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Conny Ochs' second solo album is a heartbreaking, simple, beautiful, strangely comforting piece of work. He goes deep into feelings but without sticky...

'Road To Kurti' is the second self-financed release from UK's CARAVAN OF WHORES and contains 4 tracks with a total running time of 31 minutes. Based...

Hidden behind the strange name CHICKENCAGE EXPERIENCE is the psychoactive German kraut-a-delic band Polytoxicomane Philharmonie, who teamed up with...

The times when COLOUR HAZE was walking in the footsteps of Kyuss are long gone. Over the last years, the band has undergone an exciting transformation...

For a while it looked as if 'Passion Rift' had never been released due to several reasons, but luckily I, Voidhanger Records has realised that it...

What would you expect from a band with the name Captain Crimson? Especially when they are that brazen and call their album 'Dancing Madly Backwards'....

Still fresh in my mind is 'Thunder In A Forgotten Town' (review here), which was the debut MCD of Boston's CORTEZ. That release was more than 4 years...

Have you ever asked yourself what it would sound like if AC/DC and The Cult had met to record an album? If so, then you should listen to the third...

If there would be a retro-rock contest, CHERRY COKE's chances of winning the grand prize would have been pretty good. Founded in 2007 by Mathew...

There were times when CATHEDRAL was one of my favourite doom metal bands. It was in the early 1990's at the time when 'Forest Of Equilibrium' and the...

Due to the excellent archaeological work of Shadow Kingdom Records, people have now the chance to discover the short-lived U.S. band CASSLE. During...

Shadow Kingdom Records already excellent reputation for sourcing ultra-rare heavy metal and top-notch doom metal can only be reinforced by this album....

It had been a long time since I had received any news from our French neighbors. As far as I remember, it was the last album from Glowsun that I found...

Some of you will probably know Conny Ochs from his last year's tour with Scott 'Wino' Weinrich. Conny Ochs' performance made quite an impact, not only...

Just take a look at the cover, and you know that it dates back from the 1980's; to put it more precisely, it dates back from 1984. 'Armed To The...

At first: I have often tried my best to gain access to CUZO's new record, but I think I have failed. For two years ago, it was already difficult...

If you belong to those kind of people with a huge preference for forgotten and obscure epic, doomy, metal bands than Brazil's CAVARIO could be of...

To be honest, only a handful of stoner/heavy rock compilations are particularly worth releasing. Up until now, there are only a few that have been put...

'English Doom' is written in large letters on the left side of the CD inlay, and that's exactly what CROWNED IN EARTH delivers on their debut album,...

Although I really was disappointed by CENTURIONS GHOST's support show for Saint Vitus at the beginning of 2010, their third full-length reconciles me....

CHARGER come from Stoke-On-Trent, the city in which the mighty Discharge was founded almost 35 years ago. Of course, CHARGER do not exist for such a...

CAUSTIC CASANOVA is a power trio operating out of North America's capital city of rock, Washington D.C, but they don't belong to the kind of new bands...

Without a doubt, 'Mammon's War' is a triumphant return of COUNT RAVEN, and my initial scepticism has not proved to be true. Although the band had...

This is the fourth ear-splitting studio album from my beloved Japanese serial killers specialists, and if you're familiar with their previous releases...

Maybe some of you know the Spanish metal band Warchetype, because two members of them are also in CUZO's line-up, but their sound is entirely...

It is 2008 and COFFINS has returned from the deepest tombs to satisfy your primitive appetites. Raw, brutal, and merciless this is ultra-downtuned...

Normally I'm no big fan of so-called "fun-records", except for extreme cynical and sarcatic humor. And there you can't find nothing better than Frank...

It's always a pleasure for me, when one of the veterans from the MD heavy music scene returns with a new band, because my love for most of this groups...

This self-financed split-disc features two unknown Finnish heavy rock bands. Each of them comes up with two songs and the first band is COLD MEAT...

This impressively six-track debut from Boston's CORTEZ hints at good things to come. They write memorable songs; they have a filthy and mean...

It was the year 1992, when Hellhound Records released the second album of Doom Metal vikings COUNT RAVEN. Two years have passed since their...

The former Czechoslovakia was an extremely inspiring ground for a lot of devoted Thrash Metal bands, who have been also influenced by the first wave...

Wow, what for a brilliant second album from UK's heavyweights CENTURIONS GHOST! I'm not sure, what was responsible for this giant step forward, that...

Finally, after all this years Cyclone Empire re-released all four COUNT RAVEN albums, and I'm fucking glad, that they did it, because this four Doom...

I don't know any other Doom label, that released so much top-notch stuff in 2005 as  Sweden's I Hate Records. No matter if you listen to Thee Plague...

In the band-info one can read that this German band absolutely knows what they want and that they have their shit together. But I have to disagree,...

Once again, Shifty Records shows the world with this compilation, why they belong to the best US-labels specialized on heavy sludge, doom and other...

Not really psychedelic, CIRCULUS are a folk influenced band of seven musicians from the UK.  They have perfected an amalgam of rock, medieval music...

It's been two years ago, when I received the first demo from this UK band, and at this time their sound was mainly influenced by bands as Saint Vitus,...

Here's an album to make your ears bleed! Canadian's CURSED infects the listener with an aggressive and testosterone-drenched sound, that draw...

Last year, when I received Aidan Baker's album "At The Base Of The Mind Is Coiled A Serpent", the package contains also this promo disc from a French...

The last album from this German-based trio received worldwide the best responses, and it really deserved it. Musicwise COLOUR HAZE now have developed...

For all of you readers who have missed (what a big mistake!) the early material of Japanese CHURCH OF MISERY now the time has come to fill the void in...

One of the best hidden US-underground heavy doom bands returns with a new and stronger release. Their first one, titled "Taste of Gray" received some...

What for a refreshing promo-release of UK-doomsters CAMBIAN DAWN! They don't explore any new ground, but in the case of this power-trio it doesn't...

I lost some positive words about their debut EP and with "So Low" this guys are continuing their way of metallic doom-driven heavy rock. Only the...

The first self-produced demo from this American band ,which was formed and based in 1999 in Northern Virginia . They have played gigs with acts like...

Japanese serial killer worshippers CHURCH OF MISERY are finally back, after some time went by since their massive "Master Of Brutality" album came...

This is the first demo CD of the Ohio-based band CENTRIFUGE. They have played with other local bands such as Abdullah, Rebreather and The Rubes in the...

Two unreleased songs from one of the oldest English Doombands are on single #2 that presents us SOUTHERN LORD RECORDS. I think, that both songs are...

Shifty Records presents us this delicious Sludge compilation, which features the following bands: MUGWART, GOATSBLOOD, MOLEHILL, FISTULA and SLOTH...

This low price double CD compilation contains 45 tracks in over 150 minutes of extreme music, and it gives you a perfect overview about the actual...

The movie "Convoy" was one of my faves, when I was a boy. All the trucks were reason enough for me to worship this movie in the late-70's. So, what...

COLOUR HAZE are a German Heavy Psych powertrio, which been around for nearly ten years. Their first album turned up in 1995 and the sound was...

The album title describes the new CLUTCH album perfect. This is pure groove laden Heavyrock, played very furious and fronted by the amazing and unique...

After the more experimental "Dactyls Glomerata" album CANDLEMASS returns in 1999 with this new record and Leif Edling has found new strong members to...

Thanks to Greg and Stephen of Southern Lord Records for releasing the new album from one of the world's strongest Heavy Doom Rock bands - Japans...

With their debut album "Forest of Equilibrium" this band recorded one of the most extreme Doom albums in the beginning of the 90's and it's still a...

A lot of blood was going down the river since Japanese CHURCH OF MISERY had released their last full-length "Master Of Brutality". Their last...

Here we have the new exclusive strictly limited double vinyl set of COLOUR HAZE, which has been released in March 2003 on Nasoni Records and Stefan's...

Now I'm sitting here in front of the monitor, listening for the fourth time to the new album of CATHEDRAL in 2003, and I'm not sure, what the hell I...