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  1. And law is just a myth
    To herd us over the cliff

    #themcrookedvultures

  2. Fundador y líder de Queens of the Stone Age, fundador, también, de Eagles of the Death Metal, parte del súper grupos Them Crooked Vultures y ex guitarrista de Kyuss. Hoy, 17 de mayo, cumple 52 años Josh Homme. ¡Feliz #CumpleañosRockero para él! 🥳🤘🏻🎸🎂

    #JoshHomme #QueensOfTheStoneAge #EaglesOfTheDeathMetal #ThemCrookedVultures #Kyuss

  3. Kazea – I. Ancestral Review

    By Iceberg

    Kazea hail from Sweden, home of the Björiff and the chainsaw song of the HM2. But on their debut album, I. Ancestral, the Gothenburg trio promise to blend “the power of post-rock, the haunting melodies of neo-folk, and the crushing weight of sludge.” If the mere mention of sludge hasn’t sent you screaming from the room, good, because you’re in for a treat today. I dealt with posty sludge from labelmates Besra in my n00b days, but throwing neo-folk into the mix puts an unusual spin on the situation. While both styles revel in their simplicity of content, the open soundscapes of folk could provide much-needed contrast against sludge’s distorted chugging. Or it could devolve into a mishmash of styles that don’t share any common language. Whatever the musical case, there’s no denying the gorgeous poetry of Frederico Garcia Lorca in opener “With A Knife:” “Green, how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches. The ship out on the sea. The horse on the mountain.” Color me intrigued.

    Kazea choose to separate and highlight, rather than amalgamate, their stylistic influences, a gamble that pays off more often than not. Dusky acoustic guitars reminiscent of Gustavo Santaolalla or A Romance With Violence-era Wayfarer lead the folk-inspired sections, evoking untamed, pagan wilderness (“With A Knife,” “A Strange Burial”). The sludge, which forms the backbone of Kazea’s sound, is more Melvins than Mastodon, and a lot of American Scrap-era Huntsmen, with fuzzy guitars and stomping drum patterns (“Whispering Hand,” “Wailing Blood”). Jonas Mattsson’s vocals may be a bit controversial here, with their Billy Corgan-esque nasal quality, but the more I listened to I. Ancestral the more Mattsson’s performance stuck with me. I hear shades of Layne Staley in his scrawling delivery, and while I wasn’t always able to discern the lyrics, his dynamic croon forms the beating heart of the album’s post-metal tunes (“Trenches,” “Seamlessly Woven”).

    For a band handing in their debut record, Kazea slither and wind their way around 37 minutes with the hallmarks of seasoned songwriters. An air of storytelling pervades the album, with memorable spoken word fragments (“A Little Knife,” “A Strange Burial”) and ambient soundscapes (“The North Passage,” “Seamlessly Woven”) delivering post-metal’s cinematics within a sludge framework. Post-metal swells and crashes à la This Will Destroy You and Isis are found on “Trenches” and “Seamlessly Woven,” and while these are unsurprisingly the longest tracks on the record they handle their duration well, with the latter providing one of the strongest, heart-wrenching choruses I’ve heard all year long. Even “Whispering Hand,” which is something akin to pop sludge, is a radio-ready anthem full of earworms that evokes the better moments of Them Crooked Vultures.

    I. Ancestral is a promising opening for Kazea’s proposed musical series, and its flaws are few and far between. Daniel Olsson’s drums are powerful, and the groove laid down in “The North Passage” marches in mammoth lockstep with Rasmus Lindbolm’s bass, but the minimalist tribal kick/toms/snare pattern begins to feel a bit overused the longer one listens to the record. “Pale City Skin” and “Wailing Blood” both start strongly but spin their riff wheels a touch too long, giving in to the tendency of both sludge and post-metal to utilize repetition for content. And while a master by Cult of Luna’s Magnus Lindberg is roomy and darkly colorful, the vocal mix does get buried in the busier sections of the album, which is a shame because these constitute some of the best music I. Ancestral has to offer (“Trenches,” “Seamlessly Woven”). But the overall impression of Kazea’s debut beats its blemishes, presenting a stark and unique voice formed from disparate influences.

    “…with a knife. With a little knife that just fits into the palm.” The chilling denouement of “With A Knife” has stuck with me as I’ve ruminated over I. Ancestral. It neatly encapsulates the album, weaving shadowy, wooded energy into an unlikely combination of post-metal and sludge. The album is smartly edited and easy to pore over multiple times, with repeat listens revealing some standout moments: “Whispering Hand” is a shamelessly fun sludge anthem, and “Seamlessly Woven” is the most emotionally packed closer I’ve heard since The Drowning’s “Blood Marks My Grave.” I think Kazea have knocked it out of the park with this debut, and are on the verge of coalescing their sound into something truly remarkable. Don’t sleep on these guys.

    Rating: 3.5/5.0
    DR: 6 | Format Reviewed: 320 kb/s mp3
    Label: Suicide Records
    Website: Bandcamp
    Releases Worldwide: March 21st, 2025

    #2025 #35 #GustavoSantaolalla #Hunstmen #IAncestral #Isis #Kazea #Mar25 #Melvins #NeoFolk #PostMetal #Review #Reviews #Sludge #SuicideRecords #SwedishMetal #ThemCrookedVultures #ThisWillDestroyYou #Wayfarer

  4. Sons of Arrakis – Volume II Review

    By Iceberg

    Break out the questionable popcorn buckets everyone, we’ve got Dune-themed stoner rock inbound! Since 2019, Montreal quartet Sons of Arrakis have been preaching the Gospel of Herbert. Dropping Volume I in 2022, they made a quick turnaround with follow-up Volume II1 and this one managed to wriggle its way out of the sump like a determined sand trout. The promo language describes the band as “melange rock2 and cinematographic sci-fi rock,” but my eyes were drawn to the Black Sabbath and Queens of the Stone Age name drops. I could use some dusty, bloodshot grooves in my life, and what’s not to like about songs fawning over gargantuan, drug-dealing worms?

    Sons of Arrakis pull their sound from a desert much closer to home: Southern California. Queens of the Stone Age and Them Crooked Vultures are clear influences here, especially with the slithering guitar lines that refuse to stay in one place long. But the biggest—and most contemporary—comparison I find would be King Buffalo, albeit with the prog dial turned down a few notches. Volume I saw the band flirting with stoner doom, but with the exception of a few riffs in “Blood for Blood” and “Burn Into Blaze,” most of what you’ll get here is psychedelic, stoner rock. Not that this is a negative, per se. If anything the riffcraft of Frédéric Couture and Francis Duchesne fares better than before, balancing rhythmic chug with leaping diversions and fuzz-driven divebombs. And befitting the gorgeous cover art, this record sounds excellent, especially Mathieu Racine’s all-natural drum kit, balancing perfectly against Victor Lepage’s rumbling bass and the warble-and-fuzz of the guitars.

    For a relatively young band, Sons of Arrakis feel comfortable with both sound and direction on Volume II. Groove and swagger rule this empire of sand, often mid-paced and always lashed to an admirably constructed riff (“Scattering,” “Beyond The Screen of Illusion,” “Burn Into Blaze”). The verse of “Beyond The Screen of Illusion” echoes Mastodon’s “Blood and Thunder,” and “Metamorphosis” reminds me of Second Stage Turbine Blade-era Coheed. I adore the tone of their guitar leads, which are generally too short to call solos and are woefully underutilized on the whole (“Scattering,” “Metamorphosis”). Frédéric Couture sticks strictly to clean vocals, utilizing a reedy, nasal tone not unlike what one would hear in Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats, and while this may be a polarizing choice, it works within the style. Only taking up a lean—near-starved—33 minutes of music, all the pieces should be in place for a pleasant excursion into the deep desert. So what’s the catch?

    Sons of Arrakis rarely change gears from their tried and true formula, and this causes much of Volume II to congeal into a single, fuzzed-out amalgamation. Opening duo “Scattering” and “High Handed Enemy” contrast nicely, placing a mid-paced stone rock anthem against a more down-tempo, atmospheric number. But past that, tracks begin to blur together in both tempo and swinging groove (“Beyond The Screen of Illusion,” “Interlude I, ”“Retaliation”). This is also a good place to mention the two interludes contained herein, which add little to the conversation other than a really fun riff (“Interlude I”) and ethereal noodling (“Interlude II”). Closer “Caladan” is a beautiful piece for acoustic guitar and swirling, faintly menacing synths, but the denouement is unearned since its preceding track, “Burn Into Blaze,” never really reaches any heights that require descent. And finally—and this is mostly a personal gripe—nothing in the music or the lyrics really screams DUNE! to me, which is a bit of a letdown for a band with such a pointed name. Without the anchoring of the concept, and without any real peaks and valleys to the songwriting, Volume II comes off as a great collection of tracks, but not a cohesive album.

    Volume II shows that Sons of Arrakis have all the tools to make a great record, but need to reach out of their comfort zone. There are some sharp riffs lurking in “Blood for Blood” and “Burn Into Blaze,” but they’re in the minority amongst their homogeneous brethren. Fans of the stoner and psychedelic variants should give this a spin, they may find more to love than I did. I’ll keep my eye out for the band’s future work, but I foresee this album fading into my rearview as a shimmering mirage.

    Rating: 2.5/5.0
    DR: 7 | Format Reviewed: WAV
    Label: Black Throne Productions
    Websites: sonsofarrakis.com | facebook.com | Bandcamp
    Releases Worldwide: June 7th, 2024

    #25 #2024 #BlackSabbath #BlackThroneProductions #CandianMetal #Jun24 #KingBuffalo #PsychedelicRock #QueensOfTheStoneAge #Review #Reviews #SonsOfArrakis #StonerDoom #StonerRock #ThemCrookedVultures #VolumeII

  5. Salut les p’tits mammouths, bien dormi ?
    Mi-semaine, bonne journée le mastomonde…

    #PouetRadio
    #Soundcheck
    #Live
    #TCV
    #ThemCrookedVultures

    Them Crooked Vultures - Caligulove - Live - Rock Werchter - 2010

    invidious.hostux.net/watch?v=f

  6. Hoy cumple 78 años el prodigioso multiinstrumentista, bajista y tecladista de Led Zeppelin, además de hacer equipo junto a Dave Grohl y Josh Homme en Them Crooked Vultures, el gran John Paul Jones.
    🥳🎂🎉🎈🎊

    #JohnPaulJones #CumpleañosRockero #LedZeppelin #ThemCrookedVultures

  7. Bonjour les p’tits mammouths, bien dormi ?
    Bonne journée, bon week-end…

    #PouetRadio
    #Live
    #ThemCrookedVultures
    #Grohl
    #Homme
    #Jones

    Them Crooked Vultures - New Fang - Live - Coachella - 2010

    youtu.be/SjtMxSkKcZw

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