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Review: Blue Heron ‘Everything Fades’

1st October 20241st October 2024 Martin Williams Blue Heron, Blues Funeral Recordings, Desert Rock, Stoner Rock

Hailing from my hometown of Albuquerque, New Mexico, Blue Heron made an instant impact in desert rock circles with their

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Review: Mammoth Volume ‘Raised Up By Witches’

27th August 202427th August 2024 Martin Williams Blues Funeral Recordings, Heavy Rock, Mammoth Volume, Prog

Sweden’s Mammoth Volume will forever induce flashbacks to the late ‘90s for me. When I was first getting into stoner

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Review: delving ‘All Paths Diverge’

23rd August 202423rd August 2024 Rob Walsh Blues Funeral Recordings, delving, Nick DiSalvo, Prog, Psych, Stickman Records

No one could ever fault Nick DiSalvo for not being busy. When the Elder frontman isn’t pushing as many complex

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Review: Lord Buffalo ‘Holus Bolus’

30th July 202430th July 2024 Mark Hunt-Bryden Blues Funeral Recordings, Lord Buffalo

Having been in a post-rock phase, I wanted to break things up and step out of the well-ploughed furrow, so

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Review: Horseburner ‘Voice Of Storms’

12th July 202412th July 2024 Josh Schneider Blues Funeral Recordings, Horseburner, Prog Metal

A perfect album to me is one that flows continuously. Each track seamlessly transitions into each other as one long

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Review: Abrams ‘Blue City’

12th June 202412th June 2024 Matthew Williams Abrams, Blues Funeral Recordings, Heavy Rock

You get the feeling with some bands, however hard they try and whatever they produce and put out for our

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Review: Hashtronaut ‘No Return’

4th April 202411th April 2024 Josh Schneider Blues Funeral Recordings, Doom, Hashtronaut, Stoner Rock

You can pretty much tell what you’re in for when dropping the needle onto Hastronaut’s album No Return just from

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Review: Dopelord ‘Songs For Satan’

5th October 20235th October 2023 Tom Hanno Blues Funeral Recordings, Doom, Dopelord

October 6th, 2023 will bring a brand new album from the stoner doom heavyweights of Dopelord. Their fifth full-length, lovingly

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Review: REZN & Vinnum Sabbathi ‘Silent Future’

2nd August 20232nd August 2023 Josh Schneider Blues Funeral Recordings, Post-Metal, REZN, Vinnum Sabbathi

‘Entering Devils Courthouse Tunnel’ reads the sign as we drive. Born Into Catatonia has been playing its atmospheric drones and

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Dozer 'Drifting In The Endless Void'
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Review: Dozer ‘Drifting In The Endless Void’

14th April 202314th April 2023 Mark Hunt-Bryden Blues Funeral Recordings, Dozer, Heavy Rock

I wrote a retrospective piece on the much-loved Swedish four-piece Dozer nearly three years ago, over which time expectation and

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Acid King 'Beyond Vision'
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Review: Acid King ‘Beyond Vision’

27th March 202317th January 2026 Martin Williams Acid King, Blues Funeral Recordings, Doom

My first experience with San Francisco’s legendary psychedelic riff merchants Acid King goes all the way back to the summer

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