Good show. Gets heavy. I started thinking about how my knee hurt and that reminded me of Høstsabbat (where I hurt it) earlier this month and I decided to dedicate the second hour-ish of the program to celebrating that lineup. And, well, that lineup was really god damned heavy — though, I say in the voice tracks too, it was way more sonically diverse a proceeding than it appears on the playlist below. So it goes. I’ll plead guilty on that.

Before that though, each one of the first three tracks is something I genuinely hope people will check out. Brant Bjork because he’s Brant Bjork and 14 records in he’s still trying new stuff. UWUW because Ian Blurton is a master and psychedelic heavy soul rock needed to happen. Dead Shrine because it’s new stuff from Craig Williamson (also of Lamp of the Universe) in a heavy style like Arc of Ascent, but with some different kinds of spaces thrown in. Dude just riffs and riffs and riffs. Yes.

Not saying the rest isn’t worth checking out in Ruby the Hatchet, Love Gang, or The Otolith, which is really the rest of the new stuff. The Otolith I’ve been listening to all week to review it and it’s bludgeoningly beautiful and has me wondering how to add a sixth inclusion to my top five for the year. Ruby the Hatchet are like if 1971 happened in 1981, and Love Gang are like if Motörhead were from Southern California or, in other words, from Denver. I certainly thought that song was killer when I premiered it. And a couple classics, some recent Enslaved, Orange Goblin, then the turn up to Norway for the fest-homage. As I said at the top, good show.

Thanks if you listen and thanks for reading.

The Obelisk Show airs 5PM Eastern today on the Gimme app or at: http://gimmemetal.com.

Full playlist:

The Obelisk Show – 10.28.22 (VT = voice track)

Brant Bjork	Bread for Butter	Bougainvillea Suite
UWUW	Staircase to the End of the Night	UWUW
Dead Shrine	The Formless Soul	The Eightfold Path
VT
Ruby the Hatchet	Deceiver	Fear is a Cruel Master
Love Gang	Meanstreak	Meanstreak
The Otolith	Ekpyrotic	Folium Limina
Saint Vitus	The Psychopath	Saint Vitus
Enslaved	Kingdom	Kingdom
Orange Goblin	Cozmo Bozo	The Big Black
VT
Norna	The Perfect Dark	Star is Way Way is Eye
Bismarck	The Seer	Oneiromancer
The Moth Gatherer	The Drone Kingdom	Esoteric Oppression
Dopelord	Your Blood	Reality Dagger`
Graveyard	Please Don’t	Peace
Indian	Directional	From All Purity
VT
Slomatics	Buried Axes on Regulus Minor	Ascend/Descend
Kanaan	Return to the Tundrasphere	Earthbound

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