![]() ![]() Whether it's Mayhem - more psychedelic, magickal and mind expanding than nearly anyone gives them credit for - or Svarte Greiner or Ulver or Arabrot or Wardruna or Necessary - Norway's third eye is wide open and unoccluded. Dark, mind expanding music is their forte. I don't know what it is about Norway but in musical temperament these people are my brothers and sisters. These Pavlovian triggers and routines are hard to disengage from once set in place. Luckily for me, my enthusiasm for powders and potions as a younger, more reckless chap ensures that the cream of psychedelic guitar music still tickles my not yet quite atrophied Altered States gland by muscle memory alone. Touch wood I'm done with all that nonsense now anyway and I'm learning to come at heavy, psychedelic, psychiatrically punishing head music from a different more. For me, the idea of having Dethscalator and $hit and $hine back to back with Årabrot and Noxagt playing in some poorly ventilated concrete death bunker with opium sweat dripping from the ceiling seemed like unadulterated bliss.Ī series of vivid nightmares (concerning being a witness at a coroner's inquest into a drug death that occurred at a festival - called Monsters Of Drugs - that I was running) meant that clearer heads prevailed and the idea was shelved for good. ![]() It was going to take place across two cities - probably Sheffield and Leeds - and feature the cream of current post hardcore, space rock, psychedelic metal and pig fuck from the UK, the US and Norway. Up until relatively recently I harboured an unrealisable fantasy of running a weekend urban noise rock festival called Monsters Of Drugs. ![]()
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