Big Scenic Nowhere is a super group which started from guitarists Bob Balch (Fu Manchu) and Gary Arce (Yawning Man). Balch has had a very busy year making music. He released a debut with his Slayer tribute/ doom project Slower (review here) and has another Slower album coming out in November. Also, his main band Fu Manchu (review here) released...
Welcome to the new Top 5 on Friday post! Every Friday I will feature a top five of my favorite music related topics. I am starting things off with my top five favorite rock albums of 2023. It’s very difficult at times for me to choose my favorite albums because the list can change periodically. For instance, my number three...
I first discovered Karma To Burn from the long defunct stoner rock dot com website. The site had a mp3 jukebox for all the bands they were selling for their All That’s Heavy distribution store. Every record they sold had a sample song you could listen to, to check out new bands and records. I discovered so many bands from...
When I heard the news that Hermano had new material coming out, I was super excited! Ripple Music started reissuing the band’s recordings and from that, we are presented with some new songs to sink our teeth into. Although the album only contains six songs, in which four of them are live, the impact is still incredible. Hermano’s lineup consists...
Blue Heron are from Albuquerque, New Mexico and formed in 2018. Their sound is a mix of stoner, doom, heavy psych, and metal. Their debut album Ephemeral, came out in 2022 on Blues Funeral Recordings. They also released a Split EP with High Desert Queen in 2023 called, Turn To Stone: Chapter 8 the Wake, on Ripple Music. The current...
Exactly one year ago, Greenville, South Carolina/ Richmond, Virginia heavy rockers, Throttlerod unearthed these two songs from the Hell And High Water demos. These songs were recorded in 2002 at Glass Hand Studios before the official recording of Hell And High Water. The tracks sat forgotten for over twenty years until they were recovered in late 2022. The band found...
Psychlona is a British stoner/psychedelic rock band from Bradford, West Yorkshire, in England. The band formed in 2016 and have just released their fourth album called Warped Vision, on Magnetic Eye Records. The prior three records are: 2018’s Mojo Rising, 2020’s Venus Skytrip, and 2022’s Palo Verde. The first two records were released on Ripple Music and the third on...
When my son was born in 2008, I always had rock music playing in his presence (well, almost always). Every time he was in my truck, there was music playing. The music he was exposed to the most was stoner rock, without question. The bands I had playing in my truck when he was four or five years old were:...
I’m not sure how this band got past my heavy rock radar. Being a big fan of the John Garcia fronted band Hermano, I somehow missed out on this one. Luna Sol from Denver, Colorado, features Hermano and Supafuzz guitarist David Angstrom as the frontman and guitarist. The lineup is rounded out with drummer Zeth Pedulla and bassist Doug Tackett....
Brant Bjork is a legend in the stoner/desert rock world. His musical bio reads like a history book. He was the original drummer of Kyuss (on 1991’s Wretch and 1992’s Blues For The Red Sun), played drums in Fu Manchu (on 1997’s The Action Is Go, 1999’s Godzillas/ Eatin’ Dust, 1999’s King Of The Road, and 2021’s California Crossing), played...