Tag: psychedelic

  • Goya/Wounded Giant split

    Goya/Wounded Giant split

    Less than a week into 2015 and what will likely be the year’s best – or at least heaviest – split has already sold out. The split LP from Goya and Wounded Giant sold out in less than eight hours upon its release January 3rd at noon. I had my eye on the Die Hard…

  • Northumbria and Famine – Blood Orchid

    Northumbria and Famine – Blood Orchid

    Blood Orchid is a nearly 16-minute live collaboration between Northumbria and Famine. The ambient drone unfolds over an expanse of time that feels much longer than it actually is because of how deeply you can get lost in it and lose your sense of reality. It feels futuristic and ancient at the same time as…

  • Bands In Tandem – A Flaming Lips Brainstorm Gives Birth to Electric Würms (so says Steven Drozd)

    Bands In Tandem – A Flaming Lips Brainstorm Gives Birth to Electric Würms (so says Steven Drozd)

    Steven Drozd has already had a very busy year. So far, 2014 has seen Flaming Lips begin recording a cover album focused on The Beatles’ work (With a Little Help from My Fwends, to be released on October 28, 2014). They’ve also embarked on a tour of the United States that has featured more than…

  • Dwellers – Pagan Fruit

    Dwellers – Pagan Fruit

    If we’re judging an album by its cover, the sophomore effort from this Utah-based trio, Dwellers, sure looks like a Baroness album. Hey, as long as we’re talking Red or Blue, and not Yellow & Green, that’s OK with me. Pagan Fruit paints with a similar palette to the Georgian no-longer-sludgesters. An amplified, mellow, country-blues-rock…

  • Jeremy Irons & the Ratgang Malibus – Spirit Knife

    Jeremy Irons & the Ratgang Malibus – Spirit Knife

    Not gonna lie, these Swedes sucked me in with their bizarre band name. I’m not sure if there was actually a movie in which The Man in the Iron Mask leads a sedan-driving rat gang…but a quick Google search strictly points to Jeremy Irons & the Ratgang Malibus. I would not be surprised if they were…

  • Hawkwind – Spacehawks

    Hawkwind – Spacehawks

    By Gruesome Greg Now, I’ll admit to being a bit ambivalent about this album before even hearing a note of it. While the official word when this landed in my inbox was that the band was “rescheduling” its North America dates, by the time I got around to listening to Spacehawks, they’d already cancelled their…

  • Selim Lemouchi & His Enemies – Earth Air Spirit Water Fire

    Selim Lemouchi & His Enemies – Earth Air Spirit Water Fire

    By Gruesome Greg If he’s not exactly a household name, it’s worth noting that Selim Lemouchi was the main songwriter behind Dutch occult-rock outfit The Devil’s Blood.  Now do I have your interest?  His first solo album features a whole host of collaborators across these five tracks—it even has a Mini-Moog! The record begins, curiously enough, with…

  • HELLBOUND’s TOP 10 CANADIAN METAL ALBUMS OF 2013

    Since Hellbound.ca is a Canadian-owned and operated metal publication, we do things a little bit different than most. While 2013 was coming to a close we asked all of our contributors to pick their Top Canadian metal albums of the year. We then tabulated up their responses and have created our fifth annual Top 10…

  • Shooting Guns – Brotherhood of the Ram LP

    Hellbound Metal: “With Brotherhood of the Ram, Shooting Guns have hit the bullseye again. Their hypnotic and psychedelic grooves hone in on the pleasure centres of the brain.”

  • SOUNDS FROM THE STONER ROCK UNDERGROUND: Electric Magic Edition

    Because I have all kinds of write-ups on my hard-drive for all sorts of albums you’ve never heard by all numbers of bands you’ve never heard of, it’s time for another high-in-fiber edition of Sounds from the Stoner/Doom/Psych/Whatever Underground, this one zooming in on German imprint Electric Magic Records.