It's always exciting to receive a package from an unknown record label. This is exactly what happened a few months ago when I found a small packet from Trail Records in my mailbox...
I have written elsewhere about my growing reluctance for newer bands that imitate the rock of the 1970s. The reason for this is that most of these bands do not add anything new to it and it sure makes me wonder why I should listen to any of these outfits, because the original bands are substantially better...
Hailing from Florida, 'Deficit Of Dreams' is the latest release of RUNNAMUCKS who have been around for many years. This time the band released the new album via Ripping Records in 2013, which is the record label of RUNNAMUCKS vocalist/guitarist Josh Dobbs...
The times when COLOUR HAZE was walking in the footsteps of Kyuss are long gone. Over the last years, the band has undergone an exciting transformation with the result of being the leading German heavy psych rock band...
Named after a television series from the 1950s, RADAR MEN FROM THE MOON is an instrumental power trio which is located in Eindhoven, Netherlands. 'Echo Forever' is their second self-released album and offers the listener seven songs where you find influences from Monkey 3, 35007 and of course Kyuss...
This album is not only the debut of HEAT, but also the second release from Electric Magic Records, a new German label that is runned by Christian Peters, who some might already know from Samsara Blues Experiment as well as from the Electric Magic webzine. He proves good taste with HEAT who have committed themselves to the heavy rock of the 1970s...
Following on from the release of 'Lord Of The Rats' (review here), Ohio's MORBID WIZARD return with 'Necrosis Of The Eyeball' and it makes me feel dirty just listening to it. This is definitely a very grim and nihilistic trip which is free from any gleam of hope...
Hailing from West Virginia, SEVEN PLANETS is an instrumental band and this self-titled album is their second self-financed full-length, released in 2012. They deliver an eclectic mix of psychedelic blues and heavy rock, but there's more to discover...
'Vortex Memplex' is now the third album by Denmark's FUZZ MANTA who prove once again that they are still a group to be reckoned with. The band is in fine shape on their new album which appears to me like the natural evolution of the previous effort 'Opus II' (review here)...
Without doubt, 'Green Vapour' is one of the heaviest albums I have heard in 2012. The second full-length of Switzerland's LORD OF THE GRAVE is relentlessly, massive, and thick, and it feels, when listening to it, that a hole could easily crack in the ground...
