Welcome to another segment of the Top 5 On Friday’s special Planet Desert Rock series. As we loom closer (less than a month away!) to the festival weekend, I have two more segments to post. You can read about the journey from the past three posts about Planet Desert Rock here (part 1, part 2, and part 3). Well, there...
Pale Horse Ritual is a heavy fuzzed-out doom metal wrecking machine from Hamilton, Ontario, in Canada. The band consists of: Paco on bass, vocals, acoustic, guitar, James Matheson on lead guitar, Will Adams on rhythm guitar, backing vocals, and keys, and Jonah Santa-Barbara on drums. Their put out an EP in 2024 called Enchantress, and just released their debut full...
Stone Nomads is a heavy power trio from Houston, Texas. They began in 2021, and incorporate a mix of stoner, doom, metal, sludge, and hard driving rock. They have currently released 2022’s Field Of Dreams, 2024’s Beyond The Gates EP, 2024’s …At The Gates Of Solittude, and their latest, 2025’s Empires Of Stone. The band consists of Jon Cosky on...
Bask is a heavy psychedelic stoner rock band from Asheville, North Carolina. Formed in 2012, the band has released four full length albums including: 2014’s American Hollow, 2017’s Ramble Beyond, 2019’s III, and their latest 2025’s The Turning. The current lineup consists of Zeb Camp on guitar and vocals, Ray Worth on guitar, Jesse Van Note on bass, and Scott...
Orange Goblin are a hard rocking stoner metal band from London, England. Formed in 1995, the band have released ten full length studio albums and a couple of live ones. They have decided to call it a day and retire after a thirty year career as a driving force in the heavy underground music scene. I can’t express enough the...
Suncraft are a five-piece band from Oslo, Norway. Playing a heavy octane of hard driving rock, the band mixes in an array of different styles into their sound. Their debut album, Flat Earth Rider was released in 2021. They just put out their sophomore album called Welcome To The Coven on November 21st 2025. Suncraft consists of Rasmus Skage Jensen...
Winds Of Neptune are a three-piece hard rock band from Detroit, Michigan. Featuring Ross Westerbur on bass and vocals, Kevin Roberts on guitar, and Mike Alonso on drums, the trio formed during the Covid pandemic of 2020. Being sidelined from the global lockdown, the band features members from Flogging Molly, 500 Ft. Of Pipe, and The Meatmen. Winds Of Neptune...
Spaceslug is a three-piece cosmic stoner doom band from Wroclaw, Poland. Consisting of Bartosz Janik on guitars and vocals, Jan Rutka on bass and vocals, and Kamil Ziółkowski on drums and vocals, the band formed in 2015. Their album releases includes 2016’s Lemanis, 2017’s Time Travel Dilemma, 2017’s Mountains & Reminiscence, 2018’s Eye The Tide, 2019’s Reign Of The Orion, 2020’s...
Astralplane is a heavy psychedelic stoner rock band from Oslo, Norway. Consisting of three brothers, Lars Kristian J. Halvorsen on bass and vocals, Magnus J. Halvorsen on guitar and vocals, and Jørgen J. Halvorsen on drums and vocals, the trio just released their latest album called Out Of The Void. The band has released 2017’s Sly Serpent, 2019’s Three Kings...
Black Charger is a stoner rock band from Osnabrück, Germany. They consist of Christian on guitar and vocals, Stephan on bass, and Uli on drums. They just released their debut full length album called Small Town on October 31st 2025. It contains ten tracks around forty two minutes long. When the fuzz kicks in on the opening track “Liquor Store”,...