Tag QOTSA
As I listen to The Space, I chastise myself for a streak of ridiculous disappointment. I am heading off to Desertfest this week to redeem a ticket I bought in 2020. One of the bands I was looking forward to… Continue Reading →
Wow, heavy, heavy, heavy! Like there’s so much to take in with this release man! Okay, bad jokes aside, and that’s the only kind I do, and vaguely serious amateur music reviewing head in place, there is so much history… Continue Reading →
Fans of desert and stoner rock are in for a treat with this collaboration that strings together an impressive selection of contributors. Whilst some collaborations don’t quite come together, this one is a different kettle of fish. Fu Manchu’s Bob… Continue Reading →
If you’ve been a regular visitor to Ave Noctum, you may well have seen that Morass of Molasses featured on the best of 2019 list for several contributors thanks to their excellent ‘The Ties That Bind’. Front man, and in… Continue Reading →
Super-group. An epithet banded about since the seventies and usually used for a bunch of rich hippies who got stoned and decided to make some extra cash by rehashing riffs from their parent bands. Hardcore. A genre that seems to… Continue Reading →
Debut four track EP from Belgian rockers Black Mirrors with a title that for me promises lots and threatens about the same; the kind of title that suggests female singer, low-slung guitar swagger in a doomy style and if you’re… Continue Reading →
Not to be confused with the things out of ‘Captain Scarlet’, this is Finnish duo Mystons, sailing into view with their fifth album ‘Destination Death’. Recorded mostly live with minimal overdubs, drummer John Myston and vocalist/guitarist Mauri Myston have crafted… Continue Reading →
When an album flows this well you just know there’s skill and no small amount of inspiration coming from somewhere. There’s plenty to go on in the stoner-rock-meets-doom lineage is one of the longest in metal and surely too the… Continue Reading →
When two thirds of the band are recording and touring with another band it is quite a feat to write and record an album as damn good and rockin’ as Gravitron. When that other band is Monster Magnet who famously… Continue Reading →
When it comes to musical know-how, you can bet your bottom dollar that Brant Bjork (Ex-Kyuss, Vista Chino) has done it, been there, and bought the t-shirt. So if he decides he wants his music to get heavy then you… Continue Reading →
I will confess that I was a little confused when asked by my editor to review this; hadn’t I just reviewed Tombstones a couple of weeks ago? Nope, this is Tombstoned, a different, albeit confusingly similarly named band. Hey, I… Continue Reading →
With an album title like this one, Midlands monsters Bovine appear to be patriots to the [T-]bone – yes there’s going to be bad cow jokes in this one, folks (count ’em). “Where’s the beef?” you may ask. Well, their… Continue Reading →