We remember it like it was yesterday. March of 1994. It was a glorious month for what would become some of the most groundbreaking (Pantera’s Far Beyond Driven, NIN’s The Downward Spiral) or talked about/divisive (Motley Crue’s lone Vince Neil-less/John Corabi-fronted self-titled outing) records of all time. We were there for each new release Tuesday (Back in our day records were released on Tuesdays) and, teetering on that pinnacle Grunge before the wheels would soon come off, were especially excited for Soundgarden’s follow up to Badmotorfinger, Superunknown. Like its’ predecessor, Superunknown is pretty much a banger yielding two of Soundgarden’s biggest songs to date and now Magnetic Eye Records is celebrating the album with this newest entry into their Redux series!
[Read more…]Dozer Revisit The Dawn Of Desert Rawk On Dynamic Drifting in the Endless Void
Listening through Drifting in the Endless Void, the first release from Sweden’s Dozer in fifteen years, is like being transported back in time when the term “Desert Rawk” was still being formulated. It’s a genesis kind of heaviness that transcends any one genre with an incessant pummeling that’s profound as it builds upon a sonic world that Dozer helped shape having come up around the fall of Kyuss in the mid-’90’s.
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