Read our Desertfest 2026 Friday review featuring Hermano, Gnome, Cwfen, Witchsorrow, Praetorian and the best performances ...

As mentioned, Maryland’s Yatra are releasing their second album of 2020, All Is Lost, on October 9 via Grimoire Records (pre-order). They’ve already released two songs from it (“All Is Lost” and “Eyes ...

A not-to-be-missed festival for all lovers of extreme music, Hellfest will once again celebrate hard rock, thrash metal, ...

As a spiritual continuation to the 25 Stoner Bands of Canada list released last month, we now step out of the dope-scented haze and delve into the sludge and doom bands of Canada. The slowness and ...

There is a gloom that is growing in the bones of metal once more. A faint light has been shining from a certain cavern, and its dwellers are getting ready to rise once more. Spring is here, the rains ...

If you believe everything you see in pop-culture, Los Angeles and Southern California seem like something out of a daydream: good vibes, endless sun, and the promise of becoming a star. But to many ...

The past decade or so has proven to be quite a potent one for lovers of heavy rock and metal. One particular genre that's benefited with a growing fanbase is stoner rock, which is characterized by its ...

In darkness there is light. In expression there is power. In agony there is deafening release. The experimental sludge doom of Salt Lake City’s SubRosa combines all of these things in its haunting, ...

Sometimes, you want metal to rip you apart and blast you into the stratosphere with insanely fast, technical precision and apocalyptically demonic vocals, It’s only natural. But what about those times ...

Vacancy Floor has been one of Bend’s busier rock bands over the past few years, playing a bunch of gigs both locally and regionally and building some buzz despite playing music that isn’t — and this ...

“For this festival we tried to get in the spirit by doing as many slow songs as possible,” says Barney Greenway of Napalm Death, about a quarter of the way through a set not conspicuous by its sloth. ...