Electric Wizard- Dopethrone

I apologize for the rather long delay.  It's been a while since anything has been uploaded... To kick things off, here's stoner/doom metal band, Electric Wizard. This is probably their most acclaimed album.  Expect heavy riffage and tons of Black Sabbath worship.  The vocals could probably be better, but it's not that big of a deal.  What it lacks in the vocals department, it makes up with sheer noise and heaviness.  Best listened to with a nice pair of headphones or speakers, and probably after smoking a joint.  This is stoner metal after all. I, the Witchfinder Vinum Sabbathi Enjoooooooooy. Or better yet... buy it

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Boris- Heavy Rocks

The Japanese cult favorites.... this is some pretty solid 60s/70s influenced stoner rock.  You really should check out their discography even if you don't dig this.  They cover a wide variety of genres including drone/punk/sludge/noise/experimental/psychedelic/ambient/etc.  Really fantastic band.  Get on this! Korosu Better yet... buy it... on ebay.  It looks like the album is sort of hard to get a hold of at the moment Disclaimer: The same as always

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Converge- Axe to Fall

New album by Converge, out today.  If you're a fan of heavy and chaotic punk/metal music this is not to be missed. Overall, pretty solid album, a step up from their previous effort "No Heroes", but not quite up to par with their magnum opus, "Jane Doe".  Still, check it out. The whole album is streamable here... http://www.myspace.com/converge

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Death- Symbolic

I'm trying my best to keep the blog musically diverse... so here we have one of the finest technical death metal albums ever, by a band that is unsurprisingly named Death.  I'm not even a big death metal fan, but this is a sweet album (actually pretty much everything released by Death is awesome).  This album, along with Human and Individual Thought Patterns, really helped established thinking man's metal.  While both of those are great records, the thing about Symbolic is that it's actually catchier.  Human and Individual Thought Patterns have alot of awesome jazzy riffs and complex song structures and whatnot, but let's face it, as great as some of those tracks are, they just aren't as catchy as say, "Crystal Mountain."  You guys decide: Crystal Mountain Without Judgement Pretty good?  Hopefully you dig it, even if you aren't a fan of the genre.  Buy it anyways.  And... the disclaimer: this is for promotional use only.  If the band does not wish for their material to be posted please let us know at publications@kscr.org so we can take it down.

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