Vice Squad – The Albums 1981-84
Featuring 73 tracks over five CDs, this box set certainly proves the Punk ethos of value for money. The first disc is Vice Squad…
Heavy
Crypt Sermon – The Ruins of Fading Light
Crypt Sermon’s 2015 debut, Out of the Garden, was a pretty solid piece of epic doom. Seeing them perform twice at U.S. festivals since…
Glenn Hughes – The Official Bootleg Set: Volume Two, 1993-2013
6-CD Clamshell Boxset I had the great pleasure of seeing Glenn Hughes at the Olympia in Dublin in 2018. Playing a set of classic…
Lightning Born – self-titled
This North Carolina supergroup includes the guitarist from excellent retro doom outfit Demon Eye, along with the legendary Mike Dean of COC, so you…
Ian Blurton – Signals Through the Flames
A couple weeks back, I saw Ian Blurton’s Future Now open for Spirit Adrift, during which he remarked that next to the other bands…
Irata – Tower
North Carolina outfit Irata first caught my ear four years ago with their Kylesa-inspired (and Phil Cope-produced) album Sweet Loris. Since then, they’ve expanded…
August Burns Red – Toronto, 25 June 2019
REBEL filled quickly with fans of all ages to see August Burns Red, Silverstein, and Silent Planet and to celebrate their mutual love of…
Yawning Man – The Revolt Against Tired Noises
I’m kicking myself here! I’m a “big” stoner rock guy but I’ve never really listened to Yawning Man that much. I know of them…
Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard – Yn Ol I Annwn
This is the third album from the splendidly named Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard. No band sounds like M.W.W.B.; they are a secret the world…
High Reeper – Higher Reeper
After putting out a smokin’ Sabbath/Saint Vitus-inspired self-titled record about a year and a half ago, Philly’s High Reeper is already back with album…