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Picture Credit: Occult Hand Order Artwork: Mobsidian Occult Hand Order - The Chained, The Burned, The Wounded Release Date: October 17, 2020 (CD/Digital) / March 05, 2021 (Vinyl) Label: Smokin' Witches Records (CD) / Interstellar Smoke Records (Vinyl) Format: Vinyl / CD / Digital Length: 35:57 Genre: Stoner Doom / Heavy Rock Origin: Lyon , France Only one year after their self-titled debut , Occult Hand Order returned with their sophomore album "The Chained,The Burned, The Wounded". Another six months later, this release is now available on vinyl. Time to take a closer listening on those five tracks by the band from Lyon. "The Chained, The Burned, The Wounded" is opened by the acoustic track 'Azazel', but then immediately slides into heavily halting Desert and Doom sounds. The album is a colourful journey to a planet called Earth, ages after humankind has gone extinct. The dusty remains of the place we once called home appears strange to us - and yet ...

Cover Artwork: Navette Atomic Trip - Strike #1 Release Date: July 11, 2017 Label: Doom & Doomer Records / Violence in the Veins / Wooaaargh / Rooster Records / The Eye of Moscow Records Format: Vinyl / CD / Digital Length: 38:18 Genre: Doom Metal / Sludge Origin: Lyon , France Hello and welcome to another MangoSpecial ! This is Part 1/4 of the special dedicated to Spanish Independent Label Violence in the Veins. We start with Atomic Trip's "Strike #1" which was released in 2017. One-and-a-half years later, there was a second strike, too. The nuclear strike we are talking about here, is segemented into two bombs. Each of them are big enough to fill out a side of the vinyl record which can be ordered in the colours plutonium green and uranium black. I would describe the music on "Strike #1" as follows. Imagine, you are sitting on a front porch or on a balcony and you have just finished rolling the perfect reefer. While lighting it up and taking the first hi...

Picture Credit: Praÿ Artwork: Juliette Abric Praÿ - Hemerith Release Date: December 04, 2020 Label: selfrelease Format: Digital Length: 24:17 Genre: Stoner Doom Origin: Lyon , France "Hemerith" is the second release by Lyon's Stoner Doom trio Praÿ. On their selftitled debut album, the French band has shown that they fancy to record songs with at least ten minutes in length. Hence, the new EP features two tracks with both around twelve minutes playtime. Praÿ are: Antoine Berthet-Bondet  - drums, Jason Rols  - bass, and Maud Gibbons  - guitar. "Hemerith" is like an amazingly long jam journey through deserted lands of beautiful darkness. The first song 'Faithless Goddess' is a gloomy Stoner Doom experience with a strong impact by oriental sounds. 'Widow of Light' is a bit more psychedelic and melodic, but still takes the listeners to the depths of a hallucinetic rush of Doom Metal and Stoner Rock. Despite the minimalist line-up, Praÿ create a maximu...

Die Decibelles, das sind Sabrina, Fanny und Guillaume aus Lyon. Eine ordentliche Ladung rotziger Punk Rock , hochtönender Gesang, massig musikalisches Talent und jede Menge Überraschungen. Vor einem Jahr habe ich die Band mal auf der Bühne erlebt und ich war komplett von den Socken von der schieren Energie, die das Trio erzeugt. Außerdem haben sie die beste aller Versionen von Indochine's "L'aventurieur" gespielt, das ihr euch auf jeden Fall anhören solltet:  Yeux Secs. Jetzt ist allerdings auch schon 2019 und die Decibelles haben ein neues Album veröffentlicht, welches sie "Rock Français" genannt haben. In dem wunderschön aufgemachten Cover verbirgt sich eine großartige Platte mit zehn Tracks, die insgesamt etwas mehr als eine halbe Stunde Spielzeit zusammenbringen. Die Songs gehen mit einer leichtfüßigen Einfachheit ineinander über und weisen eine breite Abwechslung an Stilen, Rhythmen, Tempi und Stimmungen auf. Nichtsdestotrotz ist der rote Faden klar ...

Decibelles from Lyon are Sabrina, Fanny, and Guillaume. A fistful of snotty Punk Rock , high pitched vocals, loads of musical talent, and plenty of surprises. I witnessed the band on stage last year and I was straight up amazed by the sheer power and force the trio creates. Also they played the greatest version of Indochine's "L'aventurier" of all times, which you really should listen to:  Yeux Secs. Anyway it's 2019 and there's a new album out by Decibelles which they named "Rock Français". Within a beautifully layed out cover layout there's a shiny disc containing ten great tracks lasting a bit more than half an hour. The songs merge into another in an easy manner and show plenty of varieties in style, rhythm, metre, tempo, and mood. Nevertheless Decibelles draw a clear golden line on "Rock Français"; it sure is not a straight line, but that was not to be expected anyways. It is the mixture of high pitched vocals, rough and fast...