THIRTY DORADUS ~ EP ..... review
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1d ago
Thirty Doradus, Daniel (drums/vocals); Olli (bass/vocals); Jens (guitar) and Christoph (guitar), describe their music with all the straightforwardness and efficiency we have come to expect from Germans, they don't try to dress things up with all the usual bells and whistles they say it how it is and that is that Thirty Doradus play "heavy psychedelic blues with progressive elements and deeply layered sounds and rhythm arrangements". Although bluntly accurate that statement does not really tell you everything you need to know before dropping the needle /pushing play o ..read more
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DAEVAR ~ AMBER EYES .... review
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6d ago
Pardis Latifa (bass/vocals); Moritz Ermen Bausch (drums) and Caspar Orfgen (guitar) are not names you will immediately recognise UNLESS, that is, you happened to chance upon "Delirious Rites"(2023) by a German band going by the name Daevar."Delirious Rites" was an album that blended the dense atmospherics of bands like Katatonia and Anathema with the low slow stoner doom dynamics of bands like Windhand and Sleep and benefited from generous sprinklings of occult rock ethereality and alt-metal colouring , elements that saw the album achieve a very respectable #16 placing on the Janua ..read more
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SONIC WOLVES ~ III .... review
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by Desert Psychlist
1w ago
Those with a knowledge of the underground rock scene will immediately recognise the names Kayt Vigil and Gianni "Vita" Vitarelli, but for those not so clued up let us tell you that Vigil once supplied bass for doom legends Pentagram and Vita was up until a few years ago the drummer driving the groove behind psych/sludge/doom meisters Ufomammut. In 2015 Vigil and Vita, a married couple, decided they wanted to do something together and so Sonic Wolves was born. Paulo Melotto and the singularly named Diniz were recruited in on guitar duties for the bands first album "Before The End Comes ..read more
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MALSTEN ~ THE HAUNTING OF SILVAKRA MILL - RITES OF PASSAGE .... review
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by Desert Psychlist
1w ago
July 2020 saw Swedish outfit Malsten release "The Haunting of Silv​å​kra Mill" a scintillating concept album telling of an ancient evil emanating from an old abandoned mill, it was an album we at Desert Psychlist described as being "like listening to the musical equivalent of a horror story told around the flickering flames of a campfire". Things went a bit quiet for a while after the release of this doomic masterpiece until in 2022 when Malsten released "Entr'acte" a single track intended to serve as a bridging piece between the first chapter and the next instalment of the Silv​å​k ..read more
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SUPERNAUT ~ NO MIND VOLUME I ... review
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by Desert Psychlist
2w ago
Supernaut, Oliver Niemann (guitar); Will Iermini (bass) and Sean Niemann (drums), hail from Santa Cruz, California and have in the past released albums, "Supernaut", "The Green" and "Soul Awaken", that have been notable for their vocal parts however the album we are reviewing today is a collection of instrumental jams all recorded in one session which the band have dubbed "No Mind Volume I", "No Mind Volume I" is basically four smaller pieces bookended by two sprawling epics, the first of those epics being "Ronin", a song that retains a prog-like funkishness throughout its tenure and uses ..read more
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SIGMANTRA ~ HALLUCINOGENIC ...r eview
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by Desert Psychlist
2w ago
Those of us who spend most of out time listening to music at the more underground end of the rock spectrum will no doubt agree that listening to the sound of crunchy guitar tones, run through fuzz/distortion pedals and exploding out of an overdriven amp, is, bar making the two backed beast or watching your favourite sports team lift a trophy, one of the best experiences you can have in this world. With that in mind we today bring you an album that will satisfy that need for fuzz and distortion but will at the same time assuage any penchants you may have for groove. The album in question goes ..read more
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DAYTRIPPER ~ BOOK I: THE TRIP ...... review
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by Desert Psychlist
2w ago
Phoenix, Arizona's Daytripper may share their name with a Beatles song but that is where any similarities end, don't go expecting jangly guitar tones and tight vocal harmonies from these guys as their music resides on the darker side of the tracks, in fact the only thing jangling here are the nerves of those listening to the bands hellish doomic tomes. If you think that last statement may be us at Desert Psychlist slightly gilding the lily then press play on the bands debut "Book I: The Trip" but before you do make sure you have a light on and bottle of Valium to hand.   Dark droning a ..read more
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CLOUDS TASTE SATANIC ~ 79 A.E. ...... review
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by Desert Psychlist
3w ago
Given Clouds Taste Satanic's high standing in this thing we call the "underground community" there doesn't seem much point in giving a rundown of all their previous releases other than to say that with each release they have managed to raise the bar for instrumental music that bit higher. The bands latest release "79 A.E."(Majestic Mountain Records) is no different, it may only consist of two tracks but oh man those two tracks take you to places some bands struggle to take you to with ten!  A mistake many instrumental outfits make is to limit themselves within the confines of a speci ..read more
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SATURNALIA TEMPLE ~ PARADIGM CALL .... review
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by Desert Psychlist
3w ago
It's time we got a little heavy again here at Desert Psychlist, it's been a while since we have visited the low. slow and weighty side of the underground scene and who better could we pick to represent that side of things than Sweden's Saturnalia Temple who this month are releasing their fourth full length album "Paradigm Call" (Listenable Records). Those familiar with Saturnalia Temple, Tommie Eriksson (vocals/guitar); Gottfrid Åhman (bass) and Pelle Åhman (drums), will know what to expect but those coming to the band anew should be prepared for crunchy repetitive guitar riffs and soaring g ..read more
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SAMSARA JOYRIDE ~ THE SUBTLE & THE DENSE ....review
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1M ago
 A Viennese Whirl is a creamy light biscuit much loved by the British but we are not here to talk about cakes or biscuits we are here to review "The Subtle & The Dense" (Tonzonen Records) the new album from Austria's Samsara Joyride, Florian Miele  (vocals/guitar); Daniel Batliner (bass); Andi Mittermühler (drums) and Michael Haumner (guitar), which we think is more of a Viennese Whirlwind.  Samsara Joyride's jam is blues rock but blues rock laced with a little lysergic languidity and desert rock dustiness, a combination which you get str ..read more
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