Saw these guys a couple of months back in Portland and they sounded exactly like on this video, only much…much louder.

Awake in Sleep – Dark Castle from Paul Myers on Vimeo.

First and foremost, I want to say that the label distributing this fine piece of work is Neurot Recordings, the group who is also distributing the Shrinebuilder debut which I simply cannot get enough of. Everyone should check out Neurot’s website to see all the other great material they are or have distributed in the [...]

Wow, Eastern Canada is really pumping out the bands! Nova Scotia’s own Big Game Hunt has recently released their album Goliath and seeks to bring the southern stoner sludge Canadian style. Does have Canada have what it takes to make their own New Orleans? Well, they already have the French influence, so all they need [...]

Atlanta’s own Gray Ghost are out to harvest despair and nihilism, at least that is the sound that is evolked from their new EP, Deep In the Shallow End. Creating atmosphere through a sludge metal record is an art within itself, because you don’t want to sound like you are trying too hard by just [...]

I have been receiving an unusual amount of instrumental albums lately, but my latest arrival is nothing short of a mind bender. Solo project Inchoate, courtesy of Brandon Duncan, is not your stereotypical instrumental project. Most instrumental albums consist of a full band (or at least guest musicians), and usually provide a platform for an [...]

Many in the mainstream feel the need to call Isis post-metal. This is a term that I never understood because it insinuates that those that are labeled “post-metal” are no longer actually metal. Does this sound like a cop out to anyone else? To me this sounds like fans of Isis not wanting to be [...]

Trouble – Plastic Green Head (1995)
What stands out to me about this album in comparison to other albums of its kind is its inclusion of melody in it in kind of a Led Zeppelin way all traced with heavy, stoner-like riffs. When I listen to this album, I am immediately put into a borderline [...]

While always holding down the fort as a doom metal band, Kylesa has been a great story of maturity in evolution. On their 2002 self titled debut Kylesa was a rough around the edges sludgy doom metal band heavily influenced by the hardcore scene which was becoming the center of the heavy music world’s attention. [...]

Riding on the wave of success brought forth by bands like Mastodon and The Sword, Ontario’s Fiftywatthead is another example of doom and stoner metal’s rise to prominence in the metal scene to fill the void left by metalcore and melodic death. Unlike their peers in the equally resurgent thrash scene, doom bands led by [...]

Beckoning in a sound that can be smartly compared to the likes of Birds of Prey, Boris, Electric Wizard and maybe a little (or a LOT) of Black F’n Sabbath thrown in just to make things spicey, California sludgsters Kowloon Walled City have, almost literally, blown my face off through the back of my head. [...]