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Heavy underground Maryland band influenced by Sabbath and Washington D.C.-area doom legends such as Pentagram and Internal Void. Released a series of self-financed demos, follow by the 2004 album "Fuck them all but six" on psycheDOOMelic records. The track "Days of Yore" was featured in the "Doom Capital : Maryland / DC Heavy Rock Underground Split" compilation. up in 2006. .

Carlos and Julio Arguedas founded Bolivia Manta to help preserve and promote the traditions of the indigenous communities of the Andes. "When the Spaniards arrived," notes the group, "thousands of men were uprooted from their communities and condemned to work in the towns and mining centers. Exploited, despised, they continued to play and the music endured through time, getting richer from the influences that mixed in with it." As is often the case with groups that strive to promote Native culture, they have experienced political and economic difficulties in their home country that forced them to live in exile in...

Heavy Rock band from Copenhagen, Denmark. If Kyuss had been fronted by Janis Joplin on bad acid they might sound something like Fuzz Manta (especially on “Sickness”, where they spend some time channelling the riff-hungry monster of Black Sabbath)… or if L7 had been infused with the spirit of Desert Sessions-era Queens Of The Stone Age they might have conquered the world in a few short weeks. Smokerings is heavy hippie rock for the stoner generation, authentic, gutsy and with the best-named bassist in all of Europe: Morten Clod-Svensson’s fuzz bass defines the band’s sound and ensures the necessary clod-thick...

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This Andean band originates from a small village called Atahualpa in Ecuador, South America. Ecuador Manta, based in St. Paul Minnesota, started in 1992. The group has a unique style compared to other traditional Andean bands. They have created their music style over the years by using the traditional rhythms from Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Colombia and combining them with more contemporary Latin and Caribbean rhythms. Ecuador Manta creates music by using the traditional instruments of the Andes which include, the zampona, a wind flute made from bamboo, the quena which is similar to The Recorder but made from wood,...