Tag: doom
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Matt Hinch’s Canadian Top 10 of 2018
10. Loved Artist: KEN Mode Label: Season of Mist Listen to Loved on Bandcamp 9. A Low Winter’s Sun Artist: Heron Label: Sludgelord Listen to A Low Winter’s Sun on Bandcamp 8. Ruin Artist: Wilt Label: Vendetta Listen to Ruin on Bandcamp 7. Beacon of Faith Artist: Baptists Label: Southern Lord Listen to Beacon of…
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Gruesome Greg’s Canadian TOP 10 of 2018
10. A Low Winter’s Sun Artist: Heron Label: Sludgelord Considering the relative lack of proper post-sludge acts in this country, this release is well worth checking out. Listen to A Low Winter’s Sun on Bandcamp 9. Reminiscence Artist: Empress Label: self-released There’s two distinct types of tunes on Reminiscence — three sub-four-minute tracks, and then…
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The Great Sabatini – Goodbye Audio
Montreal’s favourite bearded noise-rock wizards – The Great Sabatini – are back with their fourth full-length album, featuring such family-unfriendly titles as “Still Life with Maggots,” “The Pursuit of Crappiness Parts 1-4” and “You’re Gonna Die (Unsatisfied).” You can always count on noise rock to warm your heart on a cold Canadian winter’s day, eh?…
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Holy Grove – II
OK, stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Female-fronted Portland outfit mixes heavy riffs and soaring vocals on one of the best doom metal albums of the year. Only this time, we’re not talkin’ bout Witch Mountain, but rather the second record from recent Ripple Music signing Holy Grove. II kicks off with a…
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Deadbird – III: The Forest Within the Tree
I guess they’re back from the dead? Roughly 10 years since their last album, Arkansas outfit Deadbird, featuring a few guys from Rwake and the current bassist of The Obsessed, has returned with their third full-length installment of southern-fried sludge, offering up eight tracks in a little under 40 minutes. Fans of Rwake, or even…
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Windhand – Eternal Return
Windhand has consistently been one of my favourite doom bands of the past few years. They’ve shown that “female-fronted doom” isn’t limited to cloaks, capes and songs about Satan while cranking out a string of pretty solid records. But when I heard the initial press describing Eternal Return as a “doom/grunge” album, namedropping the likes…
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High On Fire – Electric Messiah
Some people might say Matt Pike’s the new Lemmy, but when it comes to High On Fire’s consistency, I’d compare them to AC/DC. As they enter their 20th year as a band, you pretty much know what you’re gonna get before you push play – and yet, I can’t say I was disappointed by Electric…
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Dopethrone – Transcanadian Anger
They may be named after an Electric Wizard record, but I’ve always found Dopethrone to be more like Canada’s answer to Bongzilla, with heavy, hazy riffs and drug references abound on their fifth full-length album. Transcanadian Anger kicks off with a fuzzy rumble on “Planet Meth,” a downtuned, downtrodden stomp with shades of EHG. The…
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The Skull – The Endless Road Turns Dark
When The Skull played Toronto on a cold winter’s night in January, they ran through Trouble’s self-titled in its entirety before tacking on a couple of originals at the end. Hey, after all, that 1990 record has been long out of print, and this outfit includes both Eric Wagner, the voice of Trouble, along with…