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  First of all, and because it cannot be said often enough: нет войны | ні війні | No War How to help the people in Ukraine ______________________________________________________ Afterbirth Cartoons - Sick Day Release Date: January 01, 2022 Label: Space Yage Records / Blanche House Productions Format: CD / Digital Duration: 41:49 Genre: Sardonic Beat Punk Origin: Phoenix , AZ , USA Quite some time has passed since Galatea  (bass and vocals) of Afterbirth Cartoons has first contacted to request a review of the band's latest album. Sorry for taking so long, Galatea , Jacob  (drums), and Alvah  (vocals, guitar, harmonica, vibroslap). The review will commence after the first music video. Feel free to skip my rambling if you like. The CD should have arrived at the MangoWave HQ around mid-March 2022. Neverthless, the German customs office wanted to be sure I am not receiving illegal substances or weapons etc sent from the USA. Thus, I had to go to a neighbouring town ...

Picture Credit: Melanie Be   Teen Mortgage - Smoked Release Date: October 22, 2021 Label: King Pizza Records Format: Cassette / Digital Length: 15:26 Genre: Stoner Punk / Post Punk Origin: Washington, D.C. , USA Two-and-a-half years ago, D.C.-based duo Teen Mortgage crashed into the realms of Punk, Post Punk, Stoner, and Garage when they released their first EP "Life / Death" . With the bouyancy of a jackhammer and the elegance of a wrecking ball, Ed  and James  are back and present their sophomore release "Smoked" via King Pizza Records - a record label with a name so great, it makes me hungry. Thus, here we are with five new tracks hot as the desert sun and snottier than thou. SMOKED by TEEN MORTGAGE "Smoked" is opened by the energetic moshpit destroyer 'Shangri-La' that directly leads into the dynamic title track. In the first half especially, Teen Mortgage play fast, merciless, and hrilling UK-style Punk and Post Punk with a rad Garage sound. ...

Picture Credit: Drahma R.   Mothman and The Thunderbirds - 96 Quite Bitter Beings (CKY Cover) Release Date: September 28, 2021 Length: 03:21 Genre: Stoner Metal / Stoner Punk Origin: Philadelphia , PA , USA CKY's '96 Quite Bitter Beings' might be one of the most famous songs in the world of skateboarding. The Alternative Metal and Skate Punk hymn was featured on Jackass and the legendary third part of THPS series. If you watched MTV in the late 90s and the early post-Millenium years or if you had at least one friend wearing baggy pants and trucker caps, you will know this anthem. 96 Quite Bitter Beings (Single) by Mothman and The Thunderbirds Philadelphia's Mothman Alex Parkinson  has wanted to record a cover version of CKY's hit for a long time, and now it is here. With help from Egor Lappo  who was responsible for production, mix and master, this plan has now been realized. In the beginning, the Mothman and The Thunderbirds version of "96 Quite Bitter Beings...

Picture Credit: Slowpoke Artwork: Britni Catfood   Slowpoke - Slowpoke Release Date: August 22, 2021 Label: selfrelease Format: Digital Length: 45:08 Genre: Stoner Punk Origin: St. John's , Newfoundland and Labrador , Canada Slowpoke are a trio from the capital of Northeast Canadian province Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John's. The sparsely populated and cold region has not appeared on my musical atlas until today, thus I am glad to introduce you to Adam Young  (drums), Cameron Legge  (guitar), and Ben Chapman-Smith  (guitar, bass, vocals), as well as their guest musicians Al Yeti Bones  and Gordon McCready  who helped to make the selftitled debut album what it is. The seven-track album is a powerful self-representation of the Canadian band formed in 2018. On 45 minutes Slowpoke provide us with a heavy "Here we are now, deal with it". The music can predominantly be categorized under the term Stoner Punk. Digging deeper, you could call it a non-compromise ...

Picture Credit: Titanosaur   Titanosaur -  Inti Wañu Release Date: July 02, 2021 Label: The Swamp Format: Digital Length: 23:17 Genre: Stoner Punk / Stoner Metal Origin: Hudson , New York , USA The latest release " Messages " by Hudson's one-saurian-army is only seven months old, but Geoff Saavedra , also known as Titanosaur is already back with his EP "Inti Wañu". The title is the Quechuan word for "Sun Warrior" and describes Saavedra 's connection to his Ecuadorian roots, especially to his grandmother who is a direct descendant of the Inca. Like on the previous work, vocals, guitars, bass, and programming were done by Geoff Saavedra . Guest musicians are Anthony DiFiglio , who played the guitar solo on 'On the Run', and Froglord who contributed backing vocals and the lead guitar on 'Someone will come'. The sounds on "Inti Wañu" can be described as a brachial mix of Stoner Punk, Stoner Metal, and Stenchcore. Personally,...

  Team O - Tales from the Lockdown Release Date: March 22, 2021 Label: selfrelease Format: Cassette / CD / Digital Length: 39:12 (43:52 including bonus track) Genre: Garage Rock / Stoner Punk Origin: Berlin , Germany Team O - the original team - is the solo band by Timo Tolkmitt , also known as the bass player at DxBxSx and guitar player at Blutige Knie . A whole decade after the release of his album " Broken ", Timo Tolkmitt  used the first lockdown to record his " Corona Sessions Part I ". The album on hand is yet another product of the COVID situation - technically and content-wise. Team O recorded the songs at home and at the rehearsal room. In the lyrics he concerns the new reality coined by the virus - isolation, people losing their jobs and facing poverty, people spiralling into severe poverty, capitalists benefitting from that, conspiracy theorists and the new right benefitting from that, and the general feeling that all of that sucks. All instruments were...

Release Day! 24/7 Diva Heaven's debut album "Stress" is out now via Noisolution. Click here for the review Click here for the interview (German original) Click here for the interview (English translation) LISTEN 24/7 Diva Heaven Online: Facebook Instagram Bandcamp YouTube Spotify Looking for affordable and high quality promotion for your music? Here's MusoSoup! Follow MangoWave on Telegram DONATE

  Hi, and first of all thanks for taking your time for this interview! Can you briefly introduce yourselves to the readers? And also, can you tell us how you came up with the bandname? Kat  (guitar / vocals): Hey, thanks for inviting us! We are 24/7 Diva Heaven, a rock trio from Berlin. We started jamming back in 2017, and released our first EP "Superslide" in 2018. This year, we are releasing our debut album "Stress" via Noisolution which makes us very happy. About the bandname: There used to be a series of events in Berlin called "Diva Heaven 7/11". It was a monthly event in the Raumerweiterungshalle in Berlin supporting queer and female artists and giving them a platform to perform. There was a lot of glamour, glitter, amazing acts, plenty of creativity, and a colourful audience. We were deeply inspired by these events. Being a diva to us means coming out of our shells, and performing our own multifarious identities, even though this might rub general p...

  Hallo und erstmal vielen Dank, dass ihr euch Zeit für das Interview nehmt. Möchtet ihr euch kurz vorstellen? Und könnt ihr bei der Gelegenheit auch gleich sagen, wie ihr zu dem Bandnamen gekommen seid? Kat (guitar / vocals): Hey, vielen Dank für die Einladung zum Interview! Wir sind 24/7 DIVA HEAVEN, ein Rock-Trio aus Berlin! Unsere ersten gemeinsamen Jams stammen aus 2017, eine erste EP („SUPERSLIDE“) folgte 2018 und in diesem Jahr bringen wir nun endlich unser Debüt Album „STRESS“ über NOISOLUTION heraus, was uns mächtig freut! Hier kommt die Geschichte zu unserem Namen: In Berlin gab es eine Veranstaltungsreihe, die „DIVA HEAVEN 7 /11“ hieß. Diese fand einmal im Monat in der Raumerweiterungshalle statt und hatte sich zur Aufgabe gemacht, queere und weibliche Künstler*innen zu unterstützen und ihnen eine Plattform zu bieten. Da war immer irgendwie Glamour am Start: Glitzer, klasse Acts, viel Kreativität und ein buntes Publikum. Das hat uns sehr inspiriert. Diva zu sein be...

Picture Credit: 24/7 Diva Heaven 24/7 Diva Heaven - Stress Release Date: March 19, 2021 Label: Noisolution Format: Vinyl / CD / Digital Length: 39:02 Genre: Grunge / Stoner Punk Origin: Berlin , Germany Karo , Kat , and Mary  are 24/7 Diva Heaven from Berlin and they have produced one of my most eagerly-awaited albums of this year. Here is "Stress", the trio's first full-length release, available on pink vinyl via Berlin-Kreuzberg's sympathetic label Noisolution. "Strees" is defined by powerful and sonorous riffs rolling forward with heavy weight. The intense use of fuzz creates a massive smoked-out atmosphere outshining Fu Manchu or Hermano. Further, the strong velocity is immediately activating all body parts, making it impossible to sit or stand still when 24/7 Diva Heaven play their songs. And not only is the colourful sound crunchy and grungy as hell, the trio knows how to let mid-tempo stoned tunes slide into full-throttle kick-ass Punk Rock. 24/7 Div...

  24/7 Diva Heaven - Potface Release Date: March 11, 2021 Length: 03:28 Genre: Grunge / Stoner Punk Origin: Berlin , Germany "All my friends are wasted, all my friends are high". With the single "Potface", Berlin's Grunge, Stoner and Punk Rockers 24/7 Diva Heaven mark the final step before their debut album "Stress" will be released next weekend via Noisolution . The trio provides us with a fuzzy Stoner song and a music video that describes Berlin perfectly. Content from the  MangoNews  will always stay in the  MangoRotation  playlist for 14 days. 24/7 Diva Heaven Online: Facebook Instagram Bandcamp YouTube Spotify Looking for affordable and high quality promotion for your music? Here's MusoSoup! Follow MangoWave on Telegram DONATE

Picture Credit: Lords of the Opium Church Lords of the Opium Church - Lords of the Opium Church Release Date: February 18, 2021 Label: selfrelease Format: Digital Length: 27:50 Genre: Heavy Rock / Stoner Rock Origin: Edmonton ( Alberta ), Canada Terry Paholek  (bass and vocals), Rob Lawless  (drums) and Jordo LeMoine  (guitar and vocals) are the Lords of the Opium Church. With that name you can easily run a drug cartel, a Drone Doom band or an international trading community. As far as I know, the trio from Alberta does neither of the three. What I do know is that Terry , Rob  and Jordo  have recently released their self-titled debut album. What the band has recorded here is some fast-forward Heavy Stoner Rock. It could be due to the latitude that the music by Lords of the Opium Church shows certain similarities to Swedish Stoner Rock à la Greenleaf or Spiritual Beggars. Nevertheless, the Canadian trio presents a colourful mix of styles that are enveloped in t...