We’re proud to unveil David V. D’Andrea‘s second installment of his Roadburn series: the White Hills poster. David V. D’Andrea comments: “White Hills is one of my absolute favorite contemporary bands. Their astral meld of Hawkwind, grungy riffs, and uncharted psych fr ...

“High Gold is the blistering opening track from Liturgy?s second album (and third release) Aesthethica, the followup to 2009?s Renihilation. The Brooklyn quartet?s been a favorite live band for the past couple years: Aesthethica harnesses and refines that in-person energy, resulting in one of ...

The Psychic Paramount‘s II will stream HERE in its entirety until its release on Feb. 22, courtesy of NPR. “The mid-’00s was a boon to instrumentally driven and often heavily psychedelic rock records: Comets on Fire’s Blue Cathedral, Battles’ first three EPs and the ev ...

Praise for The Skull Defekts‘ Peer Amid from San Francisco?s aQuarius Records: It’s like the second coming of late great rhythmic post rockers Lungfish. This latest disc from Swedish hypno rockers Skull Defekts finds the group teaming up with modern musical shaman (and former Lungfish fr ...

Lovingly pinched from The Obelisk: ‘Slave Cylinder’ opens with a nod to Sabbath?s ‘N.I.B.’,  and from there, Cosmic Priestess ? the second album from Tia Carrera on Small Stone Records ? only gets trippier. The Austin, Texas, trio made their label debut in 2009 with The Quint ...

Praise for Highgate‘s Shrines To The Warhead from San Francisco?s aQuarius Records: Latest blast of downtuned, crusty, sludge-soaked ultra doom from these Kentucky killers, released on the always kick ass Israeli label Total Rust. Somehow we missed out listing the first Highgate record, which ...

Praise for Nachtmystium‘s Live At Roadburn 2010 (LP) from Thee Sleeping Shaman: Chicago, Illinois’ progressive black-metallers Nachtmystium are truly one of the most innovative yet heavy bands of this generation, so it comes as no surprise that they pull out all the stops in their extrav ...