Album Review

HARK “Machinations” (Season Of Mist 2017)

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Led by guitarist and vocalist Jimbob Isaac, Welsh heavy-mongers HARK are like the phoenix. Founded by the charismatic frontman on the hot ashes of noise rock...

DEMONIC DEATH JUDGE “Seaweed” (Suicide Records 2017)

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Seaweed definitely deserved a cool-headed reviewing. Finn heavy-mongers DEMONIC DEATH JUDGE‘s third album was released two months ago, and this is...

THE GREAT OLD ONES “EOD: A Tale of Dark Legacy” (Season Of Mist 2017)

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Disclaimer: you’re not ready for this. I wasn’t. It was no mean feat to write this review, because it took me a long time to digest EOD : A Tale of Dark Legacy....

FATSO JETSON / DEL-TOROS Split 7” (Shattered Platter 2016)

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Hey! Guess what?! It’s Record Store Day! Well, it’s not, but at a previous point in time, it most certainly was. Friday November 25th 2016, to be more precise was last...

John Garcia “The Coyote Who Spoke In Tongues” (Napalm Records)

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JOHN GARCIA is a living legend. Kyuss, Hermano, Unida, Slo Burn, Vista Chino are all bands that are part of any stoner rock fan’s essentials. So each...

SLEEP revisit “The Clarity” (12” EP, Southern Lord 2017)

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Most bands simply wouldn’t get away with re-releasing the one new song they’ve mustered from their creative pores in over twenty years onto a super sexy, luxury vinyl pressing...

GONE IS GONE “Echolocation” (Rise Records 2017)

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Mike Zarin and Tony Hajjar (At The Drive in) were right. While working at Sencit Music studio on movie and video games soundtracks or promo jingles, they felt like some...

From rock to doom: the coolest albums of 2016.

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The time for the traditional year-end selection of our favorites album releases has come! This 2016 vintage however marks a slight change in our modus operandi, as records...

TRUCKFIGHTERS “V” (Fuzzorama Records 2016)

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Oh hey, a new TRUCKFIGHTERS record! Like many other fans, I discovered the band through their 2005 effort Gravity X, which helped putting Europe onto the...

GEEZER “Geezer” (Ripple Music 2016)

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GEEZER appeared as a total UFO on my radar, when I came across the NYC trio’s digital single “Long Dull Knife” last year. The kind of...

SUPERJOINT “Caught Up In The Gears Of Application” (Housecore Records 2016)

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One of the things I find most curious about SUPERJOINT‘s third record, their first in over a decade, is the title itself. “The overall theme means many things, or no...

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...