Album Review

MANTAR “Ode To The Flame” (Nuclear Blast Records 2016)

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Two fellas from Hamburg kicking the shit harder than any Scandinavian berserker: blackened punks MANTAR just stormed in with their second full-length Ode To The Flame, a...

BLACK TUSK “Pillars Of Ash” (Relapse Records 2016)

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Savannah’s sludge power trio BLACK TUSK just released their first album in five years since the great Set The Dial. Not only Pillars Of Ash marks their first record without...

MY SLEEPING KARMA “Moshka” (Napalm Records 2015)

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Hailing from Aschaffenbourg, MY SLEEPING KARMA is a German foursome playing instrumental music at the crossroads of psych rock, experimental rock and stoner. I’ve missed out...

From rock to doom: the coolest albums of 2015.

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I’ll be honest with you guys: unlike my fellow editors and writers in the scene, at no time in 2015 I had the feeling of living an outstanding year in music. Of course,...

KYLESA “Exhausting Fire” (Season Of Mist 2015)

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After fifteen years of career, KYLESA has become one of these bands for whom each new album is a musical event. First, because the band is at the forefront of southern sludge....

“Electric Ladyland Redux” (Magnetic Eye Records 2015)

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I can’t remember if it was Hamlet or Jack Slater who said “something is rotten in the state of tribute albums”. Either way, he was right. Rock musicians have been trying to...

GRAVEYARD “Innocence and Decadence” (Nuclear Blast Records 2015)

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Rock may be dead, but its corpse is still moving. From its tremors emerge bands like GRAVEYARD, capable of toying around with the genre’s habits and customs while adding their...

LIBIDO FUZZ “Kaleido Lumo Age” (Pink Tank Records)

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I had developed quite a crush on LIBIDO FUZZ, the unlikely French heirs of Ozzy Osbourne and John Lee Hooker, listening to their inaugural (and aptly-titled) EP We’re a Heavy...

TEN FOOT WIZARD “Sleeping Volcanoes”

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The other day, I was describing to a friend the stoner rock scenes across various European countries ; questioned about the U.K., I instinctively replied that the country had...

ENOS/MANGOO “Son of a Gun/The Grey Belly” split 7″ (H42 Records)

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German record label H42 Records has become a specialist when it comes to releasing high quality heavy and psych rock split records (Karma to Burn/Sons of Alpha Centauri, The...

ELDER “Lore” (Stickman Records 2015)

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A few weeks after their role models Colour Haze came back with a rather disappointing 11th album, ELDER steps in with a new opus that’s equally ambitious, but much more...

Those records that made 2014 a better year…

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The THC round-up of the coolest heavy and rock releases of 2014 lands a bit late on the blog, and my digital quill is still shivering of emotions as I’m wrapping these...

THE PICTUREBOOKS “Imaginary Horse” (Riding Easy Records 2014)

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Making the most of the frenzy induced by their seductive first single “Your Kisses Burn Like Fire“, German duo THE PICTUREBOOKS unleashed today their third...

From rock to doom : the 10 coolest releases of 2014 (so far!)

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Since the year has started, rock and metal reviewers have been snowed under with album releases of all kinds. Bad thing with this kind of situation is, you need loads of time and...

MOS GENERATOR “Electric Mountain Majesty” (Listenable Records 2014)

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If there’s one thing this world will never get enough, it’s real badass rock’n’roll. In 2013, Clutch were proudly bearing the standard of a groovy manly rock filled with...