Headbuzz-Your Daily Dose of Heavy and Fuzzed Out Sonic Submissions From Heavy Planet

We hope you are as serious about your band as we are, because we are about to do something unprecedented. Our goal since our inception was to get the word out about bands from around the world that otherwise may have never gotten heard. We have helped many bands in our 8-plus years of existence get noticed by labels, sell more merchandise and gain a growing fan base. Our new band submission page will be changing format. We will feature every, yes I said every band that submits to us as long as the form is filled out completely and professionally. One thing to understand however, is that not every band submitted will be reviewed. Our review process will still remain the same. This new form will be available on April 1 (no this is not an April Fool's joke) Let's say you submit on April 1, your band will be featured on April 2, that is unless there are 5 or more submissions on any given day. We will only feature a limit of 5 bands per day. In that case the bands will roll over to get queued up to the next day. The initial post will be on our main page and will then be archived on a dedicated page called HEADBUZZ. We are sorry, but if you have recently submitted your band, you will have to re-submit using the new form to get featured. We hope you are excited about this and hope we can rattle the skulls of more music fans around the world.

~Reg

Song of the Day-Field-"The Hate"

"The Hate" is taken off of the band's 3-song EP of the same name. Doom-laden riffs, chest-collapsing heaviness and a drowsy lethargic pace, oh and did I mention riffs? For more information, please check out the following links: Facebook | Bandcamp

New Band To Burn One To: FUZZLY

HEAVY PLANET presents...FUZZLY!

   

 BAND BIO: 

"Banda de Rock'n'roll formada em agosto de 2001 na cidade de Cuiabá - MT Brasil"

Biografia em Inglês, amigo: 

 "Rock'n'roll band formed in August 2001 in the city of Cuiaba - MT Brazil"

Members: 

Dark Jordão - Guitar // Vocals 

Rafael Arruda - Drums 

Michael Ojeda - Bass 

THOUGHTS:

How about a quick drag? Today's New Band To Burn One To is a three minute blaze entitled Void from Cuiaba, Brazil based trio Fuzzly. If the name isn't enough of a hint, listeners can expect a head full of fuzz within seconds of that first breath of Void. The band have been creating some excellent stoner and desert rock for some twelve years now and the static emission from this single shows no signs of Fuzzly lettin' up. Interested in another hit? The band lay it on thick with a lot of distorted bass and percussion taking up a hefty share of the mix, burying the vocals in the Void. Check it out over at bandcamp, along with a plethora of other studio and live recordings.  Check 'em out now!

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Discover Your Next Favorite Band on Heavy Planet!

The staff at Heavy Planet is passionate about music and we dedicate much our free time to bring you more music than your 1 TB Hard Drive can handle. If this is your first time perusing the site, here is a bit of a road map. Start at the drop down box and check out Seth's Sunday Sludge. If you are a fan of the murkier side of music this is the place to go. Next, check out the "New Band To Burn One To" archives. Many of these bands were introduced right here on Heavy Planet and have gone on to achieve international success. The tour continues to Zac's Double Dose where you are treated to two very diverse bands each and every Wednesday.

To hear some great new music look at the bottom of the page where you will find the Heavy Planet Radio player. Click "play" to hear some of the finest up and coming new bands from around the world.

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Thank you for stopping by and checking out Heavy Planet. We hope you are able to discover some incredible bands while you visit!

If you are in a band and wish to in some way be included on Heavy Planet, you can submit your band to this location for consideration.

New Band To Burn One To-Of One

The "New Band To Burn One To" today is Of One.

Of One isn't technically a band but a solo project by a dude named Brian. Collectively known as Of One, Brian is a multi-instrumentalist that concocts some pretty inspiring all-instrumental psychedelic stoner rock jams. Of One takes you on a journey through the desert with some sweet flanged-out rocking tracks. You can listen to some of Of One's tracks on their, er shall I say his MySpace page.

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Want To Be The Next "New Band To Burn One To"?

Would you like for your band to be the next "New Band To Burn One To"? We here at Heavy Planet are looking for the best Stoner Rock, Doom, Sludge, Psychedelic... bands in the WORLD. For the most part (95%), most of the bands that are featured on "New Band To Burn To" have sent in their information to Heavy Planet for inclusion. The other part are bands that we have found while perusing the internet. Our main goal is to give your band that little extra exposure it needs so it can be heard by the masses. We have a great network of sites that get exposed to your band as well, so the extra traffic to your websites and social networks are endless. We are passionate about music here at Heavy Planet and have been promoting bands since the beginning of 2008, a few bands that have been featured as a "New Band To Burn One To" may be familiar to some of you, Atlas Moth, Black Pyramid, Venomin James, Threefold Law, Fen, Shroud Eater, and this is just to name a few, the list goes on. So if your band is struggling to get heard, why not submit your band to Heavy Planet today! We look forward to hearing your band!

\m/~Reg

How To Submit Your Band To Heavy Planet

So you have a band and need to have it heard by the masses, well Heavy Planet is here to help. Over the last 3-plus years nearly 200 bands have been featured as the "New Band To Burn One To" on Heavy Planet.

This is where you can submit your band for inclusion on Heavy Planet. I only have a few rules that I would like for you to follow:

1. Your band must fall into the Stoner Rock/Metal, Doom, Sludge, Heavy Psychedelic/Experimental categories. I will not accept Death Metal, Black Metal, Hardcore, Indie Rock, Nickleback clones, Singer/Songwriter, etc.

2. Please provide a bio of your band. No bio, no submission.

3. Please provide a link to your Website, MySpace, Facebook, Bandcamp, etc. page(s).

4. If you like, you can also provide links for album and song downloads to share with my readers.

Pretty simple so far, right? Think again.

By placing your band on Heavy Planet, your band gets free exposure to a much greater audience. In addition to Heavy Planet, your band will also be featured on StonerRock.com and The Soda Shop as well.

Any promotional materials such as CDs, stickers, T-shirts, etc. can be sent to this address:

Heavy Planet
524 Vernon Street
New Kensington, Pa. 15068
Attn: Reviews

After abiding by all the rules above, you can submit your band to heavyplanet2001@yahoo.com

*Please do not let your feelings get hurt if I do not respond back to you. The waiting list is pretty large so just be patient, I will get to your band as long as you follow the rules above. Just keep checking back for your band's posting.

*Please share the "New Band To Burn One To" link for your band with your fans.

Thanks!

\m/~Reg~

For serious inquiries: Ariel Publicity

Submitting Your Band To Heavy Planet

I just created a page dedicated to band submissions at this location. I get too many bands that are not within the Stoner Rock/Doom/Sludge genre. To put it mildly, right now I have over 50 submissions to go through and not enough time. So to eliminate some of the clutter I will ask that all band submissions follow a few simple rules for submission. Also, for those of you that haven't heard, I am trying to put together a CD for charity. As of right now, there have only been four bands that are interested in inclusion. More details on the compilation will follow at a later date. My wife is hard at work on the CD cover design. Once, I sort through all the bands, I will begin to post at least two per week as time permits. Summer is a busy time for me, so please just show some patience. I would like to thank everyone for their continued dedication to Heavy Planet and look forward to hearing some great new music. \m/

~Reg~

Classic Band To Burn One To-Pentagram

The "Classic Band To Burn One To" today is Pentagram.

"One of the most enduring and influential underground bands in heavy metal history, Pentagram's career was almost 15 years old by the time they finally managed to record their first album. Though invariably led by mysterious frontman Bobby Liebling, the band's volatile membership made it difficult to maintain any kind of momentum and kept them confined to metal's outer fringes. But interest in Pentagram's convoluted history continues to grow and their crucial contributions to the development of heavy metal seem at last to be receiving some of their late, lamented due.

Pentagram first came into existence in 1971 in Woodbridge, VA, when singer Bobby Liebling met guitarist/drummer Geof O'Keefe. In the coming months, the duo played with a variety of local musicians, including guitarist John Jennings, bassist Vincent McAllister, and drummer Steve Martin, but by early 1972, McAllister had switched to guitar, O'Keefe took over on drums, and Greg Mayne joined on bass guitar. This lineup of Liebling, McAllister, Mayne, and O'Keefe would remain intact for the next six years, and though they occasionally performed under different names, including Virgin Death, Stone Bunny, and Macabre (the last of which graced their first single, "Be Forewarned," in 1972), they always inevitably returned to Pentagram. Another element of stability was their musical direction, which never strayed too far from the distorted psychedelic hard rock of heavy metal pioneers like Blue Cheer and the Groundhogs. A set of independent 7" recordings, "Human Hurricane" and "When the Screams Come" (this last was never released) preceded their first live performance on December 15, 1973, by which time a visible Black Sabbath influence had begun to take hold. Second guitarist Randy Palmer joined their ranks mid-1974 and his addition coincided with Pentagram's most prolific period of the decade, including close calls with record deals from both Columbia and Casablanca Records. But by 1976, Palmer was out (briefly replaced by Marty Iverson) and all of the band's professional prospects had dried up, leaving Pentagram to grind to a halt at the end of the year.

After years of silence, Liebling was finally encouraged to resume his career in mid-1978, when he met a musical soul mate in local drummer Joey Hasselvander, but it wasn't until Halloween 1981 that Pentagram was truly brought back from the dead. By then, Hasselvander had joined a new group called Death Row, which featured a young, Black Sabbath-obsessed guitarist named Victor Griffin. When Liebling stopped by for a jam, creative sparks flew almost immediately and with the addition of bassist Martin Swaney, the group officially assumed the Pentagram name once again. More years of hard work playing in clubs and composing new material followed, but in 1985, Pentagram finally recorded a full-length, self-titled debut (minus Hasselvander, who was replaced at the last minute by drummer Stuart Rose). Later retitled Relentless, the record may have been dedicated to Blue Cheer, but its contents owed an almost singular stylistic debt to Black Sabbath and along with its even more accomplished 1987 successor Day of Reckoning, it helped set the stage for the looming doom metal movement. Not fast enough for Pentagram to capitalize, however, and following another lengthy hiatus, a new contract from Peaceville Records finally led to another comeback via 1994's Be Forewarned LP (featuring a reinstated Hasselvander). But the musical climate of the time was very unfriendly to heavy metal of any kind, and the doom scene had never managed to coalesce as expected, leading Pentagram to another, seemingly final breakup.

Then in 1998, a clandestine, unauthorized collection of early Pentagram demos and live bootlegs, entitled Human Hurricane, was unexpectedly released, prompting Liebling and Hasselvander to take action. Both 1999's Review Your Choices and 2001's Sub-Basement combined new compositions with updated versions of the band's ancient classics and featured Hasselvander playing every instrument. The controversy also sparked greater interest in Pentagram's music and its substantial impact on the heavy metal genre, culminating in the priceless (and this time fully authorized) collection of long-lost '70s recordings entitled First Daze Here (The Vintage Collection). Another compilation, Turn to Stone, arrived later in 2002, compiling material from their Peaceville albums that had gone out of print in the late 90's."( Ed Rivadavia, All Music Guide)

PENTAGRAM 2009: Gary, Russ, Bobby, Mark

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


Recommended listening:

"Relentless" 
"First Daze Here: The Vintage Collection"
"First Daze Here Too: The Vintage Collection"


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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: BROOKLYN HEAVY PSYCH BAND NAAM COMPLETES WORK ON DEBUT ALBUM

I don't usually post news stories but this a cool band that deserves your attention.

Brooklyn, NY heavy psych rock band NAAM has completed work on its debut album. The fast-rising buzz band will drop the self-titled Naam on October 20, 2009 via NYC’s Tee Pee Records.

The follow up to the group’s three-song mega-EP Kingdom, Naam was recorded on an abandoned dairy farm in New York's Catskill Mountains and delivers pitch-dark, utterly hypnotic songs that resurrect the concept of space-rock for a new era. NAAM’s raw, feedback-powered sound pools densely distorted riff-o-rama with throbbing bass lines and echoey, buzzy vocals that seem to hang in the open spaces in between. Calling for comparison to The Stooges, MC5, Can, Loop and Hawkwind, the music of NAAM conjures both post-apocalyptic dazzle and unsettling feeling via punishing, deeply penetrating repetition and twisted vapor trails of guitar. NAAM pounds giant riffs into submission resulting in downered sub-blues melancholia that sounds like the soundtrack to a missing hallucination scene from Easy Rider. NAAM’s high-voltage power and addictive sonance has found favor with both metalheads and psychedelic rock fans alike, all of whom have talked up the group’s thundering musical muscle.

The final track listing for Naam is as follows:

01.) Kingdom
02.) Stone Ton
03.) Skyling Slip
04.) Fever If Fire
05.) Tidal Barrens
06.) Icy Row
07.) Westered Wash
08.) Frosted Tread
09.) Windy Gates
10.) Black Ice

Prior to the release of the album, NAAM will hit the road with Nebula and The Entrance Band and will premiere new material from Naam over the course of its tour trail. A full listing of upcoming NAAM live dates follows this message.

NAAM features Ryan Lugar (guitars, vocals), John Bundy (bass, vocals) and Eli Pizzuto (drums, percussion).

Updated NAAM news and tour information will be made available via the band’s online domains: www.kingdomofnaam.com / www.myspace.com/naamdestroysfaces, and the Tee Pee Records website: www.teepeerecords.com

"very tasty" – DECIBEL

“You see, Black Sabbath might be considered the first heavy metal band, but what they really were was a psychedelic blues outfit. In short, NAAM carry on the legacy of Black Sabbath. The true legacy.” – EVIL SPONGE

"In the case of NAAM, their rather thick, quasi-boogie rock does recall late 60s /early 70s psychedelic rock along the lines of Blue Cheer, but they mess with the songs enough to wriggle out of that straightjacket…this is a ride worth taking" - IMPOSE

“Fantastic...I'd recommend them to fans of Dead Meadow, the Black Angels, Om, Black Mountain, and other rad psychedelic shit.” – CRUSTCAKE

" Brooklyn's NAAM are the latest addition to Tee Pee Records' ever-growing, ever-badass roster. The band can best be described as heavy psychedelic stoner rock (with a few surprises along the way)" – AOL MUSIC’s NOISECREEP

“Blown out psych rock...blissful sub-retro fuzz” – STONER ROCK.com

NAAM tour dates:

August 22 New York, NY Santos Party House (w/ Nebula and Entrance Band)
August 23 Philadelphia, PA Johnny Brenda’s (w/ Nebula and Entrance Band)
August 24 Baltimore, MD Ottobar (w/ Nebula and Entrance Band)
August 25 Washington DC Black Cat (w/ Nebula and Entrance Band)
August 26 Richmond, VA Nara Sushi (w/ MARS)
August 27 Wilmington, NC Soapbox (w/ Nebula and Entrance Band)
Sept 10 Brooklyn, NY The Charleston!? (* Secret-ass Southern Lord show!)
Oct 11 Brooklyn, NY Europa (w/ OM and 6 Organs of Admittance)

New Band To Burn One To-Koala

The "New Band To Burn One To" today is the Boston, MA based experimental band Koala. They just released their debut EP on March 1st. They've been playing together for about a year now and are preparing to record their first LP in April. The LP will have approximately 7-8 songs. You can check them out on their MySpace page and download the EP for free while you are there.



If you are into bands like Explosions In The Sky, Godspeed You Black Emperor, etc. then you will like this.

New Band To Burn One To-Tona

Today's "New Band To Burn One To" is Tona. The band is from Serbia and combines the best elements of punk, rock and metal to create an unforgettable blend of relentless sounds. The band just released their debut "1000" for SKC NS, a regional government sponsored label that aims to promote alternative culture in Serbia. Do yourself a favor today and give them a listen.



Review:

"This is an absolute beast. TONA arrive in style with their first proper album, the accomplished production shifting it up a gear from their previous recordings. It's quite clearly one of those that fits into the category of music that has to be played FUCKING LOUD to be properly appreciated. Just as Johann Cruyff pioneered the concept of total football, TONA are exponents of total rock. Every instrument attacks, with George's vocals used rhythmically to intensify the hit. From the outset there's a claustrophobic, machine-like quality to the music, making you feel you're locked in for the duration. The opener "Red Cylinder" is a choking, Motorhead-inspired anthem, and the frantic pace continues with the bluesy, ZZ Top-esque "Pieces". Some temporary relief comes in the first half of the slower, mournful sounding "Box", still my favourite tune, before that too gives way to fist-smashing, Bitch Magnet style riffs.

Even when it slows down, however, such as in "Go Slow", there's no letup in the monstrous heaviness of the impact, in fact the effect is even heightened by the knowledge that another crushing blow is about to be delivered. You can tense yourself in anticipation, but you can't escape from its relentlessly pounding, superhuman power. Elsewhere "Grafit" benefits from being sung in Serbian, possessing a greater ferocity than the previous English version, before the appropriately fluid dirge "Through Water" closes, perhaps mercifully devoid of the brute force of the rest of the album, reflecting the listener's own feelings of being utterly drained from the experience, a soothing and strangely uplifting bandage on the wound. Nonetheless, by that time you've been well and truly battered.

Yes, of course it's a macho thing (they're Serbian, for fuck's sake!), a slightly masochistic kick for those who love a bit of visceral aural punishment. And what kind of indie-pop wanker doesn't? Highly recommended."

Ashley Davies (Frothing Spleen)

Track Listing:

01. Red Cylinder
02. Pieces
03. Oreol
04. Box
05. Go Find Jay´s Circle
06. Go Slow
07. Bull May
08. Grafit
09. Down to Play
10. Breakout
11. Through Water

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New Band To Burn One To-Fifty Foot Woman

Citing influences such as Orange Goblin, Clutch, Earthless, Solace, Cathedral and more, Fifty Foot Woman from Poland takes hold of the almighty groove and never lets go. Do yourself a favor today and check out this damn fine band.

Self-released Demo (2008)



Track Listing:

01. The Beginning Of What's Not About To Happen / The Hitchhiker 05:46
02. The Black Hills 06:11
03. The Blessing Of Non-Existence 05:39

Total playing time 17:36

You can purchase their demo here.

For more info on the band, check out their MySpace page.

Album Of The Day-Earthlings-"Earthlings" (1998)

The Album Of The Day is "Earthlings?" by Earthlings.



Reviews:

"A unique blend of Psychedelic looseness, open grooves layered with vocals and effects...covered with electronic samples up the ying-yang." ~robwrong,
StonerRock.com

"Eleven incredibly beautiful cuts of power psychedelia. A truly unique band with an insanely original bend on modern rock music." ~Man's Ruin

"Earthlings?' self-titled debut features guest appearances from Dave Grohl, Victoria Williams, and Tricky cohort Martina, among others; it's an interesting combination of desert-scorched rock with progressive atmospherics and an obsession with science fiction." ~ Steve Huey, All Music Guide

Track Listing:

01. "Nothing" – 4:56
02. "Saving Up For My Spaceship / Illuminate" – 7:45
03. "Reaper (Don't Fear That Child)" – 5:21
04. "Cavalry" - 2:08
05. "Happiest Day of My Life" - 4:42
06. "Conversing Among Misfits" - 4:54
07. "Mars On Fire" - 3:24
08. "Stungun" - 3:00
09. "The Dread Lovelies" - 4:33
10. "Icy Halls Of Sobriety (I Dare Not Tread)" - 2:17
11. "Triumphant March Of The Buffoons" - 3:56

Listen

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Order "Earthlings" here

Introducing Stone Cold Boys

Stone Cold Boys — a young stoner/psychedelic/southern/whatever band — was born after the participants of another heavy team, Stoner Deffect, broke up. Mr. Tazz (bass), who was the stoner ideologist in SD, and Mr. Big D (drums) continued jamming occasionally though, hoping to find new musicians to create a band based on Kyuss` legacy. After short period of time they were joined by Mr. LBAE (vocals) and, in early October 2007, Mr. Vanish (guitar), and it was clear that they made a perfect match. As soon as the name appeared, the Boys started to work on various material. As all of them were, besides stoner bands, influenced by different music (from 60`s and 70`s classics like Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and old blues to Soundgarden, Mr. Bungle, early 90`s hardcore teams and other) the songs they were producing differed from each other a lot, but they all had the same roots. In December 2007 they were also joined by Maul, who became their manager soon. After a period of strange events like flood at one studio and power collapse at the other, Stone Cold Boys managed to record a short demo. The demo can be downloaded here (and the cover here).

Tracklist:

1. Not at Home
2. Twist
3. Easy Rider
4. London Bridge
5. Geokozmoz (studio jam)


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www.myspace.com/stonecoldboys

Album Of The Day-Sasquatch-"Sasquatch" (2004)

The Album Of The Day is "Sasquatch" by Sasquatch.



A prototypical Small Stone band if ever there was one, California by way of Philly and Detroit's Sasquatch combine crusty riffing, driving drums, and throaty, echoey vocals into retro-rock gumbo that would do labelmates Halfway to Gone more than proud. (It would probably make them think they were staring in the mirror!) Which is to say that Sasquatch are hardly reinventing the wheel with their eponymous debut, but that doesn't mean they can't work this familiar template to their own advantage. This they do, following a quickie intro spiel about ol' Bigfoot, with a winning twosome in "Chemical Lady" and "Roller," and then topping them both with the insta-groove of "Dragonfly." This is where Sasquatch really strike upon something special, and they immediately put it to more good use with the notably hooky "Believe It." As if he knows that now they're really in business, vocalist/guitarist Keith Gibbs starts breaking free of easy comparisons with his more pronouncedly soulful performance on the Southern rock-tinged "Cracks in the Pavement," and the inspired extended soloing across the hypnotic swing of "Knuckle Down." The ensuing "Money Man" replicates the same formula, drags on a little longer still, but hardly disappoints for it, and is quickly chased by a stinging shot of highway-driving anthemy cleverly named "Boss Hog." Additional bits of cryptic, spoken word intros precede the final two tracks: the somewhat forgettable hillbilly rock of "Cyrus," and the alternately doom-slow and stoner rockin' "Yetti;" the last making for a strong, if not explosive parting shot for an album whose best moments are definitely sandwiched in the center, but tasty enough to satisfy through to the last crumb. (Ed Rivadavia, All Music Guide)

Track Listing:

01. Intro 0:22
02. Chemical Lady 3:37
03. Roller 3:22
04. Dragonfly 2:56
05. Believe It 2:53
06. Cracks In The Pavement 2:30
07. Knuckle Down 5:34
08. Money Man 6:04
09. Boss Hog 2:56
10. Soundbite 0:09
11. Cyrus 4:11
12. Soundbite 0:10
13. Yetti 4:31

Stream

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