another addition to my ever growing stoner/psych/doom metal section. valley of the sun is the band and 'sayings of the seers' the album. apart from that i knew next to nothing about this band when i saw the cover at kozmik artifactz mailorder. kozmik/bilocation releases are of lovely quality as i learned from the space god ritual lp i bought from the store. valley of the sun was such an release and so, simply out of curiosity, i checked them out.
i hit the link to the song 'riding the dunes', which was provided at the site and was a little split as to what to think of it. did i like it or not? i wasn't sure but somewhere in the back of mind i saved the band's name as something i should give further inspections. so a couple of weeks later i checked more songs via the tube and then i was sold. valley of the sun was right there to serve my stoner/psych mood that elder had risen.
check out the full record and be taken into higher spheres. great stuff! after some research i found out that the band comes from ohio, united states. discogs says that they released two e.p.'s and 'sayings of the seers' being one of them. they also released a full length in 2013 called 'electric talons of the thunderhawk'. pretty weird name. nevertheless it got a vinyl pressings and i am now looking out for a copy.
'sayings of the seers' was actually released four years ago. back then the band did a d.i.y. vinyl release of 250 copies on white with blue haze. as they were long gone, kozmik decided to re-press it on heavy duty wax and new artwork, which ties in well with the original. i got a copy of the rarest colour-way. 166 copies on blue with white marble and looking real sharp. get this sucker! kozmik artifactz/bilocation records. 2015.
