Normally, as a matter of principle, I don’t do On the Radar pieces about signed bands, but in the case of long-running Warsaw outfit Corruption, it only seems fitting. They’ve been together since the early ’90s, gradually morphed from death/doom into the stoner rock they play today, and if there’s one single band who laid […]
In our fourth and penultimate On the Radar concerning the burgeoning stoner rock scene in Poland (previous installments here, here and here), we take a look at the band Fifty Foot Woman, who seem to separate themselves from the desert rock of their peers with a heavier, more bikerly style, like modern Orange Goblin with […]
If there’s one thing that stands out about the Polish scene we’ve been exploring one band at a time (past installments here and here), it’s a universal hunger to be heard. Hell, the main reason this whole thing kicked off was because one of the dudes in Satellite Beaver was like, “Hey man, you need […]
If you missed vol. 1 of “On the Radar: The Polish Scene,” it’s right here. One listen to the live version of “Mighty Sasquatch,” which Warsaw four-piece Satellite Beaver have posted on their MySpace, and Kyuss becomes an immediate reference point. This holds up throughout the other two tracks, “Nitro Steam Engine” and the cleverly […]
One of my favorite things in the world is being turned onto new bands. It doesn’t get any better than that, and I was fortunate enough to recently be pointed in the direction of a burgeoning scene in Warsaw, Poland, centered around several quality unsigned bands making a go of it. Hence the “Vol. 1” […]
It’s been a while since I’ve put a Polish band on the radar, and Dopelord, who hail from about 20 minutes outside Gdansk, fit the bill nicely, in both their locale and their riffs, which on their self-released Magick Rites debut are varyingly derived from Electric Wizard (see “Unihorn”) and Sleep (see “Magick Holocaust”). Not a […]
In terms of establishing charm in the eyes of a stoner rock loyalist, covering Lowrider goes a long way, and on their recorded-live debut, Polish trio Tres Perros not only take on “Caravan,” which opened Lowrider‘s 1999 riff-led epic, Ode to Io, but they make it the only song in their entire set with vocals. […]
Lurking deep within the awfulness that is the new MySpace layout (which I’m convinced they’ve introduced only so they can revert to the original and call it “MySpace Classic”), there’s an instrumental Hungarian rock unit called Urania riffing out odes to deserts so far away they might as well be on the other side of […]
