Witching Buzz’s A Tribute To…
As Witching Buzz and Grand Sounds Promotion announce the third installment in their A Tribute To series, we realized we never mentioned the earlier two. And although we now look forward to hearing all those bands pay homage to Sleep on the soon to be released A Cathedral of Smoke: A Tribute to Sleep, we can still dive head first into the renditions of all those wild Ozzy Osbourne songs from the second A Tribute To and everything related to Kyuss from the very first one…
The journey of praise started with A Spaceship Landing: A Tribute To Kyuss. And let’s be honest, Stoner HiVe, you, me, would not be here if it had not been for that legendary band. And the cover album before you right now will in no way add anything to that legend. And if you are of the mind that all Kyuss songs are sacred relics and should not be messed with, you might want to keep on walking...
For everyone else, are you ready for a fuzz-drenched playground where underground bands tear into these classics, keep their ear to the Kyuss beat or reshape them in their own dusty image? Sonic Wolves for instance rip through Thumb with swagger and sharp guitar flair. While Rhino stays close to the original Green Machine and on some level of course therefor does the most homage. Poste942, the main man from the band also responsible for the artwork of the series, give Demon Cleaner an eighties touched tumbling over and over kind of groove. Isaak’s Odyssey version hits every riff out of the park and so does Fuzz Evil and their version of Supa Scoopa and Mighty Scoop. Versions that could one day make the world famous Stoner HiVe posts named The Cover That Could. Grin! But yeah, you will probably have your own favorite after listen to all twenty Kyuss songs done right. And perhaps a new favorite band if the names that riff you wild, where unknown to you before this session… So, open a can, find a cactus and let the desert spin around you…
Iron Man’s Anthem: A Tribute to Ozzy Osbourne followed last February. It’s only been a bit more than half a year since the Legend gave us his final bow. And on this tribute there are twenty-two bands paying homage to the great and only Oz. And where the Kyuss tribute featured bands I already knew, this one sports some lesser known ones. And that is perhaps another reason why these albums are fun, you might just discover a band and dive into their own work after hearing a fine rendition of a famous song. Even though it might be a different reason than expected, the Kazoo-laced and Elvis-infused madness in second track The Wizard for instance. But that’s of course what Heaven and Hellvis from Scotland is all about. Luckily this is followed by a faithful rendition of N.I.B. by Rainbow Bridge and puts you back on track to enjoy the album. A more stoner and sludge approach to Paranoid by Corruption out of Poland hits the spot right. Poste942 is still roaming around in a cloud of the eighties, but this time more metal and absolutely compelling with their No More Tears version. Will every of the twenty two renditions keep you from immediately turning to the original, absolutely not! But most of them are definitely full of passion and sound like they wanted to do right by the one true king. I guess there’s enough proof here for all that reckless devotion and their love for the way in which the man rattled your bones, made amps explode and bats take a detour whenever and wherever the ominous sounds of Black Sabbath were heard…
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