71TonMan – Of End Times – Album Review
71Ton Man? That’s a big fella. That’s some insurmountable heft to drag around! With a name like that you’d expect the music to match in terms of gargantuan ferocity [...]
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Torso – A Crash Course in Terror – Album review
Torso is the creature that has risen from the grave of the slowly decomposing corpse that was the UK’s Possessor. When this horror metal outfit bit the dust in 2021, [...]
Man In The Woods – Badlands – Album Review
Man In The Woods, the Isle of Man’s very own stoner/doom/sludge champions, have finally unleashed their debut album….and Badlands is its name! Opener [...]
10 Of The Most Underrated Roadrunner Records Albums!
Realm – Endless War (1988) A technical thrash masterclass, Realm’s histrionic, kinetic and brain-scrambling debut still pummels the senses with its falsetto vocals and [...]
MAN IN THE WOODS Sign To Argonauta Records & Debut First Track From Upcoming Album + Single Review
Blurring the line between stoner rock, desert rock, sludge and doom metal, the Isle Of Man’s MAN IN THE WOODS transport their listeners to dystopian dark new [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]