In the end, Hashtronaut has delivered a memorable and enchanting work of stoner metal as art. The pacing, the dynamism, the riffs, the glory. It’s all there and waiting for our ears. If you enter their weed-filled world as a visitor, you will leave as a denizen of a new world where good riffs really matter.
Read More Hashtronaut’s No Return: Is This The Arrival of a New Sonic Titan?Our Doom Charts for February 2024 include a diverse mix of heavy psych and doom albums, with a strong presence of blues-based psychedelic music. Notable releases from Samsara Joyride, Spectral Voice, and Locomotiva Electrica are highlighted, as well as a more detailed review of “ništa” by Jipsy, praising its emotional depth and musicality.
Read More Our Doom Charts for February 2024So, if I’m really honest about it, Clean and Sober Stoner is partially a good-natured jab at the rigidity of traditional recovery. But it’s also a jab at Stoner/Doom culture as well, and the obsession the scene can have with a certain flower bud. It’s not out of anger, it’s just that the two extremes are kinda funny when you step back and look at it.
Read More WTF Is Clean And Sober Stoner?But here it is: the best of the best that I listened to this month. These are the exact titles in the exact order that I submitted to the Doom Charts. I’m opting to start at #1 this month, and not do the countdown thing. As always, ANY of these coulda been the best for me, and might be for you.
Read More My Top 10 Stoner/Doom Releases: April, 2023When Italian heavy-psych band Desert Wave contacted me to review their recent album, ‘Deafening Silence,’ I wasn’t sure what was going to happen. This was the first time a band contacted me and followed through on the details. Being a small, independent site, this doesn’t happen every day. I had nagging questions: What if I […]
Read More 11 Reasons to Get to Know Desert Wave: An Interview