Album Premiere & Review: Mama Doom – Eminent Womb
The lack of guitar is probably the first thing people will mention about Mama Doom. Fair enough. But after a while it isn’t really the interesting part of Eminent Womb anymore. Chuckie Rumbles’ bass carries enough weight to keep the songs firmly in doom territory, while D. Lolli’s keyboards give the album its stranger side […]
Witching Chronicles: Exploring Paranoid Reverb’s Red River Black Roots
Paranoid Reverb’s Red River Black Roots is the kind of record that makes more sense with some volume behind it. The Thessaloniki band started in 2020, released their debut Billion Drops, and now return six years later with a darker and heavier second album, their first for Octopus Rising / Argonauta Records. The main ingredients […]
Witching Chronicles: Exploring PELEGRIN’s The Curse of Nephtar
There is a point with heavy psych records where you know within the first few minutes whether you’re going to spend the next forty minutes actually listening or simply letting a bunch of fuzz, reverb and tasteful guitar noodling happen somewhere in the background. Pelegrin fortunately belong to the first category. The French trio have […]