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Bay Area guitar/drums duo Black Cobra is another one of them sludgy power trios and stoner duos like Om, Big Business, Weedeater & High on Fire.

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Since we’re all caught in this folk wave, it would only be fair to write about the clash of these two very All-American traditions in music: Bluegrass and Metallica. They’re similar in so many ways that it’s a mixture that can’t go wrong. Like Bluegrass, Metallica is all about heaven & hell, war and peace, struggles and perils of life and so forth.

We went to see Rune Grammofon’s avantjazzmetal combo Shining yesterday night. I had heard that they pack a punch at their shows. They were very loud indeed. When the guitars kicked in during their opener Winterreise, I thought my ears were bleeding.

* A great Marcelo Fabian tune on soapism, and an old cosmic disco track by Peter Brown.
* new songs from El Perro del Mar on Hippie, Hippie, Hoorah
* Sun Electric – Toninas (Ricardo Villalobos Remix) on Did you see the worlds, also Esbjörn Svensson Trio – Did they ever tell Cousteau?
* Plantlife – When she Smiles she Lights the Sky ( 4hero remix) on Streetkiss

California’s Upsilon Acrux may not be as intense as grindcore bands in tempo and noise, but it’s complex oddtimed riffage and polyrhythmic drumming (and silly album names?) is quite correctly labeled as “brutal prog“.

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