Blood Ceremony - Living With The Ancients

Blood Ceremony releases it's second effort and moves towards a much doomier sound as opposed to the classic, heavy prog. feel that was included in the groups self-titled release. If you enjoyed the first record as much as I did, this will be a nice follow up.

Blood Ceremony - Living With The Ancients

1. The Great God Pan

2. Coven Tree

3. The Hermit

4. My Demon Brother

5. Morning of the Magicians

6. Oliver Haddo

7.  Night of Augury

8. The Witch's Dance

9. Daughter of the Sun

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Kylesa - Kylesa

Kylesa, taken from the name Kilesa Mara (Buddhist term denoting delusory mental states), formed in 2002 in Savannah, Georgia.  The approach of this band is what separates them from the rest in the doom/sludge scene.  Never settling for one particular genre, Kylesa does a great job of mixing psychedelia with heavy down tuned guitar, keeping the music open and limitless.  On top of this, Kylesa carries out its vocal attack with three singers, but primarily with guitar players Laura Pleasants and Philip Cope, who also carries out the bands studio production duties (as well as for Baroness, Blacktusk, etc,).  This is the Savannah natives debut record, with cover artwork from the infamous Pushead. Since this recording they having recruited a second drummer which adds for a more of a tribal feel. Kylesa's self titled effort is a must have!

Kylesa - Kylesa

1. No Remorse

2. Ceaseless Becoming

3. The Scarab

4. Point of Stillness

5. Testing The Good of Man

6. Descend Within

7. Dream of the Freedom to Come

8. Partent's Song

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Grief - ...And Man Will Become Hunted

Grief was founded in 1991 by Terry Savastano and drummer Randy Odierno of crust band Disrupt. Grief’s sludgy doom metal brought extremely slow riffs to the metal underground. The band was heavily influenced by Black Sabbath, Eyehategod and doom warriors Saint Vitus. Grief’s music was jagged, noisy, harsh and brutally dissonant. Lead singer Jeff Hayward favored the sort of tortured, throat-shredding, screaming vocals that were quite common in death metal/black metal and grindcore, and that risk-taking combination of torturous vocals and slow, Sabbath-influenced riffs made Grief one of the more influential sludge/doom metal bands to emerge in the early ‘90s.

(taken from last.fm)

Grief - ...And Man Will Become Hunted

1. Predator

2. I Won't Come Back

3. If The World Was Flat

4. Ostrich

 5. Hurricane Jello

6. Down In The Dumps Again

7. No Escape

8. When Rotten Idea's Break Free

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