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		<title>Astra to Release The Black Chord on March 27; New Song Streaming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kudos to San Diego retro prog weirdos Astra for going with an orange color scheme. The Frippertastic mellotron-loving five-piece will release their new album, The Black Chord, on March 27 via Rise Above/Metal Blade, and have made available the new track &#8220;Quake Meat&#8221; for high-def YouTube streaming. Check it out, followed by a little hot [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theobelisk.net/obelisk/2012/02/07/newastra/</link>
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		<title>Drinking with the Devil (Dick) by Tommy Southard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In his first column, guitarist Tommy &#8220;Devil Dick&#8221; Southard of Solace, Social Decay and The Disease Concept heads to Delaware to visit the Dogfish Head brewery. Enjoy: Hello there Obelisk readers! So I’ve been asked to do a little beer report for the site. I got an email from JJ asking me to do this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theobelisk.net/obelisk/2012/02/07/drinkingwiththedevildick/</link>
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		<title>Venomous Maximus, The Mission: Accomplished</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Texas has a long history within the heavy underground, whether it’s ZZ Top casting a heavy Southern influence for the likes of Honky to take as gospel or Solitude Aeturnus reaching into the depths of doomed emotionality and emerging with one of the genre’s most formative approaches. Houston-based Venomous Maximus are a kind of one-band [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theobelisk.net/obelisk/2012/02/07/venomousmaximusreview/</link>
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		<title>Orange Goblin: Video for &#8220;Red Tide Rising&#8221; Unveiled</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Say what you want to about riffs &#8212; and Joe Hoare&#8216;s got plenty of them, no doubt about it &#8212; for me, this song is all about Martyn Millard&#8216;s bass line. The opening track from Orange Goblin&#8216;s long-awaited A Eulogy for the Damned (review here) has one of the album&#8217;s best, and in the video [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theobelisk.net/obelisk/2012/02/06/orangegoblinvideo-3/</link>
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		<title>Wizard&#8217;s Beard Premiere New Song on The Sleeping Shaman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kudos to Lee and company from the mighty The Sleeping Shaman blog for having the fortitude of server to withstand the onslaught that a new Wizard&#8217;s Beard song stream brings. The ne&#8217;er-do-well sludgers have a new album, Four Tired Undertakers (review forthcoming), up for release this week, and The Sleeping Shaman are hosting the song [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theobelisk.net/obelisk/2012/02/06/wizardsbeardstreamsleepingshaman/</link>
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		<title>Bushfire, Black Ash Sunday: It&#8217;s the Burl of the Curl</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Heavy blues bruisers Bushfire make their home in Darmstadt, Germany. It’s the same town that produced stonerly trio Wight, with whom Bushfire took to the road for the “Malakas of the Universe” tour at the end of 2011. To date, Bushfire’s self-issued Black Ash Sunday (2010; more recently put out on vinyl) is their only [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theobelisk.net/obelisk/2012/02/06/bushfirereview/</link>
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		<title>Frydee Been Obscene</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Usually, I&#8217;d wait to wrap up the week until tonight, when, probably at least mildly intoxicated, I&#8217;d pull my laptop up off the floor onto the bed while The Patient Mrs. sleeps and post the above fullscreen-worthy Been Obscene clip from the On the Rocks festival in the band&#8217;s native Austria. The track is one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theobelisk.net/obelisk/2012/02/03/frydee-been-obscene/</link>
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		<title>The Devil&#8217;s Blood Interview with Selim Lemouchi: &#8220;&#8230;To Death, to Chaos and to Satan&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At its heart, the approach of Dutch occult rockers The Devil&#8217;s Blood comes down to two words: &#8220;Hail Satan.&#8221; It&#8217;s a rallying cry of contradiction, the basis for their musical and lyrical perspective, and what lies at the very heart of their influence. In everything they do, it remains the calm center around which they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theobelisk.net/obelisk/2012/02/03/thedevilsbloodinterview/</link>
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		<title>Sun Gods in Exile, Thanks for the Silver: A Solo for all Occasions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Portland, Maine, rockers Sun Gods in Exile make no bones about who they are or what they do. Their second album, Thanks for the Silver (Small Stone), is guitar rock all the way through – a dudely amalgam of Southern riffing and solos that puts a figurative edge to the literal “double-guitar” lineup distinction. It’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theobelisk.net/obelisk/2012/02/03/sungodsreview-2/</link>
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		<title>Ancestors to Release In Dreams and Time April 10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What a coincidence that Ancestors&#8216; new album, In Dreams and Time will be out just around when the band heads to Europe for appearances at Desertfest and Roadburn. Man, if I didn&#8217;t know better, I&#8217;d swear these things were planned out ahead of time. In any case, I&#8217;m very much looking forward to hearing how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theobelisk.net/obelisk/2012/02/03/ancestorsindreamsrelease/</link>
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