Posts tagged "Monster Magnet"
Monster Magnet, The Last Patrol: Album Review

Monster Magnet, The Last Patrol: Album Review

The space lords from Red Bank, NJ have returned.  They are a band that has survived into the 21st Century, are in their 24th year together and have just released their 10th, and possibly best, studio album to date. The Last Patrol, while not as trippy and psychedelic as earlier works, is every bit the signature stoner-mixed-with-classic-rock sound they’ve created their own niche for.  The standard album is a taut nine songs of pure ‘Power Tripping.’ The album begins on […]

Monster Magnet, "The Duke:" The Singles Bar Review

Monster Magnet, “The Duke:” The Singles Bar Review

…And like a psychedelic trip back into the ethers, Monster Magnet return with another rocket-fueled space rock jam on the album cut, ‘The Duke,’ from their forthcoming album Last Patrol.   Following 2010’s Mastermind, this will be the band’s second album on Napalm Records. It’s a mostly acoustic ‘classic rock sounding,’ track with the signature rhythm section holding things together and Dave Wyndorf vocally setting the mood, gradually building the electric guitar solo ante with Phil Caivano and Garrett Sweeney along for the […]

bLISTerd: Happy Anniversary, MTV!: The Top 50 Videos of the ’90s (40-31)

Check out the first ten entries in our list here , and let’s move on… 40. Slayer “Seasons in the Abyss” (1990) I don’t know exactly why, but it makes absolutely perfect sense to set Slayer up in a desert with temples looming behind them while they perform this song. One can practically see Karl Sanders from Nile sitting on a couch, guitar in hand, writing riffs for songs that would eventually appear on “Amongst The Catacombs Of Nephren-Ka” while watching […]