“A band that really packs a punch. This is like a leather jacketed ogre stomping over a hill with the explicit intention of crushing villages and eating children. But brute force isn’t Healer/Monsters sole selling point. Vocal melodies that recall Bends – era Radiohead and subtle flourishes of ambient production add a 9th dimension to their sound. Decent, decadent and slightly deranged”.
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“Shades of QOTSA, especially in the bass lines and the vocals, the overall mood is more consistently reminiscent of the Pixies or a ballsier Pavement. For the most part the set is an excellent example of no-nonsense, riff-laden rock. But it’s during the quieter moments that Healer/Monster set themselves apart from their peers. Who knows or cares whether this is what was intended, all that matters is that it sounds ace”.
Alex Olorenshaw,
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“Healer/Monster subvert expectations because they are blessed with the refreshing combination of humour, awareness and - whisper it - talent - which enables them to create a sound that is very much their own and yet routed in the history of what makes great rock music possible. What we have is a basic three-piece with an intelligent, well structured set that moves from almost
introspective and thoughtful tones to full-on squalls of cathartic release”.
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“Like all good bands Healer/Monster cement their own style. The more one listens, the more reference points evaporate with such a prominent funk and psychedelic sound.”
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“Ambient, intelligent rock for lovers and fighters.”
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AC/DC, Grandaddy, Primus, David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, TV On The Radio, T.V and the Radio, QOTSA, Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Molluscs, The White Stripes, CCR, CCTV, Elvis, Nick Drake, Yeah Yeah Yeah’s, Dave Davies & The Twats, The Who, Foo Fighters, Food Fights, The Kinks, Queen, Arcade Fire, Fire, The Flaming Lips, Stevie W & The Giant Bollocks, GN’R, Smashing Pumkins, Pixies, Elves, Fairies, The Rolling Stones, Massive Attack, Elbow, Knees, Radiohead,Blur, Brian Eno, Van Halen, Doves, Ratskull Peterkill, Faith No More, Portishead, Muse, Nirvana, Trees,V8 Engines (Er Steve likes these... and probably Sascha too), Free Software, Beagle Dogs, World Peas, New Internationalist magazine, Free will, Free willy, Objects made of cloth, things that you will think are cool, bits of paper that remind me what to do today, The Weather, Verses, Choruses and Middle 8’s, Sound, Colours, Shapes, and Everything we have ever heard, seen or felt, .................and lists
In the beginning:----------------------------------------------------------------------
A guitarist and wordsmith answering to the name of Russ descends a staircase into the dark bowels of a house on the Archway Road. It is boredom that has brought him here. That and decades worth of musical ideas bouncing around his head which will, if not given an outlet, probably lead to his eventual committal.
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What lurks in the basement is the key to releasing those ideas. A man with a beard called Steve. Luckily, he is a man with ideas of his own. Meanwhile, possibly on that very same night, another man sits behind the drum kit on stage at an unidentified toilet venue somewhere in London. His name is Sascha. He’s been here before, many many times. Luckily, he is a man with ideas of his own too. Little does he know that at that moment, his name is brought up in conversation. A conversation of plots to kidnap and assimilate, to take over the music capital of London and eventually the world, a plot to begin this beautifully terrible experiment called Healer/Monster.
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This is one badass, funky, heavy, riffing threepiece that blasts blues into the new millennium and rearranges rock’s pouting mug while it’s about it. the idea is stupidly loud Guitar, hard beats and a bottom end designed to dislodge vital organs, all gently roasted in a common household PC.
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Healer/Monster have a truly a fresh sound, the sound of ying and yang, dusk and dawn, magnetic north and magnetic south, being fused unflinchingly together. They understand that there’s a healer, and a monster, within each and every one of us and so they represent an unruly amalgamation of the two perspectives.... a heavy, funky, bluesy, piece of alt rock gold, equally at home stroking you to sleep as it is smacking you in the face. This is music created without a need to fit in to any kind of scene and often, without a decent wash.
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Healer/Monster are three men unleashing their own musical Jekyll and Hyde onto the world: Russ, Sacha and Steve. They are, to a man, the thinking person’s dumb assed rock and roll satyrs for the new nuclear age.
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Hello HEALER/MONSTER, as you may or may not know, Keltrix have been nominated for the Indy awards. If you would like to give us your support you can vote for us for free by following the link on our page (just above the slideshow) and finding us under K. Obviously every vote helps and we truly appreciate your support. Onwards and upwards! XXK
Folks, Ihr wisst es selber. Das Ding war zum VÖ am 14.03. schon super-rar. Auf 2.222 Stück limitiert!!! Heijajei,... was machen wir denn da?... Bevor es Streit gibt versuchts online: Amazon"Ruby Light & Dark" EP Musicload"Ruby Light & Dark" EP ITunes"Ruby Light & Dark" EP ITunes "Ruby Light & Dark", Titeltrack
Hello and thank you for the nice comments, I appreciate you taking the time to stop by. California is nice right now..sunny for the most part! I think London is getting cheated out of the nice weather this past year..hopefully it will dry up and be nice soon!
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your sound is very interesting and powerful, fantastic...I like your phrase too: "kill the pessimists", really! jajaja thanks you very much for the invitation! kisses from Bs As Nadu
Hey! Thanks so much for taking the time to check us out! How are you? Let us know how you found us, and be sure to keep checking our gig listings for shows near you – it would be cool to see you on tour!
Have a Merry Christmas, we’ll be releasing our first official single next year!
