Long-running Vancouver, BC Heavy Rock/Sludge band Waingro (perhaps named for one of the antagonists of the classic 1995 crime movie Heat?) have released their latest album Sports! The album chock full of bangers and this a really underrated band you should be spinning today. The band will also play a record release show tonight at the world-famous Rickshaw venue!
When it comes to craving metal with commanding vocal interplay, Trad Heavy Metal, Doom, and even a touch of Motörhead worthy Rock N Roll influences, Castle will really scratch your frickin’ itch. Even if you are a hairy-ass werewolf under a mind-melting moon, this band has enough brooding yet triumphant riffs, psychedelia, and sheer talent to sate your ravenous hunger like no other. Continue reading
Initially started in 2017 as a solo side project to Lucifer’s Fall by Phil Howlett and later helped out by longtime collaborator Kieran Provis (also of Lucifer’s Fall fame), the Adelaide-bound Solemn Ceremony has been crafting the purest form of barbaric, raw, and obscure old school Doom ever since. Moreover, they have been doing it in the style of the 80s. Equipped with past experiences in songwriting for Rote Mare and Lucifer’s Fall, the ever-talented Phil Howlett brings his listeners a distinctive style of aggression-laden vocals that appear fiendish and savage.
California’s Psychedelic Rock stalwarts Old Blood will release their new album Midnight Climax this fall, via their new record label, Glory Or Death Records on October 4th, 2024. The album will be released in various formats, available for pre-order today at their Bandcamp page. The band has teamed up with Ghost Cult to debut their first single and music video for the title track today! Deliciously Doom-y, wildly melodic vocally, with a sexy-as-hell main riff, this is a certified banger! The video is also appropriately unnerving and bloody, as you do when you are Old Blood. Check it out! Continue reading
Fu Manchu formed in 1985 as Hardcore-Punk outfit Virulence whose sole release 1988’s If This Isn’t A Dream… has been reissued by Southern Lord. After this came a name and musical style change reminiscent of Corrosion of Conformity who undertook a similar evolution themselves. Continue reading
In September of 2023, Baroness released their sixth studio album Stone (Abraxan Hymns, review here) and with the summer concert season heating up, they are touring to support it. That tour recently came to the Harrisburg Midtown Arts Center (HMAC) in Harrisburg, PA.Continue reading
Five albums into their career, the fact Pallbearer was once a Doom Metal band has faded into the haze of the atmosphere that dominates Mind Burns Alive (Nuclear Blast Records). Of all the metal sub-genres, fans of doom metal are the most forgiving when it comes to a band outgrowing the confines of the genre. Perhaps this is just Brett Campbell’s beautiful singing voice distracting you from the lyrics, which are as equally as bleak as those on the previous album. There might be a marginally more optimistic tone to “Where the Light Fades.” These depressive expressions are a thread of continuity tethering this bands’ entire body of work. Continue reading
Time for a chaser episode! Let’s review and unbox @High On Fire’s new album “Cometh The Storm” out now via MNRK Heavy! Nik unboxes the vinyl variant from Gimme Metal and we tell the story of Gimme Radio! Nik is also unnecessarily mad at Keefy.
We will be back next week with more Queen!Continue reading
California. Beaches, blue skies, and blazing sunshine. Unless you’re The Watchers, of course. In which case it’s all about darkness, shadows, and a predilection towards all things of a nocturnal nature. Continue reading
