Welcome to another Top 5 on Friday post! Every Friday I list my five favorite music related topics that mostly relate to riff rock bands and musicians. Today I will be discussing current vocalists that perform in more than one band. I needed to narrow this down a bit because there are many fantastic singers in heavy rock music today...
Live at the Jewel Music Venue in Manchester, New Hampshire, USA *November 20th 2024* The timing of seeing the Temple Of The Fuzz Witch live couldn’t have been any better. On November 11th, I posted a review of the band’s latest album Apotheosis (review here) after discovering them a couple of weeks prior. I was extremely impressed with their sound...
Rifflord are a stoner metal band from Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The band formed in 2007 and released their latest album on Ripple Music, June 21st 2024. Entitled 39 Serpent Power, this is the band’s third full length album. The current lineup for Rifflord is Wyatt Bronc on bass and vocals, Douglas Jennings Barrett on drums, Tory Jean Stoddard on...
Slower are back with another album, the second one in the same year! What started as a side project of doing Slayer songs in a “slower” and doomier fashion, the band return with another six tracks. Slower has decided to write and record original material this time around too. Rage And Ruin features two Slayer songs, the ten minute colossal version...
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...