Many of you already know the internet riot thing that took place on Hellride Forum between Terry Jones and the bassist blaming each other for many things followed by cancellations of shows which naturally many thought because of the departure of bassist but Terry later announced the original reason as his daughter had to undergo open heart surgery (hope all is good). Now it looks like things have finally been settled inside Pagan Altar camp and they added a new bassist to the line up. Recently Pagan Altar has released an exclusive preview of the upcoming album Never Quite Dead scheduled for Summer release.
Al Cisneros is indeed a busy man and it does not look like he's going to have a free time anytime sooner this year- Sleep's Dopesmoker reissue, tours and now his project OM is all set for the release of a new album on July 24 entitled Advaitic Songs which will be available as 2LP/ CD/ Digital Version. You can watch the teaser for the album below.
Do you remember that post about the longest stoner doom tracks where Bongripper snapped the first place? If you missed the list, visit here. Recently Bongripper has uploaded a new track Fisting (Unmastered) from an upcoming split on the Bandcamp Page which also will be played on April 14 at Roadburn Festival. Listen to the track below.
Preview of Never Quite Dead
Pagan Altar- Dance of the Vampires
Om- Advaitic Songs (teaser)
Bongripper- Fisting (Unmastered)
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Drop out of life with bong in hand Follow the smoke toward the riff- filled land Proceeds the weedian, Nazareth (Sleep)
Did you ever get "locked" while laying back stoned to death? The time when you can't move any parts of your body and the only sense that's left in you embracing the music flowing inside your soul; this shouldn't be an uncommon phenomenon for stoner metal jammers. In the ever expanding evolution of musical genre, in stoner doom dispersed in early 90s, riffs got heavy and slow with thick underlying bass although this is a bold statement. It's funny when all those corporate guys try to define stoner genre(s) succeeding only jumbling the whole deal. The truth lies in the fact that devoted music listeners usually don't care much; as soon as a stoner track is on, we run for the bong. We want to enjoy the music as much as we can in every way possible stoned or normal (who doesn't want to listen to Electric Wizard being stoned?). Hallucigenic stuff.
In progressive form, there are lot more lengthy tracks than what we get to see in this category. Usually I don't care about the length of any song, it's quality above quantity after all. If you ask around, majority will come up with Sleep's Dopesmoker, that's it. With such a brilliantly crafted song and inspiration for many others, I've always wondered about the reason for not existing piles of quality songs touching such length in stoner doom history. Pioneer bands of the genre such as Electric Wizard and all have 10-15 minutes long songs but then again the solid theory is thatif an artist can compress his intentions within 1 second then there's no reason for making the song any longer. This being said, I've always been fascinated by lengthier tracks and somehow when I see such long tracks, I end up listening to the whole thing. The lone purpose of this writing piece is to find out very long stoner doom tracks, so here is my quest: What are the longest stoner doom tracks ever?
I ventured out into the blogosphere and asked people whose opinions I really care. Below is the summary of the whole shot [ special thanks to Robin VO ]
Nadja- Thaumogenesis
Asunder- Rite Of Finality
[ Other bands to check out: Ocean Chief, Mammatus, Moss, Pambagira, Ufomammut, Rorcal ]
