High Desert Queen is desert rock band based in Austin, Texas. They started in Houston in 2019 and relocated to Austin a year later. The bio on their website states:  “High Desert Queen was formed when singer Ryan Garney and guitarist Rusty Miller went looking for a rhythm section to help complete some songs they had been working on. The stars...

Monkey3 is an instrumental rock band from Lausanne, Switzerland. They formed in 2001 and have released six full length albums, two EPs, and a live record since that time. Their latest, entitled Welcome To The Machine is their seventh full length album and was released on February 23, 2024. The current lineup of Monkey3 consists of: Walter– drums, Boris –...

Drifting In The Endless Void is the latest album from Borlange, Sweden’s Dozer. The record came out on April 21st,2023. The anticipation I had building up to this release was overwhelming. I have been a huge fan for over two decades and the band had not recorded new material in over fifteen years. They released an EP called Vultures in 2013...

I first came across this band in the summer of 2023. I saw something about them on social media and listened to their first single “Empire” before the release of the record. I was very intrigued by the song and would periodically listen to it, and it started growing on me. I decided to dig deeper into the band and...

The Boston based Kind formed in 2013. The band is a super group of sorts featuring former Elder drummer Matt Couto, former Milligram, Hackman, Roadsaw , Black Pyramids, Slapshot, The Scimitar, and Blackwolfgoat, guitarist Darryl Shepard, former Rozamov bassist Tom Corino, and current Sasquatch (drummer), Roadsaw vocalist, Craig Riggs on the microphone. Close Encounters was released on August 11th, 2023...

Puddy are an indie/stoner/hard rock band from Toronto, Canada. The band formed in the early nineties and this record originally came out in early 2000, I believe. I remember receiving the original CD in the mid 2000’s from All That’s Heavy distribution as a free gift for buying a bunch of merchandise. I was a fan instantly! Puddy have a...

Here is a split release of two bands on Heavy Psych Sounds Records. The album was released on May 17th, 2024 and features Kingston, New York power trio Geezer and Genoa, Italy’s quartet Isaak. The record has seven songs total, the first four from Geezer and the remaining three from Isaak. Geezer starts things off with “Acid Veins” which is...

Astroqueen is a stoner metal band based in Gothenburg, Sweden. They originally formed in 1998 and were first active until around 2005. In 2014, the band reformed and started jamming again until 2017. Finally, in 2022, they got back together once again and started playing shows and festivals. The current lineup includes founding members: Daniel Anghede on vocals and guitar,...

The heavy stoner rock genre has a large inventory of bands nowadays. Every so often a band will slip through the cracks to later be discovered and then you wonder, how did I miss this one? That was certainly the case with me and Black Rainbows. I remember seeing their name often on big fuzz rock music festivals happening overseas...