The UK’s trippiest doomhounds BONG are back. Their latest album, Mana-Yood-Sushai, catapulted them out into the psychic dimensions they know so well (and earned them rave reviews from the international press!).
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Their thunderous performance at the 2012 Roadburn Festival left the audience speechless. Now, the next chapter in their mind-melting saga begins, as longtime home Ritual Productions readies the re-release of their 2009 self-titled debut. Originally manifested on limited vinyl and populated by two lumbering compositions (“Wizards of Krull” and “The Starlit Grotto”), come October BONG will re-enter the doomed consciousness on CD and digital formats. This new edition will also include an unreleased track, “Asleep,” and serve as both a reminder and an introduction to the first stirrings of BONG’s darkly psychedelic meditations and heavy vibes.
As the The Obelisk’s H.P. Taskmaster said of their most recent work, “BONG’s is a swirling cosmic atmosphere of psychedelic exploration and ritualistic drone. Among the countless live albums, splits, EPs and other limited releases, each time they coalesce in the form of a full-length, it’s more of an event than an album, and the fourth and latest, Mana-Yood-Sushai (out May 14 through Ritual Productions) is the grandest yet. Taking the Newcastle four-piece’s methods of crafting huge, expansive works of riff hypnosis and coupling them with a genuine studio production at the hands of Greg Chandler of Esoteric, the latest outing gives Bong a shape without limiting their movement into, through and around it.”
