Bokassa is back with a brand new track, ‘Garden of Heathen’, featuring no one less than Lou Koller from Sick Of It All on vocals! It’s also the first single of their upcoming album set for release via Indie Recordings!
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After a successful edition, Dynamo Metalfest already announced the first names for next year’s edition with Clutch, Forbidden, Warkings, Bodysnatcher, Carnation and Nakkeknækker! Get your hands on 1 of the 666 early bird tickets today at noon CET!
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Stoner doom rockers High Priest released the new single ‘Divinity’ from upcoming album ‘Invocation’, set for release in June via Magnetic Eye Records!
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Greek stoner rock collective Godsleep announced their new album ‘Lies To Survive’ to be released in April via Ouga Booga and the Mighty Oug Records, and shared a first track with ‘Cracks’!
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Finland’s heavy blues rockers Craneium released the standalone single ‘Sands of Gold’, out now for your listening pleasure via The Sign Records!
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Ukrainian prog stoner trio Stoned Jesus served us ‘Get What You Deserve’, another track from the upcoming new album ‘Father Light’, out next month via Season of Mist!
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Up-and-coming stoner rockers Bird’s View premiered the new song and music video ‘Phoning’ via Drakkar Entertainment! Get ready for some proper rocking out!
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Finnish fuzz rockers Craneium released the stand alone single and video ‘Victim of Delusion’ via The Sign Records last week!
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Helsinki based heavy doom & occult stoner rockers Ciminero signed to Argonauta Records for the release of their 2nd album which is in the works as we speak!
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Ukrainian stoner rock outfit Stoned Jesus signed with Season of Mist for their upcoming new album!
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For the third and last day of Alcatraz 2023, our team picked out 10 more bands we believe you shouldn’t miss out on with Serpents Oath, Archspire, Psychonaut, Mantah, Gaupa, Stake, Blind Guardian, Brutus, Killswitch Engage, and Holy Moses! Who are you especially looking forward to on the second day of the festival?
Alcatraz 2023 is getting really close now! This Friday is the first day, and our team picked out 10 bands we believe you shouldn’t miss out on with Eleine, Wind Rose, Frozen Soul, Gnome, Kludde, Svalbard, Gaahls Wyrd, Possessed, I Am Morbid and Mad Sin! Who are you especially looking forward to on the first day of the festival?
12 of the albums we’re looking forward the most in June, there are more, but these are really at the top of our lists! Check it out!
12 more releases of March 2021 we have been looking forward to for a while! Check it out!
Photo Reports
The kings of weed metal Bongzilla brought the smoke with them to a packed house at Kuudes Linja in Helsinki, Finland and delivered their usual absolutely crushing wall of sound to a highly anticipating crowd. Support came from the Finnish black metal outfit Frigid Winter.
Dinosaur Jr. hasn’t really changed – soundwise – for decades. They still play the coolest vintage gear, rock the dirtiest, grittiest fuzz pedals and turn it all up to eleven! A sheer treat for indie rockers and old souls at Trix in Antwerp with support from Garcia Peoples.
After 3 years Black Stone Cherry returned to German stages. They have not lost anything ever since the last time and are a fantastic live band with an energy loaded show. Presenting songs from all of their albums making the German fans at the LKA go crazy. With very special guest The Georgia Thunderbolts opening the night, it couldn’t get any better!
The coalition of the Norwegian stoner punks of Bokassa and Greek stoner rockers of Planet of Zeus rocked the house seriously. On The Rocks Helsinki was the place to be and those who weren’t there missed out on some good fun!
Pictures of the second day of brand new festival Desert HEL again filled with fuzz, groove and rock ‘n’ roll with some amazing bands!
After bringing Danko Jones to Zappa last year, our friends from MCLX flew in some more Canadian power. This time they presented us the smooth southern rock of Monster Truck and as support they brought Royal Tusk.
Pics of a night of rock ‘n’ roll and old school rocking at On The Rocks in Helsinki with The Vintage Caravan and Black Mirrors!
Stoned Jesus brought one hell of a show to Magasin 4 and so did support Mothership and Elephant Tree. Check out the pics!
The smoky pictures of a night of doom, sludge and stoner at the Blowup vol. 4 Pre Festival Club!
The weather had been indecisive for a few days before the show, veering between pleasant summer and anticipating thunder, which left a very hot and brewing air indoors. An ideal atmosphere for a night of heavy stoner rock, if you ask me. I’d seen and shot Monster Magnet a couple of years before at the […]
