Worldwide Premiere - High Noon Kahuna – Shark Tooth

 

 

Worldwide Premiere - High Noon Kahuna

Shark Tooth

We were extremely honored to bring you the premiere for their third single and video Sand Storm back in January and we are equally honored and excited to do so for their newest video Shark Tooth! We’ve been raving about this band ever since they released their amazing Killing Spree album and you can bet your ass we will continue to do so! My very cool next door neighbors are also fan now, and not just because they were indoctrinated by hearing Killing Spree at high volume through the walls on a daily basis… No, they actually came around to ask what damn fine stuff I was listening to… To which I exclaimed with great relish: High Noon Kahuna!! Go check out Shark Tooth! And then the rest of their amazing Killing Spree Album! 

About the video: "Shark Tooth is an instrumental song from Killing Spree with no specific messaging. We thought it would go well with some savage B-Grade shark murder scenes."

High Noon Kahuna is a trio of veteran heavy music musicians based in the Mid-Atlantic U.S. region of Frederick, Maryland. With Tim Otis on guitar (Admiral Browning / Akris), Brian Goad on Drums (Internal Void / The Larrys), and Paul Cogle on Bass and Vocals (Akris / Black Blizzard). 

These three cats have been acquainted for many years and, throughout their accord, have consistently supported each other in all their various bands. At the onset of 2022, this crew found themselves with the fortunate opportunity to jam.

And jam, they absolutely did! When like-minded musicians converge, something mystical happens. By bringing years of influence and admiration for all musical genres, High Noon Kahuna has created an unusual style that disobeys the rule of music categorization. Drawing on influences from Surf, Noise, Punk, Western, Shoegaze, Black Metal, and Doom, it's hard to confine the diversity into a specific box at any given moment.

On Killing Spree, released November 18th of 2022, the band fuses a collective sound from noisy and fuzzy to clean and sparkly, with every gleam in between...

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That Killing Spree review that got a bit weird...

 

 

Leanne Ridgeway Destroys Cancer (And You Help)

 

 

Leanne Ridgeway Destroys Cancer (And You Help)

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It seems this illness targets the good people first. Leanne, the tongue in cheek girl, making fun of everything in the world, herself included and first and foremost. Even now, when she’s battling cancer. You might know her from the bands she put out there through one of her spotlights: Riff Relevant, Mettle Media PR. Or just from those silly early morning pictures… She’s good people! And still can’t thank her enough for all the stuff she has done for the Heavy Underground and especially for bringing the awesome High Noon Kahuna to my attention. The honorable JJ Koczan started a GoFundMe for her… Thank you JJ and thank you Leanne for all you’ve done so far and will continue to do, for you will surely beat this thing! 

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Kvasir – 4

 

 

Kvasir – 4
Glory Or Death Records – 2021
Rock, Hardrock, Metal, Proto, NWBHM, Classic
Rated: ***

The Portland four that form Kvasir have released a new album through Glory Or Death Records called: 4. On it they will take you with them on a grand adventure through all ages of metal. Indeed, we can hear as much influences from the proto stages, the NWBHM era and all that which came after. But it safe to say their main forte lies in the proto era, the Iommi riffs and the Sabbathian grooves. And on those moments they infuse it with something doom or that tiny bit of stoner they turn the grand adventure into something truly majestic. Just check out that trucking second effort on the album titled: Authenticity & The Illusion of Enough. Tony Reed re-mastered the album for vinyl release and I’m keen to hear where it will differ from the digital release. Cause there are also a few instances where the tracks could perhaps benefit from a bit more thickness and a bit more low end. But even then you will love the curveballs these cats than throw, that funky, jazzy start of third tracker Slow Death Of Life which then turns into a Sabbath ode. And they boys know the best way to get people hooked, it to leave them wanting more. And after closing track Alchemy of Identity, you will surely be wanting more! It’s their full-sized debut, and it’s damn freaking tasty!

(Written by JK)

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16 – Dream Squasher

16 – Dream Squasher

Relapse Records – 2020

Rock, Metal, Sludge, Doom

Rated: ****

I recently noticed Leanne Ridgeway, fellow contributor to the Doom Charts, the dark haired princess from Mettle Media PR and Riff Relevant listening to 16 and suddenly remembered, shit, I still have Dream Squasher laying around and have forgotten to get back to listening to it. I had it on a couple of times and then different stuff got in the way, which is almost an insult for these pioneers of the doom and sludge metal scene. They’ve been around for thirty years and even though they always take their breaks between albums every one of them always seems to hit even harder than the one before. And Dream Squasher is no different! With their slow and determined approach to translate their anger and frustration to something kinetic and aggressive, they managed once again to deliver their mountainous sound. A few fast-paced metal tracks interspersed throughout the album give it that much needed diversion of what we already knew for the past thirty years, 16 are masters of the doom and sludge metal universe!

(Written by JK)

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Clouds Taste Satanic – Evil Eye

Clouds Taste Satanic – Evil Eye

Self-released – 2019

Instrumental Post-Doom Stoner

Rated: *****

Instrumental music sucks big time – boring jamming that no one wants to hear, recorded and presented as an album. You lazy fuckers, do not waste my time. And then something comes along to change your mind. Never listened to Clouds Taste Satanic before but was sent a promo and decided to give it a five minute spin ….. which turned into playing the whole thing, getting to the end and starting again. These guys just do it right. Expansive soundscapes carry you along – in my head I am riding a skeletal horse across a blasted city ruin being trailed by mutated wolves and shambling cannibal women who are strangely sexy. Stunning guitar work and song composition make me want this piped directly into my ears at all times. This is the good shit.

Thanks to Leanne Ridgeway @ Mettle Media for promo.

(Written by Tony Maim)

Read up on all the other Clouds Taste Satanic releases here…

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