Kleazer, Berthil de Lange (bass); Steven van Olphen (drums/backing vocals); Matthijs Oldenhuis (guitar) and Harald de Ruiter (vocals/guitar), hail from Amsterdam in The Netherlands and jam a form of rock that sonically sits somewhere between what Josh Homme was doing when he was with Kyuss and what he is now doing with his current band QOTSA, a mix of straight down the line swaggering fuzz'n'roll and sleazy off centred and jagged alt-rock. The band have just release a new EP "Signals", a long awaited follow up to their two song release "Beautiful Violence" (2010), and we think its well worth ..read more

Inspired by a collective love of American culture and 70's rock music. as well as more recent bands like Soundgarden and Sleep, Groningen, Netherlands based trio Chief of Smoke are the perfect fit for these pages as their music possesses all the attributes we at Desert Psychlist hold dear to our hearts like fuzzy guitar tones, clean slightly buried in the mix vocals and thunderous rhythms guaranteed to have the neighbours banging on the walls. The band, Omar Larabi (guitar/vocals); Romke-Theun de Vries (bass) and Tom Bak (drums), first appeared on Desert Psychlist's radar via their 2016 debu ..read more

The mission plan for Almost Honest's latest opus "The Hex of Penn's Woods" was, in the bands own words, to " Musically go for everything that made our last record great and turn it up to 11. Groovier, heavier, funkier, catchier." The bands last release "Seiches and Sirens" saw the band garnering plaudits from all the right quarters of the underground press so to then declare that they intended to outdo that album with their new release was somewhat of a bold statement. The question on everybody's lips now is have they achieved what they set out to do and the answer to that question is yes ..read more

Austrian quartet Honeygiant, Fabio Menches (bass); Christian Reitmann (guitar); Wolfgang "Wolli" Steinbach (vocals, guitar) and Lukas Ulrich (drums), have been doing their thing for around three years now but don't feel bad if this review is the first you've heard of the band because apart from "Mortar", a 2019 one track release, there has not been a lot for those outside of their Austrian homeland to latch their ears on to. That state of affairs changes with the release of the bands self-titled debut album "Honeygiant" (Independant Audio Management) a stunning collection of melodic heavines ..read more

  Like your riffs fuzzed to the max with a crunchy circular dynamic, your rhythms solid busy and tight and your vocals tinged with a crackled raw edge? Well if you do then maybe you should lend an ear to "Pilot The Dune" the self-titled debut from, you guessed it....Pilot The Dune. Pilot The Dune hail from Norwich, UK, a city only a hop skip and a jump away from the East Anglian coast line where it is possible to find actual dunes, something that might go some way to explaining why a band from the lower middle East of England have a sound so close to that once birthed in the deserts ..read more

  For a long time Desert Psychlist considered Peter Gabriel's song "Intruder" (from his 1980 album Pete Gabriel: 3) as one of the most unnerving things ever recorded, that was until we received a promo (via The Doom Charts) of Norwegian outfit Praise the Sun's latest opus "Sinister & Unhinged", here we found not just one unnerving song but a whole album of them.  Remember to check under the bed before playing this one and DO NOT go investigating that noise in your cellar.  A quick crash of cymbals and a thick reverberating circular bass and guitar refrain introd ..read more

What better way to avoid arguments with egotistical vocalists, bassists who are constantly turning their amps up and drummers who keep putting fills where fills are not meant to go than by doing everything yourself. This is the course of action taken by multi-instrumentalist Jake Lewis for his ongoing project Burn Ritual and its a course that has so far paid dividends with Lewis seeing all of his releases getting favourable reviews from all the right quarters and seeing Burn Ritual's 2018 album "Blood of the Raven" placed at #17 in October's Doom Charts for that year. Burn Ritual is not Lewi ..read more

  For those of you out there with a friend who has one foot in the camp of grunge/alt-metal and one foot in the sludge/stoner metal camp Desert Psychlist has found the perfect gift for you to place under their Christmas Tree, an album that takes the best of both disciplines and merges them with elements of prog and post metal to create something a little bit moody and intense but also a little bit blustering and heavy. The band hails from Ghent, Belgium and go by the name Left Eye Perspective and the album in question is called "Conundrum". Left Eye Perspective come out of the traps wil ..read more

There have been some truly impressive bands to have come out of the Argentinian underground rock scene, some we have covered on these very pages, but there is one band whom for Desert Psychlist stand head and shoulders above all the rest and that is Córdoba trio IAH, Juan Pablo Lucco Borlera (bass); Mauricio Condon (guitar & synths) and José Landín (drums). IAH are an instrumental band so have had no need to make compromises to reach an international audience and this has seen the band build up a significant fan base stretching over many borders, you just have to take a pee ..read more

Desert Psychlist is bringing you something a little different today, something from a band who themselves are a little different. That something is "Grind House" the new album from Kansas City's Merlin, a band we have featured a few times on these pages. Merlin, Carter Lewis (guitar, synth, organ, orchestral arrangements, vocals); Caleb Wyels (drums, percussion, vocals); Joey Hamm (bass) and Jordan Knorr (lead vocals), are no ordinary outfit, they are a band who make music that blurs the borders between genres and styles, a band who may have popped their cherry playing heavy doomic music but ..read more