The instrumental space in the underground is not for the uncommitted. If you’re going to try and deliver something with no voice, you need to make damn sure that you can deliver a performance that really delivers on virtually every … Continue reading Distant Dream – End of the World We Know
It’s important to remember where you came from, but it’s more often than not that bands seek to stake their own claim in territories of their own as they continue to grow and evolve their sound as time goes on. … Continue reading Heavy Trip – Liquid Planet
When you dig through the underground long enough, it’s only a matter of time before you come across something that is certifiably different than much of what else is out there. Of course, that doesn’t make such a find interesting … Continue reading Black Aleph – Apsides
All too often do we see plenty of bands come around to bring their own style of glory and splendor to a realm like psychedelic rock, but only the finest and most avid purveyors of the craft are able … Continue reading Sunguine – All Time High
Endless and constantly shifting are the boundaries of psychedelic rock. In a sound where anything can seem possible, it can sometimes be the case that bands come around and take a bigger bite than what they can swallow with their … Continue reading Delving – All Paths Diverge
It was for years that I felt as though it wasn’t nearly often enough that the possibilities of sludge metal had gone largely unheralded outside of a few key exceptions. Now, I know that the best sludge is the kind … Continue reading Oldd Wvrms – Abysséphale
In the modern digital age that we find ourselves in, it is all but effortless for bands to find themselves mixing styles and genres together intentionally and unintentionally to create efforts that can just as easily be fresh as they … Continue reading Glacier – A Distant, Violent Shudder
Heaviness needs no introduction in the current landscape that the underground finds itself in today with the mere concept of intensity coming in all shapes and sizes from all corners of the map to show us what it can still … Continue reading Shipyard – Swing Bridge
Growth is something that we’re able to bear witness to many times over throughout the vast underground with it being every given style that has quite a long list of acts that know how to always keep us in suspense … Continue reading Atomic Vulture – Pilgrims of the Sun
Often enough have the many different realms of doom metal received a psychedelic gloss in recent times with there being several acts coming out of the woodwork to show us what can still be done with the concept, but it’s … Continue reading Ainu – s/t