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Kaleidobolt, The Zenith Cracks: The Spoils (Plus Track Premiere)
Helsinki trio Kaleidobolt will release their second album, The Zenith Cracks, on July 1 via Pink Tank Records, and as any follow-up worthy of the name should, it builds off its predecessor in...
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Kaleidobolt Post “Steal My Thunder” Video
Tempo-blasting Finnish boogie rockers Kaleidobolt will release their second album, The Zenith Cracks (review here), July 1 via Pink Tank Records. Now veterans of Desertfest Berlin, the...
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Quarterly Review: Atomikylä, Sunnata, White Dynomite, Horehound, Sulfur...
This one’s for all the marbles. Or at very least tiddlywinks. The last day of The Obelisk’s Summer 2016 Quarterly Review begins. I’ll admit that when I was planning this out — started soon after the...
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Kaleidobolt Announce Tour Dates with Radio Moscow
Finnish heavy psych rockers Kaleidobolt have announced that they’ll tour early next month in Europe alongside Radio Moscow. Significant company to keep. Kaleidobolt go supporting their second album,...
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ZQKMGDZ to Release Orbit Dualkraut in Aug.
German outfit ZQKMGDZ have signed to Pink Tank Records and made their second album, Orbit Dualkraut, available now to preorder. The band lists their full-name as 10.000 km² Gegen Die Zeit, of which I’m...
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Burn Pilot to Release The Taurus Triangle Sept. 30
By the time German trio Burn Pilot — also stylized as Burnpilot — release their new album, The Taurus Triangle, on Sept. 30, they will no doubt be ready to embark on their latest European tour to...
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Burn Pilot, The Taurus Triangle: Levitate and Transform (Plus Track Premiere)
The Taurus Triangle doesn’t necessarily sound like a band’s seventh album. That is to say, after putting out seven records in the span of 11 years, one might expect that German trio Burn Pilot — or...
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Libido Fuzz, A Guide into Synesthesia: Sparks Ignite the Blues (Plus Track...
[Click play above to hear the premiere of ‘At the Beginning’ from Libido Fuzz’s A Guide into Synesthesia. Album is out next month on Pink Tank Records.] Bordeaux-based three-piece Libido Fuzz return...
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Quarterly Review: Enslaved, Hour of 13, Operators, MaidaVale, Audion, Bone...
I don’t know about you, but I could do this all day. Listening to records, writing reviews, getting things done that I’ve been trying to get done in some cases for actual months of my life — suffice...
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Bees Made Honey in the Vein Tree, Medicine: Walking Trails
Primarily, Medicine feels like an exploration of depth. Not just in the sense of asking how low they can go in terms of tone, but what kind of distance can they set up between those lows and highs,...
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Aux Premiere “Deadly Rage” from New Album Troubadour out in December
German heavy progressive rockers Aux will release their second album, Troubadour, in December via Pink Tank Records. Following up their 2012 debut, Pursuit of Progress, the Kiel-based five-piece...
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Marijannah Sign to Pink Tank Records; Till Marijannah Due in 2018
Set for release early next year is the debut album from Singapore-based heavy rock four-piece Marijannah. Details are pretty light thus far on Till Marijannah, including a solid issue date — the band...
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Review & Track Premiere: Low Orbit, Spacecake
[Click play above to stream the premiere of ‘Dead Moon’ from Low Orbit’s Spacecake. Album is out early Dec. on Pink Tank Records.] Given the associated ideas of thick, consuming fuzz, spaced-out...
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Bismut Post Video for Debut Single “Buntovnost”
Netherlands-based three-piece Bismut are using their debut single in precisely the right way. For a band like this — instrumental, heavy, grooving and with ambitions toward a blend of structured and...
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Quarterly Review: Primordial, Dead Meadow, Taarna, MaidaVale, Black Willows,...
Okay, so this is it. The Quarterly Review definitely ends today. I’m not sneaking in a seventh day tomorrow or anything like that. This is it. The last batch of 10, bringing us to a grand total of 60...
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Kaleidobolt European Tour Starts Tonight; Playing Freak Valley and More
Finnish heavy psychedelic progressives Kaleidobolt have been working on new material and reportedly have — quoting now — ‘a ton and a half’ of new material to sift through in the making of their next...
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Review & Track Premiere: Bees Made Honey in the Vein Tree, Grandmother
[Click play above to stream ‘Cinitus’ from Bees Made Honey in the Vein Tree’s new album, Grandmother, out Feb. 28.] It’s not just that the direction Germany’s Bees Made Honey in the Vein Tree take on...
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Quarterly Review: Primordial, Dead Meadow, Taarna, MaidaVale, Black Willows,...
Okay, so this is it. The Quarterly Review definitely ends today. I’m not sneaking in a seventh day tomorrow or anything like that. This is it. The last batch of 10, bringing us to a grand total of 60...
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Kaleidobolt European Tour Starts Tonight; Playing Freak Valley and More
Finnish heavy psychedelic progressives Kaleidobolt have been working on new material and reportedly have — quoting now — ‘a ton and a half’ of new material to sift through in the making of their next...
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Review & Track Premiere: Bees Made Honey in the Vein Tree, Grandmother
[Click play above to stream ‘Cinitus’ from Bees Made Honey in the Vein Tree’s new album, Grandmother, out Feb. 28.] It’s not just that the direction Germany’s Bees Made Honey in the Vein Tree take on...
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