Review: Black Rainbows are back with twelve fresh, brand new tunes in the form of Superskull. The new album sounds huge, with of a great deal of attention paid to guitars in the recording, with the band having finally struck the perfect balance and tone for their mega-heavy superstoner sound. The likes of 'Superhero Dopeprof' and 'Cosmic Ride Of The Crystal Skull' deliver skittery, start-stoppy, guitar-led shouts into a stoners' abyss; it's as if each track were accompanying us on a flying-carpet-ride into ever-further reaches of a divinely-designed THC jungle. There's even a acoustic space instrumental and a psychedelic suite on there, providing perfect juxtapositions for what can only be described as the band's most multifaceted album so far.
Review: Madison, Wisconsin based stoner/sludge metal legends Bongzilla make the gnarliest, heftiest, ugliest weed-inspired cacophony possible, while their avid legions of dank smelling followers are often the closest they can get to stern when highlighting how the band's live experience is the truest means of hitting the bong properly. Dabbing (LIVE) Rosin in Europe brings the live bong experience right to your ear canals with a collection of cuts taken from performances at Paradise Island, Minoga in Poznan, Poland, and Voodoo in Belfast, Northern Ireland, which were all hits on the band's Dabbing Across Europe & UK Spring-Summer 2023 Tour.
Review: You could definitely be forgiven for thinking Elusive Mojo was a much older piece of work, which isn't to say it sounds dated or out of place today; more highlighting the timelessness of high octane heavy metal, its fall out of the limelight but persistence to continue doing what it does very well indeed. Forget the washed up old guard refusing to put a pin in ideas that have repeated themselves for decades, Ecstatic Vision represent the vanguard of a sound we hold dear to our hearts, but don't encounter at its freshest often enough.
Taking a lead from the psychedelic-leaning early metal outfits like Hawkwind and Aphrodite's Child, simply put Ecstatic Vision growl and wail in all the right places, unleashing track after track of juggernaut energy, insane riffs and solos, and industrial power. Steaming ahead of the rest, this latest offering is the kind of record that threatens not just to blow through your hair like a mighty wind, but rip each strand off at the follicle.
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