Iron Monkey – Spleen & Goad (Relapse Records)
There was a glorious period between 1996 and 1999 where hardcore, sludge, stoner and heavy music in general saw some iconic releases which still stand up today as classics of those genres. But there…
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Clutch Unveil The Next Recording In Their ‘PA Tapes’ Series
Explosive Live Performance Recorded Exactly 30 Years Ago To The Day Unveiled today, PA Tapes (Live at King’s Head Inn, Norfolk, VA, 4/25/93) marks the 30th anniversary to the day of one of CLUTCH‘s earliest shows, recorded at…
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Lighthammer – Galaxy (Self Released)
From deep in the underbelly of Cardiff’s music scene for the last year or so, slowly honing their craft, preparing to unleash their sonic assault on an unsuspecting public, come stoner/space/prog rock upstarts Lighthammer. Sure…
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Fu Manchu Celebrates 30th Anniversary With Massive Global Tour…
Three decades ago, heavy-rock stoner legends FU MANCHU formed in San Clemente, California and solidified their legend in the high plains of Palm Desert, where the foursome would perform shows for those in the know, powered only…
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Torche – Admission (Relapse Records)
Back in 2005, the stoner/doom scene was becoming saturated with the same old slow heavy riff/ growled vocals combo and was desperately looking for something fresh. Out of nowhere came Torche from Florida whose heavy…
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Our Lives in Music… Widows
Widows new EP Ten ‘Yer will be released by APF Records on 28th January. Pre-order it here Read the Mass Movement review of Ten ‘Yer here And order your tickets for the Ten’Yer release show…
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Widows – Ten ‘Yer 7” (APF Records)
Listening to Widows is like watching Mr. T smash through suburbia in a tank or watching a rhino armed with a pair M134 miniguns and clad in high density, spike covered Kevlar opening fire as…
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My Life in Music… Reno Gooch (Space Coke)
While regular high quality coke emerges from Colombia, you need to go to Columbia, South Carolina for Space Coke. Long in hair and fuzzy in tone, the band are dealers of the riffiest, most psychedelic…
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Ironbird – Persian Blade (False Lord Recordings)
Stalwarts of the South Wales Doom/Stoner Rock scene for nearly a quarter of a century now and nearly a decade as a band, Ironbird are back with their long awaited second album. Persian Blade sees…
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Black Elephant – Cosmic Blues (Small Stone)
Many of you are aware of my growing interest in stoner rock/metal music. I have explored many new bands during the last couple of years and those that fall into the aforementioned category quickly become…
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ASG – Survive Sunrise (Relapse)
A friend of mine recently turned me onto ASG. He was aware of my growing enjoyment of stoner rock and kindly shared Win Us Over with me during a road trip. Luckily for me the…
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Pallbearer – Vinyl Music Hall, Pensacola, Florida, June 1st 2018
Over the past few years I have gotten into doom metal, sludge metal, and stoner metal. These three genres were ones that I had previously ignored for some unexplainable reason. Then came the UK’s Undersmile….
