Heavy Planet Podcast Episode #09: Girls Wanna Rock

This month the Heavy Planet Podcast treats your ears to some of the finest female-fronted bands the world has to offer. The bands represented here run the gammut from Occult Doom Rock to Horrific Sludge Metal. This is just a sampling of the many bands out there that deserve your attention. Missing from the podcast are progressive sludge stalwarts Kylesa (female vocals on some songs), enigmatic doom metal merchants Bloody Panda, doom duo Dark Castle, and I'm sure there are many others. But I know one thing is for damn sure, these ladies just want to rock!

Tune in this Sunday on Grip of Delusion Radio from 4:00 PM EST to 6:00 PM EST to hear what all the commotion is about.

Acid King-Teen Dusthead
Witch Mountain-End Game
Alunah-Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
Windhand-Black Candles
Black Math Horseman-Origin of Savagery
Undersmile-Crab People
Black Moth-Blackbirds Fall
Thorr's Hammer-Dommedagsnatt
Blood Ceremony-Children of the Future
The Devil's Blood-Christ or Cocaine
SubRosa-Strega
Castle-Blacklands
Stake-Off the Witch-Deep Inside of Me
Spacegoat-Silver Swamp
Hijos De Mayo-Silence Unsaid
Siena Root-Nightstalker
Ides of Gemini-Starless Midnight
Royal Thunder-Mouth of Fire
Jess and the Ancient Ones-White Witch of Rose Hall
Rituals of the Oak-On the Sixth Moon
Misdemeanor-Mastery
Salome-Black Tides
Jex Thoth-Warrior Woman

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BLOODY PANDA Signs With PROFOUND LORE RECORDS

Brooklyn, New York avant-doom juggernaut BLOODY PANDA will see its new full-length masterpiece released this summer via Profound Lore Records.

Following the band's impressive debut full-length, "Pheromone", BLOODY PANDA is putting the finishing touches on 60-plus minutes of cerebral, epic, and haunting hymnals; a no-training-wheels cinematic plunge into the unending nightmare that began four years ago with the band's debut release (a split with fellow east coast experimentalists KAYO DOT). Once again featuring the ghostly, death-defying wails of siren Yoshiko Ohara, the new opus is a monstrous cry from the depths. Almost like if film directors Takashi Miike and Michaelangelo Antonioni had a bastard horror-film child and raised him in Indonesia or Estonia, BLOODY PANDA's forthcoming release would likely be the soundscape.

Bloody Panda Sees Vinyl Release

At long last, Level Plane Records proudly presents the vinyl version of Pheromone, the debut album by New York funeral doom cult Bloody Panda.

Originally released on CD in April 2007 by Level Plane Records, Pheromone won massive critical acclaim, earning Bloody Panda attention from fans of metal, experimental music, and indie rock, alike. CMJ New Music Report hailed Pheromone as "trance-inducing songs that could double as funeral hymns"; Time Out New York called it "majestically brutal" and Decibel Magazine hailed it as "Khanate-caliber doom metal."


The vinyl version of Pheromone comes packaged in a gatefold LP and was pressed in a run of 500 pieces, including a limited edition pressing of 150 copies on opaque green vinyl for the true collector.