Stoner Metal

Stream a new song from Twingiant.

Stream a remastered version of “Dead Eyes of London” now!

British doom practitioners With the Dead are this week’s Best New Noise.

Embark on “The 420th Crusade” with Cannabis Corpse before reading bassist/vocalist LandPhil’s ten favorite albums to smoke pot to.

Stream a new song from Mindkult‘s Transcending Obscurity debut.

Three years after unleashing a self-titled debut that turned many a (metal)head — including a spot on Decibel‘s Best Bandcamp Finds of 2014 list — Toronto doom rockers Olde are set to return August 11 with the STB Records release Temple, on which the quintet’s already solid fantastically heavy, catchy-as-hell take on the ol’ crush n’ fuzz continues to evolve and deepen. 

Re-examining Leaf Hound’s 1971 proto-stoner album Growers of Mushroom.

Watch a new video from Finnish stoner death/doom group Altar of Betelgeuze. 

Have a brew to celebrate the new Droids Attack album/beer combination.

Check out a new video from Austin, TX harbingers of doom, Destroyer of Light. 

Listen to “Until the Earth is Empty” from Bison‘s You Are Not the Ocean You Are the Patient. 

“Staving Off Truth” comes from Elder‘s fourth and largest album, Reflections of a Floating World. 

Get familiar with Ripple Music, purveyors of doom, stoner, psychedelic and heavy rock and metal. 

Season of Arrows debut the music video for “The Bridge,” off sophomore effort Give It to the Mountain. 

Vokonis premiere the first single from their second album, both titled The Sunken Djinn. 

Obelyskkh deliver a slab of crushing doom on “Northern Lights.”

Stoner/sludge punks Connoisseur show off what they do “All Day Every Day” in a new, 4/20 friendly video.

High Strangeness, the third full-length from Texas rockers Mothership, incorporates a variety of sounds and influences for a diverse and fun album.

Clenched Fist, the all-star Sepultura cover band featuring members of Pig Destroyer, Agoraphobic Nosebleed and Misery Index will perform at the post-Decibel Metal And Beer Fest show.

Jagged Vision punish the listener with thick riffs and aggressive delivery on “Euthanasia.”

Horseneck marry sludge and post-hardcore with a host of other sounds to craft their memorable first record, Heavy Trip. 

Our resident birdbrains pecks on new releases from Sleep, Weltesser, Cranial Engorgement and Cnoc An Tursa. 

Bandcamp is donating 100% of their proceeds today to the ACLU in the continued fight for human rights around the world. Here are 5 releases to consider purchasing today. 

Groovy, psychedelic doom is the name of the game on The End of Electricity. 

The Black Sabbath classic gets a much noisier cover as part of Uniform‘s newest release. 

Arctic’s insane psychedelics put a chill into summer. Full album is here for streaming.

Head to the tombs to get, uh, this premiere streaming. 

Stream their second full-length, Stella Porta, for an “escape and outlet from real life” that’s crushing, hazy, hallucinatory, and caustic, all at the same time.  

In Memoriam
Slowness will prevail
dB Rating: 9/10

Lucifer I
New partner, same dance, better result
dB Rating: 9/10