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audiObelisk Transmission 044
Click Here to Download Here is the Music Player. You need to installl flash player to show this cool thing! I’m happy to report that of all the podcasts I’ve ever put together, front to back, I...
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The Obelisk Radio Adds: Sumac, Garden of Worm, Carpet, Sporecaster, The Devil...
The Obelisk Radio server, which I’ve taken to calling the “main computer core,” was down most of last week after some kind of unknown surge in the EPS conduits, so with the data stream running on...
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The Obelisk Presents: The Top 20 Debut Albums of 2015
Please note: This list is not culled in any way from the Readers Poll, which is ongoing. If you haven’t yet contributed your favorites of 2015 to that, please do. — I’ll note right away that this list...
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Freak Valley 2016: The Devil and the Almighty Blues Added to Lineup
Norwegian beardly fivesome The Devil and the Almighty Blues offered up their self-titled debut (review here) in 2015 and made one of last year’s finer opening statements with it. It would seem that...
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Review & Track Premiere: The Devil and the Almighty Blues, II
[Click play above to stream ‘These are Old Hands’ from The Devil and the Almighty Blues’ new album, II, out March 17 on Blues for the Red Sun Records.] As it should, the second full-length from Oslo...
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ROADBURN 2017 Day One: Wound of the Warden
04.21.17 – 00.14 — Thursday night — Hotel room The process of getting up and going to finalize and print out the first issue of the Weirdo Canyon Dispatch (download it here) probably couldn’t have...
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The Obelisk Presents: The Top 20 of 2017 So Far
The time has come to take a look at some of the best albums of 2017 so far. I hardly know where to start. In some ways, this list is harder to put together than the end-of-year one that comes out in...
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audiObelisk Transmission 064
So this is something I’ve never done before. I’m not exactly what you’d call an early adopter when it comes to new technology, but this weekend I finally signed up for Spotify and decided to give a...
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The Obelisk Presents: THE TOP 30 ALBUMS OF 2017
Please note: This post is not culled in any way from the Year-End Poll, which is ongoing. If you haven’t yet contributed your favorites of 2017 to that, please do. — We’re almost at the finish line...
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Keep it Low 2018 Adds High Fighter & The Devil and the Almighty Blues
The lineup for Keep it Low 2018, which already feels like a birthday present with the likes of Colour Haze, Acid King, Elder, Lowrider, Wo Fat, Sasquatch and Child on the bill — among others —...
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Desertfest Belgium 2018: High on Fire Headlining, The Devil and the Almighty...
The story here is pretty short: ‘Really good lineup gets better.’ The end. I’m not sure what more one could reasonably as of Desertfest Belgium 2018 that it isn’t already delivering. I mean, seriously....
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The Devil and the Almighty Blues Touring Next Month; Playing Desertfest...
Norwegian heavy blues rockers The Devil and the Almighty Blues have been out a couple times already this year supporting their 2017 album, II (review here), stopping fests like Stoned from the...
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Desertfest London 2019 Confirms Om, Wovenhand, Stoned Jesus, Great Electric...
A monstrous announcement from Desertfest London 2019 finds the festival, as it has over the last several years, with a far reach in geography and style alike. Acts like Great Electric Quest, High...
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Desertfest Berlin 2019 Adds Fu Manchu, The Devil and the Almighty Blues, Zig...
So, uh, in addition to the kickass poster art — which so good that I’m happy to look at it twice with the banner above and the vertical poster below, Desertfest Berlin 2019 pretty much rules as...
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Høstsabbat 2019 Adds The Devil and the Almighty Blues to Lineup
It’ll be the devil’s church for sure when Oslo’s own The Devil and the Almighty Blues take the stage at Kulturkirken Jakob for Høstsabbat 2019. I’ve had the pleasure of seeing the Norwegian heavy...
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The Devil and the Almighty Blues to Release Tre March 29; Touring Europe in...
Maybe you know this and maybe you don’t, and maybe I’ve said it before and maybe I haven’t, but it bears repeating: The Devil and the Almighty Blues are hot shit. I was fortunate enough to see them...
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The Obelisk Show on Gimme Radio Recap: Episode 13
This was a good one. After last episode, which was kind of working on a theme of balancing different kinds of heavy against each other, it felt rewarding to just get down to business and play some...
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SonicBlast Moledo 2019: Earthless, Graveyard, Eyehategod, The Devil and the...
Oh, you know me. Just sitting on ass on a chilly proto-Spring morning, daydreaming of shuffling over to Portugal for a weekend this August, flying into the Azores and then over to Porto, taking a car,...
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The Devil and the Almighty Blues, Tre: Salting the Earth
The Devil and the Almighty Blues‘ third album, titled simply Tre, arrives through Blues for the Red Sun Records almost exactly two years after its predecessor, II (review here). That in turn came out...
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Live Review: HØSTSABBAT 2019 Night Two in Oslo, Norway, 10.05.19
Before the Show Festival mode. One day bleeds into the next, sometimes into the one after. You lose time to the timetable. Basic needs become a big deal. Water. Coffee. Advil. Comfy socks. Earplugs in...
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