Villains play mid 80’s esque death metal with plenty of influence from the first wave of black metal that sounds like it came straight from a teenager’s basement in 1980’s. I can almost picture it now, the poodle haircuts, the homemade Venom T shirts and the disused ALF merchandise in a corner and that Villains [...]

Toxic Holocaust at Myspace

Long time underground darlings Toxic Holocaust were the first significant American Thrash revival band and “An Overdose of Death” their third full length and their debut for Relapse Records is definitely an album that lives up the hype. Toxic Holocaust have the most original sound of any thrash revival band and instead [...]

Bongripper at Myspace
Bongripper is a stoner/doom/post-metal outfit from Chicago. All of the members are just in it for the love of music and don’t care about money; from what I read in another review of this album, one of them even leaked it onto the internet. The brand of sludgy psychedelia on Hippie Killer is [...]

Capricorns at myspace
London supergroup Capricorns featuring members and ex members of Iron Monkey, Orange Goblin and Bridge and Tunnel play a form of instrumental stoner/post metal that takes significant influence from post rock yet is not another band that follows in the footsteps of Neurosis and Isis. There is a slight influence drawn from those [...]

Saviours at myspace
Mixing the old school classic rock of Thin Lizzy with the raging fast tempo stoner of High on Fire with the progressive experimentation of Baroness, Saviours are quite an intriguing proposition for Stoner Metal fans. Duelling lead guitars in a traditional heavy metal fashion are fused into a rhythm of resin soaked groove [...]