Gestating in various form starting in the early nineties, the thorny evergreen vision of fiercely independent Trondheim, Norway […]
doom metal
There is much to be said for the artist that shirks the rapidly increasing trend of constant and […]
Austrian shout-a-long sludge metal band Kielkropf come with a handful of heavy doom riffs and a few pages […]
Although they would meet and become fast friends at a German music festival in 2005 Chilean bassist Daniel Pérez […]
Here I present a grip of the most essential metal-related releases from the month of June in the […]
Formed in 2012 in Zurich, Switzerland of all places Matterhorn are a blast of freshly thrashing air who […]
In his Dissertations sur les apparitions des anges, des démons et des esprits, et sur les revenants et […]
Here I present, in no particular order, roughly 30 releases from 2017 that I overlooked or did not […]
Here I present a grip of the most essential metal-related releases from the month of May in the […]
The first ten years of releases from Lee Dorrian‘s still-ripping Rise Above Records might have began with intermittent […]
The first time I smoked weed is somehow still one of my most vivid memories from my sophomore […]
Crackling like a degraded tape in between giant stoner doom riffs the post-metallic sludge of Sacramento’s CHRCH seems impossibly […]
Formed abreast the epicenter of Oregon’s bigger and better things, Portland-based Witch Mountain spent nearly a decade failing […]
After some stints in folk and black metal bands in the late 90’s guitarist/vocalist IX formed Urfaust as […]
In conjuring a phantom soundtrack to a nonexistent bikesploitation film from the early-70’s Québecois sleaze-kongs The Death Wheelers […]
Completely blind and ignorant to their influences, methods, sonic personality and overall ethos my introduction to Ommadon‘s sixth […]
The generations of stoner metal and doom bands influenced by Sleep‘s ‘Volume 1’ and Electric Wizard‘s ‘Dopethrone’ are […]
Every time I look up a sludge band on Facebook they always seem like such shining, happy people […]
Vancouver, British Columbia based atmo-sludge/doom camp Heron rode in on a wave of post-hardcore informed sludge metal with […]
The long and dark history of psychedelic occult stoner doom sludge mystics Dark Buddha Rising began with some […]
