The Obelisk

So, as per the advice from Aqualamb below, I attempted to “give myself” to the new Rebreather single, and at first I couldn’t find it.

First, it is so good to see underground heavy festivals — as a whole — double-down on supporting human-made art.

Six out of the 11 tracks on Amsterdam singer-songwriter Ismena‘s upcoming third album, Please Don’t Ask Me How I’ve Been, have the word “you” either directly in the title or implied through an imperative structure (in the case of the closer).

This past weekend in Aschaffenburg, Germany, Euro underground booking concern Sound of Liberation held a hometown all-dayer for My Sleeping Karma, and here they come announcing another day-long fest as part of the ongoing series SOL Sonic Ride that began…

Manchester, UK, heavy psych instrumentalists Dead Sea Apes release their new album, Psychic Tension, on Sept. 18 through Cardinal Fuzz (UK) and Feeding Tube Records (US).

Not that the Richmond, Virginia, two-piece need one to tour — they just go — but the impetus for Thunderchief‘s October tour of the Midwest and Southeastern US is the band’s appearance at Emissions From the Monolith in Ohio on Oct. 11.

If you find yourself scratching your head and thinking, gee, didn’t Dozer put out a rarities collection last year, the answer is yes.

Barcelona classic-style heavy rockers Saturna release their sixth full-length, Light and Shadow, tomorrow, Sept. 17, through an international consortium of labels that includes Spinda Records, Discos Macarras and Ripple Music.

Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 9, 2016, release of their third album, A Forest of Kings (review here), Tampere, Finland, heavy psychedelic rockers The Fërtility Cült have posted a new video for that album’s closing track, “Cycles of Time.”

I need to do a bit of disclosure here, so bear with me.

No surprise whatsoever to see Desertfest London 2027 going big out of the gate with destroy-on-stage legends the Melvins headlining.

The Keening is part of the SubRosa family tree, being the mostly-solo-project of Rebecca Vernon.

This one’s a no-brainer for me.

Auralayer release their new album Into the Aura Lair on Dec. 4.

If you go to the Colour Haze Bandcamp page, where there isn’t music streaming or I’d embed that but where you can nonetheless buy physical media, you’ll see they refer to 2000’s CO2 (properly ‘CO2‘) as their debut.

Congratulations to solo artist Dee Calhoun (formerly of Spiral Grave, Iron Man, and a slew of others) on signing to Combat Records.

New Jersey heavy rock stalwarts Shovelhead return this Saturday, Sept. 12, with their first new album since 2007.

The San Francisco dates and Roadburn Festival next April were previously announced here, but what you see listed below from the PR wire represents the most significant touring Neurosis have undertaken since before the pandemic.

My favorite part of the PR wire info below comes from the White Hills Bandcamp page, and it’s the part that says “Recorded at various times in various places over some years.”

The Nov. 6 release of So What, What?

Oof that’s sad.

Cool to see some news about the upcoming Megacelestial album from Richmond, Virginia’s Book of Wyrms, who in March were announced as partnering with Argonauta Records for the release.

Yes, it’s different.

Over the weekend, founding guitarist/vocalist Mike Scheidt of Oregonian cosmic doom progenitors YOB announced they were canceling the rest of their upcoming appearances for 2026 owing to needing surgery to regain full use of his left hand.

Italian heavy prog-psych rockers MR.BISON release their sixth full-length, The Garden of Forgotten Dreams, through Heavy Psych Sounds on Sept. 25.

The third Colour Haze album, Periscope, arrived only a year after Seven (discussed here), issued as a CD-R through Toaster Records.