Occult Vibe Haven (OVH)
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, […]
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. […]
Azken Auzi hit harder this time. Right away, DEEP HELL crushes you. Thick guitars, bass and drums all locked together. You can feel the weight. Ludo’s voice crawls out of the mix, low, strained. Feels like the shadows of the debut are here, but twisted somehow. SK comes next. Weird, tense. Post-metal kind of feel. […]
OWLS OVER OAKS’ debut, O.O.O., hits like a slow-motion avalanche. Three tracks. No guitars. Just dual bass, deliberate drumming, and a darkness that hangs in the air long after the music stops. This is not for casual listening. You can’t put this on in the background. You don’t. You sit. You endure. From the first […]
I didn’t expect to get into a sludge album this year, but Axis Mundi really hit me. It’s slow, heavy, and feels like it’s pressing down on you. After five years, TARLUNG could have played it safe. Instead, the riffs are thick and jagged, the drums mostly slow but sometimes exploding out of nowhere. The […]
Sleeping Giant finally put out a full album, and it doesn’t feel like something that needed a long setup or careful framing. Recorded in 2024 at StĂşdĂĂł ParadĂs, it sits firmly in stoner doom sludge way, slow and stubborn rather than dramatic. The band sounds like they already knew how they wanted to hit. Heavy, […]
Paramagia is the kind of record that will immediately piss off two types of listeners: people who want obvious hooks, and people who think “psychedelic heavy rock” should automatically be warm, cosmic, or fun. ABISSI aren’t interested in either camp. This album is stubborn, repetitive, and occasionally exhausting – and that’s exactly why it mostly […]
Well, II Bleak feels less like an album and more like a place you’re not supposed to stay in for long. Vast Pyre don’t dress this thing up or frame it as some grand doom journey – it just sits there, cold and heavy, grinding away at its own pace. The band clearly aren’t interested […]
I’ve been trying to describe what this album feels like, not what it “is,” because what it “is” depends on the day. First spin, I thought it was their most straightforward thing yet. Second spin, nope, it’s actually looser than the debut. Third spin, I stopped trying to categorize it at all. Maybe that’s the […]
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 […]