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"Cecil Succulent" by Boss Keloid - From "Family the Smiling Thrush" (2021)

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UK Scumscene Reviews Boss Keloid’s Melted on the Inch

Boss Keloid’s previous offering, Herb Your Enthusiasm, was an album that was obviously pretty comfortable with just being another stoner metal offering and sometimes if you enjoy a genre enough then you’re happy to riff on established tropes and not explore much else to set you apart. With their follow-up, Melted on the Inch, Boss Keloid make a conceited effort to not be just another stoner band and put forward one of the most difficult to define and progressive records ever.

Click here to read the full review: https://ukscumscene.wordpress.com/2018/08/03/review-boss-keloids-melted-on-the-inch/

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THE DOOMED & STONED SHOW

~Season 5, Episode 38~

Cyborg summer continues as we visit the 1991 B-movie disaster Cybernator, directed by Robert Rundle. In not-too-distant future Los Angeles, a cop and his stripper girlfriend uncover a conspiracy by rogue military faction to assassinate senators and other high profile VIPs using cyborgs! What they discover next will shock them to the core. Featuring music by The Melvins, High on Fire, Mr. Bungle, Goatsnake, Greenleaf, Boss Keloid, and much more!

PLAYLIST:

A SENATOR ASSASSINATED (00:00) 1. Melvins - "Revolve" (02:17)

ANOTHER SENATOR ASSASSINATED (07:02) 2. Void Moon - "Assassin of an Age" (08:46)

CYBORGS ATTACK! (13:21) 3. El Escuadrón de la Muerte - "Zombie Robot" (16:06)

PROJECT BLACKHAWK (20:34) 4. MotherSloth - "Doomsday Cyborg" (22:24)

MILITARY SECRETS (29:14) 5. Great Electric Quest - "Damn You" (30:42)

WHISTLEBLOWER (37:19) 6. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - "Hell" (37:56)

RED TAPE (41:36) 7. Hurricane Heart Attacks - "Let It Go" (44:01)

MURDER (48:31) 8. Suma - "Hypno Assassin" (48:54)

SEDITION (58:01) 9. Under - "Malcontents" (1:00:31)

CONFRONTATION (1:08:18) 10. The Pilgrim - "Secrets" (1:09:30)

SUSPENSION (1:14:05) 11. Goatsnake - "IV" (1:17:06)

REVELATION (1:21:38) 12. Greenleaf - "A Point of a Secret" (1:23:59)

CAPTURE (1:28:36) 13. Boss Keloid - "Chronosiam" (1:31:40)

DEBRIEF (1:38:55) 14. Helgamite - "The Secret" (1:41:23)

ULTIMATUM (1:55:17) 15. Kaleidobolt - "Hydra" (1:58:23)

EXPEDITION (2:07:55) 16. BUS - "The Hunt" (2:10:01)

CYBORG SCUM! (2:15:58) 17. High On Fire - "Bat Salad" (2:17:12)

HUMANS BLEED REAL GOOD (2:22:46) 18. Mr. Bungle - "None Of Them Knew They Were Robots" (2:24:22)

SHOWDOWN (2:30:26) 19. Horseburner - "Hand of Gold Man of Stone" (2:33:25)

FINAL BOSS (2:38:30) 20. Haunt - "Triumph" (2:41:30)

CATCH ANY BAD GUYS LATELY? (2:45:33) 21. Jason Kane & The Jive - "Bossman" (2:46:10)

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[gbhbl]

Live Review: Uprising 6 at The O2 Academy, Leicester (29/04/23)

Taking place at The O2 Academy in Leicester, one of the UK’s best kept secrets is Uprising and this year, Uprising 6, we decided to jump in our car and see what all the fuss was about.

Taking place at The O2 Academy in Leicester, one of the UK’s best kept secrets is Uprising and this year, Uprising 6, we decided to jump in our car and see what all the fuss was about. Featuring a varied and exciting blend of rock and metal bands, Uprising 6 was a spectacular day of music. The three stages played host to young up and comers, legends of the scene, and everyone in between. We saw a…

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[doomedandstoned]

The Greatest Ever Heavy Albums of 2021!

~By Jacob Mazlum~

Photograph by Randy J. Byrd

Serpent Column - Katarsis

Katartisis by Serpent Column

It seems a sad but certain fate for many bands -- to start out incredibly daring, pointing a middle finger at everything but your own artistic vision…only to morph into a major-label production line of sub-par ‘accessible’ releases every 2 years (*cough - Mastodon - cough*).

So hearing a band buck this trend by pursuing more accessible directions while improving the quality of their music is truly special.

Well here we are with Serpent Column, the one-man project that just won’t quit. With 4 albums since 2019, this band has become a little more ear-friendly and - wait for it - better with each release.

It’s still a nasty mess that sits somewhere in the murkier regions of black metal. But now there’s something approach melody, rhythm and structure in a way previous releases largely eschewed in favour of (*does invisible orange hands*) pure fucking chaos.

Trhä - lhum jolhduc

lhum jolhduc by Trhä

What even is this? It’s lo fi. It’s weird. It’s in a BM subgenre all to itself.

I know nothing about this band, and they probably prefer it that way. Plus I think they’re one of those acts that make up their own language to write lyrics. (Don’t quote me on that. It’s been a long year.)

Anyway, the music. It sounds like a precarious dive into the strange, beautiful and obscene memories locked away in our subconsciousness. Those memories that form us into the messed-up, grown-up human beings we all become in one way or another.

It’s the dusting off of an old diary. The half legible scrawl of handwriting on decades-old paper. The forgotten words that turn to a fever dream as the past is summoned once more.

That’s what I get from it. You might just like the pretty melodies Trhä kick out occasionally.

Tribulation - Where The Gloom Becomes Sound

These guys used to be one of my favourite death metal bands. And The Formulas of Death is still one of the most exciting, interesting and important DM albums of the last decade, in my opinion.

Then they stopped doing death metal and now they’re my favourite "whatever that metal-ly goth-y thing they do is" band.

Yeah, they’re pretty big these days. And yeah, I didn’t include Carcass’s new release on this list for that exact reason. But hey, it’s my list and I’m the petty despot who says what goes.

Anyway, Tribulation rule. And they’re still making great music even after getting pretty big and softening their sound (*insert second snarky Mastodon reference here*). Listen to it.

Рожь - Вечное

Вечное by Рожь

If you can’t read Cyrillic that’s fine. Google tells me Рожь translates to "Rye" and the album title to "Eternal."

Cool.

And along with Skepticism, this is the best doom-y release I’ve heard this year (I couldn’t be bothered to write an entry for Skepticism’s Companion, but it’s pretty awesome, check it out).

The music, much like the album artwork, paints the canvas black with gloomy swathes of atmosphere, as islands of colour juxtapose on the darkness and bring it to life.

The tone is sombre, awash with aural greys and browns. But the rich production, the undercurrent of melody, and the band’s propensity to switch into black metal mode keep it engaging through each of the songs’ extended runtimes.

Diskord - Degenerations

Degenerations (Dissonant/Technical Death Metal) by DISKORD (Norway)

I don’t trust death metal 3-pieces. Think you’re a punk band or something, bro?

Yet here we are with a Norwegian death metal 3-piece band making my DM album of the year.

Was it the best DM album? Probably not. Carcass did release an album, after all. But this was the most distinctive, adventurous, and interesting death metal album to grace my ears in 2021.

(Note to self: insert some crap about "Voivod having a baby with Virus" here to describe the Рожь sound.)

Yes, I like my DM flowing, pummeling and groovy. Degenerations is none of this.

No, I don’t much like my DM fast or ‘skronky’. And Degenerations has plenty of this.

But it’s sheer originality and inventiveness carry me through all 41 weird minutes of it.

Eternal Sword - The Cursed Land

The Cursed Land by Eternal Sword

The third lo-fi entry on my list and maybe my favourite. The Bandcamp album page has a George RR Martin quote in place of a description, and oh does it set the tone for the music.

Clouded skies. Rain falling. Boots marching. Heavy breathing. Armour clinking. Fear brewing.

Then...orders barked. Arrows loosed. Weapons drawn. Pain-addled screams. Blood-choked last breaths.

War isn’t glorious. Even in that shitty video game you’re always playing. But hey - it inspires some great music.

This is bedroom black metal of the highest order. Epic yet grounded. Ethereal, yet almost tactile. Eternal Sword.

Boss Keloid - Family The Smiling Thrush

Family the Smiling Thrush by Boss Keloid

One of the world’s leading lights in doom-based music lightened up their sound for this very welcome addition to 2021.

By taking their foot off the fuzz pedal and putting it on the, uh, time-signature-and-melody pedal, BK put a bigger focus on the elements that made them stand out from the crowd in the first place.

Not gonna lie, a lot of listeners will find this a turn off, and I can’t even call the band’s sound doom-adjacent anymore. But hey, I dig that they manage to sound like a cross between Mellon Collie-era Pumpkins and King Crimson without the pretentiousness of either.

For the sake of full disclosure I should probably point out these guys are friends of ours. But for the sake of your musical education you should ignore that and buy this album.

Oh and a t-shirt, too.

Atvm - Famine, Putrid and Fucking Endless

Famine, Putrid and Fucking Endless by Atvm

Truth bomb, this is my favourite album of the year.

Read all the other reviews if you want to hear about their blend of prog and death and tech-iness. All I’ll say is that, to my ears, this feels like the closest thing to Unquestionable Presence since...Unquestionable Presence.

It sure doesn’t sound the same. But that agility, melody, adventurousness and desire to place musicality over cheap "heaviness" is what really connects it to Atheist’s landmark album.

Probably the best album of the decade so far.

Jacob Mazlum fronts UK sludge powerhouse Kurokuma and is aa longtime contributor to Doomed & Stoned. Read more of his reviews here.

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GHOST CULT PRESENTS: Mini-Metal Mixtape #23

GHOST CULT PRESENTS: Mini-Metal Mixtape #23

Metal and Coffee’s Mini-Metal Mixtape, presented by Ghost Cult Magazine is back with another new episode! Time to get your weekly dose of an essential mix of the newest extreme music by essential bands, and a few classics baked in there too! In the latest edition of Mini-Metal Mixtape, episode #23, curated by Ebonie Butler a.k.a, Metal & Coffee,  she brings jams out to Thou, King Woman, Year of…

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