Sweet Smoke: Music Suggestion Of The Day 14/09/2015

Wanting to switch off from the heavy extreme sound of this month I was practically searching for a band like Sweet Smoke…One of the pioneers of psychedelic rock with jazzy fusion style, that some misinterpret as Krautrock band.^[1] (only because the band moved to Europe and Germany in 1969)..

Source Wikipedia:

«Sweet Smoke were a psychedelic jazz-rock band formed in Brooklyn, New York in 1967. The group moved to Europe in 1969, living in Germany, and performing in Germany, Holland and France until 1974 when the band split up. Initially, some members stayed in Europe, some went to India, but most of the band returned to the United States. 

Noted for their buoyant rhythms, inventive improvisations and complex musical structures, in interviews, the group says their music was influenced by Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, John Coltrane and The Beatles.^[2][3]»

So without any delays the band once called

 

top row: Jay, Jeffery, Mike, Andy, Rochus - 
bottom row: Steve, Marvin, Nico

SWEET SMOKE

All releases

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Silly Sally

Retro Anime Database: Pink Panther

Ακόμα μια αναφορά στα νιάτα μας όταν στα μέσα της δεκαετίας του 80 (ίσως κ λίγο πιο πριν) στην ΕΡΤ2  βλέπαμε τον παιχνιδιάρη πάνθηρα, τον μονίμως άτυχο μυρμηγκοφάγο και τον επιθεωρητή που κακά τα ψέμματα λίγοι τότε ξέραμε οτι τον ενσάρκωσε κάποτε (στα 60's) o τιτανοτεράστιος Peter Sellers...

Septicflesh: Music Suggestion Of The Day 13/09/2015

I was listening to Beyond Creation super death band through Kokdi’s post, while wondering about today’s suggestion when I took a closer look at Simon’s Girard’s t-shirt…

Holy crap how I missed this band @ this blog when referring to bands that one could say are pioneers of what might have been our own New Wave of Greek Heavy Metal (with bands founded in the 90’s) or to the best Greek Band ever (in my opinion Rotting Christ)!! How did i manage to "forget" a band as interantionally recognizable as the great RC really escapes me...

So today’s suggestion if u didn’t get it by now could easily be recognized as the counterpart of Rotting Christ, in a more symphonic way…

Ladies & Gents may we present to you the band formerly known as Septic Flesh (until 2003)

SepticFlesh

#1 Mystic Places Of Dawn (1994)

#2 Sumerian Daemons (2003)

#3 Communion (2008)

#4 The Great Mass (2011) 

TOP4 Plus Infernus Sinfonica

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If you want to check the other Greek Metal Bands mentioned in Kokdi older posts

1000Mods

Sickness

Villagers Of Ioannina City (VIC)

Suicidal Angels

Stonebringer

Rotting Christ

Ronnie James Dio: Music Suggestion Of The Day 12/09/2015

Today is Saturday and as some of you may have noticed Kokdi already posted something musical, as a constant reminder of the national Kitsch heritage of Greece that has become a permanent influence on Greek's music appreciation…

That’s why it is chosen to celebrate the end of summer (if you’re a student that is) with one of the greatest vocalists of Heavy Metal. The charismatic dwarf (as OZZY often stated about him) with magical powers of resurrecting the greatest and most significant metal group from its ashes, after having helped Richie Blackmore’s new egoistical point of view to impose on one of the greatest hard rock groups to date (DeepPurple) and then stand alone with amazing grace delivering us the best solo album of an x-frontman…

Ladies & Gentlemen

The departed voice icon of Heavy Metal

Mr Ronnie James Dio

As he appeared on every album mentioned above (a.k.a. Richie Blackmore’s Rainbow 1975, Rising 1976, Long Live Rock N’ Roll 1978, Heaven & Hell 1980, Mob Rules 1981, Holy Diver 1983)

DIO Rules

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And Don't forget; All TOP 100 HERE

Σαββατιάτικα στα Μπουζούκια?? (Καλοκαίρι ΤΕΡΜΑ!!)

Το έχουμε ξαναπεί, ο Σεπτέμβρης είναι ο χειρότερος μήνας του χρόνου, σημαίνει 6 μήνες κακοκαιρίας και έλλειψης ήλιου (δόξα τον θεό που είμαι στην Κρήτη δηλαδή που ο Ήλιος πεθαίνει πιο αργά σε σχέση με τον υπόλοιπο πολιτισμένο πλανήτη), σημαίνει δουλειά δίχως αφορμή για διακοπές, ή αλλιώς ανεργία, σημαίνει πρώτη μέρα στο σχολείο και για Χ ημέρες ακόμη μέχρι το τελευταίο κουδούνισμα για τα μπάνια του λαού, σημαίνει τα κεφάλια μέσα γιατί καλοκαίρι (το λέει και η λέξη) ΤΕΡΜΑ…

και μιας που πρόκειται και για Σάββατο και ο Έλλην ξεσπαθώνει (αν δεν το έκανε χθες) σήμερα μέρα που είναι…. Τι καλύτερο από τον καλύτερο της πίστας τα τελευταία χρόνια. Κανονικά θα τσακωνόμασταν για το αν είναι αυτός ή ο Σφακιανάκης, αλλά μετά τις χρυσαυγίτιτκες μαλακίες του τελευταίου, επιλέγουμε φανατικά και απόλυτα τον άνθρωπο που λόγω προσανατολισμών είναι ο πλέον ανοικτόμυαλος ερμηνευτής σκυλάδικού τα τελευταία 20 χρόνια… Α και αν ακόμη δεν ξέρετε τον επόμενο headliner μετα τον Πανούση στο επόμενο Pride μάλλον πρέπει να το ξανασκεφτείτε…
 

 

ΜΑΖΩ
(κ τα μυαλά στα κάγκελa)

καμιά 45 αριά hits & ΤΕΡΜΑ

και για εσάς τους σοβαρούς αν κ καλά δεν σας κάνει ο ΜΑΖΩ, έχουμε Manu…

and don't forget!!
4 all bouzouk-leries @ Kokdi's World, press HERE

Sentenced: Music Suggestion Of The Day 11/09/2015

As we promised yesterday, we conclude this trilogy / reference to metallic melancholia with the best of its kind (according to my personal taste and no other mean of evaluation). Today’s band came from Finland and started off as ferociously thrashy, old school style, temporarily misinterpreting them as another member of the newly born NWoSDM…

their turn from thrash to what I call sad metal (or doom, or gothic, or whatever you like it) made them from “just another thrash band” to the most worthy and most metallic representative of the genre proudly trademarked by UK’s Paradise Lost, Anathema or My Dying Bride…

Their album Down is simply the most archetypal example of the genre matched only by Icon or Draconian Times, or Alternative 4, or Turn Loose The Swans…

So ladies & gents,
 may we present to you the underrated but brilliant band that is no more (since 2005) but forever will hold a special place in our darkest moments…

 

SENTENCED

From Thrash to Northern Melancholia

Consisted by the Albums 
Amok, Down, The Cold White Light and Buried Alive Last live 2005

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Sun Won't Shine

 

My Dying Bride: Music Suggestion Of The Day 10/09/2015

It’s quite easy if u follow up yesterday’s suggestion to come up with this band, surely delivering a more metallic sense to what, I alone, refer to, as melancholic metal. Others may call it doom – no way Jose! –, others post death (ha – ha), others just say «it feels good with chicks», or others just dismiss them by saying that this music is exclusively chick – oriented!! Nevertheless tomorrow I’ll conclude this weird trilogy of melancholic metal with my personal favorite so stay tuned...

Anyways, the more metallic sound of the Dying Bride, seemed to historically reached its peak twice in their career; firstly @ the “swans” period (1993 – 1995) and then the start of the new millennia one (2001 – 2003), releasing 4 recognizable albums which are all there…

So ladies & Gents, without any further a due 

My DyingBride

 

2 Seasons of the Bride

 
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Catherine Black