{"id":17771,"date":"2018-07-02T01:00:52","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T05:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?p=17771"},"modified":"2022-01-06T19:48:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T00:48:44","slug":"album-review-monster-magnet-mindfucker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=17771","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Monster Magnet &#8211; Mindfucker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Monster Magnet \u2013 Mindfucker<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Release Date: March 23, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For nearly 30 years, Dave Wyndorf has been leading hard rock legends Monster Magnet with a relentless hunger and passion for music that just cannot be put to rest.\u00a0 Even after countless lineup changes , Wyndorf still manages to maintain a high level of quality control by surrounding himself with top notch players who are game to carry out his vision of no frills brand of heady psych rock.<\/p>\n<p>You can call it stoner rock, psych rock, hard rock, metal; whatever you want but if there\u2019s anything you can\u2019t call it, that\u2019s dialed in rock n\u2019 roll.\u00a0 <em>Mindfucker<\/em> is solid platter of timeless face rock that reminds me just why Monster Magnet has remained on the scene untouched for as long as they have.\u00a0 From the opening track \u201cRocket Freak\u201d and the stellar single \u201cMindfucker\u201d to the seven minute epic \u201cDrowning\u201d, Mindfucker proves to be every bit as strong and relevant as anything the band has put out in its 30 year career.<\/p>\n<p>In my opinion, Monster Magnet is the dictionary definition of a classic rock band.\u00a0 They have survived through all the tumultuous changes in the current of music and never once compromised their sound or their style.\u00a0 Monster Magnet is just one of those bands who have a formula but the only thing is that they forged that formula a long time ago.\u00a0 They are a strain all of their own and while often imitated, nobody does it nearly as good as Monster Magnet.\u00a0 If Dave and Co. keeps putting out albums as good as <em>Mindfucker, <\/em>Monster Magnet isn\u2019t going anywhere any time soon which is definitely a comforting feeling.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tsvvS142wWg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monster Magnet \u2013 Mindfucker Release Date: March 23, 2018 For nearly 30 years, Dave Wyndorf has been leading hard rock legends Monster Magnet with a relentless hunger and passion for music that just cannot be put to rest.\u00a0 Even after countless lineup changes , Wyndorf still manages to maintain a high level of quality control by surrounding himself with top notch players who are game to carry out his vision of no frills brand of heady psych rock. You can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,277],"tags":[1963,1995,586],"class_list":["post-17771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","category-music-news","tag-dave-wyndorf","tag-mindfucker","tag-monster-magnet"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19636,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17771\/revisions\/19636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}