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| The Rockthrone: | SIX SIGMA ARE AN AMERICAN GROUP IN THE CLASSIC POWER TRIO FORMATION WHERE WE FOUND THE EX DRAG PACK (SUPERB GROUP EMULOUS OF THE LOUDER AND MORE DISTORTED BLUE CHEER) DOUG TIMMS TO THE GUITAR/VOICE ACCOMPANIED BY SCOTT MARGOLIN (BASS) AND MAPPY (DRUMS) THIS EP ENTITLED "THE SPIRIT IS GONE" TAKE THEM QUICKLY TO THE LIMELIGHT, THANKS TO THE COMPOSITIONS CONTAINED HERE; THE GROUP'S STYLE IS NEAR TO NEBULA BUT WITH GREAT SPACED ACCENTS AND A MORE MARKED STONER'S INCLINATION THAN HARD ROCK. PROOF ARE SONGS LIKE "DROPPING ANCHOR" THAT IS A SPECTACULAR SONG THAT BEGIN WITH A PERCUSSIVE CARPET OVER THERE INSERT A SPLEDID WAH-WAH GUITAR WHICH RIFF BECOME MORE AND MORE DILATATED WHILE THE TIME PASS CREATING A STONED ATMOSPHERE A LA FU MANCHU WITH A MORE PSYCHEDELIC GUITAR WHILE "MAGIC FLOW" IS ANOTHER TIME DOMINATED BY THE SPLENDID DOUG WAH-WAH'S GUITAR THAT CREATES AN ACID-SPACED ATMOSPHERE THAT TO ME SEEMS A CROSSING BETWEEN FU MANCHU AND MONSTER MAGNET; INCREDIBLE ARE THE TRIPPY SOLOS THAT FLAVOUR THIS SONG. THE TITLE-TRACK IS A DISTORTED HARD-ROCK WITH A BLUESY GUITAR THAT REMAINS THE MAIN PROTAGONIST, THE TRACKS REMINDS CLOSE 70'S HARD-BLUES SACRED MONSTERS, OVERALL GROUNDHOGS WHILE "THE PROBLEM-CURSED 100 BABY" IS A LONG (OVER 10 MINUTES) STONER DISTORTED SONG. THE MCD IS CLOSED BY "PHANTOM ZONE" THAT IS A LONG DILATATED AND SMOKEY SONG FULL OF REVERBERATIONS AND SPACED EFFECTS COMPLETELY INSTRUMENTAL AND THAT HAS A GREAT INTERMEZZO IN HAWKWIND STYLE DOMINATED BY GREAT EFFECTS; THE SADNESS FOR THE LOSS OF A GREAT GROUP LIKE DRAG PACK IS NOW ALLEVIATED BY THE CERTAIN TO HAVE FOUND A WORTHY SUBSTITUTE IN THE NEW BAND OF THE EX DOUG TIMMS. | |
| Underground Zine Scene: | This is Pure stoner rock. Dropping Anchor sounds like a cross between old Black Sabbath with some effects from Jimi Hendrix. All the tunes are pretty cool. The Problem-Cursed 100 Baby is a 12 minute epic. Magic Flaw and Spirit Is Gone are pretty cool. Phantom Zone was WAY out there, that song sounded like it was written during an acid trip. Definitely one of the better unsigned stoner bands in the US. Wouldn't be surprised if Meteor City Records picks this band up. Rating: 8/10 | |
| Jersey Beat Magazine, July 2001: | Just
as Hoboken keeps churning out gifted countryish bands, the Jersey shore
has a habit of breeding the best of the state’s metal acts. South Jersey
natives like Monster Magnet, Atomic Bitchwax, and Core are considered gods
within the new "stoner rock" scene (so-named because of the heaviness
and slow, sludgy tempos) and adding to that number comes Six Sigma.
Vocalist/guitarist Doug Timms is already a familiar name to the stoner rock scene from his days as frontman of Drag Pack, one of the Garden State’s most promising power trios in recent years. Now, with bassist Scott Margolin and drummer Mappy, Timms is back with Six Sigma’s debut recording, the 5-song CD-EP "The Spirit Is Gone." The five tracks run nearly 40 minutes and,
predictably for the genre, are awash in fuzz and distortion, with nimble
technical solos and punchy, athletic drumming. Clearly, this music isn’t
for everyone, but you don’t have to be a teenage boy in a black t-shirt
and shoulder-length hair to enjoy the pummeling, headbanging groove here |
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| Highbeam album reviews, November 2000: | "I
just received this great ep in the mail and what an ep it is!!! Doug Timms
the vocalist and guitarist from Drag Pack's new outfit Six Sigma. This fuzz- drenched ep has everything drag pack had but more, wailing fuzzed out wah wah and phazed drum beats with a huge bass sound makes this ep killer!!!! The ep clocks in at just over 35 minutes and keeps you moving the whole way through. Stand out tracks for me is The Problem - Cursed 100 Baby which is a crazy 18 min song of fuzz killer riffs, dye downs and Explosions of cosmic beats and effects. Anyone looking for killer riffs and great effects check these guys out they are fuckin awesome." Overall Rating: 10/10 |
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| Stoned Gods album reviews, November 2000: |
Hello folks!!!
Six Sigma have the stoned spirit inside, so definitively it's not gone
at all! Overall Rating: 4/5 |
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| Daredevil album reviews, November 2000: | "After a long time of Not hearing anything of Drag Pack, it was a really big surprise, when this CD came to my house. Cause Doug, former bassist of Drag Pack has got his new thing going. Six Sigma, you maybe saw these guys when they played a few gigs with Columbia's Throttlerod, if not, thatīs your fault, cause you missed something. With these five songs on the CD they show us, how Fuzz-Rock should be, no itīs not like Nebula and itīs not like good old Drag Pack, I think this group gives everybody more room to do their music thing, that means, more place for jamming and more place to live the riff. Ok, if you wanna put them to something, I would say it goes in the corner, Nebula and Fu Manchu, but Iīm always against that things, putting bands in some kind of schedule, cause this is Fuzz-Rock at its best and if you liked Drag Pack, you sure like that stuff, tuned down and rockinī really hard, thatīs all I can say. The new breed from New Jersey." | |
| StonerRock.com
album reviews, November 2000:
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"Well,
it's about time I got to finally hear something from this group that I have
been hearing/reading a lot about over the last few months. Six Sigma has
a nice blend of space rock- full of effects, blues and just good old rock.
The overall sound is hard to place one tag on; to do that would be unfair.
But it's safe to say that they have some pretty special moments that makes
this 5 song EP easily appreciated by a variety of different audiences, especially
the StonerRock crowd, of course. The overall CD has a good feel to it, making it known where Six Sigma is coming from. The sound isn't overly fuzzed out-tuned down slow sludge though. It's more like blues space rock that comes in and out of songs and feels. Most of the songs are blues based straight-ahead rock numbers, the others are almost spaced out psychedelic jams. Warm overdriven guitars, groove laden riffy bass lines with watery effects on them... melodic vocals and killer lead work, vocals and guitars alike. It's a smooth blend somewhere in between Beaver, Kyuss and Black Sabbath... When I say this stuff travels, I mean it. It goes a lot of different places and isn't your every day variety. I like this CD, and it will get multiple plays from me. I am glad I finally got to hear these guys and is definitely worth checking out if your into the desert sounding stuff and want to take a break from just the volume heavy sludge stuff." |
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| Meteorcity Records: | At last! Drag Pack was introduced on the Welcome to the MeteorCity, and, after a long wait, finally signed to Rise Above Records. Then they disbanded before their first release ever materialized. Now former Drag Pack bassist and vocalist Doug Timms returns with Six Sigma, switching in the interim from bass to guitar. Picking up the low end are bassist Scott Margolin and drummer Jason Roman. The spirit here is the same as Drag Pack: low stoner fuzz a la Fu Manchu. This EP also allows the new band to show off its more jam-oriented, experimental side. | |
| Stonerama, November 2000: | "New Jersey's Six Sigma starts us off with a high spirited romp through a land of Orange amps, wah pedals and a helluva catchy chorus of "I've been down, I've been down, I've been so down," in "Dropping Anchor." "Magic Flaw" and "the Spirit is Gone" both have a bottom-heavy and fuzzed-out groove, while "The Problem-cursed 100 Baby" breaks down in the middle with a speaking sing-song segment that gets almost hypnotic. The CD ends with "Phantom Zone," a meandering trippy piece that has just enough groove to keep it going for the full 9 minutes and will probably set off a flashbacks in a few listeners. I look forward to hearing a full length." | |
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