Being camped
out regularly in the lush meadows of bandcamp, there comes times, where the
fields become a bit dry, and the forage rather fickle. Perhaps this time of
year is the busy season in real life and not as much time is dedicated to
surfing the musical forests of bandcamp. With that said, the booze flows freely
like mountain spring runoff and there is still so damn many cool albums hiding
within the cyber canyons. Here are a few recent findings worthy of your time
and sure to quench your thirst. Bottoms up! Have a round on me.
Skunk – Heavy Rock from Elder Times
SKUNK showers you with a filthy, yet
satisfying scent of heavy retro-rock with a proto-metal aftertaste. Like the
others have mentioned AC/DC inspired vocal chops but with an added layer of
skunky groove and bluesy riffs. You actually want to get sprayed with this
intoxicating fuzz.
Shayk – Volume 1
Man, this is so damn good. Perfect blend of
heavy hitting rock n roll with bluesy riffs and stoner groove. Imagine a battle
of the bands between Fu Manchu and Clutch. The encore could be Shayk! As smooth
as a baby's dads beard!
Big Mean – Big Mean
With strong southern rawk riffs and mean,
but smooth vocals, Big Mean sound like they came right off the Small Stone
Records shelf. Who knows, with more material and a chance they very well could
be someday. This is great. For fans of Sasquatch, Clutch, Spiralarms.
Mountainwolf – The Silk
Road
Absolutely paralyzing riffs! Slow enough for
fans of uber-doom and loaded with mind bending groove and melodically grungy
croons sure to please the more rock and roll oriented. Has a very Lo Pan'y
sound but injected with enough hallucinogenics to send you spiraling on a trip
to outer space on a rusted chard of heavy metal.
Hound – Kong
Filthy, rotten Riffage! The kind of filthy
rotten you bring home to momma, if momma was a filthy rotten hound. Bark at the
moon baby!!
WOLFTONE – Bring Down the Sun
Mind blower alert! I repeat, the infectious,
fuzzy blues infused with a post-punk undertone will blow your mind!
MANcub –Hangman
Scorchingly distorted groove, impeccable
melody, and balls to the wall attitude, MANcub deliver the RAWK!! For fans of
beer, metal, smoke and loud melodic guitars.
Check out
the latest installment of the Bonanza feature, which I promise I will try and
update more frequently. These are all albums sure to extend
your boozing experience in the sun this summer. Make sure you don’t drink and
drive, but by all means I encourage you to listen to these great albums and
drive. See you surfing around camp fellow waveriders.
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