The latest Soggy Bog Podcast, episode 85, is now available and this week features a spot light on Svart Records who’ll be releasing new albums by Sabbath Assembly, Seremonia and Bedemon. New tracks are also aired by Dopelord, From Beyond and a Ramesses track…
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“It’s Not Because Of You”, a brand new song from Swedish doom metal kings WITCHCRAFT, is available for streaming below. The track will be released digitally via iTunes as well as on limited seven-inch vinyl on Friday, August 17. The single will also include…
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Like the eponymous beast from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Hound Of the Baskervilles”, Liverpudlian doom five piece Black Magician have emerged from the oppressive fog of the UK’s doom scene to create quite a rumble with their progressive yet thunderous riffs and genuinely…
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Evan Caminiti (one half of the psychedelic drone group Barn Owl) is set to release ‘Dreamless Sleep’ on 20th August 2012 via Thrill Jockey. A track ‘Fading Dawn’ was recently premiered on Portals and can also be streamed below. “The listening experience turns fantastic…
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Stoner-Sludge band BONGZILLA’s back catalog is receiving the vinyl treatment through a licensing agreement with Relapse Records.  Underground boutique record label HYDRO-PHONIC RECORDS, who specializes in stoner, doom and sludge vinyl releases featuring unique packaging, has started with BONGZILLA’s “Gateway” on vinyl in time…
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With a name like BLACK MAGICIAN you sure as Hell ain’t going to be getting glam rock or emo!!! No sir, these Liverpudlian retrogressive throwbacks are about to drop their debut album, ‘Nature Is the Devil’s Church’…5 tracks of expansive, ritualistic, soul stealing doom…
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Now, I’m going to blow my credibility totally here and come right out and say that I love a good dose of dirty, sleazy 80’s hair rock!!! “Appetite For Destruction” is in my top 10 favourite albums and Motley Crue’s “Shout At The Devil”…
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Having been in existence since the early Noughties, Switzerland’s shEver have produced several self released albums and put in a good account of themselves at the usual festivals like Roadburn and Doom Shall Rise before joining the Totalrust Music stable to release this year’s…
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With the multitude of labels and bands sprouting up around the world, it’s easy to forget that slow was once very uncool. In the Nineties as in the Eighties, fast was the done thing in the underground as in the mainstream. There were no…
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Chapel Hill, North Carolina, drone-pysch-doom-metal trio MAKE are set to release their stunning debut album ‘Trephine’ via Devouter Records on the 30th July 2012 which will be available on a limited Heavy Weight White/Grey Speckled 12” Vinyl. With themes covering the concept of mortality,…
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