Category: Album Reviews (2026)

Gjenferd – Black Smoke Rising 

Gjenferd is a heavy rock band from Bergen, Norway. The quartet has a strong classic seventies hard rock sound with psychedelic, stoner, and proto-metal elements mixed in. The driving guitars and heavy keys command their sound with excellent clean vocals leading the charge. The band consists of Jakob Særvoll on keyboard and vocals, Vegard Bachmann Strand on guitar and vocals,...

Desert Collider – Generation Ship: Endless Drift Through Infinity 

Desert Collider is a four-piece heavy psychedelic stoner rock band from Cesena, Italy. Consisting of Federico Costanzo on guitars, vocals, percussio, and synthesizers, Federico Gianfanti on vocals and synthesizers, Manuel Colucci on bass, and Andrea Casagranda on drums and percussion, they released their debut EP, Sonic Carver in 2024. Desert Collider have returned with their latest full length album entitled Generation...

Dirty Dwarfs – Self Titled 

Dirty Dwarfs is a new hard rocking trio featuring Michael Binder on guitars and vocals and Florian Thiele on drums, both from the band Paralyzed. Based in Bamberg, Germany, Dirty Dwarfs is rounded out with Andreas Ködel on bass and began jamming in 2020. The band has a hard driving stoner blues sound that has elements of psychedelic mixed in....

Belzebong – The End Is High 

Belzebong is a long standing instrumental stoner doom band from Kielce, Poland. They formed in 2008 and consist of Sheepy Dude on bass, Alky Dude on guitars, Cheesy Dude on guitars, and Hexy Dude on drums. They have released 2011’s Sonic Scapes & Weedy Grooves, 2013’s Dungeon Vultures EP, 2015’s Greenferno, 2018’s Light The Dankness, and 2021’s De Mysteriis Dope...

Electric Hydra – From The Fallen

Electric Hydra is a heavy rock band from Sweden. Active since 2017, they consist of Sanne Karlsson on vocals,Emil Andersson on guitar and vocals, Adi Selimic on guitar, Ellinor Andersson on bass, and Dennis Åhman on drums. The band has released two full length albums including their 2020 Self Titled debut and their latest sophomore, 2026’s From The Fallen. They...

Oreyeon – The Grotesque Within

Oreyeon is a heavy psychedelic stoner doom band from La Spezia, Italy. The quartet formulates sounds from heavy metal and grunge, with a dark progressive twist of heavy riffs and enchanting melodies. Formed in 2014, Oreyeon features Richard Silvaggio on bass and vocals, Andrea Ricci on guitar, Matteo Signanini on guitar, and Pietro Virgilio on drums. They have released four...

Prophets Of Thwaites – Vulnerant Omnes, Ultima Necat EP

Prophets Of Thwaites are a three-piece heavy psychedelic/ atmospheric doom band from Groningen, Netherlands. Consisting of Esma Larabi on guitar and vocals, Nico Beemster on drums, and Ferry Vermeeren on bass, the band formed in 2024. They released two singles called “Tharlab” and “I Am The Winds” in August of 2025. The name Prophets Of Thwaites came from the collapse...

Jack Harlon & The Dead Crows – Inexorable Opposites

Jack Harlon & The Dead Crows is a Melbourne, Australian based heavy psychedelic/ stoner doom band focusing on the exploits of a fictitious drug-addicted outlaw in the west, named Jack Harlon. The band consists of Tim Coutts-Smith on vocals and guitar, Jordan Richardson on guitar, Liam Barry on bass, and Brayden Becher on drums. Founded in 2015, the band has...

Hermano – Clisson, France

Hermano is a super group of sorts featuring: John Garcia (Kyuss, Sloburn, Unida, Vista Chino, John Garcia & The Band Of Gold, and other solo recordings) on vocals, David Angstrom (Supafuzz , Black Cat Bone, and Luna Sol) on guitar, Dandy Brown (Orquesta del Desierto, John Garcia, Alice Tambourine Lover, Yawning Sons, and Lorquin’s Admiral) on bass, Mike Callahan (Earshot)...

Black Toaster – Astrobird EP

Black Toaster is a three-piece stoner rock band from Bern, Switzerland. Aside from a few singles released between 2021 and 2023, Black Toaster put out a three song EP in 2024 called Flying Rage Machine. They just released their latest EP called Astrobird, on February 17th 2026. It contains six tracks at twenty five minutes long. “Astrobird” is an excellent...