Album Review

MELVINS drop a weird noisy 2024 vintage with “Tarantula Heart”.

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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...

Will you survive the wild trip of THE COSMIC DEAD’s “Infinite Peaks”?

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2024 will be a psychedelic year or won’t be, with every month bringing its share of fantastic astral explorations laden with space kraut and other psychotropic fuels. 2024...

ACID MAMMOTH take no (doom) prisoner with “Supersonic Megafauna Collision”.

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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...

PYRAMID elevates us with the fine psychedelia of “Beyond Borders of Time”.

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A trio, three summits for a band called Pyramid. The foundations of this musical triangle were laid in 2019 with the release of their debut album “Mind Maze”. This was...

GREYBORN make stoner rock miracles with new EP “Scars”.

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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...

Rising French doom trio WITCHORIOUS reveal themselves with a classy debut LP.

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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...

Stoner grunge merchants DISASTROID strike again with “Garden Creatures”.

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Wanna hear about grunge revival? Hell no. To us, “revival” is a word for low-grade and poorly inspired copycats, and this is certainly not what DISASTROID is about....

SOMETHING ANIMAL brings chaos on “Bestial Curse Part 1”

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Back in the days, when it came to chaotic hardcore, French outfits could be counted on the fingers of one hand and America remained our main dealer. From now on, we’ll have...

QILIN invites us into a tormented psychedelic reverie with “Parasomnia”.

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Qilin. Here’s a mythological creature you’re likely to come across… not in your umpteenth hallucination though, but in the French Stoner Rock Scene. Two years...

RED SUN ATACAMA share their 10 fave albums of 2023.

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Let’s joyfully keep the end-of-year series going, and welcome French stoner rockers RED SUN ATACAMA as they drop their ten most listened crates of 2023 on THC. Follow Clem...

From doom to rock: the coolest albums of 2023.

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What’s your favorite record of 2023? Well, there are as many criteria as there are listeners. In our opinion, the “best” album is the one that will go down in...

ACID MAMMOTH pick their top 10 albums of 2023.

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It’s the return of our favorite end-of-year series, and since 2023 has been such a fantastic vintage for all things heavy, we decided to team up with some of the coolest...

DOMKRAFT get closer to the Doom Grail with “Sonic Moons”.

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Say that this fourth album from Sweden’s Domkraft was eagerly awaited would be an understatement. After the major slap in the face provided by “Seeds” two years...

DOPELORD goes on a crusade with “Songs For Satan”.

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In today’s European stoner and doom landscape, DOPELORD has become a major force to be reckoned with. Having forged a sound now recognizable from the first riffs,...

BARONESS goes more epic than ever before with “Stone”.

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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...