The Ripple Effect: The Music Commentary Radio Show  

As my brethren, The Pope, said in his Insatiable Feast of Indescribable Rock and Roll post, we've been inundated at the Ripple office recently with a wide swath of music from all genres. A veritable variety of voices. While this is a beautiful thing for our very salivating ears, these many sounds don't always fit nicely into one simple post. With that in mind, for today, I wanted to bring you with me on a recent road trip, a typical day's drive, to give you a taste for life as a Rippler, squeezing myself into an old Ghia, and the sorts of sounds that accompanied me as I cruised about town.

Beehoover - Heavy Zoo

First up was this out-of-left-field, poundingly heavy, brutal display of stoner/sludge riffery, Beehoover. A duo operating out of Germany, Beehoover tire iron more massive, head pummeling riffs into this little monster than Iced Earth had on their last 10 years worth of output. Completely non-linear, tossed about with a massive dose of weirdness, Beehoover is quite unlike anything else I've heard. A statement like that always needs to be followed up with the disclaimer, this may not be for every one, but damn, if you can tolerate a little bizarreness while you beat yourself silly with a guitar hammer, give this one a try. Essentially a drum and bass duo, Beehoover expand the realm of the all mighty riff, verging into Tool-esque excursions into surreal, alt stoner prog territory previously only inhabited by the likes of Salvador Dali's melting brain. I haven't heard anyone work their bass like this in my life, pounding it out more like a detuned guitar, full of monstrous chords, than what you'd expect from the standard bass role. Really wild stuff. I've seen this album described as a "mind f*ck of metal," and who am I to argue with such eloquence. If you're timid, stand clear, but if you've got an adventurous bone in your body, that really wants to see where a couple of completely weird, amazingly talented musicians can take their metal, give this horse a trot.

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