Crobot is hard rocking/ stoner metal band from Pottsville, Pennsylvania. Formed in 2011, they have released five full length albums including: 2014’s Something Supernatural, 2016’s Welcome To Fat City, 2019’s Motherbrain, 2022’s Feel This, 2024’s Obsidian, and their latest, 2026’s Supermoon. The band consists of Brandon Yeagley on lead vocals and harmonica, Chris Bishop on guitars and backing vocals, Willie...
Live at Taffeta Music Hall in Lowell, Massachusetts USA *May 23rd 2026* This past Saturday night I went to an amazing show at a club in Lowell, Massachusetts. I was not familiar with this venue and my perception was totally off. I was initially thinking that it was a small theater type with seating. To my delight, it ended up...
Witch Ripper is a heavy metal band from Seattle, Washington that incorporates progressive, stoner, sludge, and hard rock into their sound. The quartet consists of Curtis Parker on vocals and guitar, Chad Fox on guitar and vocals, Brian Kim on bass, and Joe Eck on drums. Formed in 2012, the band have released 2012’s Self Titled EP, 2018’s Homestead, 2023’s...
Robot God is a heavy psychedelic stoner rock band from Sydney, Australia. They consist of Matt Allen on bass, vocals, and synth, Raff Iacurto on guitar, vocals, and synth, and Tim Pritchard on drums and synth. They have released: 2020’s Silver Buddha Dreaming, 2022’s Valleys of Primordia EP, 2022’s Worlds Collide, 2024’s Portal Within, 2024’s Subconscious Awakening, 2025’s Robot God...
Bismut is a progressive/ heavy psychedelic instrumental rock band from Nijmegen, Netherlands. The trio consists of Peter Dragt on drums, Huibert der Weduwen on bass, and Nik Linders on guitars. They have released their debut album, 2018’s Schwerpunkt, 2020’s Retrocausality, 2023’s Ausdauer, and their latest, 2026’s Matsutake. Matsutake was released on April 24th 2026 on Tonzonen Records and contains six...
White Tundra is a hard stoner rock band from Trondheim, Norway. They consist of Steven Kresin on guitar and vocals, Kjell Andres Nilsen on lead guitar and vocals, Øyvind Persvik on bass, and Ola Fuglevaag on drums. Active since 2018, they have released: 2020’s Graveyard Blues EP, 2023’s Self Titled, and their latest sophomore, 2026’s Stories From The Dark. Stories...
Gurthworm are a four-piece stoner/ hard rock band from Charlotte, North Carolina. They consist of Jared Nuzzo on vocals and guitar, Matthew “Hippo” Pascale on bass, Greg Philbeck on guitar, and Steve Poe on drums. The band released an EP in 2023 called Scoleciphobia. They just dropped their latest EP entitled Circumference on April 17th 2026. It contains five tracks...
Birds Of Vale is a four-piece heavy rock band from Athens, Greece. They consist of Anthony Kyritsis on vocals, Lazaros Kangelidis on guitar, Kostis Papagiannopoulos on bass, and Nikos Manatos on drums. They released their debut album, Limbo in 2024 and just released their latest sophomore album, 2026’s Dimensions. Dimensions came out on April 23rd 2026 on Sungun Records and...
Elefus is an alternative stoner/ progressive/ psych rock band from Australia. They consist of Scott Cook on lead guitars and vocals, Matt Augustyn on drums, Mark Matthews on rhythm guitar, and Dan Eldano Brown on bass. They just released their debut full length album entitled Time To Bend on April 17th 2026. It contains nine tracks at fifty minutes long. ...
Stepmother is a Melbourne, Australian punk and hard rock trio, consisting of Graham Clise on guitar and vocals, Lee Parker on drums, and Robert Muinos on bass. The band’s releases include 2022’s Self Titled debut EP, 2023’s Planet Brutalicon, and their latest sophomore album, 2026’s Absurdus Manifestus. Graham Clise was the guitarist for underground legends, Annihilation Time, and Stepmother’s music...