khost is an industrial doom metal duo from Birmingham, UK, but it has been named after a city and a region in Afghanistan. An EP titled Needles Into The Ground will be released soon on Cold Spring Records with three songs from their latest album which have been de/re-constructed by Justin K. Broadrick of Godflesh, and one unreleased song.

Yes, this is metal, but literally.

Godflesh is one of the most influential industrial/drone metal bands. It was founded by Justin K. Broadrick (who was the guitarist of Napalm Death in 1985-86) and G.C. Green in 1988. The band dissolved in 2002, and reformed in 2009.

Justin Broadrick (1985-86: guitar) grew up in a hippie commune. He was about 8 when he heard Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music at first. After Napalm Death he was influenced by 80s hip-hop sound and acid house. His other bands: Final (power electronics, dark ambient, founded in 1982),  Techno Animal (industrial hip-hop with Kevin Martin from GOD, 1991), Jesu (post-metal, 2003), Pale Sketcher (“shoegazy dream-pop that’s almost techno”, 2010) and more

You, Whom I Have Always Hated is the second collaborative album of two really heavy metal bands, the body and Thou. Nine Inch Nails cover: Terrible Lie

LP or CD with both collaborative albums on Thrill Jockey Records (US)

The original pop metal song.

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The first Ty Segall records in the new year. Psych retro garage rock for hippies

Mr Face 2 x 7″ EP on Famous Class Records (US)

His final record of last year: Ty Segall Band – Motörhead / Paranoid 7″ single on Drag City Records. Hard retro garage rock for rockers

Minneapolis 1982. Information Society was founded in a college dorm room. During the years it became a musical collective and the part of the mainstream (with numerous top hits, for example). InSoc disbanded in 1997, but has reunited in 2006. Their first EP was released in 1983. Only 100 copies were printed. Reissue with an unreleased bonus track, which is their first recorded track ever.
New Wave Disco like Gary Numan or New Order.

Mannequin Records (Germany)

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Thou. Grunge based sludge from the mud of Louisana. This EP was recorded at same time than previous album Heathen. The 5th track „I hate myself, and I want to die” is a Nirvana cover.

Sacrifice EP on Robotic Empire (US)

Hands of Doom stoner blog and Sportalsó presents

MAY 23, FRIDAY > 16:00 – 16:30 Boddah  16:45 – 17:15 Life is Marrow  17:30 – 18:00 Slide Away  18:15 – 19:00 Head for the Sun  19:15 – 19:55 Badass  20:10 – 20:50 Dusty Chopper  21:10 – 21:50 Stoneblade  22:10 – 22:50 Let the Cigar Die  23:10 – 00:00 Conan’s First Date  00:15 – 01:00 Just Four

MAY 24, SATURDAY > 13:00 – 13:30 Lastdayflayers  13:45 – 14:15 Vicious Panda  14:30 – 15:00 Spacedust  15:15 – 15:45 Giant Horizon  16:00 – 16:45 Toscrew  17:00 – 17:45 Eclipse of the Sun  18:00 – 18:45 Buso Von Kobra  19:00 – 19:45 C.Y.D.  20:00 – 20:45 Drow  21:00 – 22:00 Bearfood  22:15 – 23:00 Lumberjack Commando  23:15 – 00:00 Vendetta Inc.  00:15 – 01:00 Visioned Frailty

INSTEAD OF IT: KINGDOM OF THE THUNDER SNAKE STONER DOOM CIRCUS with POWERTRIP, LUMBERJACK COMMANDO, BADASS, DUSTY CHOPPER & VISIONED FRAILTY in Budapest at Showbarlang on 10 May. Facebook

Reverb, fuzz & feedback. Noisy surf influenced garage rock by Zentralheizung of Death from Germany

„would you rather…?” album on Alien Snatch Records in April. Euro tour is under way. There are some dates for: Spain, France, Switzerland, Germany and Belgium.

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Pilgrim is an American doom metal duo.

„II: Void Worship” album on Metal Blade Records

Hysterics are an American female hardcore-punk band. Classic sound

‘Can’t I Live?’ 7″ by M’lady’s

Euro tour: May-June. Budapest May 21

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Melancholic chamber music. Folk’n’Doom. Canada. Picastro

‘You’ LP by Function Records

They are living in extreme surfer situation on the Peterborough’s plain in East of England near the North-Sea. This is the Paradise of doom surfers. The Wytches are the official cursed band of the annual doom surfers meetings. Their music is er garage doom grunge surf or such a thing.

Since yesterday they belong to Heavenly Recordings. It was a damned well decision.

Euro tour in April. They will connect to Blood Red Shoes tour in Prague on 6 April.

A Tree In A Field is a Swiss independent record label.
Among their latest 4 releases perhaps this is the most special one

doomenfels – epilog

Very difficult to define Dominic Oppliger’s throbbing, ringing, rattling, jangling and clacking music. Doom or dark folk, but in this case the folk means that the music and the records were made by cheap equipment in a cellar. Well, consequently it’s underground doom folk. With medieval feeling for me, but maybe it’s only my fantasy (or my soul?) born feeling. Yes, fantasy and soul, this music requires those from you. Sometimes I also imagine a very little mystic Indian mood there. This music has a special sacral character, as if it would be a private religious music. The cover shows the doomenfelsian Paradise for you, where a satisfied, smiling hippo is lying on a tree’s branches, where the only sign of the humans is a towel, but maybe it’s stolen by a monkey with a big nose.

This EP reminds me the last line of Deadeye Dick by Vonnegut:

„You want to know something?
We are still in the Dark Ages.
The Dark Ages — they haven’t ended yet.”

More Trees In A Field

Special Swiss lo-fi doom folk by the one man act Doomenfels. Jahreszithen

from Epilog EP by A Tree In A Field Records

The Wytches are from Brigthon. Garage doom grunge trash or inversely

Two tracks from two singles. The first one is by Fat Possum (US), the second one is by HHH Records (UK)

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PJ Harvey, Breeders and Throwing Muses influenced bitter sweet garage pop by two Scottish girls

Honeyblood‘s debut single by Fat Cat