DARK PASSAGES VOL. II

Year: 1996

Label: Rise Above Records

Number of discs: 1

Number of tracks: 12

Available on: CD

Rarity: ***

A step into the doom... Rise Above compiled this selection offering the perfect combiation between the retro-rock and the doom metal, presenting some stoner/doom masters as Electric Wizard, Acrimony and Orange Goblin together with some metal doom lords like Trouble, Pentagram, Paul Chain and, obviously, Cathedral. Edited in 1996.

Track list:


01. Orange Goblin - Saruman's Whish
02. Paul Chain - Sand Glass
03. Eyehategod - Shop Lift
04. Acrimony - Earthchild inferno
05. Pentagram - Sinister
06. Iron Man - Leaving Town
07. Mourn - Calm Before The Storm
08. Trouble - Victim Of The Insane
09. Solstice - Winter Moon Rapture
10. Electric Wizard- Return To The Sun Of Nothingness
11. Down - Bury Me In Smoke
12. Cathedral - Schizoid Puppeteer



This is the second volume of the unholy bible of doom!... as suggest the sticker on the package. The first volume is a step further into te doom and less connected with stoner rock.

BURN ONE UP! MUSIC FOR STONERS

This is probably the first and fundamental Stoner Rock compilations, released in 1997 by Roadrunner Records and presenting many of the most important stoner bands of the first era.

Track list:

01. Queens of the Stone Age - 18 A.D.

02. Karma to Burn - Ma Petit Mort

03. Fu Manchu - Asphalt 'Risin

04. The Heads - GNU

05. Spiritual Beggars - Monster Astronauts

06. Floodgate - Feel You Burn

07. Slaprocket - Holy Mother Sunshine

08. Leadfoot - Soul Full of Lies

09. Celestial Season - Wallaroo

10. Cathedral - You Know

11. Acrimony - Bud Song

12. Blind Dog - Lose

13. Sleep - Aquarian

14. Hideous Sun Demons - Icarus Dream

15. Beaver - Green

My favourite songs in this selection are 18 A.D., a Q.O.T.S.A.'s track available only in this release, Monster Astronauts by Spiritual Beggars, Acquarian by Sleep and Bud Song from the Acrimony, but I have to say that every single second of this compilation needs to be listened!

As the cover say... more than 60 minutes of cosmic sludge rock!