Hey Colossus & The Van Halen Time Capsule / Eurogrumble Vol. 1

Riot Season

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Fifth album and a new six man line up. Almost seven years of flying under the radar doesn't seem to of bothered these stubborn souls. Back they roll with their second album on Riot Season. Happy Birthday, released August last year, plundered a top 30 spot in the Rock-a-rolla end of year charts, in fact it caused quite a stench wherever it was heard. "Channelling the no frills riffage of Black Flag and Melvins before drowning it under a sea of distorted feedback" said the heavy metal magazine Kerrang. "'Intense' is an overused description, but Hey Colossus deserve it. Utterly." wittered the doomed indie mag Plan B. Now with the addition of the VAN HALEN TIME CAPSULE they've set their sites on the lights. The majick and jam of Germany in the ‘70s, and all things dingy, claustrophobic and killer from Whitehouse to The Heads. Recorded in their South London home, Dropout, the sludge and stink of previous efforts still prevails. Ooze ridden basement tapes created under a fug of the most suspicious odour, add in some swamp doom and it begins to fall into place. This fella is a melting pot of libelous ideas and ludicrous intentions. Wrapped in a sleeve depicting Masonic images taken during the recordings, liner notes from LOESS COS YUH, the Spanish leading light on all things dark, this 12-inch is what it's all about. Edition of 500 copies.