Kiwi Stoner rock/metal band The House Of Capricorn have a new album ‘Morning Star Rise’ released on December 1st via Svart Records (home of the mighty Witch Mountain).
Before the release of the album, you can enjoy this atmospheric and grainy video clip (directed and edited by Amber Beaton at Villiantime) for the lead single ‘The Only Star In The Sky’.
Steel Trees have something for you… A free download of their current single ‘Loggerhead’.
Signed to Dirty Fuzz Records, the Sheffield based band share similar angular traits to fellow Yorkshiremen Hawk Eyes and have already scored previous support slots with Dinosaur Jr, Baby Godzilla and Turbowolf.
The track can be streamed/downloaded via the widget below.
The debut EP from Sunderland’s Witch Charmer – 2013’s ‘Europhoric Curse’ – presented four slabs of top-class metal. As a near-perfect example of the more accessible end of the doom metal/occult rock genre, they needed to work hard to surpass its greatness on any follow-up recording.
Prior to its release in the last quarter of 2014, Portland’s Witch Mountain proclaimed ‘Mobile of Angels’ to be their “most complete album yet”. At that time, the band had already survived seventeen years of changing musical fashions alongside shifting personnel; the core of their sound now resembling an uncompromising, crushing slowness inflected with a bluesy tone. ‘Mobile’ certainly shows a hugely broad confidence and its material, for the most part, represents top class doom metal. Granted, the bulk of the songs do not necessarily represent anything that anyone bar the more committed doom fan would reach for on a regular basis, but then, it’s unlikely that Witch Mountain were ever looking for mass acceptance with this album – but in terms of becoming one of the strongest acts within their field, it’s a resounding success. It also acts as an epitaph for another phase of the band’s journey, being the last in a trilogy of discs to feature lead vocalist Uta Plotkin.
On the eve of the release of their second album ‘Condemned to Hope’, UK metallers Black Moth have a little something for you.
Below, you can watch a full live performance of the upcoming album’s opening track ‘Tumbleweave’, recorded at London’s Barfly earlier in 2014.