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what's up guys check out my beautiful ibanez.. i found it up in austin a couple months ago and absolutely love it. any thoughts?

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jackson's third ever album of the week.

today, we're looking at the creator. the original. where it all began. black sabbath's self titled, the first heavy metal track ever. when this album officially released in 1970, it was a game changer. this kind of music had never really been heard before. this was dark, sinister, with themes of witchcraft, wizards, satan, and so on.

the opening track, also the title track, is heavy as all hell. as it opens, the sound of rain slowly creeps in until that first heavy note hits. as the second note comes to fruition, it leaves you feeling unresolved. eerie. the simple dissonance of these two notes combined with the dark and void tone created by the spacey reverb leaves you with a dreadful feeling as the song marches on into ozzy's vocals. the songs builds to a powerful climax with one of iommi's most iconic solos, as the audible battle between satan and his chosen one rages on. finally, the song comes to a great end and makes way for the wizard.

if someone were ever to wonder where metal comes from, i'd have to show them this song. this song is blues. bluesy lines from iommi, the powerful harmonica, it's all blues. not to mention this song being half the reason for electric wizard's existence.

to close off, i will speak of black sabbath's musical versatility. wicked world is a jazz song in metal format. the swing beat of the drums, the slick smooth guitar lick, it's allllll jazz. ozzy's vocals on this one are deep and serious, as he conveys a message of how wicked the world is through song.

in short, this album is easily one of my favorite albums of all time. it combines themes of jazz, blues, and a bit of the birmingham misery to create what is now widely regarded as heavy metal. i highly recommend listening if you've never checked it out. thank you all for reading the third jackson's album of the week, and i apologize for it coming a day late. friday was weird.

THANK YOU ALL AND I WILL SEE YOU NEXT FRIDAY ON JACKSON'S FOURTH ALBUM OF THE WEEK!

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jackson's second album of the week! i chose to link the opening track as it is a great harbinger for the rest of the album.

this album is a pillar in all of metal history. an absolute game changer. electric wizard released come my fanatics and said, "we need to go darker. we need to be heavier than anyone has ever been before." and that they did. they released dopethrone, which, in the first riff on the first song, already sounds like lifting the weight of the world. listening to this album makes you feel slow, bulky, drugged, and doomed in a completely fucked world.

this album has several moments teetering the line between heavy doom and almost noise/drone. altar of melektaus, the 4th movement of weird tales, is straight drone. the only way to describe the void resonance of it is to say it sounds as if your soul has been ripped from your body and sent to a realm of pure chaos. a complete void, yet somehow claustrophobic. paradoxically peaceful in it's overwhelming tone.

the title track of the album, dopethrone, is easily one of the heaviest songs ever created. the riff sounds dreary and antagonistic. hopelessly wicked. the laugh at the beginning, before the riff even hits, is a foreshadow of what's to come. the vocals seem desperate, as whiny and distorted as possible. you can barely hear what he's saying, a dense audible fog between his vocals and the listener's ears.

i cannot recommend this album enough. it is a goliath of doom. if music could take a physical form, this album would be satan. a reminder of our hopeless, meaningless, void existence in a macabre, yet beautifully put together way.

if you read this whole thing, thank you very much and i hope to see you all next friday for the THIRD EVER jackson's album of the week!

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love these two. iommi is my biggest influence as a guitarist, and ozzy is my biggest influence as a frontman.

not to mention they created heavy metal/doom metal/basically also sludge. they're some badass guys. geezer and bill too.

i also named my dog ozzy cause he's a long haired psycho..

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i never gave kyuss much of a chance because of the vocals. everything is heavy, doomy and beautiful, but the vocals are just not a good match. this song successfully changed my mind.

i realized that in order to enjoy something, you cannot always look at it as what you think it should be. you must simply look at it as what it is. this is not doom metal. this is not heavy metal. it's stoner rock, sure, but it's also in its own league.

metalheads often pigeonhole everything they can into set genres and i think that's dumb. enjoy something for what it is, like kyuss, or miss out on a lot of great shit by going by the book 100% of the time.

happy birthday to this album! 31 years of heavy riffs, groovy lines, and desert stoner rock. to those of you who don't know kyuss, let today be the time to jam some. it's a great summer day for it.

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jackson's album of the week! i guess i'll start doing this because i'm bored with my life and have nothing else to do. it's also a plus that i enjoy talking about music.

aaanyway, PHF is awesome! all of their albums are very different from one another, but as a main overall genre i'd have to call them just new wave alternative. but they're weird. they're more alternative and weird than so many other "new wave alternative" musicians. they include so many rock, metal, and electronic elements which they do a great job at blending. some of their music feels like the auditory version of wading through a swamp, dense and heavy. while other stuff feels like a molly trip at a rave. i love the variety and eclecticism in the music they create, they are definitely worth a listen.

my personal favorite track on this album is glue, the one i linked. it was the first song of theirs i heard and the lyrics were very fitting for my life situation at the time. the song glue, coincidentally enough, sounds like glue. it sounds like you're trapped in some adhesive that's holding you to this part of your life you'd do anything to escape. you're noticing the divergence from someone you once loved, but you can't do anything about it. it sounds like summer in a dead end town. it sounds like waking up at sunrise and not getting out of bed until sunset. i could keep going. you get the point.

now, a little about the band before i close out. PHF is (songwriter) Tāmaki Makaurau and (producer) Joe Locke. they've even said themselves that PHF is hard to pin down. their most recent album, LOAD, is almost hyperpop. PHF started in 2008 as a bit of a bedroom project and grew into what it is now, a weird ass, somehow comforting but also disturbing project.

*news anchor voice* i'm jackson eldridge, and this was album of the week. thank you for tuning in, and we will be back next friday with more!

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to be human is to be orpheus

"If I were orpheus I wouldn't look back"

But we look back everyday- rechecking emails, making sure a friend is still behind you, checking to see if you remebered to pick up your keys. It's second nature, a habit of care.

It was second nature for him too. He looked back, not out of weakness, but love. For what is love, if not to look back?

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i've always thought this. ricky kasso is responsible for so many doom/stoner/sludge bands finding inspiration lmao.

he pretty much spearheaded the "satanic panic", which is very common thematically for doom. at least for electric wizard, frequently using interview/tv samples advising against heavy metal as it's cultic or whatnot.

not to mention, he was the "acid king" which created one of my personal favorite doom bands, fittingly of the same name.

ricky kasso, you psychotic killer, i guess thank you for doom metal?

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my second favorite band doing a cover of my favorite song from my favorite band is always a treat.

personally, in a cover of a song, i like when bands/musicians make it their own. instead of copying it, they take the song, the ideas of the song, and warp it into their own song using their techniques and their set of skills. this song is a great example of that.

mike IX doesn't try to be ozzy. jimmy bower doesn't try to be iommi. it's simply homage to ozzy and iommi, from two pioneers of the genre ozzy and iommi created.

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EYEHATEGOD

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come my fanatics is a phenomenal book for anyone who enjoys reading/doom metal. it's all about electric wizard, but also goes a little into some other bands.

the second picture is from the book. it is of a show after jus oborn had a rather iommic accident and cut his finger off with a carpet cutter.. if you look closely, you can see his finger's a little too elongated after he glued it back on.

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mephistofeles is another very underrated band.

they teeter the line between stoner and doom so well, as many bands of these genres often do. the entire album is riff heavy and i must say, the rest of their discography doesn't disappoint either.

evil beauty was the first song i heard from mephistofeles, and upon my first listen, i thought i was hearing some weird ass never released black sabbath single or something like it. the vocals have ozzy's signature drunken whine, although he makes it his own as well. the guitar and drums are in sync throughout the whole song, meshing well for a good blend. and of course, traditional for doom, the bass is loud and heavy.

i cannot recommend mephistofeles enough. 31K monthly listeners is not even close to what these guys deserve.

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AHA MY NAMESAKE

san marcos, texas loves bosh. a fairly local band that blew up (at least in local terms) and is now loved by many. their shows are great. just like the music, their presence is loud, violent and in your face like no one else.

love ya bosh, keep doing you

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dragonaut, the immediate stoner doom classic.

the song opens with thunderous lows, typical for matt pike and al cisneros' various and vicious tones.

the spacy vocals sound as if they're being recorded from inside of a bottle and fit the song perfectly.

the heavy riffage from pike and cisneros combined with the drumming from chris hakius combine to create a wonderfully crafted jam.

the solo itself, in typical sleep fashion, is more or less everyone in the band just going crazy all at once on their respective instruments, which somehow melds into a beautiful section of orchestrated chaos.

this song, album, and sleep's entire discography, honestly, reek of weed and doom.

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i love my bloody valentine

they're great at pushing the boundaries of what music knows, always walking the line between music and noise. loveless especially has so many odd moments strafing between melody and pure noise. every time i listen, i imagine the tone and noise as the void. the unkown. the unknown, reverberating through my brain until i finally see any other image

120 dB is loud enough to keep anyone in that mental void for a while though

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easily one of the most exhilarating live performances i've ever seen, and it's such a dark and chilling song.

the heavy chugging of such an eerie riff in the beginning, the solo in the beginning (and the main solo later on), and jus's vocals all tie together to create such a beautifully heavy and despicable masterpiece.

another great song to check out is burnout, also from the supercoven EP. this EP is a more underground part of heavy metal/doom metal history. those i know that do listen to electric wizard/doom metal in general rarely know this EP, yet it paved the way for the rest of electric wizard's music.

no one riffs doom like the wizard

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another semi-local band, from austin texas.

molotov was badass, they just broke up a couple months ago if i remember correctly. they were a good blend of powerviolence and grindcore, and they were actually the first show i ever went to.

sad to say i had to miss their last show because of my job, but i know they rocked that shit and they're already locally famous in the scene, even after the breakup. can't hang out with anyone without molotov being mentioned lmao