The Belgian Cowboys & Aliens return with their seventh full-length album, Finis Temporum, a weighty statement from a band with three decades behind them. This is arguably their darkest material to date: monolithic riffs, slower, hypnotic mid-tempos, and a thick, pulsating bass-and-drum…

  Not often do you come across a stoner rock band from Tunisia, but Shade fills that gap perfectly. After a longer hiatus, the band returned with the Under Distant Suns and The Exploitation Tapes EPs, showcasing two different yet connected sides of their sound. In this interview, they offer insight…

Over the past decade and a half, the Polish underground scene has proven to be particularly fertile ground for fuzzy riffs and heavy grooves. While the cradle of stoner rock is still firmly rooted in the American desert, in Europe Poland has increasingly become one of the strongest bases for this…

The fourth album by Italian heavy rock band Oreyeon, The Grotesque Within, doesn’t try to be more than what it is. And that’s exactly why it works. In recent years, stoner rock has often been busy redrawing its own shadow. Thick riffs, vintage worship, safe psychedelia wrapped in familiar…

Axis Mundi is one of those albums that both crushes and lifts you at the same time. It doesn’t chase hits or try to prove anything—it just exists and fills the space around you. TarLung captures the essence of doom and sludge without sticking to clichés: the riffs roll slowly, heavy and sticky,…