CAPSULE
Blue
(Robotic Empire)

TOTAL FUCKING
DESTRUCTION
Peace, Love and Total Fucking
Destruction
(Enucleation)

ZOZOBRA / CLOUDS
Bird of Prey / We Are Above You
(Hydra Head)

LOS LLAMARADA
Against the Day
(Avant!)

CELESTINE
At the Borders of Arcadia
(Milkweed)

LIKE BLACK HOLES IN 
THE SKY
Tribute to Syd Barrett

(Dwell)

BEFORE THE RAIN
...One Day Less

(Major Label Industries)

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This is precisely what stoner rock bands should be doing. Instead of rehearsing and recording their own uninventive takes of downtuned classic rock, stoned rockers should preoccupy about expanding the subgenre through fat bottom explosions of sound and quality songwriting. This is what this fantastic German two piece is doing; without being afraid of going into ridiculous movie criticism aphorisms I’ll go ahead and declare Heavy Zooo a ‘triumph’ and ‘riveting’. Frankly, it deserves a lot more praise than that.  I’ll just add my own piece of ridicule; Heavy Zooo is a ‘funky smoke flower’, ‘a declaration for the independence of scorching riffs’, ‘a kick in the face of sameness’, ‘a fifty-one minute lesson in heavyosity’, and why not, ‘the champion record of the year’.

I particularly dug everything.  I couldn’t find many faults besides that it’s a shame that Heavy  Zooo doesn’t go on forever. And it’s just that this third full-length work by Beehoover is constructed in such a way that it reminisces the greatest of auditory experiences.  On one hand, once it establishes its grooves (which it does right off the bat on “Solitude in Bloom”) it never loses them.  Through songs that are at the same time dense and deep there are unequal portions of funkiness and experimentation to Beehoover’s actions. Songs like the impressive “Spirit & Crown” perfectly embody Beehoover’s free spirit. And the playful start of “Dance Like a Volcano” is as absurd as its title. It just goes to show that this duo is game.  

Beehoover consists of drummer Claus-Peter Hamisch and bassist Ingmar Petersen, both active as the rhythm section in German doomsters Voodooshock, of whom I reviewed Marie’s Sister Garden a few months ago. Frankly, I didn’t think very highly of Voodooshock.  I’ve read many lauding pieces on that album but to me it lacked everything that Heavy Zoo’s abundantly offers. Take into account, for a guitar-less band (bass more than suffices), this is the most rifftastic album.  This is a very heavy record, as a whole it has the complexity of an elaborate prog rock album, yet taken by pieces it has the blunt aspect of an enlightened stoner doom combo.

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