MELVINS - 'BULLHEAD'

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• BR25CD - CD

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• BR25 - LP

  038161002519

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***BACK IN STOCK!!! Available again with updated artwork and a new gatefold sleeve! Melvins' follow-up to 1989’s Ozma was 1991’s groundbreaking Bullhead. The songs are longer, the mood is calmer, yet more menacing. “Boris” (which gave the Japanese group their name) is a long, slow, low death march of addiction and self-abuse. “Zodiac” is a frantic punk rock machine gun blasting away at Buzz’s demons (both inner and outer). “Cow” is a happy baboon bashing away at the best drum solo of his life. “It’s Shoved” is a groovy beat for the cast of Shindig to bop along to, until their carefree performances of The Pony, The Mashed Potato, and The Watusi are horribly interrupted by the soundstage tilting up and sliding them all into a mangled heap of screaming dancers, broken cameras and flaming electronic equipment at the bottom.

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MELVINS - 'EGGNOG'

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• BR28CD - MCD

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• BR28LP - LP

  038161002816

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Originally released as a 10-inch in 1991, Eggnog is a wild ride into the outer limits of Melvins-dom. The first side cuts loose with three quick blasts. “Wispy” has the Lorax (Lori Temple Black) on bass and Dale Crover on drums, pounding one note in unison while Buzz Osborne bellows and whispers and turns his guitar on and off. “Antitoxidote” is a rabid horse galloping off into the desert, with yet more stops and starts and feedback detonations. “Hog Leg” sounds like a syphillitic Jimmy Swaggert trying to mimic Dio while being backed by a drunken ZZ Top cover band. Side Two features the side-long epic “Charmicarmicat,” with seasick waves of guitar and slow-motion madness bringing communicable disease and poisonous jellyfish ashore, stinging and infecting the unsuspecting sunbathers before gently washing out to sea again.

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1. Wispy
2. Antitoxidote
3. Hog Leg
4. Charmicarmicat

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Reissued 1991 10-inch by legendary
underground rock band

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MELVINS - 'LICE-ALL'

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• BR35 - LP

  038161003516

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Lice-All, from 1992, previously known as self-titled, and also previously known as something else we’re all not gonna talk about, thank you very much. This was the Melvins last release before signing their Atlantic deal, and features the introduction of new bass player Joe Preston (previously of Earth, currently of Thrones). It’s one long, slow, loud blob of drones, moans and fuzztones. The opening endless power chord shimmer influenced Sleep, Sunn O))), and countless other sludge metal drone freaks for years to come.

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1. Hung Bunny
2. Roman Dog Bird
3. Sacrifice
4. Second Coming
5. The Ballad Of Dwight Fry
6. With Teeth

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Reissue of 1992 album of legendary
underground rock band.
Gatefold sleeve with band photos.

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MELVINS - 'OZMA'

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• BR16LP - LP

  038161001611

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FINALLY BACK IN STOCK ON LP!!! Ozma was recorded soon after Melvins made the move from Washington to San Francisco, and was their first release to include the diminutive yet mighty Lorax (Lori Temple Black) on bass. In fact, the first sound one hears at the album’s opening is Lori standing on her tiptoes to switch on her amp, thereby warning the listener of the onslaught to come. Distorted, down-tuned doom riffs start, stop, lurch sideways with no warning, and seem to end before they start. Buzz Osborne adds extraneous guitar static and vocal squeals. Drummer Dale Crover plays as if he’s inside a barrel going over Niagara Falls; the long, slow fall allows the space between beats to grow and grow until he crashes into the water with the vessel blasting apart in an explosion of drum rolls. The classic Melvins heavy grind is set up and broken up by assorted odd sidetracks: “Revulsion / We Reach” flows forward slower and slower until it eventually melts into a gooey feedback drone. “Raise a Paw” is a superball paddled against one’s head by a grinning village idiot. “Love Thing” enlists in the Kiss Army before getting dishonorably discharged.

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TEMPLE FANG - 'FANG TEMPLE'

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• PSYCHOBABBLE128CD - 2xCDs

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*EU IMPORT* Temple Fang's fantastic debut is the story of a record that almost never happened, shelved for months due to pandemic and personal reasons. Luckily, the band decided to finish and release this mammoth of melodic, trippy and spiritual heavy psychedelic rock for the world to hear. After a limited vinyl run quickly sold out, Stickman is proud to issue a 2CD version of this album! Temple Fang was formed in Amsterdam in the wake of the dissolution of bassist Dennis Duijnhouwer's previous band Death Alley. Joining with guitarist Jevin De Groot, bassist Ivy van der Veer and drummer Jesper van den Broeke, the band started gaining steam in 2020 with a slew of Dutch gigs culminating in the album "Live at Merlyn". The band's powerful and tight live sound, and the fact that their first album was a live recording, was an impressive statement about the transcendental and improvisational nature of their performances. Fresh out of the gate, Temple Fang had hit upon a fresh and ambitious sound, crafting songs that run upwards of 20 minutes while exploring the outer limits of psychedelic heavy rock. However, not everything ran smoothly for the band. While working on preproductions mixes for a debut album, the band's drummer left the fold and the country plunged back into lockdown. With morale running low, the band decided to shelve the recordings indefinitely, unsure if Temple Fang would continue as a band at all. When returning to the studio to mix some pre-lockdown live recordings, the band's sound engineer ambushed them with a new idea to take the live tracks and use them as a base to build a "proper" album onto. After months, the band had emerged with Fang Temple, a unique hybrid live-studio record with all the power of a live show and the polish of a studio album. As with their previous album, Fang Temple comprises four extremely long songs hovering around the 20 minute mark, each of which is a different journey, from lysergic grooves to blistering space rock, from blissed out melody to walls of dense sonic atmosphere. Fans of forward-thinking music will get this instantly and enjoy many spins. We sure have

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EGOR - 'LOST TAPE - LIVE IN 1970'

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• AGR012 - 12"

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*RESOLICITED*Their mysterious track called "Street" emerged 20 years ago and circulated among heavy rock freaks. We've uncovered two more lost tracks from the same performance, proving that Egor was one of the heaviest bands on the planet in 1970 .• fully restored & remastered version of proto-metal enigma, "Street" • two recently unearthed Egor tracks from the same 1970 live session as "Street" • Egor's full story and photographic history • 20 minutes of unrelenting proto-metal magic on a 45 rpm 12" EP • big format 8 page color bookle

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Side A
01 Street
Side B
02 Fathers Of America
03 The Worm

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IRON JINN - 'IRON JINN'

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• PSYCHOBABBLE129LP - 2xLPs

  4046661758917

• PSYCHOBABBLE129CD - CD

  4046661758825

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Iron Jinn are a new twisted psychedelic rock band from the underbelly of Amsterdam comprised of past and present members of The Devil’s Blood, Death Alley, Shaking Godspeed, Birth of Joy and others. Their debut full length on Stickman Records is a frantic album that follows the logic of a dream: none. The nine songs on Iron Jinn's debut are the result of a chaotic accumulation of modern world impressions, information and conversations forcefully pushed through a human funnel: the minds of Oeds Beydals and Wout Kemkens. The album took shape against the background noise of shifting paradigms, universal cramps, massages of the primal brain, plays full of mad lines, and it hesitantly kisses the underbelly that got fed oh-so-well. The band and the music itself sounds downright exciting. The voices of Wout and Oeds reverberate passionately over mesmerizing grooves and pure melodies and harmonies, a rare combination in contemporary (rock) music. Iron Jinn is an album on the edge of reality, fantasy and dream, but induced by real life events. The writing process started amidst the cultural prohibition in May 2020, and the music and lyrical themes are certainly influenced by the hypnotic state of this moment in time: how the collective consciousness was overtaken by a monolithic story; how opinions and paradigms can quickly be influenced and formed; how a lack of meaningful social interactions, feelings of fear and a hunger for one big solution to a problem really can drive people into isolation or cultlike devotion (or both). All this surfaced more than ever the last years and as songwriting scavengers Oeds Beydals and Wout Kemkens took it all in and used it to create a piece of art that hopefully mirrors, but also celebrates the human spirit. The album embodies the uprising of a new star and creates a much needed dot on the horizon for both the creators and listeners. Iron Jinn will be released on April 21st, 2023 coinciding with the band's special performance at Roadburn Festival - the very same which gave birth to the band some years ago as part of an experimental curated event.

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SUDDEN DEATH - 'S/T'

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• AGR016 - LP

  843563154021

• AGR016R - LP (COLOURED)

  843563154021

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A hard-hitting and gloomy heavy rock band comprised of Pasadena youth who were selected as finalists in a nationwide artist search called "America's Answer To Black Sabbath" recorded this lost demo album in Spring of 1972. The tracks resurfaced in the mid 90s as a mysterious proto-metal record, released by pioneering reissuers Rockadelic records. Sudden Death's music is now being released broadly for the first time, and with full disclosure of the band's journey. Sourced from the master tape. Made in collaboration with band members. Includes big format 8-page booklet.

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SIDE 1:
1. The Road Back Home
2. The Zoo
3. My Time Is Over
4. Come Away With Me
SIDE 2:
1. Fugit Orchard
2. Leather Woman
3. Lament
4. Crazy Ladies

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RIYL : Black Sabbath, Granicus, Sir Lord Baltimore

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SHARRON KRAUS - 'KIN'

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• CF0272 - LP

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*BLACK VINYL* Over the years Sharron Kraus’ musical career has pulled her in many directions and seen her collaborate with artists, poets, writers and researchers, creating soundtracks, podcasts, musical accompaniments and responses. She is an intuitive improviser, a compelling performer and a weaver of musical spells. The spine supporting this body of work is songwriting, though, and it is to this most natural combination of words and music that she always returns. If prose writing is a tool for analysis and working out what we think, because of the emotional dimension music introduces, songwriting is a tool for working out how we feel. KIN, her newest album, is a collection of songs written during and partly in response to the pandemic and the relative isolation it plunged us into. Kraus dives into deep explorations of themes of kinship with other humans as well as the natural world, and of what happens when those kinship bonds are severed or abused. Sonically the album is on a continuum with her previous solo album, Joy’s Reflection is Sorrow, with its layered synths and recorders, and sits somewhere in the space between Jane Weaver’s electronica and the psych/folk of bands like The Left Outsides, Modern Studies.

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'an album of sensual spellcraft' - Caught by the River

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OLIVIA TREMOR CONTROL - 'BLACK FOLIAGE: ANIMATION MUSIC VOL: 1'

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• CHKLP007X - LP (COLOURED)

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***BACK IN PRINT ON NEW JALAPENO COLORED VINYL!!! After a decade of being impossible to find, Chunklet brings back THE OLIVIA TREMOR CONTROL’s classic sophomore release Black Foliage remastered from the original tapes and packaged in Stoughton tip on gatefold jackets with a download code of nearly three hours of hard-to-find previously unreleased material. Received a 9.4 rating from Pitchfork. 

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OLIVIA TREMOR CONTROL - 'MUSIC FROM THE UNREALIZED FILM SCRIP DUSK AT CUBIST CASTLE'

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• CHKLP006X - 2xLP (COLOURED)

  789397828717

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***BACK IN PRINT ON NEW LIME GREEN VINYL!!! After a decade of being impossible to find, Chunklet brings back THE OLIVIA TREMOR CONTROL’s classic sophomore release Dusk at Cubist Castle remastered from the original tapes and packaged in Stoughton tip on gatefold jackets with a download code of nearly three hours of hard-to-find previously unreleased material. Received a 9.1 Best New Reissue from Pitchfork.

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MASTER DANSE - 'FEELIN DEAD'

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• EZRDR138 - LP

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You heard them first on Brown Acid “The Thirteenth Trip”. We are very excited to present to you the full unreleased recordings from this amazing band from Detroit. Master Danse was formed in late 1973 in Detroit, Michigan when drummer Tom Riss and bassist Cary Fletcher, formerly of the Detroit band Licking Stick, went looking for a new guitarist/lead vocalist and jammed with John Giaier, who had most recently played in the band Crawdad. The three musicians hit it off immediately, and a new power hard rock trio was born. In 1973, Detroit was clearly “Rock City”, featuring such local icons as Bob Seger, Alice Cooper, Grand Funk Railroad, Ted Nugent, and Mitch Ryder, and the high energy punch of Master Danse reflected this proud heritage. Unfortunately, this union would only last one year, and by the end of 1974 the power rock trio known as Master Danse had disbanded. What was left for posterity were only two live reel to reel recordings and one promo 45 single. Some forty-seven years later, the 45 found its way onto the internet and a small cult following of audiophiles was born, people who appreciate the raw power and high energy of early ‘70s rock. Bands like Master Danse and others from this era were riding the wave of transition from the pop rock sound of the ‘60s to an edgier sound that would eventually lead to metal and punk music. With the help of modern-day tape restoration techniques, the two live recordings were restored, and together with the 45, the best versions of the eight songs that have survived the decades are featured on this album. Although recorded live forty-eight years ago on a two-track stereo tape recorder, you can still feel the power of Giaier’s Marshall stack, Fletcher’s twin Acoustic 360 amps, and the relentless attack of Riss’ Ludwig drums. So, sit back and enjoy. Rock on!

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Side One
1. Detroit City
2. Givin? In
3. I. O.U.
4. Sunday Morning
Side Two
1. Train To Love
2. We?re Not Alone
3. Feelin? Dead
4. En Route To Fame*

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MAXIMILLIAN - 'S/T'

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• EZRDR142 - LP

  603111758312

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**VERY LIMITED QTY FOR UK** RidingEasy Records has teamed up with Permanent Records in Los Angeles to bring this very special heavy psych rocker back into the fold. New York City based African-American & Latino hard rock/psych trio Maximillian released their sole self-titled album on ABC Records in 1969, then promptly vanished. It has remained a collectors’ conversation piece ever since. Maximillian combined elements of beat poetry, a little bit of The Fugs, a hit of Funkadelic, a lick of Cream and a vibe of Hendrix worship with an ambition that seems to have jumbled these influences. The Maximillian album is a rare artifact of late-60s psychedelic rock whose appeal is not the skill of their musicianship, but the downright strangeness of it. While at times it sounds like the trio is playing entirely different songs at the same time, it’s said that producer Teddy Vann had a hand in the album’s sometimes confusing production. The group credited on the album consists of singer Buzzy Bowzer (aka Maximillian), lead guitarist Mojack Maximillian, and bassist Moby Medina (aka Moby Maximillian) with drummer Jerry Nolan later of the New York Dolls oddly uncredited on the LP. However, according to Nolan’s official biography, the band was actually co-founded by Buzzy and Nolan in 1968. The drummer was reported to have feuded with Vann, who disliked his Mitch Mitchell influenced style, and was subsequently mixed very quietly and not credited on the album. The album’s eye-catching artwork features the sharp dressed band crucified on flower-covered crosses, with a cryptic and self-aggrandizing manifesto describing them as “new prophets of love and truth.” Be that as it may, their prophecy was short-lived, though it may have foretold the chaotic, rudimentary sounds to come in punk, and even, the grunge era. The album opens with what sounds like an alternate reality version of Procol Harum’s “A Whiter Shade of Pale” here re-tripping the light fandango under the guise of “Naked Ape.” A short 4-second sputtering of a violin tuning starts and abruptly ends as funereal fuzz bass and drums set up the melody and shimmering organ, violin squall and Bowzer’s howling voice wails of the failures of human evolution. “Kickin’ 9 to 5” starts like an early Hendrix groove before turning on a dime into a Bo Diddley-esque dirge, replete with the drums hard panned to the left channel and a persistent maraca on the right. Bowzer’s diction on “Scar On My Memory” predates Mark E. Smith of The Fall’s signature added vowels at the end of most words, while the music sounds like a more acid damaged take on fellow NYC freak-folkers Exuma. Elsewhere, “The Name of The Game” echoes “Manic Depression” with churning, rolling drums and a chiming guitar following Bowzer’s growling blues until the song suddenly shifts into a lurching rave-up, then a blues rumble for a few bars before mutating back to the original riff. Album closer “Moby’s House” is by far the most unusual track, sounding like a pastiche of the album’s songs cut and spliced together in random fashion, perhaps in homage to The Beatles’ “Revolution No. 9.” Throughout the album, random percussion and other instruments pop up as though the producer were assuring he could take credit for song arrangements. 

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