The only thing I don’t get about the new video for the title-track of Dead Rock Commandos — the 2012 Small Stone debut from long-running Greek rockers Nightstalker — is the kidnapping. Okay, so Nightstalker are getting chased through the woods by mysterious gasmasked paramilitary forces. I got that. But then they get kidnapped, the hoods over their heads and the whole bit, and marched single-file to an also-mysterious white room with instruments… and they start rocking out.
So the part I don’t get is, weren’t Nightstalker going to rock out anyway? Why would these commandos need to bring them into this room? And what is the room? Could it be that the volume from their heavy riffing output is being harvested to power some kind of sinister death ray? Or worse, that Nightstalker are being set up as some kind of exhibit in a terrible post-apocalyptic rock and roll zoo? Truly, there are many questions still to be answered.
What’s way clearer in watching “Dead Rock Commandos” is that Nightstalker have the stoner thing on lockdown. The video premiered today, and Nightstalker will bring the rock directly to the people starting May 31 with Ape Machine supporting. Dates follow the clip below:
Including an appearance at the 2013 Freak Valley Festival, Nightstalker will be heading out on a European tour in support of 2012′s Dead Rock Commandos. The ultra-catchy riff-fest was released by Small Stone last year and found the long-running Athens outfit right at home in classic heavy fuzz ‘n’ roll.
Yet another release that was orginally to be included in our second batch of wax for 2013, but then the manufacturing joints all got backed up for RSD (Record Store Day)... This is a one time only Limited Edition run of 500 units pressed on 180g virgin vinyl, Single LP, Standard Jacket Upgrade, with Polyined Sleeves.
Mother Of God's Anthropos was pressed on: 100 units of black, 200 units of solidl light green marble, 200 units of solid red (that was suppose to marble, but does not)... These are now available to purchase via Small Stone HQ and will also be in your favorite local Record Shop shortly.
Included in our next batch of ltd vinyl, which is currenlty at the plant and due back somtime later this Summer, are: Lo-Pan'sSasquanaut,Deville'sHydra, Sun Gods In Exile'sThanks For The Silver, and Mangoo'sNeverland.
Other vinyl releases that are now in the pipeline and are currently on deck (but not quite at the plant yet - think Fall 2013 releases): Gozu's The Fury Of Patient Man, Supermachine's S/T,Novadriver'sVoid,Brain Police'sS/T and Electric Fungus.
My only hope is that as Backwoods Payback, Supermachine, Lord Fowl and Sun Gods in Exile head out for these four shows, they bring the poster with them. Seems the Small Stone Records bannerfolk have united under the flag of their label and are hitting the Northeast for a bill they’re dubbing “4 Bands, 4 States, 4 Shows, 1 Label.” Call it a tour by the numbers.
Since Supermachine, Lord Fowl and Sun Gods in Exile all live in New England, so with Backwoods Payback tagged on from Pennsylvania, you can pretty well imagine this one’s going to be a debauched-type good time. A long weekend that no one involved will recall by the time it’s over. Nonetheless, if you’ve gotta have something to remember it by, the following Alexander von Wieding poster is a gorgeous reminder.
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