Category: Music Reports

ORANGE GOBLIN, Stonebringer live @ AN Club, 14/11/13, Athens, Greece

This would be the second time I was going to see the Orange Goblin psych-up the AN Club stage; I remember their last appearance at that same small venue just over a year ago and it was literally ground-breaking, so this is what I expected to experience again. They are monoliths in Stoner Metal and have been active since 1995, and one of the first bands that introduced me to the Stoner scene. In my book, these Brits combine as much Doom as Stoner metal requires. The opening act was Stonebringer, a band whose journey I have followed over the past year and it is always a pleasure to see them play. Word on the street was that Orange Goblin did not want to share the crummy backstage restroom with the local opening act.

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Gracias Mr. Garcia – BURST Magazine Issue 12, December 2013

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Anyone who is into the Stoner rock tempo and riff style would inexcusably remiss in not knowing the name and voice of John Garcia. Pioneering vocals in a music genre he and his Kyuss band buddies developed, made Garcia a legend somewhere through the 90’s. His voice in forever linked to the Desert rock sound, and used by vocalists thought the years until this day s a vocal guide in order to re-enact the sense of a Desert rock scene, trying to make their own sound as close to the original vision as possible. Continue reading Gracias Mr. Garcia – BURST Magazine Issue 12, December 2013