Witching Chronicles: Exploring Basaltic Plateau’s Dead Dinosaurs Echoes
Few instrumental bands carry a sense of quiet insistence like Basaltic Plateau. Their debut LP, Dead Dinosaurs Echoes, doesn’t announce itself loudly. Instead, it unfolds slowly, unevenly, with the weight of something long-shaped beneath the surface. The trio’s history is tangled. Marco and Maurizio had played together years ago in Le Mal Noir, a university […]
Witching Chronicles: Exploring DUNE AURORA’s Ice Age Desert
Turin isn’t the first city you associate with shadowy, slow-burning heavy rock, but Dune Aurora have been sharpening their sound there for a while. Ginny, Roberta, and Serena first surfaced with a few singles and the 2022 Lonely Town EP, and even then it was clear they weren’t following anyone’s playbook. Their music felt like […]
Witching Chronicles: Exploring BLUE HERON’s Emulations
You can almost smell the dust in this one! Emulations sounds like the kind of record that shouldn’t even exist anymore – recorded loud enough to leave dents in the room, but played with the patience of people who’ve been through the long haul of noise and come back wanting only the essentials. No tricks, […]
Witching Chronicles: Exploring GOATFATHER’s House of the Rising Smoke
I don’t know what’s in the water down there, but GOATFATHER sounds like they’ve been breathing exhaust fumes for breakfast again. Their third album, House of the Rising Smoke, comes out this October and, to be honest, it’s probably their most “them” record yet. If you’ve heard Monster Truck you’ll get the idea, but this […]
Witching Riffs: Behind the Sound of Black Sasquatch
The Origin & Identity: How did you all come together as a band, and when did it feel real? – We used to be in other bands together in the past. It felt real when we opened for the Heavy Metal band Raven. Note: Metallica opened for Raven in 1983, that’s as close as we […]