A new documentary on underground heavy music will be shown tomorrow in Los Angeles as part of The Cinefamily, Silent Movie Theatre series.

The documentary is titled “Such Hawks, Such Hounds” and features acclaimed acts such as OM, Acid King, Dead Meadow, Nebula, Sleep and many more. If you are into stoner rock or heavy underground music you know these bands to be essential to the scene, also many of them have great drummers. If you aren’t aware of this scene/style of music, it is well worth checking out if you are in the LA area.

To those who don’t know, a lot of these drummers drum kits vary, as there isn’t one specific set-up or kit to have for the style. A lot of the bands are working with very little money or none at all and often times piece together whatever they can for a drum set.

If you’d like to check out more info about the movie go here.

You can view a trailer at YouTube.

Drone-metal band OM have released a new live album via Southern Lord Records entitled “Om - Live at Jerusalem.” The album is limited to 3,000 copies pressed on 180 gram black vinyl.

The band had made the trek to Jerusalem in December of 2007, at that time, still with original drummer Chris Haikus, not current OM drummer Emil Amos. On the night this live album was recorded the band played for over 4 hours!

The live album includes essential OM tracks “Flight of The Eagle” and “Bhima’s Theme.” Bob Weston of Shellac fame handled the vinyl mastering process in the United States. The record is available through Southern Lord.

A musical project called Shrinebuilder, which was to feature Wino (of The Obsessed, Hidden Hand, Spirit Caravan), Scott Kelley (Neurosis) and Al Cisneros and Chris Hakius of OM will now include Dale Crover of the Melvins!

After Chris Hakius left OM it has now been confirmed that Dale Crover will take his place in the Shrinebuilder project. The project is slated for a 2009 release via Neurosis’ label, Neurot Recordings.

This is exciting news for me as a huge fan of Dale Crover’s drumming. I know that Wino, Scott Kelley and Al Cisneros will come up with amazing riffs, and now its pretty much confirmed that those riffs will be backed by some amazing drumming. This project is shaping up to be a very good one, I also hope to see the band live if they end up doing some dates.

More information.

Drone band and Southern Lord Records recording artist OM have picked up a new drummer. In February 2008, after playing a short west coast tour, original OM drummer Chris Hakius departed the band for unspecified reasons. Hakius had recorded 3 full-length albums with the band and 2 split 7 inches.

The bands new drummer is Emil Amos previously (and maybe still currently of the band Grails). I haven’t heard much of his drumming but the stuff on Grails myspace page; (http://www.myspace.com/grailsongs) shows that he can more than handle the task of playing OM songs.

Having seen OM live and also having been a fan of Hakius’ drumming, I’m interested to see what Amos will sound like live. I also wonder what kind of kit Amos plays. Hakius was playing a standard 4-piece setup although with a lot of different cymbals such as china cymbals, and bigger crash cymbals.

OM is also slated to release a 7 inch with Amos, on Sub Pop Records as well a new full-length this year.
For more info…

OM @ MySpace.com