ALBUM REVIEW: Blue Heron – Everything Fades


You might not live on the desert plains, but with Everything Fades (Blues Funeral Recordings), Hard Rock three-piece Blue Heron can show you the way there. Continue reading


ALBUM REVIEW: Lord Buffalo – Holus Bolus


A dark cloud is on the horizon. There’s a sense that a storm is coming. But while such imagery often suggests bad times ahead, with Holus Bolus (Blues Funeral Recordings), the latest record by brooding Folk-Rock four-piece Lord Buffalo, those coming rains could be a welcome release. Continue reading


Abrams Share Their Single “Tomorrow” – New Album Coming Soon



Denver, Colorado heavy rockers, Abrams, have unleashed their new single, “Tomorrow .” Following “Fire Waltz,” it is the second track from their upcoming album, Blue City, which is due out May 24th through Blues Funeral Recordings. The band also embark on a West Coast co-headline tour with Goya this June. Head into the article below for the new single, live listings, and more.
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Hashtronaut Share Their Single “Dweller” from New Album – Out Soon



Denver stoner doom crew, Hashtronaut, have just unveiled their latest track, “Dweller.” Following their first two singles, “Rip Wizard” and “Cough It Up,” it is taken from their debut full-length, No Return. The new album will be available on March 22nd through Blues Funeral Recordings. Check out “Dweller” below, and read more from the band.
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ALBUM REVIEW: REZN – Vinnum Sabbathi – Silent Future


 

If I was to make a list of my top ten bands to emerge over the past decade REZN would certainly be on this list. Back in February, they released Solace which proved to be an excellent slab of doom-gaze. I wasn’t expecting something else from them this year, but they are dropping this collaboration, Silent Futures (Blues Funeral Recordings) with Mexico City’s Vinnum Sabbathi

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ALBUM REVIEW: Acid King – Beyond Vision


 

Beyond Vision (Blues Funeral Recordings) marks Acid King‘s fifth full-length album to date and its thirtieth anniversary as a band since their formation. It’s also the follow-up to 2015’s overlooked Middle of Nowhere, Centre of Everything album which Lori referred to in a recent interview on Conan Neutron‘s Protonic Reversal show with a hope of reissuing it at some point. Fingers crossed. 

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INTERVIEW: Sarah Pendelton of The Otolith on The End of SubRosa, and a “Folium Limina” Album Breakdown


 

Ghost Cult caught up with Sarah Pendelton of The Otolith! Comprised of former members of SubRosa: Kim Cordray, Levi Hanna, Andy Patterson, and Pendleton; with the addition of Matt Brotherton on bass, the band carved out a masterful debut. The sound of the group advances the beloved Subrosa style on their debut “Folium Limina,”  out now via Blues Funeral Recordings. Sarah talked candidly about the end of SubRosa, the birth of the new band, their debut performances, songwriting, a track-by-track analysis of the album, and much more! 

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ALBUM REVIEW: The Otolith – Folium Limina


 

My first encounter with SubRosa’s music was back in 2016 as an eighteen year-old who had just gotten a headstart into music journalism, just right after they released For This We Fought the Battle of Ages. That 2016 release was especially remarkable for my eighteen year-old self, because, apart from its droning resonance in a form of menacing atmospheric doom that would drive the listeners into a solemn state of enchantment, the album was also inspired by Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We, a Russia-bound dystopian novel that portrays a state ravaged by modern-day authoritative surveillance; an uncanny prediction towards the terror of the Stalinist regime in real life. The theme and inspiration of the said SubRosa album just instantly ignited the politically conscious side in me at the time. 

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Domkraft, Heavy Temple, Somnuri, and More Booked for Magnetic Eye Records Livestream 


Magnetic Eye Records and Blues Funeral Recordings are hosting a Day of Doom Livestream on May 15th, 2021!  The event serves as a virtual sequel to Magnetic Eye’s massive Day of Doom Live label showcase at Saint Vitus Bar in 2019. Bands performing includes Domkraft, Heavy Temple, Somnuri, Howling Giant, and Caustic Casanova. It goes down on 5/5 at 5pm EDT (New York) / 23:00 CEST (Berlin, Paris) and will be streaming directly from the Magnetic Eye Facebook and at this link below, free of charge.

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The Obsessed to Release Live at Big Dipper with the Classic Early Obsessed Lineup


The Obsessed will release a new live album, commemorating a favorite show of Scott “Wino” Weinrich from early in their career for The Obsessed’s 40th anniversary.  year yields another slab for fans and devotees in the form of a rough and raw live recording of an early show at the lost-to-history Maryland club Big Dipper. Live At Big Dipper arrives August 21st via Blues Funeral Recordings and features the lineup of drummer Dave “The Slave” Flood and bassist Mark “Professor Dark” Laue along with singer/guitarist Scott “Wino” Weinrich. Pre-orders are live at the link below.

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