I've been raiding the Meteor City back catalog as of late, since alot of their releases are beginning to go out of print and I want to get some of the

esteemed stoner rock labels heaviest titles for our store before this stuff disappears. We've never carried any of the old Spirit Caravan releases on

MeteorCity before, but I figured that thewr might be some doom/stoner/psych metal fans out there that might still need to pick up these essential entries in

the ouvre of Maryland doomlord Scott "Wino" Weinrich (Saint Vitus, The Obsessed, Probot, The Hidden Hand, Shrinebuilder, Place Of Skulls) for their

collection. This stuff is just as awesome as it was when it first came out ten years ago, and remain some of the most soulful, moving, groovin' doom rock

ever.

The 1999 Dreamwheel Ep was released by Spirit Caravan not long after they put out their smokin' debut Jug Fulla Sun, and the five jams on

this disc are primo Maryland doom. Huge 70's rock riffs rendered even heavier via Wino's ridiculously meaty guitar tone, and fronted by his killer Ozzy-style

wail, and the powerhouse rhythm section of Dave Sherman (the former Wretched singer who would later form the blackened biker doom outfit Earthride) and

former Pentagram/Unorthodox/Iron Man drummer Gary Isom are like a fuggin' thunder hammer on these songs. They basically took the heavy doom rock of Wino's

old band The Obsessed and cranked up the psychedelia factor really high, but it made for what is some of my favorite music of Wino's career. Just

listen to the awesome jet-roar of space noise that starts off "Re-Alignment/Higher Power" which shifts into the almost hardcore punk second

half...awesome. Or the fucking epic riffage and searing wah-pedal on "Sun Stoned". So cool. The songs on this Ep are all ridiculously

catchy, and if you dig heavy psychedelic rock with a hefty Sabbath and Grand Funk influence and haven't heard Spirit Caravan yet, well my friend, this is the

perfect place to get acquainted with the Caravan. Mystical, majestic, impossibly groovy stoner doom from the masters. Essential.