Bong - Samhain Festival

[Limited edition 20 Silver on Silver | 80 Silver on Smoke]

Bong are a psychedelic trance metal outfit from Newcastle, England; and they are made up of the finest in the area's delinquent underground music scene (including members of Obey, Lobster Priest, Trollmann av Ildtoppberg, Basillica, Master Slave and many more). Aside from a magnificent full length LP, most of Bong's output has been generated by bootleg recordings of their rare live shows. Nonetheless, Bong always provide enough pulsating atmosphere and crushing doom to make every recording worthwhile. For those who know the music of Bong, there is absolutely no need for any further explanation. I'd just wait for the smoke to clear just enough that I can see the red of your eyes, then cheerfully say: "Hey dudes, New BONG tape!" Enough said. However, for the uninitiated: let's pretend for a minute that Lou Reed, Moe Tucker, John Cale, Sterling Morrison and Angus MacLise decided to join forces and create Pärson Sound instead of the Velvet Underground. We are talking real drugs here. Real problems. Though the OM comparisons are becoming tiresome, they can also be a good starting point for the imagination. Go ahead and keep in mind OM's minimalist and extended renderings of the modern blues/doom formula, the brain-numbing ride cymbal pulse, the gigantic drum sound, the chakra-shaking blues bass, but add to it some transcendent lyrical phrasings of an amplified sitar, the astral buzz and clatter of the royal shahi baaja, nihilistic waves of hypnotic guitar ooze, and the mournful hymns and mantras of a genuine monster sea troll sadhu of Albion. Now imagine this demented sonic recipe pounding live and loud in a roomful of creeps, trancing out to two side-long ragas, in Glasgow, on Halloween night, 2009. Anyone got a light?