Early 2000s band SPACESHIP LANDING from Oldenburg, Germany is still is a secret tip in the german scene.
They played Stoned From The Underground, Roadburn and big concerts in their home area, but disbanded relatively early after only a few years of activity. Their guitar player Steffen Schneider later founded BLACKBOX MASSACRE with members of Coogans Bluff.
The one and only album from Spaceship Landing is finally available from Bandcamp, as well as on other Streaming Services, also 2LP and CD versions are available through World In Sound. Check them out!
MAGNIFIED EYE from Denmark, live at Exil in Wernigerode April 2005. They drove a long way for this and two more gigs on that short tour, together with Terraplane, can't believe it's 20 years ago! Check them out at Bandcamp, very underrated!
LIQUID VISIONS were active from 1994 - 2004 feat. Dave Schmidt (a.k.a. Sula Bassana) and Kiryk Drewinski (Wedge + The Magnificent Brotherhood) among their core members, and also musicians who played in other notable groups like Zone Six and Johnson Noise. This is basically the "first wave" of Neo Psychedelia from Berlin, before my own group and everything that may have followed. It took me quite a while to get into their sound, I would like to really recommend the album "Hypnotized" from 2002, great stuff!
Early Kiryk Drewinski poster art for Colour Haze and his back then group Liquid Visions. Visit his page for many more stunning posters though the last 25 years >> http://www.kiryk.com/
Almost forgotten German psychedelic magazine MOONHEAD, which only existed for a short time, around 2002-05. Founded by Uwe Goeller, the same guy who founded the still active Eclipsed magazine. Moonhead was similar to Eclipsed, but with a stronger focus on Psychedelic Rock. Rather unusual for the time as the scene was even much smaller, it was available in assorted magazine stores, even in our small rural town of Wernigerode. Only the low resolution (pixel madness) was sometimes a bit painful ;)
CAUSA SUI at Stoned From The Underground Festival 2006 by Andreas. From what I heard, their singer left after the second album to travel to India ... tbh I wasn't much impressed at first because they were announced as somewhat "Hendrix-influenced" and I didn't quite agree ;) while after checking them out at home, they reminded me a lot more of Monster Magnet which is cool either way, they've found their own style soon after with the many jam albums which made them quite popular in the scene.
It seems that WIGHT don't like their original debut cover anymore? They changed it on the re-releases and by the way, not even Discogs shows the correct cover, which is this one. Fun fact: I was the layouter behind this early Kozmik Artifactz/Bilocation release ;)
Wight were always among my favorite german groups in the scene but there have always been many good bands in Germany. We used to have a long link list of stoner groups on the Generated X website, maybe I should at least name them all in a future post here?
Some vintage 90s LOWRIDER, they were always a kind of mystery to me, with two albums in twenty years LOL my favorite track however was always this one which may also be some sort of mysterious, you only found it on this one sampler by the PEOPLE LIKE YOU-label for those who remember ...
Some more BAD ACID, cover pic above by Malleus, the other one is an early Arik Roper. Dave Gedge put this very early issue on the Internet Archive, if you're interested keep reading there...
BAD ACID was a cool print fanzine with extensive DVD content in the early 2000s, edited by Dave Gedge from the UK with a staff of writers and layouters from around the globe. The genres included far more than just the stoner and psychedelic family, pretty much all underground guitar music, and bits of electronica as well.
You could spend a year on the DVD content of one issue alone! The magazine only ran for about 10 issues, but if you extrapolate that to "regular magazine size", it would be at least three times the amount of content. I was one of the layouters for some issues and made the cover for TAB 7. Other cover artists included Malleus and Arik Roper.
By the way, the cover here is Tab 7, but the two sample pages are from Tab 6, which was still black and white, later there were also colored pages and at some point the whole issue was just packed into one huge DVD, if I remember correctly. A few more images after the break ...
HAINLOOSE at Stoned from the Underground 2006 by Andreas. They were a cool band from Munich in the vain of late 90s Corrosion Of Conformity with their own personality. Their second album "Burden State" was really cool. I just stumbled across this video, never saw this before. Nice to see that not everything gets lost, although the band has nothing official on bandcamp or anywhere else it seems. A few more pics from the past can be found here, incl. gigposters. Bandhistory from discogs after the break ...
HAINLOSE was a Hard Rock / Stoner Rock band from Munich / Germany founded in 2000.
Members:
Haris Turkanovic - vocals, guitar
Rico Dacher - bass
Daniel Zerndl - drums, percussion, guitar
Former members:
Mario Brekalo - guitar (till 2006)
Band history:
The story´s beginning somewhere in year 2000, when singer and guitar player Haris founded his first band KINCH. The band was mainly influenced by the bands such like Fu Manchu, Kyuss and QOTSA. Under this name, the band released a split-CD on Freebird Records in Holland and did a contribution to the compilation Gimme Stoner Rock-released on Pimp Records later that year. Few gigs followed (e.g. together with K2B in Jena, Rosenkeller), but just after a short time the band split up and disappeared for quite a while.
Almost one year passed until the new line-up was found, marking the new era of the band. The band came up with the new name Hainloose, taking the new spirit and putting it into new material, which suddenly sounded even more powerful and raw. While still sticking to the stoner sound, the band opened borders for some new impulses, brought in by the musical taste of the new members (Motorpsycho, Pothead, Depeche Mode, Soundgarden, AC/DC, Stray Cats, Stevie Ray Vaughan etc.). All these different influences resulted into a typical Hainloose sound, based on groovy, 70´s influenced riffs carrying big portions of blues and southern rock feeling which along with the very recognizable vocals make the band unique.
2003 the time was right for the band´s first full-length release Rosula. Around the same time, a new label was founded in Munich by a good friend (Stefan Koglek, guitarist and singer of the band Colour Haze), and the album was released on Elektrohasch Records. The album quite surprised the scene and got lots of positive feedback which helped the band get opportunity to play some bigger gigs (several open airs, tour with Los Natas through Europe, tour with Label mates UGH! etc.).
During the autumn 2005, the band started working on a new material. By the end of the year everything was ready for the band to hit the studio in order to record Rosula´s follow-up-Burden State. After six months of production, the album again got released on Munichs Label ELEKTROHASCH Records at June 2006. With the second album the band definitely gained recognition in the stoner scene which opened doors to play on this years´ Stoned From The Underground festival in Erfurt, which is considered to be the biggest stoner festival in Germany.
Kyuss by Kozik, it hardly gets more "stoner" than that ;) This one pretty much was the first artsy gigposter I've ever come across, in a 90s Visions Magazine. While I was living in the depths of rural Germany this may not be the biggest surprise, but I was always fascinated with how much detail a person would put into just one concert advertisement!
