Life and Death’s Procession

stoner doodles from 10th grade geometry class: the cover of Death's Procession

Just realized the reason why I was still awaiting the release of Saviours’ fourth full-length album was because I’d missed it; when Death’s Procession (Kemado 2011) came out this past September 6, I was grueling and grinning on “Day 2″ of [...]

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Top 10: Phyte Club Holiday Gift List

Holiday shopping can be joyous, creative, and inspired. It can also completely suck. Here is a Top 10 list of suggestions for gifts for the types of folks who would be into something like, say, plants, metal, beer, and plants.

10.) Botanical Beauty: Garden Apothecary products from fellow blogger, gardener, and organic body product [...]

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max overloading on ACID

“Lord! And Master! Shepherd! Of Sounds!

Maaaaaaaaaan Overload!“

Oh, what? Wait, it’s not…? It’s “Max Overload?” Are you sure? With an “x”? Well, that kind of sucks. What’s that supposed to mean? Don’t you think “Man Overload” makes more sense, and sounds way cooler? Maaaaaaaaaaan Overload!

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Read It! Invisible Oranges + Phyte Club = World Domination

Somehow I got lucky enough to have Invisible Oranges, the best metal blog on our blue-green Earth, reading Phyte Club.

The editor decided to send me some very thoughtful questions about the luscious union of plants and heavy metal.

Holy shit, I know. Seriously. CHECK IT OUT.

Thanks for your support!

….likes plants! [...]

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The Big 4 (thrash! wildflowers!)

headbanging medusa tree (because i refuse lose/break my camera while at a show….)

Last Saturday’s Big 4 was a legendary event, not just in the world of metal but for music in general. The cornerstones of ’80′s thrash metal, the guys who essentially created the genre – Slayer, Metallica, Anthrax, and Megadeth — [...]

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Be Forewarned: Keep your evil eye out for Pentagramma triangularis

With a scientific name like that, how can a metalhead not love the goldback fern?

Pentagramma triangularis.

This dainty yet tough little plant was once dubbed Pityrogramma triangularis, but some taxonomist was obviously into the occult or mid-70s doom bands (or both) and rightly changed [...]

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My life, my heart, black night, dark star….Capricorn!

It’s a sad, sad state of affairs. I am writing yet another happy-birthday-rock-star post only because I haven’t been to a show that really pummeled my soul in ages (I suppose September — with Sleep twice, Saviours, the Melvins, Totimoshi, Vastum, Lecherous Gaze, Mendozza, High on Fire, and Kylesa — tipped the balance so [...]

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Electric Wizard: new album!

In mathematics and physics and countless tramp-stamps the world over, the number “8″ tumbled its side is the symbol for infinity. Does it surprise you then, that Electric Wizard‘s new homage to the dark arts, Black Masses (Rise Above, 2010), is their eighth offering from the eternal depths of doom?

And what better [...]

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Mendozza’s new album written in the woodsy B.C. doom and fueled by homegrown salsa

Bina, the kick-ass drummer of Mendozza, and I met in front of the merch table at the Uptown in Oakland about four years ago. She liked my High on Fire hoodie, so much so she owned one as well…and it was on: bonded over black cotton and silly skulls, I

this dude on [...]

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The Melvins are my favorite dandelion

how could this not remind you of King Buzzo's 'fro?

ELECTRIC FLOWER

Here are my top 10 favorite things about the Melvins show at Slim’s last night (Sunday, 9/19/10), besides the obvious:

creepy old hospital shit on Alcatraz

10.) The fans! No, not the headbanging hoard but the electric fans, [...]

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