Heavy Rock

Featured Live Reviews 

Slomosa & Psychlona @ Rebellion, Manchester, 3rd February 2025

21st February 202521st February 2025 Matthew Williams Heavy Rock, Manchester, Psychlona, Rebellion, Slomosa, Stoner, Tapestry Promotions

With a queue of people outside the venue and snaking down into Manchester‘s Bugle Street, Rebellion and Tapestry Promotions, had

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Review: Warlung ‘The Poison Touch’

21st February 202521st February 2025 Martin Williams Heavy Psych Sounds, Heavy Rock, Warlung

Houston Texas’s Warlung returns with the follow-up to 2022’s Vultures Paradise, which I enjoyed quite a bit, although, if I’m

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Review: Dunes ‘Land Of The Blind’ 

29th January 202529th January 2025 Mark Hunt-Bryden Desert Rock, Dunes, Heavy Rock, Ripple Music, Stoner

Holding my hands up here, I knew nothing of hard-rocking Newcastle-based three-piece Dunes until the announcement that they had signed

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Review: Godzillionaire ‘Diminishing Returns’

23rd January 202523rd January 2025 Lee Beamish Godzillionaire, Grunge, Heavy Rock, Ripple Music

Right off the bat I’m going to say this, if there’s one band who you should be firmly pointing your

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Review: Shotgun Sawyer ‘Shotgun Sawyer’

9th January 20259th January 2025 Mark Hunt-Bryden Blues, Heavy Rock, Ripple Music, Shotgun Sawyer

Auburn, California might not be the first place that springs to mind when you think of the blues, but three-piece

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Various Artists ‘Brown Acid The Nineteenth Trip’

18th December 202418th December 2024 Martin Williams Brown Acid, Heavy Rock, Permanent Records, Proto-Metal, Psych, RidingEasy Records, Various Artists

At this point, stoner rockers, doom-metal mavens, garage rock collectors, heavy psych-heads and proto-metal worshipers around the globe can practically

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Review: Various Artists ‘The Very Best Of Jethro Tull Redux’

16th December 202416th December 2024 David J McLaren Doom, Elephant Tree, Hashtronaut, Heavy Rock, Jethro Tull, Lowrider, Magnetic Eye Records, Mr Bison, Oceanlord, Prog, Sergeant Thunderhoof, Sweat, The Golden Grass, Various Artists

Internal David-monologue, approx. 1994: Everything must be heavier than everything else! Metallica are for girls (NB I was sexist as

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Review: Sons Of Ghidorah ‘Hallowmas’

5th December 20245th December 2024 Matthew Williams Argonauta Records, Doom, Heavy Rock, Sons Of Ghidorah

When I see a comment in a press release that states that they’ve ‘been compared favourably to bands such as

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Featured Interviews R-Z 

Sergeant Thunderhoof: An Interview With Vocalist Dan Filtcroft

13th November 202413th November 2024 Mark Hunt-Bryden Heavy Rock, Pale Wizard Records, Sergeant Thunderhoof

It may be two years since the release of Sergeant Thunderhoof‘s last album, the critically acclaimed This Sceptred Viel, which

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Review: Sergeant Thunderhoof ‘The Ghost Of Badon Hill’

12th November 202412th November 2024 Mark Hunt-Bryden Heavy Rock, Pale Wizard Records, Sergeant Thunderhoof

Over the course of four albums, culminating in 2022’s This Sceptred Veil, Somerset-dwelling prog, stoner and desert rock outfit Sergeant

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Review: Cortez ‘Thieves And Charlatans’

30th October 202430th October 2024 Mark Hunt-Bryden Cortez, Heavy Rock, Ripple Music

Having spent a lot of time this year dallying around with post-metal, dreamy, ethereal music and some serious bludgeon, my

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