It’s a late Saturday morning for me (past noon, for you other people who get up early on the weekends). This normally consists of camping on my couch with some coffee, a laptop and a shitload of RSS feeds to go through. During this time, I like to listen to a little music. It’s nice, you should try it. Anyway, I just finished listening to the first album by the Norwegian Psychedelic Stoner Doom band, Sahg for the first time and it’s so fucking good, I’m compelled to write a blog post about it.

Sahg combines strong influences from Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and a host of other awesome 70’s bands, bringing it all together into an original, modern sound. They kill. Sahg is one of those Norwegian super-bands, comprising members of well known bands, covering several genres (the bassist from the Black Metal band, Gorgoroth is a member, for example). Their sound is tight and the production is very high quality. All together, they make you want to grow your hair long, take a few bong hits, knock back a bunch of beers (possibly with a tab of acid), bang your head, nail some groupies and worship Satan.

Trust me, it’s good. Get it.

[Official Sahg website]

Since when is Black Metal with naked, fat old ladies in corpsepaint not a good time?

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I really dig Carpathian Forest.

1349 was not a band I immediately liked upon first hearing. As time went on I came to appreciate them, grabbing all their albums. Unlike Burzum, Immortal, Darkthrone, Gorgoroth and a lot of the other second wave Black Metal bands I love, 1349 has a very blitzkrieg and unruly style. It’s fast, raw and chaotic Black Metal.

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What is perhaps my all-time favorite Black Metal band, Gorgoroth, has finally made their first music video. The song is “Carving A Giant”, off the album they released last year. A bit late, but nearly all of them were in prison at the time so it had to wait, I guess. The video’s an attempt at recreating their infamous 2004 concert in Poland that resulted in blasphemy charges and the police seizing all video of the event, which was being filmed for a DVD (three years later, the band has still not received the footage from the police).

Awesome. Gorgoroth are hardcore, motherfuckers. Gaahl rules. Here’s a link in case the above embedded video isn’t coming through for you.