Retro rock itch

Yeah, Endless Boogie - Full House Head is pretty good! Also, I mentioned in another thread, Gozu - Locust Season is a lot of fun if you like some first-album era Queens of the Stone Age.

Anything else lately?

the new black mountain -- which i love -- fits the bill.

Out today: <a href=http://www.indiemerch.com/metalbladerecords/item/11738>;Blood Ceremony - Living With The Ancients (Rise Above)</a>
I'm gonna go buy it during lunch I think.

Dying to hear this: Graveyard - Hisingen Blues (Nuclear Assault) Mar 25. That's the European release date, U.S. in April.

Other faves like Witchcraft, Colour Haze and Dead Man have been quite for a few years now.

Out today: Blood Ceremony - Living With The Ancients (Rise Above)
I'm gonna go buy it during lunch I think.

Dying to hear this: Graveyard - Hisingen Blues (Nuclear Assault) Mar 25. That's the European release date, U.S. in April.

Other faves like Witchcraft, Colour Haze and Dead Man have been quite for a few years now.

Was anyone in Germany for last month's Up In Smoke festival? Wish I coulda seen that. I'll have to check out Sungrazer and Rotor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6St-brz9iY

One of the most gorgeous settings for a live musical performance I've ever seen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmK-ukwTfUA

Speaking of Colour Haze, I've been digging into a couple older albums that I just found - Co2 (2000) and Ewige Blumenkraft (2001). Just grabbed first album, Chopping Machine (1995), which is much different. I'm excited to learn they have a new album coming out!

http://www.soundofliberation.com/tl_files/01_home/lp_slide/01_Colourhaze_preview_newalbum.jpg

Was listed as 2010, haven't seen an updated release date yet.

I wrote about Blood Ceremony on MSN today. They've improved a lot since their debut, which I found boring.

Nice! I just bought that last night, I agree.

I found out the Colour Haze album, titled She Said, is delayed until they resolve some technical problems that happened during the recording. Meanwhile, I wrote an overview and made a sampler mix - http://www.fastnbulbous.com/colour-haze.htm

While working on the Colour Haze piece, I also listened to some bands on their Elektrohasch label. Good stuff. I like Sungrazer best, just some good, heavy, fuzz rock. I liked the other My Sleeping Karma album, don't know why I missed the new one. Hypnos 69 are a lot different from the normal stoner roster, with some wild free jazz saxophone stuff. I like it when in the right mood. Rotor is mostly instrumental, solid.

Sungrazer (Elektrohasch)
My Sleeping Karma - Tri (Elektrohasch)
Hypnos 69 - Legacy (Elektrohasch)
Rotor - 4 (Elektrohasch)

I also caught up on these:

Truckfighters - Mania (Fuzzorama) 09
Ancestors - Neptune With Fire (North Atlantic Sound) 08
Truckfighters - Phi (Fuzzorama) 07
Rotor - 3 (Elektrohasch) 07
Hypnos 69 - Eclectic Measure (Elektrohasch) 06
Dozer - Through The Eyes Of Heathens (Small Stone) 05
Truckfighters - Gravity X (MeteorCity) 05
Dozer - Call It Conspiracy (Molten Universe) 03

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnGBa8dVm6k&feature=player_embedded

Review of Graveyard - Hisingen Blues at The Obelisk - http://theobelisk.net/obelisk/2011/02/25/graveyardreview/
My updated Stoner Rock Primer - http://www.fastnbulbous.com/stoner-rock.htm

Nice piece! Really like that Sungrazer record. Two recommendations if you haven't heard them: Sasquatch - Sasquatch II, and Ramon Zarate - Oyster.

Thanks, I've heard of Sasquatch but haven't tracked it down yet. Like my Colour Haze piece, the Primer has a mix -- click on the Graveyard graphic at top.

Upcoming:

Ancestors - Invisible White EP (Tee Pee) Jun 21
Sungrazer - Mirador (Elektrohasch) Jul 8
Cherry Choke – A Night In The Arms Of Venus... (Elektrohasch) Jul 30
Gozu – Vatican Assassin Warlocks (Small Stone) TBA

The Soda Shop site lists Witchcraft as possibly coming out with something this year, but I hadn't heard of any activity from them, with Pelander supposedly working on a solo full length.

http://youtu.be/3ZyvY-ithBc

Truckfighters 'Fuzzomentary' that they're trying to get fans to finance the DVD release. Gonna see them on July 20, Gozu & Freedom Hawk Oct 1 in Chicago.

Sungrazer's Mirador is out today. It's like wrastlin' with Sweetums the 500 lb muppet -- spine-tingling soft fuzziness can turn to spine-crushing heaviness at any moment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bxH7FpFk68&feature=player_embedded

That teaser makes me want it. Really enjoyed the debut.

These are all retro rock. Mostly because that's what I learned.

http://www.youtube.com/user/MrDickDestiny#p/u

Man, they make it hard to buy this stuff. Over a month later, and AllThatIsHeavy still isn't stocking the Sungrazer album. Also on Elektrohasch, Cherry Choke – A Night In The Arms Of Venus came out Jul 30. Who knows when I'll get to hear it. Every label should give an option to buy FLAC and such direct.

Freedom Hawk - Holding On (Small Stone) Aug 16
Colour Haze - She Said (Elektrohasch) Sep 9
Gordon Fights (Transubstans) Sep 24
Rwake - Rest (Relapse) Sep 27

Yep, the new Colour Haze is finally coming out! I'm tempted to pre-order it here - http://www.recordheaven.net/index.cfm?x=browseArtist&ID=3965&iID=125526#cgi.SCRIPT_NAME#

For all I know, ATIS won't stock it 'til November.