ALUNAH have announced a new album! Titled Fever Dream, the upcoming album from the Birmingham-based doom band is the follow-up to 2022’s Strange Machine, and is scheduled to be released in September this year, via Heavy Psych Sounds. The upcoming album was produced by Chris Fielding [ELECTRIC WIZARD, CONAN] and features artwork by Stefán Ari [THE VINTAGE CARAVAN]. The album was recorded during the winter of 2024, the atmosphere of the historic Foel Studio allows the groove to flow alongside riff, heft and melody in equal measure. Alongside the announcement of the new album ..read more

DEMON HEAD have announced a new album! Titled Through Holes Shine The Stars, the upcoming album from the Danish heavy metal band is the follow-up to 2021’s Viscera, and is scheduled to be released in September this year, via Svart Records. The eight songs were written collectively during several concentrated sessions from 2019-2022 and recorded entirely by the band themselves from October 2022 to March 2023 in their own studios in Copenhagen and the west coast of Ireland. Guitarist, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist producer, Birk Gjerlufsen Nielsen expands on the process ..read more

It’s been five long years since UK sludge monsters GURT released an album and a lot has happened in that time, but while the world has changed in so many ways since then the band have stayed true to their modus operandi of killer riffs and grooves delivered in a tongue in cheek style. Their latest album Satan Etc. follows up the well-received Bongs Of Praise and it sees the party doomsters still cranking out the riffs while getting more aggressive in the process. The results are more than impressive from start to finish and it has to be said that these songs will kill in a live environment. Th ..read more

DUEL have released a new music video! The new music video, for the track Pyro, is taken from the American psychedelic doom/stoner metal band’s upcoming new album, Chaos Reigns, which is scheduled to be released in July this year, via Heavy Psych Sounds. The new music video was first premiered via Ghost Cult Magazine. Speaking about the new music video, the band shares, “Pyro video budget: Plastic tarp $12.00 – Cheap projector $0 (borrowed) -5 gallons of gasoline $16.35 – Dark sunglasses $9.99 – 12 pack of Mexican beer $18.00 – 3.5 grams of high grade weed $25… Making a ..read more

RIFFLORD have released a brand new song! The new song, titled Ohm Ripper, is taken from the South Dakota-based doom metal/stoner rock band’s upcoming new album, 39 Serpent Power, which is scheduled to be released later this month, via Ripple Music. Listen to Ohm Ripper here:  The upcoming album album was written and recorded in a pre-COVID world and then buried like a time capsule until 2024 to be released. Heavily influenced by the old American West, down-tuned guitars, orchestrated keys and thunderously abrasive drums, the upcoming album intends to leave a mark that ..read more

Emerging from the Appalachian Mountains that surround East Tennessee in 2022, WYNDRIDER – made up of Robbie Willis (guitar), Chloe Gould (vocals), Joshuwah Herald (bass) and Josh Brock (drums) – wasted no time in establishing themselves in the stoner and doom community, debuting almost instantly in 2023 with their self-titled album that focused on subjects such as apocalypse, alien life, the Satanic Panic, and sarcastic dissection of the Christian Church – everything that a doom fan could need. It was a raw, heavy and old school debut that won them plenty of fans, and it even got a few AO ..read more

BARBARIAN HERMIT have announced a new album! Titled Mean Sugar, the upcoming album from the Manchester-based doom/sludge metal band is the long-awaited follow-up to 2018’s Solitude And Savagery, and is scheduled to be released in August this year, via APF Records. Recorded by Joe Clayton at No Studio and mastered by Chris Fielding (Foel Studios), the album sees the return of original vocalist Simon Scarlett who helped craft the band’s debut One EP, originally released in 2016 (and reissued on APF Records in 2021). Speaking about the upcoming album, frontman Simon Scarl ..read more

HIGH PARASITE have announced their debut album! Titled Forever We Burn, the upcoming album from the self-described ‘death pop’ band is their debut full-length album, and is scheduled to be released in September this year, via Candlelight Records. The upcoming debut album was produced by Gregor Mackintosh [PARADISE LOST], who also adds some signature guitar lines; as a body of work, it both delves into the darker recesses of the human condition and heralds the arrival of a new name and a familiar, formidable voice. The name (an acknowledgement of mankind as parasite-in-chief ..read more

KUROKUMA have announced a new album! Titled Of Amber And Sand, the upcoming album from the Sheffield-based sludge metal band is the follow-up to 2022’s Born Of Obsidian, and is scheduled to be released in August this year, via self-release. Whilst Born Of Obsidian explored the ancient history of Mesoamerican civilisations, the upcoming album is based on the concept of time, with each track exploring a different facet of temporality and eternity, with probes to their significance to creation, civilisation and the experience of being human. Musically, the band have drawn ..read more

If there’s one thing Umbilical teaches you, it’s that THOU are disgusted by their continuing existence. If there’s another, it’s that their first full-length release since 2018’s Magus is arguably their masterpiece. Oh, the irony: one of heavy metal’s most politically-minded acts denounces themselves, pens a self-criticising ode to their own failures, and does away with the cavernous chamber music they’ve made their home in an attempt to cut off a corner of fans they simply do not want and end up creating an album that’ll arguably be spoke about by generations to come. Opener Narcissist’s ..read more