The 2020 debut album from Hammada, Atmos, has been picked up for vinyl release by StoneFly Records and will be available to preorder later this week. It’s damn near May already, which surprises me to realize, but I guess, you know, time and all that. Hammada join the roster of the burgeoning imprint, which already includes the likes of Paralyzed, Elk Witch, ZOM and No Stone, and if you didn’t hear Atmos at the time, one can hardly even call you late considering the journey the record’s had from its digital release until now. Just saying. Time means nothing. Did you know it’s almost May?

Get them tones warm’d up, vibe out, and dive in. The hype was pretty significant when the record came along, at least on that social-media-this-is-a-cool-thing-on-Bandcamp kind of way, but I can’t argue with that, since it is a cool thing, and indeed, it is on Bandcamp. Hype away, internet. I think that’s how vinyl releases happen in the first place these days.

StoneFly offers the following:

GERMAN PSYCHEDELIC DESERT ROCK BAND HAMMADA SIGNS TO STONEFLY RECORDS FOR A WORLDWIDE VINYL RELEASE OF THEIR ALBUM ATMOS ON MAY 6th, 2022.

StoneFly Records is stoked to announce the signing of Freiberg, Germany Psychedelic Desert Rockers Hammada and look forward to releasing their first album ATMOS on 2 x 180g vinyl. This album will be the 5th album released by StoneFly Records.

I recall back in 2020 that Atmos made a strong impression on me; you know that’s the kind of album you need to own on wax… But the album was only available digitally… So, when HAMMADA reached me, I didn’t think about it for too long, I knew this album deserved a vinyl release and I accepted quickly to help them do it.

ATMOS is the debut album by German Psychedelic Desert Rock band Hammada. The basic tracks have been recorded live in October 2018 at Barren Rock Studios in Freiberg, Saxony. Guitar Overdubs, Solos, Organ, Synth and Vocals have been recorded between November 2018 and September 2019 at Barren Rock Studio and with The Eden Project in Freiberg. Mixed by Lukas Jonscher at The Eden Project Studios in Dresden. Mastered by Yeti Cave Sounds in Leipzig.

Hammada’s ATMOS released digitally on June 26th, 2020.
Vinyl officially releases on May 6th, 2022.
Vinyl sales will go live on April 29th, 2022.

BAND BIO

The project HAMMADA was brought to life in 2012 by guitarist Christian Döring. Together with drummer Sönke Tautorus, who joined at the end of the same year, work began on own songs. In 2013 singer and organist Kristian Schulze and bassist Lenz Fiedler completed the quartet. In this line-up HAMMADA is active until today.

After releasing two EPs SFAIRA and Monument (both 2017), the band released their debut album ATMOS digitally in 2020. The sound of ATMOS is characterized by the alternation between fuzzy and psychedelic guitars, a deep bass and driving drums. In addition, there is a powerful, but for the genre rather unconventional voice, as well as the use of organ and synthesizer. The following year HAMMADA signed with the Canadian label StoneFly Records to release ATMOS on vinyl.

Lukas Jonscher (Eden Project): Recording, Mixing
Tom Bretschneider (Barren Rock Studio): Recording
Nathan Jonscher (Yeti Cave Sounds): Mastering
Christian Döring (Sun Is Burning Visuals): Artwork

Hammada are:
Kristian Schulze: Vocals, Organ
Christian Döring: Guitars, Synthesizers
Lenz Fiedler: Bass Guitar
Sönke Tautorus: Drums

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https://hammada.bandcamp.com/
https://www.hammada-band.com/

https://stoneflyrecords.bigcartel.com/
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Hammada, Atmos (2020)

I was pretty late turning in the playlist for this episode. Not as late as I could’ve been, mind you, but late enough. It kind of got away from me, as will happen from time to time with… everything, I guess. But I got it done and decided against doing a voice track to go with it because I didn’t want to take the extra time from the engineer, a nice guy named Henry who puts up with my late ass on the regular, when he has other stuff to work on. Plus, there’s some good flow to these tracks and I don’t need to screw that up sounding like a doofus, so yeah.

A couple of tracks from the upcoming Heavy Psych Sounds stuff — Cosmic Reaper and Acid Mammoth. You’ll note too the new Monolord single “I’m Staying Home” opens the thing. Kudos to those guys on being topical, even if the track was recorded in 2019. And then we do some long songs in the middle and get heavy and aggro at the end, just to change it up a little bit. Keep things lively some 51 episodes in. Still can’t tell you how flabbergasted I am Gimme has let this go on so long. I’m just gonna ride it out and see where it goes, like I do.

Thanks for listening and/or reading. Hope you dig the show if you check in.

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Full playlist:

The Obelisk Show – 01.22.20

Monolord	I’m Staying Home	I’m Staying Home
Cosmic Reaper	Hellion	Cosmic Reaper
Lammping	Jaws of Life	New Jaws
Scorched Oak	Desert	Withering Earth
Kabbalah	Stigmatized	The Omen
Acid Mammoth	Berserker	Caravan
Kombynat Robotron	Signal Hill	Spontane Emission
Hammada	Domizil	Atmos
Giants, Dwarfs and Black Holes	In the Circle	Everwill
Sarkh	Morast	Kaskade
Wowod	Proschenie	Yarost I’ Prochenie
Dread Sovereign	Nature is the Devil’s Church	Alchemical Warfare
Nomadic Rituals	Them	Tides

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