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 2023Jeff Gallagher, AKA Mule Thrower, takes influences as varied and fragmented as Roy Clark and Electric Wizard, throws them against a wall and makes one hell of a mess. Cuts is basically an aural Jackson Pollock painting. Like Pollock, it’s a work of art worthy of study and reflection. But to get maximum effect, I think ya gotta be willing to look at your own shit in the process.
Read More Stoner/Doom/ Sludge Review: Mule Thrower-CutsRegardless, my personal experience and taste in music went for a wild fucking ride this month. It wasn’t always pleasant, but it sure was exciting! Here’s my Top 5 for February:
Read More My Top 5 Albums for February 2023Seum is back, baby! When this wild and loose Montreal Doom ‘n’ Bass trio first caught my attention in 2021 with Winterized, they were unlike anything I’d ever heard before. Sure, we’ve seen plenty of guitar-drum-vocals setups—either as a two-man setup or a trio—but it’s much rarer to see a commitment to bass-drum-vocals. It’s a […]
Read More Single Premiere: Canadian Doom ‘n’ Bass Trio Seum Releases ‘Snow Bird’ Ahead of New Album, ‘Double Double’Seum has never chosen the easy route. A sludgy Stoner Doom trio, Seum operates without a lead guitarist, relying instead on drums, bass, and vocals. And while they’re not the first to make that work (see Royal Blood for a mainstream example), they were one of the first we heard to completely forgo any sort […]
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