Ill Wicker and Tidebound-BumZen, Copenhagen Aug 10th, 2015

BumZen is apparently a very old, if not the oldest squat house in Copenhagen and there has been live music here on and off for many years.  This was the first time I had ever been to the place. It is run in the same ethics and by some of the same folks that run the Ungdomshuset. I was surprised at the number of female couples at the gig tonight.. Very cheap beer and drinks.. 

Anyway, I arrived early and hung out a bit with Tom and Sven and Stojs.. There was about 50 people mulling about on the streets and they ran out of beer for a while so people were just hanging out.  Tidebound is a one-man guitar show by local Dave Mülller.  I have met Dave many times at Roadburn and other concerts over the years but I never have seen him play music.  He played 5 songs, I believe and 4 were originals with pretty interesting and dark lyrics. The one cover, was by Townes van Zant, called Our Mother the Mountain. There were about 30 people watching him. The space is very cramped. I enjoyed the show.

Ill Wicker are a  6 piece Swedish band from Göteborg, whom I saw perform at Heavy Days in Doomtown. They are very inspired by UK acts the Incredible String band and Comus. The place was really packed now with about 60 people.  Unfortunately for everyone, there was one drunken Asian guy who could not keep his mouth shut and would babble annoying crap every 3-4 mins and get nasty looks from everyone, otherwise you could really enjoy their sound, with a cool mixture of guitars, violins, some keyboard and xylophone and hand drums and standup bass. They are all really excellent players, school trained in either classical or folk music. I have the debut album but a lot of what they played was new music.  They are heading to the UK this week I was told and will record a new record when they return.  They are also looking for a label. I think Fruits de Mer would really like these guys..

Cool night…

Elder, Mos Generator, The Order of Israfel, Horrible Dearth for a Horrible Man, The Hyle- Pumpehuset, CPH, DK Aug 5th, 2015

What a great concert bill. I showed up at 18 and the local Danish heavy band, The Hyle were just setting up to play. I met up with some Jens, Ole, Lasse, some of the guys from Doublestone, Jacob (Rising) and his wife, Daniel and others I had met at Kildemose. My friend Lone would come later.  I also hung out with Tom and the Order of Israfel guys for a bit.

The Hyle

The Hyle are four piece band and quite inspired by Electric Wizard and Windhand and play doom rock with a sometimes melodic edge and some cool guitar parts. Their opening track must have been over 20mins long at least and had a lot of dynamics but the doom riff was a pretty common one.  The next track started off really bluesy but then went into Doom. Not a bad young band. I could see they had a CD and vinyl for sale.

A Horrible Death for a Horrible Man, were some short haired indie rock looking guys but they played some really aggressive rock and metal stuff. They had a new vinyl record out that was laid out at the front of the stage. I was not really getting into these guys and my back was really hurting so I was moving around a lot and talking with different people. It was not the kind of music that I like much but they have a lot of powerful energy for sure.

Set List:  Sudden, Drift, Tide, Radiant, Burn, Verwh

Mos Generator and Elder guys had a lot of trouble with the van and did not arrive until nearly 20 after an 11hr drive from Oslo. They were visibly tired from that but had to quickly get the gear in and soundcheck. The Order of Israfel was supposed to start at 20:50 but they did not even start letting us in until 21:15, I think and they started about 21:30.

Tom and the Order of Israel

I had never seen my friend Tom’s band, TOOI before. They had played at Stengade and also Heavy Days in Doomtown but I had to miss both gigs. They were very tight and excellent and played all the songs off their debut record. They have finished the demo of 4 new long songs for the next record now but did not play anything new. I think the band come across better live than on the LP.  The crowd seem to really like them as well.

Mos Generator

Mos Generator, was a new band for this tour, just Tony left from the last line up that I saw at Freak Valley. This is a great live band and they have a huge repertoire of songs to choose from but Tony said these guys only know 10 songs so they have been playing the same sets, more or less of the last 38 gigs! Drummer was a killer and intense bass playing as well.  Tony was sounding great and played great riffs and solos. I had a blast at their show. I think they played about 40mins. I picked up the European tour 7". 

Set List: This is the gift of Nature, Lonely One Kenobi, On the Eve, Breaker, Electric Mountain Majesty, Step Up, ??, ??

Elder hit the stage pretty soon after Mos and the place was pretty packed. Their friend from Boston, Adrian, did some really cool projections.  The band was absolutely on fire this night and the crowd was totally into it. This was my third time seeing the band and their 2^nd time in CPH (I missed the first one at Loppen). They played 3 of the songs from the new record, which I think is really great. The set was pretty long and Compendium was amazing. This is my fave track from the new record.  These guys remind me so much of Colourhaze but they do it with a different sound but the vibe you get is the same. He plays the guitar at times a lot like Stefan Koglek.. Anyway, this is a totally killer band and super nice people. IT was a fun night and Lars did a great job on the sound. Sounded fantastic.  I am not 100% sure of the set list but it was something like that. We got 2 encore songs.

Dead Roots Stirring. Compendium, Spires Burn, Spirit at Aphelion, Gemini, Lore, ?

Kildemose Festival 2015, Ørbæk, Denmark July 30- Aug 1st

Chris and his wife Camilla picked Sue and I up about 14:00 and we had an uneventful ride out to the festival site but too much traffic….  Took a while to set up the tent and blow up the sleep mattress but after an hour we were ready to listen to Baby Jesus! We heard Sarkastik Ironi from the small stage while setting up and they were pretty funny and crazy band..

The festival site was more or less that same as it always is but the addition of a 2^nd stage is really great. I love the extra decorations on the stages they have added and little touches here and there.

Baby Jesus

I had seen Baby Jesus at the CPH Psych fest last year but I think the band has improved now. Very focused 60s beat sound with a high energy. They don’t really offer anything new but do this sound really well and authentic. The small crowd really dug them..

Magic Jove

Next up was Magic Jove, a great 70s blues rock trio from Malmö, Sweden. I know Tim, the drummer a bit and he also plays in Agusa.  I just love the vibe of this band. It really reminds me of mid 70s Robin Trower. The band have a great dynamic and potential but until they realize they can set themselves free and jam and take their songs to the next level, they will be limited with these 3-4 mins tracks. This type of music is meant to be jammed out, bring some excitement to it and not just like it was on the record. Cool band.

Set List: Guardian Angel, Ashes, Don’t drag me Down, Trumlåten, In Chains, Floating, In the Fields, So Long, Black Clouds, Sonic Understanding

Hoofoot

Hoofoot, also from Malmö are a progressive jazz rock band that recently released their debut album on their own label. Four of the members have played in ØSC with me at various times and on many of the records. Anyway, this is a killer instrumental band and was nearly my favorite of the entire festival. This was an amazing concert. Wow.. The band had a great time as well. They played about an hour and did four long tracks, including two new songs that don’t yet have titles.  Two guitars, hard driving bass, fender Rhodes, synths, and the occasional saxophone. Killer stuff…

Set List: Last Flight, new song, Take 5,6,7,8 + 9, new song #2

Agusa, another progressive rock band from Malmö, Sweden was next on the small stage. They have also just released a new record. They are very influenced by Swedish folk melodies and mix this with up-tempo organ driven prog rock. This was the first time I had seen them with the female flute player and that was a nice addition. The crowd was really digging it and the band is playing really well these days.  They played the entire new record (2 album side long tracks) and all but one of the tracks from the first record, I think.  They started a bit late as the bass player had disappeared until 15mins before they were supposed to play and all the gear was locked up in his car so the could not set up until they were nearly supposed to play!

AGUSA

Set List: Uti vår hage, Gånglåt till Vintergatan, Kung Bores dans, Kärlek från Agusa

The last band of the night was the young Danish act, Fribyttedrømme from Copenhagen. They also have just released their debut record. I previously reviewed the band’s 7” record.  I was really looking forward to this concert and the band did not disappoint playing an amazing show.  They had a couple of guys doing some liquid oil projections and this looked really cool. Actually, I think this is the first time ever at Kildemose their have been real lights (different colours and a real light programing station). Some fog as well. It looked cool and the band was really flying out into space. Think of this band as bit like Pink Floyd with long floating songs, twisting guitars (there are 3), and spacey organ and sounds. Really spaced out at times.   The sound was great all day but sadly Fribyttedrømme had pretty awful sound for the first half an hour (they had their own sound guy, who did not really have it together).

Set List: De Konstruerede, Kosmonauten, Ørken, Kviksand, Fribyttedrømmen, Himmellegemer, Fem er det magiske nummer

Fribyttedrømme

Day 2

9:30  Up and it is quiet at the moment. IT was not super late ending around 12 last night. It was pretty cold at night. It is a mix of cloud and sun now and looks to be a nice day.

Doublestone

This day was supposed to start at 10:40 with Dead Pan Interference but they never made it. Skifting had to cancel due to illness so the schedule was a bit more relaxed and did not start until nearly 12 where Baby Jesus played a 2^nd set. Sounded more or less the same to me but I was not paying that much attention and walking around and talking to friends. Call the Breeze were a Danish Indie 80s sounding band. I did not hear much of them. 

Doublestone, I had not seen in a few year and they rocked the place. I was surprised that a lot of their songs were not sung in Danish and they did not start off like that before. Pretty high energy stoner rock stuff.  People seem to dig it.

Basiru Susuo Trio was a nice change from the rock music and people were just relaxing in the sand and enjoying the music. Basiru is a rally cool guy and I talked with him a bit about us collaborating on some music in the future.

Dør Nr 13 is a band I saw at a CPH Psych Fest pre-festival event and it was not really to my taste. They have a very charismatic singer and the band seems a bit bigger this time. I think the singer also did a solo set after Chris Cacavas on later but no one was watching really. Pity. Anyway, I did not pay a lot of attention to these guys.

Dør Nr 13

The Wands played a fantastic set on the main stage.  This is one of the most active psych bands in all of Denmark. They have toured all over Europe the last year and even made it to the USA.  They have released a 7” and a full length record, which is into at least the 2^nd pressing now, I guess. I like the way they work with the harmonica, cool 60s psych sound but also experimenting some. Good band.

The Wands

Måneskjold (Moon Shield) is one of the few space rock bands in Denmark after the demise of Troldmand (RIP) but including Mantric Muse, and ØSC. A bit Hawkwind inspired at times with three guitars, bass and drums (no synth or space sounds at the moment in the line up). The material is all pretty high energy with a lot of cool guitar parts and sung in Danish also. I really like this band a lot but it is really a mixed bag of songs. Some totally awesome tracks and some that are just too average and not really speaking to me much… They have made some recordings recently in Sweden and are working on mixing this for a release later this year. We will see.

Måneskjold

Chris  Cacavas is an American who was backed by a friend. They were played acoustic and electric guitar and pedal steel and mostly if not all original songs. It was also something different. Blues, folk, strange songs.. People were relaxing and enjoying a lot, I think, especially the older folks in the audience.

Set List:  No Tomorrow, So heavy, Wool Sweaters, Arlene, Devil on my Back, Going Down, Jesus Rolls/Communication, Your Eyes, Fear, The Rapture, ??, Cheap Wine

Hodja was a huge surprise for me.  This band is a trio with members from the Reverend Snake Oil Company, who I had seen here before. Singer, guitar and drums, all of which were amazing players. This was really down, dirt, gritty nasty blues with super passionate singing and intense drumming and some cool guitar parts as well. Crowd was into and I really dug them as well.

Hodja

Nils Gröndahl is an experimental musician whose main weapon is the violin but hardly played in a traditional way. He uses the violin to create the tone and sound that he wants and then he does intense modulation via looping and effects. He also does some spoken words stuff and gets these hypnotic rhythms going. It was really far out but if you were patient and did not run away right away, I think you would dig it and he had a good crowd who was pretty mesmerized. Cool but far out stuff.

 Telstar Sound Drone was next and now it was dark and you could take advantage of having a pretty cool light show and once again the liquid lights.  I have the 7”, the 10” and the full length LP.  They played a few songs not on any of their records, which were cool to hear like Drugs Help, Hurricane and Æbelturen.  This band has a pretty distinct and spaced out but also hypnotic and a very energetic singer. He actually has more energy than the music itself, which is sometimes a bit crazy…   Cool stuff. and pretty intense.

Telstar Sound Drone

Set List: Through the back of your Head, Light Arrows, Drug’s Help, Satellited, Æabelturen, Evaporation, Feels like a Ride, Feel it, Hurricane, Golden Needles

The last band of the night was Bite the Bullet (half the guys from Highway Child). This is nearly the house band for the festival if you add up the number of times they have played including with Highway Child.. Anyway, the band played a more experimental set on this night as their drummer could not make it so Paw (guitarist) played drums on all but one song and Christian (bass Player) played the bass on a few songs and guitar on the rest.  I was really surprised how cool the music was without the guitar. The songs really did stand up. I think it was really bold of the band to do this.  Paw played all the drums on the record so he is knows how to do it but still this is a guitar driven rock and roll band. Anyway, it was a great concert and high energy and Thomas the singer was amazing..

Bite the Bullet

Set List: I feel Love, Going Out, Be like You, What am I doing Here, Desire, Everybody has a broken Soul, My Soul, I will not Die, Seaside, Uniform, Space Drums, Baby Girl got Soul

Day 3

10:30 I had a very rough night with a plugged up nose and serious leg cramp that had me screaming in pain (not pleasure, and not sure what the neighbor tents though!). Anyway, after an ice cold shower and some breakfast I was feeling better.

Orcas

11:30 The Orcas started things off. Another young Danish band into the 60s beat pop psych thing including the vintage instruments, and hair styles! Pretty good but nothing new or interesting. They need to add a few twists besides singing in Danish.

Flora Fauna was next. This was a five piece band that played pretty spacey and psychedelic stuff at times and also sung in Danish. Quite incredible how many bands are singing in Danish these days. There used to me on one except Spids Nøgenhat in the psych scene that sung in Danish. Cool.

Flora Fauna

Excessive Visage and Hellkamp were late coming from Germany so Morgan Square needed to play earlier on the big stage instead of the small one in order for the festival to keep the time schedule. Anyway, I had recently seen and reviewed a Morgan Square show and their recent EP… I have been pretty impressed with this band and also really liked their show today as well.  I am not sure what is the best way to describe them…  a mix of Syd Barrett era Pink Floyd, 13^th floor elevators and a will to experiment with different ways of singing and arranging the songs and also doing some jamming. The bowed saw adds some strange effects as well. Cool band. Not sure what the set list was.

Morgan Square

The Universals

Langsyn sounded like a mix of Bob Dylan and Widespread Panic but with out the great songs… I thought they were pretty boring but there were a few good tracks. I did not see the whole show, only heard them from the distance. These are good bands to mix into the program though as it is so different and a lot of people like to chill to this.

No sign of Nick from the Univerzals yet but the others are confident he will be here soon.

The Univerzals started about 25mins late and had to play a slightly shorter than planned set.  It is great that Nick has put this band back together and they are playing again.  I have really enjoyed the two records that they have made. The tracks at the concert were from both plus an older and quite heavy song called Space Train that I had never heard. Great musicians with awesome saxophone, synths and guitar solos… Nicks voice was pretty rough on this day but the performance was excellent.

Set List: E55, Glass Skyscraper, UFO, Mars Man, Space Train

I missed both the German bands, Excessive Visage and Hellkamp, as we had to set up and take down our stuff for the ØSC concert next on the big stage. I did pop by and hear a few mins but neither band was my taste. As I recall they were both some sort of Indie rock.

ØSC, we played a very good concert. I was really happy with our performance despite Mogens and Jiri, not being that happy as the guitars were too loud on the stage. Wish they would have said something during one of the breaks. Anyway, when they hear the show they will realize they did play very well.  This was the first time we ever played with the guitar player, Lau from Fribyttedrømme but I think he did a great job.

ØSC (Pic by Sabine)

You can hear the show at the link: https://archive.org/details/OSC2015-08-01.SBD

Baby Woodrose was next on the big stage and this was by far the biggest crowd of the entire festival. Where did all these people come from??? I heard there were 300 at the festival.. Sounds about like normal..  Anyway, Baby Woodrose totally rocked the place and the soundman Anders cranked it up as they were way louder than any other band that played the whole weekend! A very intense set including an old On Trial song (Flashing’ghast) and also a brand new song Mind Control Machine!, Disconnected, Information Overload, Volcano, Born to Lose and a few others…  The cover of Freedom by Richie Havens was really cool... I think they played about an hour and 10mins. 

Set List: 01.Information Overload, Disconnected, Let yourself go, Flashing’hast, Volcano, Love comes down, Mind kontrol machine, ESP, I can't stop, Freedom, World ain't round, Born to lose, Pouring water on a drowning man, Nobody spoil my fun ->Baby Woodrose blows your mind

The Sonic Dawn (used to be called the Mind Flowers) were the last band on the small stage and were really rocking the place when they suffered a series of power failures over about 20mins, which totally destroyed the gig. Damn.. I felt bad for them. They are such cool people and the band has really developed from just playing short 60s tracks to a more developed sound and longer more intricate tracks…  Not sure what the set list was…  They did the best they could be the momentum and vibe was certainly wrecked but the breaks.

De Underjordiske is another young new Danish band from the Northern tip of Jyllland who play their own unique sort of psych rock.  They had great reviews at Roskilde Festival this year and seem to be gaining quite a following. So far they have only released one 10” single on the Levitation Records label. Anyway, close your guys and go back to the UK, circa 1986-1988 and you will hear a band called THE Cult, but with lyrics sung in Danish… That is what this band sounds like. Quite uncanny at times…

The final band of the evening is a very special group of freaky people with a great sense of fun and humour and love to put on a crazy and cool show. They are called Elevatorfører.  They have also only released one record back in 2013 but I think they have another soon. Anyway, a fun way to end the festival…

Another amazing festival with about 300 people in a beautiful location with excellent beer. Wish they could get some improved food choices though; I heard a lot of people not too happy with the food this year.

http://www.kildemosefestival.dk

https://www.facebook.com/groups/57729495763/

https://www.facebook.com/kildemosefestival?fref=ts

Dementia Five- Revolt in the Fifth Dimension (Yoshiwara 303)

This is a very cool limited edition (100 copies) cassette release from my friend Danny and his friends of the Yoshiwara Collective in Ireland.  This is not a totally new band (they have been playing around Portland, ME since at least 2011) and features the drummer (and his wife on vocals) and guitarist from Ogre! The music has some similarity to Ogre but features a lot of organ (Gina Brown) and reminds me a bit of Glitter Wizard at times. The first track is called Revolt in the 5th Dimension and it gets up and going quite quickly and really rocks. Later it slows down for a nice wah wah guitar solo section Magic Man is simply a kick ass high energy rock track with some ripping guitar work by Ross. 

What a killer track. Path of Decay is a more laid back melodic track with some nice organ and guitar but some intense drumming before the killer riff kicks in. Reminds me a lot of Glitter Wizard but not as funny lyrics or sense of humour. Lots of nice organ playing on this one as well. Flip the tape over for Crossroads of Indifference. This is a slower one and a bit more psychedelic with some in your face organ but a heavy riff in the background. IT turns into a quite happy almost party tune.. A catchy one… All the way Around is the most doomy track and less organ and a focus on the heavy guitar riff and a great psyched out guitar solo… Fantastic track. Dementia ends this tape.. I guess it was about 30mins of music..    This last track starts off with a bass line and then the rest of the band joins in for one last blast with a long jam in it. Great tape….

http://dementiafive.bandcamp.com 

http://www.yoshiwaracollective.co.uk

Cary Crane- Tygerland (Door 13 Music D130016)

Cary Grace is an American artists living in the UK. On this record she collaborated with some pretty cool people including Steffe Sharpstrings (here and now, GONG), John Garden (Scissor Sisters), Graham Clark (GONG), and Spencer Cullum jr (Dead String Brothers, Steelism).  The CD 8 tracks.  Tracks 1,2,4,5 and 8 were recorded in a live session with Steffe and John in August 2014. The intro starts things off with some crazy guitar and sounds that then merges into a dream state with some cool spacey synths and this leads into Cyanide. A very cool moody song with some dark lyrics but some melody but sometimes heavy guitar as well. I liked this track a lot and Cary has a nice voice as well. Orange Sky is more minimalist with mostly synths, drums and vocals (with some long delays which sound great). Steffi come in with a nice but short solo later.. War Child is more of a melodic blues rock track with a ing jam in the middle and a bit of spaciness at times in this 8 min track. Limelight is something totally different, and a sort of relaxed jazzy atmosphere, which is cool. Lots of different styles represented here. Razorwire has a great bass line but the rest of the song was like a pop number that I did not like much. Into the Indigo features Graham and Spencer and is another pretty spacey track with some nice violin by Graham. The title track lasts 20 mins and is a quite cool jam. I have to say this CD really surprised me and has a lot of great numbers. I will for sure look forward to what Cary does next.. You can hear the record on her bandcamp site..

http://www.carygrace.com 

http://music.carygrace.com/

Ball- Fyre Balls 7” (Subliminal Sounds)

Ball is a mutant off-shoot of the Swedish band Skogen Brinner and is apparently 3 brothers. This debut 7” features 2 tracks. The first on called Fyre Balls is a 2 1/2 min track which sounds like a short psychedelic jam with some keyboards and a raw nasty fuzzed out guitar. Cool song. The video for 'Fyre Balls' will debut on www.shindig-magazine.com on Tuesday July 16th. 

Fyre is 8 mins and features some vocals and intense guitar and great rock groove. A nasty band but good fun psychedelic rock and roll with some bursts of cool guitar parts.  Might remind me of Santa Cruz (Orange Sunshine side group). A promising new band if you like psychedelic rock with a lot of guitar and I do. 

http://subliminalsounds.se

Side Effects- A four LP box Set (Fruit De Mers Records)

Fruits de Mer never shy away from ambitious and large projects and this box set featuring one song per side by 8 bands over 4 LPs in an elegant box…. There are some really cool covers here starting off with The Soft Bomb’s take on Echoes by Pink Floyd. They are pretty true to the original but take a step further to make it more psychedelic and faster tempo! Arcade Messiah take on the Aphrodite’s Child track, Four Horsemen. Very spacey and nice. For most people it will be the first time to hear the full 22min version of China, an old Electric Sandwich track covered by the Bevis Frond. This was released in a shorter 9min version previously by the label and features a lot of guitar with Nick and Bari! Wreaths do Sundown by Gordon Lightfoot. I don’t know the original but I am sure this is a quite far out take..  I love the Finnish band Superfjord and they really space out with CTA-102 by the Byrds! 

The Luck of Eden Hall go for Starship Trooper by YES…. now dedicated to Chris Squire, whom we recently lost.. Very true to the original but some really cool dual guitar soloing going on in the jam section. Julie’s Haircut surprise us with a take on a couple of Mile Davis tracks (Shhh/Peaceful). Peaceful and floating. Sendelica freak us all out with I feel Love by Donna Summer that you would never recognise. Totally spaced out to start and then…. well you will find out..  I love the Kingston Wall version but am not sure about this one. Every track is a really long jammed out version with the shortest side being 16 mins!  Amazing collection of songs.. I love this release..

http://fruitsdemerrecrods.com

ZX+- DON’T DRINK THE WATER CD (Play and Record Records PRR4)

ZX+ is basically a one man project by a gentleman named Stephen Evans. He has some help on drums and some female backing vocals as well on a number of tracks. This CD features 13 tracks in a little more than 30mins. He has previously released an LP in 50 copies and a compilation CD of different tracks. The Crazies starts things off and has a crazy high pitch ring noise at the end, that is meant to annoy you and make you pay attention…. Weird pop… Kurtz is a quirky fast paced track with some weird samples. Something Real has the drums mixed very high and a simple bass line and seems to be personal song with Mary adding some dreamy vocals.. Mud and Rubble is a fast paces sort of garage rock track. - is a short acoustic track that leads into Pet Sematary. Yes.. it is spelled that way… The Desert has a bit of a western tinge to it and starts with some acoustic guitar and then goes electric and is a very cool song.. I will not go through all 13 tracks but this is some very personal pop with a tinge of psychedelic here and there to make it all not quite as normal as it seems. There are some really cool songs and a few that did not speak to me at all..  hard to find much info about him on the net but see the links below… This is a really diverse collection of songs with a each different from the previous, which I like.. Enjoy..

http://www.discogs.com/artist/4108289-ZX  http://facebook.com/zedexplus 

https://twitter.com/ZedExPlus

Der Blutharsch and the Infinite Church of the Leading Hand- Joyride (Self Released)

This is apparently quite an old band who will celebrate their 20th anniversary next year. I had never heard them before and I have to say after hearing the record 4 times now, I still don’t really know what to write about these folks….. Strange, gothic, krauty, weirdness….   Cool CD slip sleeve with nice artwork but almost no information. Without my glasses I would have never been able to figure out who this band was… no information virtually… Anyway…. Bizzare stuff, very minimal at times and a special sound production. Female spoken words, dreamy synths, strange sound effects, sometimes backwards instruments, no or minimal drums…… vibrating synths, bass drones, muffled guitars,…. spacey at times… intense… just check them out and make your own opinion! 

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Der-Blutharsch-and-the-infinite-church-of-the-leading-hand/112227928849449

http://www.derblutharschandtheinfinitechurchoftheleadinghand.com/