Caged first in San Quentin and later in Tracy State Prison, BeauSoleil's creative impulses could not be squelched despite his repressive surroundings. With typical melodramatic pomp, Anger approached him in a parking lot after the festival, declaring, "You are Lucifer!" He agreed to play the part under the condition that he would also compose the film's soundtrack. He immediately cast the handsome musician as the lead man and fallen angel archetype in his latest celluloid ritual, Lucifer Rising. During this time, just months before the onset of the Summer Of Love, underground filmmaker Kenneth Anger discovered him during a psychedelic arts festival called The Invisible Circus. Marching into the thriving psychedelic street revolution, he formed artrock band The Orkustra and began gigging regularly at Be-In events throughout the city. >Bobby BeauSoleil With The Freedom Orchestra And The Magick Powerhouse Of Oz – Lucifer Rising Suite 4xCD (Ajna Offensive)īeauSoleil landed in Haight-Ashbury just prior to his 18th birthday. CD is available in Regular and Deluxe editions. At War With Reality is the follow-up to 1995's Slaughter Of The Soul, with the lineup intact from that landmarkĪlbum. >At The Gates – At War With Reality CD/LP (Century Media)Īt The Gates, godfathers of the 'Gothenburg style' melodic death metal sound, return almost 20 years to set the story straight on who wears the extreme metal crown. >Atriarch – An Unending Pathway CD/LP (Relapse)Ītriarch are a Portland-based metal band whose sound encompasses hard rock, sludge, doom, and drone. So it's not surprise their new track "Idol" rips so hard I'm almost shocked I'm still alive after listening to it with headphones. "Anaal Nathrakh is their own special breed of terrifying, mixing up grindcore speediness with giant choruses and riffs that are the audible equivalent of otal nuclear annihilation. >Anaal Nathrakh – Desideratum CD (Metal Blade) Quixotism takes this aspect of Ambarchi's recent work to the next level: the entirety of this long-form work is built on a foundation of pulsing double-time electronic percussion provided by Thomas Brinkmann. Oren Ambarchi's work in recent years has evinced an increasing fascination with the possibilities of combining abstract sonic textures with rhythm and pulse, whether in his drumming with Keiji Haino, the subtly driving ride cymbals provided by drummer Joe Talia in their work together, or the motorik grooves of 2012's Sagittarian Domain. Recorded with a multitude of collaborators in Europe, Japan, Australia and the USA, Quixotism presents the fruit of two years of work in the form of a single, LP-length piece in five parts. >Oren Ambarchi – Quixotism CD/LP (Editions Mego) Originally released in October 1993, the album and the band - was seen as the bastard stepchild of the alt-rock era and, as the Los Angeles Times noted, is an "overlooked masterpiece." The double-disc CD set features the original album newly remastered along with a bonus disc of seventeen demos, B-sides, and live performances, the great majority of which are previously unreleased. If there is one album fully deserving of a coming of age celebration, it is The Afghan Whigs' Gentlemen. >Afghan Whigs – Gentleman 2xCD/LP (Rhino)
Available in Regular and Deluxe editions. New covers album from the multi-platinum Canadian rocker. >Bryan Adams – Tracks Of My Years CD (Polydor)
Features guest appearances from Christian Muenzner (ex-Obscura, ex-Necrophagist, Spawn Of Possesion) and Bobby Koelble (Death). Abysmal Dawn – Obsolescence CD/LP (Relapse)Ī veritable beast of a record and the perfect example of what 21st century death metal should sound like.