Black Pyramid

Forming after the break up of, well Artimus Pyledriver and Palace in Thunderdome, these mass. locals pack a powerful punch on this sludge filled self titled. Post on stonerrock with the lead singer, he's a sweet dude. Show em love. Get this asap. In my top 10 for 2009 for sure.

Myhey

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Acid Bath

Showcasing Rax Digg's powerful vocs, and all around best (and first if memory serves right) band, Acid Bath was a sludge band formed in Louisiana in 1991. Their first album When The Kite Strings Pop is a fine demonstration of the sheer intensity of Acid Bath's sludgeness. Riggs has perfected the singing/scream aspect of heavy music, and one can't help but reflect on the fact that Riggs could enter any genre with his very flexible vocals. Anyway, best album by far is the kite strings pop, but their next album, Pagan Terrorism Tactics has the same sound as Kite, except with a more watered down feel. Breaking up in 97, Riggs went on to from numerous other bands, none reaching the intensity or heaviness of Acid Bath. I will also give you guys their early demos, released in 2005. Classics my friend, sheer classics.
BTW: Check out their sweet album art work as well. Both albums take artwork made by serial killers. Wicked stuff.

Wikifuck

KIte

Pagan

Early Demos

Graveyard

Hey mann, don't look sad bro. It's 1972, all is well man, shit did you see that dragon just fly by? Heck man. I must be flippin'. Hey man you hear that new graveyard album man? So friggin' groovy. Imagine if the doors met sabbath and then decided to have a wizard fight.

Psychadelic 70's influeced rock at it's downright core, Graveyard's 2008 self titled release is a magnificently crafted piece of work in the same vein as Pentagram, earlier Witchcraft and numerous others. The difference between these Swedes and all the rest is the thin layer of nastolgia that's crafted for each song. This album seriously could have came out in 1972, and I wouldn't know known the wiser. One of my personal favs of 2008, get it while the acid still hasn't kicked...shit. Too late.
Check em out:
Mynickelbag

Graveyard

Trippy Wicked

Sludge pirate music can only be used to describe these guy's first album, Lowering the Tone. One of my favorite bands, these guy's just released another album titled Movin' On. Combining heavy riffage with a distinct-nasaly vocalist, these guy's secure their spots in one of my personal favs.
Give em a listen. And pillage.
not to mention their full band name just invokes a badass vibe:
Trippy Wicked and the Cosmic Children of the Knight

Mygay


Movin On

Lowering the tone

Javelina

I couldn't get this whole fuckin' album out of my head all day today. Now I'm forced to share it with you. Possibly one of the best performances of the year, Philidelphia's Javelina go all out on their full length, Beasts Among Sheep. And that is truly what this album is. A fuckin' monstrousity of heavy music each song is crafted to revolve around the sheer brilliance of the vocals. Absolutely stunning, a raw piece of heavy sludge-doom metal is portrayed, and this my friends and faggos, is how music is meant to sound.

Mygoodness


FUCK!

Church of Misery

Starting this off, I want it to these riff rippin' bastards are one of the many great sludge bands that come from Japan that in the next few posts hope to be showcasing. This first band has been kicking around since 97, and with their most recent release remind us just why Japan delivers some of the most excellent sludge my hears of ever heard. Releasing a pretty healthy amount Eps,LPs, singles and other numerous releases I can't offer you their full discography, but I do have their most recent ( and in my opinion best) album (Houses of the Unholy), along with Masters of Brutality (2001),The Second Coming (2004), and their Early Works Compilation. The best thing about Church of Misery is that they do in fact, like many bands fail to do, is get exceptionally better over time. The vocals of their early work for example sound good but completely different then on Houses of the Unholy. Keeping true to stoner rock bands at heart, Church of Misery may not be groundbreaking for there genre, but when they're on fire prepare to be faced with a personal conundrum. Cus its about to hit the fan.
BTW: cute lil tidbit. These dude name the majority, if not almost all of their songs after serial killers. Most of the artwork is pretty insane too.

MySucka

WHY Early Works:Part One
do Early Works: Part Two
you Masters of Brutality
not The Second Coming
just
become
a
zombie Houses of the Unholy

Earthride Disc

With the ability to move the bowels of small infants withe the power of this mighy bass, I'd watch where you blast these next few albums friendos. Saw their bassist live with a side band of his (Nitroseed, pretty rad. Check em Here). Needless to saw this dude can slap the bass. Think sleep but with a faster groove, and more grindier vocals. Formed in the aftermath of vocalist Dave Sherman and Wino collaberation Spirit Caravan Earthride have released two albums. Taming of the Demons (2002) is the more slower, denser of the two and is an easy sit through. Once cannot help but think how awsome it would be to have the ability to just jam so effortessly. Following, Vampire Circus (2005) seems to speed things up a bit, and focus's more on stonery vibes. Nice portrayal of vocals here, and again an all around good effort, but Taming the Demons brought the fuckin' sludge.
Both are great.
In Fact Imma feelin' generous.

But first, check this rockin' sons a snitches at the space below, and show some love by buying stuff.
Myfuckstick

You (Vampire Circus)
Get (Taming the Demons)



Nitro.....seed.
Called Molt. Good instrumental album. Did a bit of vocals live, sounded pretty good. Instrumentals were so loud...still wickedness.
Uberness?


Heaviness?

YArP.

Snail

(BTW: This is the T-shirt design, the album design's below this. And in between that?

One of my albums of the year for sure. A fantastic display of fuzzed up stoner rock filled with trippy selections of...dare I say it? 90's rock? But none the less this is an immediate pick up for anyone who would like....anything. Picking up a load of influence over the years(although dissolved until recently), Blood focus's itself on the determination of the listener, although this whole album lays itself out fantastically, the standouts (Cleanliness,Relief) seem a bit more similiar. But in all honestly I've most likely to this album more times then you spoke to your close family today.

If you live near seattle wa., and enjoy some of the finest stoner rock in the business.

Mygas

Headies?

Lichens

A one man solo project by Robert Low, Lichens is more like a pyschic excorcism with yourself, if you were a monk. Low provides sparatic hums in odd arrangements of pitches against a heavy wall of tone...heavy but translucent. It seems Low has a specific outline for his sparatic jumble of noise, but all the while holding the beauty and softness of the actual music. To my knowledge he is still on a tour with Om, and I hear their live show isn't to be fucked with. His only major release, The Psychic Nature of Being, basically explains itself.

Check out the show mang!

Yougay!

nah man....

FO SHO

Egypt

Only releasing a demo, this now dissolved funky stonerrifferic North Dakota should have garnered much more publicity then they did. Mixing sleep influenced bass distortion and well slewn together guitar riffs, Egypt perfectly captured the simple beauty of stonerrock. Only ranging in on 4 songs, this demo is argueably my favorite demo or LP of al time. Imagine if kyuss and sleep fought each other in space, and then had a brawl in a pub with Black Sabbath, while dousing each other in LSD, then you can imagine the sheer perfection of this album. Download immediatly. You won't regret it.

CHeck out the lead singers new project: El Supremo
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Weedeater Disc

Catching these guys a few weeks ago with the likes of the mighty Melvins and the not so mighty Down, Weedeater is made up of the sludge king himself Dixie Dave and two other nukkas. Poking around for over a decade, this power house of noise was created after the brake up of Dixie's first band, the infamous Buzz*ven. If any of you are familiar with Bongzilla (Dixie's OTHER band) then you need to pick up Weedeater immediatly. Think Bongzilla with alot more heaviness and ALOT better vocals. Dixie takes over for vocal duties, and puts on a fantastic live show. If you have the chance to see these dudes live do NOT pass of the opportunity. Dixie went the whole 9 yards, swaying, swirling his eyes back in his eyes; basically it was pretty fuckin' wild.

As for the albums themselves, at first listen my immediate favorite was the single littered Good Luck and God Speed. Containing their most popular song (Evan's Sake), Good luck has some jewels on it for sure, but the all around summation of their catelouge would be the 2001 and Justice for Y'all. Not a bad song on the album, and really shows the best combinations of momentous sludge and horse vocals. Sixteen tons is sub par at best, but overall this band is one barnburner of a good time. Top notch sludge at it's finest.

Mynigga

Fuck (Justice for Ya'all)

off (God Luck and Good Speed)

Nazi's(16 Tons)