The Obelisk

Nothing good comes without sacrifice, unless, you know, you’re really lucky once in a while, and while it’s a bummer to learn that Italy’s Humulus and Pittsburgh’s Carousel won’t be making the trip to Planet Desert Rock Weekend VII in Las Vegas — a trip I…

These later-in-the-year weeks when the next year’s Spring festival schedule begins to take shape are some of my nerdy favoritest.

I recognize it’s been there’s been a fair amount of Colour Haze-y posting around here lately, what with the ongoing catalog series of Friday Full-Lengths and such, but as the Munich-based heavy psych pioneers post these tour dates for early next year, it’s

Italian heavy rockers Herba Mate will release their second album, Bolide I & II, on Nov. 20 through Go Down Records.

The prospect of a second long-player from Norwegian heavy rockers Taiga Woods — whose name comes from coniferous northern forest biomes and is also kind of a play on that golfer from all the commercials in the aughts — was first raised last year, when the…

We already knew that Uncle Acid would be out in Europe early in 2027, and their confirmation at the top of the thus-far bill for the 32nd (!)

Swedish riff-followers Häxmästaren return on Nov. 2 with Skuggor Del 1, a new three-song EP that’s positioned as the first installment of their next full-length.

Hey, new Guhts.

This Thursday (Oct. 29), Starmonger take the stage in their currently-righteously-rioting hometown of Paris, France, alongside US fuzz mavens Valley of the Sun, and their new single “Sirenia” arrives timed to mark the occasion.

I have been fortunate enough in the last, I don’t know, 10 or so years, to go to Oslo like six times or somesuch, including for this and last year’s Desertfest Oslo, and as I was hoping, with Høstsabbat taking place this past weekend (the two fests share…

Dang, this looks good.

With apologies for, you know, existing, you can see me in the Sun Voyager video for their new single “Vandromeda” taking pictures with my intrusive-ass arm up in the blue-tinted shots from Cosmic Sonic Rendezvous (review here) back in May, a bit of the ba…

German instrumentalist conceptualist progressive heavy psychedelic rockers SEK release their debut album, Wallensteins Garage, this Friday, Oct. 30, through Exile on Mainstream.

All is a beginning and an ending.

Obviously, Kylesa are going to kill it headlining 2027’s Doom City Fest in Mexico City next February.

Been a while, Bright Curse.

My understanding is that Hashtronaut are the final band that will be added to the lineup for HUFR Fest II, taking place next May 13-16 (that includes the pre-show) in Denver, Colorado.

There’s no audio from it yet, but if you want to hear recent Psalm, you don’t have to go far, since even as the Las Vegas-based outfit announce their self-titled debut and a partially revamped lineup, they’re also about to release their first outing with…

While the pairing was no doubt based at least in part on geography, with Lady Lizard and A Broken Design hailing from Malta, both bands also have an undercurrent of metal to their sound that comes through certainly in Lady Lizard‘s aggressive, shove of a…

While heralding his recent solo soundtrack-type release La Vendetta Della Bona (review here) — and by ‘recent,’ I mean it came out like a week ago — Ruben Romano of The Freeks, ex-Nebula, ex-Fu Manchu, etc., will be playing an intimate show in Los Angeles…

The sonically amorphous project spearheaded by now-Berlin-based producer and multi-instrumentalist Robert Mirolo, SMMÜTT is set to release A Blight on the Perfect Organism of Death on Oct. 30 through Cursed Monk Records.

Before this second full announcement went out, Freak Valley 2027 added Brutus as a headliner, which makes Altın Gün the second revealed lineup-topper for the three-day event.

North Carolinian duo Sixyearhex issue their debut album, Liminal Space Cadet, on Nov. 13.

One night focused on the force of feminity in heavy music headlined by Puta Volcano and one night that’s a blowout with Truckfighters (who else?)

Pardon me if I speculate that YOB‘s Spring 2027 return to Europe might coincide with the band’s first new album in what will have been nine years.

Cosmic rock solo-outfit Astral Construct will release The Exoplanetary Diversions, the project’s third full-length, on Nov. 6 through Echodelick Records.

Portland heavygaze trailblazers Blackwater Holylight and Palm Springs locals The Holy Corrupt join the lineup for next March’s Mojave Experience, and the narrative of the festival digging in for its second year remains strong.

Christian Peters, once again based in Germany after years of living in Brazil and fronting a live incarnation of his began-as-a-solo-project band Fuzz Sagrado filled out by the members of Black Box Massacre, formerly guitarist/vocalist for Samsara Blues E…

Remember when Donald Rumsfeld talked about the known-knowns and the unknown-knowns and the known-unknowns and the unknown-unknowns?

As one would expect, Clutch are hitting their marks in the second single and title-track of their new album, Wasted Lands, out Jan. 22 through their own Weathermaker Music label.

The opening track and first single “Black Masquerade” from the debut album from Amsterdam’s Cervus — titled Axis and out Nov. 13 — is an interesting proposition, not quite sounding like what the band have put out before.

It’s all here.

Holy crap holy crap holy crap!

Philadelphia instrumentalist crushers Seismic will release their awaited debut full-length, The Abyss of Time, on Oct. 2, celebrating the album’s arrival with an appearance in Brooklyn, NY, at the inaugural In the Key of Doom.

Just wanted to take a minute to wish the members (current and former) of Geezer all the best going forward.

At 15 years’ remove from their declarative 2011 second EP, The Sayings of the Seers (review here), with guitarist/vocalist Ryan Ferrier as the sole remaining founder and miles and miles of road stretching both behind and ahead as a hardworking, touring act

Has it really been 20 years of Conan‘s reign of terror?

We’re just a month out from Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol releasing their new album, Ca$h Grab, on Oct. 23, and if you heard their prior album, 2024’s Big Dumb Riffs (review here), or have caught wind of the singles they’ve released this year (review he…

This coming weekend, Newcastle’s Dunes will appear at this year’s Stoomfest at The Garage in London as one of the band’s final live appearances.

A sense of grim revelry pervades Iron Jinn‘s second full-length, Zeitgeist on the Run, the title referencing Wings and perhaps the everything-is-fleeting, high-speed/low-attention-span aspects of our times.

With their seventh album, long-runinng Philadelphia post-metallers Rosetta are bringing their run to a close.

Rochester, New York’s King Buffalo have been teasing their studio return for a few months now, and today brings confirmation that their new album, Doomsayer, will be out Dec. 4, self-released in North America and on Stickman Records in Europe.

Patiently executed across five songs and 38 minutes, the fourth full-length from Bees Made Honey in the Vein Tree, titled In Between Strides, might be drilling down into moment capture as even the cover art seems to hint toward with its motion lines and a…

I mean, god damn.

I did my best to avoid social media this past weekend as Ripplefest Texas 2026 took place, correctly figuring that seeing the absolute blast everyone in attendance was having and posting about would do me and my whatever-you-call-FOMO-when-you-know-you-al…

Albany, New York’s Gozer have signed with Argonauta Records imprint Octpus Rising to release their second album, Twilight Fortress.

If I call Colour Haze‘s 2001 Monster Zero Records release Ewige Blumenkraft (reissue review here) underrated, understand that’s only because I don’t see people freaking out about a 25-year-old album on the internet today, like, right now, all the time.

As someone who’s known When the Deadbolt Breaks for most if not all of their 20 years, has sat in on vocals with them and collaborated with founding guitarist/vocalist Aaron Lewis, it warms my cold, dead heart to see the willfully caustic Connecticut-based

This’ll be a heavy one.

From the first second of all-go cosmic burn and roll, there’s never a question that The Spacelords are in their element.