You ever get one of those songs in your head that just doesn’t seem to want to leave? Well, as I reported (and then re-reported) a little while ago, one of the discs in with the last All that is Heavy haul was the self-titled debut from Sweden‘s Asteroid. Turns out this record, which I didn’t know much about going into it, fucking rules, and the last song on it, “Dr. Smoke,” might be the stoniest bit of stoned out stoneriffic stoneification I’ve heard in the last year. Makes just about everyone else look like real squares, man.

Now, if you do a search on this site going by the tags, you’re going to find that the answer with the most results is “Gods,” and that second to that is “Sweden,” so understand I’m a fan of this style of the heavy, but these three ?rebro dudes (?rebroans? ?rebroheims?) have early Truckfighters-style fuzz down to a science and rock with a laid back vibe that is an instant chill. I can’t find an mp3 of “Dr. Smoke” anywhere or a clip on YouTube, but there’s a couple videos on the Asteroid MySpace page, and among them is one for organ-ic Asteroid opener “The Great Unknown,” which is also catchy as hell and presented below for your viewing convenience.

And just because the math of life sometimes has funny ways of punching out equations, Asteroid have a new record due out this fall on Fuzzorama. Hopefully there’ll be more to come on that soon.

Tags: Asteroid, Fuzzorama, Sweden

This entry was posted on Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 at 10:00 am and is filed under Buried Treasure. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.