting-ul oferit de firma Hostway. Cum a reusit sa ii convinga Dreampoet pe cei doi ? Raspunsul poate unora li se va parea amuzant sau macar va aduce un mic zambet pe fata lor. Raspunsul este pasiunea si dorinta de a impartasi cu ceilalti aceasta pasiune. Pasiunea e mai presus de bani, de orgoliu sau de interese meschine. Pasiunea e singura optiunea pentru un suflet curat, pentru o viata fara resentimente.

Poate cu timpul blog-ul va creste, iar cei trei vor putea fi acreditati ca si publicatie media pe mediul online, realizand interviuri cu trupe si cronici de disc si concert.

L-am lasat pe Gigel la sectie, scriind o declaratie. Pentru interactivitatea acestui articol, va las pe voi, cititorii sa alegeti daca vreti sau nu sa il eliberam pe Gigel. Va propun trei alternative : Gigel sa fi fost acuzat pe nedrept si sa fie eliberat, Gigel sa fi fost vinovat dar sa scape avand anumite cunostinte prin domeniul judiciar sau Gigel sa continue concursul de la parnaie. In functie de voturile voastre, vom decide soarta lui Gigel. Acum se scrie istorie, cum in anii ’70, ’80 si ’90 o faceau Pink Floyd, despre care ne va vorbi mos Onofrei in primele sale articole.

Nu va dau nicio indicatie, insa pentru Gigel voi dedica melodia “Wish you were here”. Acum unde sa fie Gigel, voi decideti…

Acest articol a fost realizat ca parte integranta a concursului SuperBlog 2009, organizat de PC News.

Download it here. It only contains the first episode of the first Doom game. Go to Doom Wiki for more in depth talk about Doom. The best level is Phobos Anomaly (it’s set on one of Mar’s moons). To complete that level, you must defeat the heavily-strong Barons that guard the gate out of Anomaly . The graphics for the game are very old, but the game is still very addictive, it takes an hour to complete it. Do not play it on “Nightmare” difficulty, as it’s nearly imposable to complete, unless your doing speed runs. My difficulty is “Ultra Violent”  and sometimes I tick the “Fast Monsters” box. The game will work on XP/Vista, to exit the game while in game, just press “Ctrl” & “Esc” or the start menu keypad, and your resolution will turn back to normal. Ignore Vista’s notices telling you about the resolution is not right. There are many Doom addicts out their, like the Columbine killers, they played it excessively, & Doom is the mother of all first person shooters.

We get it. You’re a transvestite. No one cares anymore.

(pic is from here)

Format: EP
Year: 2009
Label: R.A.I.G. Accessory Takes
Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Drone/Doom Metal
Official Website

01. Yggdrasil

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Navegando por YouTube, me encontre este trailer de la próxima secuela del juego para celulares publicado por EA mobile, Doom RPG. Este juego trata de revivir la fórmula del Doom original, sólo que el modo de juego es por turnos pero sigue la misma esencia.

Esta nueva secuela utilizará los mismos gráficos que manejo el Wolfenstein RPG, o sea enemigos en 2D pero mundos completamente en 3D. El juego, verdaderamente se ve espectacular.

El juego no ha sido liberado oficialmente (solamente había sido presentada la propuesta en el pasado Quakecon) pero según comentarios, este video fue subido por uno de los colaboradores de EA sin previa autorización…así que aquí se los dejó:

Ahora sólo queda esperar… =D

Our chief concern these days seem to be Global Warming.  Certainly, Maldives with her low coral islands and delicate ecosystem is directly under such a threat, and it most certainly is time we started becoming more eco-aware.  They’ve given us fifty years to enjoy our beautiful nation if we don’t cut down carbon emissions and all such other yuck.  How many of our grandchildren will remember our submerged heritage? A lot of us don’t even have children yet!

Global Warming maybe on the tip of everyone’s tongues nowadays but it’s easy to forget that Al Gore first tried to bring these concerns to light in the early half of the 14th Century, just before Christopher Columbus sailed the Indian Ocean looking for Spain and arrived at the Maldives in 1356. He planted a genus of bread fruit tree indigenous to Eastern Europe as a joke and was surprised when it bore fruit in the shape of a woman.

Two hundred years later, Neil Armstrong lost his title deed to the island that would become the capital Male in an clam eating match against Kublai Khan, who founded the proud nation we are today.  The British briefly occupied us for a while after a young Gandhi headbutted Archduke Franz Ferdinand, who then went on to form a band.  Less than fifty years later, President Mohamed Nasheed famously defeated former president Maumoon Abdul Gayyoom in a controversial mud wrestling match, of which the chief controversy comprised the absence of the titular mud and the referee being a half-crazed Cochin cockerel.

Enough history, though.  We know what happens next.  Global warming this, war that, someone did something, someone complained.  But the fact is that the undead will get us long before any of those other things get to finish us off. They may already be among us, under more guises than you may care to imagine. Living zombies, parasites, blood suckers, dream eaters and a large variety of other monstrosities too base to be considered human exist among us now.

This is where The Maldivian Apocalypse Handbook comes in.  We’ll cover a whole host of topics, ranging from how to identify a living zombie, how to flee or create a stronghold in Male, the causes of dream deprivation, and many more, all of which shall be neatly labelled in the archive for your perusal.  We shall strive to identify, isolate, analyse, exaggerate, understand and combat the many calamities that may befall us.

Remember: look behind you!

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Increíble, increíble e increíble. Marasme son una formación Mallorquina formada a principios de Enero de 2008,  y  reune a cinco chicos que anterirormente habían estado en otros proyectos. Pero ahora, en Marasme es todo diferente. Cada uno de los componentes, parece sacar lo mejor de si y está claramente expresado en sólo tres temas.

La demo empieza con Waves. Una canción de ocho minutos, que solo por su introducción, ya nos hace presagiar algo bueno. Música atmósferica, suaves acordes y unos platillos de batería muy cristalinos, que pasan al nivel 10 en cuestión de milésimas de segundo.  Tremendo el cambio y la contundencia, con ritmos pesados, extremos y psicodélicos. Una gozada.

La demo continúa con Firebreather, y con el estado anímico por los cielos, vuelven a poner sobre la mesa una magnífica dosis de metal duro y pesado. Muy a destacar la voz del cantante, es atronadora y le da un toque brutal al disco. Ritmos cortantes y salvajes, que hacen sumergirnos en una marea apocalíptica de sonidos del metal más duro de la actualidad.

El tercer tema, Maze. Es final de un gran trabajo, de una demo muy bien elaborada. Marcando unas pautas entre los ritmos más brutales y las melodías más soberbias y desconcertantes. Maze resume a la perfección por donde pueden en un futuro decantarse estos mallorquines. Demo de sobradísima calidad y tremenda sorpresa para el público más duro.

Muy recomendable.

Género: Doom/Sludge

País: España

Sello: Autoeditado

Año: 2008

Lista de canciones

1. Waves
2. Firebreather
3. Maze

Marasme – Demo -(2008)

Marasme myspace

I’m sitting here drinking a homemade honey latte with Sumatran coffee beans from World Cup Coffee. A place I hang a lot.

And I’m not feeling any doom. I’m feeling the buzz of busy.

But…the other day, I saw a lot of tragedy, potential tragedy, bad things happening.

And I saw a lot of fear.

And, it’s never easy to deal with tragedy, fear, ugly things looming on the horizon.

But, your intuition can be your friend here, if you can calm down and turn inward.

The question we’re going to ask is twofold: Am I going to experience this and what am I going to learn from it?

So, here’s a good example. Three years ago, my better half left his job and started a company to make biodiesel systems. The future looked very very very bright.

And 18 months later, the economy tanked, but not before we had invested about $80,000 in this endeavor. And, believe me, that wasn’t just money we had laying around. This was everything we had.

All of the available credit for the company’s customers dried up, and his business went with it.

We went from doing all right to really wondering how we were going to make our mortgage in the space of 3 months. Brian couldn’t find a job. I was getting us by on freelance work and being a pet psychic.

I thought we were going to lose our house.

I didn’t have the presence of mind to intuit much for myself.

My intuition said, “You’re going to be fine!”

I found it very hard to believe that voice. I turned to intuitive friends of mine. They, too, said, “Don’t worry. It’s going to work out.”

Then, Brian got a job. Things turned around. We have a new course.

I’m asking the question in hindsight, the question “What did I need to learn from that time of crisis?”

And the intuition is saying “We wanted you to experience the understanding that you are truly safe, even when you feel vulnerable.”

I’m not 100% what that means. Still Intuiting.

Try This:
If you have something looming on the horizon. If you are currently in crisis, go to a quiet place. Get quiet. Turn inward. Get that idea of doom that you’re worried about (am I going to lose my house? Is this cancer diagnosis the end of me? Am I going to be unemployed for much longer?). Put the idea squarely in your head.

Then ask, “Am I going to experience this?”
And if the answer is “Yes.” (And a real “yes” will sound loving, and not like a door slamming in your face), Ask- “What am I supposed to be learning from this?”

Listen closely. Because the answer will come. It will be positive.

It will not be anything about how wrongly you’re living your life or what a bad person you are.

And if the answer is “No.” , Believe it. Move on, with hope.

Much love to you, today.
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It’s coming! The very cool telegroup session we’re having on December 5th? We’re doing a Divine Download on Abundance. I hope you’ll join us!

And of course, over on the Pets are Talking site, I’m doing my epic $25 3-question special!

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Yo conocía, conozco y he escuchado el tremendo album que es I don´t care where i go when i die, recomendable para todo amante de la música más EXTREMA. Jodidamente buenos estos salvajes de Salt Lake City-Utah (Usa).

Nos presentan ahora, bueno, por este año. Su He never is coming back, que no es otra cosa, que la muestra de hasta donde se puede llevar el gusto por la música más extrema. Sinceramente, escuchar este disco supone un esfuerzo mental bastante grande , por su dureza y crudeza. Me explico, es un album demoledor, abrasivo, desgarrador, brutal, contundente y así, muchos adejtivos más. Por eso, debe de abstenerse gnete sensible y gente no tan sensible. Desde el primer minuto, podemos saborear la dulzura con la que estos cuatro musicos sacan lo mejor de si. Si cierras los ojos para escuchar este album, te aviso, es muy posible de que lleves algún susto y ya veréis el por qué.

Gaza son sencillamente geniales, acojonantes y ojalá, sigan sacandao muchos muchos muchos discos. Este es otro que hay que comprar obligatoriamente. Órdago para Gaza. Pobre de mis oídos y de vecinos, claro.

ALTAMENTE RECOMENDABLE

Género: Sludge/Hardcore extremo/Metalcore

País: USA

Sello: Black Market Activities

Año: 2009

Lista de canciones

1. How It Is. How It’s Going To Be.
2. The Kicking Legs
3. Bishop
4. The Biologist
5. Windowless House
6. He Is Never Coming Back
7. Canine Disposal Unit
8. The Anthropologist
9. The Meat Of A Leg Joint
10. The Astronomer
11. Tombless
12. The Historian
13. Carnivore

Gaza – He Is Never Coming Back – (2009)

Gaza myspace

On s’en rappelle tous avec émotions : quelle joie nous ressentions lorsque les revues spécialisées divulguaient les codes secrets des jeux vidéo. Ces combinaisons de touches invraisemblables permettaient de tricher en toute impunité et profiter des jeux en profondeur.

Sans réussir à le prouver, je pense que l’apparition des cheating codes faisaient partie de la stratégie des éditeurs de jeux. Ils participaient à la notoriété et au plaisir ressenti de certains opus, parfois trop difficiles ou quasi impossible à exploiter dans leur intégralité.

Mon ami Alex m’expliquait que seul 20% des joueurs avancent vraiment dans les jeux, les autres restent souvent bloqués au début (cela ne pose pas nécessairement problème, un jeu comme GTA se jouent autant au premier niveau que dans les niveaux avancés…). Un code permet simplement de débloquer une situation, continuer à jouer et éventuellement devenir fidèle à une sage (GTA, Fifa, Final Fantasy…)

Au passage, je serais curieux de tomber sur une étude démontrant l’impact des vies dans les jeux vidéo. Elles ont vraisemblablement contribué à angoisser les joueurs vis-à-vis de la mort > “si je peux mourir et ressusciter ad lib dans un monde virtuel, notre impossibilité à “gagner des vies” et à les dépenser dans la vraie vie dramatise profondément mon rapport à la faucheuse”. Mais c’est un autre débat…

La mythologie des codes a la dent dure. Certains développeurs et nerds continuent à les faire vivre à travers des petits secrets intégrés aux programmes, aux sites web ou aux jeux vidéo.

On trouve par exemple le Konami Code sur certains sites (essayez au moins celui-ci grâce à la page WP ci-avant qui donne une liste des sites dotés de cette fonction).

Il existe en outre des easter eggs sur certains sites. “L’oeuf de Pâques” s’inscrit dans la même lignée que la Konami Code (à quelques nuances près). Il débloque des bonus ou des fonctions cachées.

Exemple dans Doom :

Exemple dans Excel (oui oui!) :

Que nous apprennent les Konami Codes ou Easter Eggs? Que lorsque les gens/consommateurs/clients ont l’occasion de creuser un lien avec un produit ou un service via une petite manip réservée aux fans, l’interaction devient magique.

On devrait évidemment y penser plus souvent pour les marques, qui réussissent dans les meilleurs cas à dialoguer, parfois créer des expériences, rarement faire participer les gens.

L’agence Goodbye Silverstein and Partners y a pensé. Le dernier opus de la fabuleuse campagne américaine Got Milk? est totalement fou.

Visant à valoriser le lait auprès des jeunes, l’agence a eu la bonne idée d’intégrer un Konami Code à sa campagne : il offre un mini jeu rigolo. L’intérêt n’est pas dans le jeu en lui même mais dans la relation que le syndicat du lait US créé avec ses clients.

Offrir l’opportunité de découvrir quelque chose est formidable, presque mystique.

Quelle marque vous a fait découvrir quelque chose récemment?

Le sel dans les céréales ne compte pas…

C’è una parte da cui può essere preso ‘Unkindness Of Crows’ che può rendervelo particolarmente indigesto; è l’assuefazione di coloro i quali, ormai saturi, potrebbero liquidare senza reticenza un disco solo per sfiga di uscire in una situazione musicale estremamente frammentaria, che imperversa molte idee ma ciascuna promossa da molti epigoni. Peccato, perchè a patto di digiunare per qualche giorno in termini di titoli Southern Lord, astraendo il contesto da cui proviene e sottolineando le nobili origini di Gentry Densley – Iceburn Collective, Ascend -, un disco simile stuzzica la voglia di coccolarlo e farselo, azzardando addirittura una location in sede di classifiche natalizie. Molto verosimilmente, si tratta di una specie di crossover fra i Cathedral e i Neurosis, collimati per mezzo del drone di casa Greg Anderson e lo stralunato rifferama di Unearthly Trance, un’opzione stilistica ormai non troppo bizzarra ma che consente al duo di calibrare monoliti sludge, autentiche ondate di suono che circolano potenti, doomy ed inesorabili. Soltanto in certi anfratti, il tentativo concreto di staccare e darsi alla macchia dalla citazione mutata surclassa, e miete l’allarmismo di altri presunti sacerdoti di questo mondo sonoro, che mai e poi mai riuscirebbero a sfornare torte saporite senza farle levitare con i grossi nomi del genere. A questo punto, si fa dannatamente interessante disquisire su cosa, come e dove possa definirsi oggi musica doom, ormai sempre più sincretica e psichica, ma al contempo non troppo felice di mascherarsi da cagnolone rabbioso con il face-painting o, peggio, da freak in vena di esegesi cristiana.

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Cough son unos muchachos de Richmond-Virginia (USA), que tienen muchas ganas de destrozar tu mente, a base de ritmos sucios, hiper-pesados y crudos. Temas como Lyssavirus o el que abre el disco, Killing fields. Son una buena muestra de ello. Un potencial atronador en cada una de sus canciones que no bajan de los seis minutos y otras superan los diez. Una magnífica y genial mezcla del stoner más árido, con el doom más oscuro y el sludge más actual y directo. Psicodélico  y desgarrador. Un album muy recomendable.

Género: Stoner/Doom/Sludge

País: USA

Sello: Forcefield

Año: 2008

Lista de canciones

1 Killing Fields
2 Hole in the Infinite
3 288 Years of Sin
4 Northern Plague
5 Shallow Grave
6 Lyssavirus

Cough – Sigillum Luciferi – (2008)

Cough myspace

I just read a post by Tim Challies about late mergers, those drivers who zoom past all the patient and law-abiding folk who operate vehicles, only to jump in line at the very last second, much to everyone’s displeasure.  Well, it got me thinking, so here you go — an incredibly unimportant post that I found much pleasure in writing.  After all, my American friends, you deserve to be warned:

When I lived in the states I didn’t concern myself a great deal about mergers, early or late. I suppose I leaned a little towards the “if everyone merges earlier, we all get where we’re going earlier” camp. Though I didn’t expect all to agree, and wasn’t bothered much by late mergers.

When I lived in China, I saw several added complications as a result of the late merging crowd.  These were just a precursor…

I have seen the future —

and it’s not pretty.

These days I’m living and driving in Tanzania, and I have seen the future. I now realize what happens when the number of late mergers grows beyond that which traffic, roads, and mere mortal patience can manage. You would not believe how many vehicles we can fit across the width of a road. There are two and three lanes of late mergers — on two-lane roads. The late mergers have their own passing lanes for use during late merging!

There are traffic accidents that take the better part of a day to clear up, because there are six lanes of traffic on either side of the accident in a standoff. I mean it seriously looks as if two armies are lined up for battle, each refusing to lose ground or retreat. Yesterday I saw William Wallace himself, skirt and all, encouraging the revving of engines while bellowing, “hold… hold…”

Friends, I have seen the future — and it’s not pretty. When the number of late mergers grows in the U.S., when they mate and produce late merging offspring, when they start rallying for others to join their masses, forming facebook groups, and having their own theme days at Six Flags… On that day, you will all wish you had walked, crawled, or stayed home…

 OR been the very first late merger of the day — you know, the one that got away with it.

Dopethrone is the third full-length album by the doom metal band Electric Wizard. It was released in 2000 through Rise Above Records and re-released by the same label in 2004 and 2007 with an extra song.

Dopethrone, along with Come My Fanatics…, is often cited as Electric Wizard’s seminal release and the highpoint of their career. Reviewers have described it as “some of the absolute slowest, heaviest doom imaginable” , and have said “it may well be the finest record to emerge from the whole British stoner-rock scene”.

On this album, Electric Wizard’s very slow, heavy and psychedelic sound became more abrasive and aggressive. Jus Oborn’s vocals are heavily manipulated and low in the mix and the guitars are extremely fuzzy.

Tracks:

# “Vinum Sabbathi” – 3:05
# “Funeralopolis” – 8:43
# “Weird Tales” – 15:05

I. “Electric Frost”
II. “Golgotha”
III. “Altar of Melektaus”

# “Barbarian” – 6:29
# “I, The Witchfinder” – 11:04
# “The Hills Have Eyes” – 0:46
# “We Hate You” – 5:08
# “Dopethrone” – 20:48

Genre: Doom metal, Stoner metal, Sludge metal

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Issue #22 – Due on 2010/01/01

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