It's hard to believe, but the time for your Album of The Year picks is fast approaching! 2017 has been an incredible year for RidingEasy Records -- including landmark releases from Here Lies Man (members of Antibalas), Monolord, R.I.P., TWO brilliant editions of the Brown Acid 60s-70s rare pre-metal singles compilations and more.
Below are links and details on everything RidingEasy for 2017 for your consideration for those year-end picks.
RidingEasy Records - 2017 Year in Review:
DUNBARROW Dunbarrow (released 3/10) Full album stream
Trondheim, Norway quintet Dunbarrow reissued their 2016 self-titled debut album worldwide with a special die-cut sleeve. Norwegian proto-doom with a back-to-basics sound, from Pentagram and Witchfinder General to Quicksilver Messenger Service. Dunbarrow's clean, unadorned sound is a classic in the sense that every song becomes instantly recognizable after just one listen.
HERE LIES MAN Here Lies Man (released 4/7) Full album stream
What if Black Sabbath played Afrobeat? In short, that's the underlying vibe to the self-titled debut by Here Lies Man. The L.A. based quintet is founded and conceptualized by Marcos Garcia of Antibalas, bringing his erudite experience of World rhythms and music to the more riff-based foundations of heavy rock. The results are an incredibly catchy and refreshing twist on classic forms.
VARIOUS ARTISTS BROWN ACID: THE FOURTH TRIP (released 4/20) Full album stream
The popular compilation series of long-lost vintage 60s-70s proto-metal and stoner rock singles fourth edition continues the headbanging tradition.The series is curated by L.A. label RidingEasy Records and retailer/label Permanent Records. The two have assembled a selection of songs that's hard to believe have remained unheard for so long and tapped a goldmine of hard rock brilliance.
BLACKOUT The Horse (released 6/23) Full album stream
NYC trio Blackout's take on doom and stoner rock is filled with a gritty, mechanistic heft unlike bands of their ilk from anywhere else. Subsumed within the greasy grooves of The Horse there are echoes of NYC heavy legends like Helmet, Cro-Mags, Judge, Prong and others -- not as intentional homage, but rather a vibe that permeates and inadvertently gives its bands a unique power that few can match.
SHOOTING GUNS Flavour Country (released 8/11) Full album stream
Shooting Guns is known (and oft-nominated) for their film soundtrack work, but Flavour Country is more like a collection of anthems for your jettison from this universe into the multiverse. While they're known for heavy and saturated sounds befitting crazed horror-comedy flicks like Netflix hit WolfCop, Flavour Country features some of the band's fastest, heaviest and most visceral material to date. Yet, it also features some of the band's most atmospheric sounds as well.
SPELLJAMMER Inches From The Sun (released 9/22) Full album stream
Swedish trio Spelljammer reissue of their celebrated 2010 debut Inches From the Sun. This is the album's first time on vinyl, and first proper release worldwide. Inches From the Sun is a hypnotic groove-based hybrid of classic Desert Rock and rumbling European doom that launched the band to international acclaim following its release.
MONOLORD Rust (released 9/29) Full album stream
Monolord is a rare breed: A band both encompassing and transcending genre; a vortex of heavy rock density that consumes all others. Their thunderous, tuneful heft has built a rabid international fanbase in short order since their 2014 debut. But Rust, the band's third full length, truly exemplifies why some refer to them as the Nirvana of doom. Universally praised and receiving countless perfect 10/10 ratings thus far since release, Rust is destined to remain a landmark album for the ages.
R.I.P. Street Reaper (released 10/13) Full album stream
When R.I.P. came crawling out of the sewers of Portland, OR last year, their grimy, sleazy Street Doom was already a fully formed monstrosity that quickly infected the minds of everyone it encountered. Borrowing equally from 80s Rick Rubin productions and Murder Dog magazine aesthetics, Street Reaper is a streamlined, yet brutally raw manifesto of heavy metal ferocity hearkening to the era when both metal and hip hop were reviled as the work of street thugs intent on destroying America's youth.
VAROUS ARTISTS BROWN ACID: THE FIFTH TRIP (releases 10/31) Full album stream
The popular compilation series featuring long-lost 60s-70s proto-metal and stoner rock singles' fifth edition ups the ante evermore. The series curated by L.A. label RidingEasy Records and retailer/label Permanent Records recently received the pinnacle of endorsements: Lenny Kaye, creator of the legendary Nuggets compilation series (and guitarist in Patti Smith Band & Creem Magazine scribe), picked up his own copies of the previous editions, seen here via Instagram
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