A few days ago we had a chat with Davide Straccione from Zippo regarding the Italian stoner scene, the community, their latest album and some good news for Hungarian fans.
A few days ago we had a chat with Davide Straccione from Zippo regarding the Italian stoner scene, the community, their latest album and some good news for Hungarian fans.
Hopefully there is no need to introduce the Italian Zippo to the Hungarian stoner audience because the band is a regular visitor of our country for a few years now and not only in Budapest but in Szeged as well. The last time they graced us with their presence was last October when they were touring with their album The Road To Knowledge. Nevertheless the album is still fresh because the distribution on a larger scale only started during the beginning of 2009.
The Dutch band Barbarella, was recommending itself discreetly through shoutbox on last.fm; that’s how I took interest in them. According to their press material the music is a kind of rock and roll of the modern ages and that pretty much fits them.
According to the band’s official biography, in 1990 they moved from Pennsylvania to San Francisco in order to resurrect the true-metal scene. From that we already know that we are not dealing with youngsters, the music that was supposed to achieve the great purpose is non other than the prime-doom, following in the steps of Saint Vitus, Obsessed, Trouble, Candlemass and of course Black Sabbath adding a lot of metal feeling to it as well.
After 5 years, the third official album of the cult band was finally released. The new material is in line with the previous ones, the music didn’t change much perhaps a bit less dirty, rackety sounding and somewhat more boogie like songs. Nevertheless it still remains the 70s inspired mid-paced hard-rock/doom like the previous ones.
It’s been about a month since the new album of Zoroaster, titled Voice of Saturn was published. In comparison to their previous ones it is more experimental and psychedelic rendering it much more digestible. It appears that they picked up a faster pace however, the growling became more like shouting and as inspiration they used Sleep, the sixties and even some shamanistic quirks instead of pain, Eyehategod and the swamp.
Quality music is what these guys do, the bass guitar hums in a melodic way, like sitting on a riverbank feeling dizzy now and then.
In continuing my search for materials that are free I present to you the one-man project called Cloudkicker, which is like a lunch at an all-you-can-eat restaurant without the waiter bringing out your check at the end.
A Thousand Knives Of Fire is non other than another teamwork of the pivotal figures of the scene, this time conducted by members of Halfway To Gone, Monster Magnet and Raging Slab, which is an ample amount of reason to look forward to their project and most likely will not let us down.
The band Fiktív (formed in 2004 at Szolnok) follows the traditions of the Scandinavian stoner which is not typical in Hungary. According to them their main influence is Dozer which is fair and square. The trio (Gyula Rácz – guitar/vocals, Márton Imre – bass, Péter Molnár – drums) recorded their promising EP; titled Szellemkép in 2008. There’s a lot of potential in these guys.
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