From Punk to Stoner to Sludge, from France to Ireland to Germany, it's my love for the Stooges, the Melvins, Nick Oliveri, Red Fang or Baroness who lead me to where I am. Full grown beard, home brewed beer, my doggies, my Turbojugend kütte and fuzzy noisy riffs, this covers all my needs!
It’s no secret that I absolutely love Kavrila. But so far in my previous reviews, I never quite explained how the love story began. With their latest EP reissue comes the...
Here is an album review that required much more thinking and introspection than I ever expected. How could I not elaborate on the quintessential qualities of one of my favorite...
Time flies and I must admit that the avalanche of new releases in the Stoner, Sludge and Doom genres can wear us off. As musical junkies, we keep looking for the excitement, the...
Does Sun and Sail Club ring a bell? No? Fair enough. For many, it’s an obscure side project that we don’t quite fully understand. For others it’s the opportunity to talk...
Gnome will never make everyone happy. The Belgian trio offers a unique blend of intensely heavy stoner prog full of self-deprecation and geek humor, somehow deeply dividing our...
Bear Stone Festival is an enchanting break from your everyday life. Lost in the middle of the Croatian mountains, no one will hear you scream. That’s a good thing, because...
Sometimes, we just think it won’t work. We come across an album and think, “nope, not my cup of tea”. When discovering Gurt and their latest record “Satan, etc.” in...
High On Fire is one of the very few bands who are unanimously praised by the public, critics and even the biggest ceremonies in the music industry, despite a sonic identity which...
The Melvins are back even though they never really left. What’s new for the 2024 version? A new line-up, obviously. For the last two decades, the band has used line-up rotations...
Acid Mammoth. In less than a decade, they have established themselves as THE Sabbathian doom band with a Greek twist and quickly earned unanimous support — so much so that we...
Greyborn follows their own path. Avoiding traps and derailing from imposed figures, the Limoges trio returns their sophomore EP with “Scars”, being more powerful, ambitious...
If there is one genre that is easily stuck in clichés and niche of influences, it has to be occult doom. That being said, we regularly see newcomers who offer a more personal...
It started as a sunny day in the wine capital. The night that followed in Bordeaux, people had their faces melted by one of the best metal live acts of recent years: the...
The European superstars of psych rock are back. The most exciting band in the scene returns after the tsunami that was the excellent “Ummon”. To take the hype up a...
The art of transcending your legacy. Of all the East American bands that followed the path created by Mastodon in this highly specific post-sludge sub-genre, taking the best from...
