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PREVIEW: New Music Friday 8-1-25: All the New Metal and Rock You Should Hear
From underground gems to the big time, it’s New Music Friday
8-1-25
Who has the best album cover this week?Continue reading
Dozer’s New Rarities Album “Rewind to Return” is Out This Week
In 2025, Scandinavian riff-rockers, Dozer, are celebrating their 30th anniversary. To commemorate this landmark, they are about to drop their new rarities album, Rewind to Return, via Blues Funeral records. The band will follow up with a US tour in August then a handful of European festival dates later in the year. Find more information in the article below.
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Desertfest Berlin 2025 Reveals First Day-Splits, ft. Dinosaur Jr., Elder, The Hellacopters, and More
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2025 will see Desertfest Berlin undoubtedly invite for its perhaps best and most eclectic line-up to date, featuring an incredible line-up consisting of Dinosaur Jr., The Hellacopters, Elder, Eyehategod, My Sleeping Karma and many more high-class acts the stoner, rock, doom, sludge, psych, and metal scene has to offer! Today, the festival has revealed its first line-up splits for Friday, Saturday and Sunday!Continue reading
ALBUM REVIEW: 10,000 Years – All Quiet On The Final Frontier
Sweden truly is a melting pot for all sorts of high-octane Stoner Metal acts – Monolord, Graveyard, Hällas, Greenleaf, Void Commander; you name it. It is almost like the ideal home for acid trip-inducing slow-paced riffs. Even back in 2021, the label/collective Weedian curated a compilation album consisting of the finest psychedelic haze-laden Stoner Metal bands hailing from Sweden, entitled Trip to Sweden. One of the bands featured on the gnarly lineup of that compilation, the Västerås-bound 10,000 Years, are actually the one whose latest release I’m reviewing today.Continue reading
FESTIVAL REVIEW: Desertfest New York 2024 Live at Various Venues
The fourth installment of Desert Fest NYC has now come and gone. I want to start by thanking the crew, they ran a three-day fest with everything starting on time and limited technical difficulties throughout the fest, they worked their backsides off and it showed.
Heavy Psych Sounds Fest London ft. Black Tusk, Dozer, The Black Rainbows, Margarita Witch Cult, Alunah, Mr. Bison, and More Announce Day Splits
Desertscene London and Heavy Psych Sounds Records announce the day splits for the 2024 edition of Heavy Psych Sounds Fest London, to take place in the heart of Camden Town this November 2nd and 3rd. The fest returns to London after four years this fall to make Camden Town rumble and crumble under the mighty fuzz assault of some of the most revered bands in the stoner, doom, psych, and heavy rock scene! Check out the day splits below and get your tickets now!
Black Tusk, Lord Dying, Alunah, The Cosmic Dead, and More Booked for Heavy Psych Sounds Fest London
Desertscene London and Heavy Psych Sounds have announced eleven international stoner, doom and heavy psych rock acts to appear at Heavy Psych Sounds Fest London. Returning after four years, the event takes place at The Underworld and Black Heart on November 2nd & 3rd, with Lord Dying, Black Tusk, Alunah, The Cosmic Dead, Child, Dozer and others on the bill. Keep reading for the full lineup and more.
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ALBUM REVIEW: The Awesome Machine – … It’s Ugly Or Nothing
The start of a new year is the time to look ahead, of course, but fans of great rock music just love to look back, don’t they? Continue reading
Marc Urselli’s Steppendoom (ft Matt Cameron) Shares Soundgarden Cover “4th Of July” from “Superunknown Redux” Tribute Album
Marc Urselli’s Steppendoom present their unique take on Soundgarden’s doomy classic “4th of July”. This beautifully strange rendition features an actual member of Soundgarden in drummer Matt Cameron (also Pearl Jam) as well as Igor Sydorenko of Ukraine’s Stoned Jesus, multi-instrumentalist Alain Johannes (Chris Cornell solo, Queens Of The Stone Age, Eleven, Them Crooked Vultures) and throat singers Utelo and the legendary Albert Kuvezin (of Tuvan throat singing collective YAT-KHA).