Here Today... Gone To Hell!

I thought i would start a thread on this great band, i've only been listening to them for about a month or so but already have most of their albums and think they are ace and the album Powertrip is a classic, just wondered what everyone else thought of them

They're Okay. Seen them with Megadeth way back in '98 and they put on a pretty good show.

I have their God Says No cd and I'd recommend that.

Just started listening to them again recently, i dont have any albums but they rock and ill probably go and see them at Rock City in February!

Stoner rock rules!

CAT - does that album have powertrip on it?

Powertrip is on Powertrip, amazingly.

EF toured with them when Monster were the shit a few years ago, and were offered huge amounts of record deals as they blew MM offstage every night.

I'd like to see them play the UK, but that's only because the amazing Gluecifer are on the tour.

THE MIGHTY BOOT OF BIFF MALIBU!

I believe they are playing Academy 2 in Manchester on Feb 22nd it's only ?14 so i think i'll go should be class, Powertrip is such a good album my top 2 songs by them at the mo are there cover of Into The Void and Negasonic Teenage Warhead

Its an odd world isnt it?. I first Realized Monster Magnet due to the fact that i watch Wrestling. Now Matt Hardy Version 1 theme music is Monster Magnet's Live For the Moment. I then never listened to them until i looked at the Matrix Soundtrack that i have had for over 3 years now and there we have it another MM song.

I have Recently Got Power Trip and i have to say i am very Impressed.

Myself and StonedMaides are going to see them on the 22nd!.

Ill get back to you after the concert.

Later All

New album! 'MONOLITHIC BABY!' out Feb. 16 in Europe! SPV STEAMHAMMER records! U.S.A. in March! Tour starts Feb. 20!

If any of you see Gluecifer let me know what you think?

I doubt I'll be going as I can't afford pay 18 quid to see Gluecifer, not when I'm going to see Winnebago Deal and The Dangerfields around that time.

Will do Chris!

Monster Magnet a week on sunday for me so if i see Gluecifer i'll tell ya what i think.  I just got Monster Magnet's new album 'Monolithic Baby!' today and i must say it is fucking class, well worth buying.  I've only read one review, which was extremely good Kerrang gave it 5K's and i would have to agree with them (for once) i heard they gave Skid Row's 'Thickskin' 1k........FUCKERS!!!!

What type of rock is this? Like in what kinda vein?

Stoner

Ya stoner spacey rocky stuff (that should make sense if it doesn't blame the weed  ;D}

God Says No was released a month overseas before hitting the states just as Monolithic Baby will as well.  I'd Love to see them tour the states this summer.  Europeans have more of an upper hand than they think.  Also some great Gothic bands outta Europe that We will probably never see in the states

Saw Monster Magnet last night and they were fuckin' ace (Dave used my lighter :)) they played greats like Space Lord and Powertrip along with lots of new stuff, Dave also decided to sacrifice his guitar at the end and smash it up just before it he had been singing 'American Pie' he was stoned as a monkey and all the better for it :smoking:

As for Gluecifer, id never heard of them before and did not expect much but boy they were class i was so impressed all i can say is Automatic Thrill : ok:

Glad you liked Gluecifer. I really wish I had gone to see them. I was actually at the venue when they were playing, but as I said, I ain't payin' near ?20 to watch them for 20 mins.

Monster Magnet are not a bad band, but I only have about two stoner albums, it really isn't my thing.

Tickets were only ?14 plus i would say the Gluecifer set was about 40 minutes maybe more they played a good number of songs and everyone was class i was majorly impressed im going to get hold of some of their albums as soon as possible

 14 March 2004 Hamburg Gr. Freitheit Germany
 15 March 2004 Hannover Capitol Germany
 16 March 2004 K?ln Live Music Hall Germany
 18 March 2004 Berlin Columbiahalle Germany
 19 March 2004 Dresden Schlachthof Germany
 20 March 2004 Warschau Stodola Poland
 22 March 2004 Prague Palace Acropolis Czech Republic
 23 March 2004 Stuttgart Longhorn Germany
 24 March 2004 Nurnburg Lowensaal Germany
 26 March 2004 Munchen Elserhalle Germany
 27 March 2004 Wien Planet Austria
 28 March 2004 Graz Orpheum Austria
 30 March 2004 Milan Transilvania Live Italy
 31 March 2004 Rome Circolo Degli Artis Italy
 01 April 2004 Trevisto New Age Italy
 03 April 2004 Fribourg Fri-Son Switserland
 04 April 2004 Zurich Rote Fabrik Switserland
 05 April 2004 Barcelona Razzmataz Spain
 06 April 2004 Madrid Arenan Spain
 08 April 2004 Lyon Transbordeur Club Size France
 09 April 2004 Strasbourg Laterie France
 11 April 2004 Schijndel Paaspop Festival Netherlands
 12 April 2004 London Shepards Bush Empire United Kingdom
 15 April 2004 Athens Rodon Greece
 16 April 2004 Athens Rodon Greece

These are Monster Magnet's remaining tour dates im going to the one in London on the 12th April, means i get to see Gluecifer again as well :) anyone else coming to that one or going to any others?

Stoner Rock is my fave sub genre of Rock and Roll, Monster Magnet are one of the pioneers of this and i still dont have one there fucking albums!

Orange Goblin are another good stoner band, Chris Misfit used to have one of thier albums...i have however stolen it...un beknowns to him.

Down are another good Stoner band and so are Pantera and superJOINT ritual to an extent although both the latter are really more metal!

Some of Zepplins stuff is also Stoner, i can listen to that shit and just fade away and think about trivial unrelated to anything stuff!

FUCK DUDE I NEVER REALISED ABOUT PANTERA BEFORE BEING GOOD FOR STONER SESSIONS BUT U ARE SO RIGHT IM FUCKED AS A MONKEY NOW AND I HAVE HOLLOW ON BY EM AND ITS GOOD SHIT :smoking: :smoking: :smoking: :smoking: :smoking: :smoking: :smoking: :smoking: :smoking:

Told ya...its the guitar...man...blows u away.

I am not stoned unfortunately but can still appreciate Stoner rock when sober,,,its the beauty of it!

Monolithic Baby just got 4 out of 5 stars in this weeks Classic Rock and are said to be Rock's best kept secret, another great review for a great album : ok:

I've heard a few Monster Magnet tracks and liked them (Powertrip, Space Lord....), what songs should I check out from the new album?

I'm wanna listen to a few songs before I buy the thing.


/jarmo

From the new album Monolithic Baby!:
On The Verge
Too Bad
Unbroken (Hotel Baby)
There's No Way Out Of Here (it's a Dave Gilmour cover)
Master of Light

Powertrip and Space Lord are 2 very good tracks off Powertrip i recommend that entire album i would say it's the best one, although most reviews think Monolithic Baby is, which while being very good is not quite to Powertrip's standard

What Jarmo?

Your listening to something else apart from Pearl Jam!

This is a great day in the history of your life! :D

Unbroken(hotel Baby) is awesome.

I havent got the album yet but will expect the whole back catalogue for my birthday from you guys!

Catch an exclusive interview with Monster Magnet frontman, Dave Wyndorf, on Angelina's Journey on Monday 12th April 2004. The same day Monster Magnet are playing the Shepards Bush Empire in London! Dave talks to Total Rock's Angelina about the new Monolithic Baby album, girls and crowd surfing ... One not to be missed, from 6 - 9 p.m. UK time on TotalRock.com.

Taken from www.MonsterMagnet.net

Got Monolithic Baby today..

Album rocks, real in your face rock and roll.

The amount of quality bands i have discovered through this board : ok:

For American MM fans:

Officialy confirmed : US Release date is now set for May 25th 2004 by SPV USA. The US release will feature 2 bonustracks, Venus in Furs + King Of Mars 2004. There will be a Limited Edition with bonus DVD.

2 tracks for me to download then :smoking:

This is an article i found on mtv.com it's about a year old or so but my mate just saw the film and said he saw them performing in it and said it was real cool (but the rest of the film sucked)

Since Ice Cube's next movie, "Torque," is about motorcycles, madness and betrayal, director Joseph Kahn decided he needed an expert to work on the music. He called up Dave Wyndorf, frontman for the motorcycle-metal band Monster Magnet, and invited him to contribute a song.

Kahn had known Wyndorf since 1998 when he worked on Monster Magnet's "Powertrip" and "Space Lord" videos, which received considerable airplay. Since then, Kahn has shot videos for Moby, Britney Spears and countless others. "Torque" will be his first feature film.

When Kahn phoned, Wyndorf had been working on new Magnet material for months, so he grabbed a demo for a song called "Master Light" and sent it to the director, who played it for his cohorts.

"It's this huge, giant biker theme song," Wyndorf said Tuesday. "It doesn't have anything in particular to do with motorcycles, but it's reminiscent of a big '60s theme, except it's modern. We've got all kinds of polyrhythms going on and enormous chords. It's like a big f--- you to the world, which is kind of a biker thing."

Wyndorf's reverberations of grandeur were so well received that not only was the song immediately accepted, but Kahn also asked the band to appear in the film.

"We're in a big concert scene where everything goes wrong and people die," Wyndorf said. "Through all the chaos, there's Monster Magnet."

During the shoot, Wyndorf, who was impressed by Ice Cube's motorcycle skills, engaged the rap star in some small talk when there was downtime. But the rapper was not amused by one of Wyndorf's bandmate's antics.

"My drummer [John Kleiman] has been wearing the same Ice Cube shirt for five years," he explained. "His big thing is to pull the shirt over his head so the actual picture of Ice Cube becomes his head, so it looks like a mutant midget Ice Cube walking around. He wanted to get a picture of him like that with Ice Cube, but Cube didn't think it was that funny."

When Wyndorf received positive feedback about the "Master Light" demo, he sensed further opportunity. He asked Kahn if anyone was onboard to write the score for "Torque," and was told that no one had yet been hired. So late last year, when Monster Magnet recorded "Master Light" in the studio, Wyndorf took some extra time to score a musical passage for one of the film's murder scenes. Kahn liked the work, and after a little pleading, Wyndorf got the thumbs-up to score the whole film.

"I just kept saying, 'I can do it' until they said 'all right,' " Wyndorf said. "Since I had the material to back it up, they finally agreed."

Wyndorf is currently working on the music with producer Scott Humphrey (Andrew W.K.) and Tommy Lee, who will play drums on some of the material.

"[Tommy Lee is] a friend of Scott's," Wyndorf said. "He's a big drummer, and we've got drums bigger than human beings. We're using these big Japanese orchestral drums. So everything sounds really giant."

The psych-metal guitarist described the film music as a cross between Bernard Herrmann (Taxi Driver, Vertigo) and Sergio Leoni (A Fistful of Dollars) done in a psychedelic funk format, but emphasized that it's not a hard rock score at all.

"What we want do is construct tension through orchestration. It kind of sounds like Zeppelin if they had done something like this, because there are a lot of strings and guitars. I layer all this stuff from tiny little guitars to three pianos banging at the same time."

Wyndorf plans to wrap up the score for "Torque" in the next two weeks. Then he'll sit down with Kahn to edit and refine the material.

"This is something I've always wanted to do," Wyndorf said. "When you're a rock and roll singer and songwriter you gather up all kinds of material and ideas that there's no practical application for on a rock and roll album.

"But in movies you can just go berserk even though a lot of it ends up on the cutting-room floor. It's great. In the studio you can go insane with gongs and strings and anything. It's absolutely crazy."

Also while i was looking round for Monster Magnet stuff i found an old article from '99 mentioning them performing on the Heavy Metal soundtrack interestingly it also said Music supervisor Bruce Berman confirms that he is in talks with Axl Rose to include a new Guns N' Roses song in the movie, although it's not expected to appear on the soundtrack album. A source close to Rose says the singer is into the project, but he may or may not be able to work out a schedule that will allow him to participate. Guess he never found that schedule :(

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1428832/05241999/monster_magnet.jhtml

Joseph Kahn - is he one of those muppets from Linkin Park, i know one of their motley lot directs videos....

im a huge monster magnet fan an ive just started to listen to some Orange Goblin stuff they are also class thanks for the advice lads :D

the offical monster magnet site has just has a make over and for the better.
visit www.monstermagnet.net

Ok time to bump this thread up, did you get more Monster Magnet stuff then Jarmo? Do you like?

Anywayz main reason ive moved this up is because ive just started getting into Monster Magnet's earlier stuff.  Most fans in this thread seem to only know the albums Powertrip, God Says No & Monolithic Baby!

What is definately worth a damn listen are the albums Tab...25 & Spine of God.  They are quite different to the later albums more psychadelic/space Rock a lot like Hawkwind it is so much better to listen to when stoned and is really outstanding stuff shows Monster Magnet in a whole new element.

Yeah, I have to get the Monolithic Baby cd asap. :D



/jarmo

Latest happenings in the Monster Magnet world : ok:

Today's Song For Tomorrow, the new album by Lord Sterling featuring Monster Magnet bassplayer Jim Baglino, had just been released through Small Stone Records. In the spirit of Black Flag / Son House / MC5 / Hawkwind /  13th Floor Elevators or John Coltrane the album is definitely a must have for every self respecting fan of psychedelic rock music out there. Check out the Lord Sterling website for more info.  

2004 / 2005 will definitely be a very busy and legendary time in the history of Monster Magnet. Not only have they released the new Monolithic Baby album both in Europe and the USA, they are touring both sides of the atlantic, re-releases of both the Spine Of God and Tab albums including re-recorded bonus tracks are in the works and last but not least we can expect a solo album by main Magnet Dave Wyndorf as well as yet unnamed side projects by both Monster Magnet guitarists Phil Caivano and Ed Mundell !

NOOOO

Not side projects

I have began to assoc side projects with delays and frustration thanks to nuGNR :rant:

Nah Magnet are more reliable plus a Dave Wyndorf solo album would be amazing the stoner king going solo

Whoever said they listen to Orange Goblin, you fucking rule..kick ass fucking band and im gonna see em in a few weeks!!

Check out there: - Thieving from the house of god album...fucking brilliant.

Also im listening to Kyuss an awful lot recently and to be fair...they have a lot to do with the emergence of what we now call Stoner Rock....

Zeppelin and Hawkwind bought it to the forefront early on, Kyuss, Magnet and to an extent Pantera/Down bought it back and now we get bands like Orange Goblin...and still Magnet doing their shit.

I love it!

Joshua Homme you are a fucking legend...QOTSA may have been quite dull but Kyuss and Desert Sessions is fucking brilliant shit!


Long Live Stoner Rock!!!

Orange Goblin rule the roost.

Anyone listen to Fu Manchu?

Only Goblin song i have is Scorpionica, i really like it though.  As for Fu Manchu i've heard quite a few tracks ; Mongoose, Orbiter, Squash That Fly, Wiz Kid, Breathing Fire, Hell On Wheels & Evil Eye.  I really like all of those songs especially Evil Eye so ill be getting some more stuff, any recommendations?

Buy the Daredevil album by Fu Manchu...its very,very good!

And please for godsake check out Kyuss...forget Josh Homme is in the band if you dont like him!!

Roll a fat one and sit back and listen to "welcome to sky valley"

Good shit...if you like Orange Goblin STONED, they are at the rockier end of Stoner...check out Electric Frankenstein also...slightly more rocky but kick major Ass.....

What have EF got to do with stoner? You're smoking too much.

EF have nothing to do with Stoner...i was just making a point to someone who listens to what we recommend and why shouldnt he listen to the best band in the world?

My point was - Orange Goblin Rock...so do EF.

Stoned...dont buy there albums otherwise u may be forced into a parallel universe where only EF matters...i have and im never coming back!!!

BTW...im not stoned at all...for once... :'(

No but you're still a prat.

Anyawy, what you should do is collect Mans Ruin (record company) records, they have folded now, but name any decent rock n' roll/stoner band, and they've released records on Mans Ruin.

That my Irish friend will never change!!


Easier said than done...well for my unversatile brain anyway. how would you go about searching for a defunct Record labels, records?

Is that something your guy at Changes One could sort out?

If so i suppose that would be a good place to start as he is cool as fuck with his prices.

You can get some from ChangesOne I'm sure. Good bet would be to email Tunny and get him to send you a list of the Mans Ruin/20 Stone Blatt CDs he has.


Anyway, to all you has-beens, remember to check out Orange Goblin on their forth coming tour. I'll be there, and Arron too, but he'll more than likely be thrown out for showing his penis everytime the girl asks to see his "ticket".

You might not want to do that, as CO has folded.

To all you who buy HMV cds, fuck you.
All you 5 minute rock n' roll wonders, fuck you.
All of you still stuck in the 80s, fuck you.

Ahhh, I'm pissed off. AND IF I FIND OUT WHO WAS LISTENING TO OASIS IN MY FLAT, DEATH WILL OCCUR!

Ok......Just to turn this back on the Monster Magnet topic here are the latest news and rumours which by the way are more reliable than GN'R ones since ive realised the word rumour on this board don't go down well these days, ok here goes;

Words out that Monster Magnet will keep on touring for at least the rest of 2004. Next to the upcoming US tour the band's planning to play both Australia and Asia and finally yet another European tour by the end of the year. Other plans are an upcoming DVD, re-releases e.g. Spine of God w/ bonus tracks

Current Tour Dates

27 August 2004 Seaside Green Room NJ
28 August 2004 Springfield Jaxx Nightclub VA
29 August 2004 Virginia Beach Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre VA
31 August 2004 Chicago Double Door IL
01 September 2004 Minneapolis Fine Line Music MN
04 September 2004 Portland Dante's OR
05 September 2004 Seattle Neumos WA
07 September 2004 San Francisco Independent CA
08 September 2004 Los Angeles Monster Garage TV show CA
09 September 2004 Los Angeles Troubadour CA
10 September 2004 Phoenix Mason Jar AZ
11 September 2004 Salt Lake Dead Goat MO
12 September 2004 Denver Larimer Lounge CO
13 September 2004 Lawrence Bottleneck KS
14 September 2004 St. Louis Mississippi Nights MO
16 September 2004 Cleveland Peabodys OH
17 September 2004 New York Bowery Ballroom NY
18 September 2004 Little Falls Yogi Berra Stadium NJ
19 September 2004 Philadelphia Northstar PA
21 September 2004 Hartford Webster Theatre CT
26 September 2004 Boston WAAF MA
27 September 2004 Allentown Crocodile Rock Caf? PA
29 September 2004 Poughkeepsie The Chance NY
30 September 2004 Lancaster The Chameleon PA
01 October 2004 Baltimore Thunderdome MD
02 October 2004 Huntington Harris River Front Park WV

Edit: On the topic of other stoner bands i got Orange Goblin's Thieving From The House of God and overall it's very medicore best track is probably Crown Of Locusts.

The brand new Monster Magnet video for Monolithic will make it's national debut on Headbangers Ball upcoming saturday, July 31st. The show airs in the US on MTV2 at 10.00 p.m. Eastern time.

Another cool music video by the stoner gods on the horizon :smoking:

you guys should check out El Caco, a killer norwegian stoner band.
saw them live in May, was fuckin awesome.

I saw them at Download fest I really liked them they were a fun band to watch I was totally into them

Good stuff Dave was on top form interacting with the crowd and taken the piss out of Linkin Park and the fact the crowd cheered for Iggy and hardly responded when he mentioned Linkin Park - 'The Headliners', Like he said 'I Find That Very Fuckin' Interesting'.? If you havent' already you should pick up their new album....actually you should pick them all up but along with Powertrip their new album is the most accessable for new fans : ok:

I just recently found Monster Magnet, (like I've found other bands on here, Thanks!) and I was going to put together a sort of Greatest Hits compilation, can anybody help come up with their best songs?

Well i would say buy their greatest hits but it ain't that good really ok ill give it a go

Powertrip [Powertrip]
Black Balloon [Superjudge]
Nod Scene [Spine of God]
Brainstorm [Superjudge]
Unbroken (Hotel Baby) [Monolithic Baby!]
Bummer [Powertrip]
Negasonic Teenage Warhead [Dopes To Infinity]
Dopes To Infinity [Dopes To Infinity]
Twin Earth [Superjudge]
Freak Shop USA [Monster Magnet]
Dead Christmas [Dopes To Infinity]
Blow 'Em Off [Dopes To Infinity]
Kick Out The Jams [Varsity Blues Soundtrack]
Monolithic [Monolithic Baby!]
Master of Light [Monolithic Baby!]
Crop Circle [Powertrip]
Medicine [God Says No]
See You In Hell [Powertrip]
Zodiac Lung [Spine of God]
I'm Five Years Ahead of My Time [B-Side Look Into Your Orb For The Warning]
Snake Dance [Spine of God]
Space Lord [Powertrip]

The albums you can find the tracks on are in brackets, now i know 22 tracks is alot for a greatest hits but when they brought theirs out it was double disc and they do have a lot of albums to go through :smoking:

Thanx for the tip dude i downloaded 2 songs, Mrs. Coma & Please Be Sad and it's pretty good shit at least when stoned, sober it's not bad but i would probably have to be stoned to pick up an album.

In Stoner news from knac.com:

Fu Manchu will release their latest effort, Start the Machine, on September 14th through DRT Records.

As for the advice on what Orange Goblin/Fu Manchu stuff to get i have got hold of all the albums i could possibly find by the 2 and am now a big fan and yes i did download them when i have money i'll go and buy them probably starting with The Big Black followed by Frequencies From Planet Ten

I took up somebody's advice on here and picked up a Porcupine Tree cd-Studid dream.  It's pretty good, sounds a bit like Yes or Rush and reminds me of Pink Floyd or Radiohead at times. Thanks for the suggestion! :)

Here's some wise words from Dave Wyndorf, well worth reading:

I have to say that the USA is a really hard sell these days. That's ok because I expected it to be.

The true star of the early 21st century is the NOVELTY of technology. Communication between people via modern technology. It seems as if the mass audience is NOT looking for poetry in their music. The pace of life that the media has set seems to have bamboozled your average "consumer". And believe you me, the companies that sell "entertainment" have NO problem selling one dimensional, artless crap. It's fast and easy.

Where are the smart folks? Behind their computers of course. Using them as an alternative to mass marketed, hollow entertainment. Only problem IS...They (the smart and the passionate) have gone SO into cyberland that their physical presence is gone and they are being discounted by big business. Look at it this way.

Why would big business spend tons of moola to seduce a smart, sceptical person when they can easily market TONS of garbage to millions of poor shmucks who really don't know the difference between the true VALUE of good art and bad art.

I know, who am I to say what's good or bad, but It's pretty clear that we are all subject to a machine gun barrage of crapolla 24/7. The likes and breadth of which the world has never seen before. Interesting times. Before too long (I hope) the mass audience will start to tire of the novelty and start to look for art and entertainment that can express their feelings in a poetic fashion that cannot be expressed any other way.

There is a HUGE spiritual void in more than one recent generation and it will need to be filled. FACINATING! I feel totally flattered that there are people like you guys and girls on this site and beyond that are behind Monster Magnet. Thank you!

Smart people CAN rock!

Love, Dave.

Finally...an update from their website:

Hey there, here's some of the stuff Monster Magnet is planning for the new year. 2005 should include a Monster Magnet DVD release, reissues of both Spine Of God and Tab with unreleased tracks! Writing and recording the next Magnet album, some selected summer festivals and i will start working on my first ever Dave Wyndorf solo album. On top of that we're planning an "unplugged" Euro tour later this year!

So hopefully a Wyndorf album this year and a Monster Magnet one maybe early 2006, reissues of 2 classics, Spine of God especially which is pretty much a masterpiece, their first DVD and a chance to see them if they return to the UK which i expect them to.  2005 could be a great year for Monster Magnet fans!

I'm announcing with deep regret that Phil Caivano, guitarist, singer and my long time friend has decided to "move on" from Monster Magnet.

Phil joined the band in 1998 and has been a solid contributor since day one. No one I know has ever been more dedicated to his craft. He is a unique and talented individual who excels at everything he does and I wish him all the best.

Phil himself will let you know what he's doing in his own good time, but for the record, this is an amicable split.
 
Needless to say, there is only one Phil Caivano so replacing him is impossible. However Magnet is auditioning guitarists to fill the rhythm slot and I'll let you all know what's up. In the meantime,I'll be playing guitar.This change in line up will in no way effect the output of Monster Magnet, as I am writing the new album now and things are on schedule.

Phil is and will always be welcome as a member of the Monster Magnet family.

Rock is alive! Love, Dave.

www.monstermagnet.net
 

yo assholes...i picked up Monster Magnet's "Dopes to Infinity" a while ago and...it sucks.  Granted, this is my first MM album but i was less than impressed. what gives?  You sing their praises and I'm pretty well versed yet this album sounded like third rate nu-metal.

Firstly they never have and never will be nu-metal.  Now at the end of the day we all have different tastes, not everyone is gonna like them, i personally think Dave Wyndorf is a lyrical genius and they put together some great tunes...sorry amazing tunes but their a unique taste, best tunes on that album are Dead Christmas, Negasonic Teenage Warhead & Dopes To Infinity.  Probably the most accesable album for new fans is Powertrip if you don't like that you may as well give up.

We leave 1 week from today (August 24th) for Spain for the Azkena Festival, can't wait ! We're practicing 3 to 5 times a week for the new record (the material is sounding execellent and it's fun stuff too). Probably hit the studio in october Finally an update from Ed Mundell...looks like the album will be more likely to arrive 2006 now though....fuck :rant:

Heard a band called the answer on Scuzz yesterday, awesome, Zeppelin with heavier riffs they would be comparable too.

Awesome, cant find anything on the t'internet about them!
Or to download.

But they are ace.

http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/entertainment/music/audioandvideo/s/165/165828_listen_to_the_answers_keep_believin_single.html

Go here to listen to the song Keep Believin which is the one i saw on Scuzz.
Choose either Radio Edit or EP version.

Still cant find a site but apparently they are from Dublin!

Just found there website and according to a few posts ive read they are not from Dublin but Northern Ireland...Which makes things even better!

http://www.theanswermusic.com/index.php

I did listen to it.

Basic stoner, very 70?s. After one listening i?m not a biggest fan, but it was easy to listening and i liked the voice of the singer. Background music to me.

The first big name to announce gigs in the UK for 2006 is the one and only Monster Magnet. Dave Wyndorf and his troupe will be over here in March of next year. Only a few dates have beeen announced so far:

5th March - Nottingham Rock City
8th March - Glasgow University
10th March - Sheffield Corporation

but more will be revealed soon.

http://www.ninehertz.co.uk/news.php?id=161

Great stuff : ok: They better be playing Manchester

Will be checking them at Rock City.
Stoned, get your ass down to Nottingham for the gig, you can stay at mine.

I would/will if i know where Nottingham is and how to get there....my geography's pretty damn poor

Monster Magnet are currently in LA in pre-production for the next album. Although nothing has been decided yet about an official release date and/or album title you can check the Tour Section on this site for a first list of confirmed 2006 European tourdates in support of the new album. More news online very soon, thanks!

Tour Dates:
04 march 2006 Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall United Kingdom
05 march 2006 Nottingham Rock City United Kingdom
06 march 2006 Manchester Manchester Academy 2 United Kingdom
08 march 2006 Glasgow QMU Scotland
09 march 2006 Leeds The Cockpit United Kingdom
10 march 2006 Sheffield The Corporation United Kingdom
12 march 2006 London Astoria United Kingdom
13 march 2006 Ancienne Belgique Brussels Belgium
14 march 2006 Amsterdam Paradiso The Netherlands
16 march 2006 Tilburg 013 The Netherlands
17 march 2006 Hamburg Grosse Freiheit Germany
18 march 2006 Tragarn Gothernburg Sweden
20 march 2006 Helsinki Tavastia - Klubi Finland
22 march 2006 Stockholm Arenan Sweden
23 march 2006 Oslo Rockefeller Music Hall Norway
24 march 2006 Malm? KB Sweden
26 march 2006 Copenhagen Pumpehuset Denmark
27 march 2006 Arhus Voxhall Denmark
28 march 2006 Berlin Columbiahalle Germany
30 march 2006 Herford Club X Germany
31 march 2006 Weisbaden Schlachthof Germany
01 april 2006 Leipzig Werk 2  Germany
03 april 2006 Dortmund Soundgarden Germany
04 april 2006 Cologne Live Music Hall Germany
05 april 2006 Stuttgart Longhorn Germany
07 april 2006 Munich Tonhalle Germany
08 april 2006 Linz Posthof Germany
09 april 2006 Vienna Arena Austria
11 april 2006 Zurich Xtra Switzerland
13 april 2006 Barcelona Razzmatazz II Spain
14 april 2006 Madrid Aqualung Spain

Awesome stuff, album in the works and they're playing Manchester :smoking:

I?ll be there, for sure!!   :beer:

Ok folks a wee assignment for you all. Name me 3 excellent stoner rock songs and i'll download them. Boredom has gotten me so save me!

Orange Goblin - Scorpionica
Monster Magnet - Nod Scene
Pantera - Floods

Good to see you've come over to the dark side.....try smoking weed now then you'll really appreaciate them

I don't appreciate peer pressure  :no: but i do appreciate these picks  :yes:

I'll report back tomorrow

monster magnet fucking kick ass

especially dopes to infinity and that superjudge album

that lord 13 song is fucking awesome

one of my all time favorite bands :)

This is an awesome song. Great riff and vocals
This file decided to fuck up and not play, ill need to find another one
This song is pretty cool, i could imagine crapping yourself listening to it in the dark when stoned  :P

Right.  The website doesn't update itself that often so i went on the forum and put together parts of the diary that Ed has been posting and put it together so it works as some sort of update....  : ok:

Monster Magnet Studio Report, Parts 1-4 by Guitarist Ed Mundell

PT1 (20th October...)
Hello out there...

Pleased to report that Jager Bomb Bob remembered all the
new tunes just in time for the start of basic tracks...
we're moving right along here in LA---12 hour days
of ROCK...
ED

PT2 (24th October...)
Hello again everybody...

Pleased to report back to y'all that we are just about
done with basic tracks, and tomorrow we move into
another studio and the real fun starts...laying down
some guitars...Bob and Jim have been playing their
asses off...the drums and bass sound phenomenal!
all the best...ED
 
PT3 (2nd November....)
Hey all...

Pleased to once again report our progress
to y'all...
as of about an hour ago all of the rhythm guitars
were completed...
so now we move onward and outward into the lead
guitar portion of our little project...
noteworthy moments so far---finally locating and retrieving
jimmy bags from the clutches of Lee Majors and Dabney Coleman...
atomic jager bomb bob says no coming in hot with some
extra percussion that was much needed...
assistant engineer chris's haloween costume (jesus fucking christ---more on that later)...
and producer matt hyde just being producer matt hyde...
also, ice cube is in studio "b"...and he is totally cool...
Rock out...
ED

PT4 (4th November....)
Ok, another quick installment of the ongoing
"STUDIO REPORT"...

It's the last day in the studio...we're taking a little break to
relax our ears and listen to the stuff with fresh ears before going
in for final vocals, and any guitars, percussion and fairy dust
we might have overlooked/it needs...
Atomic Jager Bomb Bob Says No is looking forward to another
jager bomb...Jimmy Bags has brought in a Theramin...
i just layed down a few more backwards guitars just for the hell of it...
blah blah blah...
well kids, that's it for now...we'll post pictures as soon as Karen goes
through them...she documented the whole thing for good or ill...
Rock out...
ED

I read they were supporting Alter Bridge but not on the Glasgow date  :-\
 
I was wanting to see em  :'(

Tickets for the gig are priced at 30 euros (in Finland)!
Pretty expensive, i think..  ::)

Not for a band this great....

Yes, it is. I?m still going though.

Cool, any idea how much that is in pounds? I know in the UK last year the tickets was like ?15-20 can't quite remember, there's many more expensive and crapper bands that's for sure...

It?s about 20 pounds.

The Hellacopter-tickets are 25 ? for the same place. That should have been enough for the MM tickets too.

MONSTER MAGNET have officially entered the recording phase for the follow-up to 2004's Monolithic Baby. The new album (title tba) will be released in March 2006 via SPV and will coincide with their European Tour. The new album is being produced by friend and veteran Magnet producer/mixer Matt Hyde (Powertrip and God Says No). The band is currently in Los Angeles, laying down the new tracks at both Sound City and Paramount recording studios. A DVD is also in planning for late 2006. 2006 Monster Magnet tour dates with WITCHCRAFT are as follows: March 4 - Wolverhampton, UK at Wulfrun Hall 5 - Nottingham, UK at Rock City 6 - Manchester, UK at Manchester Academy 2 8 - Glasgow, Scotland at QMU 9 - Leeds, UK at The Cockpit 10 - Sheffield, UK at The Corporation 12 - London at Astoria - United Kingdom 13 - Brussels, Belgium at Ancienne Belgique 14 - Tilburg, The Netherlands at 013 16 - Amsterdam, The Netherlands at Paradiso 17 - Hamburg, Germany at Grosse Freiheit 18 - Gothenburg, Sweden at Tragarn 20 - Helsinki, Finland at Tavastia Klubi 22 - Stockholm, Sweden at Arenan 23 - Oslo, Norway at Rockefeller Music Hall 24 - Malmo, Sweden at KB 26 - Copenhagen, Denmark at Pumpehuset 27 - Arhus, Denmark at Voxhall 28 - Berlin, Germany at Columbiahalle 30 - Herford, Germany at Club X 31 - Weisbaden, Germany at Schlachthof. April 1 - Leipzig, Germany at Werk 2 3 - Dortmund, Germany at Soundgarden 4 - Cologne, Germany at Live Music Hall 5 - Stuttgart, Germany at Longhorn 7 - Munich, Germany at Tonhalle 8 - Linz, Germany at Posthof 9 - Vienna, Austria at Arena 11 - Zurich, Switzerland at Xtra 13 - Barcelona, Spain at Razzmatazz II 14 - Madrid, Spain at Aqualung.

Woooooo!

New album and tour in March :smoking:

Some additional news:

With excitement building around the new studio album, the news that re-releases of their classic albums ??Tab? and ?Spine of God? will be coming as well have excited many longtime fans of the band. These re-issues will feature new artwork and liner notes, as well as bonus tracks, as part of SPV?s SuPerValue re-issue series and will again be available worldwide. A DVD is also in planning for late 2006.

Awesome bonus tracks and the bands first EVER DVD in their long history :smoking:

Cool. I was there the last time they played at Tavastia, but I'm not going this time around 'cause I saw them this summer also, so I've had enough Magnet for a while. If you see the roadie DD (or was it DeeDee?) tell him I said hi. He came to party with us after the last Tavastia gig - what a crazy guy! :D I don't think I've ever laughed as much as I did that night/morning. I wouldn't be surprised if he's in jail at the moment though.

Everyone check out Wolfmother. "Fucking A" Mellow stoner rock! Stoned, you will love it, perfect for ending an evening of the ErB!? :smoking:

www.myspace.com/wolfmother (http://www.myspace.com/wolfmother)

Particularly the song Minds Eye


Edited to add : - Oh and the song Woman, sounds like Black Sabbath, in fact its so good i thought it was a cover of a BS song. (which it might be, i havent checked  :-[)

That's a beast of a song dude, beast and a half even, i'm not even stoned only had 2 hours sleepy though and i feel so dopey, ahh fuck it..... great stuff though.....bit pissed the bastards aren't Monster Magnet fans, love the tune though, now i want some damn weed goddamn!

Hehee, I will!

Listen to "Woman" as well!

I will later, too lazy now, watching Darts like an old man and munching on a chinese ;D

Fat bastard! Whos on! Im listening to Cypress and eating digestives.

Yum.

Now listen to that song!  ;)

Listened to it now great track, got the Black Sabbath thing going on :smoking:

That track Apple Tree or whatever it was called plain sucked!

I liked it.  : ok:

Your Stoned!  :smoking: You'd probably enjoy listening to Nickelback now :P

Motherfucker!  :rant:

You know the reasons punk! Now go die!  ;)

Better than Britney Spears.

MONSTER MAGNET Mainman Hospitalized For Drug Overdose; European Tour Cancelled - Mar. 1, 2006

MONSTER MAGNET have cancelled their European tour after the group's mainman, Dave Wyndorf, was hospitalized following a drug overdose.

"The battle with one's inner demons is the most personal fight any of us can undertake," MONSTER MAGNET's manager, Steve Davis of Davis Entertainment Group, said in a statement. "The fight is at times a lonely, confusing journey. On the evening of February 27, Dave Wyndorf suffered a setback in his own fight and was hospitalized due to a drug overdose. His full recovery is expected. We ask that all those he has encountered over the years or simply affected by his music to take a moment to think good thoughts of and for him. With the grace of God and those who love him we are all confident that Dave will rebound from this set back and continue to play and make great rock and roll."

MONSTER MAGNET recently spent time at Sound City and Paramount recording studios in Los Angeles recording the follow-up to 2004's "Monolithic Baby", tentatively due this summer via SPV. The CD is being produced by friend and veteran MAGNET producer/mixer Matt Hyde ("Powertrip" and "God Says No"). Also planned for release are reissues of the band's classic albums "Tab" and "Spine of God", featuring new artwork and liner notes, as well as bonus tracks, as part of SPV's SuPerValue reissue series. A DVD is also in the planning for late 2006.


Hopefully he'll be alright.

Fuck me.

I was going to see them on monday.

That's not important though, Wyndorf is.

All the best : ok: The Stoner Gods salute you, get better soon man.

Never heard of this band before. but i hope he recovers soon.

Do your ears a favour and go and get some of their music dude, they are friggin' awesome, stoner rocks gods. :smoking:

i actually am a lover of stoner rock, so sounds like theyd be my type of band.

MONSTER MAGNET has set "4 Way Diablo" was the title of its new album, due on November 2, 2007 via SPV Records. The CD was produced by Matt Hyde and features a cover version of THE ROLLING STONES' "2,000 Light Years from Home".

"4 Way Diablo" track listing:

01. 4 Way Diablo
02. Wall of Fire
03. You're Alive
04. Blow Your Mind
05. Cyclone
06. 2000 Light Years from Home (THE ROLLNG STONES cover)
07. No Vacation
08. I'm Calling You
09. Solid Gold
10. Freeze and Pixillate
11. A Thousand Stars
12. Slap in the Face
13. Little Bag of Gloom

MONSTER MAGNET mainman Dave Wyndorf was forced to halt work on the CD in February 2006 after overdosing on prescription drugs.

Hyde, who worked with MONSTER MAGNET on their "Powertrip" and "God Says No" releases, stated about the band's new CD back in March 2006, "I believe it has the potential to be their best record since 'Powertrip'."

MONSTER MAGNET's last studio album, "Monolithic Baby", was released in 2004 via SPV.

(Thanks: Till Stoppenhagen / Intro Magazine)

Hoo-Da-Rah!

MONSTER MAGNET frontman Dave Wyndorf recently spoke to U.K.-based music journalist Dave Ling about the occasion on which an overdose on prescription drugs almost killed him on February 27, 2006.

"It had been a long time coming," recounts Wyndorf. "Eveything began when I couldn't sleep on tour, so the doctors gave me something that would put down a wild animal. This was an anti-anxiety drug; the stuff that airline pilots and astronauts use. I was doing a lot of transatlantic flying, and on a plane one day I just started gobbling them down. All of my paranoias came at me like a giant, three-headed beast. My biggest mistake was not asking for help. The things are supposed to clear your mind before you go to sleep. They wipe out all the worries and concerns you might have, but what I didn't understand is that it's like a computer..."

Everything just re-boots when you switch on again? "Exactly," he replies. "The problems are not deleted, in fact they get magnified by ten. It was fucking horrible. I was utterly powerless, on a slipperly slope. I don't recall doing it but on the day concerned I took the whole Goddamn bottle ? a hundred pills, man, just like they were a shot glass ? and the next thing I knew, I woke up in a fucking loony bin."

Having sampled their upside and downside, even forged a career spent singing about them, Wyndorf is in a pretty unique position to talk about drugs. "They're supposedly a gateway into creativity," he muses. "And you know what? It's all a myth. They suck, and they'll get you in the end. They certainly got me."

As previously reported, MONSTER MAGNET has set "4 Way Diablo" was the title of its new album, due on November 2, 2007 via SPV Records. The CD was produced by Matt Hyde and features a cover version of THE ROLLING STONES' "2,000 Light Years from Home".

"4 Way Diablo" track listing:

01. 4 Way Diablo
02. Wall of Fire
03. You're Alive
04. Blow Your Mind
05. Cyclone
06. 2000 Light Years from Home (THE ROLLNG STONES cover)
07. No Vacation
08. I'm Calling You
09. Solid Gold
10. Freeze and Pixillate
11. A Thousand Stars
12. Slap in the Face
13. Little Bag of Gloom

Hyde, who worked with MONSTER MAGNET on their "Powertrip" and "God Says No" releases, stated about the band's new CD back in March 2006, "I believe it has the potential to be their best record since 'Powertrip'."

MONSTER MAGNET's last studio album, "Monolithic Baby", was released in 2004 via SPV.

He's spot on about drugs, great to know he's back, Dave is King!

An honest conversation with Dave Wyndorf about Monster Magnet's new studio album "4-Way Diablo", the present-day Internet society, and how unique it was like to be a rock fan years ago...

Vassil Varbanov: Hey, Dave, how are you, man?

Dave Wyndorf: I'm good, man, how the hell are you?

V. V.: Great! We've been expecting this interview for more than a year, and finally Dave Wyndorf is live on Tangra Mega Rock! Where are you now?

D. W.: I'm here in New Jersey in the United States, looking out my window at some birds and getting ready to ride my bike into town.

V. V.: Your first show in Bulgaria was something like 8 years ago. Don't you think it's time for the second one? Back then you were supporting Metallica, so it's high time for you to do a headlining concert here.

D. W.: I wanna try to make it happen! I actually know a girl who comes from outside of Sofia and goes to college here, and she said, "Come with me! Let's go back to Bulgaria!"

V. V.: Let's talk about your new album now. I have this feeling that "4-Way Diablo" is something like getting back to your roots in terms of feeling...

D. W.: You're absolutely right. I wanted to bring this thing back - land the plane, as they say - and do something that was full of life and not too overproduced.

V. V.: Do you mean that every rock'n'roll record today is overproduced?

D. W.: No, not at all. I mean I tend to look at it as where my head is at the time and what I wanna hear. There may be some records that are overproduced now, but I don't really pay attention to that. I pay attention to what's gonna feel right for Monster Magnet.

V. V.: There's a cover version of The Rollong Stones' song "2000 Light Years from Home" in "4-Way Diablo". Why?

D. W.: I guess the question is more "Why not?" I love this song, and my buddies in the band wanted to play it, so that's the reason. They brought it up, and I said, "Okay, if it sounds good..." We did it and it was really fun to do.

V. V.: Is there something that you can pick up as a phrase to describe the atmosphere of the whole recording process of the album?

D. W.: Ah... The thing I'll always remember from this time is that the guys in the band - Ed, Jim and Bob - were really, really, really good. Those guys put down their tracks really fast, it was excellent, it was fun...

V. V.: A lot has been written about the victims that the rock'n'roll world has given... How do you personally feel today? Are you still in good shape?

D. W.: Yeah... I was in bad shape for a while because of touring too much. I was taking too many sleeping pills and that kind of stuff... I think the trick with rock'n'roll is to know when to stop for a while and not stay on the road for too long. That's what makes me go crazy.

V. V.: What about the concept of rock'n'roll in general? Now, in the 21st century, does it have to be in a more futuristic kind of shape?

D. W.: Well, I think the main reason it's different now is that more people in the world today tend to get their music from other sources than record stores - they look for it online, on computers and stuff like that. Besides, the way rock'n'roll is sold is more corporate now than it ever was, but I don't think that will effect the music that much, as it should come from the same part that it always did.

V. V.: Once we were waiting impatiently for a new album to come, like counting the days backwards till the release date of the new AC/DC record or something, and now almost everything's been leaked on the Internet months before, there's no impatience and this kills a bit the value of the whole ritual of being a rock fan... What do you think?

D. W.: That was really well said and I totally agree. The way people get their music now isn't the most exciting one. The ritual has been torn apart by all this stuff and... I hope that people can kind of invent their own ritual that would make it as exciting... but I agree with you - it's not much fun when stuff gets leaked out there and you just download it. The physical act of going out to the record store has definitely gone away. What replaced it is that kids are still searching for bands, but they do it on the Internet and on YouTube. They still look for underground stuff, but that's where they search. I don't particularly think that's good, I think the old physical way is better... but at least it's still being done.

V. V.: Does it mean you and I are old now?

D. W.: Yeah, ha-ha, kind of... At the same time, you and I have lived through a time that is being observed now as very special, because back then it was a very unique experience to be a rock fan. It's not a unique experience to be a rock fan anymore. That's why I'm glad I'm old enough to remember what it was - a very, very special time.

V. V.: I believe most of your records have some sort of a hidden message regarding what's gonna happen in the near future... Is there anything particular you'd like to point a finger at with "4-Way Diablo"?

D. W.: No. On this record there wasn't a prediction like on the last one, where I was talking about the crazy Internet society in the 21st century. On this one I'm just going into my own personal demons. It's not a prediction, but more like an introspective of myself. A personal record.

V. V.: It seems no one can beat the guys doing downloads, which is good at the same time, because lots of people all around the world can hear your music, which can open doors for your band to play live somewhere you've never been before. Do you see any greedy bastards trying to steal the show in terms of live industry business? Are there more people now why try to steal from you when you play live? Years ago bands had just two middle men - a booking agent and a manager - whereas now there are more sharks, right?

D. W.: Oh, yeah, he-he! People always try to steal, and any band's live shows just give them a new way to steal. You can try to control it, but you have to realize you're gonna lose some of the revenue.

V. V.: You know, most of the American bands we've had the chance to talk to dislike the current political system of the USA and George W. Bush in particular. What's your opinion on this?

D. W.: As a regular American citizen and a fan of history, I think the Bush administration is probably one of the worst administrations we've ever had. It's horrible! The guy's like a complete idiot! It?s a really horrible time for the United States right now. This administration is just unacceptable.

V. V.: To finish with, which of 13 songs on your new record would you like us to play now?

D. W.: If it was up to me, I'd probably play "Wall of Fire".

http://www.radiotangra.com/?page=int&lng=en&id=111

Reviews
MONSTER MAGNET 4-Way Diablo (2007)
Label: SPV / Wizard
Author: Ivaylo Alexandrov
Rate: 4.75 / 6

Hats down, horns up! Dave Wyndorf returns with his team of heroic Monster Magnet rockers! And, as always, they don?t play games.

A soft and sloppy riff with associations to the Iggy Pop classic ?The Passenger? and the title track give the start of ?4-Way Diablo?. Then all hell breaks loose to take our souls, because, as we all know, rock'n'roll is a diabolical creation. And there?s plenty of rock in here. And devils. Here are four of them: Dave Wyndorf, Ed Mundell, Jim Baglino and Bob Pantella. They play, enchant, turn your head and make you jump, sing and headbang. It?s a devilish job...

The devilries do not end here. Monster Magnet have decided to pay tribute to the eternal ones who pay sympathy for the devil, Rolling Stones, with a cover of ?2000 Light Years From Home?, which by accident is originally in their 1967 album, kindly titled ?Their Satanic Majesties Request?. Even the cover of the CD is horny.

And you will hardly get the idea of the music if you haven?t ever listened to Monster Magnet. Their rock'n'roll bears the specific spirit of the USA, but without being California-polished, nor southern. It is more like swaggering-desert-like. The performance and the mood of the tracks is cocky, provoking, filled with smell of leather jackets and the compulsiveness of a look behind dark glasses. And they are fair enough to make you believe, ?Blow Your Mind? will really blow your brain out, ?Cyclon? will lift you among the heavy leaded clouds pierced by the sun rays, and ?Wall of Fire? is loaded with the real danger to set your balls on fire with testosterone fuel. In the CD there isn?t a song that has not got its own signature, nevertheless it is study rock'n'roll, a psychedelic memory of the stronger covered in their earlier works space rock, or epic trips like ?A Thousand Stars?. Only this lack of the strong space charge is some kind of a shortcoming; this time the guys have counted on more direct rock way to express. But even without being the best record of the band, ?4-Way Diablo? is a worthy album which will give you enough rock emotions. So kick up the starter, blow the speakers and let?s go!

http://www.radiotangra.com/?page=reviews&type=show&lng=en&id=183

 :rofl: I was such a prat  8)

New album end of this month, touring in the UK next month, seeing them in London and Manchester.

Here is the first video off the album.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZAg_ioonn0

Anyone else going?

Rock is a better place with Dave Wyndorf in it and Monster Magnet active.

Great to hear new material, the vid is a sight for sore eyes.

Me and Jim Baglino of Monster Magnet.

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