Doom band from Galicia, Spain The Origin & Identity: How did you all come together as a band, and when did it feel real? -Cruzeiro started with bassist Raposa and guitarist Gon B aiming to start a stoner doom project back in 2017. But there wasn’t until late 2019 Cruzeiro get a real state when […]
Witching Chronicles: Exploring STONE MACHINE ELECTRIC’s FACES
Stone Machine Electric don’t play songs so much as drop you inside them. Faces is six slabs of slow-burn hypnosis, the kind of record that doesn’t hurry to prove a damn thing. These Texans have been circling the underground for years, and you can hear the road miles baked into every stretch of feedback and […]
Witching Riffs: Behind the Sound of Möuth
Power trio from Stockholm, Sweden. The Origin & Identity: How did you all come together as a band, and when did it feel real? We’ve known each other for a long time and played together in different constellations before, so forming a band was mostly a matter of timing. Over the past 10+ years we’ve […]
Witching Chronicles: Exploring ZOMBIE EATER’s FACES
The first note hits, and the room smells of damp wood and a faint electric hum. Faces creeps in slowly, sticky in the air, settling into corners before you even notice. Zombie Eater have spent years in Helsinki basements and German backrooms, and you can hear the floors sagging under the weight, the lights flickering, […]
Witching Riffs: Behind the Sound of Rainbow Bridge
Rainbow Bridge, formed in 2006, draws inspiration from the Jimi Hendrix Experience and classic sixties power-trios, blending heavy blues with psychedelic jams. They’ve played numerous rock & blues festivals—including Blues in Town, Wood In Stock, and Freakout Stoned Fest—and opened for bands like Oh Sees and Putan Club. Since Fabio joined on bass in 2015, […]
Witching Chronicles: Exploring the HEBI KATANA’s Imperfection
I came to Imperfection with a bit of caution, not because I doubted HEBI KATANA, but because after three albums of raw, sticky Tokyo doom, you start wondering how much more weight a trio can carry without spilling over into overkill. What hits first is how completely they don’t care about that question. The riffs […]
Witching Chronicles: Exploring the GODZILLA WAS TOO DRUNK TO DESTROY TOKYO’s Sideral Voivod
Some bands write songs. These maniacs in Liguria build collapsing wormholes and then jump inside. Sideral Voivod isn’t polished, it’s not safe, it’s a fuzz-drunk meteor crash rolling downhill until it smokes out the neighborhood. Heavy grooves that lurch and stagger, riffs like molten concrete, bass throb that sounds more animal than instrument. You can […]
Witching Chronicles: Exploring the RAVINE’s Chaos and Catastrophes
From the rainy, gray corners of Portland, Oregon, a new monster crawls out of the sludge. Chaos and Catastrophes, the first full-length from Ravine, doesn’t bother with pleasantries – it hits you fast and leaves your head ringing like you just got flattened by a truck. This record smells like bourbon, burnt rubber, and wet […]
Witching Chronicles: Exploring the NEPAL DEATH’s Pilgrims and Psychonauts
Nepal Death never sounded like a band that wanted to be filed neatly in the record store. With Pilgrims and Psychonauts they’ve doubled down on that instinct and made something that’s too heavy for the cosmic folk crowd, too freaked for the stoner riff bros, too raw for the synth fetishists. It’s not really about […]
Witching Chronicles: Exploring the INSOMNIAC’s Om Moksha Ritam
Insomniac’s debut hits hard and slow, like something dragging itself out of the earth and into the sky. Atlanta made a band that doesn’t really sit in stoner rock, doom, or anything you can name. It’s heavy, sure, but it also stretches, bends, drifts. You can feel it. You can get lost in it. The […]