A Decade of Dick Nasty!

This will be our only show for Janurary.

(PS: I listened to MOSS on Christmas Day. Pretty bad ass huh!)

No Anchor announced for Lost Weekend Festival (March 2010)

We've been added to the first year of 'The Lost Weekend' - a big, fancy multi-day festival held just outside of Brisbane. Lineup looks freakin' awes and we actually like some of the bands playing (unusual for an Australian music festival):

Dinosaur Jr
Brian Jonestown Massacre
Tumbleweed
The Drones
Tim Hecker
Qua
Justice Yeldham

...and heaps more to be announced.

Tickets and details available here and include camping.

We're billed as a 'local experimental band'. Awesome. I'm glad someone has legitimised our experimentation with Black Sabbath's backcatalogue.

This Friday Night!

Raymond Pettibon's Black Flag logo appears...

...in my halloumi sandwich.


A sign?

Sabbath Peel Sessions

Hard to believe that this was recorded 26th April 1970 by John Peel for his radio show.
Awesome!

Here’s the tracklist:
1) Black Sabbath
2) War Pigs
3) Fairies Wear Boots
4) Behind the Walls of Sleep

Download: http://tinyurl.com/yaomxcd

Ian's Top Fifteen of 2009...

...sort of. These are my favourite heavy/metal releases of the year in no particular order:

• Converge – Axes To Fall - Great band delivers yet again.
• Jesu – Infinity/Opiate Sun - One hour long drone jam and one pop EP; both releases find Broderick back on-song albeit working on the opposing margins of what he does.
• Mastodon – Crack The Skye - People almost seemed put off by how over the top this album was, not me. I want my stadium metal godz to get as epic and weird as possible and things got very epic and very weird here. (Almost excluded due to mispelt album title)
  
• Ben Frost – By The Throat - In my wildest fantasies my bass always sounds like bass does on this record.
• Moss – Tombs Of The Blind Drugged - 'Exactly right' is as good as innovation. Doom craftsmen?
• Mount Eerie – Wind’s Poem - Black metal and Phil both live in the woods musically, thus this record strangely makes sense. What made it great was the songs, some of his best.
  
• Grief No Absolution – Eurostopodus Argus / Crypsis - Pitched as 'bleak metal' but something I ended up listening to more than you (or I) would expect. One LP that is a brutal snowstorm of hiss and crackle + a 7" that's sharper and altogether nastier.
• Black Boned Angel – Verdun - Essential doom made right in our backyard (sort of).
  
• Secret Birds - Asleep On The Dragon - Friends delivers a fine sounding album. A very personal take on a a very broad range of psych ideas and flavours and much more cohesive than expected.
• The Nation Blue – Rising Waters - Australia's best band deliver a dense and completely fucked up classic. Maybe a career high and if not, too close for me to care.
• Om – God Is God - New drummer, new textures and that riff. I never really tire of it.
• Part Chimp – Thriller - A slightly underwhelming album from a completely overwhelming band. So a technical win and thus still essential listening in 09.
  
• Them Crooked Vultures – S/T - One of the better Queens of the Stone Age albums and how could it not be. A lot of fun but too long.
• Sunn O))) – Monoliths & Dimensions - What is there to say about this? It's good. It introduces a whole new realm of possibilities for the band. And it's brutally heavy.
• Tom Hall & Bonnie Mercer – MIDweekMID - Two giant lava flows built out of guitar and electronics. This tape is just completely untamed. I feel like I'm forever turning it DOWN when I've got it on. Love it.

Photos from the other night...

...by the guy I kicked off stage. Sorry guy (i.e. Stephen Goodwin)! Unfortunately Stephen momentarily entered the Triad of Pwnage and it made things feel weird. BUT, the photos are radical and we like them a lot.