Bong - Live At Roadburn 2010

Bong are a psychedelic trance metal outfit from Newcastle, England; and they are made up of the finest in the area’s
delinquent underground music scene (including members of Obey, Lobster Priest, Trollmann av Ildtoppberg, Basillica,
Master Slave and many more). Aside from a magnificent full length LP, most of Bong’s output has been generated by
bootleg recordings of their rare live shows. Nonetheless, Bong always provide enough pulsating atmosphere and
crushing doom to make every recording worthwhile. For those who know the music of Bong, there is absolutely no need
for any further explanation. I’d just wait for the smoke to clear just enough that I can see the red of your eyes, then
cheerfully say: “Hey dudes, New BONG tape!” Enough said. However, for the uninitiated: let’s pretend for a minute that
Lou Reed, Moe Tucker, John Cale, Sterling Morrison and Angus MacLise decided to join forces and create Pärson Sound
instead of the Velvet Underground. We are talking real drugs here. Real problems. Though the OM comparisons are
becoming tiresome, they can also be a good starting point for the imagination. Go ahead and keep in mind OM’s
minimalist and extended renderings of the modern blues/doom formula, the brain‐numbing ride cymbal pulse, the
gigantic drum sound, the chakra‐shaking blues bass, but add to it some transcendent lyrical phrasings of an amplified
sitar, the astral buzz and clatter of the royal shahi baaja, nihilistic waves of hypnotic guitar ooze, and the mournful
hymns and mantras of a genuine monster sea troll sadhu of Albion. Now imagine this demented sonic recipe pounding
live and loud in a roomful of creeps, trancing out to two side‐long ragas, in Tilburg, Thursday, April 15th at 013, 2010.
Anyone got a light?

TRACK LISTING

1. Onward to Perdondaris. 33:24
2. Wizard Of Krull. 24:22

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