Occult Vibe Haven (OVH)
I came to Imperfection with a bit of caution, not because I doubted HEBI KATANA, but because after three albums of raw, sticky Tokyo doom, you start wondering how much more weight a trio can carry without spilling over into overkill. What hits first is how completely they don’t care about that question. The riffs […]
Some bands write songs. These maniacs in Liguria build collapsing wormholes and then jump inside. Sideral Voivod isn’t polished, it’s not safe, it’s a fuzz-drunk meteor crash rolling downhill until it smokes out the neighborhood. Heavy grooves that lurch and stagger, riffs like molten concrete, bass throb that sounds more animal than instrument. You can […]
From the rainy, gray corners of Portland, Oregon, a new monster crawls out of the sludge. Chaos and Catastrophes, the first full-length from Ravine, doesn’t bother with pleasantries – it hits you fast and leaves your head ringing like you just got flattened by a truck. This record smells like bourbon, burnt rubber, and wet […]
Nepal Death never sounded like a band that wanted to be filed neatly in the record store. With Pilgrims and Psychonauts they’ve doubled down on that instinct and made something that’s too heavy for the cosmic folk crowd, too freaked for the stoner riff bros, too raw for the synth fetishists. It’s not really about […]
Insomniac’s debut hits hard and slow, like something dragging itself out of the earth and into the sky. Atlanta made a band that doesn’t really sit in stoner rock, doom, or anything you can name. It’s heavy, sure, but it also stretches, bends, drifts. You can feel it. You can get lost in it. The […]
Formed in 2009 by Mark Kitchens and William “Dub” Irvin, and joined by bassist Erick Paxecko in 2023, the band has spent over a decade crafting sonic landscapes rooted in stoner rock, doom, space and experimental vibes, building a loyal cult following in the US underground. Their previous releases, including the sprawling The Inexplicable Vibrations […]
Margarita Witch Cult’s Strung Out In Hell doesn’t play nice. It drags you by the hair straight into the furnace and keeps you there until your skin blisters. This is Birmingham metal the way it’s meant to be: filthy, cracked, ringing with that factory clang that never leaves the bloodstream of this city. You can […]
HOWLING GIANT hail from Nashville, Tennessee, sidestepping their city’s pop-country roots with a fuzz-psych sound that has grown from power trio to powerhouse quartet. After winning praise for The Space Between Worlds (2019) and Glass Future (2023), the band now return with their third full-length, Crucible & Ruin, their first recorded in a proper studio […]
PLASMAJET formed in 2014 in Giessen, united by their passion for metal, stoner, rock, and blues. After their 2015 demo and over 40 live shows, including festivals like M.I.S.E. Open Air and support for Bushfire and Earthship, they released their debut album United Dementia in 2018 to critical acclaim. Despite lineup changes and the pandemic, […]
Deep Valley Blues, formed in 2016 in Catanzaro by Umberto Arena, Giando Sestito, Giorgio Faini and Alessandro Morrone, debuted with their self-titled EP in 2017, blending hard rock blues, psych rock and stoner vibes. Their first full-length Demonic Sunset (2019) explored psychosis through mass culture references, followed by III – Third (2021) on Swamp Records/Sloomweep […]