Featuring members of Terminal Cheesecake, Bong/Blown Out, Gum Takes Tooth and Luminous Bodies, Melting Hand isn’t so much a ‘supergroup’ as the seemingly inevitable collision of 4 psych/noise masters at the top of their games – with predictably fascinating results. – By Jamie Jones

Jamie Jones went to the second instalment of Cardiff’s Red Sun festival. “I finished the weekend utterly spent, having been riffed senseless for 3 days, with my liver feeling battered and my brain feeling bruised.”

They said it couldn’t happen again. In this case ‘they’ were the promoters themselves – despite a successful first year bringing 3 days of gloriously gnarly rock and metal to Cardiff’s Womanby Street the Red Sun team said they simply couldn’t repeat the trick this year. Then, just as it seemed all was lost, they pulled a surprise 180 and announced Red Sun II, set to take place this very weekend. By Jamie Jones

It’s only been a year since MAKE released their last record – but by god what a year it’s been. ‘Pilgrimage of Loathing’ is an appropriate response to living in what now feels like a world on fire – a ragged, cathartic and rather fine slab of seething post-metal. – By Jamie Jones

To keep creating such consistently majestic noise as this is something beautiful. But to do that and still have potential yet to unravel – that’s something special indeed. – By Jamie Jones

The delightfully named Khünnt (featuring members of Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs and Blown Out) celebrate 10 years of aural terror with their most clear eyed, focused and downright unsettling work yet. Be very afraid. – By Jamie Jones

Repent ye sinners! The Comet is Coming and with it a reckoning that will see the end of us all. But fear not – these cosmic jazz prophets are here to furnish us with a fitting soundtrack for the End of Days. By Jamie Jones

Before going on hiatus in 2011 Dälek occupied a space once held by Public Enemy – a hip hop act as beloved by metal fans as by rap fans. Now they’re back with a new line up – and have crafted a comeback record fans of music of any kind ought to hear. – By Jamie Jones

Polish post-metal monsters Coffinfish round off last year’s album ‘I am Providence’ with ‘Epilogue’, a single 20 minute piece. In flashes it shines brighter than anything they’ve crafted so far, but is weighted down by its own ambition. – By Jamie Jones

The Melbourne instrumental stoner/psych duo draft in an extra pair of guitar playing hands for their latest full length, a career best slab of searing noise that needs to be heard by anyone who likes their jams both cosmic in scale and red in tooth and claw. – By Jamie Jones

Following Beehoover’s triumphant return with excellent new LP ‘Primitive Powers’, Jamie Jones thought it would be a good time to catch up with them for a brief talk on the band’s evolution, influences, Claus’ nascent writing career and to try to get a few details on their rumoured upcoming UK tour…

Mike Vest’s Blown Out drop a half hour, 3 track collection of their trademark instrumental heavy psych jams ahead of their upcoming European tour. They sound suitably fried, wired and, well, Blown Out as ever. – By Jamie Jones

Following the release of their new album ‘Are You Land or Water’, Jamie Jones got in touch with Kitchie Kitchie Ki Me O’s creative leader Alexander Kloster-Jensen (aka Alex K) about where the band are at now and the journey that led them there.

German two-piece Beehoover return with the most Beehooverian album they’ve ever Beehoovered. Their brand of bass n’ drum powered sludge stoner fury ain’t broken – so they don’t fix it. – By Jamie Jones

It’s been a long and interesting road for Kitchie Kitchie Ki Me O. ‘Are You Land or Water’ suggests they’re still travelling – a collection of stylistically different but individually excellent tracks that don’t quite make for a coherent album. – By Jamie Jones

‘Black Snow Desert’ is doom/sludge stretched out and refracted into infinity, an occasionally arresting set of studies in tone and weight that, while in need of some editing, announces the arrival of a band that those who enjoy life in the slow lane should take note of. – By Jamie Jones

Whilst many of the sonic wanderings Mike Vest lends his name to are perhaps an acquired taste – nigh on 10 minute long drone jams are not everybody’s cup of tea after all – ‘Temporary Infinity’ is one that may intimidate even the converted with its full blooded dark magic. The places he’ll lead you don’t come much more twisted, blackened and scorched than the ones contained within ‘Temporary Infinity’. – By Jamie Jones

HAG refer to their sound as Eagle Metal – and on this, their début full length, their brand of sludgy High on Fire-esque metal comes tantalisingly close to sounding as awesome as that description suggests. – By Jamie Jones

Fórn aren’t for the faint of heart. It’s doom in the very purest sense of the word; an unshakable sense of dread, a gnawing feeling that everything is somehow fundamentally, irredeemably wrong. It’s sludge you have to wade neck deep through. It’s an EP that will make you feel like painting the windows black, cutting the phoneline, giving all your possessions bar your stereo away and existing entirely within its cavernous chords. – By Jamie Jones

The Moth Gatherer must be given credit for their ambition and for their emotional range, but as a record ‘The Earth is the Sky’ fails to quite come together. Whist there’s enough in the first two thirds to grab the attention there’s not enough to keep it and in the end a few moments that could sour your opinion of them altogether. The Moth Gatherer clearly have the tools to create something truly impressive. Sadly this isn’t it. – By Jamie Jones

Jamie Jones got in touch with bassist/vocalist Daniel Arvidsson from Swedish stoner doom metal band Mammoth Storm to ask him to introduce the band and to talk to him about mythological inspiration and why it is that Sweden keeps on producing such fine metal bands.