A decade has passed since Baby Woodrose released their debut “Blows your Mind”. The album became critically acclaimed and may have sold lots of copies, yet allow me to believe that the band remains one of the best secrets of Europe. Even in the psychedelic circles of the stoner/doom genre the band remains relatively unknown which is quite weird. Personally, I find it impossible for someone who at least likes psychedelic music, not love this band. I also think that […]

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Drone Throne is a fairly new band from Arizona. This four-piece has already released a demo back in 2008 and a descent split with Toad in 2009. I didn’t know them before but I had to find out more about the band as soon as I finished “Everybody Dies Alone”. You see, these guys deliver huge amounts of rawness by the time you hit the play button. I would say that sludge and punk are the two styles that have […]

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Radio Moscow are back! The third release, already for this little band from Iowa. Their name seems to be quite a hot topic in the conversations of rock fans lately. This is not without a good reason of course. If you are into blues, classic rock, Led Zeppelin or Jimmi Hendrix then this record is about to send you to heaven. “The Great Escape of Leslie Magnafuzz” is just another gem to the amazing collection of this band. The first […]

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Leather Nun (America) is another hard working doom band from California. “Kult Occult” is the band’s 4th full length and that is in only 6 years of existence. While the band is often compared with Black Sabbath and The Obsessed (which is actually a valid comparison for their previous efforts) “Kult Occult” adds some new elements that give the band a more warm personal feeling! Unlike the album cover and the inside photos, don’t expect anything spooky or demonic in […]

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Isole is one of most hard working bands out there not only because they have released 5 albums in the last 6 years but they always manage to deliver top notch quality! I consider Isole to be an underrated band even within the doom metal circles and I agree what Christer Olsson once told me that if they would have released their demo back in ‘94 things would have been deferent by now. Still the band gets comparisons with Candlemass […]

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They say it’s bad to anticipate something too much cause you always end up disappointed. That may the case with me and Samsara Blues Experiment’s newest effort, “Revelation and Mystery”. I found out about these guys only last year from their monumental debut “Long Distance Trip”. Then naturally I was led to listen to their Demo and somewhere along the (short) way the band had me as a fan. So unexpectedly just a few months ago I heard rumors about […]

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Black Cobra is one of those “you can’t go wrong” bands. So far they have 3 on 3 with their albums and this can’t be just a coinsidence. With that being said Black Cobra might have a reputation of not allowing themselves to experiment and evolve! In “Invernal” the Rafa Martinez and Jason Landrian duo taking the sludge style the way High on Fire defined it and evolve it to something more…well brutal if this is possible. In my book […]

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Their 2009’s s/t album was more like a fuzz-based classic stoner and it made Freedom Hawk earn the reputation of the Fu Manchu rip offs. This year they return and now the band looks determined to do something about it! No! The band doesn’t do anything “progressive” and they certainly don’t invent anything new! In “Holding On” the band comes back to the more “appropriate” for them paths of “Sunlight”. And my heart is put into its place. Here we […]

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