Tag Magnetic Eye Records
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 →
Philadelphia’s Heavy Temple is a band that my one prior musical encounter with was care of their rather excellent 2017 EP ‘Chassit’ (see Ave Noctum passim). Since that time there has not been much in the way of recorded output,… Continue Reading →
I’ve opined this many times before in prior online ramblings, but damn me if Sweden doesn’t produce more bands per head of population than pretty much any other nation in the world, and that’s just in the realms of hard… Continue Reading →