Posts tagged ‘Free Compilation’
Lucid Culture reviews The Soda Shop Comp 1
If you’re wondering what the cool kids across the USA are listening to, chances are that some of it is right here. Last month our colleagues over at the Soda Shop put out a massive free compilation - the first in a series – that you should get your hands on if you like metal or the louder fringes of stoner music. The corporate media are trying as hard as they can to make you believe that anyone over age eight actually listens to Kesha, or that anyone actually enjoys Arcade Fire instead of merely pretending to because they don’t want to seem uncool in front of their trendoid friends. The reality is that metal is bigger than ever, and maybe better than ever, because the new wave of bands who play it have gone back to the source, the motherlode of it all, Black Sabbath. Tony Iommi should be proud of what he spawned here, yet while most of the bands here have the sludgy slow stoner groove, double and tripletracked solos and chromatic riffage, they aren’t ripoffs either. This is a LONG album, sixteen songs, most of them well over five minutes a clip and most of them various shades of excellent. A couple of them are spoofs, but most of them are straight up pure adrenaline.
The Soda Shop Comp. Volume 1
Happy Birthday to the Soda Shop! In case you’ve been living under a mossy old rock, The Soda Shop is a blog dedicated to unearthing treasures from a thriving underground rock scene. Specializing in stoner/doom/rock/sludge/burnout bands, you owe it to yourself to check in regularly.
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