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The end is near: convert to FORMING THE VOID’s “Reverie” before it’s too late.

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Louisiana’s foursome FORMING THE VOID just released their fourth album “Reverie”, and believe me when I say it’s about to open your eyes and mind like...

PLANET OF ZEUS “Faith In Physics” (Heavy Psych Sounds)

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It feels like yesterday when Clutch delivered a short yet memorable performance at Hellfest 2019, and PLANET OF ZEUS (described as ‘Clutch’s Greek offspring’)...

VIDEO PREMIERE: Black Pistol open fire with “Call To Arms”

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No pun intended, but this new BLACK PISTOL video smells like gunpowder! We’re very happy to be premiering the new track from South Africa’s heavy rockers ahead of the...

HIGH PRIEST “Sanctum EP” (Magnetic Eye 2019)

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PR reps, I demand your attention. When will you stop referring to Cantrell and Staley each time a band lays stirring vocal harmonies on top of heavy riffs? We’d almost come...

VIDEO PREMIERE: RUFF MAJIK exorcize their demons and get “Schizophrenic”

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What would happen if Immortal bumped into Black Sabbath in the undergrowth? Pretoria’s relentless doom rockers RUFF MAJIK provides a satisfying answer with their...

Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats “Wasteland” (Rise Above Records 2018)

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In 2011, the underground scene got carried away when one of the best 70s Sabbath-infused heavy records saw the light. With “Blood Lust”, Kevin Starrs aka UNCLE...

RADIO MOSCOW + FEATHERSTONE + PETYR @ Casbah (San Diego, 13.09.18)

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The Heavy Chronicles is on tour tonight and rather far from home it must be said. San Diego, California is of course a hotbed of psyche, boogie and rock of the highest order and...

Not your average review: ORANGE GOBLIN “The Wolf Bites Back” (Candlelight Records 2018)

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This isn’t an album review. There are some people that you wish you had met, and some other you only encountered in your dreams, where the dead are well and truly alive…...

THC PREMIERE: Earth Ship new video “Whiplash”

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Forget about thrash and bullet belts: we like it filthy and muddy here. German sludge mongers EARTH SHIP are back with a killer new video for “Whiplash”,...

Black Elephant “Cosmic Blues” (Small Stone Records 2018)

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If you don’t get the drill about an album titled “Cosmic Blues” – first outing from Italian heavy-mongers BLACK ELEPHANT on fine fuzz dealer Small Stone...

MONSTER MAGNET “Mindfucker” (Napalm Records 2018)

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Frenzied rock veterans MONSTER MAGNET return with their eleventh album, and as a new release from the band is red-letter day, it will require all your attention instead...

THE ATOMIC BITCHWAX “Force Field” (Tee Pee Records 2017)

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So tell me: when have THE ATOMIC BITCHWAX ever let us down, ever stopped that boogie machine from a-rollin’, or ever even let us catch our breath? Never, that’s when, and from...

Corrosion of Conformity “No Cross No Crown” (Nuclear Blast 2018)

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It begins, as it inevitably always does, with a riff. A smokey riff, a dark riff, a lingering riff; part downtrodden delta blues, part Mississippi muddied sludge. And even...

BORRACHO “Riffography” (Ripple Music 2017)

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I’m not really a regular of Washington DC’s ‘drunkards’, BORRACHO. So when I heard of their « Riffography » release on Ripple Music at the end...

THE MIDNIGHT GHOST TRAIN “Cypress Ave.” (Napalm Records 2017)

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Freed from their own chains, THE MIDNIGHT GHOST TRAIN ’17 venture in new, unexpected paths. First and foremost, so that you fully understand what has led the...