Night Vapor | Facebook | Bandcamp Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania’s Night Vapor ponder music’s least-pondered questions: can noise-rock crudity and high-minded modern composition coexist in the same song? Can the results be made to “rock” – even “sw …

OHHMS are are like nothing on earth; huge, unnerving and loud. But this album, with biting, powerful lyrics concerned with animal rights, is a triumph.

Gavin Brown caught up with Eagle Twin vocalist and guitarist Gentry Densley to hear all about the latest record and its creation and themes, influences as musician, the bands live plans, touring with Sunn O))), the influence of jazz on the music of Eagle Twin and his favourite gigs.

Driving drums, twisting, squalling electronics and saxophone skronk. It’s hypnotic and uplifting, wave after wave of glorious churning sound.

Boss Keloid, are a heavy, progressive, stoner-influenced band that’ve created a name for themselves with relentless touring and a blistering live show. After two critically acclaimed albums, The Calming Influence of Teeth (2013) and Herb Your Enthusiasm (2016). This year seems them expand their line-up, adding keyboards and a new bass player, signing to Holy Roar Records and releasing their new record, Melted on the Inch.

Under | Facebook | Bandcamp Under are a trio from Stockport, Greater Manchester. Formed in 2016. Though rooted in the blueprints of sludge and doom metal, their sound is harder to pin down with elements of prog, noise and avant garde creeping in. Under …

This album reasserts Conan on the throne of Doom Metal. Every track on Existential Void Guardian brings the goods. And the goods are a heavy, slog through some fine riffs, turbulent drums and that grim, soul-crushing, bass tone…

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After a 4 year break Thou return with a grunge inflected doom/sludge album that’s imbued with as many graceful melodies as it is rib-cracking heavy riffs. It’s a step above their already excellent earlier work and is in with a good shout at being the best heavy album 2018 has to offer.

Satisfying my interest for great progressive metal by adding sludge and atmospheric qualities, I can’t help but succumb to those elements when performed by these talented musicians.

If you smashed together the heavy bass riffs or Godflesh with the detached ambience of Boards of Canada, Sunset Wrecks’ False Patterns is what you get.

Urne come racing out of the gate with their debut EP, blending progressive metal, thrash and metal, and leaving memories of their former bands in the rear view mirror.

It’s as if Årabrot and Eyehategod had a big hairy chested bearded baby.

Soul Grip and VVOVNDS have put together a compelling and interesting split EP, pairing aggressive blackened hardcore with bleak, oppressive, electronica tinged post-metal.

Over the past 12 years Bongripper have evolved into the platonic idea of a doom band – almost reprehensibly low & slow with tones that threaten to shatter tectonic plates. ‘Terminal’ is short on surprises but is their most refined effort to date, a masterclass in unbridled, concentrated heaviosity.

Sheffield post-metal bruisers return with a new EP and a sound that is pared down, blunt and packed full of lumbering riffs.

Soldat Hans have crafted a deeply layered, complex and engaging sophomore album, that draws the listener into a web of post-metal, dark jazz and folk doom. It’s bloody fantastic.

Witchkiss | Facebook | Bandcamp From the antediluvian shores of the murky Hudson arises a new force in the world of metal. Articulate, elegant and ridiculously fucking heavy, Witchkiss are part of a growing movement coming out of upstate New York in th …

Whilst the ceaseless, down-tuned gloom might prove trying at first, there’s brilliance to be found among the brutality.

Friends of mine frequently mention the good times to be had catching the band in action and no doubt their corpsepaint and tie-dye look makes them hard to forget, once witnessed.