Friday, February 22, 2008  12:29 am 

You are going DOWN

If human flesh could burn with flame, and if flame could be black as pitch, such was that before me

The vibe of this post is the following: last night you came to this cabin in the woods with your friends, you thought it would be fun to spend a weekend in the woods. But the fun is over. They are all dead. And you are trapped inside the cabin with a pump action shotgun, three bullets and a rusty kitchen knife while the Kandarian ghouls await for the sun to set. Dead by Dawn. Dead by Dawn. There are bits of your friends spread all over the lounge. Shadows rotate through spaces in your makeshift barricade as the sun comes down and the gnarly fingers of the night spread over the woods bringing a whole universe of bad vibes to bear upon you. Evil things are going to happen. But there is no fucking way you are going to hell after this, you have already been through it.

Whatever happened to Sam Raimi? Good title for a song. Bring it on.

Danava- The Emerald Snow of Sleep

(Removed on request, check out the also super awesome ‘Where Beauty and Terror Lie’ here)

We told you about Danava ages ago, one of them used to play in Glass Candy, it’s a Portland thang. Anyway, their new album, UnonoU, out in Kemado now, is a fucking potent brew as the tune above surely demonstrates: an arpeggiated synth drone that would make Zombi salivate opens way to the four horsemen of Stoner rock apocalypse which charge onwards riding a bassline straight out of Lemmy powered Hawkwind, Cimmerian rifferama and even King Crimson horns for that extra bombastic star-shattering oomph, this is surely music to soundtrack the emergence of some kind of megalithic Jungian archetype hidden in our cells, the Cosmic Man wakes up in the first chapter of Genesis as written by Michael Moorcock, and plays a session of guitar hero against the Universe, and wins, this is one tune we would love to play in a boombox sitting on the back of a silver Pegasus flying over the plains of Death Valley as dawn spreads over the Earth, heavy like the wind kids, heavy like the wind.

Genghis Tron’s new album, which goes by the very excellent and inspirational name of ‘Board Up The House’ (we know what they mean) and is released by our fave chums Lovepump is prog paranoid epic in the same way in which going on a trip through the Appalachia accompanying a pack of loaded mentalists with an unhealthy passion for grindcore, The Fucking Champs and Goblin would be epic. You know the sort, peaceful looking types with a funny glimmer in their eyes who stare enthralled into kaleidoscopic images of wild flowers for what feels like an eternity (cue some nice classical music) while they potter around with a hand of serrated knives getting ready to perform an interpretative dance to Raining for Blood like this was a Liars video or something.

Kinda edgy.

Imagine Scooby Dooby Doo’s mystery wagon crashing into a Night of the Living Dead keg party and you are sort of starting to get there, niiiiice.

Genghis Tron- Board Up the House

Now that was a pretty post, uh? Apologies for the quiet days, it’s been a time of transition but will be back to normal next week, rejoice! And have a nice weekend too.

labels >> Genghis Tron, danava, demons

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