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Maybe I am biased on this band a little, but to me - when it comes to this really slow side of Doom - Fall Of The Idols is still amongst the best....

'Vortex Memplex' is now the third album by Denmark's FUZZ MANTA who prove once again that they are still a group to be reckoned with. The band is in...

FUZZ MANTA belongs to the sort of heavy rock bands which makes one forget that we live in the year 2011. While listening to the band's second album...

It is almost impossible to write a review about FREEDOM HAWK without mentioning Ozzy Osbourne. This is due primarily to the lead vocals of guitarist...

FIREBIRD return with the best album in their career, and I mean this very seriously. The times of early 1970's blues rock are almost gone, or to be...

Not everyone deserves a tribute compilation but for sure Gideon Smith. Why? Quite simply because he's not only a gifted musician and songwriter but...

Welcome to the darker and unpleasant side of spending life in the city! With 'Goat', Ohio's FISTULA definitely have now reached a new level of poorly...

It is once again time to enter the world of noise/industrial and this time it's one of the latest albums from Germany's FLUTWACHT, released by the...

Astonishingly enough, one of the best epic doom metal albums in 2009 comes from the small Republic of Malta or more specifically from FORSAKEN. This...

Normally, black metal isn't a big issue here in Cosmic Lava, but sometimes I receive a package from a band who deserves attention. On this occasion...

'Lessons In Lamentations' dates from the same session within which 'Inverted Black Star' has been recorded, too. As a memento of that session I would...

Does anyone remember the heavy rock band Bottom? I really hope so, because they had a very unique style, what sets them apart from all the Kyuss...

At some point in 2007, Ohio's FISTULA met up with Steve Makita from Apartment 213, Agoraphobic Nosebleed and Lockweld. The end result are two new...

A new US-band with their first self-released 4-track EP in 2008 and the info sheet says, that they are sure to become a staple in the Cleveland music...

Tommy Grenas, founder of FARFLUNG, belongs definitely to the musicians who kept the spirit of spacerock alive since the early 1980's. His first...

There was a considerable buzz in Doom Metal circles in 2006 when FALL OF THE IDOLS released their debut full-length, but 'The Séance' trounces it in...

I fucking love I Hate Records! Let me tell you why: Ola and Peter (label owner) have not only a good taste in music, but also a good hand for picking...

When I put the demo in the player and listened to the impressive opener 'Devotions Drain' I was like "not bad at all"; heavy downtuned sludge with...

Does anyone remember Circus Of Power? It was a legendary but criminal overlooked US-hardrock band, which released some real goods albums between the...

It's not long ago, that I lost some nice words about this Canadian three-piece. It was their self-released debut, that I received last year, and I...

Another heavy slab intent on destroying every neurone in your skull, "Idiopathic" has been released two years ago on Shifty Records. FISTULA are no...

During the last months I received a lot of highy interesting underground releases, and the self-titled debut from FACES OF BLACK, hailing from Canada,...

FULCI is the new creation from Crucial Blast label chief Adam Wright and Eric Crowe, who's also member of the heavy sludge outfit Big Yellow Mama, but...

This instrumental electronic work is an one-man project, created by F. Guye who had lived in Switzerland. The original ultra-rare LP has been released...

This is a German band from Mainz and they released this first 5 song EP in 1999.The roots of FLUID go back to the beginning of 1998 and before, the...

Taking their name from an early Grief tune, I guess you should know what to expect from these Finnish hordes. Yezz, Sludge is the name of the game,...