I’m at a bit of a loss for words; Black Hole Space Wizard Part 2 is consistent gold from start to finish. If you like spacey stoner-rock music then it is imperative that you buy this. Howling Giant are the Caravaggio’s of their genre.
https://dropthisuk.com/2017/08/15/review-howling-giant-black-hole-space-wizard-part-2/
a solid slice of stoner doom rock. With vocals similar to Ozzy Osbourne era Black Sabbath particularly on the track, The Pioneer, fans of the brummy metal titans will certainly dig this band. The riffs are thick and heavy though tuneful and the production suits the music well. There is plenty of melody on offer and fans of Pallbearer and their like should definitely check Howling Giant out.
https://beavisthebookhead.com/2017/08/12/ep-review-howling-giant-black-hole-space-wizard-part-2/
Stoner rock but with a psychedelic fuzziness, the cosmic sounds of Black Hole Space Wizard are as challenging as they are exciting. With a blast of echoing guitar, spacey sound effects & other-worldly vocals, Henry Tate starts things off in an unsettling way. The Pioneer really ups things though, letting rip with that stoner fuzziness that just sounds fantastic.
https://gbhbl.com/ep-review-howling-giant-black-hole-space-wizard-part-2-self-released/
Howling Giant blasts some groovy psychedelic stoner rock into the cosmos. With six song, this EP lasts over thirty minutes, without one dull, unimaginative and stale second to be found. This thing is pure stoner goodness.
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NEWS RELEASE
Montreal, QC – August 3, 2017
For fans of Elder, Red Fang, Melvins, Baroness, Rush
TheObelisk Premiere HOWLING GIANT “Circle of Druids”
Return With Fuzz Rock Sequel “Black Hole Space Wizard: Part 2” Due Out August 25th
New Video “The Pioneer”
L-R – Roger Marks – Bass, Vocals, Tom Polzine – Guitar, Vocals, Zach Wheeler – Drums, Vocals – Photo Credit: Kim Wheeler
You can also watch the music video for their first single “The Pioneer” at the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW6R4LBhazQ
HOWLING GIANT! The very name summons up mental images of a huge mutated orc-warrior astride an even more gigantic mastodon, ready to bring death, doom, damnation and destruction (and many other things beginning with “d”) down upon its enemies.
Names matter, and something magical happened when three nerds obsessed with all that is fuzzed-out, riffed-out, and heavy came together to compose cosmic odes to space travel, doomed sea-farers, and even an android on a camel-killing crusade (what harm did the poor camel ever do to him?), under the name HOWLING GIANT.
Drummer Zach Wheeler says the name is no accident and reflects the band’s music.
“Howling Giant sounds a lot like a loud beast, which is what we strive to do musically. We aim to create a full sound that people might normally expect from a five-piece rather than a power-trio.”
Indeed, by employing the three-piece format, HOWLING GIANT is following in the footsteps of legends like Motorhead, MC5, Cream, and Corrosion of Conformity; good company to be in! As the band’s philosophy would have it wisely: “Teamwork makes the dream work.”
Hailing from Nashville, HOWLING GIANT obviously had some special metal immunity to all the country and western music in the air. The boys started jamming at school in Boston with an aim to move away from overtly serious music and have fun, describing their music accurately as “loud, energetic, heavy, melodic, and cosmic.”
Overall, HOWLING GIANT’s music forms part of a fascinating Black Hole Space Wizard concept EP series, which the trio returns with Part 2 due out on August 25th, 2017 to follow Part 1 released almost exactly a year prior.
If you are one of the many that wishes Mastodon had continued in the cosmic, crushing progressive manner of Crack The Skye and Blood Mountain, HOWLING GIANT is your dream band!
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“What a righteous discovery these guys are. Born out of some space fuzz chamber and dropped down on Nashville, Tennessee, Howling Giant’s form of metal is a unique and eclectic fairy tale trip through the stars.” – New Noise Magazine
“That paragraph you just finished reading (or totally skipped over, fuckin’ whatever) was extremely hard for me to create because it was so fucking difficult to encapsulate how much of a fucking trip this record is. If there is to be a Part 2 to “Black Hole Space Wizard” then consider my pants shat and my wallet thrown at my monitor because I’d pay so much money for that shit.” – Head Banger Reviews
“Sonically, Howling Giant seem to be the missing link between Monster Truck and Mastodon, and they top it off with whacked-out, sci-fi lyrics about outer space.” – Hellbound
“Rocketing across the interstellar airways on a stellar path of massive grooves, ones fueled by the thrust of the ever-powerful riff and its incendiary combustion, Howling Giant make themselves heard throughout the cosmos on these four out-of-this-world tracks.” – Metal Nexus
“If modern day Mastodon got together with Crobot, added some Monster Truck style Hammond Organ and Elder’s gift for writing something fuzzy and glorious, then to be honest, it’d probably sound a little like this.” – Maximum Volume Music
“If you want to have an ear wedding you mix the sounds of old and new to make something fresh. Nashville’s own Howling Giant have skipped the wedding and went straight to the honeymoon with sounds as old as OG Sabbath to Baroness, Red Fang with a little Pelican and CKY mixed in. Totally familiar, yet totally fresh.” – Zombie Tap Dance
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The Best Rawk Jam Of 2017…“The Pioneer” follows and is SO good. One of the best rawk songs of 2017, hands down, this track soars above thanks to subtle piano lines straight from a gorgeous Eric Serra score (The Professional and The Fifth Element in particular), the bass rumble throughout, the crunchy guitar lines, and those shimmering vocal lines.
http://hellbound.ca/2017/08/best-metal-2017-far-part-2/
4. Howling Giant – Black Hole Space Wizard Part 2: You would not expect a really heavy, proggy, groove-rock outfit to call Nashville home. But no matter where they roam, these guys fucking slay! hellbound.ca/2017/08/howling-giant-black-hole-space-wizard-part-2/
Woodhawk – ‘Beyond the Sun‘ (self-released): RIFFS! The Calgary outfit packs the riffs in like you wouldn’t believe. It’s so incredibly catchy and just plain rockin’. Not to mention a guest appearance from Kevin Keegan of Dead Quiet (ex-Barn Burner)! Awesome!
Man, this is one of the rare cases where the sequel is even better than the original!
http://hellbound.ca/2017/08/howling-giant-black-hole-space-wizard-part-2/
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