Caffeine – The Threshold
The raucous guitars, tempo, and rougher vocals make this a contender for AOTY in the stoner-prog genre, failing only to give a little bit more for us to love and not just feel like a long EP … MoreCaffeine – The Threshold
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The Blacktones – The Longest Year
Fans of Faith No More and Mastodon should enjoy this musically-diverse and sludgy, stoner-y record, but don’t ask it to be much more than it wants to be … MoreThe Blacktones – The Longest Year
Hippotraktor – Stasis
Be patient and you’ll be rewarded
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Uncanny – Shroomsday
Psilocybin infused prog tinged metal … MoreUncanny – Shroomsday
Pyramid Mass – Monolith
Overall, the Monolith is satisfactory in blending genres, but ends up being holistically better than just an amalgam of styles, turning into something that is, ultimately, excellent to listen to and will be appreciated for years to come. … MorePyramid Mass – Monolith
Gavran – Indistinct Beacon
Heavy and hairy,Gavran’s Indistinct Beacon is a dynamically-powerful sludge/doom offering that crams a huge amount of music into just 5 tracks, allowing listeners to sit back and be overwhelmed by the intense mountain of sound that will be one of the better sludge offerings of 2022 … MoreGavran – Indistinct Beacon
IRIST – Gloria
Atlanta-by-way-of-South-America Progressive/Post-Metal quartet, IRIST, continue the momentum on Gloria, their impressive follow-up EP to 2020’s critically-acclaimed debut, Order of the Mind … MoreIRIST – Gloria
Tersivel – To The Orphic Void
A cohesive and cognizant album that brings execution and desperate melancholy to the genre(s) with melodic tonal layers blended into vocal and rhythmic violence … MoreTersivel – To The Orphic Void