Fresh Mango: January 16, 2022
15 new releases that are worth checking out!
15 short reviews.
If available on Spotify, one song each will also be added to the MangoRotation playlist (MR) for 14 days.
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King Bastard - It came from the Void (MR)
Fasten your seatbelts and pray that our brains will not melt when our space is travelling to unknown spheres at the speed of life. King Bastard from Stony Brook, New York are guiding us to alien and hostile corners of the universe. And yet, the journey is extremely fascinating. During this forty-five.minute trip, the quartet shows us the intersection of The Sky at Night and nightmares. Their Space Doom combines the mesmerizing themes of 1970s Psychedelic Rock with massive Doom Metal. Vocalist Isabel Guido adds the bittersweet atmosphere of Doom Jazz à la Bohren & der Club of Gore by thrilling saxophone themes, while brachial Sludge attacks as in 'Psychosis (in a Vacuum)' define the other extreme of this album. Alongside The Mountain King's "The Smell of Stars and Vomit", King Bastard's debut album is a flagship of the Space Doom genre.
Listening recommendation: 'Psychosis (in a Vacuum)', 'Bury the Survivors/Ashes to Ahes'
Guerilla State - Autonomy: Part 2 (MR)
Nine months after the release of their first album, transcontinental duo Guerilla State are back with the second part of the "Autonomy" series. From Belfast, North Ireland and Melbourne, Australia, the two members watch politics and politicians interfere with their subject and with our home planet. Their pleading is loud and clear: it cannot go on like this. And thus, Guerilla State call for war against injustice, inequality, hatred, manipulation, and arbitrariness. The band's message is carried by thrilling Electro Punk, dynamic Punk Rock, and soulful Indie Rock.
Listening recommendation: 'Handle with care', 'Night in the Wild'
Kinghorn - Kinghorn (MR)
The selftitled debut album by Kinghorn from Portland, Oregon is a 35-minute deep bath in dark soundwaves. The trio presents a thrilling soundscape that is spanned between the pillars of Shoegaze, Post Punk, and Sludge. Kinghorn create a thick sonic mist that is coated by nocturnal darkness. Below this combination that affects the sight lies a massive swamp. And between these themes that musick blindness and paralysis, the band from the Pacific Northwest plays powerful and yet emotional, angry and yet fragile tunes.
Listening recommendation: 'Black Sea', 'Death Scerets'
Svartulven - Ruins of Desolation, Transcendence for the other Side (MR)
The Icelandic band name means Black Wolf from England, and apart from the fact that the band is from Greece, little to nothing is known about them. The mystery shall not lessen the enthusiasm about this deep dark piece of brachial arts. On seven tracks and for thirty-eight minutes, Svartulven provide our ears with the coldest and blackest of Metal sounds. Their album "Ruins of Desolation, Trascendence for the other Side' follows the tradition os second-wave Black Metal, and bathes the world in darkness like the wolf Fenrir does in the course of Ragnarök.
Listening recommendation: 'Svartulven in Twilight', 'The Crystal Scythe of the Old'
Battosai - Come in alone
Originally recorded and released by My Bloody Valentine, 'Come in alone' is the latest single released by trio Battosai from Spanish place of pilgrimage Santiago de Compostela. This hommage was recorded for the episode 'P.814 - Homenaje a 1991, el año que cambió la música' of the podcast"Bienvenido a los 90". The cover version by Battosai find My Bloody Valentine's bearing, and yet it is a more modern and contemporary version of the Grunge ballad since Battosai appear more broadshouldered and less fragile on the track.
Listening recommendation: Both versions are amazing
Bring to Bear - Light and Shadow (MR)
Another great hommage is contained on the latest EP release by London's Symphonic Metal sextett Bring to Bear. Besides the two original tracks 'The Shadow Ruse' and 'From the Abyss', Bring to Bear present their version of Queens of the Stone Age's anthem 'No One Knows' from 2002. On all three songs of the EP, energetic and heavily swaying rhythms accompany the band's combination of intense Heavy Metal and catchy Folk themes.
Listening recommendation: Try not to move your feet to this release, you will fail.
Tigers on Opium - 503.420.6669.Vol. 2
On the second part of this series, Tigers on Opium from Portland, Oregon show that they have not given up playing with numbers pregnant with meaning. Thick smoke blows from each of the five tracks. Three humorous skits provide extra entertainment on this hypnotizing album. Massive Stoner Rock and Psychedelic Rock from cloud nine make an alloy that is as stunning as kush. The final spice is added by the dirty Punk Rock attitude.
Listening recommendation: '82nd St. Harlequin', 'Snowflakes'
Secte - Secte
Based in the vibrant and international city of Brussels, Belgium, David C and Gregory Duby have founded Secte in the year 2018. Armed with drums and guitars, the duo creates music that is as cosmopolitan as their home town. Arab scales and motifs float above Post Punk themes, and psychedelic sounds make the listeners cross the globe several times. This instrumental release is a melancholic, stunning, and thrilling product of a united world.
Listening recommendation: 'Syria', 'Fin de Sabbat'
Sir Reg - Open the Pubs (MR)
As William Wallace once said, 'They may take our live, but they will never take our drinks!', Sir Reg from Sweden recalls the times of lockdowns and restrictions. On dynamic The Pokes or The Stanfields-like Celtic Punk, Sir Reg animates our body to go drinking, dancing, and swaying from bar to bar - while taking care of not spreading the virus, of course.
Listening recommendation: Press play and repeat, have a drink, open the pubs.
Typanon - Amentia (MR)
Quartet Trypanon has released their debut album "Amentia" in October 2021. This year in April, the album will be available on CD via Narcoleptica Records. For half an hour and on six songs, the band from Oulu, Finland provides us with the sound that might most likely make hell freeze. Doom and (Post) Black Metal create a sound raw as the Northern winter, dark as the polar night, and aggressive as a blizzard of icicles.
Listening recommendation: 'Goddess of the Night', 'Ikuisuuteen Muistosi Katoaa'
The Hellfreaks - Sabotage (MR)
Speaking of hell, here are The Hellfreaks. The Hungarian Punk Rock band has covered one of the most anthemic and oustanding songs in the history of Rapcore and Crossover: 'Sabotage' by the Beastie Boys. Covering such a legendary tune, often comes with the danger of not coming up to the original or disappointing at least one group of fans. For The Hellfreaks, this does not apply as they masterfully create their very own version of the classic.
Listening recommendation: Re-listen your Beastie Boys records, and check out The Hellfreaks
Space Coke - Lunacy
Smoking amps, satanic psychedelia, and a deep vortex of sound dragging you towards the most colourful places in the whole universe, that is what Space Coke from Savannah, Georgia make us experience on their latet album "Lunacy". Forbidden Place Records publishes an album that is coined organ-driven Psychedelic Rock in the style of the 1960s and 70s, bright kaleidoscopes of Space Rock rocketing with warp speed, and occvlt motifs that reach from traditional Doom to contemporary Sludge.
Listening recomenndation: 'Alice Litiu', 'Nightmare'
Maha Sohona - Endless Searcher (MR)
Johan, Thomas, and David from Swedish town Umeå have relased their newest album "Endless Searcher" at the end of last years. Five tracks, only one of them shorter than seven minutes create a relaxed and yet doomed and stoned atmosphere in which the Swedish trio is on an endless search in galaxies far away from Earth. Psychedelic Space Rock builds up tension that is then discharged by massive Stoner Rock riffs. "Endless Searcher" is as thrilling and as beautiful as a clear sky at night.
Listening recommendation: 'Lusftlott', 'Scavengers'
Pia Isa - Follow the Sun (MR)
The first solo piece by Pia Isa from Viken, Norway is also the first announcement of the artist's solo debut "Distorted Chants" which is to be expected on March 25. Raw and atmospheric Doom Metal meets hypnotizing chorals and thrilling vocals, when Pia Isa tells about the song's protagonist being torn towards a solar eclipse.
Listening recommendation: Listen to Pia's band Superlynx until the solo album is out. Then put both of them on heavy rotation.
Preamp Disaster - Above the Bloodline (MR)
Giant tides of atmospheric Post Rock clash onto a dark wall of Doom Metal when Preamp Disaster from Lucerne, Switzerland present their latest single 'Above the Bloodline'. The band provides us with a soundscape that reminds of a tempest raging at the horizon that is steadily coming closer. On five minutes, Preamp Disaster electrify the air and build up an amazing arc of suspense, and a great twist (but listen for yourselves).
Listening recommendation: Listen while wandering through nature
Purple Dawn - Old Fashioned Black Madness
And finally, Cologne's Purple Dawn close this Fresh Mango episode with some good ole black madness. The Doom Rockers provide us with rolling riffs, massive beats, and vocals like thunder. This anthem for peace and doom deals with the ongoing cycle of happenings that we call history.
Listening recommendation: Break the cycle, and help peace, love and doom succeed
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