Tag: Dave Chandler

  • The Shrine – Bless Off

    The Shrine – Bless Off

    I was pretty impressed with these guys when they opened for Red Fang last month. While they’re not reinventing the wheel, they sure know how to roll it, bringing down some brief blasts of heavy vintage tuneage. It’s almost like one of those semi-obscure heavy bands from the early 70s (Dust, Bang, Gun, take your…

  • Space Mushroom Fuzz – Burning the Almanac

    Space Mushroom Fuzz – Burning the Almanac

    By Gruesome Greg Quickie, 20-minute EP from this Boston-based heavy psych outfit—now a proper power trio, apparently. The space-rock theme remains readily apparent in the four song titles, as “The Cosmic Evolution” kicks things off with some heavy fuzz-rock riffage and equally-distorted vocals. “The Bio Zones” keeps the cosmic grooves going, a nice slow burner…

  • Sons of OTIS – Seismic

    Sons of OTIS – Seismic

    All in all, she sure sounds good to me!

  • Gideon Smith & the Dixie Damned – 30 Weight

    Not quite what I expected, sort of a subpar Danzig I with a coupla country-fried tunes tacked on to the end.