STÖNER – Stoners Rule
It’s once again summer time, friends. To me, summer is usually a little odd in that it feels very strange to listen to metal of any kind. Metal always feels like a fall and winter thing. You know what I mean. ... Read More...
Doomsday // May 2021
Hail to thee, Heaviest of All Bloggers! Welcome once again to the column of doom and gloom and riffs and licks and fuzz and bass and all sorts of other good stuff. As always, it is truly a wondrous pleasure to... Read More...
All Them Witches – Nothing as the Ideal
All Them Witches have certainly made a name for themselves as a psych-rock staple over the last decade. Their blues-inflected brand of heavy psych has taken on a variety of forms across their studio releases, ... Read More...
Doomsday // September 2020
Welcome unto thee, Heaviest of All Bloggers! You may have noticed things have changed just a little around here. Every few years, you gotta look at yourself in the mirror and make sure you still look as cool a... Read More...
Serpent Omega – II
There's this idea in metal circles that doom metal has to take its time, to lure its listeners in with its slowness. This is actually a more modern concept, born of the current sound of doom metal that was for... Read More...
Dopelord – Sign of the Devil
Friends, readers, and colleagues: I come to you today to make a gigantic mea culpa. As you all probably know, it’s tough writing about music these days. Tough only in that there is SO MUCH MUSIC coming out ALL... Read More...
Hey! Listen to Vamacara!
The idea of the "left hand path" has seen much interest and usage from the metal community. Part of this is because of its association with Satan but, more deeply, it appeals to metal because metal is married ... Read More...
Hey! Listen to Dirt Woman!
I'll be honest with you: I'm having a rough time with the feedback heavy genres as of late. No doom nor stoner are really grabbing my attention, except for a few excellent releases like King Witch or Netherlan... Read More...
EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: Sail Channel the Lockdown Energies Into Their “Mannequin”
It's pretty amazing how quickly quarantine and lockdown have become sanitzed. There are already (and have been for a few weeks) listicles and "self help" posts about living your best quarantine and how to, for... Read More...
Hey! Listen to Earthdiver!
Like everybody else in the world with a lick of sense, I was hanging out at home the other day and just flipping through Bandcamp. I’ve gotten this new habit of poking through the new releases and top sellers ... Read More...