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It Sounds Awesome!

Портал Doommantia не так давно выпустил второй том своего одноименного благотворительного цифрового сборника, причем трэклист раздулся до 85 команд со всего мира, а время звучания перемахнуло за 9 часов. Вряд ли основная часть слушателей будет стойкой до такой степени, что прослушает компиляцию за один раз целиком (и это минус), но в качестве расширения кругозора и нахождения новых имен этот колосс очень познавателен. Из отечественной и околоотечественной сцены коллективов присутствует не так много: Украину представляют The Curse Of Wendigo, Nonsun и Stoned Jesus, а Россию Graveflower, Evoke Thy Lords и Electricjezus. Из приятных фишек - участие US-банды Second Grave, где нынче вовсю голосит и играет Krista Van Guilder, экс-вокалистка тяжеловесов Warhorse.

Фавориты:

16.Arrowhead - Edge Of The Earth

24.Darkentries - Myself To You

26.Bearfight - No Mind

27.Southern Badass - Born On The Bayou

29.Rowsdower - Monday Morning Space Invaders

32.Chimpgrinder - Sacred Ape

42.Lomera - Thrones

44.Nonsun - Rain Have Mercy

61.El Gran Temor - Jugando Con La Muerte

63.Dust Storm Warning - Outrun

65.Switchblade Jesus - The Wolves

68.Swamphog - Purple Mountain Emperor

69.Buioingola - Rigurgito

70.Alunah - White Hoarhound

75.Cultura Tres - Es Mi Sangre

76.The Devil Rides Out - Burn Again

77.Mother Mars - War Of The Gods

81.Second Grave - Mountains Of Madness
84.Heavy Temple - Unholy Communion 


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Doommantia Vol.2 - рецензия от The New Noise (Италия)

The New Noise

Per i devoti della musica pesante, densa e lenta, che puzza di muschio, muffa, incenso, insomma di cripta; per chi ama il metallo epico nell’incedere e nel canto (altro che power metal …); per chi preferisce suoni sporchi, distorti quando non dissonanti, e un canto sgraziato; per i fanatici delle schitarrate grezze e pastose, del fuzz, del groove blues o desertico, dell’hard rock suonato all’ombra dei saguari e con la compagnia di uno spinellazzo comunitario, della psichedelia moderna ma che sa orgogliosamente di “vecchio”… per voi, o seguaci del metallo mammuth, arriva la nuova raccolta, o compilation, della webzine Doommantia.

Si tratta della seconda compilation ufficiale, pensata – come la prima – a scopo di beneficenza (a sostegno del fondatore della webzine, che si è trovato ad aver a che fare con la sanità statunitense …). Se il Vol. 1 era ed è grosso e succulento, il secondo episodio è più che monumentale: è planetario! Di dimensioni e di fatto, visto che coinvolge 85 band da ogni parte del globo.

Gruppi da tutto il mondo (noti e non, “sotto contratto” e non), volontariamente, si sono fatti coinvolgere in questo Vol. 2 e alcuni di questi musicisti hanno proprio assemblato il tutto, curandone anche la parte grafica.

La carrellata inizia, nel modo più ovvio ed appropriato, con una spettacolare bastonata doom-drone psychedelico di oltre venti minuti dei Salem’s Pot, dalla Svezia. Ma che ci importa? Mica abbiamo fretta! Non è il proprio caso di fare la cronaca track-by-track, ma è invece opportuno almeno nominare in qualche maniera i gruppi coinvolti. Ovviamente i gruppi americani sono preponderanti. A loro ci arriverò. Prima però uno sguardo agli altri…

Visto che siamo un po’ campanilisti, diciamo con orgoglio che gli italiani sono degnamente rappresentati dal doom dei Black Capricorn, dallo sludge malato dei Blood Red Water, dalle atmosfere oscure dei Buioingola, dallo stoner tirato dei Dust Storm Warning e dal bollente jamming psichedelico dei King Bong. Un pezzo d’Italia c’è anche negli Electric Taurus, maestri di fuzzy doom da Dublino, Irlanda, così come sono irlandesi gli stoner metallers Castero. Dal Cile, terra di deserti e montagne, arrivano gli A Sad Bada, dediti a sludge/post-metal bello oscuro, e, giustamente, il gran stoner doom psichedelico di El Gran Temor. L’Argentina è rappresentata dagli stoner metallers Banda De La Muerte, mentre dal Venezuela arrivano una dose di gran sludge noise dai Cultura Tres. La Spagna contribuisce con il crusty sludge dei Dispain(connessi ai drone doomster Hipoxia) e Mothersloth, fuzz rockers distributori di riff senza pietà. Non ci sembrerà nemmeno che vengano dalla Francia i Doctor Doom con il loro “retrogressive rock’n’roll” di ed il solo project Southern Badass con il suo southern heavy metal infettivo. La Germania va giù dura con il carico di doom, seppur atmosferico, dei Derailed e lo sludge-doom viscoso dei Nightslug, questi ultimi connessi agli Union Of Sleep. La Svezia, oltre ai Salem’s Pot, manda i bravi Pike, dediti ad uno stoner doom un po’ sperimentale. La Finlandia è presente con una sola giovane heavy doom band, i Wolfshead, con gente nientemeno che dai Fall Of The Idols. Una sola band anche per l’Olanda, S.I.M.B., cioè Satan Is My Bitch, quartetto di hard stoner rock in realtà di origine bulgara. E allora andiamo ancora più ad Est, e sfioriamo appena la scena, notevole, dell’Ucraina con la desert-psichedelia dei bravi e giovani The Curse Of Wendigo, col dinamismo stoner degli Stoned Jesus e con il doom-sludge atmosferico e potente dei Nonsun. La Russia non può mancare, e non manca, con le varie sfumature di sludge degli Electricjezus e degli Evoke Thy Lords e con la maestosità gotica del doom-death metal dei Graveflower. Ancora più ad Est e scendendo si arriva agli antipodi. L’Australia compare con un carico di groove generosamente fornito dal “doom blues” dei The Devil Rides Out, dallo stoner degli Arrowhead, dallo stoner sludge dei Goat, dal fuzzy doom psichedelico dei grandi Mother Mars e dallo southern sludge appassionato dei Lomera, anche se poi ci pensano gli oscuri Golden Bats e Yanomamö - band giovane ma connessa a Ritual Of The Oak, Lomera e Fattura Della Morte – a riportare il buio con l’aiuto del loro sludge rabbioso. Dalla scena pazzesca e autenticamente “no-prisoner” della Nuova Zelanda arrivano solo i Mosquito Control, ma sono micidiali e forse i più marci di tutti in assoluto con il loro sludge estremo e malatissimo.

Siccome siamo in ambito Commonwealth, torniamo in Gran Bretagna con i balsamici hard rockettari Grifter e le varie nuances di doom, dall’affascinante drone psichedelico degli Undersmile al “post-stoner” dei Valfader, dal doom di velluto degli Alunah al groovy sludge-doom dei Greenhorn. E ancora: lo sludge lo-fi dei giovani scozzesi Atragon e quello ruvido ed oscuro degli ottimi Bastard Of The Skies, il doom eclettico dei Camel Of Doom e le sonorità altenative-sperimentali dei londinesi Jethou.

Attraversiamo l’Oceano Atlantico e in Canada campioniamo poco ma pesante. Il solo project Necronomicon si dedica a un heavy doom dinamico, mentre gli IRN si danno a uno sludge-doom cupo e i The Whorehouse Massacre a uno sludge che ricorda il legame di questa band con la scena di Cleveland, Ohio (Fistula, Ancient Sickness, Sollubi e soci).

Finalmente negli Stati Uniti: non so se ogni stella della bandiera sia rappresentata, ma credo che ci siano band che arrivano da tutti i punti cardinali sul territorio americano, anche se primeggiano alcune scene “chiave” come quelle dell’Oregon e del Maryland. Con i solo project A Death Cinematic, Desolation e Somber Catalyst si va in territori doom-drone / experimental-ambient, con gli Spiral in territori psych sperimentali. In un caso o nell’altro sonorità che servono come variante atmosferica alla carica del doom e dello sludge più grezzi.

A questo proposito ci sono un bel po’ di band da scoprire o da ritrovare: gli Alabama Church Fire, i Boneworm e i Lamprey da Portland-Oregon, gli Abacus, che condiscono lo sludge anche con un po’ di powerviolence, gli Hollow Leg (con un album appena uscito), i Beast In The Field, i Chimpgrinder, il “True American Pork Metal” degli Swamp Hög, i Whilt e i loro compari ruvidissimi In The Company Of Serpents.

Se vi piacciono anche le contaminazioni post-metal e sludge-doom variamente sperimentale, troverete pane per i vostri denti con i Darkentries, Catapult The Dead, Grey Host e Plague Mask, oppure con i Vulgaari (connessi a Bastard Saint, In-Graves, Place Of Skulls…) e il loro doom-death intensamente melodico. Soprattutto verrete annegati dalla marea del groove americano in tutte le salse: il “blackened southern sludgecore” dei Junior Bruce, lo “sludge prog” dei Sorus, l’heavy metal degli Spyderbone. E poi si va di Green Bastard, Clamfight (che hanno contribuito alla preparazione della compilation), Bearfight di Savannah-Georgia, Stone Magnum, anima incredibilmente groove di gente che milita in bands brutali come Kommandant e Black Funeral. Non finisce qui: ”l’heavy blues doom” dei Rowsdower e il “grungy bles doom” dei The Jackpine Snag, i Supervoid con il loro “kinda heavy stoner-ish rock”, la carica heavy doom e la bella voce femminile dei Second Grave, connessi ai Warhorse e Black Pyramid, voci femminile e doom psichedelico in Heavy Temple, psych jamming con i bravi The Heavy Co., i riff da Saint Vitus negli Snake Oil, il southern groove doom degli Switchblade Jesus e - per chiudere in bellezza la rassegna - gli Sleestak, che sono del Wisconsin ma è come se venissero dal Maryland, e, parlando di Maryland e doom come sanno fare da quelle parti, Land Of Doom e, per forza, i mitici Iron Man, che hanno un album in uscita.

La compilation Doommantia Vol. 2 è scaricabile da Bandcamp in qualunque formato. Siccome è per beneficenza, il download non è gratuito. Si pagano 10 dollari, o anche di più, se si ha voglia di aumentare l’offerta.

Una bazzecola per più di 9 ore di musica e un viaggio globale tramite la voce di più di 80 band…

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Doommantia Vol.2

Совсем недавно увидела свет вторая компиляция от Doommantia, которая на этот раз стала еще более внушительной - 85 команд (пишут, что их то 82, то 84, но их 85, можете проверить), выдающих Doom Metal, Stoner, Sludge, Drone и психоделические дела!

Наш трэк включен под номером 52. Общая продолжительность сборника более 9 часов, так что для прослушивания выбирайте день посвободнее.

Цель релиза - помощь Эду из Doommantia выбраться из кучи проблем, все подробности от издателей ниже:

 This compilation was put together to raise money to benefit Ed Barnard of Doommantia.com. After suffering with heart problems for years, Ed was hit with astronomical hospital bills which left him homeless. Due to the lack of decent healthcare in the US, Ed has now returned to his homeland of Australia to receive the care he deserves. To help him with living expenses, 84 bands and artists from all over the world have come together once again to ease the burden left upon Ed. Just $10 (with an option to pay more) gets you over 9 hours of some of the best doom, stoner, sludge, psychedelic, and drone jams out there. Lets make this an even bigger success than Vol 1!

Got your's yet? Support great music and a great cause, download this beast today. Volume 2 has done nothing sale-wise compared with Volume 1 so if anyone can help promote this monster compilation, it would be very appreciated.

Update: Thanks to everyone who downloaded this monster of all doom metal compilations. The first few days of sales were great but it has recently died off so Please buy and download or at least send a donation. This is a compilation you should own anyway so do it.....

It is here, 82 bands and all for just $10. As you can see, the selection of bands is truly amazing as it is one of the most EPIC doom metal compilations ever put together. Thanks to everyone involved, especially with all the uploading that a monster compilation like this demands.

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Интервью на DOOMMANTIA!

Escape to the Doomland - Interview with EVOKE THY LORDS ...

Evoke Thy Lords was born in amidst of Siberia as they gathered ten years ago under an old banner of Russian Doom/Death Metal. The band is known for their appearance in three Doom-Art.Ru Compilations. Moreover, you may listen to their release, Escape to the Dreamlands, or split EP Twofaced with Lefthander’s project Riders on the Bones. If Evoke Thy Lords had worked further in the field of Doom/Death Metal, this interview wouldn’t have happened. But their music has changed greatly. Now the band may be fairly proud of their nontrivial, smart and heavy Sludge Doom with some Death Doom Metal impact, but the main features are the renewed, progressive sound and the remaining flute. Unfortunately, only one new track is available on the Evoke Thy Lords band camp page yet you won’t waste your time if you listen to it! Is it the breakthrough? I guess, at least, it has good chances to win the audience. Alexey Kozlov (vocal, bass) is our guest today so I give him a word.

Hi Alex. What’s new in the life of the band and its musicians? How is it going?

Hi! We’ve just finished our new record Drunken Tales; it’s the main event in our band life, I think. As for musicians, everything is going its course; most of us have settled down and started a family.

Your band exists since 2002 but the first album Escape to the Dreamlands was released only in 2008. If I’m not mistaken, the CD has brought together all the band’s Death/Doom stuff recorded by that time. But you seem to be not very happy with this release. That stuff was too overstayed and irrelevant to you at that moment, wasn't it?

You got the point. Our debut recording process was too long. By the moment of Escape…’s release, we had completely finished the stuff for Twofaced and, I think, even for Cause Follows Effect. Finally, when the album was out, we completely turned away from the sound represented on the record; our key points and musical values had changed. At that moment, we started to realize what we wanted from our music.

How did the ‘enlightenment’ happen? Did the idea 'damn, everyone plays Death/Doom here' come to all band members simultaneously or anyone tried to stand against the changes?

It was not so radical. We simply came to the idea that we needed to keep moving. We didn’t intend to choose specific musical framework. Deep down, everybody thought that playing as we have been doing was not interesting for us at all.

For a long time Evoke Thy Lords was a part of the Russian Doom-scene, which in the world of music community, was considered as purely oriented to Doom/Death at that time. Indeed, at the beginning of 2000’s that genre just appeared in our country and very few bands played that kind of music. Why do you think it happened and how much the scene has changed since then?

It’s, basically, clear why it has happened: for the same reason as why only few people in our country understood what the traditional Doom Metal genre actually was. Anyway, I think the scene has changed a lot. On the one hand, a lot of Doom/Death bands are now out of sight, and on the other hand, there appeared some new bands playing Traditional Doom, Stoner and Sludge Doom. As for me, the current situation is much better than before.

Why do you think, with such strong and mass wish to play Death/Doom, there is no new My Dying Bride or Mourning Beloveth?

Maybe because there are no new Peaceville Records. I don’t hold these bands as some pillars or mastodons of the genre, and I have come across some very interesting bands in our country. Perhaps, the main challenge that those bands are facing is their further existence and progress after their first albums and the first few years of their work. But I find it difficult to provide a universal explanation.

Are those bands that you started with alive? As far as I know, very few of Doom-Art.Ru compilations participants are active, most of them have disappeared.

You know, we really are quite distant from this scene, so it's hard to comment. Yes, I’ve heard almost nothing about the bands from any of these compilations. And vice versa, if you ask this question to any of these bands about us, I think, the answer will be the same.

Your last official release called Twofaced came out three years ago; it was a split-album with the Voronezh Lefthander’s project Riders on the Bones. There, the band's sound had already changed. It had become more aggressive and, at the same time, it was clear that Evoke Thy Lords followed the early Amorphis, and it was expressed not only with the cover of Black Winter Day. What do you think about this stuff today?

I like it better than our first release. We had much less problems recording this EP as compared to our debut; the main reason why I can take it adequately. My point is: that the more you stick with the material, the worse you hear the music taking it to pieces.

This EP for us is a kind of farewell to the past. It includes all the unreleased stuff that had been composed before we changed our sound. In fact, by that time, we had already written some groovy themes and started playing in lower tune, which we eventually used for the recording Twofaced, the guitars there were lower than in the Escape .... This stuff is not close to us today, but I think we’ve done a good job.

What do you think of Lefthander work? He appears to be a rather interesting phenomenon of Russian underground stage. Although he regularly produces lots of inventive ideas, I’m not sure if his projects are popular.

I’m not well informed about his other projects and I can’t tell much about his popularity, as well. When we were looking for another project for our split album, Riders on the Bones seemed to be a good choice. In my opinion, Twofaced came out as a solid match both in music and visual appearance.

And how did you promote your band? Evoke Thy Lords is from Novosibirsk. How do you get to your audience? Do you use only the Internet or maybe mail?

Our main problem is that we release our records with a considerable delay. Therefore, it’s hard to talk about any promotion strategy. For example, how can we position our band as Sludge Doom band when, at the same time, we release the records in a completely different genre? I’m not sure if this situation is unique, but it’s not typical. As a result, the labels distribute our records in their own way. People digitize our records and upload them to the Internet, such a word-of-mouth marketing. Of course, we have made some obvious steps, for example, we have created the site and some other profiles on the Internet, but mostly, our audience finds us on their own . Moreover, we’re biased against spam and other methods of aggressive marketing. All in all, the things are the way they should be.

The latest records of Evoke Thy Lords (represented, for example, with the song on the last Doom-Art compilation) make a good impression with multiversity and substantiality. Now it's powerful groovy Sludge Doom with elements of Psychedelic and Progressive Rock. You managed to keep the flute which sounds particularly smooth in the systematic chaos of growl and guitars. How have you come to such a combination of genres?

Thank you for such a response. We have the flute in our music from the very beginning, and it has come through all our changes along with other instruments. We didn’t plan such a mixture of genres in advance; it was an evolution. When, after first two releases, we decided to step off the road and make something new, we were not sure what we would get as an outcome.

Ok, but why did you keep the flute? It’s a great finding, although, such an instrument seems to be hardly compatible with the Sludge music.

We were not aimed particularly at Sludge music. We composed the new pieces for all our instruments at once. That's why the flute didn't fall out of the sound.

Did your lyrics change simultaneously with genre?

Yes, of course. But the reason may be not the change of the genre itself, rather the personality development; the main idea evolves with each album. Actually, we have some recordings between Twofaced and Drunken Tales. We are still working on it, although the pieces have been composed and recorded earlier. There was the most radical change in our lyrics. If you look for the parallels in literature, they will be moving from Lovecraft ideas to Ray Bradbury and Philip Dick. Drunken Tales are mostly instrumental work. The role of the vocal has changed as well, as its standing in our music. Here we don’t express any literary ideas but mostly everyday life experience. Such a midlife crisis of the common man in meditative way.

The new material hasn’t been released yet. What are your plans? Are there any interesting labels? How soon are you going to release the album?

The plans are to publish it. There are some labels that are interested. Right now we are discussing some details. I can't definitely tell you the date, it depends on the label. I just hope that the release is not too far off.

Then, I wish you good luck to make all your plans come true. I hope when the new album comes out, it will be a timely one, both for you and for your audience. Take care!

Thank you for the questions and your interest in our band. Listen to our new stuff while our music hasn’t changed again.

Источник

Требуется помощь порталу Doommantia!

Репост приветствуется!

Главному редактору и основателю портала Doommantia Эду Барнарду очень нужна ваша помощь! Эд попал в серьезную жизненную переделку - перенес сердечный приступ и не смог справиться с оплатой счетов за лечение, в данный момент Эд остался даже без крыши над головой. В эту холодную пору он живёт в палатке у реки.

В свете событий последних лет (закрытие Stonerrock.com, Sludeswamp.blogspot.com, Stonerobixxx.blogspot.com) видно что ситуация с любимыми нами ресурсами обстоит не здорово. Но на этот раз помочь может каждый.

Есть конкретная достижимая цель, которая совершенно точно даст свои плоды. На данный момент Эду с женой нужна дополнительная 1000$ в месяц (в течении двух-трёх месяцев). На первый взгляд сумма выглядит не кислой, но с другой стороны это всего лишь по 25$ с 40ка человек. Это послание адресовано тем, кто действительно хочет помочь. Тем. кто готов на протяжении ближайших трёх месяцев помогать Эду, в форме 25$ в месяц, встать на ноги.

Можно пожертвовать покупкой пары дисков/одного винила/мерчем приезжей группы или входом на несколько концертов ради здоровья и благосостояния хорошего человека. Представьте себя на минутку в шкуре человека живущего андерграундом и музыкой, которую мы с вами любим. Человека живущего этой музыкой и бескорыстно работая для людей, которые так же любят эту музыку. И вот в один день вы оказываетесь на холодной улице в палатке у реки, с сердечным приступом за плечами, без средств к существованию. Просто закройте глаза и представьте себя в этой ситуации. Представили? Так вот для того чтобы выбраться из этой жопы нужно некоторое время и немного поддержки. Не будьте равнодушными, окажите пожалуйста эту поддержку.

Как это сделать? Для этого понадобиться кредитная карточка или счёт в банке. Платежи осуществляются через пейпел. Жмём на Donate в правом углу сайта www.doommantia.com, логинимся (или делаем аккаунт) и переводим деньги (идеальный вариант - 3 месяца по 25$, или если нет возможности - кто сколько может). Нужно указать, что это перевод идёт как Гифт иначе будет сниматься процент и вместо 25 баксов будет доходить 22,5, например.

 

Еще один из вариантов поддержки - купить свежесформированный сборник Doommantia Compilation (см. главную страницу ресурса). Стоит всего 7 баксов, звучит более 4 часов и на ней 39 трэков от таких славных ансамблей как Blackwolfgoat, At Devil Dirt, Low Gravity, Ichabod, Fister, Undersmile, Compel, Iron Man, Wizard's Beard, Oceans Rainbow, Beelzefuzz, Conan, Lazarus Complex, Spyderbone, Order Of The Owl, Dope Flood, War Injun, Heathen Bastard, Halmos, Kriz, Bongripper, Demonaut, In The Company Of Serpents, Switchblade Jesus, Pale Divine, When The Deadbolt Breaks, Bastards Of The Skies, Gorgantherron, Screaming Mad Dee and Alex Vanderzeeuw, Chowder, War Iron, Hollow Leg, Crawl, Desolation, Ketea, Sludgethrone, Vulture, Wolfpussy и The Departure.

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