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Quarterly Review: Primordial, Dead Meadow, Taarna, MaidaVale, Black Willows,...
Okay, so this is it. The Quarterly Review definitely ends today. I’m not sneaking in a seventh day tomorrow or anything like that. This is it. The last batch of 10, bringing us to a grand total of 60...
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Kaleidobolt European Tour Starts Tonight; Playing Freak Valley and More
Finnish heavy psychedelic progressives Kaleidobolt have been working on new material and reportedly have — quoting now — ‘a ton and a half’ of new material to sift through in the making of their next...
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Review & Track Premiere: Bees Made Honey in the Vein Tree, Grandmother
[Click play above to stream ‘Cinitus’ from Bees Made Honey in the Vein Tree’s new album, Grandmother, out Feb. 28.] It’s not just that the direction Germany’s Bees Made Honey in the Vein Tree take on...
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Low Orbit Releasing Crater Creator Nov. 19
Let’s assume that if the abiding image you’re giving your listenership is of an asteroid slamming into the surface of… something…, leaving a crater behind, you’re dealing one way or the other with some...
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Quarterly Review: Khemmis, Low Orbit, Confusion Master, Daemonelix, Wooden...
Day two, huh? Don’t know about you, but I’m feeling positively groovy after yesterday’s initial round of 10 records en route to 50 by Friday, and maybe that’s all the better since there’s not only...
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Low Orbit Add Second Guitarist to Lineup
Toronto heavy rockers Low Orbit have announced the addition of second guitarist Dave Adams to their lineup. Adams will make his live debut with the band later this month in their hometown as they...
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Friday Full-Length: Bees Made Honey in the Vein Tree, Harvestmen (Live)
Heavy serenity. Having never been so fortunate to see Stuttgart, Germany’s Bees Made Honey in the Vein Tree live (yet), the 2022 four-song/45-minute live album, Harvestmen (Live), recorded between...
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Bees Made Honey in the Vein Tree Announce October Touring
Here is a band I would relish an opportunity to see. Based in Stuttgart, Germany, Bees Made Honey in the Vein Tree have been tapped into the heart of heavy psychedelic exploration and rock for at...
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Low Orbit Announce European Tour Including Pink Tank Festival
I said on Monday (was that yesterday?) when I put up the Bees Made Honey in the Vein Tree tour dates that I’d be doing a separate post for Toronto heavy rockers Low Orbit, and here we are. Those two...
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Quarterly Review: Buddha Sentenza, Magma Haze, Future Projektor, Grin,...
Here we are. Welcome to 2023 and to both the first Quarterly Review of this year and the kind of unofficial closeout of 2022. These probably won’t be the last writeups for releases from the year just...
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