Modula Nation – The Rift

  

Modula Nation – The Rift
Tonzonen Records – 2026
Rock, Funk, Prog, Metal, Hardcore, Industrial, Space
Rated: ***

In an era obsessed with labels and algorithms, Modula Nation seems determined to tear a rift straight through them. Heehee.. See what we did there? It’s for albums like these that the term crossover must have been invented. The sheer number of genres thrown into the blender is nothing short of astonishing. Even more remarkable is the fact that it all works. Hailing from Graz, Austria, Modula Nation released their debut three-track EP back in 2009. Now they return with The Rift, a record that effortlessly blurs stylistic boundaries. Across its runtime, the band weaves together elements of funk, progressive rock, psychedelia, space rock, metal, hardcore, industrial, synth rock, krautrock, and even pop, creating a sound that is as adventurous as it is cohesive.

With The Rift they mark their territory, they piss on convention and set the tone as a genre-defying rock act. It’s a bold high energy sound that embraces all that the word crossover might stand for. Inventive arrangements, dynamic on all fronts, balancing funky groove, progressive structuring, moments or riffage and atmospheric textures with a highly danceable and fun attitude. The Rift, Silicon Carne and the expansive Soul Fever all showcase the band’s versatility and commitment to push musical boundaries. Or the Faith No More inspired Shred. And we can only praise the more experimental moments that offset all that pop sensible movement. The reward comes later, after a few sessions with The Rift… For they refuse every musical rulebook. The band transforms unpredictability into an addictive journey that reveals something new with every spin…

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Stoner HiVe's Quick Fire Weekend

 

 

Stoner HiVe's Quick Fire Weekend

What is this that stands before me? It’s one of those fabled Quick Fire Weekends! That’s right… You knew about those Friday sessions, but once in a full moon, and all the planets align, this thing might just happen. A Quick Fire Weekend! Meant to spread the word on all that good stuff out there! And we know… There is so much out there, so much good and heavy stuff, and we just simply cannot ever do it all justice. But here it is… Another Saturday edition of Stoner HiVe's Quick Fire Weekend! And it burns hot like molten lava!

Molior Superum – Spegeln

We love Molior Superum! And have loved these cats ever since Myspace was still a thing! So, when they shoved Spegeln our way, we had it on repeat in no time! Exceptionally groovy, powerful, energetic and riveting! It’s the first single for the Från Gryning till Skymning album that will be released somewhere near October/November. What a blast off for this Quick Fire Weekend! Spegeln is high-voltage seventies psychedelia, blues-drenched stoner rock and grimy garage swagger all melted into a wild, groove-heavy sonic assault. Fueled by frantic vocals, explosive riffs and relentless boogie rhythms, their sound feels both vintage and dangerous. Like a lost rock classic detonating in real time through blown-out amplifiers!

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Molior Superum – Electric Escapism

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Molior Superum – Into The Sun

Molior Superum – Towards The Haze

Méchant Colosse - Big Au Japon

This new single will hopefully also be added to their bandcamp site soon. Bass and drums doom duo from the Canadian wastelands of Montreal, Québec. It’s Méchant Colosse and the four track EP this track will be featured on is set to be released after the summer. Sludgy, doom metal that has a certain 'je ne sais quoi'. Mysteriously good, and apparently big in Japan!

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Bog – Incubant

There are many bogs around the world and many are worth it to get totally stuck in! But the new four-piece from Ghent, Belgium mixing post-metal, sludge and heavy psych is definitely the kind of quagmire to fall in love with. They make it swampy, or use their aggressive side or let it all escape the murk and have their melodies float above the treacle… This Bog is good! 

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Godzilla In The Kitchen – Nothing For None

The new Godzilla In The Kitchen album will be out on Tonzonen Records somewhere in October. But right now you can join the rampage with the first single Nothing For None! Ever more proggy, ever more metal, it is their alternative groove that will surely pull you in. And with the bass player stepping up to do the vocals Godzilla has turned into a smoke-belching beast, high on stoner grooves, progressive detours and furious social paranoia. Simon Ulm howls from the eye of the storm while the riffs grind forward like riot tanks through a psychedelic fever dream!

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Her Name Was Fire – Obsidian Light

I miss Portugal often. Lisbon as well. All my times there was pure fire. So I get the name! An EP filled with fuzzed-out grooves, swaggering hooks and amplifier smoke pouring from every crack. Her Name Was Fire rides the line between Queens of the Stone Age cool and psychedelic overload, whipping massive choruses into a wild, sweat-soaked heavy-rock communion. And there’s only two of them!! Wild stuff! For wild Lisbon nights! 

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Jangal – Stolen Places

It arrived through Snowhite PR, the new psychedelic single Stolen Places by Jangal. Berlin-based New Zealander Brodie White is responsible for your lust to start wandering through a collapsing shopping mall at 2AM with sparks falling from the ceiling and someone preaching doom through a broken karaoke machine. Brodie twists post-punk tension, urban decay and strange neon melancholy into a hypnotic crawl through the cracked soul of transactional modern existence. Wait what?

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Dead Hits – Real Love

Echodelick Records rules! But you already knew that! Originally released in 2025, the Real Love is a five track by Dead Hits. A Brooklyn-based stoner rock band delivering volume, grit, and groove straight from the underground, featuring former members of NAAM and La Otracina. Well, Dead Hits seem to stumble out of the New York psychic smog clutching fuzz-drenched riffs, wah-pedal hallucinations and garage-rock napalm. Real Love howls like a subway exorcism at sunrise! Acid-soaked psych, gutter-punk swagger and amplifier worship colliding in a glorious, feedback-screaming riot somewhere between cosmic revelation and total nervous collapse. Glorious! 

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Bismut – Matsutake

 

 

Bismut – Matsutake
Tonzonen Records – 2026
Instrumental, Rock, Psychedelic
Rated: *****

At first it feels like wandering into a clearing you weren’t meant to find… Spores immediately circling all around you, the sound quickly rising from the ground, tangled and alive! Bismut’s new album Matsutake, immediately takes root… It grows, spreading through dense looping riffs that never feel constructed, but discovered. Like something foraged rather than written, their heaviness emerges from repetition and patience. Each riff circling back, each pattern thickening, blossoming… 

There is a pulse beneath it all, for at their core lies a deep commitment to heavy, riff-driven structures, dense, circling patterns that anchor everything in a raw, physical intensity. Opening track Alienation immediately being a prime example. Steady, insistent and communal, the trio move as if one, listening closely to one another, following subtle shifts and allowing the music to breathe and sprawl. What begins as a single idea stretches outwards into something unpredictable. You can hear on record that the live animal is even wilder. Grooves deepen, rhythms fracture and then suddenly, cohere again. It’s a process. A process of getting there. A process of becoming rather than arriving. 

Sticking to tone, adding to the menace, following track Neugier’s primary impulse remains physical and direct: groove, repetition, and impact. The band thrives on endurance, patiently building and sustaining energy until it becomes all consuming. Going live Friday the 17th (HERE), it’s the logical second single, building around the weight of their sound. Traces of the atmospheric and the exploratory linger like spores in the air, psychedelic hues, fleeting moments of drift, never overtaking the terrain. The ground remains firm, physical, driven by the ritual of the riff and the rhythm. And as we near the end and the movement slows… We soon get whirled around, in a dervish fashion until break down. And once again, you can hear it become absolute ferocious on stage somewhere.

Assemblage follows, starts like the desperate moment of respite needed. Touches of jazz-like wandering and atmospheric sketching, turn the vista upside down. But soon the drums get this nervous edge. And in the upside down world, the war between control and surrender commences. They build patiently, endure within the groove, and trust the unfolding, the polyphonic jazz lines sprouting beneath, the industrial reverberations echoing the darkness that hides within machines. It feels raw, forceful and like some sort of last stand. And we’re only halfway through…

They keep up the pace, the energy, the overarching tones and feelings during the other three tracks as well. Showcasing what drives the Bismut three, their true character, a balance of exploration and force, guided by instinct and driven by the power of the riff. And in that persistence, their music ceases to be a performance and becomes an ecosystem. That’s why there’s something fitting in the way Matsutake echoes the spirit of The Mushroom at the End of the World book by Anna Tsing. Both seem to emerge from desperate margins, places shaped by collapse, unpredictability, and the absence of structure. The music, like the mushroom, does not impose itself on the landscape. It listens, adapts, and grows in response to what’s there. Riffs feel like traces of something uncovered, as if the spores were always waiting beneath the surface.

In that sense, the album that releases through Tonzonen Records on April 24th, carries a kind of fragile resilience. It thrives not despite uncertainty, but because of it. The grooves stretch and persist, forming temporary worlds that feel communal and fleeting at once. Moments of connection arise, dissolve, and leave behind only a lingering sense of having witnessed something spectacular. The Bismut three seem to share an understanding that beauty does not require control or perfection. Instead, it exists in the entanglement, in the improvisation, the repetition, the patient act of staying with something as it becomes. What Bismut seem to capture is that same quiet truth… Even in fragmented spaces, among the wreckage and the ruins, something beautiful can still grow, stubborn and luminous.

(Written by JK)

Check out the first single Alienation now and be ready for the full Matsutake album on April 24th! 

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Stoner Hive’s Quick Fire Friday

 

Stoner Hive’s Quick Fire Friday

We've arrived on yet another final Friday of the month and we are treated once again to a Quick Fire Friday all done in famous Ronny Dijksterhuis style! Which means, this will get hot and heavy from here on in! You ready? 

For old time's sake I'm listening to AC/DC's 'The Razor's Edge' for the first time in years. Cool riffage, memorable tunes, just the right amount of grit and best listened to when the volume is turned up to 11, decibel meters living in the red constantly, the risk of sound distortion and blown-up speakers lurking around the corner. Exactly what we aim for with Quick Fire Friday: destroying your sound system, your ears and your reputation as the perfect neighbour in one go, smashing your thirst (or what's left of it) for doing everything within the confinements of society's strive for political correctness to smithereens. Yes, this is another one of those moments to start the weekend the right way with a bunch of new, (un)known songs and forgotten gems. So, to speak with that AC/DC classic that's about to start right now while writing these very words: "Are you ready for a good time?". A rhetorical question of course, because I bet you are and I know you'll be as blown away as us by the goodies listed below.

 

Trance Bill - Violent Impulsive Primitive

Trance Bill (Rodolphe of Mud Spencer) unleashed a surprising debut album last year and is already back with a follow up. The EP, titled 'Violent Impulsive Primitive' is exactly that and brings his stonerized, surfed-up psych rock garage punk to another level, drenched in some of the nastiest fuzz you've ever heard. Another great release rising from the Indonesian soil.

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 Freedom Run - Soul Eater

Also from Indonesia comes another solo project called Freedom Run, a name more likely than not taken from the Kyuss song with the same name. Some shoes to fill, but Ghifari Hakim delivers ear-shattering, groove-driven stoner metal with a doom undercurrent that hands out punch after punch without giving you any room to breathe for the entire running time of the four track debut EP 'Soul Eater'. Great stuff and maybe there's a possibility to see Freedom Run live at some point, given the fact there are two full band rehearsal video's on Hakim's YouTube page. As the slogan goes: to be continued...

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Mauled - When Your Eyes Are Shut

We get into even heavier territory with Mauled's low-tuned blackened sludge that leapfrogs the act of throwing punches and aims straight for your throat with a spiked belt, choking you to submission while violently belting in your face, spit drooling from the mouth of death. Even though what's being said gets drowned in an overdose of indecipherable screams and growls, you will exactly know what to do: drop to your knees and bow to the lords of aggression before you get mauled even more.

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Okay You Win – Smoke

'Smoke' is the lead single from 'End of Days', the upcoming debut album by London rockers Okay You Win. It's an organic blend of British metal from the eighties, nineties grunge and dusty desert rock, but above all a great song played to perfection as it flows smoothly from section to section, from head-nodding up-tempo grooves to moments of restraint and back again with a singer who can deliver the goods in every way. A stunning preview for what promises to be an incredible album if the other songs can match the quality of 'Smoke'.

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High Fade – Swamp

High Fade isn't a band that makes a lot of music fit for Stoner HiVe and on their new single 'Swamp' they start out as the funky rockband they are. But during the guitar solo it veers into heavy psych territory before ending with a damp, sweaty stoner groove. And all of that in less than three and a half minutes. I personally love this song and expect you might too.

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Pussy Miel - Don't Know

On their Bandcamp page these French ladies proclaim that Pussy Miel stands for the brute energy of punk, the heavy drowsiness of stoner and the sweet taste of honey. That more or less fits the bill, although the only real stoner song on their new ep 'Bee Raged' is the opening track titled 'Don't Know' - a very good song that shows they're at their best when laying down those catchy stoner grooves with a bit of female flair. Hopefully there'll be more of that in the future. But, to be fair and give them the credit they deserve, the other five songs aren't bad either (pretty good actually). If you like punk noise with a ragged edge from time to time, we highly recommend checking out the entire ep.

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Creek Devil - Boot Scootin' in Blood

Fuck, how could we at Stoner HiVe have missed out on Creek Devil's 'Boot Scootin' in Blood' EP way back in October 2025? Because this is some heavy southern stoner metal in the vein of Borgo Pass, Down and Corrosion of Conformity, coming at you like a supercharged bulldozer flattening the Appalachian Mountains in their home state of Tennessee while wielding bottles of illegal liquor and shooting at the hats of innocent bystanders with a Colt .45. Oh yeah, their take on ZZ Top's 'Tush' is damn fine too.

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BLKE – Heat

Last year Berlin-based British band BLKE surprised us with their debut EP 'Living Without Expectations' consisting of five noise and psych rock songs skirting the borders of kraut. It's no  surprise they got picked up by the famed Tonzonen Records where you can find the best of the best in the German music scene. 'Heat' is a repetitive, hypnotic, mind-bending psychedelic krautrock masterpiece and the second single from their upcoming full length album, simply titled BLKE, set for release in May 2026.

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The Heavy Eyes - Troublesome Priest

The Heavy Eyes from Memphis, Tennessee have always been kind of an up and down affair. Sometimes playing heavy, fuzzed-out bluesy stoner that bursts with energy, but ever so often missing the mark when the spark isn't quite there. Therefore we were over the moon hearing their brand new single 'Troublesome Priest'. One of their grittiest tunes where the blues growls, the desert fuzz stings and the muddy swamp sucks you in. A burning hot appetiser for their new album 'Focus' (street date: June 12th 2026).

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Phantom Logic – Glyphwave

And to round things off, here's something you've all been waiting for without knowing it. Just a few days ago Glory or Death Records announced the debut album from Phantom Logic by releasing the single 'Glyphwave'. Heavy psychedelic rock with a hint of stoner and a freedom that brings to mind the greatest jam bands in the history of mankind. Not strange considering Isaiah Mitchel from Earthless is one of the band members. And to arguably give an even more accurate description of what's on offer here, let's cite the promo poster for the album: this is "beauty and chaos, held together by guitars". We couldn't have said it any better.

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No Man’s Valley - Chrononaut Cocktailbar / Flight of the Sloths

 

 

No Man’s Valley - Chrononaut Cocktailbar / Flight of the Sloths
Tonzonen Records – 2024
Rock, Psych, Blues
Rated: *****

Chrononaut Cocktailbar / Flight of the Sloths is the third No Man’s Valley album and also the third album we have some Free Bandcamp Codes for. A double edge sword, two sides of an awesome vinyl coin. One side filled with short, quirky, rock noir and highly atmospheric songs. While the other side is filled with one long psychedelic, ever flowing, ever floating adventure… And all of it is brilliant! Two mini albums in one, said Jasper Hesselink, the incredibly talented vocalist of No Man’s Valley. Those shorter songs, all with a desperate groov and swing, have the ability to rock you with this estranged dark and noir atmosphere. And then there’s Flight Of The Sloths, a no holds barred adventure and exploration of the space and psych rock realm. Almost twenty minutes long they crawl and float through sky, that slowly transforms from peaceful blue into a tempestuous squall. Beautiful! (Just like that awesome video for it!) But personally I’m so much in love with those shorter songs with their eccentric experiences and goosebump shivers. Those first three songs for instance, they change color and style with no reserve, yet through an overarching atmosphere, all feel like one beautiful circus tent ring. An ouroboros of crazy images, funny ideas and scary characters.

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No Man’s Valley – Outside The Dream

 

 

No Man’s Valley – Outside The Dream
Tonzonen Records – 2019
Rock, Psych, Blues
Rated: *****

And yes, we also have Free Bandcamp Codes for the No Man’s Valley sophomore album Outside The Dream. An album released through Tonzonen Records back in 2019 and which we reviewed back then and you can read it in full HERE. But to save you the trouble of clicking on that link, here’s the gist of it! “We’ve been spinning the shit out of it for the past months, slowly getting more immersed in the dream. Slowly losing all sense of the outside world. ‘Psychedelic blues infused organ wave rock’, quite a lovely description by the band itself. But it has so much more! It aims for the stratosphere with certain elements without ever becoming too spacey and it surges through all kinds of nooks and crannies to serve up an entirely own universe. A heavy and thick universe with depth and width. The atmosphere is so compelling, it transports you to ringside seats at a twisted carnival or will have you trapped inside a tin can that might be floating around in outer space or deep beneath the ocean. Who knows? It might just all be a dream. It is without a doubt based on the blues rock of yore and the psychedelic transformation that happened in the seventies.” And Outside The Dream still manages to do just that listening now, five years later. In fact, it reminds us we should listen to it on a regular basis…

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Acid Rooster – Hall of Mirrors

 

 

Acid Rooster – Hall of Mirrors
Tonzonen Records / Cardinal Fuzz / Little Cloud Records – 2024
Rock, Psych, Kraut, Space, Instrumental
Rated: *****

Arriving on October 25th through a trio of labels, namely Tonzonen Records, Cardinal Fuzz and Little Cloud Records, the brand new Acid Rooster album Hall of Mirrors. And if you know any of their earlier releases you know you will be tripping balls within no time! Cause Hall of Mirrors will have you see every reflection of every possible universe as you dance yourself into a frenzy. It’s a through the wormhole kind of experience and it keeps amazing me how much the instrumental psychedelic kraut rock albums are still able to deliver that experience. For there are many and many of them are good, Acid Rooster is one of the best! Automat opens the ball, momentary echoes of eighties rock, turn into space rock and propellant for a trip through the many iterations of the kraut vibrations. Highly energetic, extremely danceable, the shortest track, almost six minute long, with glittering noises at one point, sets you up in perfect style for the rest of the album. For what follows is the longest one, clocking in at more than fourteen minutes, called Chandelier Arp. The glittering turns into a shimmering diamond of brilliance. Boldly building and leisurely lifting the entire composition into an outer worldly trajectory. And as you float in a sea stars, the embrace you feel will be warm and cocoon like, and the smile will be yours and will be one of surrender and euphoria. Both of them show a lesser experimental side of Acid Rooster perhaps, but in doing so give the listener the trip they’ve been longing for. Even if they weren’t longing for it at first glance, one look through the glass will make them see the time they did chance to explore their inner workings by travelling outwards. Third track Confidence of Ignorance, turns a bit of an oriental and meditative corner, turning towards the other side of transcendental music. And even though the title might suggest otherwise, this track feels its paying homage to the pearl in the lotus. Perhaps that is the key here, that salvation and enlightenment might be found in ignorance. The music naturally flowing through your meridians will give you a sense of healing and regeneration, vibrating at the right frequency, this almost eleven minute long drowsy psychedelic, kraut and space rocking beauty will make you feel lost and at the same time find yourself finally feeling at home within yourself. Transcendental minimalism reaches its peak with the final fourth track When Clouds Part. Especially during that focused opening section, that shows you vibrant fast forward blossoming, like a multitude of Sakura trees going full bloom in minutes. Its beautiful and given the state you are in, might bring a tear to your eye. There is no shortage of beauty to be found on this album, it resonates and reverberates in every corner of Hall of Mirrors.

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Stoner HiVe’s Quick Fire Friday

 

 

Stoner HiVe’s Quick Fire Friday

Hi my fellow heavy music fiends! It’s been awhile… A while since we did a Quick Fire Friday segment! And with the new Doom Charts Peroration post coming online later on, there will be tons of music for everyone to dig into! Can you handle the deluge? Well, we’ll keep the amount of words about the list below to a minimum. And we know… There is so much out there, so much good and heavy stuff, and we just simply cannot ever do it all justice. But here it is… Another Stoner HiVe Quick Fire Friday! And it burns hot like molten lava!

Orme – No Serpents, No Saviours

And all those times I visited Hertfordshire, I never knew it was bristling with all this heavy underground talent! But Orme (not the Toulouse, France one) is yet another outfit from that area, and they bring you ten ton heaviness in glorious form! The form of a one track, almost twenty-five minute long, death-doom No Serpents, No Saviours. Coming out on August 23rd, this is one big droning extravaganza that will decimate and leave you weak and weary. The unholy whispers being the only respite keeping you from the absolute end of your tether…

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Aten – Aten

Australian experimental metal with a droning edge, sludge tones, grindcore and post-metal influences. That’s the Aten project that releases it’s  debut album through Lint Music. Which is only logical since the man behind this project is Brad Hayne the founder of Lint Music founder and Cell Temple. Not to be confused with the death metal outfit Aten from Iceland or the other death metal one from Albania. A lot of Aten, and this Aten is a lot! Not completely wasted by listening to Orme yet?  Well, dive into Aten and be totally obliterated…

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Vibravoid – On Empty Streets

Out. Just now! The new single and video On Emptry Streets by psychedelic stalwarts Vibravoid! Taken from their new We Cannot Awake album out August 23rd through Tonzonen Records. It’s their own tasty mixture of neo-kraut and psychedelic rock, urging beats with an eighties touch and signals coming in from a not too distant future or neighboring dimension, dystopian and estranging. But very captivating!

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Ghost Frog – Shadow Club

More dystopia for you all! This time coming in from the Portland four named Ghost Frog! The first single Shadow Club for their Galactic Mini Golf album coming out November 5, 2024. A bit of grunge and that lazy nineties alternative, some psych and high fidelity head nod that will surely make you buy multiple copies of this single.

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Volume – Joy of Navigation

Patrick Brink (Fu Manchu), Ed Mundell (Monster Magnet), Mike Amster (Nebula, Spoon Benders), Dave Catching, now there’s a list of names that will run a fever instantaneously! It’s Volume and their new single Joy of Navigation of the album with the same name. It comes out November 1st through Golden Robot Records and Kozmik Artifactz. Recorded at Rancho De La Luna it had that desert punk vibe as much as nods back to the sixties. Infectious and kicking out every kind of jam!

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In Ashes – Burned & Disposed

Guadalajara, Mexico seems to be a well of inspiration and a cesspool of gritty doom. In Ashes is a new four piece founded in 2023 and Burned & Disposed is their debut two-track release. A filthy atmosphere filled with despair, portrayed by traditional doom and always metal toned. And then they suddenly add this otherworld guitar part in Arson. And open up with all their abilities even more during the majestic Day One track. I need to call Rob Hammer to get him to nail this down!

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Your Highness - Fire To The Storm

Out for a month or two, it naturally escaped out attention cause we were on an off grid holiday! But luckily, Your Highness always finds a way to crawl back into your blood! And Fire To The Storm will not just set fire to the storm, but also your blood and soul! Stoner metal, hardcore elements, sludge toned and absolutely wonderful. It’s the first single to the new album Under The Weight, coming out October 11th on Polderrecords.

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No Man’s Valley – Flight Of The Sloths

 

 

 

No Man’s Valley – Flight Of The Sloths

They’re actually two mini albums in one, that new No Man’s Valley record. One album is called Chrononaut Cocktailbar and features six shorter songs and the other one is called Flight Of The Sloths and is one huge almost twenty minute long song. And they’ve just put out this amazing video for it! So beautiful!

 

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The Legendary Flower Punk – Wabi Wu

The Legendary Flower Punk – Wabi Wu

Self released / Tonzonen Records – 2019

Rock, Prog, Jazz, Space, Fusion, New Wave, Drum n Bass

Rated: ***

Looking for something different? Something that might blossom like a rock flower in your head? Like kaleidoscopic petals full of jazz and space? Well, Wabi Wu is blessed which such fecund richness that one could easily believe that whatever you planted in the minds of The Legendary Flower Punk band, it would definitely burst full of passion into a wild and uncontrollable flowerbed! The instrumental prog, jazz, spacey fusion seems endowed with an astonishing fertility. It feels like a space age opera, a romp and stomp through space and time, myth and legend. There seems to be no limit to all the jam-like compositions; it will make your head expand and your heart explode with exalted adoration for the folk involved. It’s a core of three with a multitude of guest spots; Ed Wynne of Ozric Tentacles being one of them. No holds barred, let it all loose! Buy the ticket… Take the ride…

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Psychic Lemon – Live at The Smokehouse

Psychic Lemon – Live at The Smokehouse

Tonzonen Records – 2019

Rock, Instrumental, Psych, Kraut, Space

Rated: ****

I’ve had a powerful lust for psychedelic rock of late. Especially those that move towards the kraut and space environments. In comes, right on time, the new live album by London trio Psychic Lemon. The name alone should already evoke strange memories of twisted acid nights that might not have even happened. Recorded at The Smokehouse, Ipswich on the 10th of August 2018 the album is comprised out of two sides that feature instrumental tracks from the band’s most recent album Frequency Rhythm Distortion Delay on one side and two unreleased tracks on the other side. One of them being a tribute to their number one fan Johnny Marvel who sadly passed away. “A good friend of the band, Jonny was the MC at the band’s first gig, DJ’d at a number of subsequent gigs, and housed the Psychic Studio in his garden. He is woven into the fabric of the Psychic Lemon story.” Righteous folk, these Psychic Lemon freaks. You can tell by the words they choose and the honor they give their late friend. And it’s a great and wild track as well. As if they are truly providing the soundtrack for Mr. Marvel’s trek through the universe, multiverse and whatever plain he is currently traversing. A fuzz heavy, distortion rich tunnel of pure ecstasy which then slowly dissipates and turns into White Light, the end track on the album. A perfect transition and what a way to end the former song and album. Masterfully executed and timed to exquisite excellence!

(Written by JK)

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