Dark crooner DAX RIGGS blows minds with “7 Songs For Spiders”.

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You’ll be hearing a lot about Dax Riggs this year. Not to mention Acid Bath. After a first aborted comeback attempt at Sick Sad World (which got canceled), the mythical and...

WORMSAND makes way for the gripping grunge doom of “You, The King”.

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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...

SPIRIT MOTHER “Trails”.

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Sometimes you have to take a step back. Take a break from this systematic frenzy of consuming new releases every Friday. Maybe even look back and realize that albums that...

From rock to doom: the coolest albums of 2024.

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Goddamn, this was by far the hardest end-of-year piece we’ve had to put together in ages, as this year’s quantity and quality of releases frankly got us overwhelmed....

WITCHPIT blast southern sludge at full force with “Forever Spoken”.

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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...

Stoners-go-HxC supergroup Sun & Sail Club wreak havoc on “Shipwrecked”.

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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...

DESERTFEST BELGIUM 2024 review

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Desertfest Belgium has been an unquestionable household name in the European stoner scene for ten years now. As a birthday cake, the Antwerp promoters invited some of the biggest...

Lowrider and Elephant Tree reach infinity on “The Long Forever”.

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Elephant Tree. Lowrider. Such an encounter on record falls under astrophysics. The realm of macro and the infinitely large. On a human scale, such a phenomenon occurs as often as...

BLACK TUSK punch us in the guts with “The Way Forward” and it feels great.

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The Savannah-based warriors have been around for two decades now and show no sign of slowing down! This seventh studio album sees the arrival of two new members within the band,...

BRAIN CAVE is the best-kept secret of the US noise rock scene.

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After their 2018 demo and debut EP, Cleveland post-hardcore and noise trio BRAIN CAVE haven’t dragged their feet, releasing a record each and every year. So here we are...

Epic and delirious, GNOME presents “Vestiges of Verumex Visidrome”.

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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...

The world is burning down? Crank it up and listen to WHORES.

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Eight years. That’s how long it took the sonic beast that is WHORES to blast yet another storm of bangers. To say that we haven’t seen the time go by would be a lie,...

Stoner rock is doing well and SLOMOSA proves it with “Tundra Rock”.

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You’ve probably already read everything about one of the most anticipated albums of 2024. Our fellow music writers have already dissected the album in great detail, track by...

Heavy rock royalty GREENLEAF get haunting as ever on “The Head & The Habit”.

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Just because Dozer made a huge comeback last year (with one of the best releases of 2024, no less) doesn’t mean we should overlook Greenleaf. It’s quite the contrary....

SONS OF ALPHA CENTAURI looks back and converts the try on “Pull”.

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When a band creates music that echoes so powerfully the golden age of rock (the 90s), the lost listener is very tempted to hop on the labeling bandwagon: grunge, post-hardcore,...