| Laudanum / Apotheker, the |
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| Album: | Apotheker, the | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Laudanum | Added: | 02/2004 | |
| Label: | Blurred Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2004-04-19 | Pull Date: | 2004-06-21 | Charts: | Loud |
| Week Ending: | 13 Jun | 6 Jun | 30 May | 16 May | 9 May | 2 May |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jun 07, 2009: | Emphysema For Emphasis - Look for the lord edition Burning South | 4. | Oct 24, 2004: | Oh Messy Life Virus | |
| 2. | Jul 03, 2005: | Oh Messy Life Transfusion | 5. | Aug 22, 2004: | Oh Messy Life Virus | |
| 3. | Nov 14, 2004: | Oh Messy Life Black Rain | 6. | Jul 25, 2004: | Oh Messy Life Reverse |
| Album Review |
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| Ragnar of Ravensfjord Reviewed 2004-04-13 | ||
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Some seriously twisted LOUD & doomy rock from 2 ex-members of the sadly short lived BloodBrainVolume. (One of which is Robert Collins of W.H.N.?, Artimus Pyle, Fuckface, et. al.) Yet another killer slow & heavy band from Oakland. Think: Unsane, Slug, Jesus Lizard, old Neurosis, Killdozer, High On Fire, mixed with a bunch of weird Christian radio samples throughout. The only drawback is there’s no lyrics. Otherwise, you know what to do - PLAY SLOW OR DIE! ((1)) Bizarre Christian radio thing mixed with air raid sirens & whatnot. Something like a “musique concreté version of Sabbath’s “War Pigs”. ((((2)))) Loud, ugly & thudding ‘ala Unsane mixed with Eyehategod & a little bit of old Neurosis. ((((3)))) Another bizarre Christian radio sample then a nasty mix of Unsane, old Neurosis & Slug with dual male & female vocals in several places. The riffing & low end are quite impressive. (((((4))))) Slooooww & bass-heavy dooooom with vocals from all 3 members. A slowed down Dystopia mixed with Winter jamming with the Melvins circa 1990? Ends with sample about “the mark of the beast” (Holy crap - it sounds like the “greatest” video vampire - Rev. Robert Tilton!) (((((5))))) Again, this is remincent of Dystopia but with a slice of High on Fire-like riffing (aka: verrrry groovy & heavy). Ends with more weird “Jesuo-groveler” samples. ((((6))))) Slow & CRUSHING Neurosis/Unsane monster later mid-tempo doom/groove settings come into play.Fucking awesome! ((((7)))) More thudding heaviness with a MASSIVE groove. ((((8)))) Ultra-heavy/noisy yet groovy & pissed ‘ala with a bit more of a contemporary hardcore influence (His Hero Is Gone) by way earoly 90’s era Melvins or verrry early Sleep. FCC: 1:14 “Fucking dreams” (((9))) Starts off like a Noothgrush or Grief tune (i.e. suuupper slow doom) then it get morre into a ‘apocalyptic rock’ tune. ((((10)))) More mid-tempo & rather pissed noise rock mixed with thuddding doom. Awesome drumming & riffing. ((((11)))) A bunch of feedback then slow sort of psychedelic doom ‘ala High On Fire & Neurosis. Overall a massive ‘wall of sound’ approach that calls for slo-mo headbangin’. ((((12)))) Sounds like the first track, waves of distortion, manipulated voice samples then...pounding, mid-tempo groovy doom-core. Very catchy riffing and some trad-metal/heavy rock soloing. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Burning South | 7. | Wasted Mind | |||
| 2. | Virus | 8. | In a Hole | |||
| 3. | Transfusion | 9. | Reverse | |||
| 4. | The Hanged Man | 10. | Pig Farm | |||
| 5. | Crawling the Wall | 11. | Dementia | |||
| 6. | Black Rain | 12. | Thanatopsis |