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A bag load of albums of a vaguely heavy nature, heavy rock, stoner rock, punky metal and, heaviness, , hey ma take a look at your boys, up on the stage with their latest toys… Here we are, in no particular order, five heavier things that have passed our way in recent weeks. all thrown together in the hope of some cross-pollination and a whatever the hell it is we do here….
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1: Wet Cactus – A slice of goodness from the new album Magma Tres, a slice of goodness indeed, find the album via Bandcamp, do it quick before Bandcamp goes the way of everything else. The album itself is a wholesome set driven stoner/desert/whatever you want to call it/hard rock tunes. Excellent rhythm section, bass driven froward movement, excellent bass lines actually, if Stone rock is your thing then this , the third LP by the desert rockers Wet Cactus is the real deal. I guess you’d say an alternative rock band with heavy psychedelic hints, they formed in Cantabria (Spain) during the summer of 2013, this new album is rather good, they’ve got an extra dimension or two in there with a more tha nhealthy amount of colour
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2: Lucid Sins are a rather fine band from Glasgow witha rather tasty Blue Oyster Cult thing going on, for those of you who’s path they haven’t crossed yet, here they are. This is mostly just about throwing up the links and the signposts t othe things we think worth your time.. The new album feels a little more folky than earlier material we’ve heard, not so heavy. there’s a witchy vibe to it all, a Pagan undercurrent but is it something darker? Find it Bandcamp
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3: Shan – These happy souls, this happy duo are from soemwhetre rather bleak and you’re kind of feeeling it is all for nothing, I could be doing a million things this Sunny Autumn morning, and here I am with this, but there is soemthing there, a grinding churning creative itch being scratched, !
“Shan are a two piece noise punk/sludge band out of Newcastle upon Tyne consisting of Jake Salmon on guitar and vocals and Sam Armstrong on drums. Shan is a North East England / Scotland slang term for bad, disappointing, unfair or generally shite. This ties with the lyrical content, which consist of frustrations with employment, self and prescribed medication and the current state of the UK ‘Knotweed’ is their debut. Raw, unadulterated, punk…” Find it via Cruel Nation Records and their Bandcam p page
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4: C.L.S.M – All three members of celebrated post-hardcore band Coliseum – Ryan Patterson, Kayhan Vaziri and Carter Wilson — have come together again under the moniker C.L.S.M. and recently announced the release of a brand new album titled Infinity Shit. While this is all three members of Coliseum, it’s not technically a new Coliseum album so we’re told. Ten slices of “blistering hardcore with unhinged vocals that deal with the chaotic insanity of everyday life in a world overrun with greed, self-infatuation, instant gratification, and ever-deepening class divisions, Infinity Shit is the perfect punk record for this moment and a hammer that shatters the facade of our daily reality”
“An LP borne from enduring friendship, a desire to continue to create music together, and a seething rage that is best expressed through ferocious hardcore punk, Infinity Shit is led by Hammer Through The Windshield, a song that presents itself as the album’s mission statement and a clear bridge to Coliseum’s catalogue. Inspired by singer, guitarist and primary songwriter Ryan Patterson’s daily moments of rage and daydreams of class warfare, as well as the racist fear-mongering and geographical division that takes place in Louisville, KY, Hammer Through The Windshield finds Patterson imagining themselves smashing luxury cars with a sledgehammer”
“One of the quintessential underground bands of the early millennium, Coliseum was founded in 2003 by singer, guitarist, and primary songwriter Ryan Patterson. After releasing their debut album in 2004, Coliseum blazed an unrelenting trail of scorched earth across the globe, playing just shy of 1000 shows and releasing five full-length albums. Coliseum went on indefinite hiatus in late 2015 not long after releasing their fifth album, Anxiety’s Kiss.
In the years since the hiatus, the three members of Coliseum — Patterson, bassist Kayhan Vaziri, and drummer Carter Wilson — focused on their separate current bands. Patterson went on to form post-punk group Fotocrime, Vaziri continued with grind metal act Yautja, and Wilson fronts slowcore band Null. The trio remained close friends and their desire to make music together again led to secretly working on a new album. While Coliseum’s later albums were post-punk and noise rock-influenced post-hardcore, the new batch of songs Patterson began writing were raw hardcore punk that harkened back to Coliseum’s early D-beat days but with even faster tempos and more raging riffs. In bursts of creative energy, they wrote and recorded these songs at Patterson’s House of Foto studio and at Wilson’s home studio…”
“Carter, Kayhan and I are regularly in contact, often talking about new movies and music we like and keeping up to date on each other’s lives and bands,” Patterson says. “While Coliseum ended activity in 2015, for us the connection and friendship we had is still very much alive and we continued to desire to make music together. A jolt of inspiration hit me in 2021 and I started writing demos of fast and intense D-beat and skank beat hardcore songs then sent them to Carter and Kayhan. We were all excited about the music and the idea of working together so we made this album, purely based on the immediate creative spark and our long-term friendship and collaboration.”
As such, Infinity Shit was never intended to be a Coliseum album because it didn’t feel like the next stylistic step after Anxiety’s Kiss, but it was the three of them and undeniably part of the same DNA. Mysterious and a bit confusing, C.L.S.M. succeeds in reflecting the new project’s intent: just as the music is faster and leaner, so is the name.
Find the full album on Bandcamp
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5: The Company Corvette – Little Blue Guy (Strange Mono) – Where we were yet again, certainly not in some kind of Corvette, we did have a company ambulance back in the days of the Organ transport coordinator until the Police smashed it up, proper filth mind, not Sting and his mob, as far as I know Sting and his gang have no idea about the existence of Organ or a 1950[s ex army ambulance, the filth on the other have taken an unhealthy interest now and again, I tell you all this while I wait for this bunch of Stoners from Philly get going. The Company Corvettte are a three piece – hang on, stop the review, 9pm, Sunday night, time for the Other Rock Show – we’ll be back in an hour.
The fourth full length record “from Philly’s stoned three piece The Company Corvette. Alexei Korolev and Ross Pritchett have been at it as The Company Corvette for over 15 years. After 3 albums they welcomed in drummer Zach Price, who proved to be a perfect fit. Their new record Little Blue Guy was recorded across the river in NJ, once again with Matt Weber at The Gradwell House. The addition of Zach to the line up, and sticking to what they dig most, their “vision”, if you will, however blurry it may have been, set this album up as their best work to date. As with the last album, the cover features artwork by legendary Drew Elliott (Midnight, Amorphis, Blood Feast, Necrophagia, etc) almost makes it look better than it sounds – and it sounds pretty awesome!”.
We give you that paragraph from the press release by way of background or bluff or three points from what should have been a difficult away fixture. I take it that Philadelphia is not far from New Jersey then? Don’t ask me about these mixed up American press releases, must be like going over to Peckham from Hackney? Does anyone need actual album reviews any more? Can’t we just say here’s another good ‘n and here’s some music, make your own damn mind up. Surely it is more about curating than reviewing these says and what can you say about yet another righteous stoner rock band dishing out more great big fat Sabbath flavoured riffs? They do do it well, a whole bag of big big riffs, stoner flavoured doom, dark psychedelia, heavy sludge, they sound committed, they sound rather good…
“Formed in 2005 The Company Corvette has shared the stage with countless legendary acts–Weedeater, Pentagram, The Obsessed, The Mentors,and Truckfighters to name a few– blasting fans with their heavy stoner rock. This new album showcases the band’s pursuit of their singular vision. Covering the spectrum from misery laden doom, sludgy weirdness, heavy metal, dumb’n’fun rock’n’roll. This is stoner rock gone metal-and-back. There’s riffs, there’s hooks, there’s shreds and roars and psychedelic freakouts and they mean every bit of it” – It isn’t stupid, you’re not stupid, they’ve got brain cells but who’s buying? They’ve got a smile or two in there, they can move when they need to, have they just gone a bit early Motorhead on us in a slightly punky kind of Melvins way? Hey look, more stoner rock, more more more, that are the band for the way that you feel.
Doom as flip, “slow and heavy as we can stand it, with a slab of minimalist psychedelia in the middle – a vacuum of sorts to suck out your brain and then slowly regurgitate it back in. Lyrics stem from that time we ate mushrooms in my(Alexei) old tiny apartment and Ross saw something, or someone.”
As the album progresses tracks like “Out Of Control” and “Brain Cells…But Who’s Buying” ramp up the sludgy rock sound akin to early Melvins with solos. “Drag” stands out with its fast pace, driving riffs, and snarling vocals. “Loosely played thrash metal with a super fun to play guitar solo and lyrics about getting dosed.”
The album rounds out with the stoned out “Ted Tedder” and “Lit The Wrong End” basking in psychedelic freakouts and deep sludgy grooves. “What’s your secret to releasing your best work nearly 20 years into existence?”, the band often gets asked. “Why, it’s no secret”, they say. “Everyone knows the trick – you set the bar low and keep ambitions lower. Make up a super awesome logo, play shows with your friends and cool bands, and release albums whenever you got em!”. Okay so we let the press release tell you most of it, but hey, we’ve written about millions of stoner rock bands over the nearly 37 years of Organ, there’s only so many times we ca ngo on about big fat Sabbath riffs and the rest of it. The Company Corvette do it well, they deliver it with a punk rock edge, they’re serious enough to not take themselves too seriously, they are in fact, seriously good.
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