Goldfish Memories - EP (2007)

"The music flies around us in every single step"! Com início em janeiro de 2006, o som de Goldfish Memories, que tem influências interessantes de stoner rock e demais estilos do rock como grunge e hard rock,chega na cena com um som carregado de riffs de peso e marcantes, com guitarras distorcidas, mas também com direito a uma viagem louca utilizando variações de efeitos e bateria agressiva!!! Basicamente esse é o som desses goianos que foram considerados como uma das bandas novas que mais se destacou no ano de 2006 em Goiânia – Goiás - Brasil. Banda é formada por: Pablo Villas Boas no vocal, Renato Cunha na guitarra, Danilo Xidan na outra guitarra e nos backing vocals, João Gabriel no baixo e Lucas Manoel na bateria.

"The music flies around us in every single step"! The band activities started at January 2006. Goldfish Memories shows up with great influences of stoner rock and using some grunge and hard rock elements to create a heavy sound with notable riffs, crazy guitars, playing around with effects and powerful drumming. Basically, that’s the sound of this band that was considered one of the greatest new bands of Goiânia/Brazil in 2006. Goldfish Memories is: Pablo Villas Boas(lead vocal), Renato Cunha(guitar), Danilo Xidan(guitar and backing vocals), João Gabriel(bass), and Lucas Manoel(drums).
(do MySpace da banda)


Download: http://lix.in/0cf969

Sonicvolt - Single 2007 (2007)

Poucas bandas têm uma árvore genealógica tão vistosa como a SonicVolt. São galhos contemporâneos vergados ao peso de Queens of the Stone Age e Nebula; um denso e sólido caule do rock ’70 de Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin e Blue Cheer; e raízes tão diversas que vão do pré-punk de Detroit à psicoledia sessentista de cepas vigorosas, como Hendrix e Floyd.

Transitando entre o experimentalismo, a psicodelia e ainda arriscando alguns elementos de punk, esse trio pioneiro do stoner rock no Brasil sabe bem como respeitar essas origens. Exatamente por isso, mantém -- alheio a modismos -- os dois pés fixos no rock de alta-energia, como o próprio nome da banda sugere.
(Wilson Cordeiro, no release da banda)

E seguindo essa linha a Sonicvolt disponibilizou 'Single 2007', último trabalho da banda, com três músicas novas: Atômica Revelação, H.E.N.D.R.x. e Fora de Foco. Eu não sei se é impressão minha, mas cada vez mais eu começo a perceber fortes influências Atomic Bitchwaxianas no som do grupo, e isso é muito bom. Pode ser viagem mesmo, mas pouco importa. Cancele o download do disco daquele tal de Moptop, clique no link abaixo e seja feliz.


Download: http://www.sonicvolt.com.br/mp3/single_2007/
SONICVOLT-single_2007.zip

Site oficial: http://www.sonicvolt.com.br/

Pagan Altar - Volume 1 (1982)

If I were to just say they are Sabbathy heavy metal I might give the impression that they are just another proto-stoner band like Witchfinder General, but that's not quite right at all. Imagine a band heavily influenced by the riff-stylings, songwriting/arrangement, and magical/occult imagery of Sabbath, but completely without all of the psychedelic and drug influence. They don't tune down, so the doomy rumbling sound isn't there, and the songs don't go for heaviness so much as...'otherworld-liness', maybe? From what I gathered from the band's website this album is thematic and is focused on occult themes, and the music manages to grab that atmosphere of unreality and the terror a person feels when faced with something forbidden (I guess I'm thinking of Hawthorne's short story "Young Goodman Brown" where the good puritan guy goes into the woods and finds his whole town in an occult orgy...).

The music on this album seems timeless, in a way. The music is very faithful to the OLD style of heavy metal like early Sabbath and Priest, both in the riffs/arrangements and the way the bass and drums play off the guitar work. The vocals also seem very 'vintage' - frontman Terry Jones is definitely NOT a 'metal' singer, with his very high, thin vocals that actually call to mind OLD occult/rock acts like Black Widow or early Pentagram - he sounds much more 'rock' than metal in his timbre, but the vocal melodies he weaves into the songs just fit perfectly. The production helps reinforce that 'timeless' sound (though I doubt it was deliberate - this was 1982, after all...) - it's a bit brittle, like slightly overdriven analog recording equipment, with gritty but slightly thin guitars, a big, fat bass sound, and clean-but-dry drums like on the first couple of Priest albums. You could have told me this came out in 1972 and I'd believe it.
(Vic, Metal Archives)

Download: http://lix.in/722f74

Rising Dust - Rising Dust (2005)

RISING DUST is a Doom trio comprised of David (guitars/vocals), Steff (bass) and Malek (drums) – from France. Their roots clearly lie at: BLACK SABBATH, SAINT VITUS, PENTAGRAM, THE OBSESSED, TROUBLE and DEATH SS, classical Doom that is. (...) It’s old-fashioned as hell, the production stale and the song titles really clichéd in a nice way. The vocalist sounds as weird/original as Steve Sylvester in DEATH SS’ glory days. And yet I like this album better than many tuned and ho so technically boasting works… RISING DUST have soul and like to play and they come across as credible. They don’t have an image, no special outfit, they play Doom coming right from the heart! (Ralf, The Metal Observer)


Download: http://lix.in/455b3e