The Obelisk Show on Gimme Metal Playlist: Episode 55
I was putting the show together the other day — like everything else in the last two weeks, I had to push off doing so owing to family stuff — and when I was picking tracks, it just kind of occurred to me that I might as well do a whole show of Heavy Psych Sounds stuff. It was like, “Oh, I’ll play Bongzilla and those new Hippie Death Cult and Acid’s Trip tracks,” and then it was “Well I haven’t played any of the new Sonic Flower yet and that’s Tatsu from Church of Misery so that’s cool,” and then from there filling out an entire two hours’ worth of Heavy Psych Sounds stuff was shockingly easy.
New 16, 1782, Cosmic Reaper, Acid Mammoth, on and on, and some other awesome stuff that’s come out in the last couple years, and two hours later, it still only barely scratches the surface of what the Italian label has done. To wit, the catalog reissues from Doze and Nebula and Brant Bjork go unrepresented here. As does the last Yawning Man or the upcoming Yawning Sons, both of which I’ve played recently on the show. But yeah, there’s so much stuff to go through, I simply didn’t have room for it all, especially knowing that I wanted to end with the 19-minute track from Orgöne because that record is so weird and out there even in comparison to other stuff the label does.
I talk a bit here, mostly just to be like, “Duh that was awesome” about one song or another. Despite my verbal bumbling and constant “uh”-ness, I hope you enjoy the show.
Thanks for listening and/or reading.
The Obelisk Show airs 5PM Eastern today on the Gimme app or at http://gimmemetal.com
Full playlist:
The Obelisk Show – 03.19.21
| Bongzilla | Free the Weed | Weedsconsin |
| Hippie Death Cult | Red Meat Tricks | Circle of Days |
| Acid’s Trip | Faster, Chopper, Boogie! | Strings of Soul |
| Sonic Flower | Super Witch | Rides Again |
| 16 | Death on Repeat | Doom Sessions Vol. 3 |
| VT | ||
| Black Rainbows | Sacred Graal | Cosmic Ritual Supertrip |
| Fatso Jetson | Flesh Trap Blues | Split with Farflung |
| Ecstatic Vision | Grasping the Void | For the Masses |
| Acid Mammoth | Ivory Towers | Caravan |
| Crypt Trip | Hard Times | Haze County |
| VT | ||
| Big Scenic Nowhere | Tragic Motion Lines | Vision Beyond Horizon |
| High Reeper | Bring the Dead | Higher Reeper |
| The Pilgrim | Waiting for the Sun | …From the Earth to the Sky and Back |
| Geezer | Black Owl | Groovy |
| Cosmic Reaper | Hellion | Cosmic Reaper |
| 1782 | The Chosen One | From the Graveyard |
| VT | ||
| Orgöne | Erstes Ritual | Mos/Fet |
The Obelisk Show on Gimme Metal airs every Friday 5PM Eastern, with replays Sunday at 7PM Eastern. Next new episode is April 2 (subject to change). Thanks for listening if you do.
Tags: 1782, Acid Mammoth, Acid's Trip, Big Scenic Nowhere, Black Rainbows, Bongzilla, Cosmic Reaper, Crypt Trip, Ecstatic Vision, Fatso Jetson, Geezer, Gimme Radio, High Reeper, Hippie Death Cult, Orgöne, Sonic Flower, The Obelisk Show, The Pilgrim
