If witchcraft ever needed a suitable soundtrack for its presence than it should look no further than Atavist Of Mann from Huata. A mightily formidable consumption of the senses, the debut album from the French band is a concussive mixture… Read More ›
Stoner Metal
Tricorn : Self Titled
The debut self titled album from UK stoner/rock band Tricorn is quite simply a cauldron of sweaty low slung throbbing riffs and beefy rhythms drenched in a scuzzed veined blanket of intense stripped to the bone essential rock. It is… Read More ›
XII Boar – Split Tongue, Cloven Hoof
When reviewing the debut EP XII from UK sludge/stoner metal band XII Boar last year, I ended the review with the lines ‘For their debut release XII Boar show great promise and I for one will be eager to hear… Read More ›
Interview with Martin Østerhaug and Jengt Castral from Svolk
Norwegian rockers Svölk is a band with a strength and intensity to their fusion of classic and hard rock melded with stoner and southern rock ‘n’ roll that makes it impossible not to be swept up in their music’s burly… Read More ›
Black Tusk – Set The Dial
New album Set The Dial sees Savannah’s Black Tusk follow up their acclaimed 2010 release Taste The Sin with more glorious slabs of their treacle thick and senses probing primal mix of metal, sludge, hardcore and punk rock. The Georgian… Read More ›
Svölk – Svölk ‘Em All
With the strength, mass, and intensity of the animal, Norwegian rockers Svölk mark their signing to Napalm Records with twelve thunderous tracks of ‘bear metal’ in new album Svölk ‘Em All. The album is actually a re-issue of the band’s… Read More ›
Glorior Belli Interview
Challenging, demanding and rewardingly impressive, the new album The Great Southern Darkness from French metalers Glorior Belli is a titan of a release. It is an album that takes the senses down dark and powerful roads with its black metal… Read More ›
Enormicon – Storm Of Swords
Texas trio Enormicon state on their bios that they play “stoner metal, psychedelic metal, metal metal, we don’t know what to call this shit. Just listen”. In actuality they bring flavours from all of those and more, they are basically… Read More ›