It’s a Sunday somewhere between the beginning and the middle of the month, depending on how much I have my act together, and that means its time for Staff Infections, everyone’s favorite feature with little-to-no actual creative content beyond whatever bullshit I write in this intro. Here’s hoping you’re not choking on smoke from a wildfire, battling Hellish heat or waist deep in flood water. Unfortunately, the odds of you not enduring at least one of these hardships are pretty low. It’s a great time to be alive, and it’s getting better all the time. Let’s see what we’ve been listening to, before the good vibes overcome me.
In a break from the trend of recent months we actually have a fair number of albums appearing in more than one playlist this time around. Second place is a three-way tie, including the first new Godflesh album in six years, Purge, the one-man brutal death metal project Nithing’s full-length debut Agonal Hymns and Towers of Gold, the sophomore effort from reconstituted power metal outfit Sacred Outcry. You can read Captain’s suitably epic review of Towers of Gold here. The big winner this month is Expanding Majesty from Mammatus, a sprawling space rock album, featuring just four songs in over an hour of runtime.
For our group discussion this month, in honor of Mammatus’s victory, give us one of your favorite stoner / doom / psychedelic / space rock / whatever-the-fuck album in the comments. Personally, I will always hold Monster Magnet’s Dopes to Infinity near and dear to my heart. Dave Wyndorf almost always strikes a good balance between psychedelia and songcraft, and never better so than on this album, which I consider Monster Magnets finest.
As always, be sure to listen to the Spotify playlist below, and share your own playlist in the comments. Stay safe, stay cool, stay dry, and we’ll see you all next month.
- Zach Duvall
Trichomoniasis – Makeshift Crematoria
Nithing – Agonal Hymns
Thy Catafalque – Alföld
Godflesh – Purge
The Cure – The Head on the Door
Slayer – 80s albums - Andrew Edmunds
Emerson, Lake, & Palmer – Tarkus
Jason & the Scorchers – Fervor / Lost & Found
Shitstorm – Only In Dade
Torturer – Oppressed By The Force
Thetan – Dim Times
Jag Panzer – discography - Ryan Tysinger
Visceral Evisceration – Incessant Desire for Palatable Flesh
Oromet – Oromet
Mammatus – Expanding Majesty
Sacred Outcry – Towers of Gold
Stray Gods – Olympus
Rhapsody of Fire – The Frozen Tears of Angels - Danhammer Obstkrieg
Pupil Slicer – Blossom
The Cure – Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
Yurei – Ad Aqua
The Vampires – Nightjar
Endless Exam – Voice of Passion and Agony
Artemis – In Real Time - Craig Hayes
Swordwielder – Wielding Metal Massacre
Death Crusade – Znów płonie niebo
Filth of Mankind – The Final Chapter
Exploding Corpse Action – Inter-Dimensional Annihilation
Thin Lizzy – Live And Dangerous (Super Deluxe)
Grateful Dead – RFK Stadium, Washington, DC, 6/10/73 - Captain
Every power metal album known to humankind
Pegasus – The Epic Quest - William of Ur-Sag
Alvvays – Antisocialites
Sacred Outcry – Towers of Gold
Killer Mike – Michael
Saturnus – The Storm Within
Statik Selektah – Round Trip
Gatekeeper – From Western Shores - Lone Watie
Swans – The Beggar
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation
Mammatus – Expanding Majesty
Twilight Force – Tales of Ancient Prophecies
Motorpsycho – Yay!
Oingo Boingo – Only A Lad - Spencer Hotz
Nithing – Agonal Hymns
Mammatus – Expanding Majesty
Rezn – Solace
VHS – Quest For The Mighty Riff
Amaro Freitas – Sankofa
Arnaut Pavle – Transylvanian Glare - Dave Pirtle
Archaeologist – Elements
Crom – The Era of Darkness
Lightbreaker – Annihilation of the Annealids
Big Garden – To The Rind
Godflesh – Purge
Pyramaze – Bloodlines - Jeremy Morse
The Lord Weird Slough Feg – Traveller
Dark Angel – Darkness Descends
Leeway – Born to Expire
Judas Priest – Firepower
Devourment – Obscene Majesty
Forbidden – Twisted into Form
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PJ Harvey – I Inside the Old Year Dying
Messa – Close
Slayer – South of Heaven
Alvvays – Antisocialites
Sigur Rós – Kveikur
Daeva – Through Sheer Will and Black Magic
The Anchoret – It All Began With Loneliness
Wings Of Steel – Gates Of Twilight
Omnerod – The Amensal Rise
Fifth Angel – Fifth Angel
Nebulae Come Sweet – De Lumiere
Not a big fan of stoner anymore, my pick is Kyuss – Welcome To Sky Valley
Vorga – Striving Toward Oblivion
Los Males del Mundo – Descent Towards Death
The Circle – Of Awakening
Crescent – Carving the Fires of Akhet
Ulthar – Anthronomicon
You guys are digging The Cure this month. A friend recently saw them in concert and said they were great.
Dont know much about stoner rock, but as for psychedelic rock, I’d offer The Zombies, Time of the Season. Although…more pop than rock. Anyway, cool song.
Tool – Fear Inoculum
Opeth – Orchid
Opeth – Morningrise
Opeth – My Arms, Your Hearse
Anaal Nakhrath – A New Kind of Horror
As far as stoner rock (and its related genres go), Queens of the Stone Age – Songs for the Deaf has been in regular rotation for some 20 years now and still my favourite of theirs. No other stoner-related album has come close to that sort of staying power.
Godflesh – Purge
Physique – Again
P.L.F. – Jackhammering Deathblow Of Nightmarish Trepidation
Overgrown Throne – Captured Alive
Flower – Hardly A Dream
Outer Heaven – Infinite Psychic Depths
Danava – Nothing But Nothing
Shadows – Out for Blood
Refused – Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent
Art Lown – Piper Oz the Hound
Blue Oyster Cult – Fires of Unknown Origin
For spaced out stoner rock, I’ll call out Eve by the mighty Ufomammut, that’s always been a favorite of mine.