Category: Reviews

If you’re looking for England’s answer to Elder, look no further. Manchester trio Ritual King offer a similar mixture of stoner, psych and prog on their seven-track, self-titled, Ripple Music debut. “Valleys” kicks things off with a dreamy, heavy psych intro, a swirling riff over some mellow, plodding percussion, which soon kicks into a head-nodding,…

Man, Brant Bjork has been really prolific lately – between reissues and new issues, this is the fourth record of his I’ve reviewed since 2018. And with its stripped-down, laidback, lo-fi vibes, and Brant playing every single instrument, this might be the closest he’s come to Jalamanta in a while. That said, you won’t find…

Smoulder’s debut album, Times of Obscene Evil and Wild Daring, was one of the breakout doom-metal releases of 2019. Critically acclaimed across the internet, it quickly sold out its initial run and is now on its third vinyl pressing. Thus, with the band in high demand, old-fashioned industry dynamics are coming into play in the…

Nick Oliveri and company are back with their first new album in eight years. Now featuring former members of Nebula and John Garcia’s Band of Gold, Mondo Generator packs 14 tracks into 43+ minutes on this double-middle-finger-adorned record. Opening salvo “Nowhere Man” opens with a pretty decent desert-rock groove, though it picks up the pace…

For nearly 20 years, Lowrider was considered one of, if not the greatest one-album wonders in stoner rock history. While their 1999 split with Nebula on MeteorCity helped put the band on the map, 2000’s full-length Ode to Io was their defining moment, a record that arguably did for Swedish heavy rock what Blues for…