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"Out of Water" by Spaceslug - From "Out of Water" (2024)

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Canon Tunes?

Yeah, sure I'll talk about that shit.

I listened (and still do listen) to a lot of Animal Collective. They're probably my favorite.

I also listened to a lot of I DON'T KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME.

Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day, Mindless Self Indulgence (fucky Jimmy btw...), No Doubt, etc. And a SHIT TON OF VIDEO GAME MUSIC and Lo-Fi.

I was all over the place with music, I had some really obscure shit too. Random Swedish metal bands, like SkraeckOedlan... Dutch metal like Spaceslug...

If I tried to make sense of my music taste it'd take forever.

But yeah. Primarily AnCo and the first 4 others I mentioned.

– An Alex Kralie [Marble Hornets] kin 👓 📼

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Some Zero-Skips Albums.

In no particular order 🤘

Witch - Witch (2006)

Twilight Of The Thunder God - Amon Amarth (2008)

Time Travel Dilemma - Spaceslug (2017)

Bloodlust - Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats (2011)

Blood, Violence & Blasphemy - Krushhammer (2022)

Medusa - Paradise Lost (2011)

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spaceslug got lemanis remastered, i didnt think it needed it but the new master is rlly fucken good tbh

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Spaceslug - Reign Of The Orion (Kozmik Artifactz, 2020)

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I know the haze I know the space He starts what he was born to

Landscapes shines, suns are watching Five thousand hours of spacewalk I'm still looking for shrines and altars Mind's ignoring, what eyes have shown

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BlauDisS - Cannot Be Undone

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Hashtronaut: No Return (2024)

Hashtronaut ... are you fucking kidding me???

With a name like that I needed just a few streams to open my wallet for this Denver, CO-based stoner rock band, knowing their debut LP, No Return (and its stunning, transparent green with yellow and blue splatter wax), had already locked up a reservation on VinylSpinning when April 20th (a.k.a. 420, Cannabis Culture Day) rolled around.

Even more serendipitous was learning that Hashtronaut were playing The Cobra, a small club right here in Nashville, this past Tuesday on a four-band bill completed by local head-bangers Dead Runes, Karma Vulture, and Electric Python -- all for the princely sum of $10.

It felt like 1997 all over again!

So does Hashtronaut's music; or did you think I would have stayed up past my bedtime (on a weeknight, no less!) if these stoned space-farers didn't deliver the musical goods to back up their titular genius and visual presentation?

Just keep in mind that, in a contradiction of its title, No Return is in fact a purely nostalgic exercise and that there's literally ZERO innovation at hand; even the anti-marijuana dialog sampled from '50s and '60s propaganda films have been used elsewhere before.

But well-written standouts like "Rip Wizard" (whose chorus shouts "Smoking it all"), "Carcinogen," "Dead Cloud," and "Dweller" offer doomy, space-themed stoner rock of the highest caliber, reminiscent of vintage Acrimony, Orange Goblin, and Lowrider.

Heck, my biggest complaint is that the fabulous "Hex" should have lasted ten minutes instead of just two!

Finally, I'll praise Daniel Smith (ex-Alamo Black) for the melancholy, haunted strain in his voice -- the kind reserved only for those of us who have been lost in space -- plus he can also roar like an alien beast on "Cough it Up" and "Lung Ruiner." The instrumental "Marsquake" (a sequel to the non-album early track "Moonquake") and a thirty-second thrashing called "Blast Off" bring No Return to an end after barely 41 minutes, but these days I'd rather be left wanting more than stuffed to the gills.

And the sum of all this is: Hashtronaut offer much more than just a clever moniker and irresistible packaging, so I'll be waiting eagerly for their next musical mission (and Nashville show) into the stoner rock void.

More Stoner Rock & Doom: Acrimony’s Tumuli Shroomaroom, The Atomic Bitchwax’s The Atomic Bitchwax, Belzebong’s Sonic Scapes & Weedy Grooves, Bigelf’s Cheat the Gallows, Black Capricorn’s Born Under the Capricorn, Black Rainbows’ Hawkdope, Blue Heron’s Ephemeral, Bongripper’s Satan Worshipping Doom, Bongzilla’s Stash, Cavity’s Supercollider, Ché’s Sounds of Liberation, Clutch’s Earth Rocker, Dead Meadow’s Dead Meadow, Dopethrone’s Hochelaga, Earthride’s Earthride EP, Electric Wizard’s Dopethrone, Eternal Elysium’s Spiritualized D, Fu Manchu’s No One Rides for Free, The Glasspack’s Powderkeg, Goatsnake’s Goatsnake Vol. 1, Green Druid’s Ashen Blood, The Heads’ Mao Tinitus EP, The Hidden Hand’s Mother Teacher Destroyer, House of Broken Promises’ Using the Useless ...

Even More Stoner Rock & Doom: Kyuss’ Blues for the Red Sun, Lowrider’s Ode to Io, Monster Magnet’s Spine of God, The Mystick Krewe of Clearlight’s The Mystick Krewe of Clearlight, Los Natas’ Ciudad de Braham, Nebula’s Let it Burn, Novadriver’s Void, The Obsessed’s Lunar Womb, Orange Goblin’s Frequencies from Planet Ten, Reverend Bizarre’s In the Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend, Sasquatch’s II, Sigiriya’s Return to Earth, Sleep’s Holy Mountain, Slift’s Ummon, Slo Burn’s Amusing the Amazing, Solarized’s  Driven, Sons of Otis’ SpaceJumboFudge, Spaceslug’s Lemanis, Spirit Caravan’s Dreamwheel EP, Spiritu’s Spiritu, Terra Firma’s “Spiral Guru,” Thulsa Doom’s The Seats are Soft but the Helmet’s Way too Tight, Toner Low’s Toner Low, UFOmammut’s Snailking, Unida’s Coping with the Urban Coyote, The Wandering Midget’s From the Meadows of Opium Dreams, Warhorse’s As Heaven Turns to Ash, Witch’s Witch, Wo Fat’s The Black Code.

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"Grand Orbiter (Remastered)" by Spaceslug - From "Lemanis (2024 Remaster, Originally Released in 2016)"

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Hi, you recommended me some music a while back. I finally got through it all (finding time to just listen to music was a bitch) but I loved most of it (by most I mean I only disliked one song. *Alestorm by Alestorm*) but I absolutely loved the rest. Especially Skraeckoedlan and Spaceslug, and was curious if you had any more possible recommendations? Anyway, I hope you have a good day. Thanks again for those recommendations, I really liked listening to them!

Hey ^-^

I'm really glad you liked most of it! I tried to drop a bit of variety so only one miss is honestly a better outcome than I expected. Big on Alestorm personally but I understand that pirate metal is not going to be for everyone lmaooo

And I can absolutely drop some more recs 🤘

Sidenote that I love that you listed Spaceslug as one of the bands you particularly enjoyed. The first type of metal I truly fell in love with was psychedelic doom (Spaceslug being one of the bands) and it really got me through the tail-end of my teens.

Music below the cut 🎵🎶

Honestly, if you haven't already, my first rec would be to check out Spaceslug's entire discography. While Time Travel Dilemma is my favorite album from them, everything they've put out is phenomenal imo.

(The above lowkey goes for most bands I listed before, except Candlemass. Candlemass has a bit of vocalist fuckery and I've not enjoyed their newer albums at all. While you might, I can't say I recommend them. )

I listed some full albums again below but I also took the liberty of just making a fucking playlist. I tried to get it to have a cohesive flow at first but that proved a bit impossible to achieve after a while 💀 so it's just a clusterfuck of stuff. I threw in some songs by bands mentioned before, some I hadn't mentioned but that fit the profile and a few "wildcards"

Full Albums:

Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats: Psychedelic Rock/Doom Metal Seen these guys live. They just straight up fuck. They're so good.

Celtic Frost: Thrash/Death/Black Metal (early); Gothic/Doom Metal (later) Personally, I love the almost goth sound in Celtic Frosts' Monotheist as well as their album To Mega Therion

Katatonia: [Doom/Death Metal (early); Gothic/Alternative/Progressive Rock/Metal (later)] Softer, sad boy music, but still metal (fun fact: Movie!Hunter approves)

Purple Hill Witch: Doom Metal Just some good heavy doom.

Honorable non-metal mentions (shock horror ik, but they're good) All Them Witches - Lightning At The Door (desert rock) Witchcraft - Witchcraft (desert rock, early) Somali Yacht Club - The Sun (stoner rock)

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Spaceslug - Memorial Memorial

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