Some Pics from Black Anvil/Woe/Salome

Salome: Album & Interview

So a couple of friends have gushed about this band Salome from VA for a couple of months. Being the slow to react, finger-far-away-the-pulse-of-the-community, lazy bum I am I somehow never got around to checking their stuff out. Fortunately last night I saw them by accident and was blow the fuck away. While I was expecting some sort of heavy death metal kind of vibe (don't ask why, I have no idea) what I got was some soulcrushing, headimploding doom. Just getting set up all you see is a small mountain of very, very high powered amplifiers and a drum kit. Though it sounds big it was pretty sparse. The minute they hit the stage though shit hit the fan. If you ever want to see a neat magic trick, check out Salome as they turn a 5' tall white girl in to a 40' tall black demon from the lowest pits of hell. Fucked if I can figure out where she keeps those pipes. Of course the back drop to this is Aaron on the drums beating that shit like it owes him money and Rob wringing notes out of his axe like David Carradine with a belt.... too soon...

Oh yeah, they're nice guys too. Watch the interview, dl the album, enjoy yerselves.

Shooting the Shit(ter) with Salome. 6/7/09 @ Public Assembly from Jack Crank on Vimeo.

Some concert footage.

Salome Live @ Public Assembly June 7th, 2009 from Jack Crank on Vimeo.

Salome - Salome

Laws of Burial comandeer the Woe interview, 6/7/09

Last night Woe played some brutal, crushing, but interesting and solid black metal jams at Public Assembly. Like a bunch of other artists, they're doing a "Pay what you feel our album is worth" policy on their downloads now which I think is fucking great. If you want some classic-to-be black crushing madness check this page out and get everything on it. Pay a lot for it too.

Pay What You Think Woe Downloads

EDIT: FUCKING VIMEO IS DOWN RIGHT NOW. VID SHOULD BE UP AS SOON AS IT'S BACK.

Here's a supposed interview with the dudes from Woe actually turns into a rep sesh for Laws of Burial after the Black Anvil/Woe/Salome show at Public Assembly in Brooklyn. June 7th, 2009.

Laws of Burial/Woe Interview 6/7/2009 @ Public Assembly, Brooklyn from Jack Crank on Vimeo.

ONLY THE TRUEST!

Thanks Freddy!

Man, I love me a nice white portion...

Brought to you by the letter G

BWAHAHAHAHABWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA AHAHAHAHAHA AHAHAHABWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.



Brought to you by the letter G and John Prolly

The Neighbors - Ekkert Helvítis Pönk & The Fist Fokkers - Demos of the Night

Here's the two albums by the Fist Fokkers and The Neighbours I said I was gonna post today. I'll throw a little review in tomorrow. Long and short is that they're both pretty awesome, pretty trashy punk rock by some Icelandic dudes. Lots of fun. There were no track listings for the Fist Fokkers sorry dudes.

The Fist Fokker - Demos of the Night
The Neighbours - Ekkert Helvítis Pönk

Fist Fokkin' the Neighbors

This interview was conducted on possibly the most foul smelling block in the fucking universe. The bands are the Neighbours and the Fist Fokkers out of Iceland. Shit was the most fun night ever.

Fist Fokkin' with the Neighbors from Jack Crank on Vimeo.

Last Weeks Tracks of the Week

New Tracks up. Email if you want em.
* Sleep - Jerusalem
* Sleep - Antarctica Thawed

Sleep's Night 1 Setlist from ATP

Oh yeah, just remembered I had this. Here's the first night's setlist from Sleep at All Tomorrow's Parties

3 AWESOME SHOWS COMING UP!

TOMORROW @ 7PM SHARP, Haunted Castle and We Are All Savages are playing a burlesque show at Alphabet Lounge on Avenue C @ 7th Street. You can't miss it. Come early and say you're there for Haunted Castle (or Savages if that's your thing...)

New Tracks of the Week

Uh so here's the previous tracks of the month...
* Book of Black Earth - Occult Machinery
* Buzzov*en - Left Behind
* Candlemass - Bewitched
* Landmine Marathon - Thunder Blasted Bodies
* Infest - Skcrewed
* MK Ultra - Crucifixes And Chain Wallets (Christian Hardcore Is An Oxymoron)
* The Toy Dolls - Dig That Groove
* Noothgrush - Useless
* Discharge - State Violence, State Control
* Sleep - Sonic Titan

New Tracks of the week are up. You'll get it when you see it.

Sleep Renunion @ All Tomorrow's Parties

by: Juliet Elliot

by: Juliet Elliot

by: Juliet Elliot

I've been trying for a week now to put in to sane words the interview I had with Chris Hakius of AsbestosDeath, Sleep, and Om but I have failed miserably so far. Time to move on to the good shit. Sleep. In fact, to the best stuff. When it all boils down, all of the money, bullshit, time, planning, re-planning, having to sell shit, and stressing was worth it for the little over 3 hours I spent standing in front of this band as they reunited for an all too brief moment to make some of the most relentless, powerful sound I have ever experienced. I've seen a lot of goddamn shows in my days, but I'm having a hard time thinking of many that compete with Sleep.

Before I start on the show, I need to give you a little background on where this was being held. In the UK, this company called Butlins runs this completely surreal, totally fucking weird "holiday camps that are something along the lines of part disneyworld, part shopping mall, part Hogans Heroes style prisoner of war camp, part big brother is watching you, part poor chavs who hate themselves and their families, and all, 100% fucking creepy. It's in the middle of fucking nowhere, is huge, is basically totally cut off from the rest of the world, and is swimming with asshole security/staff people. Stressful.

That being said, we had this amazing caravan/trailer thingy and everyone was just hanging out the whole time in one big group, bands, kids there really was no divide. Everyone stayed in the same kinds of houses and hung out at the same bars/places and shit was generally a lot of fun. I went there by myself to meet up with my friends Juliet Elliot, Posy Dixon, Tiger Reid, and the many Steves (aka Steve Bliss, Steve Lovvers, and Jim and Alex Demora who were also called Steve for the weekend. Don't ask.) Dayo and Adam and about 1000 other people were around as well. Shit was epic, no lie.

Anyways, back to the show, after getting warmed up on Friday night with Electric Wizard (more on that soon) and the Jesus Lizard on Saturday, a bunch of us were going out of our minds with anticipation. Basically, Sleep was the reason I sold my Sunn Model T, 2 bikes, and ate salad for weeks at a time. Shit was my goal, my purpose, and my reason for flying half way around the world. Fuck am I glad I did.

The first thing to note is that my camera batter charger went totally missing during travel and my 2nd battery didn't actually charge so there really aren't that many good pictures taken by Juliet or me (well actually, I didn't get to take any... Fuckin' camera...) but you really can't understand what it was like watching set up happen. When the Jesus Lizard went off stage with their one half stack, drum kit, and bass amp we were expecting a couple of amps and some drums. What was built in front of us was something more akin to the fucking gates of Babylon if Babylon's gates were made out of Orange, Marshall, and Ampeg amps. Seriously, the wall of sound was probably 7' tall by about 15-20' wide. Like seriously there were something along the lines of 6-10 amps for 2 fucking people. Somewhat daunting to say the least. On top of that, the place was fucking expectedly packed. Like to the gills. People were there from all over. I met dudes from Finland, Colorado, Poland, California, and even saw some dudes from Japan I think. It was pretty berzerk. Aside from all the fanboy, starstruck anticipation bullshit of just being in the room, ATP had this great, kinda ridiculous dynamic of half the crowd being the Andrew W.K., !!!, indie dance kids while the other half were die hard Doom fanatics. As you might have guessed, Sleep dragged the freaks out of the woodwork and the doom crowd was out in force.

When Matt, Al, and Chris finally walked out on stage, strapped it all on, and hit that first chord shit went off. Playing through most of Holy Mountain with bits and pieces of Jerusalem, the whole crowd immediately hit the same vibe. It was really funny at the moment but I can honestly say that this is the first show I've ever been to in which more (and by more I mean almost everyone in the crowd) was singing along to the riffs instead of the lyrics. Looking around I saw literally hundreds of heshers banging their fucking skulls out screaming along to "DUN DUHN DAH NAH NUH NAH NAH NEH NAH NEH NAH NEH NUUUHN" as opposed to:

"Ride the dragon
toward the crimson eye
Flap the wings under Mars red sky
The reptile pushes itself out into space
Leaving behind, the human race"

In fact, I can honestly say that as someone who's listened to Holy Mountain about 1000 times I had no idea what the lyrics other than "Ride the Dragon on the Crimson Sky" were but you can bet your ass I have that opening riff permanently embedded in my brain.

The other thing I immediately noticed was how happy, calm, and fucking tight the band was. To my eyes and ears, Sleep had never stopped playing together. They were on point from start to finish, the songs felt natural, unstrained and most of all, you could feel that the boys were just happy to be up there doing what they do best. Even though Matt and Al have their own great projects going on for years, seeing them onstage with Chris, you could tell that this was a long overdue but unrushed kind of homecoming. A weird, freaky, far from home, fucked up one, but a homecoming nonetheless. And while Al and Matt definitely were amazing to watch and totally killed it, watching Chris was really a fucking highlight. He's always been one of my favorite drummers to listen to. Super consistent, always right on time but never forced, heavy as fuck but not overpowering. The perfect blend with Al's vox and bass and Matt's supreme riffage.

It was also a really cool experience to compare High on Fire Matt from Scion Rock Fest a couple of Months ago to Sleep Matt now. Even when he's not on the mic he's still a commanding presence on the stage. For fucks sake, the dude is a commanding presence everywhere he goes man. Matt Pike, for those not lucky enough to have met him yet, is one big motherfucker. Physically and personalitywise. Dude takes up the room. Al and Chris are a little more reserved, a little quieter, a little mellower, but you can hear Matt cracking jokes from across the fucking town man. That attitude definitely carried over into his playing. He sounded like a fucking vengeful god returning to Earth. It was a sight to behold.

Holding it all down though was the heart and soul of the band, Al Cisneros. According to Chris, Al was really the chief riffsmith of Sleep. Each member contributed their own stuff but it was really Al who would come to the table and lay out the jam. Off to stage right, he held that shit down like the keystone in the arch of doom. Driving shit when it needed more weight, dropping it out when it didn't and keeping it flowing with his signature if not somewhat matured vocals that definitely show the influence of a couple of years in OM. That's not to say he was a fucking monk chanting away in the dark, there's still mad growl there, but it actually feels like his sense of rhythm is even better now (if that's even possible).

Well... even if that's somewhat of an exaggeration, I can tell you one thing, the fuckers were all loud enough to make up for any flaws, that's for fucking sure. My then newly and now life long friends LeAnn & Larson from Florida & Louisiana respectively, who look like this:


had the fortunate/unfortunate experience of getting caught in just the right spot where the super super low frequencies from the instruments and the PA collided and it was actually so loud and so low LeAnn fucking threw up. Apparently according to one of the sound dudes, the band was hitting "illegal" notes, i.e. the notes that police broadcast at loud volumes into unruly crowds that have a depressing and nauseating effect on the victims. Fuck dude, if that ain't heavy, nothing is.

The highlight of the night was definitely when, for the encore they came back on an played a newly finished 15 year old song called Antarctica's Thaw which was written write around the time of Dopesmoker. Live, the song came in at somewhere around 10-15 minutes and definitely showed a lot of similarities to parts of Jerusalem and Sonic Titan. As a given it was slow and heavy as shit but it was cool to see a glimpse into the direction the band would have moved in had they stayed together. It definitely gives a good picture of where OM came from, though not High on Fire as much.

The second night was much of the same and just as amazing. Again they went with mostly repeats from Holy Mountain but mixed in some other pieces of Jerusalem again (although no Proceed the Weedian this time... bummer.) I could write a whole 'nother hyperbolic fragment of mindscreed about that night too but it'd really just be the same thing over again. That thing would be Sleep are, were, and will always be fucking rock gods. No doubt.

In the words of Lucas, "Sleep review: uh, they were fucking as fucking awesome you would think they would be. Times Two"

A Storm of Light, Krallice, and Wolves in the Throne Room @ Webster Hall. May 26th, 2009

Krallice @ Webster Hall with Wolves in the Throne Room. May 26th, 2009 from Jack Crank on Vimeo.

Wolves in the Throne Room @ Webster Hall from Jack Crank on Vimeo.

More Wolves in the Throne Room @ Webster Hall from Jack Crank on Vimeo.

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5 Minutes with Nick of Krallice

Interview with Nick of Krallice, May 26, 2009 @ Webster Hall from Jack Crank on Vimeo.

Harvey Milk @ ATP

Harvey Milk @ ATP 2009 from Jack Crank on Vimeo.

More ATP Electric Wizard

More Electric Wizard @ ATP, May 8th 2009 from Jack Crank on Vimeo.

Party Hard My Ass

This is what happens when you let the king of "partying hard" on stage in a massive venue with a fucking keyboard and white pants. THIS IS WHAT FUCKING HAPPENS PEOPLE.

Why I Left 15min Into the Andrew WK Set from Jack Crank on Vimeo.

Church of Misery @ Underworld

Church of Misery @ Underworld, London May 16th, 2009 from Jack Crank on Vimeo.

Some Video Teasers

The next couple of posts are some shitty quality video I took at ATP just to give you something to look at while I'm writing...

Electric Wizard - Funeralopolis @ ATP 2009 from Jack Crank on Vimeo.

Final Tally of Shit I Saw In The Last 2 Weeks...

Well, at least stuff worth mentioning.

At ATP:
- Sleep (twice)
- Electric Wizard
- Devo
- Killing Joke
- Jesus Lizard (twice)
- Grails
- Harvey Milk

Surprise show in London on Friday night
- Firebird (Bill Steer from Carcass/Napalm Death playing bar rock...)
- Church of Misery

The Hollow Shell Returns

After 10 days of ridiculousness I'm back in NY and trying to process it all. What an unreal week. I'm uploading all my shots and vids as I write this. Sadly, last week was basically 100% computerless and out of my head busy with real life and watching music. Anyways, read read read for the next few days for updates.

MADE IT! Electric Wizard and Devo tonight

So I made it to London, made it all the way across the country to minehead on the west coast, and checked in to All Tomorrow's Parties. The bus/train ride over here was a little like the L train all the way across the country but shit if it isn't nice out. More updates to come. Now to eat.

Mob47 Last.Fm Station Wins

Today I've listened to Mob47, Anti-Cimex, Martyrdod, Disclose, Ambeix, Shitlicker, Skitsystem, Disfear, Framtid, Kaaos, Tampere SS, and a shit ton of other awesome shit and haven't had to skip a single fucking song. Go put on the Mob 47 radio station on last.fm, shit is where it's at.

Starting Over Suck

Since my comp crashed I haven't had any music on call to post recently. Not ignoring the world, promise.

New Nadja Cut Fucking Rules

Just got this cut from Nadja's new album "When I See The Sun Always Shines On TV" which came out yesterday. Shit's pretty fucking awesome. Check it aus. It's kinda amusing that this is by far the most upbeat Nadja song I've ever heard and it's a fucking My Bloody Valentine cover...

Nadja - Only Shallow (My Bloody Valentine)

MY BIKE WAS STOLEN!

Hi everyone, last night between 3:40 and 4:05AM my bike was stolen out of my building (470 Flushing Ave) by a tall black guy with a Yankees hat, black clothes and white shoes (like that really helps...). We got the whole thing on security camera but no clear shots of his face. He came from the direction of woodhull/marcy projects/​bushwick and left headed that way. Spent a half hour inside and apparently knew what he was looking for.

The bike is a Surly steamroller spraypainted matte black (maroon underneath) with stickers for kylesa, Trackstar, Atakke, and Parasytic on it. The paint is flaking all over. It has part of a white pentagram on the headtube.

It's got black sugino 75 cranks with white odyssey pedals (clip on only the left pedal), a 42t sugino ring, orange machined 28 spoke deep-v's to silver low flange phil hubs, silver riser bars with black oury grips, a black generic threadless stem and a turbo saddle on a silver kalloy post. The lock will still possibly be attached to it considering he ripped the entire bannister out of the wall and walked out with it still attached. The hubs are unique in that the phil logos don't line up with the valve stem holes.

According to a friend who saw the guy at around 6 before hearing it had been stolen, he's in the bed-stuy area still and is riding the bike. If you're at Pratt or by Fulton please keep extra close watch.

Please spread the word and call me at 917.873.4220 if you see anything like a steamroller with orange wheels/phil low flange hubs.

PLEASE REPOST THIS!

Computer Died, Is Back Now

So my old comp's hard drive shat the bed last thursday and I haven't been able to upload shit (much to the dismay of many I'm sure...). Anyways, work lent me a new one and now I'm back up and running. Expect a flurry of posts this afternoon.

Zoroaster - The Voice of Saturn

Remember infinity weeks ago when I made that post about checking out Zoroaster in Greenpoint at Europa and said how stoked I was to see them in Atlanta? Well I'm still stoked on that show. Dan and the dudes were super cool to me and my friend Vic (an old friend of theirs from the ATL) and they hooked vic up with their new album as soon as it came out. They played a bunch of stuff off it in their two shows but shit is so soul crushingly loud and heavy you can't really tell which way is up when they're on stage. Anyways, Vic passed me this album last weekend and I'm just getting it up now. (pause).

Jumping in from the first track the only thing I could think was, "Mmmmm... Ambience..." followed almost immediately by "SWEET UNHOLY FUCK! IT'S THE UNRELEASED SLEEP SONG!" That emotion ended pretty fucking quickly as the song mellowed out in to a repetitive, piano riff. I still haven't decided if it bored the hell out of me or got a decent head nod, probably a little of both but it was definitely a kicker that early in the album. Fortunately, as soon as "Spirit Molecule" fired up it was straight back to the snarling THC drenched stoner doom of Sleep and fuck is it good if not overly original. The thing I love, and have always loved about Zoroaster is that they don't fuck around. They do doom. They do it well. When they don't fuck with what works it's good. Period. Occasionally though they stray from the more traditional path and results vary.

Take for example the song "White Dwarf" featuring Brent of Mastodon. If you manage to make it through all 5:24 of that ring modulator atmospheric JO sesh sober then huzzah on you. Fortunately, they dive right back into massive riffage shortly after and don't let up until the end of album. In fact, that's pretty much the only real low point for me besides the somewhat confusing piano.

On a whole, the album winds it's way through some highly agreeable stoner doom that is definitely a different, somewhat more produced (not in a bad way mind you) vibe than Dog Magic or the S/T but give it a listen and enjoy the definite "Sleep-y" vibe.

Zoroaster - Voice of Saturn

Book of Black Earth - Horoskopus

Just got word from Dav in Book of Black Earth that it's cool for me to post this album. Which is sweet 'cause this shit rules. Super hard. TJ and crew put this out last year and somehow it went kind of past my radar (maybe because I don't read metal blogs...). My boy John Prolly sent it over the other day and I've been jamming on it all weekend. Nothing old fashioned about this good old fashioned black/death/thrash band. Coming out of the Pacific NW, they definitely don't fit the post grunge doom or the crusty Todd Tragedy vibes going on. BoBE is definitely it's own beast. Emphasis on beast. They're also on tour now (missed the fuckers because they were busy showing me up by playing when Haunted Castle was playing. Fuckers. Anyways check the Book of Black Earth Myspace for dates.

Book of Black Earth - Horoskopus

In A Rut...

I don't know what's up but recently I've been some kind of musical rut. I'm just not interested in looking for new shit. Guess there's too much shit goin' on at the moment. Maybe I'll declare this the first official "Hey you! Send me some shit to post!" week of No Gods, No Vegetables. It's gotta stick with the theme of this site of course, but if it's good I'll post it up.

But really... why bother listening to anything else but Neurosis, Nausea, Bongzilla, and the Misfits?

Tracks of the Week

New Tracks of the week posted. As always, email me at jjdrury@gmail.com if you want any of these songs.

Last TOTW.

* Masshysteri - Johnny B. Goode
* Mutant Supremacy - Aria For A Blackened Earth
* Leftöver Crack - The Good, The Bad, And The Leftöver Crack
* After the Bombs - Centuries Of Genocide
* Limb From Limb - Dismemberment
* Cock Sparrer - Take 'Em All
* God's Iron Tooth - Bound With Electrical Tape
* We Are All Savages - Media Control
* What Happens Next - Stereotypical Male Fantasies
* Metallica - For Whom The Bell Tolls

Epic Fuckin' Weekend Maaaaaan.

A huge thanks to everyone who came out to see Haunted Castle/We Are All Savages/Nanda Devi on Thursday and Deep in Vein/Rats in the Walls/Mutant Supremacy/Landmine Marathon on Friday. Awesome times were had at both and it was good to see NYC folks actually enjoying themselves. Everyband crushed it. Landmine blew me a fucking way man, some dude got his head split wide the fuck open and they just kept shredding. Anyways, check out this photo set of Rats in the Walls and rock the metal punk. If anyone has any Haunted Castle shots from Thurs lemme know?

Rats in the Walls at the Charleston. 4/17/2009. Photos by Chris "Crash" Reed

Rats in the Walls by Mike Short

Fuck yeah! 15 minutes with the Accüsed!

Spent all afternoon listening to the Accüsed again and came across this madness. Fucking sweet dude! The Accüsed in their youthest of youth.

Turn it up, I can't hear, more chicks, more beer!

A Moment of Leisure with Nanda Devi

Remember that killer doom band from Portland whose myspace I posted a while back? Nanda Devi? Well, they showed up in NYC last night to play a killer show with Haunted Waffles Haunted Asshole Slanted Asshole Haunted Castle and We Are All Sausages Savages. They played a killer set despite some audio-abortions involving basically having no vocals... That what you get with three huge amps and 2 tiny PA speakers. Sorry fuckers. Anyways, before they on their way to Amish country I managed to grab them for some more inane questions. Again, as always, involving sea creatures and fisting.

Enjoy.


Haunted Waffles at Nanda Deli from Jack Crank on Vimeo.

Best Video of the Day

FUCK YES. This just about sums it up for me right now. Come to the Haunted Castle show tonight.

More Amusement At The Expense of Norway (Late Pass Warning)

So my friend Wendy just sent me this email exchange her friend Dave had with this total Black Metal dude from a band called Mysticum in 2005 about... Black Metal? If you've got some time to spare read this shit. It's like the evil grandfather of that 7 legged spider email thing. JUST BLACKER.


The Black Metal Dialogues

Go listen to A National Acrobat

Now. That's an order.

Found a new jumpoff

Dudes, this blog is the fucking jumpoff. FARCED - Sybil Disobedience's blog

I met Sybil at Clem's the other night because she was wearing an Amebix shirt. I too was wearing an Amebix shirt. It was like that moment in Beavis and Butthead Do America where Butthead is like, "I noticed you have braces. I have braces too." to Chelsea Clinton but then gets chucked out a window. Yeah, just like that.

Anyways, get yer upthepeacepunx fix. It's sweet.

PROOF THAT I AM NOT A FAILURE!

This weekend I promised myself that I would actually get my ass in gear and finish a shit ton of projects I started many moons ago. Specifically finishing the guitar cab and fixing the Sunn 200S I picked up a minute ago. WELL GUESS WHAT FUCKERS! I ACTUALLY FINISHED SOMETHING I STARTED! FUCK YEAH! With mad help from Dan Forst we replaced the bad tube socked, re-soldered some shit and bam the fucking Sunn is a champion. After that Dan and I finally figured out a decent way to tolex up the "picture frame" front to the cab I build with Thom Skuld over the winter. After a little more help from my roomate Luke and a shit ton of more glue fumes the motherfucker is up and running like a champ! Technically I still need to put like two tiny connections in so that I can daisy chain the thing and a few screws in the back of the picture frame, but as of right now it sounds like Satan's screams and I'm fucking stoked.

Somebody explain this shit to me.

Ok what the fuck is the deal with Kyuss? How come so many people hoover on their nuts yet they always come across as alright but nothing special? What the hell am i missing? Is it like a right place right time thing? I mean they wrote some decent riffs and all and had a pretty solid tone but it's really nothing special to me.

GAH! I DON'T GET IT! EXPLAIN!

Anti-Cimex - Raped Ass 7"

When your day's feeling like an RA, listen to RA! More strictly codified d-beat from the north. OH BOY SWEDEN! HOORAY!

God I love Anti-Cimex.

Anti-Cimex - Raped Ass 7"

Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

Because it's a fucking gorgeous day out and sunny and 60degrees and awesome and I'm stuck inside all goddamn day with a metric fuckton of work here's some epically doomed metal. In fact so epic and so doom that it invented the genre of epic doom metal. For fuck's sake, it's even called EPICUS DOOMICUS METALLICUS! Epic.

God I love Candlemass.

PS: Yes, I am on a Scandinavian kick. Again. Somebody gimme some goddamn Bombenalarm so I can start moving south.

Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus + 2 Extra Live Tracks

Masshysteri - Vår Del Av Stan

'Member that band of good lookin people with the witty comments I interviewed the other day? You know, the one's who were all about huffing propane and killing pikes? Yeah well here's their album. If you get a chance look for videos of their live show. It's a ton of fun. It's all in Swedish but I'm sure every song is about the triumph of the Snuggy.

Masshysteri - Vår Del Av Stan

Just Because You Can...

Doesn't mean you should.



Stay off the cocaine kids. For me.

Sleep - Holy Mountain & Dopesmoker

A few days ago I sold a bunch of my stuff and dropped a shit ton of money on some plane tickets to get to All Tomorrow's Parties to see Sleep play. Well... Sleep, Electric Wizard, Lords, Jesu, and the fucking Jesus Lizard amongst others. But really, the first order of business is Sleep. It's a good fucking day when the first order of business is Sleep.

So, while dicking around on the internet today I just found out that not only is Sleep playing 2 days. But their line up is supposed to be something like:

Day 1: All of Holy Mountain, front to back
Day 2: All of Jerusalem, front to back + a newly completed unreleased song from back in the day

FUCK ME MOTHERFUCKERS! DID YOU JUST READ THAT SHIT! ALL OF HOLY MOUNTAIN AND ALL OF JERUSALEM! THAT'S LIKE BEING CRUSHED TO FUCKING UNDER THE WORLD'S MOST MASSIVE FUCKING ANVIL FULL OF FUCKING DRUGS AND RIFFAGE! IT'S LIKE AN WEED ANVIL PINATA OF FUCKING DOOM HANGING 3 INCHES ABOVE YOUR HOLLOW SQUISHY DOMEPIECE READY TO ANNIHILATE YOU AT THE FIRST SWING OF THE BAT AXE!

In honor of the fact that I will soon be able to kick the bucket a happy man, here's all of Holy Mountain and all of Dopesmoker (the 2003 release with the live version of Sonic Titan). yessssssss........

This is the point that all other awesome 90's doom sprung from/around. The Magnum Dopus if you will. Hit this shit.

Sleep - Holy Mountain

Sleep - Dopesmoker

EDIT: DOPESMOKER IS BACK UP. RE-DOWNLOAD WITHOUT DRM NOW.

Tracks of the Week

New tracks are up, as always, if you want any of them shoot me an email and I'll send em over.

Last weeks tracks:
* Om - At Giza
* Cro-Mags - Hard Times
* Yob - The Mental Tyrant
* N.O.T.A - Cattle Call
* Nausea - Fallout
* Noothgrush - Jundland Wastes
* Buzzov*en - Useless
* Electric Wizard - Supercoven
* Anti-Cimex - Raped Ass
* Death (Punk) - You're a Prisoner

Massidioci with Masshysteri 4/6/2009

Just because foreigners don't look down on us quite enough, I gave Robert and Erik from Masshysteri a few more good reasons to be glad they were born in Sweden. Hylariti ensues... sorta.

PS: Thanks for the time dudes, have a good flight back.

Masshysteri's Myspace


Massidiocy with Masshysteri 4/6/2009 from Jack Crank on Vimeo.

5 Minutes of Pleasure with NJ's The Measure

Last night Brooklyn's brand new venue, Bruar Falls (where the old Lucky Cat used to be) played host to NJ's The Measure and Sweden's Masshysteri. Super fucking fun times. Everyone in the bands were cool enough to spare a couple of minutes to answer the most inane questions I could think of on the spot. Here's 5 minutes with the Measure. Who are a blast.

The measure's myspace: NGNV WARNING this may be too much "fun" for the doom crowd. The Measure's Myspace


The Measure 4/06/2009 from Jack Crank on Vimeo.

20 Moronic Questions with Junior from We Are All Savages + Their First Album

In response to my extreme laziness this week I've decided to end the week on a high note. Today Junior from the Brooklyn based We Are All Savages took the time out of his busy day as a librarian (no joke, he works that the NYC College of Technology library in Brooklyn somewhere. Go ask him if he has Twilight. He fucking loves that shit.) to shoot the shit with me (online... more specifically over instant message because I can't be fucked to transcribe taped interviews) about the band, life, nuclear war and the mysterious "Jersey Stranger."

Here's our very special version of 20 questions.

Jack Crank: Uh ok I'm going to ask you questions about WAAS

Junior “Boobs” Tidal: sure

JC: Answer as you see fit
Who are you?

JBT: I'm Junior. I run the guns in this outfit. I play the chainsaw and yell a whole lot.

JC: Do you always lie to make friends or just this time?

JBT: I never tell the truth, but that's also a lie.

JC: Good answer. So your band is called We Are All Savages. Why didn't you call it We Are Super Savage or something so you could spell your acronym right? You wass.

JBT: Well, we think that everyone is savage in one way or another. Plus we named it after this legend about these french fur traders who joined a group of native americans to be brutal and awesome. I guess being native american is more metal than being french? Also, WAAS just looks rad.

JC: I still think you're a wass. You know, like in that Manic Hispanic song where the dude comes out to his friend and he's like, "No dude, I'm in to the wass!" Yeah like that.

Anyways, about your look, your logo looks like the sped metal version of the Nausea logo. Is that your schtick? Are you like the sped metal bastard sons of Nausea? YOU THINK YOU'RE GOOD ENOUGH TO COP NAUSEA? IN THIS TOWN?!

JBT: Ha! Totally. Maybe we'll write a song about wass

JC: You definitely should

JBT: Even if we all had dreads, didn't take a shower for six months and have a lady singer, we still wouldn't be as good as Nausea. That band is fucking siiiiick.
Yeaaaaah dude, Nausea is fucking sick. So if you don't sound like the sped metal, showering, not as good version of Nausea what do you sound like?
Well, we take our influences from a wide range of places.

Riff, our drummer is from Seattle so he's got that Pacific NW metal sound. Like Melvins influence and stuff. Adam and Brendan are from the midwest and their type of hardcore is totally different from the coasts. I was raised on southern crust like His Hero and Buzzoven.

It's hard to say what we sound like. Maybe if someone threw up in a blender after too many shots of whiskey and beer we'd sound like the sounds the blender would make.

JC: Ha, truth. Especially with your guitar's ehh... "reliability" issues.

JBT: We fight our equipment every day. It can't handle the savagery.

JC: Wow... that's... savage. So do you actually write your own lyrics or do you just have one of those random spam generators pick headlines out of the news from the last couple of years?

JBT: We usually just use Mad Libs and a Portuguese dictionary. Right before the show, we try and memorize them and throw in some radical politics for good measure.

JC: Sounds about right. I mean seriously dude, who the fuck is writing about slavers anymore anyways? How long have you been a band?

JBT: We've been a band for almost two years. It takes a long time to figure out what kind of sound we wanted to go for.

We don't just write about slavers though.
We also also write about nuclear war and jersey strangers

JC: This is true, some times you write about zombies and media control. Jersey strangers, is that like the Boston strangler?

JBT: The jersey stranger is a special technique. I think you can look it up on urban dictionary.

JC: Remind me to do that after work. So nuclear war is pretty bogus, what else bums you out?

JBT: The current economy is a big let down. That's totally weak sauce. CEOs getting big bailouts and using them for bonuses is really lame.
We're also bummed out on weak mixed drinks and hang/bangovers

JC: How bout meat? That get you stoked? What's your best story about beef?

JBT: Ha! I'm not down with meat and I don't have any good stories about beef. I think I've forgotten what it tastes like...

JC: Why the hell am I talking to you again? Is everyone in your band a wuss? I mean veg?

JBT: Nope, Riff rocks the carcass, but he's the only one. I'm vegan cause I really hate plants. Harvest 'em all and fry 'em up! The other kids eat eggs and diary.

JC: Excellent. So what's next for WAAS? You jut put out this CD thing, vinyl? Touring? When will we see the We Are All Savages: INTENSITY IN 10 CITIES!?

JBT: Let's see, we're going to record soon with Brendan Tobin at Sterling Audio. We're trying to talk to some friends on the west coast about a split, but you know punk rockers. We have a tour scheduled for the 3rd week of June where we'll hit the east coast! Then there's going to be that awesome show with Haunted Castle and Nanda Devi before all of that on April 16th, so we're totally psyched.

JC: You say that like you don't already live on the east coast. Cheater. Fuck yeah, that show's where it's gonna be at. I hear you have some other bands that are better than WAAS, is that true? Do your band mates know about this?

JBT: Ha ha! Yeah, I think we get reminded about this at shows. I'm also the drummer for Rats in the Walls. I'm pretty sure the other WAAS dudes know this.
I'm not sure which is better. I'm usually tanked at both practices

JC: Yeah that's a good point, you were pretty wasted last night. Are the rumors of WAAS covering Ginuwine's Pony true?

JBT: They are in fact. We're also going to cover R. Kelly's I Believe I Can Fly and a Hall and Oates cover.

JC: Dude Hall and Oates? Step up your game sally. So we're at something like 17 questions and my snark is running thin. Why don't you ask me a question?

JBT: Okay this is a rather personal question, so I understand if you don't want to answer but Reign in Blood or Kill 'em All?

JC: Oh fuck dude
Shit

JBT: Yeah, right?

JC: The nuances of that question are just too deep. I guess the short answer would be how many beers in?

JBT: Let's say a sixer

JC: Dag, got me on that one. It's a coin toss. I'd say Kill 'Em All for the bedroom, Reign in Blood for the bathroom. How's that?

JBT: Whoa, I'd totally do the opposite, Reign in Blood all the way.

JC: You should probably consult a doctor. Aight last question. God?

JBT: Lemmy is god

JC: Truth told. Aight man thanks for playing "20 Retarded Questions" Any last words?

JBT: Check out our shows! You'll get free buttons and earaches

JC: Würd

So that about does it for that. Bummer you'll never get those 7 minutes back. Ha.
Sucker. Anyways, here's the album. Listen to it.

We Are All Savages - We Are All Savages