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audiObelisk Transmission 006: Rule, Britannia

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audiObelisk Transmission 006

Truth be told, I was planning a special UK-only podcast even before Chris and Pete from Trippy Wicked and the Cosmic Children of the Knight were so hospitable to me in April. There’s been a Post-It on my desk with a list of bands on it since February. Pretty sad, I know.

But it’s all the more appropriate that it goes live today, when Germany‘s psychic octopus proved correct and England was knocked out the World Cup. Having watched the US succumb to the unstoppable force known as the Ghanaian team yesterday, I can empathize. We bleed as one, except, you know, it matters to England.

As always, this audiObelisk Transmission is culled from my own rips, made with love in honor of the UK‘s many contributions to the heavy underground. Making your way through it, you’ll notice a couple glaring omissions, among them Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Iron Maiden. I wanted to keep it focused on stoner rock and doom (apart from the bonus track), and while I know these bands are vastly influential, I’d rather spend that time listening to Uriah Heep, Leaf Hound and Atomic Rooster. Yeah, there’s Deep Purple and Black Sabbath on the playlist. It’s a pretty fine line.

We start off (following a Snuff Box sample) with London‘s Kings of Frog Island, and I think it’s a pretty good flow of songs and styles thereafter. The UK has had so much diversity, sound wise, it was all I could do to hold it together. In my most trying moments, I thought of England.

Playlist is after the jump…

Kings of Frog Island, “Welcome to the Void” from II (Elektrohasch)

The Heads, “Dissonaut” from At Last (Sweet Nothing)

Uriah Heep, “I’ll Keep on Trying” from Very ‘eavy Very ‘umble (Castle)

Firebird, “Sinner Takes All” from Deluxe (Music for Nations)

Acrimony, “Heavy Feather” from Tumuli Shroomaroom (Leaf Hound)

Electric Wizard, “Funeralopolis” from Dopethrone (Rise Above/The Music Cartel)

Crippled Black Phoenix, “A Hymn for a Lost Soul” from 200 Tons of Bad Luck (Invada)

Cathedral, “The Casket Chasers” from The Guessing Game (Nuclear Blast)

Deep Purple, “Fireball” from Fireball (Warner)

Black Widow, “Wait Until Tomorrow” from Black Widow (Repertoire)

Leaf Hound, “Drowned My Life in Fear” from Growers of Mushroom (Walhalla)

Trippy Wicked and the Cosmic Children of the Knight, “Not What You Know” from Movin’ On (Self-Released)

Orange Goblin, “The Ale House Braves” from Healing Through Fire (Sanctuary)

Iron Monkey, “Big Loader” from Iron Monkey (Earache)

Ramesses, “Baptism of the Walking Dead” from Take the Curse (Ritual)

Witchfinder General, “Requiem for Youth” from Friends of Hell (Heavy Metal)

Serpent Venom, “Four Walls of Solitude” from Serpent Venom (Self-Released)

Paradise Lost, “The Rise of Denial” from Faith Divides Us – Death Unites Us (Century Media)

My Dying Bride, “Black Heart Romance” from The Dreadful Hours (Peaceville)

Anathema, “A Simple Mistake” from We’re Here Because We’re Here (Kscope)

Obiat, “Poison Thy Honey” from Eye Tree Pi (Small Stone)

Sally, “Rolling Thunder” from Sally (Rise Above/The Music Cartel)

Josiah, “Sweet Time” from Into the Outside (Elektrohasch)

Atomic Rooster, “I Can’t Take No More” from Death Walks Behind You (Castle/Sanctuary)

Hawkwind, “Time We Left” from Space Ritual Sundown V.2 (Cleopatra)

Black Sabbath, “Supernaut” from Volume 4 (Warner)

Bonus Track:
Napalm Death, “You Suffer (Live)” from Punishment in Capitals (Armoury)

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6 Responses to “audiObelisk Transmission 006: Rule, Britannia”

  1. Shrike says:

    Any chance of getting an feed for the podcasts, so one could subscribe to get them automatically when they’re out?

  2. Slevin says:

    You could just subscribe to the tag audiObelisk.

    http://theobelisk.net/obelisk/tag/audiobelisk/feed/

  3. Shrike says:

    Yeah, looked into that myself, but that’s not a proper podcast RSS feed. What I mean my “proper podcast feed” is that I could subscribe to it via Listen (Google Android app, but any other would work of course), it would let me know when there is a new episode ready, download it (ie. when my device is in its dock and had WiFi) and listen to on the road or where ever I want to.

  4. Shrike says:

    However I just noticed that it actually was XML, so I’ll try.

  5. Shrike says:

    As it happens, that worked. Thanks a lot!

  6. paul G says:

    Is there any way to subscribe threw itunes?

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