Artist: Circle Six
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Friday's Sirius Blog Radio playlist:
01. The Alpine - Mondays look the same
02. TALK 1
03. Gravy - Back with the nerds
04. Giant Robot - Best match
05. Jomi Massage - A detail
06. TALK 2
07. Broder Daniel - Shoreline
08. The Grand Opening - Don't drop off
09. Moonbabies - Take me to the ballroom
10. Britta Persson - Oh how wrong
11. TALK 3
12. Lemonator - Would you die for me?
13. Trapdoor Fucking Exit - Short ends
14. Billie the Vision and the Dancers - Overdosing with you
15. TALK 4
16. Folie - Rocin
17. Robyn - Handle me
18. Laakso - Norrköping
19. TALK 5
20. Magnet - I walk the line
21. Isolation Years - Albino child
22. KVLR - Construction work
23. TALK 6
24. Anna Leong - 61
25. Tigerbombs - One giant leap
26. Motorpsycho - Hyena
27. TALK 7
28. Oskar Schönning - Other birds
29. Pan Sonic - Rähinä II / Mayhem II
30. Mercyful Fate - Evil
31. TALK 8
32. Ricochets - Come around over
33. Ghost Brigade - Based on you
34. Smalltown - The music
35. Popface - In the night
36. TALK 9
37. Circle Six - 1
We close out our demo week, not with yet another new track from an undiscovered band, but instead with a repost of a track from Circle Six. Two reasons: 1) I am a lazy, lazy man and 2) I've been listening to these guy's four-song demo waaaay more than most of the new CDs I've received in the last six months. As I said the first time I posted this, Circle Six plays slow, crushing doom. We're talking glacier slow and face-melting heavy. I know there's a bazillion other bands doing the same kind of stuff right now, but I kid you not - this is some of the very best I've heard. Few can reach this level of intensity. It's the perfect soundtrack for Good Friday, doncha think?
We close out our demo week, not with yet another new track from an undiscovered band, but instead with a repost of a track from Circle Six. Two reasons: 1) I am a lazy, lazy man and 2) I've been listening to these guy's four-song demo waaaay more than most of the new CDs I've received in the last six months. As I said the first time I posted this, Circle Six plays slow, crushing doom. We're talking glacier slow and face-melting heavy. I know there's a bazillion other bands doing the same kind of stuff right now, but I kid you not - this is some of the very best I've heard. Few can reach this level of intensity. It's the perfect soundtrack for Good Friday, doncha think?
Circle Six - Broken
Finnish music blog Lupatarkastaja on Swedish doom act Circle Six: http://lupatarkastaja.samizdat.info/2006/02/12/circle-six-demo-2005/
I posted on these guys a couple weeks ago and have been listening to the 4-song demo A LOT. If you like your metal slow and heavy (with an emphasis on slooooow), do yourself a favor and check this band out. Seriously ruling.
Lots of great posts over at Finnish music blog Lupatarkastaja recently. Not only is it now being published more regularly in English, but there's tons of good new music from bands such as Ghost Brigade (a new project featuring members of Sunride and Revolt with guest appearances from Munter of Swallow The Sun and Fredrik from Swedish stoner-rock band Dozer) and a new post-rock mix featuring tracks from Circle Six (very highly recommended), Icos, From Now On and more. Oh, and don't forget Teemu's take on my own latest netrelease from Sonores.
I've been doing a little trolling around on myspace trying to discover new bands and while, for the most part, I'm not really uncovering anything incredibly exciting but they are definitely a few diamonds in the rough. One such disovery was Circle Six, a doom band from Linköping. I'm not sure that I'd consider most of the bands following in the footsteps of Isis to be worthy of the doom title, but Circle Six knows what's up. Not only are they incredibly heavy, but they are slow. Agonizingly slow. So slow that the cymbal ring almost completely decays between drum hits. It's like being bludgeoned to death in slow motion. Most of you probably think that sounds perfectly awful, but I'm sure that any aficionados of the genre are stoked by that description. It's also worth noting that instead of the more typical death-metal growls (ie. Skepticism) or hardcore-style shouts (ie. Cult of Luna, Isis), the vocals are a crusty black-metal rasp. Just the way I like it: kvlt and evil. Sometimes "brutal" is a positive adjective, y'know?
I've been doing a little trolling around on myspace trying to discover new bands and while, for the most part, I'm not really uncovering anything incredibly exciting but they are definitely a few diamonds in the rough. One such disovery was Circle Six, a doom band from Linköping. I'm not sure that I'd consider most of the bands following in the footsteps of Isis to be worthy of the doom title, but Circle Six knows what's up. Not only are they incredibly heavy, but they are slow. Agonizingly slow. So slow that the cymbal ring almost completely decays between drum hits. It's like being bludgeoned to death in slow motion. Most of you probably think that sounds perfectly awful, but I'm sure that any aficionados of the genre are stoked by that description. It's also worth noting that instead of the more typical death-metal growls (ie. Skepticism) or hardcore-style shouts (ie. Cult of Luna, Isis), the vocals are a crusty black-metal rasp. Just the way I like it: kvlt and evil. Sometimes "brutal" is a positive adjective, y'know?
Circle Six - Broken
Check out some tracks from Circle Six, a crusty slowcore band in the vein of Switchblade, (older) Isis and so on: http://www.circlesix.net/ (under 'music')
The band features ex-members from Roswell, Dawn and Retaliation and is currently seeking a label.