Hallgatom sokat az új Barbears lemezt, és van, hogy pontosan tudom, mit kellene írnom róla, máskor meg nem találok megfelelő kifejezéseket – csak annyit, hogy: Wow. Ezt persze így nem lehet leírni, mert elég rövid lenne. Az Enter The Bear óta eltelt 10 év. Közben ugyan megjelent egy dal 2017-ben a…

The Art of Anxiety Before you even press play, look at the cover. That painting is by Zdzisław Beksiński, a Polish artist famous for his "dystopian surrealism." It looks like a nightmare you can’t wake up from decaying structures, skeletal figures, and a sky that feels suffocating. I usually just…

Meditative music — even for those who don’t touch any cannabis derivatives. It sits somewhere between Sleep’s hypnotic monotony and Electric Wizard’s downtuned, blues-soaked riff-orgies. But PHR dives even deeper: stripping today’s trendy doom/occult rock back to its bare, ancient bones. Diabolic…

If you mention Suplecs in an average stoner rock crowd, you won’t see many heads snap around. Add New Orleans to the mix and you still won’t cause a stampede. But that’s exactly why their comeback hits so hard: after more than a decade of silence, the legendary NOLA riff-smiths return with the…

For quite some time now I’ve been circling around the music of Portland’s LáGoon. They’ve carved out a modest yet unmistakable cult status in the underground, but even after all these years I still struggle to place them neatly on my personal musical map. Punk, skate, doom, psych — all of these…