THE CRUSTCAST: EPISODE 6 - DOOMRIDERS LIVE IN BROOKLYN 2.12.11

Doomriders
When: Saturday, Feb. 12, 2011
Where: Union Pool, Brooklyn, NY
With: Unearthly Trance, Sweet Cobra


Crustcast episode6 by crustcake

In our effort to bring you more of The Crustcast, we've decided to start trying some new formats. Episode 6 brings you the immediate reactions of theseseans and ill! ya? during Doomriders's headlining show at Union Pool. We also enlist the help of audience member Rachel Brown from New York's own Archon.

This is by far our shortest episode, clocking in at just over 11 minutes. As always, please let us know what you think in the comments. We are planning to do more of these show reviews/shorter episodes, hopefully with some actual show audio next time.

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Read more for a list of the song clips and a mini-review, and be sure to listen to the very end for info on Episode 7!

Song Clips used:

Sweet Cobra - "Brux"
Unearthly Trance - "Headless / Heartless" (His Hero Is Gone Cover)
Doomriders - "Come Alive"

Thanks to Rachel for randomly doing this completely spur of the moment. Archon will be bringing their doom to Lit Lounge on Monday, Feb. 21, alongside Bassoon, Vultus and Deep In Vein. Go check it out! Support local metal and Precious Metal's Metal Mondays.

Sweet Cobra drummer Jason Gagovski also told us about a split coming in May from Sweet Cobra and Doomriders. The 7" split will feature Doomriders covering "Girl You Want" and Sweet Cobra covering "Gates of Steel" by Devo. Kurt Ballou (Converge) recorded and mixed the Doomriders song and Allen Epley and Eric Abert (both of The Life And Times) recorded and mixed the Sweet Cobra song. Look for this via Hawthrone Street Records.

Sweet Cobra had a fun -- though not particularly memorable -- set of heavy rock'n'roll. Little flourishes of Big Business (good) and Pelican (not good). Their last song, "Leviathan," got the crowd moving. It should have been first.





Unearthly Trance had mammoth sound, teeth-grinding intensity and a sick cover of His Hero is Gone's "Headless/Heartless." New York's finest.




Doomriders' set was complete chaos, with corwdsurfers, dancing, fists in the air and sing-alongs. Killer band, crowd and show. As sad as I am to have missed Scott Kelly at Mercury Lounge, I'm glad I made it to this one.






All written review text and photos by Ilya Blokh

THE CRUSTCAST: EPISODE 5

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We're back! This episode of the crustcast reels in the podcast after our incredibly explosive fourth episode. This time, it's just us writers. We've chopped the time down to a manageable 38 minutes and we're here to take a look back at some of our favorite records, bands and shows from 2010. But it's not just us talking about what we thought was collectively cool. We argue over the validity of whether Agalloch is actually a good band, champion the Deftones as doom's most popular band and then talk about our feelings.

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Songs included in order of appearance:
The Body - "A Curse"
Type O Negative - "Everything Dies"
Nachtmystium - "Blood Trance Fusion"
Twilight - "Red Fields"
Kylesa - "Don't Look Back"
High On Fire - "Snakes For The Divine"
Triptykon - "A Thousand Lies"
Agalloch - "Ghosts Of The Midwinter Fires"
Vasaeleth - "Curse Seeping Through Flesh"
Decrepit Birth - "Metatron"
Deftones - "You've Seen The Butcher"
Pig Destroyer - "Intro/Pretty In Casts"

Let us know what you think of the changes in editing (music played under conversation/shorter episode length/lack of "special" guest) as well as any other comments, suggestions, gripes, critiques, bitching, shit-talking, crank-yanking and tom-foolery you may have -- so we can tell you how you're wrong, etc. in the comments. See you again much sooner.

Special thanks to Jess Blumensheid for helping Sean edit this.

By theseseans (NYC)

Download: The Crustcast [MP3]

We're back! This episode of the crustcast reels in the podcast after our incredibly explosive fourth episode. This time it's just us writers, we've chopped the time down to a manageable 38 minutes and we're here to take a look back at some of our favorite records, bands and shows from 2011. Not just talking about what we thought was collectively cool, we argue over the validity that Agalloch are actually a good band, champion the Deftones as doom's most popular band and then talk about our feelings.

To subscribe to the crustcast through any type of feed you use, go here.

Songs included in order of appearance:
The Body - "A Curse"
Type O Negative - "Everything Dies"
Nachtmystium - "Blood Trance Fusion"
Twilight - "Red Fields"
Kylesa - "Don't Look Back"
High On Fire - "Snakes For The Divine"
Triptykon - "A Thousand Lies"
Agalloch - "Ghosts Of The Midwinter Fires"
Vasaeleth - "Curse Seeping Through Flesh"
Decrepit Birth - "Metatron"
Deftones - "You've Seen The Butcher"
Pig Destroyer - "Intro/Pretty In Casts"

Let us know what you think of the changes in editing (music under conversation/shorter episode/lack of guest) for this episode as well as any other commenting, bitching, telling us how wrong we are - so we can tell you how right we are, etc. in the comments. See you again much sooner.

Special thanks to Jess Blumensheid for helping me edit this.