BONG

Drone Metal • United Kingdom
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BONG is a doom/ sludge metal act from UK (Newcastle) formed in 2005. The band have released several splits, live albums and a couple of full-lengths.

(Biography written by UMUR)
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BONG Bong album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Bong
Drone Metal 2009
BONG Bethmoora album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Bethmoora
Drone Metal 2009
BONG Beyond Ancient Space album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Beyond Ancient Space
Drone Metal 2011
BONG Mana-Yood-Sushai album cover 3.00 | 1 ratings
Mana-Yood-Sushai
Drone Metal 2012
BONG Idle Days on the Yann album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Idle Days on the Yann
Drone Metal 2013
BONG Stoner Rock album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Stoner Rock
Drone Metal 2014
BONG We Are, We Were and We Will Have Been album cover 3.00 | 1 ratings
We Are, We Were and We Will Have Been
Drone Metal 2015

BONG EPs & splits

BONG A Roomful Of Cunts album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
A Roomful Of Cunts
Drone Metal 2007
BONG Evolution Is So Creative album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Evolution Is So Creative
Drone Metal 2007
BONG Bong / Wrest album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Bong / Wrest
Drone Metal 2007
BONG Bong / Brothers Yemen album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Bong / Brothers Yemen
Drone Metal 2008
BONG Bethmoora album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Bethmoora
Drone Metal 2008
BONG Bong / Sex Wound album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Bong / Sex Wound
Drone Metal 2009
BONG Gnod / Bong album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Gnod / Bong
Drone Metal 2009
BONG Bong / Quttinirpaaq album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Bong / Quttinirpaaq
Drone Metal 2009
BONG Blitzed In Brixton album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Blitzed In Brixton
Drone Metal 2009
BONG Pyramidion / Bong album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Pyramidion / Bong
Drone Metal 2013
BONG Untitled album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Untitled
Drone Metal 2013
BONG Another Dose album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Another Dose
Drone Metal 2013
BONG Bong Versus the Bots album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Bong Versus the Bots
Drone Metal 2013
BONG Live: Newcastle album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Live: Newcastle
Drone Metal 2014

BONG live albums

BONG Bong Live January 2008 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Bong Live January 2008
Drone Metal 2008
BONG Under Byker Bridge 08/03/08 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Under Byker Bridge 08/03/08
Drone Metal 2008
BONG Recorded Live At La Toscana album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Recorded Live At La Toscana
Drone Metal 2009
BONG Bong At Tyneside Cinema June 12th 2009 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Bong At Tyneside Cinema June 12th 2009
Drone Metal 2009
BONG Gilgamesh Lives album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Gilgamesh Lives
Drone Metal 2009
BONG Live 2009-2010 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Live 2009-2010
Drone Metal 2010
BONG Samhain Festival album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Samhain Festival
Drone Metal 2010
BONG Live at Roadburn 2010 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Live at Roadburn 2010
Drone Metal 2011
BONG All Saints March album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
All Saints March
Drone Metal 2011
BONG Live @ The 13th Note album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Live @ The 13th Note
Drone Metal 2012
BONG July Jams album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
July Jams
Drone Metal 2012
BONG Live @ The Rammel Club album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Live @ The Rammel Club
Drone Metal 2012
BONG January Jams album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
January Jams
Drone Metal 2012
BONG Live @ The Chameleon, Nottingham 14​/​07​/​2013 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Live @ The Chameleon, Nottingham 14​/​07​/​2013
Drone Metal 2013
BONG Live @ The Mill, Salford album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Live @ The Mill, Salford
Drone Metal 2013
BONG Beyond Live album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Beyond Live
Drone Metal 2013
BONG ...Yet Another Dose album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
...Yet Another Dose
Drone Metal 2013
BONG Live at St. Mary's Old Church and Burial Ground album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Live at St. Mary's Old Church and Burial Ground
Drone Metal 2013
BONG Live Newcastle 6​.​12​.​13 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Live Newcastle 6​.​12​.​13
Drone Metal 2014
BONG Live TwoThousandFourteen album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Live TwoThousandFourteen
Drone Metal 2015

BONG demos, promos, fans club and other releases (no bootlegs)

BONG re-issues & compilations

BONG Bong At Easter album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Bong At Easter
Drone Metal 2009
BONG In And Around Newcastle album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
In And Around Newcastle
Drone Metal 2009
BONG Novum Castellum album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Novum Castellum
Drone Metal 2009
BONG Onward to Perdondaris album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Onward to Perdondaris
Drone Metal 2010

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BONG Reviews

BONG Mana-Yood-Sushai

Album · 2012 · Drone Metal
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Trees, grass and... more grass...

Genre: psychedelic drone music

With a band name like Bong you can be pretty sure that you will get some pretty psychedelic music, and, sure enough, Bong is a revered stoner doom band (I've deliberately avoided the "metal"-tag). Mana-Yood-Sushai is their fourth full-length album, but they do also have a host of splits, EPs, live albums, and other releases under their belt.

Mana-Yood-Sushai has around 45 minutes of music on it, distributed among only two songs. Both songs are evolve around the use of a droning note wrapped in various patterns of guitar strumming and slow drum beats. Both tracks are instrumental, very long, and extremely introvert, as it were, and thus you can be absolutely certain, that, if you are a mainstream pop kind of person, you will not be able to appreciate this type of music. Fans of psychedelic music and shoegazer music, on the other hand, can look forward to a journey into the quite simplistic and monotonous musical universe of Bong, which nonetheless is rich in small details and whose dark and oppressive mood is no less than fascinating.

I am not sure it is advisable to actually get stoned while listening to the album, as it might result in a massively depressive bad trip.

If you dig bleak and introvert psychedelic music which is characterized primarily by darkness and heaviness without being metal (because I do not, to be honest, consider this kind of music metal), then the dark journey that is Mana-Yood-Sushai is definitely a trip you should embark on very soon.

(review originally posted at seaoftranquility.org)

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