From Boise, Idaho USA comes Uzala. 3 men, one woman, fuzz boxes, battered vintage amps meeting head on to create some solid fuzzed out doom. Their man-at-arms Chad Remains answered a few questions… Can you give us a nice introduction…
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When the first Iron Witch demo landed in 2010 it was immediately apparent that, under the filthy production, there was a band with a tasty knack for creating some truly weighty sludge. It seems that the few months that have…
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Canada. There must be something in the water there that makes for such awesome metal bands…possibly beaver pee, I’m not sure. Whatever it is, I hope they keep on adding more and more of it to the water supply, because…
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Fragment is the kind of artist that music journalists hate to have to review because with almost no information available on the musician behind the music we are forced to disregard pseudo-important factoids or irrelevant context and actually write about…
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German quartet Alpinist are the next blunt instrument to be wielded in Southern Lord’s campaign for crust domination, along with necro-crusters Acephalix, Black Breath, and Summon The Crows. With nary a death-grunt in earshot and a distinct lack of tremolo…
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Purely by taking the time to even stumble across this webpage, you will most probably be aware that “heavy” can take on all kinds of forms when it comes to music. What South London-lurking noise-urchins Hey Colossus define as their…
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Hmm…ah…um…ok…this is awkward!!!! When a band seem so in love with rock and roll and claim AC/DC as an influence I’ll pretty much throw myself fully behind them…there’s nothing I love more than a filthy slice of down home, shit…
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The Wounded Kings have cut out a unique niche for themselves as masters of the UK underground doom scene. Steve Mills, leading exponent and founding member of the band has managed to navigate his vision through troublesome times. Where many…
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The influence of Sleep’s Holy Mountain still weighs heavy on the ‘Stoner/Doom’ community, even after nearly twenty years. Their weed-shrouded groove seem to be the ‘go-to’ mode for a good portion of bands on the scene, and Etherial Riffian are…
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Looks like Greg Anderson has stopped washing and is hanging out in the park with a bottle of ‘Wild ‘n’ White’ and a Sunn amp on a rope, cuz Southern Lord has gone all-out raging crust with this latest batch…
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