Category: Album Reviews (2026)

Kaleidobolt – Karakuchi 

Kaleidobolt are a stoner rock power trio from Helsinki, Finland who blend psychedelic, retro, and progressive rock, with punk and fuzz. Formed in 2014, the band consists of Sampo Kääriäinen on guitars, lead vocals, and keyboards, Marco Menestrina on bass, vocals, keyboards, and percussion, and Mårten Gustafsson on drums. They have released five full length albums including: 2015’s Self Titled,...

Stonus – Space To Dive 

Stonus is a stoner rock band that originated in Cyprus and now resides in the United Kingdom. Active since 2015, the band have released 2017’s Supertrip EP, 2018’s Lunar Eclipse EP, 2020’s Aphasia, 2021’s Séance EP, 2024’s Live in Zen, and their latest, 2026’s Space To Dive. The five-piece consists of Kyriacos Frangoulis on vocals, Nikolas Frangoulis on guitar, Pavlos...

Yeast Machine – Bad Milk 

Yeast Machine is an alternative stoner rock/ grunge band from Tübingen, Germany. Since 2021, the five-piece has released: 2021’s Behind The Dead End EP – Studio Live Session, 2023’s Rise of the Yeast EP, 2024’s SLEAZE, and their latest, 2026’s Bad Milk. They have also released various singles throughout their career also. The band consists of Benjamin Frenzel on vocals...

Kal-El – Astral Voyager, Vol. 2

Kal-El is a stoner rock band from Stavanger, Norway. The music is a combination of hard rock and heavy metal with fuzzed out elements of psychedelic, doom, and blues. The band formed in 2012 and consists of: Bjørn Harald “Bjudas” Stornes on drums, Ståle “Captain” Rodvelt on vocals, Kristoffer “Doffy” Ranaweera on guitar, Joshua “Josh” Bisama on guitar, and Bjørn...

Cowboys & Aliens – Finis Temporum 

Cowboys & Aliens is a stoner metal band from Bruges, Belgium. Formed in 1996, the quartet consists of Henk Vanhee on vocals, John Pollentier on guitar, Peter Gaelens on drums, and Tom Neirynck on bass. Their discography includes: 1997’s League of Fools, 2000’s A Trip to The Stonehenge Colony, 2002’s Love Sex Volume, 2005’s Language of Superstars, 2011’s Sandpaper Blues...

Black Lung – Forever Beyond 

Black Lung is a heavy psychedelic stoner doom rock band from Baltimore, Maryland. Formed in 2014, they have released five full length albums to date: 2014’s Self Titled, 2016’s See The Enemy, 2019’s Ancients, 2022’s Dark Waves, and their latest 2026’s Forever Beyond. The lineup consists of: Dave Cavalier on guitar, vocals, and mellotron, Elias Schutzman on drums, percussion, mellotron,...

Clouds Taste Satanic – Berlin 2023

Clouds Taste Satanic are a heavy psychedelic, instrumental stoner/ doom band from New York. The quartet formed in 2013 and consist of Steve Scavuzzo on guitar, Brian Bauhs on guitar, Greg Acampora on drums, and Rob Halstead on bass. They have released eleven full length albums so far, including: 2014’s To Sleep Beyond the Earth, 2015’s Your Doom Has Come,...

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....