DOWNLOAD: Black Math Horseman - Tyrant + Deerslayer
(Photo: Travis Shinn)
If proto-mythic drama, psychedelic explosions or "pure spirits by ritual dismemberment" are your thing, TeePee Records got your number with new signing Black Math Horseman. This four piece, fronted by Sera Timms' trance-inducing vocals and propulsive thumping bass will inevitably get comparisons to Black Mountain, but Black Math Horseman's Wyllt is less playful and more mind-melting doom. It's safe to say that the most epically dark show of SXSW will be the TeePee Records showcase, featuring the Warlocks, Annihilation Time, Night Horse, Tweak Bird and Black Math Horseman. You'll definitely need your sunglasses for that one, so get in the mood with today's two massive teasers.
Sounds like: Annihilation Time, Night Horse, Black Mountain
Black Math Horseman - Deerslayer
Black Math Horseman's RCRD LBL Page
Black Math Horseman's Austin Schedule:
3/19 - Full Metal Texas @ Emos Annex (1:45PM)
3.19 - Room 710 (9:00PM)
3/20 - Spiderhouse Cafe (7:30PM)
3/21 - TeePee Records / LA Records Day Party @ Club 1808 (2:00PM)
DOWNLOAD: Hype Williams - Karen Hates The Forest + Ween-Induced Paranoia
Named after the New York film maker, London's Hype Williams sound hacked off about something or other, ambling along narky and confused in lowest-fi monochrome. "Karen Hates the Forest" appears to lament the "mystical shit" spouted by avant-rock's tribalist crew, while "Ween-Induced Paranoia" seems pretty self-explanatory. Strung-out and off-key, Karen and Bundy only pay respect to accepted rockist methods with counterfeit notes, the Queen's lip raised into a withering sneer.
Sounds Like: Beat Happening, U.S. Girls, low budget horror OSTs
Hype Williams - Karen Hates The Forest
FEATURED: Everyone Is Tripping Out Over Graveyard
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Everyone from our A&R team to our CEO Peter Rojas to our esteemed blogger Daniel Arnold have been singing the praises of mighty Swedish stoner rockers Graveyard. As of today, Rolling Stone's own David Fricke is on board too. He just wrote them up as his Fricke Pick. Hop over to the RS site to check it out and of course grab the free downloads we have below.
Graveyard at Rolling Stone.com
Download: Graveyard - Thin Line
DOWNLOAD: Graveyard - Evil Ways
Dudes. Graveyard is the Swedish Deep Purple. Deep Swedish Purple! Forgive me for being predictable and losing my shit over ANOTHER psyched out stoner metal trip, but I likes what I likes and I likes this. A heady mix of folk, blues and hard gnar, Graveyard does for "Smoke On The Water" what Dungen did for "Immigrant's Song," not to mention what Soundgarden did for Johnny Cash. Total van rock. Graveyard, like most other bands you're obsessed with, are out on Tee Pee Records.
DOWNLOAD: Graveyard - Evil Ways
EXCLUSIVE DOWNLOAD: Whalebones - Another Jungle
We first laid eyes on Whalebones last April from the back of a heady Big Sur roadhouse called Fernwood. It was the Folk Yeah Spring Festival and the band was from Seattle. And like any Northwest rock outfit worth their salt, they took their noodles crunchy, closed their eyes and used that wailer girlie harmony to absolute perfection. Very Crazy Horse. Borderline epic. Not to cop out or anything, but they're the kinda songs that you'd imagine sound their best in a van on a sunny day, close to some water. We're so so psyched, not only to get exclusive access to "Another Jungle," but to get lowdowns on both downloads from Whalebones songwriter, Justin Deary. Go ahead and freak out.
DOWNLOAD: Whalebones - Another Jungle
DOWNLOAD: Whalebones - Don't You Know
Read on and get the story on both songs, directly from the band
EXCLUSIVE DOWNLOAD: Witch - Sweet Sue
Weirdly enough, there's a fine line between hippie and hesher. You saw Gimme Shelter, right? From the very beginning, the only thing that separated the acid heads from the hell's angels was pool cues and hats with teeth. Point of all this rambling is that Witch is a hippie/hesher orgy that blurs that fine line unrecognizable.
It makes perfect sense, considering that (as you already know) Witch is equal parts Dinosaur Jr and New England longhair collective, Feathers. And the sum of that equation is just as crusty and burly and exquisitely bummed out as you'd expect. To illustrate the range of their superstoner powers, we present "Eye" and "Sweet Sue."
"Eye" is a rager. Black Flag and Sabbath colliding on motorcycles and puking brains on the highway. "Sweet Sue" either just woke up or it's been up all night and -- now don't freak out about this -- it might kinda sound like a way tougher Candlebox. And we mean that in the best imaginable way. Apparently '70s + '90s = nowsies. Weeeeeeird!
DOWNLOAD: Dead Meadow - I'm Gone
"If you want me to, I could be with you..."
When we hear "doom rock" we think like... Mordor. Don't you? Like Glenn Danzig and goat horns and churches burning in the mountains of Norway. Dead Meadow, though certainly heavy doomers by name and reputation, are a breed apart. They're beyond good and evil. Beyond the pageantry and the leather pants and the making of mean faces all the time. They've got hair over their faces and glasses anyway. The sun's at their backs. What would be the point?
So yeah, the new Dead Meadow (Old Growth, out 2/5 on Matador) is total stoner doom metal. But it's Sun Also Rises doom. Doomed because, who cares, we're all doomed. Nihilist metal. And, not that this really matters or anything, but goddamn does it sound good.
Now, last time we talked, we called Dead Meadow classic rock. "Sabbath-like." And while we stand by that, upon closer examination, there's an undeniable '90s vibe here. Less a Zeppelin knockoff than a mash-up of early indie rock and construction site radio. It's like CCR got their hands on a bunch of Love As Laughter and Elliott Smith and Xanax. Listen. You'll see.
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