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Author: Rob Walsh

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Review: Weedpecker ‘V’

19th March 202619th March 2026 Rob Walsh Heavy Psych Sounds, Prog, Psych, Weedpecker

Poland’s Weedpecker has been one of my favorites for a number of years. Their dare-I-say silly (intentionally?) band name might

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Review: Homegrown ‘Homegrown’

20th January 202620th January 2026 Rob Walsh Homegrown, Instrumental, Majestic Mountain Records, Psych

Homegrown… in our circle, it generally means two things. One is a local act, the other is local devil’s lettuce.

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Review: Cosmic Reaper ‘Bleed The Wicked, Drown The Damned’

27th October 202527th October 2025 Rob Walsh Cosmic Reaper, Doom, Heavy Psych Sounds

North Carolina’s Cosmic Reaper have returned to reap the unworthy, the pitiful, the uncool… You know who you are! And

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Review: Pyramids ‘Pythagoras’

8th August 20258th August 2025 Rob Walsh Blackgaze, Dream Pop, Electronic, Pyramids, The Flenser

Pythagoras was a Greek mathematician and philosopher that many modern scholars are still stumped on several millennia later, unsure of

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Review: Temple Fang ‘Lifted From The Wind’

27th May 202527th May 2025 Rob Walsh Prog, Psych, Stickman Records, Temple Fang

From the opening bit of The River from Dutch psych outfit Temple Fang, I knew things had gotten very interesting.

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Review: Neptunian Maximalism ‘Le Sacre Du Soleil Invaincu’

16th May 202516th May 2025 Rob Walsh Drone, I Voidhanger Records, Jazz, Neptunian Maximalism, Psych

Two things immediately struck me when I came across the Belgian collective Neptunian Maximalism’s 2021 record Solar Drone Ceremony. The

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Review: Mamuthones ‘From Word To Flesh’

1st May 20251st May 2025 Rob Walsh Mamuthones, Neo Folk, Psych, Rocket Recordings

I’ve always found the genre term ‘neo folk’ a bit confusing. ‘Neo’ implies new, recent or revived, and as far

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Review: Granicus ‘Granicus’ [Reissue]

10th April 202510th April 2025 Rob Walsh Granicus, Heavy Rock, Proto-Metal, RidingEasy Records

YouTube might not be the site it was twenty years ago, but if there is one silver lining aspect, it

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Review: Dead Meadow ‘Voyager To Voyager’

25th March 202525th March 2025 Rob Walsh Dead Meadow, Heavy Psych Sounds

Back in June of 2022 I went to the 1720 Club in East Los Angeles to review Heavy Psych Sounds

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Review: Yawning Balch ‘Volume Three’

17th February 202520th February 2025 Rob Walsh Bob Balch, Desert Rock, Fu Manchu, Heavy Psych Sounds, Mario Lalli, Psych, Yawning Balch, Yawning Man

This January, Southern California – the region that both I and many stoner and desert rock artists call home –

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Top Ten Of 2024: Rob Walsh

20th December 202420th December 2024 Rob Walsh Abrams, Blood Incantation, delving, Dirtwire, Fu Manchu, Glass Beams, Hijss, Massive Hassle, Melvins, Sonolith, Top Ten 2024

Speaking only for myself, 2024 was a noticeable improvement over its predecessor. I got into better shape, got a lot

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Video Premiere: TESA – Excerpt From ‘TESA MAN’ Ahead Of This Friday’s Release Of ‘INTERVAL’
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Video Premiere: TESA – Excerpt From ‘TESA MAN’ Ahead Of This Friday’s Release Of ‘INTERVAL’

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Ahead of the release of INTERVAL this Friday, 3rd April 2026 via My Proud Mountain, TESA unveil a new visual

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Video Premiere: Desert Storm ‘Law Unto Myself’ – Taken From New Album That Drops 6th March

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Video Premiere: The Mon ‘Ritual Of Night Violence’ – From ‘Songs Of Embrace’ That Drops 6th March

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