Here’s a little factoid: I’ve been to both Bradford and California, and they really aren’t too similar, albeit time could have confused my memories. Last time I was in Bradford was a few decades ago as a sixth former playing… Continue Reading →
When the new Greenleaf album arrived in my in tray for review, I was genuinely amazed to discover that in their assorted ever evolving line-ups the band has now been putting out music for a whole quarter of a century…. Continue Reading →
“Texas Desert Rock” is a music style that has been applied to Austin rockers High Desert Queen. The moniker is well deserved too. Their sophomore album, “Palm Reader” is not straight out desert rock. The four piece band delve into… Continue Reading →
Heavy Temple is a band that I’ve been hoping to see live for quite some time now, but have yet to do so. As well as really enjoying their prior releases (see Ave Noctum passim), vocalist High Priestess Nighthawk has… Continue Reading →
Substance fuelled Boogie Metal from Boston with this their first full length album being 12 years in the making. Not that they have been lying in a stupor – they have released several E.P.s and been playing tonnes of shows… Continue Reading →
Time to step into the musical apiary here, hopefully it will be sweet and we won’t get stung. Mind you it would not be surprising if the German quartet got a few barbed hooks into us, after all we are… Continue Reading →
Chicago is the city that birthed electric blues but a group of young lads by the name of High Priest seem to have sought their inspirations from a different source who took those blues roots into far more ominous and… Continue Reading →
Aussie stoner doom merchants, Oceanlord unleash their debut album “Kingdom Cold”. With a story that has become very familiar, the trio put the tracks together during lockdown in their Melbourne home studio. The whole stoner, psyche doom scene is well… Continue Reading →
It is an unfortunate fact that real life keeps on interfering with one of my true passions, namely live music, and assorted circumstances have conspired to prevent me from catching Ruby The Hatchet live during one of their forays to… Continue Reading →
Caustic Casanova are a bit of a many headed beast. Definitely not a band to slot themselves into any particular genre, theirs is a mash up of sludge, doom, psyche rock with a smattering of prog. Hailing from Washington DC,… Continue Reading →
When this arrived for review, I made myself two promises. Firstly, I would not let nostalgia interfere with my review and it would be 100% objective; this promise I kept. Secondly, I would not mention THAT song. For the benefit… Continue Reading →
Gothenburg doomsters Altareth finally drop their debut long player “Blood” after having formed in 2013. Theirs is a classic, fuzzed up doom sound drawing from the well of the masters but also taking influence from as far afield as Opeth… Continue Reading →
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