#man's ruin records

[possible-streetwear]

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

"THE GREATEST STONER/ GARAGE/ PSYCHEDELIC/ PUNK/ METAL BAND EVER. THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN HUGE."

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on CD package design for the KYUSS/ QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE split release, artwork by the late, great Frank Kozik (1962-2023), issued under the legendary Man's Ruin Records (Man's Ruin MR 063) in 1997.

OVERVIEW: "Emerging wild-eyed and stoned from the desert surrounding Palm Springs, California, in 1992 with their classic second album "Blues for the Red Sun," KYUSS proceeded over the ensuing three years and through two further masterpieces to become the greatest stoner/ garage/ psychedelic/ punk/ metal band ever. They should have been huge.

But saddled with a record company that didn't have the first idea what to do with them, KYUSS only sold records to friends, family and a relatively minuscule band of diehard fans. So they split. Admittedley at a creative high point, but also at a time when they had so much to offer. This much is testified to by the first three tracks on "Queens of the Stone Age." Here are the last songs Kyuss recorded, all first released on a highly-prized 10-inch single and each encapsulating the hypnotic intensity and gargantuan blugeon the band summarily conjured up.

The first track is a frazzled eight-minute deconstruction of BLACK SABBATH's "Into the Void'. KYUSS remain one of the very few bands capable of doing Sabbath's black-hearted doom justice; accomplised in this instance by taking the original tracks prehistoric slurge of a riff and dragging it through a series of skewed rhythmic shifts and a long spaced-out jam.

Like all great bands, KYUSS' sound was utterly distinctive: essentially, Josh Homme's fuzzed-up guitar operating in tandem with Scott Reeder's monstrous bass rumble to create riffs that hit you with the force of a bulldozer to the chest, while singer John Garcia howled away impressively, and intermittently, over the top. All of this is contained in the two-part "Fatso Forgotso" -- a vast 10-minute expanse of soul-drenched, head-spinning rolling thunder.

The album is completed by three tracks from Homme's new band, QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE. These too are extraordinary. The music is still dense, trippy and relentlessly heavy, with an even more extreme psychedelic edge. On "If Only Everything" and "Born to Hula." Homme -' who also sings -- appears to be playing a sitar with a road drill, while the whacked-out instumental "Spiders and Vinegaroons" is clearly the work of a man who's imbibed a vast amount of mind-altering substances, and gone mad. We'll not see their like again."

-- "KERRANG!" (review by Paul Rees), published January 10th 1998.

Source: https://mikeladano.com/2023/09/26/review-kyuss-queens-of-the-stone-age-1997-split-ep & discogs.

[gotankgo]

Frank Kozik also founded & operated the label Man’s Ruin Records from 1994-2002

[milk-ducts]

might delete ,, its been fucking ages since ive touched an art program so . it didnt come out as good and im not proud of how the face turned out so wonky 😭

its a quick messy doodle of a buffed out mark w a longer hairstyle <3 begging the showrunners 2 give him these side bangs .. please !! my baby would look so good w them. u could interpret this as an older ver of him,, tho hes still got that baby face

without the shine .. hehe .. he looks better like this .

[spilladabalia]

Man's Ruin: The Posters & Art Of Frank Kozik, by Last Gasp of San Francisco.

[german-garbage]

Fcking hate d*ck nine for releasing their life is strange fanservice starring random girl who looks nothing like Max Caulfield around the same time Don't Nod (yknow the OG LiS studio) releases their game Lost Records. Also hate how they're still milking that LiS cash cow with mediocre entries to this franchise. It's time to stop.

[shitswiftiessay]

listening to the 1989 re-recordings has made me realise… how good the original versions were.

[possible-streetwear]

[finnitesimal]

im SOBBING at that side profile i wanna bite his nose off

expressive eyes solid jaw tall strong nose defined mouth ancient sculptors would've put that face in marble let me tell you

[spicyicymeloncat]

Tumblr pls be normal about morally complex characters. Stop going 0 or 100 on their morality. Stop ignoring the interesting and unique story telling being presented to you in favour of going “nono that’s my UwU sugar plum sweet baby boi baby, disregard the canon bc I actually only want wholesome vibes from my horror games”

[blackvahana]

christ it hits me a lot how shit I was treated by lull and how much I thought that was normal. Lev set up a study room in my house, and... he said I can come in because I was sort of obviously asking the question without even knowing I was asking, like I wanted to ask the question but knew it'd be a no. Why did I know itd be a no? Well a study space is a serious space for actual academic and general people who do work to use, full of books and journals that both aren't my business and will be easily messed up if I touch them, and there's no reason for me to be in there anyway because I don't do work, a study is only a space for normal people and not people who mess everything up and - how do i know this? Oh I mean because lull - yeah

[lxlypctter]

nothing beats when boygenius came out with their teaser songs earlier this year and I went on a 5 mile walk listening to “True Blue” on repeat thinking of this one man that I thought I finally was going to get with—even encountering his sister on a run! which was obviously a sign!—and thinking about how he’d done me wrong multiple times but we weren’t going to talk about them because they don’t matter anymore and I was going to forgive him because the vibes between us were just completely undeniable…only to find out that he had started dating a girl named Emily the past weekend

[tommygotwrittenoff]

i need eddie to get another guy friend in season 8, and buck loses his shit about it (again), so he breaks up with t because he's convinced that the weird feeling he gets when he sees them together is because he is Really attracted to the new guy.

[spokewar]

❝ .....who the kriff is Crom Cruach? ❞ ( sw!gabe )

"No one you need to concern yourself with. He's one of the deities of my birth people and I based off what I know, you should keep his name off your tongue."

[unmeinoniwa]

GET IN LOSER WE'RE STEALING CHRISTMAS

ㅤㅤ " LIKE ... ' How the Grinch Stole Christmas ' ? "

[bandcampsnoop]

1/11/24.

I was perusing Austin Town Hall, and I listened to Still Ruins - an Oakland band that, according to Nathan, sounds "like a track just waiting to be used for a rainy scene in a John Hughes film". Still Ruins has an EP available on Smoking Room Records.

When I went to the Smoking Room website to check out the release, I saw this LP from Hotline TNT up for order. This is their debut LP reissued in a limited release (including a Grimace purple...yum).

And while I was late to the Third Man release of "Cartwheel", I thought I'd better post this so anyone who wants a physical copy can land one. The debut album has a shoegazy feel - I still like the My Bloody Valentine and Hum comparisons - but the wobbly guitar also sounds a bit like Polvo.

Hotline TNT (former members of Weed) are based in Brooklyn, New York.