Song of the Day-Seamount-"Nitro Jesus"

"Nitro Jesus" is taken from the band's fifth full-length release "V-Nitro Jesus". The band has been delivering some of the finest classic doom riffs since 2007. On this song they once again display their undeniable force that features ear-grabbing riffs, a vintage guitar tone and tight as hell rhythm section. Ride that symbol into hell's fiery oblivion. For more information, please check out the following links: Facebook | Bandcamp

EP Review - "Warm II" by Warm

There is nothing pretentious about Connecticut's Warm or this EP; this is how post metal should be played! Loud and fucking proud!! I've listened to a lot of post metal/rock and it's many deviations so far this year, some brilliant and some not so much, but Warm II is up there with the very best of them. I knew this with certainty by the end of my first hearing. It is stunning.

The EP opens with "Dissonance Frees" which explores the many levels that post metal can take with the transitions into each being seamless. There is anguish and conflict by the barrel load here but it is invigorating and had me feeling the tingles up my spine. This doesn't happen often with me so I warmed to Warm immediately.

"Verbuse" follows and lays on a heavy iron slab of Neurosis' proportions and with a lividly howled vocal and pace changes aplenty this track is high-octane post metal that in some sections boarders on the sludge side.

"Polar" starts off quite lightly in comparison to what was before and what is to come with an almost QOTSA-like riff and harmonious vocals striking a contrast to the plunge into huge sludgy riffs and loud howls with Warm blending these elements together perfectly. Midway there is a breakdown into intelligent guitar, bass and drum work while a blistering white hot lick takes the track to a triumphant fist raising metal conclusion.

Final track "In Margins" kicks off in a stoner metal vibe with mystical and wafting lyrics that drift airily over chunky drums and chugging stoner metal riffs. Huge sludge and monolithic drum bashing then enters which swells and morphs the track into a towering titan of metal which just gets heavier as the track progresses with an echoed heart slicing guitar lick that sees this track fade to silence and me asking "why isn't there more?"

I definitely want to hear more from Warm so I wait eagerly for a follow up LP which you can be sure will be getting a review here on Heavy Planet. Grab this EP now which is very kindly offered by the band as a free download from their Bandcamp.

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Nuclear Dog's Atomic Split: Skanska Mord, Abrahma, Lord Fowl

The year has flown right by, at least for me. It's been so much fun getting to know the best new music on the planet in an up close and personal manner this year. Of the many wonderful characteristics of stoner/doom/psych/retro rock there is one that just flabbergasts me, and that is how much new, original, MOUTHWATERING music is generated each year. Granted I've only been truly engaged for two years now, but I am staggered by how much new and incredible music I've found. There is so much that it's hard to showcase it all on Heavy Planet. Today I am showcasing three instead of the usual two. There have been a lot of 'best of' lists on Facebook the past several weeks and these 3 albums tend to make a majority of those lists, whether they be from fans, reviewers, or musicians. All three are from the ubiquitous and incomparable Small Stone Records label. Small Stone has cranked out more than their fair share of great, new music this year, and if rumors are any indication next year will at the very least match that output if not top it. Today we get to hear the incredible music of Örkellijunga, Sweden's Skånska Mord, the down home rock of New Haven, Connecticut's Lord Fowl, as well as the treasure chest of metal from Paris, France's Abrahma. Plug in, sit back, rock out, if you please.
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SKÅNSKA MORD - "PATHS TO CHARON"

Skånkska Mord are somewhat rare as a band because all members are from the same hometown, and while they didn't all start together as Skånkska Mord, they took full advantage of the demise of  former bands to form a new, tighter, more highly skilled and motivated band, one able to meld their seemingly disparate and individual sounds into something quite strong and exciting, something powerful and intoxicating, something that more rightly expresses the artistic qualities within each member of the new formation. They've now been together since 2006 and have generated nothing but music of the highest timbre and quality, culminating to this point with "Paths to Charon"

Skånska Mord are comprised of:
Patrik Berglin - Guitar
Petter Englund - Guitar, Backing Vocals
Patric Carlsson - Bass
Janne Bengtsson - Vocals, Harmonica
Thomas Jönsson - Drums, Percussion

They play a heavy, low tuned, and vibrant brand of psychedelic rock that slings the fuzz while wrapping a haunting and dark blanket of sound over magnificent, perfectly matched vocals from Englund and Bengtsson. The guitar work from Berglin and Englund is nimble and unforgiving as they inexorably carve their way through a thick, dense, nirvana of sound, all the while accompanied ably by Carlsson's monster bass and Jönsson's heavy caliber percussion.






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LORD FOWL - "MOON QUEEN"

Lord Fowl is:
Jon Conine - Bass
Don Freeman - Drums
Vechel Jaynes - Guitar, Vocals
Mike Pellegrino - Guitar, Vocals

Lord Fowl's music is an extension of some of the great, great rock of the 70s, with a slight southern tinge despite its creators hailing from the heart of yankee country. It's as if the decade had never ended, but instead endured through the ensuing three and half decennium, spawning a surfeit of incredible, delectable music.

Lord Fowl do not spare the riffs on this jam packed album. Guitars are salient, plentiful, and unburdened, spawning generous amounts of fuzz laced, down tuned distortion intertwined throughout with hot, searing solos and scorching riffwork. The vocals are perfectly matched to the music, bearing the slightest of raw edges, while percussion and basswork massivley encompasses all, expressing perfectly Lord Fowl's melodies of magic.




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ABRAHMA - "THROUGH THE DUSTY PATHS OF OUR LIVES"

This Parisian foursome have delivered a treasure trove of bright shining jewels, perfectly cut, formed to perfection, exquisite in composition and detail with "Through the Dusty Paths of Our Lives", an album of 15 catchy, heavy, clever, intelligent songs.

Band members include:

Sebastien Bismuth - Vocals, Guitars
Nicolas Heller - Guitars
Guillaume Colin - Bass
Benjamin Colin - Drums

with help on the album from Ed Mundell of Monster Magnet notoriety playing solos on "Big Black Cloud", as well as the cover artist for the album, Alex von Wieding, who also is the musical mastermind behind Larmon Clamor, contributing the song and vocals for "Oceans on Sand . . . ". How cool is that?

There is plenty of fuzz and low tuned music laid expertly over clever and often ingenious melodies generating a climate of fun and fury for riffs and solos, vocals and rhythm, chorus and refrain in this stoner rock fest of an album.






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