KingBathmat "Dark Days"

Country: UK
Genre(s): Progressive Rock
Label: Stereohead Records
Format: digital
Release date: June 30, 2017
Tracklist: 
1. Dark Days (3:12)
2. 'Tis Pity She's A Whore (5:14)
3. Magnet To Pain (6:50)
4. Feathers (8:53)
5. Nihilist (7:47)

Total Time 31:56
 
Line-up: 
John Bassett - instruments, vocals
Bernie Smirnoff - drums

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Magnet To Pain

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Arcade Messiah "III"

Country: UK
Genre(s): Progressive Metal
Label: Stereohead Records
Format: digital
Release date: November 25, 2016 
Tracklist: 
1. Revolver
2. Citadel
3. Deliverance
4. Life Clock
5. Black Tree
6. Sanctuary

Line-up: 
John Bassett (KingBathmat) - everything

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Deliverance
Life Clock

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Arcade Messiah "II"

Country: UK
Genre(s): Instrumental Progressive Metal, Stoner, Ambient
Label: Stereohead Records
Format: CD, digital
Release date: November 22, 2015
Tracklist: 

1. Moon Signal (7:17) 

2. Red Widow (6:46) 

3. Black Dice Maze (8:33) 

4. Gallows Way (3:07) 

5. Fourth Quarter (4:31) 

6. Via Occulta (1:19) 

7. Read The Sky (6:33) 

8. Start Missing Everybody (2:58) 

Total Time 41:04 

Line-up: 
John Bassett (KingBathmat)

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Arcade Messiah "Arcade Messiah"

Country: UK
Sub Genre: Instrumental Progressive Metal, Stoner, Doom, Math Rock
Label: Stereohead Records
Format: CD, digital
Release date: November 24, 2014
Tracklist: 

1. Sun Exile
2. Your Best Line Of Defence Is Obscurity 
3. Traumascope
4. Aftermath
5. Everybody Eating Everyone Else
6. The Most Popular Form Of Escape
7. Roman Resolution

Line-up: 
John Bassett (KingBathmat)

Description/Reviews: 

Arcade Messiah combines elements of metal, stoner, doom, prog, math rock, and ambient post rock into a sonic maelstrom of seven instrumental songs.
John Bassett: "after writing and producing numerous KingBathmat albums and more recently the acoustic solo album "Unearth, I decided I wanted to create my first instrumental album, and I wanted it to be set, audibly and visually in a dark, bleak apocalyptic aura of despair and anger. I wanted to focus on enormous riffs & sorrowful yet powerful musical refrains and place them within a terrain of unusual time signatures interspersed by moments of psychedelic calm."

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John Bassett "Unearth"

Country: UK
Sub Genre: Acoustic Progressive Rock
Label: Stereohead Records
Release date: March 31, 2014
Tracklist: 

1. Stay Away From The Dark 04:08
2. Survival Rate 04:47
3. Nothing Sacred 03:35
4. Unearth 03:42
5. Pantomime 05:42
6. Kylerhea 04:41
7. Tv Is God 03:44
8. Keep Dear 04:04
9. Something That's More Worthwhile 07:42
10. Comedian 03:31

Line-up: 
John Bassett (KingBathmat) - Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Keyboards, Theremin, Drums
Nathan A Summers - Drums

Description/Reviews: 

The album promises to be a subtle, sophisticated album of modern acoustic songs, imbued with melancholic melodies with a progressive slant. The emotive songs of "Unearth" encompass and depict the dark substratum of modern life. Social engineering, existential contemplation, survivalism, childhood truama, love & despair and everything inbetween. 

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KingBathmat "Overcoming The Monster"

Country: UK
Sub Genre: Psychedelic
Label: Stereohead Records
Release date: July 22, 2013
Tracklist: 
1. Sentinel (8:48)
2. Parasomnia (9:38)
3. Overcoming The Monster (7:16)
4. Superfluous (9:05)
5. Reality Mining (4:42)
6. Kubrick Moon (11:37)

Line-up: 
John Bassett - guitar,vocals
David Georgiou - keyboards
Lee Sulsh - bass
Bernie Smirnoff - drums

Description/Reviews: 

The 6 tracks on "Overcoming The Monster" deal with the themes of psychological obstacles (monsters of the mind) that are manufactured in our thoughts, both internally through our insecurities, externally by the outside influence of others and collectively through the mass media which uses fear as a tool to manipulate our perceptions. "Overcoming The Monster" addresses the need to ignore these clandestine forms of control and rise above the Illusory obstacles that are placed in our path in order to deliberately block opportunities that are accessible to everybody.

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Sentinel

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KingBathmat "Truth Button"

Country: UK
Sub Genre: Psychedelic, Progressive Metal
Label: Stereohead Records
Release date: June 6, 2012 (UK), January 21, 2013 (worldwide)
Tracklist: 
1. Behind The Wall 9:15
2. Abintra               8:37
3. Book Of Faces  7:06
4. The End Of Evolution  9:00
5. Dives And Pauper       5:56
6. Coming To Terms With Mortality in the face of Insurmountable Odds 10:30

Digital release includes bonus tracks
7. Slipstream
8. Lines and Dots
9. Dives and Paupe

Line-up: 
-John Bassett / bass,vocals
-Lee Sulsh / guitar
-Bernie Smirnoff / drums

Description/Reviews: 

While exhibiting a diverse array of influences, the end result is nevertheless very coherent and effective. For example, the first song “Behind the Wall” begins with a classic heavy metal style riff, which suddenly transitions into a dreamy arrangement of spacey guitars and delicate synths, yet the transition doesn’t feel jarring. Each change is perfectly accentuated by the drums, and the bass alternates between grooving through dreamy guitar-keyboard psychedelia and doubling the guitar parts with heavy forcefulness. This excellent instrumental cake is then iced with rich vocal layers, often with a catchiness that any pop artist would envy.

Read the whole review by Kyler Stoneman at progulator.com

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