LP Review: "Ah Puch" by Dirge

Ah Puch

There is something very special about Doom Metal to me. It's the one type of metal that reaches out to touch the ancients. So, Doom always gets a look from me.

Pune, India's Dirge is preparing to unleash their concept album about ancient Mayan mythology onto the rest of the world. Thanks to the magic of the internet, this indie record can be in your ears too.

A doom metal concept record from a country without a vaunted metal scene. This ticks all of my boxes personally, but none of that matters without the strength of the music to back it up.

This is a slow tempo, Godzilla stomp of a doom metal record. The thick sludge has just the right amount of filth to it. One can almost feel the sweltering jungles of the Yucatan.

Ah Puch has just enough musical diversity mixed in with droning doom to keep the long songs and album flowing on an even keel. The vocals are pained and impassioned. The guitars are riffy. The rhythm section holds the flow to a steady drip drip pace.

Ah Puch has put Dirge on my radar.

Release: 10/19/18 FACEBOOK BANDCAMP

Foods We Love with Overhung

Mumbai's Overhung are having a nice spot of unbother in the world.

They've recently made their North American debut after Test Your Metal Records released Movin Ahead. You can check that out HERE.

If you love Kiss, Zeppelin, and all of those bands we all remember, it might behoove you to explore the grooves coming to you all the way from India.

You should probably ask them about their name on FACEBOOK, because I have no clue what it means.

For now though, let's find out about the foodish proclivities!

1. For me, lunch is usually the meal where I don't have to deal with the Napoleon of Food. So it's my favorite meal. What's your best meal of the day?

Dinner for me.. Need to slam it down and slip into a Food induced coma.

LP Review: "Even Gods Must Die" by Djinn and Miskatonic

Even Gods Must Die

How do you like your metal served?

I was talking to a gent on the Twitter recently who hates doom metal, unless it's melancholic funeral etc doom metal.

Personally, I don't have the qualifications there, I mean, most types of doom metal are a-ok with me.

This is where we can totally get into those heavy metal family trees and take it all the way back to Deep Purple and Black Sabbath, but let's talk about Star Wars instead.

Have you seen The Last  Jedi?

One of the complaints is that this wasn't the story the fans wanted to see. So, that's why it's bad, because the fans wanted Rian Johnson to tell a different story rather than the one he did.

LP Review: "Delirious Excursion" by Darkrypt

Delirious Excursion

Historically speaking, music has been traditionally segregated among races, nationalities, and creeds.

Frankly, this is not a concept that's easy to understand for this blogger.

Let's get in the Wayback Machine all the way to 1986 when the Beastie Boys were unleashing Licensed To Ill on Def Jam Records, owned by Rick Rubin and Russell Simmons.

They had the first major hip-hop album to hit Number One on the Billboard Charts. The Beastie Boys of course, were a former punk band peopled with Jewish New Yorkers...some of whom then transitioned to Buddhism.

Like The Run DMC version of Walk This Way released just months previous, they added colors to the palette for that genre of music. Well, what about going back even further to the Yardbirds playing 12 bar blues...a band that gave birth to Cream and Led Zeppelin. Again...palettes were expanded.

Album Review: "The Burden Is Mine" by Demonstealer

The Burden Is Mine

New things can be uncomfortable.

When melodic singing started taking a back seat to the more guttural variety, Fear Factory charged back with a style of singing that incorporated both the growls and the singing.

Bruce Dickinson has made a fantastic career out of singing very powerful notes and on the flip side, John Tardy hasn't exactly had a terrible career for himself growling in Obituary, and only growling.

Back to Fear Factory, after hearing so much about this band, they left me disappointed at Ozzfest.

Unlike King Diamond, the changing of the vocal styles did not feel like a method of improving the delivery of a message, but a gimmick to be exploited in order to stand apart from the crowded field of angry vocalists.