Category: Album Reviews (2025)

Motorik Road Trip – V

Motorik Road Trip is an Instrumental three piece band from Bristol, United Kingdom. Their music combines a variety blend of stoner, psychedelic, and doom. The band released a slew of singles in 2023 including: Orange Zilla EP, Hobo Sorcerer / Magic Fang, Arch / Future Primate, and Champa Moon / Astral GTX. They just recently released their debut album called...

Fidel A Go Go – Diss Engaged

Fidel A Go Go is a heavy down-tuned riff rock band from Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. They incorporate elements of progressive, grunge, and stoner rock, which gives the band a varied range of sounds. They formed in 2019 and is made of seasoned musicians, including Duncan Beale on guitar and vocals, Nigel Bishop on guitars, Simon Pamplin on bass and Toby...

Klastos – Born To Ruin

Klastos are a heavy sludgy doom metal band with elements of thrash and hardcore infused within their sound. The band is from Östergötland County, Sweden, and formed in 2020. The lineup consists of Joakim Axelsson on guitar, Marko Harju on guitar, Eric Jenson on bass and vocals, and Steve Mills on drums. The band released a three song EP called...

Land Mammal – Survive The Hive EP

Land Mammal is a heavy rocking Texas based quartet that formed in 2019. They released their debut Self Titled EP that same year. They also have two full length albums, 2021’s Show Your Mind, and 2024’s Emergence. On January 24th 2025, Land Mammal released their latest four song EP called Survive The Hive. The thirteen minute recording is self released...

Dax Riggs – 7 Songs For Spiders

Dax Riggs became known with his incredible vocal dynamics in Acid Bath, one of the most decorated and amazing heavy sludge rock/ metal bands ever. They released two albums, 1994’s When The Kite String Pops and 1996’s Paegan Terrorism Tactics. After Acid Bath, he was in a heavy rock band Agents Of Oblivion and recorded one album, their Self Titled in...

Howling Giant – EP (10th Anniversary Edition)

Howling Giant is a stoner metal/ psychedelic rock band from Nashville, Tennessee. The power trio has been active since 2014 and consists of Tom Polzine on guitar and vocals, Sebastian Baltes on bass, and Zach Wheeler on drums and vocals. The band’s releases are 2015’s Self Titled EP, 2016’s Black Hole Space Wizard: Part 1 EP, 2017’s Black Hole Space...

Puddy – Demagogo

Toronto, Canada’s Indie/ riff rocking legends Puddy, are back with a new album! It has been twenty five years since their landmark debut album, 2000’s Sweetspot was released. In 2023, the band remixed and remastered the album and scaled off a few tracks for a lean and mean vinyl repressing (review here.) It has been over seventeen years since Puddy...

Dunes – Land Of The Blind 

Dunes are a heavy stoner rock trio based in New Castle, in the United Kingdom. The lineup includes John Davies on guitars and vocals, Ade Huggins on bass and vocals, and Nikky Watson on drums. The band’s recordings consist of: 2017’s Dunes EP and Dunes EP 2, 2019’s Take Me To The Nasties, 2022’s Gargoyle, and their latest 2025’s Land...

Godzillionaire – Diminishing Returns 

Godzillionaire is a heavy stoner rock band from Lawrence, Kansas. Their prior releases includes their debut EP, 2017’s The Great DEPression, two full albums, 2018’s Small Change, and 2020’s Negative Balance. The current lineup of Godzillionaire includes Mike Dye on bass, synth, and vocals, Mark Hennessy on lead vocals, Cody Romaine on drums, and Ben White on guitar, synth, and...

TFNRSH – Book Of Circles

TFNRSH is an instrumental psychedelic/ progressive rock band from Tübingen, Germany. Book Of Circles is their latest album, set to be released on January 17th 2025. I was fortunate enough to receive an advanced digital copy from Thomas at Broken Music. The current lineup of TFNRSH is Sasan Bahreini on guitars and synths, Julius Watzl on drums, and Stefan Wettengl...