Occult Vibe Haven (OVH)
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 […]
FANE never really tried to flatten me with this record. Funny thing is, I expected exactly that. Louisiana sludge, two people, an album called Armageddon Scars… I figured it’d come straight out swinging. It doesn’t. The heavier parts are all there, but they don’t arrive in a rush. The record seems perfectly happy letting things […]
Mörkekraft is a Norwegian band doing that mix of heavy rock, stoner stuff, and some lighter psychedelic touches. They’re just shaping familiar ideas in their own way and seeing where it lands. I’ve seen the album mostly placed somewhere between stoner rock and melodic hard rock, with a bit of that older classic guitar-rock thinking […]
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 […]
Very interesting band from Milan, Italy. Sun Fall Down called the album Burn and it’s their first full one. Nine tracks plus a short intro on the digital version. The whole thing is built around an astronaut floating in black space with a sun in his hands. The artwork and lyrics make it clear, it’s […]
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. […]
Instrumental metal can be tricky. Without vocals, it’s easy to lose the listener — but The Proximity Effect mostly nails it. The Last Sound Revelation clearly knows how to build tension, and you can feel that in every track. This isn’t an album that’s trying to show off; it’s focused, deliberate, and, honestly, kind of […]
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, […]
This record is built from long jams. You can hear it immediately. Parts don’t snap into place — they grow, lean, sag, then lock. Riffs stay around longer than they need to. Drums don’t chase change. They sit and grind. The band lets repetition do the work. The guitar tone is thick but not foggy. […]