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EP review: EYES OF ALBION – Temple Noise
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Bandcamp[Release date 17.12.21] Any band that describes itself as: “We are stranger than fiction, more intense than realism…” immediately has my attention, if only for a Kurt Vonnegut take on rock music. Eyes Of Albion actually formed in 2018 and … Continue reading
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Tagged AC/ DC, Andy Mullins, Black Sabbath, Dave Gilmour, David Clinton, Dead Meadow, Deep Purple, EP, Eyes of Albion, Going, Hawkwind, Johnny Muzz, King Buffalo, King Gizzard, Kurt Vonnegut, Kyuss, Led Zeppelin, Monster Magnet, Monster Truck, Ozric Tentacles, Pink Floyd, prog, psychedelia, review, Robert Kemp, rock, Steve Hillage, Stoner, Temple Noise
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Album review: LUCIFER – Lucifer III
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Century Media [Release date 20.03.20] It says a lot, when you can’t immediately recall that you reviewed a band’s last release only 2 years ago! In the case of Lucifer = a Stockholm based outfit owing much to the likes … Continue reading
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Tagged album, heavy rock, Lucifer, Lucifer III, progressive, psychedelic, review, Stoner
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Album review: DATURA4 – Blessed Is The Boogie
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[Release date 05.04.19] And on the Seventh Day, the Lord rested and as he hitched up his robes and popped the top off a long-neck, he was heard to utter “Blessed Is The Boogie”…and thereafter, the boogie was indeed blessed … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Australia, Blessed Is The Boogie, blues, blues rock, Datura4, review, rock, Stoner
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Album review: BLACK COFFEE – Take One
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[Release date 21.04.18] Columbus, Ohio represents the US industrial heartland the same way Birmingham and Wolverhampton do in the UK so it’s entirely unsurprising that Black Coffee hail from there. Formed in 2017 by drummer Tommy McCullough, singer/bassist Ehab Omran … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Black Coffee, classic rock, debut, Ehab Omran, melodic, review, rock, Stoner, Take One
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EP review: GOYA – Kathmandu
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[Release date 08.12.17] Hailing from Stoke-on-Trent, Goya are a bit like a progressive/stoner Stoke City – fans that love them, love them but a lot won’t like the stuff they play. That said, and with all the usual trepidation of … Continue reading
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Tagged EP, Goya, instrumental, Kathmandu, progressive, review, rock, Rush, Stoner
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Album review: IDLEWAR – Impulse
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Idlewar/PHD [Release date 30.09.16] I’ve lived in Orange County, Southern California – there’s two sides to it. You have the “as-seen-on-TV”, plastic surgery, perfect world populated by people who are shallower than most of the baths you’ve ever had. Then … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Idlewar, Impulse, review, rock, Soundgarden, Stoner
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Album review: SCORPION CHILD – Acid Roulette
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Nuclear Blast [Release date 10.06.16] Save Save Second album by Scorpion Child, a five piece hailing from the US consisting of Aryn Jonathan Black (vocals), Christopher Jay Cowart (guitar), Jon “Charn” Rice (drums), Alec “Caballero” Padron (bass) and Aaron John … Continue reading
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Tagged Acid Roulette, album, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, review, riffs, rock, Rush, Scorpion Child, Stoner
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Album review: VARIOUS – Heavy Psych Sounds
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http://www.heavypsychsounds.com [Release date 08.04.16] Remember the days when you would go into your local record store and there would be just two categories of music – Rock and Pop, maybe if there was an upstairs or a downstairs, there might … Continue reading
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Tagged 1970's, acid rock, album, Black Sabbath, Doom, Heavy Psych Sounds Records, Heavy Pysch, psych rock, Retro Rock, review, rock, sampler, Sludge, space rock, Stoner
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Album review: VENREZ – Children Of The Drones
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Monarch Music Group [Release date 24.04.15] ‘Children Of The Drones’ is the third album release by Venrez following their critically acclaimed secondalbum ‘American Illusion’ which found them supporting Slash and Alice Cooper amongst others. The band were formed back in … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Alice In Chains, CD, Children Of The Drones, Jason Womack, psychedelic, review, rock, Steven Berez, Stoner, Venrez
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Quick plays: BLACK RAINBOWS, HAWK EYES, FREDDY AND THE PHANTOMS
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BLACK RAINBOWS – Hawkdope Heavy Pysch Records www.theblackrainbows.com [Released 15.03.15] Their ‘Holy Moon’ EP released back in 2013 was a good slab of stoner rock. They are back with their new album and as the part of the title hints, … Continue reading
Album review: BALEFUL CREED – Baleful Creed
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Self-release (release date – out now) Belfast’s Baleful Creed originally got together as a covers band back in 2009. Playing covers soon gave way to song writing and the band performing original numbers which they have honed and developed over … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Alice In Chains, Baleful Creed, CD, Greg Finlay, John Allan, Kyuss, review, rock, Stoner
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Album review: LEAF HOUND – Live In Tokyo
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Ripple Records ( Release date – 13th January 2014) Leaf Hound are a band of legend. Born in 1969 the band underwent a couple of line-up changes before releasing their first album ‘Growers Of Mushrooms’. This … Continue reading
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Tagged CD, DVD, Growers Of Mushrooms, Leaf Hound, Live In Tokyo, Peter French, Ripple Records, rock, Stoner, Unleashed
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