"ASG took a half-decade break, jumped to Relapse, and returned with 'Blood Drive,' one of the most likable albums to bubble up from beneath the Mason-Dixon in a decade." (SPIN)
“The quartet aren't afraid of grooves. Sunny music that should makes fans of Torche and Queens of the Stone Age perk up their ears.” (Pitchfork)
“Blood Drive is a strong album overall and a welcome sign that there is still life in the stoner rock or desert rock landscape.” (Popmatters)

In the early nineties, when bands like Kyuss, Monster Magnet, Masters of Reality and Fu Manchu mixed their love of psychedelic blues rock/heavy metal à la Black Sabbath, Blue Cheer, Blue Öyster Cult and Hawkwind with the then popular grunge-sound... it created a signature sound that still sounds like a stubborn sandstorm sweeping through the metal landscape, even twenty years later: stoner rock!

All Systems Go - or ASG, from North Carolina, just like the likes of Red Fang, Torche, Karma To Burn, Baroness, Kylesa, Black Tusk and Truckfighters (in AB on 7/03) – arises from the pool of thousands of stoner-bands and steps out of the shadow of the pioneers with their masterful ‘Blood Drive’, released last year on Relapse Records (Baroness, Black Tusk, Red Fang). The band has already been making furore in the underground circuit since 2001. Their second issue ‘Amplification of Self Gratification' put them on the map, but only started climbing to the top of the stoner-mountain since 2013, with their seventh release (they brought out a split with Black Tusk and a 7” with Karma To Burn) ‘Blood Drive’ - a clout-fest gem. The album scored high in many end-of-year metal-charts and brings them to Europe in the spring, for concerts at Desertfest (Berlijn and Londen), at Roadburn (Tilburg, 013) and in our beloved AB Club.

Canada's Anciients debuted last year with ‘Heart Of Oak’ on the renowned Season Of Mist (Kylesa, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Mayhem) and their excellent mishmash of sludge, progrock and heavy metal works wonderfully. They've trailed along in the wake of Lamb Of God, Sepultura, and now ASG too.

Lovers of the upper-cut, unite!

Royal guests! Your Highness, from Antwerp, specialise in hard-as-nails stoner/doom metal and also in the renovation of concert halls. Everywhere that they play, they blow the bricks from the walls with their much savoured mixture of melodious guitar, destructive drums and a deadly scream that will scare the hell out of you. Check out their latest split EP with Hedonist and you'll soon hear that they really mean it!

Top bill for all those who like their metal hard, pounding and on the cutting edge!