VOLUME ~ Joy Of Navigation (a trip through the eternal unknown) 2024

Originally formed in 1993 by ex-Fu Manchu singer Patrick Brink, the band on this recording features Monster Magnet guitarist Ed Mundell, drummer Mike Amster (Nebula) and production/keyboards by Dave Catching, so you could say that VOLUME is something of a Stoner Rock supergroup

'Joy of Navigation' is the band's latest album and contains five songs of immersive psychedelic stoner. The opening track 'Mercury Pull' is a real slow burner. When it first started I thought I was listening to something by Hawkwind but the celestial petals soon unfold into a Samsara Blues Experiment like stimulant, lazily dissolving into the cosmic ether before the emotion of the song dramatically changes into a ripping, heavy rocking roller coaster.

'Mercury Pull' turns out to be the calm before an extremely fierce storm of  strutting, barrel chested riffs with fuzz  more or less stripped away exposing a diamond hard metallic core. This enables the album to breathe and reveals the most interesting aspect of an already thoroughly absorbing record. If you listen closely, the soloing hardly ever stops. It's either in the background like incessant chatter or posturing wildly above the mayhem, often mutated by special effects pedals.

'Joy Of Navigation (a trip through the eternal unknown)' definitely hits the perfect spot, evolving from the album 'Requesting Permission To Land' which was a musical child of its time (also an essential buy) into a modern, dynamic, sonic force. 

ANOINTING THE SICK ~ Play For Blood

 There's a frenzy of bloodletting on this * non curated playlist* hosted today on Halo of the Goat Radio.

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Blood is shed and blood spatter analysis is conducted by ~

Avenger of Blood

Blood and Brutality

Blood Ceremony

Blood Diamond

Blood Freak

Blood Lightning

Blood Mist                (Now Haze Mage )

BLOOD OATH (UK)

Blood Royal

BLOOD SPELL

BLOOD TSUNAMI

Bloodbath

BloodBeast Band

Bloodclot

Bloodgutter

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ANOINTING THE SICK# 227 ~ Laid Out On The Slab

You can tickle your tinnitus to the deathgrind opener by Descent all the way to the random pick from Chimpgrinder. This week the filth pit has spewed forth songs by Pugnale and Napalm Raid and the showpiece track is by Forming The Void. There are several bands here whose albums you can pay what you want on Bandcamp.

~ Embrace The Sickness With ~

Descent

Wizards of Hazards

Azaab

Brygmus

Pugnale

Cosmic Android

PUCK

HORNSS

Forming the Void

DEAD BY DAWN

Space Satan

Cambrian Explosion

No Hope

Abanamat

Napalm Raid

Chimpgrinder

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ANOINTING THE SICK #226 ~ Methamphetamine Dream

Embrace The Sickness with another Anointing The Sick Show hosted by  Halo of the Goat Radio. Opening with the black metal sci fi sound of Imperialist and closing with a slab of Swedish post sludge from Gloson.The showpiece track is a 17 minute funeral death/doom dirge from Bereft (WI) while the Doom Charts is represented by EMBR and Warcoe This weeks delve into the Filth Pit has hawked up a track from Skinless

Cower In Fear from

Imperialist

Strigampire

Infernal Execrator

Bloodshot BAND

EMBR                            December 2023 Doom Charts

Bereft (WI)

Warcoe                           Doom Charts top 100 albums (2023) 

Imperial Slave

Crossfire

Distartica

Gula

Hellfrost

White Tundra

Violescent

Skinless

Gloson

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ATOMICHAND ~ Live At La Parroquia (2024)

For me to get excited about a split record it has to be pretty exceptional. Lo and behold! Here's one genre bending amalgamation of the heavy stoner psych of Iglesia Atomica and deathly, thrashing grindsters Out Of Hand, that fits the bill perfectly. 

Iglesia Atomica opens the album and I've never heard them rock harder than this. A constant chatter of barbed jams squeal and shriek from the speakers, mutated from the incessant use of the wah pedal and groaning under the weight of stoner riffs, the heaviest I've heard from the band yet. 

Out Of Hand surprisingly features two members of Iglesia Atomica but any other similarities stop there. This section of the album spits deathgrind of the most poisonous kind. Angry, spiteful, with a penchant for exploring the HM-2 sound. A rollercoaster deathride, Out Of Hand live is a raging assault one minute before churning out merciless breakdowns the next.

So, a split featuring two completely different styles of music where Iglesia Atomica fries your brain in acid while Out Of Hand tramples all over the smoking remains.

ANOINTING THE SICK #225 ~ Beyond The Pain Threshold

 

Can you take the pain dished out by The latest Anointing The Sick Show 'Beyond The Pain Threshold' hosted by  Halo of the Goat Radio on 03/9/2024. The show opens with a dose of heavy psych from Nomestomper and closes with the random pick of post sludgsters Battle of Mice. Inbetween, the doom charts is featured as well as one or two albums you can buy for NYP on Bandcamp. I'm really excited to be featuring a new split between Iglesia Atomica and Out Of Hand One side is an awesome stoner jam band, the other an equally killer thrashing death metal band featuring members of Iglesia Atomica. As well as this split, I have tracks from the excellent new albums from Bleed This Earth and SANGRIA

Embrace The Sickness Of ~

Nomestomper

Helms Deep

Josiah

Hyperia

THE BAND REPENT

Wrath of Logarius

ATHIRIA

Nebula Drag

Unverkalt

Iglesia Atomica

Out Of Hand

Grey Giant

Vaara

Demon & Eleven Children

Bleed This Earth

SANGRIA

Battle of Mice

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BLEED THIS EARTH ~ The Shapes That Stood in Silence (2024)

Straddling the the various emotions of despair between My Dying Bride and Mournful Congregation, we have a new album by New Zealand's Bleed This Earth called 'The Shapes That Stood in Silence' It's a tragic tale of Parental devotion and ultimate sacrifice that is captured magnificently in four lengthy inconsolably grieving tracks that sweat fear, dismay and a love that has been cruelly snatched away. There is perfect balance between melodic guitar crying out in anguish against an oppressive backdrop of hulking funeralistic doom outraged at the injustice of it all.

I very rarely mention album covers on the Podcast or in reviews but I'm particularly drawn to this one because it cleverly embodies the essence of the album, the spirits of the doting Parents distraught at the realisation that they must forsake their daughter in order to cure the child of the night terrors brought about by their ghastly silhouettes.