There have been many great power trios in hard rock music. Typically consisting of guitar, bass, and drums, with vocals from one or more of the members, some of the greatest rock music ever created was produced by power trios. Artists that only feature three members are usually talented and each musician carries on an integral role in formulating the...
Love•Love•Love are a sludgey, post hardcore/ noise rock band from Lübeck, Germany. They just released their debut EP called First Love on November 1st, 2024. The self released four song album is sixteen minutes long of relentless brutality mixed with interesting audio aggression. The band consists of Max on guitar and vocals, Manuel on guitars, Florian on drums, and Maik...
Temple Of The Fuzz Witch is a heavy stoner/ sludge/ doom metal band from Detroit, Michigan. The band formed in 2017 and released a three song EP in early 2018. They currently have three full length albums out including: 2019’s Self Titled, 2020’s Red Tide, and their latest 2024’s Apotheosis, which came out on April 4th on Ripple Music. The...
Puny Human was a hard rock/ stoner band from New York City. Their sound has been compared to older Clutch, mostly due to the vocals sounding similar. The band was active from 1998-2012 and released three full length albums, 2000’s Revenge Is Easy, 2003’s It’s Not The Heat, It’s The Humanity, and 2007’s Universal Freak Out. All three albums were...
Red Fang is an American stoner rock/ metal band from Portland, Oregon. Formed in 2005, the band is composed of guitarist and vocalist Bryan Giles, bassist and vocalist Aaron Beam, guitarist David Sullivan and drummer John Sherman. I first heard the music of Red Fang when I obtained a copy of their 2008 Tour EP 2, released on Wantage Records....
My anticipation for the release of this album was pretty substantial. I have been a huge Lowrider fan since the late nineties when the band did the 1999 Nebula/Lowrider Double EP Split. That being my introduction to Lowrider, it was their masterpiece debut, 2000’s Ode To IO album that had me forever hooked. They were my gateway band into the...
Sometimes when I hear a band or album for the first time, there’s something there that draws my interest but doesn’t initially grab me. I will sometimes listen to a recording several times before the pieces start to fit together. This was the case with the band Spirit Mother and their latest album Trails. I was intrigued with the band...
Cortez is a heavy rock/ stoner metal band from Boston, Massachusetts. The band formed in 2006 and just released their latest album, Thieves And Charlatans on Ripple Music, on October 18th, 2024. The current lineup includes Matt Harrington on vocals, Scott O’Dowd on guitar, Alasdair Swan on guitar, Jay Furlo on bass, and Kyle Rasmussen on drums. Alexei Rodriguez played...
Truckfighters are a band that I have been a fan of since their first full length album. They formed in 2001 and are from Örebro, Sweden. They play stoner/ desert rock and are one the best live bands I have witnessed, on four different occasions. I first heard about the band from the former stoner rock dot com site and...
Emu is a heavy riff rock band from Australia. The bio on their Bandcamp page simply states: “A rock n’ roll power trio hailing from the Sunshine Coast, QLD, Australia. Emu is an explosive sonic hurricane, letting rip cosmic & righteous jams.” I couldn’t agree more! The band totally shreds and create an enormous sound with only three members. The...