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On the Radar: Dopelord
It’s been a while since I’ve put a Polish band on the radar, and Dopelord, who hail from about 20 minutes outside Gdansk, fit the bill nicely, in both their locale and their riffs, which on their...
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Psy-High Fest Coming to Czech Republic this Weekend
When your festival location requires GPS coordinates, you’re off to a good start. This weekend, the Czech Republic will play host to the Psy-High fest, an independently-produced psychedelia and heavy...
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audiObelisk Transmission 036
Click Here to Download Here is the Music Player. You need to installl flash player to show this cool thing! It was getting on two in the morning last night and I was yet again trying to figure out...
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On the Radar: Dopelord
It’s been a while since I’ve put a Polish band on the radar, and Dopelord, who hail from about 20 minutes outside Gdansk, fit the bill nicely, in both their locale and their riffs, which on their...
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Psy-High Fest Coming to Czech Republic this Weekend
When your festival location requires GPS coordinates, you’re off to a good start. This weekend, the Czech Republic will play host to the Psy-High fest, an independently-produced psychedelia and heavy...
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audiObelisk Transmission 036
Click Here to Download Here is the Music Player. You need to installl flash player to show this cool thing! It was getting on two in the morning last night and I was yet again trying to figure out...
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Tomorrow’s Dream: 200+ of 2017’s Most Anticipated Releases
Looks like it’s going to be another busy 12 months ahead. It’s been a busy better-part-of-a-month already, so that stands to reason, but you should know that of the several years now that I’ve done...
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Desertfest Berlin 2018 Adds Death Alley, Yuri Gagarin & Dopelord
You know it’s still early days when it comes to filling out the Spring festival season in Europe because there’s still so much room for more logos on the poster for Desertfest Berlin 2018. No doubt the...
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The Top 20 of 2017 Year-End Poll — RESULTS!
Happy New Year 2018! If you’re reading this, welcome to the future. Enjoy your flying car, free healthcare, universal income, matter replicators and life on that moon colony you moved to a couple...
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Keep it Low 2019: The Machine, Lo-Pan, Desert Storm and Dopelord Added to Lineup
This makes me happy for two reasons. First, Keep it Low has been a regular feature of my autumnal daydreams for years now. The Munich-based, Sound of Liberation-helmed festival, aside from regularly...
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Dopelord, Weedpecker, Major Kong & Spaceslug, 4-Way Split: Finding a Place
They come from Lublin, from Wroclaw, and from Warsaw, and they bring riffs in bulk, but what’s even more striking about the four-way split from Polish heavyweights Dopelord, Weedpecker, Major Kong and...
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Desertfest Belgium 2019: Zeal & Ardor to Headline; Dopelord and Lo-Pan Added
Desertfest Belgium 2019 isn’t quite done with its 2019 lineup yet, but as you can see below, that poster is getting awfully packed, so we must be getting close. With the announcement of Zeal and Ardor...
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The Obelisk Show on Gimme Radio Playlist: Episode 32
Last episode, I did comfort songs the whole way through, new stuff and old, and at the risk of saying something remotely nice about myself, I thought it was the best show I’ve ever done. This time, of...
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Days of Rona: Dopelord
The statistics of COVID-19 change with every news cycle, and with growing numbers, stay-at-home isolation and a near-universal disruption to society on a global scale, it is ever more important to...
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Quarterly Review: Sergio Ch., Dool, Return to Worm Mountain, Dopelord,...
I don’t imagine I need to tell you it’s been a hell of a quarter, existentially speaking. It’s like the world decided to play ’52 card pickup’ but with tragedy. Still, music marches on, and so the...
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The Obelisk Show on Gimme Radio Playlist: Episode 38
Good show. As of this writing, I haven’t cut the voice tracks yet for the breaks, but there’s really only so much I can do to screw it up, though I’m sure one way or the other I’ll try. My head’s been...
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Quarterly Review: Dopelord, Scorched Oak, Kings of the Fucking Sea,...
Third day, and you know what that means. Today we hit and pass the halfway mark of this Quarterly Review. I won’t say it hasn’t been work, but it seems like every time I do one of these lately I...
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The Otolith & Dopelord Announced for PostWax Vol. II
This brings us up to seven of the nine total inclusions for PostWax Vol. II, and if I tell you The Otolith‘s debut album is among the outings I’m most looking forward to in this series, I hope you’ll...
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The Obelisk Show on Gimme Metal Playlist: Episode 58
I’m trying to break my own rules a little bit. Every now and again, it’s a decent exercise to try to change things up. I kind of did the same last ep, by starting out with a bunch of classic doom....
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Desertfest Belgium 2021: Kadavar, My Sleeping Karma, Dopelord & More Added to...
Can’t help but wonder if this isn’t the shape of things to come. Amid loosening regulations in the country, Desertfest Belgium 2021 announces a hopeful list of names for the Antwerp edition of the...
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