Review: Borracho ‘Blurring The Lines Of Reality’
Back in 2021, my first-year writing for The Sleeping Shaman, I had Washington DC, riff-wielding power trio Borracho’s album Pound
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Heavy Rock
Premiere: KIND ‘Close Encounters’ – New Album Releases This Friday, 11th July, via Ripple Music
Boston, MA based heavy rockers KIND are gearing up to release their new album Close Encounters, their third long-player (hence
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Review: KIND ‘Close Encounters’
Formed in 2013, KIND is a Boston-area sonic slab-lobbing supergroup of sorts. The quartet is made up of drummer Matt
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In Search Of Tone: Zach Amster Of Abrams
Abrams have been on my radar since discovering the massive lineup Small Stone Records has to offer. The band fits
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Review: Thunder Horse ‘After The Fall’
By their own admission, Texas-based hard rockers have a sound that is hard to pin down, or at least put
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Review: Mammuthus ‘Imperator’
Don’t you think there’s a natural link between mammoths and stoner rock? They’re both fuzzy, heavy, stomp along at an
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Various Artists ‘Budgie – Never Turn Your Back On A Friend – 50 Years Later’
Probably like quite a lot of people reading this, my introduction to Budgie was Metallica’s memorable versions of Crash Course
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Review: High Priest ‘Invocation’
Hailing from the same city that gave the world the legendary American doom band Trouble, Chicago’s High Priest have unveiled
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Review: The Highborn ‘Volumes’
Marked by the beast with the highest of elites is the latest full-blown album self-released by The Highborn. It was
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Review: The Great Machine ‘Funrider’
Back in 2020, writing that phrase is mind-numbing, when my shop was closed due to the covid-19 pandemic, when not
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Review: High Desert Queen & Blue Heron ‘Turned To Stone Chapter 8: The Wake’
It only took until Chapter 8, but the Turned To Stone series has finally given me a split where I
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