It’s been a long, strange journey from Bloodywood’s beginnings to the release of their debut album Rakshak. Starting out covering pop songs and Indian traditional music on YouTube then dropping their own material, you could be forgiven for thinking this is a novelty act that have gotten lucky. This couldn’t be further from the truth,…
Having kicked off the annual Rock Sins End Of Year Awards for 2021 before Christmas with our acting news editor Kyle Dimond (check out Kyle’s choices here), it’s now the turn of one of our stoner rock / psychadelic specialists Chris Ball to have his turn. Over to you Chris! Album Of The Year –…
We’ve been asked in the past, famously, to have Sympathy For The Devil but on Celestial Blues, King Woman’s second album, and second on Relapse Records, lead singer Kris Estanduri has written a set of songs displaying empathy for him. Across songs with titles such as Morning Star, Golgotha and Paradise Lost, Estanduri maps out…
For those of you that missed the meeting, we took a vote and it was carried that Gojira are to be promoted to the Big League of Heavy Metal TM. Sorry if your opinions weren’t heard, but with all the uncertainty amongst the shareholders about the scarcity of future arena and festival headliners, we decided…
By now you are likely aware of Here Lies Man, the act that burst onto the rock scene in 2017 with their self-titled debut, with their afrobeat meets Sabbath modus operandi, and eye-catching, unsettling artwork adding to the aura of heart-of-darkness otherness. You may not know that the band are made up of members of…
Orbital Junction are a London-based four-piece who first came to my attention when Feedback Radio play listed the rather fine 6ft2 from this their debut album Egos and Instincts. Now my usual M.O. when picking music is to trawl through the spreadsheets of new releases looking for bands I love, or at least know, or…
If nothing else, 2020 has been an absolute crackerjack year for lovers of stoner and psych rock. There have been many surprises, with new acts emerging with total bangers, up and comers making good on early promise and trusted veterans still bringing the riffs. I guess, at this point All Them Witches fit into the…
Despite only forming in 2017 Tomorrow is Lost have created quite a buzz for themselves, gaining strong support from rock radio stations like Planet Rock and earning a spot at Bloodstock in 2018 due to their reputation as a great live band and burgeoning fanbase. The Newcastle based five-piece released an E.P. The Shadowman in…
Back in 2017 Cambridge trio Psychic Lemon released their debut album, Frequency Rhythm Distortion Delay to rave reviews and it quickly became regarded as one of the best UK psych albums of the decade. (It’s about to get a re-pressing, check bandcamp, but be quick!). They followed it up last year with a live album,…
It begins, suitably, with ‘The End’, but it doesn’t end with ‘The Beginning’. If ever an album was styled to hark back to the birth of metal then “For The Dead Travel Fast” is it. It’s washed-out, muted coloured sleeve photo features the band resplendent in flares and Witchfinder General hats, in front of a…
