Irata "Tower"

Country: USA
Genre(s): Stoner, Sludge, Progressive Metal
Label: Small Stone Records ‎– SS-174
Format:  CD, digital, vinyl
Release date: May 24, 2019
Tracklist: 
1. Tower (2:45)
2. Waking Eye (5:55)
3. Weightless (4:20)
4. Innocent Murmur (6:25)
5. Leviathan (5:10)
6. Crawl To Corners (4:36)
7. Golden Tongue (3:48)
8. Constellations (6:04)

Total Time 39:03

Line-up: 
Jon Case: bass guitar, vocals
Jason Ward: drums, vocals, synths, percussion
Cheryl Manner: guitar
Owen Burd: guitar, vocals, trumpet

Description/Reviews: 

Kicking off with the aforementioned tower, you’d be forgiven for thinking you were in for a straightforward sludge fest, with swathes of guitar overlapping one another in a sonic tsunami. That, in itself, would make for a fine record, but then the band launch into waking eye, which transpires to be the sort of mesmerising prog-metal that made Mastadon’s crack the Skye such an awe-inspiring piece of work. A gloriously varied and deeply melodic piece of work, waking eye ebbs and flows beautifully, taking in lush progressive soundscapes worthy of early Genesis, explosive passages in the vein of Neurosis and much, much more, all tied together with exquisite musicianship.

Read the full review at sonicabuse.com

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It's Not Night: It's Space "Our Birth Is But A Sleep And A Forgetting"

Country: USA
Genre(s): Instrumental Experimental, Ethnic, Psychedelic, Space Rock, Doom
Label: Small Stone Records
Format: CD, digital, vinyl
Release date: June 24, 2016
Tracklist: 
1. Nada Brahma (3:25)
2. The Beard Of Macroprosopus (8:51)
3. Across The Luster Of The Desert Into The Polychrome Hills (7:39)
4. Starry Wisdom (8:42)
5. Pillars In The Void (8:49)
6. The Black Iron Prison And The Palm Tree Garden (8:21)

Total Time 45:47

Line-up: 
Kevin Halcott: guitar
Michael Lutomski: drums
Tommy Guerrero: bass
    With
Rick Birmingham: fiddle (2, 6)

Description/Reviews: 

What I wouldn't have given to experience something like It's Not Night: It's Space back in 1985, a band who take plenty of chances with their instrumental attack, blending thunderous doom metal with tripped out psychedelia, prog, and atmospheric drone.

Read the full review by Pete Pardo at seaoftranquility.org

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Jeremy Irons & the Ratgang Malibus "Spirit Knife"

Country: Sweden
Sub Genre: Space Rock/Stoner/Psychedelic
Label: Small Stone Records
Release date: April 29, 2014
Tracklist: 
1. Fog by the Steep
2. Wind Seized
3. Sworn Collision
4. Once Levitated
5. Clang
6. Deep Hardened Woods
7. Point Growth
8. Spirit Knife

Line-up: 
Karl Apelmo: vocals, guitar
Micke Pettersson: guitar
Viktor Källgren: bass
Henke Persson: drums
    With
Patrik Kolar: organs

Description/Reviews: 

Imagine, if you will, Jeff Buckley jamming with Can, and you’ll have a fair gist of the fantastic voyage that awaits the armies of the Spirit Knife: an album that finds JIRM rekindling their time-traveling communion with vintage psychedelia and Krautrock, while expanding on the sonic palette revealed by the ensemble’s past full-lengths, Elefanta and Bloom.

Once again, but more powerfully than ever before, JIRM, deliver imposing passages of torrential guitars that rattle and roll, shimmy and soar with oceanic reverb and sweaty rock and roll, partnering with thrumming keys and mesmerizing Motorik drums to incite cyclical hypnosis for protracted song-suites, ever teetering between tight instrumental control and loose vibes to achieve optimal tantric tension and release through music. 

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