THURSDAY MAY 02, 2019
UFOMAMMUT
This year 2019, UFOMAMMUT is celebrating 20 years as a band! The band was formed in February of 1999 by Poia, Urlo and Vita in a small room in the middle of nowhere in Italy.The idea was to survive the boredom of living in a little town while also having the intention of creating music to spread all around the Globe. After eight albums, plenty of tours, festivals and kilometers on the road, the band is ready to celebrate this important anniversary event with their marvelous and loyal fans with a special European and a North American tours this spring.
This year 2019, UFOMAMMUT is celebrating 20 years as a band! The band was formed in February of 1999 by Poia, Urlo and Vita in a small room in the middle of nowhere in Italy.The idea was to survive the boredom of living in a little town while also having the intention of creating music to spread all around the Globe. After eight albums, plenty of tours, festivals and kilometers on the road, the band is ready to celebrate this important anniversary event with their marvelous and loyal fans with a special European and a North American tours this spring.
Kings Destroy
With their third album in four years, Kings Destroy leave their hardcore-born stamp on noise rock and doom. After sharing stages with Pentagram, Winter, Saint Vitus, Church of Misery, Pallbearer, Vista Chino, Orange Goblin, Trouble, Acid King, C.O.C. – and many more – the Brooklyn five-piece stand tall with their defining statement.
It’s no coincidence the record is self-titled. Also their third collaboration with producer Sanford Parker, it is the landing point to which their first two albums – 2010’s And the Rest Will Surely Perish and 2013’s A Time of Hunting – were leading.
Kings Destroy is the best studio translation yet of their live sound, and it’s their most representative material, ripping through the sanitized, reified, name-brand strip mall fashion statement vision of “the city” to the thick-blooded intensity lurking beneath, waiting to surface.
Kings Destroy aren’t the dirt under your fingernails, they’re the smog in your lungs. Songs like “Mr. O” are faster and more cutting than the band has ever been, while closer “Time for War” seethes with a brooding restlessness after the dare-to-be-hopeful “Green Diamonds.” Even the album’s opening paean to Motown’s Smokey Robinson has a heavy-footed, almost mechanical stomp, and as the gritty disaffection of “Mytho” unfolds from the open-spaced doom riffing of “W2,” one gets a sense of just how spiritually and mentally crushing the city can be.
More of a thematic work than a concept album, Kings Destroy isn’t always direct – “Embers” reimagines jutting docks as fjords and businesspeople as soldiers marching in time – but even when the lyrics take the listener someplace else, musically, the band retains the inimitable mark of the place that birthed them: Not nearly as gone from time as the smiling faces in tourism commercials would have you believe.
With their third album in four years, Kings Destroy leave their hardcore-born stamp on noise rock and doom. After sharing stages with Pentagram, Winter, Saint Vitus, Church of Misery, Pallbearer, Vista Chino, Orange Goblin, Trouble, Acid King, C.O.C. – and many more – the Brooklyn five-piece stand tall with their defining statement.
It’s no coincidence the record is self-titled. Also their third collaboration with producer Sanford Parker, it is the landing point to which their first two albums – 2010’s And the Rest Will Surely Perish and 2013’s A Time of Hunting – were leading.
Kings Destroy is the best studio translation yet of their live sound, and it’s their most representative material, ripping through the sanitized, reified, name-brand strip mall fashion statement vision of “the city” to the thick-blooded intensity lurking beneath, waiting to surface.
Kings Destroy aren’t the dirt under your fingernails, they’re the smog in your lungs. Songs like “Mr. O” are faster and more cutting than the band has ever been, while closer “Time for War” seethes with a brooding restlessness after the dare-to-be-hopeful “Green Diamonds.” Even the album’s opening paean to Motown’s Smokey Robinson has a heavy-footed, almost mechanical stomp, and as the gritty disaffection of “Mytho” unfolds from the open-spaced doom riffing of “W2,” one gets a sense of just how spiritually and mentally crushing the city can be.
More of a thematic work than a concept album, Kings Destroy isn’t always direct – “Embers” reimagines jutting docks as fjords and businesspeople as soldiers marching in time – but even when the lyrics take the listener someplace else, musically, the band retains the inimitable mark of the place that birthed them: Not nearly as gone from time as the smiling faces in tourism commercials would have you believe.
Dead Now
To those who miss the fuzztastic buzz of Andrew Elstner’s guitar since he left Torche nearly two years ago: may you mourn no longer. The Atlanta native has joined forces with Derek Schulz (bass) and Bobby Theberge (drums) of experimental metal duo Day Old Man to form Dead Now, a sludgy, buzzy, heavy stoner rock outfit that sounds best when cranked to 11, Spin̈al Tap-style.Signed to Brutal Panda Records, the band will be releasing its self-titled debut album on September 7, just in time for their upcoming Kerrang!-sponsored tour with Red Fang, Big Business, and Monolord which kicks off in Raleigh, North Carolina, the same day.“Derek, Bobby and I couldn’t be more hyped for this,” said Elstner of the upcoming release. “Killer label, amazing people, and now we’re desperate to get the jams in front of some faces and just crush.”
To those who miss the fuzztastic buzz of Andrew Elstner’s guitar since he left Torche nearly two years ago: may you mourn no longer. The Atlanta native has joined forces with Derek Schulz (bass) and Bobby Theberge (drums) of experimental metal duo Day Old Man to form Dead Now, a sludgy, buzzy, heavy stoner rock outfit that sounds best when cranked to 11, Spin̈al Tap-style.Signed to Brutal Panda Records, the band will be releasing its self-titled debut album on September 7, just in time for their upcoming Kerrang!-sponsored tour with Red Fang, Big Business, and Monolord which kicks off in Raleigh, North Carolina, the same day.“Derek, Bobby and I couldn’t be more hyped for this,” said Elstner of the upcoming release. “Killer label, amazing people, and now we’re desperate to get the jams in front of some faces and just crush.”