psychedelic rock
Video Premiere: Spiral Skies – “Into the Night”
December 22, 2022 Adem Tepedelen
Swedish psych metal quintet Spiral Skies close out the ridiculous season with a ‘Boogie Nights’-meets-‘Eyes Wide Shut’ video for “Into the Night”
Top Five Psych Rock Records That Changed Our Lives With Molassess
November 23, 2020 Chris Dick
Dark psych rock outfit Molassess (ex-The Devil’s Blood) dig into the vaults to list the Top 5 Records That Changed Their Lives.
Track Premiere: Red Mesa “Disharmonious Unlife” (feat. Wino)
June 8, 2020 Chris Dick
New Mexico-based heavy rock trio Red Mesa unveil new track, “Disharmonious Unlife,” featuring Wino, at Decibel.
Watch: Iron Lamb Spoof Crime Films with ‘Apocalypse Express’ Video
September 24, 2018 Emily Bellino
Iron Lamb spoof crime films with their new video for “Apocalypse Express.”
Watch: Black Salvation – ‘Leair’
March 29, 2018 Emily Bellino
Watch a trippy new video from Black Salvation.
Full Album Stream: White Hills & Der Blutharsch – “Desire”
February 7, 2018 Emily Bellino
Two psych rock bands open up a lush, experimental world on Desire.
Label Spotlight: Heavy Psych Sounds
January 15, 2018 Emily Bellino
Get lost in space with Italian purveyors of all things psychedelic Heavy Psych Sounds.
Video Premiere: Wedge – ‘Lucid’
December 13, 2017 Emily Bellino
Watch a new video from psychedelic rockers Wedge now!
Full Album Stream: The Oxford Coma – “Everything Out of Tune”
October 10, 2017 Emily Bellino
Stream the Steve Albini-produced new album from The Oxford Coma.
Deconstructing the Doom Side of the Moon: An Interview with Kyle Shutt
August 25, 2017 Decibel Magazine
Doom Side of the Moon is a doomed-out interpretation of Pink Floyd’s classic The Dark Side of the Moon. Read an interview with bandleader Kyle Shutt (The Sword) to find out what makes Doom Side tick.
Label Spotlight: Ripple Music
May 15, 2017 Emily Bellino
Get familiar with Ripple Music, purveyors of doom, stoner, psychedelic and heavy rock and metal.
Full Album Stream: Summoner – ‘Beyond The Realm Of Light’
May 11, 2017 Emily Bellino
Go Beyond the Realm of Light and embrace the Summoner album you’ll find there.
Full Album Stream + Q&A: Duel – ‘Witchbanger’
April 21, 2017 Emily Bellino
Witchbanger, Duel‘s second LP, recalls a different time but is more than welcome today.
Full Album Stream: Mothership – ‘High Strangeness’
March 14, 2017 Emily Bellino
High Strangeness, the third full-length from Texas rockers Mothership, incorporates a variety of sounds and influences for a diverse and fun album.
Full Album Stream: Death Alley – ‘Live At Roadburn’
March 14, 2017 Emily Bellino
Death Alley have immortalized their 2016 performance at Roadburn Festival in a live album. Hear it now.
Q&A: Arthur Brown On The Roots Of Metal and Art In Times Of Social Upheaval
March 7, 2017 Justin Norton
Decibel talked to psychedelic pioneer Arthur Brown about his role in the birth of metal and why art flourishes in times of political and social upheaval.
Full Album Stream: All Them Witches – ‘Sleeping Through the War’
February 17, 2017 Emily Bellino
Stream the fourth album from psych rockers All Them Witches, which is out next week on New West Records.
Track Premiere: Earth Electric – ‘Meditate. Mediate’
February 15, 2017 Emily Bellino
Earth Electric may be newcomers to the scene but they deliver quality hard rock.
Full Album Stream: Eye – ‘Vision and Ageless Light’
November 17, 2016 Emily Bellino
Eye‘s Vision and Ageless Light is a retro psychedelic prog throwback that pays homage to the past while keeping it fresh.
Track Premiere: Fuzz Evil – “Bring Them Through”
September 9, 2016 Emily Bellino
The fuzzapocalypse is here, courtesy of Fuzz Evil.
TO THE MILKY WAY & BEYOND: EXCLUSIVE DARSOMBRA PREMIERE
August 10, 2016 Shawn Macomber
“Trans-apocalyptic” psych droners Darsombra are about to hit you up with some seriously weird , perception-expanding atmospherics when the band drops Polyvision — its first album in four years — on September 9 via Translation Loss just six days ahead of a sure-to-be-memorable appearance at Shadow Woods Metal Fest.
Friday is for Flutes with the Re-release of Iron Mountain’s “Unum”
April 1, 2016 James Lewis
End your week with some Irish/Native American/psychedelic/Krautrock folk metal. Come on, if Friday isn’t for flutes, what day is?
Uncle Acid’s Intro to Cinema
April 16, 2013 Shawn Macomber
We’re less than a month out now from the release of Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats’ sublime psychedelic doom n’ roll tour de force Mind Control, and, lord, does the tranquil-yet-oddly-sinister old school VHS clamshell-esque cover artwork suit the album’s messianic death cult lyrical theme and transcendentalist sonic vibe. “The whole album reeks of VHS…
UFOMAMMUT post video teaser for “ORO: Opus Alter”
July 9, 2012 Jonathan Horsley
Italian doom trio Ufomammut have released a video teaser for forthcoming album Opus Alter, out 18 September through Neurot. Opus Alter is the second half of Ufomammut’s ORO series. Its predecessor, Opus Primum, dropped in April, and was a lush dizzying headtrip of psychedelic guitars, space rock ambience all darkened by the unspoken threat of…