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.

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Various Artists - Droning Earth Volume 29

The Droning Earth compilations have long been one of my favourite compilations series, collecting the best of stoner, doom, drone and sludge from across the internets and all around the world. I first became aware of them when Droning Earth Volume XIII featured my bandmates' other band Sabazius. There have been another 16 releases since then, all featuring some great material.

Volume 29 features some great stoner and doom bands, and most importantly to me at least, the track Scorched Planet by my band Funeral Hag. So go download it right now! Featuring the following bands:
Unicorpse, Taak, Citadelle, Pater Nembrot, Stroszek, Space Pilgrim, Wo Fat, Pike, Caltrop, Bezoar, Funeral Hag, Space Lizard, Huqqa

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Funeral Hag - Demo 2009

A bit of a special release for you today, at least for me anyway, it's the demo from my band, Funeral Hag! We play a mix of stoner rock, sludgecore and doom metal that I hope you're going to love. The demo has 3 tracks and clocks in at 18 minutes and 18 seconds long.

Funeral Hag started last year as a solo project of our guitarist Jon, who wrote and recorded Nellie Longarms by himself and demoed another song, Screams Of A Banshee, in 2008. In early 2009 Jon decided he wanted to take the band further and started looking for other members. He quickly recruited his workmate Nev of Sabazius (possibly familiar to any regular readers as I post their releases on here) to play 2nd guitar. Nev in turn suggested his bandmate Steve to play bass, and Steve got me involved on vocals, along with our old mate George on drums. Thus Funeral Hag was born.

We've now played a few gigs (videos from our first on our Youtube page) and recorded this demo, and are hoping to make something of ourselves! So download our demo and enjoy the sludge. :D

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