New Keepers Of The Water Towers – Infernal Machine
I’ve heard New Keepers of the Water Towers being compared to Mastodon, and there is some truth in this. They do share some attributes…
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Vektor – Pillars of Sand
They’re Ba-ack! Building to their first full studio release since 2011, Arizona thrashers Vektor are giving your earholes a tasty morsel of sonic deliciousness…
Wrong – self-titled
This Miami noise-rock outfit features former members of Torche and Kylesa, but musically, Wrong are more like Unsane or the Melvins’ old-school slowcore, with just…
Abnormality – Mechanisms of Omniscience
It’s been four years since Massachusetts’s Abnormality released their debut Contaminating the Hive Mind, which is a long time for a band dedicated to…
Miss Lava – Sonic Debris
This Portuguese stoner-rock outfit has actually been on my radar for quite some time, ever since they sent me a copy of their first…
Blaak Heat – Shifting Mirrors
What do you get when you take an L.A. based French guitarist with Middle Eastern psychedelic influences and a seven-man backing band? You get…
Sinistro – Semente
Sinistro is the second Portuguese outfit to hit my inbox in the past couple weeks, but they are two very different entities. Unlike Miss…
Warsnake – self-titled
Back in the day, I used to be AF Analog’s biggest fan. The short-lived local sludge band was never a household name outside their…
Rob Zombie – The Electric Warlock Acid Witch Satanic Orgy Celebration Dispenser
At first glance, one might assume that everything is just business as usual for Rob Zombie on his sixth solo studio album. Its title,…
Short Cuts: Seven Recent Self-Released Albums That You Should Crank To 11
You know the drill (and if ya don’t, pay attention, hotshot): these days more than ever time is money, or relative, or something like…