Lunar Ark – Recurring Nightmare – Album Review
Society’s inability to thrive outside of materialistic confines. The individualistic pursuit of monetary gain overshadowing our own need to protect the very air we breathe. [...]
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Mastiff – Leave Me The Ashes Of The Earth – Album Review
The UK’s Mastiff are hard. As nails. If you want the aural equivalent of being mugged down a dark alley by a gang of knife-wielding chavs simply because they’ve [...]
Slowpoke – Slowpoke – Album Review
With aggressive growled vocals courtesy of Ben Chapman-Smith and Sabbathian psych-addled, stoner-doom riffs, Canada’s Slowpoke initially appear to have more in common [...]
Worship Metal Album of the Week – Boss Keloid – Family The Smiling Thrush
Wigan’s Boss Keloid have been unsettling the UK underground with their progressive sludge/stoner/doom sounds for over 10 years now – inching ever closer to prog [...]
Worship Metal Album of the Week – Dvne – Etemen Ænka
It’s not that often that sludge and stoner rock/metal gets progressive but progressive Scottish experimentalists Dvne most certainly are….particularly on [...]
Gangrened – Deadly Algorithm – Album Review
Finland’s Gangrened ably mix sludge, doom, ambience and drone on their noisy debut album, Deadly Algorithm, due for release on April 9th, 2021. Deadly Algorithm is a [...]
AESMÓÐIR – DISEASE//REBIRTH – Demo EP Review
An abrasive mix of death metal, sludge, black metal and power-violence, AESMÓÐIR do not fuck about on their debut demo EP, Disease/Rebirth. This two-man musical DIY project [...]
Worship Metal’s 4-Word Reviews – Amammoth – The Fire Above
The Facts: Often trippy and mostly vitriolic, Amammoth are a sludge/stoner metal band from Down Under. These Sydneysiders have been active for a couple of years and have made [...]
Raging Speedhorn – Hard To Kill – Album Review
Raging Speedhorn’s two-pronged vocal attack has fallen victim to some kind of twisted wife-swap event of late. New man Dan Cook (he of defunct UK noisy bastards RSJ*) has [...]
Eremit – Desert Of Ghouls – EP Review
Two years on from their debut album Carrier Of Weight and German doomsters Eremit return to the fray with a new two track EP, titled Desert of Ghouls. With only two tracks [...]