Album Review

BRANT BJORK “Tao of The Devil” (Napalm Records 2016)

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If the music world had to come to nothing, BRANT BJORK would certainly be one of the last standing… Twenty years after his Kyuss odyssey, the stoner rock...

WHORES. “Gold.” (eOne Music 2016)

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Listen up, folks: we got something huge for you. The band with the most SEO-friendly name ever, WHORES, just released their debut album Gold. With this...

ASTEROID “III” (Fuzzorama Records 2016)

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That’s the thing with space travel; take a couple of days off to hurtle around the cosmos and you can quite easily get lost up there for a few years. Örebro, Sweden’s...

DRORE “Tapeone” (Rad Nauseam Records/Lonely Linda Records 2016)

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DRORE are a band. A new band. A new band from Oxford, UK. They’ve got a tape out. Yeah, it’s an actual tape. Deal with it. Well, I should say it WAS out. Then it sold out. It...

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...