Release Day Roundup – 6/18/21
Editor’s Note: Longtime reader Remi VL is a regular guest contributor to our Release Day Roundup posts! He submitted several of the albums listed below. Join his Facebook group for more recommen... Read More...
EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: Mountain Caller Are Back With “Something Stirred From Beneath the Rubble”
Last year, many of us here at the blog were blown away by Mountain Caller's Chronicle I: The Truthseeker a heavy, expansive, sci-fi adventure into the realms of fuzz, groove, stoner, and instrumental metal. Th... Read More...
235 – Bottom Text
Heavy Pod Is Heavy Cast! Back on the grind with the half-year review. We talk about a few new releases, including Machine Head, Interloper, Ophidian I, and Structures. Then we talk about the albums we connected with so far in 2021 across various categories we... Read More...
EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: Manipulator Got Nothing to Hide on “Naked and Open”
For me, the true beauty in grind is in its power, density, directness, and brevity. It’s not the place for savoring anything other than the lasting burn of getting completely scorched for 10 minutes, like the ... Read More...
Monthly Missive // June 2021
It's June. This means several things: first, it means that it's getting real hot over here in my corner of the world and that means that I'm not sleeping as well. Secondly, it means that we're getting real clo... Read More...
Delving into delving: An Interview with delving/Elder’s Nick DiSalvo
Those keyed into modern progressive rock, heavy psych, or doom metal should instantly recognize Nick Disalvo’s name from Elder. On their five LPs released across the past decade and change, the Berlin- née New England-based band has attracted increasingly wid... Read More...
Boss Keloid – Family The Smiling Thrush
Looking back on the career of Boss Keloid is an interesting exercise, in more ways than one. The obvious angle is their style; they move from a good to great stoner metal/rock band to this hard-to-pin-down, ex... Read More...
Editors’ Picks // June 2021
When you read this month's Editors' Picks, you might notice that a lot of the entries are long. I mean, they're usually long but this time they're quite long. It brings to my mind a very interesting point rega... Read More...
Rotten to the Core // June 2021
There was so much good broad spectrum -core that came out in May, it was difficult to try and cover it all. So we didn’t. Sorry folks. Check the Circle Pit for links to the releases that definitely deserved a write-up but didn’t quite make the cut. And hey, i... Read More...
The Anatomy Of: Benthos
Benthos’s debut record, uh… II has been among the many welcome surprises 2021’s metal underground has had to offer. The Italian outfit bring a lush take to modern tech-tinged progressive metal that reminds me a... Read More...