Tarantula Hawk - Untitled (2002)

Spaced out prog with elements of doom/drone, psychedelic rock, post rock, and Neurosis/Isis-esque metal. It's on Neurot, what else do you need to know? 

"Instrumental super heavy ritual music, bass-heavy majestic murk with grinding prog rock keyboards and intense, energizing drumming, spacey stretches of ominous gloom... it's ambitious, intense, creepy, and ultimately "prog" in the best sense of the word."

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Grails - Doomsdayer's Holiday

Continuing with instrumental music meant to be heard while driving down a dark road at night, I bring you the new Grails album.

"These dudes hail from grey Portland, but they have somehow perfected the art of desert-rock mystery, and if you are currently planning your spiritual pilgrimage to New Mexico, be sure to pack this album along with some of your finest entheogens (the iboga plant, perhaps, or yage) and a copy of Terence McKenna's The Invisible Landscape: Mind, Hallucinogens, and the I Ching. Trust me: you will enter the Rainbow Body before track three."

"Grails have embraced open-ended, free grooving, psychedelic rock, open-toned Eastern modalism, assault-worthy hard rock, spooky dub, and even folk music in this heady, stoned out brew."

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