Bumsnogger - 2002-2006

Bumsnogger were a  band from Nottingham in the UK, apparently drunkely formed to play sludge!  There's a definite Iron Monkey influence here, which of course means I love it, though there's a slightly more bouncy, stoner rock feel to Bumsnogger than IM.  I remember seeing the name on forums and stuff a few years ago but had never actually heard anything from them until I found this!  Unfortunately this was around the same time as I reinstalled Last.FM and it decided to submit all my tracks to Skype as 'mood messages'.  My boss was not amused to find his Skype homepage filled with notifications that I was listening to Bumsnogger tracks like Being Fucked Over, Dutch Fisting and Murdering the Homeless!

This release compiles Bumsnogger's two EPs and one split 7", plus a couple of rehearsal recordings of unreleased tracks.  Sounds like they were a great band so this is well worth a download.

Various formats including MP3 (320K/VBR) and FLAC from Bandcamp.com

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Sea Bastard - Great Barrier Riff

So it's time for me to pimp my own shit again.  For those who don't know, Funeral Hag died out around July this year.  It was always Jon's band and he got bored of it, so that was that.  Somewhat fortunately for us, Jovian (another Brighton doom band) had split a month or two before us, which meant that the mighty Oliver Irongiant was no longer in a band.  Both Steve and I instantly thought of Oli when we decided we should find another guitarist, and thus Sea Bastard was born!

I like to think SB has the best of both worlds; the groove of Hag and the relentless slowness of Jovian, plus a little something extra!  These first 3 songs were written in about a month after starting the band and recorded live and dirty (apart from the vocals) at 284 Studios on Brighton seafront.  Be warned, this demo sounds pretty horrible.  It's meant to.

Someone made this video for YouTube if you wanna check out what we sound like.  This is our fastest and (so far) most popular song, Aqua Vitae.  It's about whiskey.

320K MP3s from Archive.org
FLAC from Archive.org
Various formats from Bandcamp

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Wiht - Wiht

Wiht are an instrumental stoner doom band from Leeds in the UK. Whilst somewhat reminiscent of other instrumental stoner bands like Karma To Burn and Sons Of Alpha Centauri, Wiht's sound is quite a bit heavier than either of those and more doomy in pace. Their material works well as instrumental, with a massive guitar tone that must have taken a lot of layers to create. It's not all heavy grooves, there are some nice chilled out droney and almost ambient sections. Well worth a listen, and as always if you like it go buy it! £4 on CD from their Myspazz, not bad for >40 minutes of kickass stoner doom.

256Kbps MP3 via HTTP from Mediafire.com
http://www.mediafire.com/?gqzrghymtor
http://www.mediafire.com/?uzznd1jjh2j

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B A T I L L U S - The Batillus EP

B A T I L L U S are a doom band from Brooklyn, NY, USA. This is their first EP and is three tracks of rather nice instrumental doom (a fourth track is present on the CD release, which can be purchased here), about as heavy as the Batillus class supertanker for which they are presumably named. They seem to have recruited a vocalist since this EP, and the newer stuff sounds rather good also. Apparently this EP was tracked live and mixed in only two days at Black Box Studio in Hansen, MA, but it sounds like they took all the time they needed!

320Kbps MP3 Via HTTP from Batillusdoom.com

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