Heavy Underground Band & Album reviews: My favorites in Riff rock/ fuzz/ stoner/ doom/ sludge/ heavy psych/ hardcore & metal

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Seum – Parking Life

Seum is a doom n’ bass trio from Montreal, Canada. They play a heavy style of sludge/stoner metal, hardcore, and doom with no guitars! They consist of Gaspard Carrey on vocals, Piotr Ignatowicz on bass, and Frédéric Lepoutre on drums. They released two full length albums thus far, 2021’s Winterized and 2023’s Double Double. They also have a few EPs,...

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Devil Electric – Tahlia

Devil Electric is a four-piece heavy psychedelic, hard rocking, stoner doom band from Melbourne, Australia. They consist of Perinea “Pip” O’Brien on vocals, Christos Athanasias on guitars, Mark Van De Beek on drums, and Nicolas Dumont on bass and vocals. Their recordings include their debut EP, 2016’s The Gods Below, 2017’s Self Titled, 2021’s GODLESS, and their latest, 2026’s Tahlia....

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Astral Wizard – Earthbound 

Astral Wizard is a stoner rock band from Chicago, Illinois. The trio consists of Eric Ervin on vocals, guitar, organ, and drums, Dana “Erv” Ervin on vocals and bass, and Mitch Huffman on vocals, drums, and guitar. They have released 2023’s Self Titled, 2024’s Cosmic Riders EP, 2025’s Reanimated, and their latest, 2026’s Earthbound. Earthbound was released on March 27th 2026...

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Sons Of Gulliver – Tetrahedric Hellscape Cannon

Sons Of Gulliver is heavy stoner rock band from Dallas, Texas. The duo features Justin Potter on bass guitar and vocals, and Dolphin Riot on drums and percussion. The band released some singles starting in 2023, which eventually led to their debut, 2024’s Self Titled EP. They just recently dropped their latest full length debut album, called Tetrahedric Hellscape Cannon,...

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Mientras las abejas duermen – MLAD

Music is a universal language that doesn’t always need to be explained or translated. Although, well over ninety percent of what I do listen to is in the English language, there have been bands in the past that I have really enjoyed but sing in a different language. The heavy rockers Abramis Brama from Sweden, have mostly all of their...

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Purple Lung – Mystic Vision 

Purple Lung is a four-piece stoner/ doom metal band from Pennsylvania. They formed in 2020 and consist of Toni Pennello on vocals and guitars, Simon Beierle on guitars, Max Schmitt on bass, and James Jaskolka on drums. They just released their debut full length album called Mystic Vision, on February 13th 2026, on Landslide Collective. The first thing that really...

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Desert Colossus – Apparatus 

Desert Colossus is a four-piece stoner rock band from Zaandam, Netherlands. They consist of Frank Zoomer on vocals and guitar, Leon van Wijk on guitar and backing vocals, Tom Collé, bass, backing vocals/accordion, and Frank Fey on drums, backing vocals/synths. They have released four full length albums including: 2016’s Self Titled, 2017’s Omnibeul, 2020’s Eyes and Tongues, and their latest,...

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Fuzzing Nation – Mothertruck

Fuzzing Nation is a stoner rock trio from Athens, Greece. Formed in 2022, the band consists of Stavros Giannakos on bass, Terry Moros on drums, and Aggelos Ioannidis on guitar and vocals. They released 2023’s Fuzzing Nation EP, 2024’s Into the Desert EP, and their latest debut full length album, 2026’s Mothertruck. Mothertruck was released on March 27th 2026 on...

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The Crooked Skulls – Midnight Sun 

The Crooked Skulls are a three-piece stoner metal band from New Jersey. They incorporate thick and heavy riffs with thunderous drumming, with plenty of groove. They consist of Pete Koretzky on guitars and vocals, Dave Van Auken on bass and vocals, and Chuck Snyder on drums They put out an EP called HIVEMIND in 2024 and just released their debut...