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Photo credit: takuya miyamoto

For those who have successfully coped with last weekend’s Dark Stars in the Dazzling Sky: you may now proceed to part 2.

1. Earthless - Flower Travelin’ Man
   Sonic Prayer (Gravity, 2005)
2. Titan - Die Morgensonne / Die Mitternachtssonne
   Untitled (Paradigms, 2006)
3. Comets On Fire - Holy Teeth
   Avatar (Sub Pop, 2006)
4. Om - Kapila’s Theme
   Variations On A Theme (Holy Mountain, 2005)

The idea remains the same. Roughly 50 minutes of psychedelic guitar improvisations and gut crunching base riffs to take you on an acid rock trip that will leave you thunderstruck. Be prepared to be blown away by the first track. After a minute and a half the guitar kicks in and basically starts an 18 minute improv trip with apocalyptic results. This is all the exercise you’ll ever need to train your neck muscles.

Titan relies more on atmosphere so they take their time to build the right ambiance to unleash their freaked out psychedelic rock jam. To add some contrast I’ve included one of my favourite tracks of last year’s Comets on Fire album. They waste no time and start kicking you in the face right from the moment the track starts. And finally there’s Om with their minimalistic approach to repetition, mantra-style vocals and hypnotic patterns to close the list with a gargantuan piece of heavy grooving stoner.