I’m trying to picture a heavier duo than Ape Vermin and Mean Green, and I’m coming up short. Well, Primitive Man teaming with Telekinetic Yeti might do it. But we’re talking US-Prime kick-ass Stoner/Doom with enough low-end to give the East Coast another earthquake.
Read More Ape Vermin is Riding with the Damned (and Mean Green!)My Top 100 Stoner/Doom Albums of 2023: This is a massive list, at least the longest thing I’ve ever attempted to write. It’s not a perfect list, especially when I consider the bands I left off.
Read More My Top 100 Stoner/Doom Albums of 2023This is the kind of “fame” that Mean Green is dealing with, right now. They went from being totally obscure in their niche in Boone, to hundreds of people being aware of them, buying their album and wanting to see them. I think it’s a scary spot to be in. It’s hard to make sense of it, hard to know what to do with it.
Read More Mean Green: How Mean is the Green?March came in like a lion and left like a lion. No sheep were injured in the making of this list, that’s for sure. While there is a clear and obvious North Carolina focus in this list, they’re all deserved. North and South Carolina are definitely seeing a scene evolve, and it’s not all based […]
Read More My Top 10 Stoner/Doom Releases, March 2023It sounds as if these kids were breastfed on sour goats milk with an endless loop of Reverend Bizarre, Candlemass, Electric Wizard, Pentagram and Cathedral pumped into their nursery while their nannies were performing obscure and unspeakable rites in basement.
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