Witching Chronicles: Exploring WARCOE’s Upon Tall Thrones
I needed something proper heavy the other day, and this one did the job. Warcoe are three lads from Pesaro in Italy who’ve been at it since 2021, and Upon Tall Thrones is their third album, out late September 2025 on Ripple Music. I went in expecting standard retro doom, but it actually kept me […]
Witching Chronicles: Exploring WHITE TUNDRA’s Stories from the Dark
Well… Norwegian band White Tundra have only been around since 2023, but their second record already feels like they’re finding their own lane in the heavy underground. Stories from the Dark is six tracks of thick, fuzzy heavy rock that mixes stoner groove, doom weight and a distinct cold Nordic flavour. It’s not pure desert […]
Witching Chronicles: Exploring Indigosaur’s Cosmic Censor
Cosmic Censor feels very rooted in that old-school heavy rock thing, but it doesn’t come off like a retro copy. The riffs are straight out of that 70s/stoner space, thick and warm, but the songs don’t just sit on them and loop forever. You can hear touches of Kyuss or early Black Sabbath in that […]
Witching Chronicles: Exploring REPETITA IUVANT’s 3+2
3+2 is one of those albums where nothing really jumps at you at first. It just starts and keeps going, and you kind of realize later you’ve been listening for a while. REPETITA IUVANT plays instrumental post-rock, but not the dramatic kind with big build-ups. More like repeating guitar ideas that slowly change while they’re […]
Witching Chronicles: Exploring JACK HARLON & THE DEAD CROWS’ Inexorable Opposites
Wow, this album is weird in a good way. Not random weird, more like you’re a few tracks in and suddenly you’re not listening the same way anymore. It just sort of drags you into its own space without asking. I went in expecting the usual stoner/doom thing – heavy riffs, fuzz, slow grooves. That’s […]
Witching Chronicles: Exploring GIÖBIA’s X-ÆON
I’ve been listening to X‑ÆON by Giöbia a lot lately. The French band released it in October 2025 on Heavy Psych Sounds Records. Right from the start, it grabs you with buzzing guitars and steady drums. The first track, “Voodoo Experience”, is fuzzy and slow, with the drums keeping a nice beat. It’s heavy but […]
Witching Chronicles: Exploring Appalooza’s The Emperor of Loss
Appalooza are a heavy rock band known for their fuzzy, riff-driven sound and straightforward approach. On their latest album, The Emperor of Loss, the band continues in that vein, refining the style they’ve been building over previous releases. This isn’t flashy or overproduced music, it’s raw, honest, and grounded, designed to grow on listeners over […]
Witching Chronicles: Exploring Marmalade Knives’ Paradigm Lost
With Paradigm Lost, Marmalade Knives lean fully into the idea of the album as a journey rather than a collection of songs. This is heavy psychedelic rock stretched across krautrock repetition, jazz-inflected grooves, and progressive detours, less about hooks, more about movement and atmosphere. From the outset, the record flows like a continuous piece. Guitars […]
Witching Chronicles: Exploring RedRedRed’s Deaf Gods
Deaf Gods doesn’t really start in a way you can point to. It’s just there. Guitars come in slightly off, not quite locking into something clear. Bass and drums hold a line underneath, though even that feels like it could move if it wanted to. It sits somewhere around noise rock, maybe heavier in places, […]
Witching Chronicles: Exploring FUZZING NATION’s Mothertruck
With Mothertruck, Fuzzing Nation stays close to a stoner rock kind of sound, but without drifting too far into long, psychedelic parts. It leans more on steady grooves and direct riffs than on atmosphere. The guitars carry most of it, thick and slightly rough, while the rhythm section keeps everything moving in a straight line. […]