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...
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....
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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,...
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...
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....
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,...
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...
Kevin Starrs had warned us. When he released his live album “Slaughter On First Avenue” last year, Uncle Acid hinted that something decidedly different was cooking in the...
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...
Let’s suppose Glassing was completely unknown to you until this 4th album release. In that case, you should know that the Austin, Texas trio fuses post-metal, noise rock and...
Music has always been associated with trance. It bridges the gap between the subjectivity of the inner self and the outside world. This is why music is so often used in rituals....
